You are now tuning in to discover your potential. So listen, participate. Be inspired. Know that you can discover your potential. Welcome to Discover Your Potential. I'm your host Anne Gilman. And today we have an extraordinary guest. His name is Dr. David Friedman. He's an international award winning number one national best selling author of the book, Food Sanity. And how do you eat in a world of fads and fiction? And he's also a doctor of naturopathy, clinical nutritionist, chiropractic neurologist. He received his post-doctorate certification from Harvard Med School. He's phenomenally just published a new book called Funny Bones. And I can't wait to bring him on. Hi, Dr. Friedman. How are you? Thank you so much for being here. Hey, Dan. My pleasure. Great to be here. It's such an honor and a privilege to have you. What inspired you to pursue a career in health and wellness? And then can you tell us a little bit about your inspiration for writing this wonderful book called Funny Bones? Yeah, sure. For the guidance into health, I guess. That's because my father was a medical doctor and his father and his father. So I kind of fell into that category. But I herniated a disc and rather than going the surgical route, my mom said, why don't we try a chiropractor? And low and behold, the man with his hands fixed me in two, three weeks. And ever since I was hooked on that, the natural way without medicines, without surgery, without drugs. So that's kind of what led me into the natural health genre. And then I went one step further, got a degree in neurology. So I'm a chiropractic neurologist. Then I got a doctorate of naturopathy, which is a study of food and nutrition. And that's basically where I wrote food sanity. And I may certified medical, there was an alternative medical practitioner, which basically keeps people away from the scalp, away from the syringes and finding a natural way to health. And I think people are gravitating more toward that. I absolutely love this book. It's so great. So in your book, you discuss the science of humor. Can you explain how your approach studying something is subjective is what people find funny? Yeah, I'd read that Herpocrates said food is medicine. So I did my part. I said, you know what, I'm going to write a book on food, became a bestseller. And then I read about a visionary, a surgeon in the 13th century, named Dr. Mendeleel. He said, no, laughter is the best medicine. And then it's even in the Bible. So I said, you know, I got to do my part. So I wrote the ultimate LOL prescription, funny bones, which is true tales from 30 years in my practice. And now I'm known as the only holistic doctor that leaves his patients in stitches. And you know, when you look at the science behind it, that's what's exciting. Now, you know, the book on food, boy, there's so much science on what we eat. And we know this. People know there's science on nutrition. But did you know there's hundreds and hundreds of scientific studies proving laughter is the best medicine. And you know, we're approaching spring and summer of the warm months. Everybody's going to be worried about allergies. So they're going to be drinking their acne, should they they're going to be taking the vitamin C. They're going to take their zinc. No, they need to turn on the comedy channel or get a copy of funny bones. Because laughter increases the immune system. And that was actually a study by the Journal of Room Atology. They found it it decreases inflammation and increases infectious fighting antibodies. The Journal of Molecular Medicine said it increases our natural T cells and killer cells, which actually killer is a good thing because it kills off the bad diseases like cancer. And so there's so much in, you know, now heart disease. It was heart month, you know, recently. And everybody's so much heart disease, you got to eat right. You got to watch your diet. No, you need more knock-knock jokes. Because according to the American Journal of Cardiology, laughter has an inverse effect to cardiovascular disease. Meaning the more you laugh, the less risk you have of having a stroke, our heart attack. So the list goes on and on. But my favorite is we're still in the beginning of the month of the year. And everybody's on the weight loss kick and they're counting their calories. They're counting the steps they walk. They need to count how many times they laugh. Because research, it was published, it was Vanderbilt University said, a good chuckle at one joke can burn 40 calories. So we need to have more laughter and 20 second laugh, ready? Equivalent to 100 sit-ups. Actually, better because you're getting the intrinsic muscles instead of the out-exterior. So we need to laugh more for our health. I think our health depends on it. That's for sure. And I did want to mention two before I go into some other questions that I have. Actually, this is extraordinary. I want to give out to at least five listeners that we have your book. Just because you touch so many people's lives. And I want to touch as many lives. Just giving out five copies of your book. So if you want, reach, I know it's my mother's email address, but it was Cindy at CindyGillman.com and just put funny bones in the subject line. And I will gift the first five people. The book will also provide obviously the link to get the book. But it's definitely something everybody should have. And I'm absolutely enjoying my copy. And your book covers the history of comedy. I would say from ancient times to modern day. But what are some of the most surprising things that you learned during your research for this book? One of the most surprising thing is that we laughed before we spoke. Scientists have proven millions of years ago. Laughter was our original way of communicating. Now fast forward to today. And it's still the universal language because you cannot tell somebody's difference of laughter, whether they're from Germany, South Africa, Hawaii, Canada, we laugh the same. And it's us. We don't know that they're from a different country. But it gets us step further. We're ingrained to laugh. Babies laugh at two weeks old. They gig a little laugh and you're saying, well, that's because they saw their mom and dad do it. No. A baby born deaf and blind can still laugh and giggle. It's ingrained within us. So what I'm doing is I'm tapping back into what we have the ability to laugh. And we can talk about how to get rid of this stress. And it's how I can't laugh. It's so stressful. We'll talk about how to do that because we need to. I think we need to bring laughter back. And I think that laughter really is, it proves memory. That was something else we didn't talk about. They've done studies where laughter increases the limbic system, connecting to the frontal lobe. And people learn better. There's been before and after MRI showing the frontal lobe fires more after a 90 minute laughing at a movie. I taught neuroanademic. My first book was a neuroanademic textbook. And I still have doctors see me 30 years later saying, you know, I remember that hard topic because you made it funny. You had jokes about the brain, you had silly mnemonics. And they still remember it. But forget about that. What do we remember if the Super Bowl commercials, the funny ones? The most memorable ones are the funniest ones. So we remember our brain improves, our heart improves, our immune system improves, we got to laugh more. I need to remind myself that. And I'd love to talk about what you mentioned and how that really affects your body, your system. But I would also love to know because you've had a number of comedians known comedians in the book that you showcase. But do you have a favorite, I'm just curious, or do you have a favorite that you interviewed or what? Well, it interviewed or actually in the book that I worked on, my patients, which Robin Williams said, I shared in the book how how he played a practical joke on me. He came in one day. He wasn't his talk at himself. Just pointed to his neck. He's like, right now, sure. So I go and I work on his neck and I felt this this pop and he fell to the ground and he's flailing his arm. He goes, I think you broke my neck. I can't, I can't you broke my, I'm like, oh my god. What have you hear about these horror stars? I'm like, oh my god. And he looks up and he smiles. He puts his tongue out. He had a peppermint in his mouth. He bit it just in time and he goes, got your freed man. Uh, got you. So after the fear were off and the tear stop rolling down my pants, I laughed. That was one. And then, uh, uh, what was it? J.J. Walker. He came in one day and he got worked on. So he's crawling in the waiting room. No one sees him. They just see this guy's back of his head and he's crawling. Oh, I can't walk. I walked in here. I can't, I can't, I can't, I walked in here. I can't even walk out. What did he do to me? What, and the patients are like this. And then he looks up and they see it's Jimmy Walker who played J.J. And he goes, just kid and that adjustment was spinal might any jump. Oh, that's great. Oh, that's so funny. That's funny. But as for a radio show would be J.Letto, great guest. He's been on Howie Mendel's been on. And what bothers me now is that they're afraid to make people laugh on stage because they've gotten so afraid we can talk about how we got to bring laughter back. People are, you know, Howie Mendel says, I'm up at 2 a.m. I'm wondering did I say something that cost me my career? I said, you're a comedian. You're allowed to be offensive. That's what we go and see you for. Sure. They don't even do those roasts anymore because they're afraid of offending something. Even the 1940s. You remember the roast you get up and you make fun of them. Yes. They won't do them. They're afraid of getting smacked in the face. So, you know, I think we need to just relax, chill, and realize it's just humor. Enjoy it. It's not, you know, in my book, I never laugh at anyone. I laugh with people. And that's the difference. Laugh with people. But you mentioned the book that laughter can be beneficial. And you just mentioned just now, but for our physical and mental health. But how do you see it really affecting us in using medicine or therapy? Because you mentioned that that's not happening as much. Or we're losing touch with that. Yeah. I think that the medical doctors today are cold. They don't care about their patients. They don't even touch them anymore. Sometimes they're on a computer screen. We got med visits now, which is ridiculous. But, you know, I've always been bringing laughter and humor to my practice since I started over 30 years ago. But things really changed during the Robin Williams movie. It was called Patch Adams. And it was then I learned about this brilliant doctor who brought laughter and friendship to his practice without compromising his skills as a doctor. And that's important. So, you've got to be able to bond with patients. And I think what happens is I had Scott Rouse, who's the light detector guy, his show on where he can read people. He teaches a course now for medical doctors to learn how to be more friendly to their patients, to laugh with patients. And one of the things he said is, and this is key for medical doctors is, he gets sued less because patients are going to sue their friends. So, you become friends with them. And it was really a neat course that he was upset because he saw how he was treated. And he's like, this is ridiculous. I'm treating like a cold piece of poo from these people. There's from the receptionist to that. So, my practice isn't like that. I believe in bonding with patients. I think we need more of that. And you know what? It's called caring. It's not just, it's called, they want a diagnosed, adios. And that's the medical genre. And I don't like that. Yeah, speaking of which, I went in for a test the other day. Never even heard back from the doctor. So, but I agree 100%. It's like they just want to maybe diagnose it and just move away. We're just basically numbers now. We're not even. Exactly. You miss with feelings. Yeah, even even the even the front desk, ever go in there. They're just so, you know, that'll be 55 for today. It's so cold. It's not, hey, I'm so glad you came in today. You know, that prescription that he gave is going to help. If a lot of people with some, hope you feel better. She can go to that baseball game with your son tonight. Something. Wow, you just acknowledge there a person that'll be 55. How would you like to pay? Then you're like, here, take my money rather than it's all about the money. It's true. And I think we're missing that bond with with people. And that was my go with funny bones. As you know, it's just a fun little skill. It's laughter from banter from married couples to children to the elderly to the southerners. It was all good fun. And I think we need more of that. Absolutely. Well, what do you hope that readers take away from your book, Funny Bones? Hope they take away from we got to get laughter back. And I'll explain what I mean by we got to get it back because I think people have lost it. And here's proof. I got a Facebook post that said, five years ago today, you see when you get through little things like in the past. And I go, that was funny. It was an old lady bent forward. You couldn't see. You could not see her face. You just top of her head. And it had a pair of dark sunglasses on with the beret. And it looked like a muppet tying his shoe. So I wrote, does this look like a muppet tying his shoe? And people laughed. And I posted it again. And oh, damn boy, you wouldn't believe. I got to cost it. How dare you make fun of that old lady? What if you were that old lady and you saw yourself being laughed at? How dare you? What if you were her grandson? I'm reporting you to the board. I'm glad I'm not your mom. I'm like, what? So get this though. I went back and looked at the five years prior, the same people. Fall always feels like the season for slowing down and savoring the little things. 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She wouldn't even know. And even if she did, she might go, you know what? You look like a mopping. She probably laughed because it did. It wasn't make fun of the lady. And the point is we got to get it back. I think we make a choice to be miserable. And people are being too miserable. Doom and gloom. You're afraid to laugh. You're afraid to smile. I went on a show called a holistic kid show. These are kids that host a podcast. I'm all excited. I get to put on my, I've got my little poop hat. I got to wear my poop hat. It was fun. And yeah, we had fun. My clown nose. And they're still like this. You can see them like fighting. They're laughing. They don't want. And at the end, the mom told me they said they didn't know how to act because they used to not being able to laugh. And I said, kids are afraid to laugh. Kids had to hold back laughter. What have we turned into? So, you know, I think we need to turn off the doom and gloom news on the way to work put on the comedy channel. Did you know serious radio has 13 different channels for comedy? There's only five for classic rock. There's only four for jazz. We have more genres for comedy than anything. Because no matter what you're sex, you're religion, your side where we love to laugh. Let's tap back into that and don't be afraid to laugh. You're not hurting anybody's. It's comedy. You're okay to laugh. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, the culture is shifted, as you mentioned. Really, I mean. So, my pick away with the bloody bones is to bring it back because we did have it. And I'm seeing some people let loose. I've been interviewed by medical doctors and they wrote me back, says, you know what? I'm learning from you. I'm taking, I'm making my patients laugh. And you know what? They're happy to go to work now. One of them said, a month later, says, I've never enjoyed my practice more. Since having you, you inspired me to laugh with my patients. To smile, to treat them like people, not numbers, as you said, that you experienced. And I think that's the big takeaway. I have Bill Burretta on the show here, from the Muppets. And it actually, I should get the two of you together because it would be a riot. You should get the two of us together and let's track down that old lady because you might have no idea. Exactly. Exactly. Let's tie your shoe, please. Yeah, he'll bring one on. So, but yeah, no, I'm a big fan of actually Jim Hansen and the Muppets. Oh, that's great. And just to bring this up, but even you mentioned kids today, I mean, they're on YouTube and they're watching really. I think stuff that they shouldn't. And they, I mean, just even from Sesame Street because I grew up on Sesame Street and grew up with Mr. Rogers. But I miss those types of shows that actually bring in that element of fun and funny. And it feels like that's missing today. Yeah, you know, there's no more Saturday morning cartoons like you and me used to enjoy. They don't have to do that anymore. I know. It's video games with heads exploding and race cars and gun fights and that's their addiction. And it's like desensitized. Yeah, we had comic books. It was more Mad Magazine. We had fun. Just remember Mad Magazine. Yeah, yeah. It was great. It was funny. And I used to couldn't wait to wake up and watch those funny cartoons and if kids don't do that anymore, I lost it. I just don't know. I miss the Saturday morning cartoons. I do cartoon mutations for kids and they don't know who they are because they don't even know. You make me very angry. You Earth Rabbit. I'm going to disintegrate you with my modulator. You know that. Of course they do. That kids don't know the voice. You make me mad and happy. Yeah, you do great. Great imitation. Remember the droopy? Of course they remember droopy. It was my favorite character. Kids don't know who droopy is. Absolutely. They don't know who droopy is. He's gone. They wipe them out. Incredible. Chuck Jones would be crawling under his wherever. Oh man. I mean, how yeah, Warner Brothers was a classic in my place. Yeah. Warner Brothers in Disney, of course. So I think what we need to do is is, you know, like for kids, I think they should get fun games, board games, play it with the family. There's one called Speak Out. There's one called Speak Out. You put an apparatus in your mouth and you have to guess what the merchant's saying. I saw that. And you can't not laugh. It's hilarious. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I full tower. No, it's funny, but you can't play it with dentist because they win every time. They understand mumbling. Yeah, don't bring it dentist over. Don't bring it dentist. I'll remember that. Yes. Yeah, even, I mean, even with some board games, there's missing. They're missing as well. They really are. It's because it's not in their phone that they can't play. So I think that people really, especially kids are just addicted. And you know what's sad? I'm seeing on X-rays. It's called TechSneck. I'm actually seeing 10, 12, 11 girls look like they won Whiplash Car Exidit. And they weren't. It's just from from doing that. The ligaments in the back of the neck have gotten so stretched and laced. It looks like a whiplash. And it's called it's called TechSneck. It's it's legitimately a medical condition now. Oh my gosh, that's horrible. Yeah, I do want to transition if it's okay. Because I want to talk about your book that's absolutely amazing food sanity. Sure. Although I don't mind going back to Funny Bones too. Because I love both your books. Actually, I love all your books. We can do. I think that the diet has a funny side to it that I can express, which I couldn't in there because I had to be more serious. So we can bounce back and forth. You want to see? I'll put my poop hat on for the funny part. Absolutely. And then the serious hat. I'll go like this when we're talking about the serious part of food. That's good. I love it. Yeah, you could be as playful as you want on the show. Yeah, sure. Well, I tried not to be too serious. I mean, it was it was great when we had we had Bill Beretta and Gene Beretta on. They're both brothers. And Gene worked on Sesame Street and he illustrates children's books and Bill does them, you know, he's a director and also producer on the muffins. So we have fun on the show too. So we're not always serious. That's great. I love it. And then we have motivation too. We had we had less brown on. So he's great. When I went and got my colonoscopy, you know, they give you this drug called Virsets. So I'm kind of out of it. And we're walking out the room and I open up the door to the waiting room and all the guys are in their nervous. And I said, don't worry fellas. By the time you get out of here, you're going to know what it feels like to be a muppet. In the role of that. They're like, oh no. Yeah, let's start walking out. In your book, I wanted to discuss the importance of eating whole natural foods. How do you, and for people that don't maybe don't understand and I'm looking for it, actually, I'm going to give up this book too. Five of them. So. Because we're just, you know, supporting your work and this is incredible. I'm sure this is going to touch a lot of people in their lives. But a lot of people may not know or how do you, how do you define natural and processed foods? Well, you know, it's interesting. The people are saying that I interview all we're supposed to eat halia like our caveman ancestors. So we're supposed to eat intermittent fasting. We're supposed to eat vegan. No, we're supposed to eat like our great grandparents did because that's when food was pure. There was no hormones, no antibiotics. There was no plastics in our water. We didn't have to worry about all these chemicals that we have today that are in the processed foods that are in the packaging. And that's what I carbonate in food and they're called obesity. So if you want to know why you can't lose weight, no matter what diet you try, no matter what exercise program, you always gain the weight back because 70, it's 4% an hour overweight. Back in our great grandma days, guess how many were overweight? 3%. Can we blame? Can we blame our great grandparents? So in other words, you can't blame your genes on why you can't fit into your genes. Can't do it. Genetics has nothing to do with it. And if you can show me a picture of your great, great grandma and she was overweight, your great, great grandpa, you're in that small 3%. And it might still not be from genetics. It might just be lifestyle. Maybe they were just fun eaters that could have been a lifestyle component. So in other words, I think when we deal with processed foods, it's not necessarily processed. It's what we're doing to the food. It's not food to blame because guess what? Our great grandparents, eight hamburgers. They ate candy bars. In fact, candy bars were the biggest thing in the 20s and 30s. Hershey's was a huge hit. They ate lard, they cooked in butter, they ate fattening milk, they ate hot dogs and hamburger. They ate the foods that today we blame on obesity. How is that possible? How can we blame those foods? What are great grandparents ate those foods? It's not the food just to blame. It's what we're doing to the foods. You talk about fast food, how dangerous and bad it is. Actually, it's called perfor-octanobic acid that they use in the containers, the wrappers for the hamburgers, for the fries. It contains a chemical that causes fat cells to grow. And when that hot burger gets on that and you're eating the burger, yeah, burgers aren't healthy. Oh, fast foods aren't healthy. Whoever's not the S in fast food was a marketing genius because it should be fat food. So it's not healthy, but the containers are worse for you. And that's actually my next book. I'm going to focus just on that showing you how to look at these toxic chemicals. Thalates is another chemical that makes us overweight. And you might find thalates common in your shower curtain. Yes, your shower curtain could be, could be why you can't lose weight. You're eating right. You're exercising and you're going to take a shower and that hot water hits that shower curtain and it hits you in the face. You're breathing in the fumes. It gets in your skin. It's creating fat cells. Who knew your shower could be making you fat? A little things like that. But simple, just by a thalate-free shower curtain. It's on Amazon, bad bad thing guys. So there's simple solutions if you know what to look for. And I think when it comes to diet, it's not really about the specific foods. It's they were from the process, which our grandparents didn't have. But it's these chemicals. It's these BPAs in our plastic containers. And people put them in the microwave and that leeches in the healthy food. And you're eating healthy food that has these chemicals that are making fat cells grow. And cancer and heart disease and depression. And let's go on and on. I'd never even knew that the shower curtain could actually create that. And thalates are in makeup. So females, they go and they work out, they eat right and they exercise. And they put makeup on and go out to, you know, for a shower or something. And the makeup could be undoing the great work they just did to lose the weight. So you want to look for thalate-free, which is called cert clean. If you see that on your makeup, you're fine. And the environmental working group, EWG.gov, or EWG.org, I believe it is, they have 16,000 of makeups and champoos that are thalate-free, BPA-free, that you can choose from. So there's a lot out there and there's a lot that are bad. So I think they give that list where they grade them. But the point is if we just know where to look, we got to play detective now. Our great-grandparents didn't have to play detective. They just ate what was fresh and it was fresh back then. Even milk today has thalates because it's from the tubes that they milk the cows with. But they bit the cows with the sun. Wow. It's good right into your milk. So yeah, so I think it's not food. It's what we're doing to food. That's the big culprit. What we're doing to our food. Yeah. What are some of the common tactics that companies use to mislead consumers? That's one of my questions that I have. The big one is, you know, fat-free. That's that's a good, oh fat-free. It must be good for me. You know, fat-free could be offered them. My big one is the gluten-free. Gluten-free could be the most unhealthy, fattening foods that you could put in your mouth. Oh, but it's gluten-free. And the worst one, vegan. Oh, it's a vegan food. You think healthy. Now Oreo cookies are vegan. That doesn't mean it's healthy. When you see the word vegan, it doesn't mean so. These little buzzwords you got to learn to say, well, wait a minute. That's just a selling tactic. And you know, the original title for food center was diet disease and deception. And I really dug in deep. And I uncovered some names and stuff. And I was told by publishers, you know, you better put some of that out for another book. But there is so much deception. I mean, FDA stands for fooling dieters again. Because it's really, it's, it's, it's follow the money. And that's what I do in the book. Follow the money. And the one chapter that was my favorite to write was the fish chapter. I love eating fish, but we keep hearing how bad they, oh, Mercury. Oh, polluted waters. All my patients, oh, I don't eat fish. It's toxic. And what sad is yeah, the FDA and the site will tell you that stay away from fish because of the Mercury. But you know what, they sure don't mention the fillings, working the fillings. That's right. At you have 24 or 7 every day of your life, Mercury, that's okay. But having that occasional fish that itty bitty parts, like 0.6 parts per million. This is 27 parts, but so it's higher here. But regardless, ready? What they don't share is fish has Mercury. But it also has Selenium. And Selenium cancels out the negative effects of Mercury. So if you're eating fish and in food center, they have 18 of the most commonly eaten fish, all of them have more Selenium, which cancels out the negative effects of Mercury, except for one. And that's the Mako shark. So play it safe, folks. If you're at the restaurant, you see Mako shark on the menu. Don't eat it. Don't eat Mako if that's what you. But the rest of the fish are fine. And the reason you're ready, Dan, the reason fish has become the ousted food group, the one they scare you the most off, is because there's no money from Big Farmer to be made with fish. There's no antibiotics. There's no growth hormones. There's no coloring. There's no sulfur drugs. There's no middleman. Do you know the number one customer in the world for Big Farmer? Cattle. Cattle gets the most antibiotics of any. And then there's the pigs and then there's the chicken. Not humans. Antibiotics created by Big Farmer go to cattle. Guess where they don't go? Fish. So there's no money in fish. So let's scare the world of eating fish. Oh, and the next one is pollution. Don't eat fish. I don't eat fish because of pollution. Dan, the earth is 30% land, 70% water. Any chemist will tell you, you cannot through the dilution factor ever pollute the waters from a 30% land. It's funny how we worry about pollution and the water. What about the land? That's what pollution begins. We eat the plants from polluted air and water and then we eat the cows that are polluted and eaten in the, but fish watch out. If you go on an airplane, the ticet will go and you look down. That's about seven miles down. That's how deep the ocean is. It's impossible to pollute the waters where you can't eat fish. And I'll go a step further. You're going to love this. Do you remember the golf oil spill? Oh, I remember. Yes. Do you remember they said life is over. There will be no fishing for 100 years. Birds will be dead. Boats fishing boats out of business. Restaurants out of business. Remember they said it would be 100 years before there. You don't hear about that anymore. Do you? Do you know what happened? They went to clean the oil up and they noticed a lot of the oil was disappearing. It wasn't there. And they took samples and they found tiny little microorganisms that nature created. We didn't even know about our in the water cleaning up the pollution like Pac-Man. Nature has an innate ability to clean up the waters. We don't have that on land. No. But we're worried about pollution in the water. So in other words, that's not a reason not to eat fish. Fish are healthy. So that's the one pet peeve. Because I love fish. And I didn't want to research people that eat fish three times a day to see if there was any toxicity, unborn children. And if opposite happened, Dan, I found people are healthier. Your book actually includes many different recipes. And meal plans for people looking to adopt healthier diets. But I was wondering what are your favorite recipes from the book? Yeah, interesting. I didn't have room for the recipes as I wanted. Because you can see it's a pretty thick book. So I just put a few in there. So what I did is I created a compilation cookbook with recipes and pictures. And it's a free download at foodsanity.com. You can just go and put it to 91 pages. Free download. And there it is. And it's eat this, don't eat this. Like we just said, instead of sugary this, instead of milk. So and it shows it in a cooking fashion where you're making recipes. What to use if you don't want to use milk? Well, what's the best thing? Cashew milk. It's the most consistency to milk. And it's great in recipes that call for milk. And it's not inflammatory like dairy. So things like so we can still enjoy it. And when you see this cookbook, you know, these foods look great. They look like healthy. That's not a diet food. That's the goal. Diet has the word, you know, die with the word it die. And if you don't want to die at, you want to have fun and enjoy food. And I think that's the culprit there. And I think when we eat at home, it's better because we have control versus eating out. So yeah, I think you're right. Eating in it's bonding the family, get them away from those text messaging in the games and bring the family and cook. Before we run out of time, I'd love to hear from you. Is there anything else that you wanted to share with the audience, not only about food sanity or funny bones? And gosh, I wish I had another hour with you. So again, I just think with food, you just got to play detective. That I know that our listeners would listen. Yeah, play detective. I think we're so trusting. I get so many people saying, well, you know, if it's the grocery store, it's been inspected. The FDA gives it a thumbs up. It's fine. They review it. They don't. They've inspected it. They don't. They make sure it's safe for me. They don't. They do not. It's not part of their job. They're not required to. Do you know when they're required to? If somebody gets poisoned and sick or somebody dies from a shirt, now they go in and investigate it. They don't investigate it prior. That goes for vitamin supplements as well. So you've got to start paying attention to, you know, what's in it? Flip it over. The best doctor is in the mirror. You look in the mirror. You're the best doctor because you care. The other one is we talked about earlier. He's going to just give you a diagnosis. And I'm Yoshi. You want to take your health into your own hands. And by doing so, you want to say, well, wait a minute. Fetalholypropatholamine, that's my, my food. What does that mean? It doesn't sound like it should be maybe in my body. Let me Google it and play Dr. Google. Google it and go, wait a minute. That's the stuff they make cement with in the street. I don't want that. Oh my gosh. Why would that be? My body says one example, but you've got to start looking at words you don't understand and see where they come from. And if it's from a nut, a fruit, a seed, leaves, these are all good. Same with vitamins. Look on the back. You want to see things that are whole foods. You want to stay away from chemicals as much as possible. Thank you so much. I truly appreciate the time and I look forward to talking to you soon. This is Cindy Gilman and you're listening to discover your potential. So until next time, do something nice for yourself. But do something nice for someone else.
