March 21, 2025
Hydration Secrets for Midlife Energy (And What You're Doing Wrong!) with Kristen Coffield (Ep. 20)
We all know we should drink more water—but did you know that most people are still dehydrated, even if they drink all day?
In this episode, Cheryl sits down with Kristen Coffield, hydration and wellness expert, to reveal why proper hydration is about more than just drinking water. Learn why hydration is important for energy, brain health, and longevity—and how to hydrate the right way to actually absorb water into your cells.
BY THE TIME YOU FINISH LISTENING, YOU’LL DISCOVER:
- Why most midlife women are dehydrated (even if they drink plenty of water).
- The best ways to hydrate with electrolytes—and which hydration powders to avoid.
- How proper hydration reduces fatigue, brain fog, and cravings.
- Simple changes to absorb water better and stay hydrated all day.
🎯 OMG Moment: If hydration came in a $7 can, you’d buy it—but the real fountain of youth is free and flowing from your faucet! Start now!
Take Action
Want to reset your hydration habits? Download Kristen’s free 14-day hydration training at TheCulinaryCure.com and start feeling the benefits today! Connect with Kristen on Instagram at @kristencoffield (and Cheryl @cherylpfischer).
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Why This Episode Matters
Staying hydrated is about more than just drinking water—it’s about giving your body what it needs to function at its best. If you’ve ever wondered "Are hydration powders good for you?" or why you still feel thirsty despite drinking all day, this episode will give you the answers!
🎧 Hit follow now and join me next week as we talk about overcoming self-rejection before it stops you from going after what you want!
Find all podcast and coaching resources at cherylpfischer.com.
Chapters
00:00 - The Importance of Proper Hydration
07:29 - Modern Hydration Problems and Solutions
13:42 - Life Reboot in Midlife Crisis
21:25 - The Coffee Hack and Bathroom Frequency
27:10 - Supplements, Bone Broth, and Protein Needs
35:18 - Just Start: Key Takeaways
Transcript
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If you ask me what some keys to healthy living in midlife are, there is a 100% chance that I'm going to say drink more water and make sure you're hydrated, and there's probably like a 99% chance that that's what you thought I might say, along with being active and eating healthy and being around other people and not isolating.
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And mine said oh my goodness, we can't skip hydration, though, and the problem is, what I'm learning is that a lot of times, we're trying to hydrate, but we're not doing it in quite the right way, with quite the right water, believe it or not.
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So let's talk about it.
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Welcome to Mind your Midlife, your go-to resource for confidence and success.
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One thought at a time.
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Unlike most advice out there, we believe that simply telling you to believe in yourself or change your habits isn't enough to wake up excited about life or feel truly confident in your body.
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Each week, you'll gain actionable strategies and oh my goodness powerful insights to stop feeling stuck and start loving your midlife.
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This is the Mind your Midlife podcast.
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I used to drink diet soda all the time and when I finally stopped, saying, let me have my one vice.
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I know it's not good for me, but I don't do all these other things.
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When I finally stopped saying that, I switched to green tea and fizz, if you know, you know.
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And then I discovered lemon water and I started to feel better in a lot of ways.
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I started to understand the power of hydration.
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It makes such a difference in our bodies.
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I felt better and part of that, I think, was starting to believe that I could feel better.
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So we're going to be talking some very practical advice today and I want you to keep in mind since this is Mind your Midlife that it's also about believing that you deserve the best care that you can give yourself.
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You deserve the best hydration.
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You deserve to eat healthy, nutritious foods.
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You deserve for your body to be still amazing and strong, no matter what age you are.
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That belief will bring you through all of this information and you'll be able to start gradually, as Kristen's going to tell you, and do the things that will make a difference.
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So let's talk about whether we're doing them right, now, that we have that belief right.
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So why did I have to always get up and go to the bathroom?
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Was I really having the right things?
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Was I actually hydrated enough?
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Why do I still have dry skin?
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I don't know, but my guest, kristen Cofield, knows she is the founder of the Culinary Cure and Active Grandparenting, and Kristen is here to help us with what really her mission is, and that is to be well and healthy and energized, no matter what our age, and I love that.
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So let's dive in.
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Let's dive in.
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Well, let's just start with how you ended up working with women, especially midlife women, on living healthy and active lives.
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My favorite topic and it's interesting because we use the word midlife very freely.
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Because we use the word midlife very freely and because we're all living longer, midlife is really well into our 60s and even into our 70s.
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So one of the things that's always interested me is how we can use food to effectively biohack our health and wellness, our food, our habits, our hydration right.
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So when we get these habits locked and loaded to support us with our biggest goals for how we want to look, how we want to feel, the kind of energy we want to have, it actually adds more active years to our lives, and I think everybody is interested in that.
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Yes, and we're going to talk about hydration today, but your active grandparenting that you are helping so many people with, I think, is just fantastic.
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Fantastic, because I have a mom who was a really active grandparent for my kids when they were younger and it was amazing.
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Because I have a mom who was a really active grandparent for my kids when they were younger, and it was amazing.
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So I certainly want to be able to do that as well.
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Yeah, and there's a couple of interesting things here.
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So I'm a boomer, but the top of Gen X also falls into this category of grandparents.
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Our kids are getting married later and they're having kids later, which means our grandparenting years are getting pushed back later.
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So there's even more reason for women.
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Whether you're a grandparent now or you're just an active ager, there are more reasons than ever to want to add more active years to your life and to look at your 70s as a potential active decade for you.
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And in Europe, if you go hiking, I remember being in college and I did a lot of walking.
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So I was living with a family outside of Florence and I would walk into Florence.
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It might take me two hours, but I would walk in and take the bus back and I'd walk through these little towns and I would see these hikers that were easily in their 60s, 70s and 80s walking along a lot of the vineyard trails and other areas.
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You know those Germans who are hiking in the Alps in their 90s.
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No reason, this can't be a reality for all of us.
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So the thing is we don't stop walking because we get old.
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We get old because we stop walking.
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Well, there's a mic drop.
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Thank you for that.
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So so, so true, and this is why I forced myself to exercise regularly, even though I'm not a super exercise lover.
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Absolutely could not agree with you more.
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Now, this kind of relates to what you just said, because if we're walking and we're being active and we're not hydrating, I think we do have a problem.
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So let's, let's talk hydration.
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We all know that we're supposed to drink water or whatever.
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We know we're supposed to be hydrated, but I'm not sure we really know what that means.
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So tell us more about what being well hydrated really is.
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Well, first of all, there's so many misconceptions about what hydration is, and, trust me, it is not just drinking more water.
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The second thing is, most of us were never taught to hydrate properly.
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We didn't really need to learn how to hydrate properly when we were kids because there weren't the millions and millions and millions of beverages being marketed to us daily.
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We could drink water, we could drink juice, and juice glasses look like shot glasses.
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Right, we might drink milk, but there wasn't a lot of soda.
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You know bottled water.
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There wasn't sports drinks.
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We didn't have that.
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So the need to create a hydration practice is truly a modern concern.
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Yeah, I'm just going to pause there for a second and say this is a question I've asked myself, because we didn't walk around with water bottles when we were kids.
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We might've had a sip from the water fountain if we had a dry mouth, but I have wondered why is it so different?
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So thank you for addressing that.
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Oh, and we're just scratching the surface.
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So let's just talk about our homes, first of all.
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We didn't have.
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You know, maybe your family had ATV, but we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have computers.
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All of these things that put out electromagnetic energy in our homes are dehydrating.
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We were eating food.
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Now I'm 66 and I've seen, you know, there were a lot of things like shake a pudding and jello one, two, three and instant breakfast.
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All that stuff started to happen.
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Red dye, number three was like out there.
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But we have grown up in the chemical revolution and there's more chemicals that we're being exposed to than ever before in human existence.
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So what that means for us as women.
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First of all, we want to control the chemicals to the best of our ability, and I'm talking everything from ladies, your deodorant.
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You know what?
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You could rub a half a lemon under your arms and it would be as effective and a thousand times safer than most deodorants which contain all kinds of things that you're putting right in those lymph glands under your arms, right by your breasts.
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Okay, so you want to think about this really, really carefully.
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So we want to control the toxins in our environment, and that means things like open your windows in the morning, let some fresh air in.
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There's a little more oxygen in the air in the early part of the day, so let all those exhales out, okay.
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So that's going to bring a little fresh air into your house.
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Do it before you go to bed, right after you wake up in the morning.
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And indoor air pollution is a bigger problem than outdoor air pollution.
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Most people don't realize this, but during COVID everybody really stepped up chemical use in their homes.
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All those chemicals out gas into your air and become toxins that are in our home environment.
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So we've got that problem.
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Then we've got the water problem itself.
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Our water's processed.
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It's been through the municipal processing plant, it's been treated with chemicals so that we don't get some sort of waterborne disease, and basically the water that comes out of our tap that we then filter and you should filter it doesn't have any of the minerals, the salts and the elements that should be in the water mammals drink.
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So we're designed to drink water that contains potassium, magnesium, chloride, bromide, all these things that would be in water that's flowing over rocks and getting all those minerals.
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So we're not getting the minerals and the salts that help the water we drink get into our cells.
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Wow, so our water is a problem?
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Bottled water is a problem because it contains microplastics.
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We are at the tip of the iceberg about what the heck are microplastics and like.
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Why should we be concerned?
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And every time the human body is forced to process things it was never designed to encounter, it creates low level inflammation, and low level IgG inflammation is linked to every disease you never want to have Neurological design, cancer, diabetes, heart, you name it, it's.
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You don't want it.
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So back to okay, we know we're not getting enough water to hydrate, because the average person drinks two and a half cups of water a day.
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Really Even carrying around our big bottles Well, and if that water is not getting into your cells, maybe you're going to the bathroom a lot more.
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So there's really a way to hydrate properly in today's world.
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This is a modern problem.
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I created a 14 day hydration training that people can go to my website at the Culinary Cure and download it.
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Why 14 days?
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Because it takes 14 days to become fully and properly hydrated, and I could talk all day about this.
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But gulping a lot of water doesn't help you hydrate.
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This is boosting your water with things like electrolytes, herbal teas, citrus, to help that water get into your cells.
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Once that water gets into your cells, it's going to help all of your major organs function more properly, including your brain.
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Your blood is 99% water, so now your blood is going to be able to detoxify better.
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So now your blood is going to be able to detoxify better, and you can see how this all connects with helping our bodies function better in this chemical overload that they find themselves in as women.
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Here's something really interesting and goes back to those lymph glands.
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So when we wake up in the morning, so many of us go into the kitchen and have a cup of coffee or tea, right, first thing.
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That's not the way that you can really optimize your caffeine or help your body rehydrate after the fast that occurs during sleep.
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So when you're asleep, your body's in fast mode.
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All of your major organs are fasting so that they can go through their major metabolic detox.
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So think of it like this it's like the oil in your car After a while you've got to change the oil because the oil gets junked up.
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Well, all your major organs keep you functioning all day long and the byproduct from that is metabolic waste.
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And when you're sleeping and those organs detoxify, all that metabolic waste ends up in your lymphatic system.
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The lymphatic system is the trash can of the body.
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It's located between your muscles and your skin, and the lymphatic system can't really take out the trash without your help.
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So there's a couple of things that help the lymphatic system, help your body detox Movement and hydration.
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Fascinating.
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So, yes, I wanted to get into the benefits and I want to talk about this for a minute, because we know that we are huge percent water, we know it's good for our skin, we know it's good for our blood flow, but this I had not heard.
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And I used to have a lot of problems with particularly one side of my body but with swelling and bloating and it was because of lymph issues, and I have figured out that staying hydrated helps.
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That for sure, but I never put all of this together.
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That's really interesting.
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Yeah.
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So for me personally, in my fifties, I went through a very I had a really awful decade.
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Everything that could go wrong felt like it did go wrong.
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My mom's cancer came back.
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My dad, who we were all estranged from, started acting strangely.
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It turned out to be Alzheimer's.
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My husband was in a difficult partnership and it put a huge financial strain on our family and on our marriage.
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Our last child left for college and so this happened over like a decade and, like so many women, I was keeping all the balls in the air.
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Right, you know you're robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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You're maxing out a credit card here and paying it off later.
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You know you're being creative with how you pay tuitions and mortgages.
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And my big world and I was always that girl.
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I was always like, oh, ask Kristen, she'll know, ask Kristen.
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And I was always that girl.
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I was always like, oh, ask Kristen, she'll know, ask Kristen, she's got, she knows all this.
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Well, you know this big world that I had became smaller and smaller and smaller because I am trying to handle all of these stressors.
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Now, at the same time, I'm in my fifties and I'm going through all kinds of hormone changes, so it's like this perfect storm and many women go through this in their late 40s and 50s where it's just like you.
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Just you're like you wake up every day and you're like what else is going to go wrong.
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You know this is, and it got so bad for me.
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I realized now I was clearly depressed and I went from doctor to doctor and I would describe my symptoms and they would say maybe you need a sleep aid or a beta blocker or an anti-anxiety medication.
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But then they'd look at my blood work and I've been in the health and wellness space for a long time and they're like oh my God, your blood is amazing.
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I mean I wish I had your blood.
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Well, here's the deal.
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I had an underactive thyroid, so all that stress was like shooting heroin through my you know, it was like cortisol going through my thyroid, like heroin.
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So I'm living in this high stress, high anxiety space.
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I finally get diagnosed with thyroid cancer Little tiny, itty bitty speck Best thing that ever happened.
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They took out my thyroid and the doctor says yeah, kristen, that is, it's the craziest thing.
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I mean I take out thyroids every day.
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Your thyroid looked like a prune.
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It was all shriveled up, it was.
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It was clearly not working, yet a dozen doctors only looked at my blood work and told me I was just fine.
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So that's when I was like, oh my gosh, I can't be the only woman that found herself upstream without a paddle in her 50s and had to reboot her life.
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Yes, in her 50s and had to reboot her life.
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Yes, and while that devastating, tsunami-like decade of horrible things was happening, even though I was in the wellness space, I was drinking more coffee, opening a bottle of wine at five o'clock, I wasn't really getting to the gym as much.
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I was dealing with a lot of, I was internalizing a lot of things, so I wasn't socializing as much.
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Because the truth of the matter is, when your life gets messy, people get tired of hearing about it, and when you have a decade of messy stuff, your friends just are like, yeah, tired of hearing about this.
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Yeah, I'm in my 50s and there is messy stuff not as much as you're describing knock on wood right at this moment anyway, but I know listeners are going to be identifying with this too, because there's just messy stuff that happens.
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Yeah yeah, these are real life struggles.
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So at this point I really doubled back on the wellness stuff and I'm not sleeping anyway.
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I'm like do I stay in my marriage?
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Do I leave my marriage?
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How am I going to pay this quarter of a million dollars of debt?
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It was so bad.
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So I found a gym that opened at 5 am.
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I was like I could lie here and ruminate or I could just get up and go to the gym.
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So I start going to the gym and then at the same time, I'm doing a lot of research like what is the one thing that I'm not doing that really could change me?
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And I'm thinking it's nutrition.
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And you know, I know food is powerful.
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But what I discover is that it's hydration.
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Wow, that hydration is this underutilized opportunity for women to really reclaim their wellness, and nobody's teaching us that we need to get the hydration part right first.
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And let's be clear you can only live for three days without water.
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You can live for like 30 days without food.
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Water is an essential nutrient.
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It's a nutrient that means your body can't make it.
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You have to get it from an external source.
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So now you look at where we are.
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You look at all these conditions of life that aren't supporting the life we want to live.
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You look at these environmental toxins.
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You look at what's happened Our water is different.
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You look at our fruits and vegetables we're monocropping so they don't have the same nutritional value as the foods that we ate as children.
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So now we're all running around mineral deficient and our water's mineral deficient, and so this hydration component, and I just went so deep into it and what I discovered was so profound.
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If we could just get people to focus on hydrating properly, not using the fancy electrolytes.
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You know nothing.
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That comes in a little packet that's got a flavor.
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You just need plain old, unflavored electrolytes, which you can buy from a company called Trace Minerals.
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They've got something called 40,000 volts.
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I share all this in my free 14-day hydration training.
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Or you can add a pinch of Himalayan sea salt from ancient sea salt.
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It has to be mined sea salt formed before pollution, so it doesn't have those microplastics but it does have all those minerals and salts and elements that are so beneficial to how our bodies and brains function.
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Okay, well, you also just answered another question for me and for a listener here or there, I'm sure because I've been told to use Himalayan sea salt, but I never knew why.
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So I guess that's why although I maybe need to check the source clearly yeah, you want Himalayan sea salt that has been harvested, preferably from the Kerala mines in India or Pakistan.
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So it's, of course, sea salt, is a whole, you know, like olive oil, like all of these things.
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You could go down the rabbit hole, but at the end of the day, what you want are the purest ingredients that you can get, and we're not talking spending a fortune here.
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You just need to do a little research.
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There's a company called Symphony Naturals that has something called Sol S-O-L and it's literally a lump of sea salt and it comes with a jar and you add water and then you can put a little spoonful of the salt water into your beverages because you want to make sure that salt dissolves, so you get the benefits.
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So, symphony Naturals I don't have a link or anything, but you can find them.
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Some people like that Redmond's sea salt, the pink salt, but we're not talking the salt you're buying at Trader Joe's here.
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Okay, good to know and a side benefit of this conversation for sure, because that's what I was buying.
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Yeah.
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So here's another thing about the salt and this may answer another question.
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So when people hear me talk and they're all super excited, you know, and then they want to ask all these questions, I say get the 14 day hydration training, because it's 14 days of knowledge, like I could tell you what to do.
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It's so much more effective when you get the information and you start to understand why you're doing what you do.
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We start to add these beneficial salts and minerals and elements.
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And once we stop gulping and start sipping and Emerson's like, how do I get to that?
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100 ounces Eight to 10 big sips an hour will get you there.
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Your first beverage of the day is a nice big glass of lemon water with some, you know, himalayan sea salt or electrolytes in it.
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And and then when we're sipping instead of gulping and you know that could be herbal tea too you can sip herbal tea all day what happens is you have to retrain your body.
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That that forgot how to hydrate, hydrate.
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Your body had to adjust to what you were doing, right, so you weren't drinking enough.
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So your body like kind of dumbed down your sense of thirst so you wouldn't go crazy.
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Maybe you're having food cravings because your body doesn't know if it's thirsty or hungry.
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But once you start sipping, and sipping consistently, your body starts to trust you again and your cells start to absorb the water as you're drinking it.
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It is normal, to everybody listening, to go to the bathroom five to seven times a day.
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That's normal.
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You want to drink your water and be done before five o'clock.
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You never want an alcoholic beverage unless you've had all your water for the day.
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You don't start with a hundred ounces there's.
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Everybody has the right amount to start with.
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For them, it's half their body weight in ounces of water sipped throughout the day.
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And so, yes, you are going to feel the urge to go to the bathroom at first, and you know why Because your urine is concentrated in your bladder, because you're not drinking enough water.
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So then anything you sip is going to stimulate the urge to go.
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So we got to get you move past that.
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We got to get you sipping, not gulping.
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We have to have you start hydrating first thing in the morning and then sipping throughout the day, and being done with all your major liquids by five o'clock so it's not affecting your sleep.
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So that's fantastic information, and I know I mentioned this to you, but my pod squad group on Facebook was throwing to me questions that I needed to ask you when I was going to record this, and that was Becky's question, saying I feel like I have to go to the bathroom all the time.
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What kind of, what kind of adjustment period would there be from I feel like I have to go to the bathroom all the time to your body, your body kind of figuring it out?
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