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this episode is really exciting. We're going to be diving deep into the world of nutraceuticals with Gary from Designs for Health on covering the game changing science behind these powerful supplements. Now, have you ever wondered what sets nutraceuticals apart from regular vitamins and minerals, how they supercharge gut health, detox, deliver and support hormonal balance. Well, we've got the answers
for you. By the way, if you haven't seen or podcasts before, the past three podcasts I was with Bruce and I have a big surprise for you. Don't know about you, guys, but I love surprises. I'm sure Gary does as well. I'll introduce him in a moment more deeply, but Bruce is here with us as well, and Bruce is going to be a regular on the show to just help everything that we've heard, take it and talk it out at the end of the show. So I
think that's a really great dynamic. Thank you everyone for your feedback on that, by the way, and go back to the three episodes to get the foundation as to what Gary and I will be talking about today. So let's introduce Gary. Hi. Gary, Dan. There's Gary. Hi. Gary, I'm doing fantastic. That sounds great. So that sounds great. So Gary, let me do a quick intro as to how I see you. So. Gary is the leading expert in nutraceuticals with Designs for Help. He brings years of
experience in functional wellness and nutritional science together. He's passionate about optimizing health through evidence based supplementation, and Gary has also been at the forefront of innovative formulations to support long envity, vitality, and usefulness, which is what we're talking about here now. As a guest today on the Walk with Wisdom podcast, Gary dives into the science behind nutraceuticals, answering thought provoking questions that cover how targeted nutrition can
transform health from the inside out. His expertise bridges the gap between cutting edge research and practical application, making complex health concepts accessible to all. Gary, did you know I thought of you in that way?
I was like, are you talking about me? Really? Thank you so much for having me on as a guest. I really do appreciate the opportunity and delighted that you have brought your experience, education, and life affirming ideas you know to this podcast. So thank you for having me on.
Fantastic Thanks again, Gary. Everyone, we're going to die right into it. Remember if Gary hadn't seen the first podcast, I set this up to just be very relaxed here Gary, we're just having a conversation. This is a of course, people go to their primary care practitioner, but there's so much information and here we get to break it down and have a conversation conversation one with another. So let's dive in nutraceuticals one oh one. So that sounds like
a Universe University course, doesn't it. Gary. You you get a few minutes just to explain to the audience what is a nutraceutical? How is that different from a vitamin and mineral that they would get just anywhere on any shelf. We're not gonna call any names.
Yeah, I would say just disclosure. Obviously you have announced that I do work for a nutraceutical company that is designed for health, do not make any medical claims. So I'm happy to have the you know, a wonderful conversation because so many people today are looking for solutions to their health outside of maybe the traditional route. But yeah, nutriceuticals, they're really they're products that are derived from food sources, and they tend to offer additional health benefits beyond like
your basic nutritional value. So simple vitamins like vitamin A, the B, vitamin C, et cetera, on their own, you know, a lot of people are taking those more as a foundational health they feel they need them. But a nutricutical, in my mind, tends to aim to prevent or treat specific diseases and obviously, you know, to ensure that we're looking towards optimal health, you know, overall health. And so they do include as an they're more suticals is kind
of like an umbrella term. I would still say that it generally includes those dietary supplements like functional foods, medicinal foods as well, but it would also tend to include the vitamins and the minerals, herbal products, probiotics as well.
Right, you know, I'm sorry, Gary, please go ahead.
Just that I feel that a nutriceutical is sort of an elevated product, and I think, you know, we're probably going to get in a little deeper.
We are, Yeah, we are. You said something that's very, very important, and it's that nutraceuticals is an umbrella term. I know we've all talked about this before on the show. Gary. You know people are seeing that term pop up, but what does it really mean? Well, Gary just explained it everyone, umbrella term. Can you just tell me what's the functional food? Because I know that there are incredible functional foods out there,
certainly through designs for health. What's the functional food description?
Well?
Yeah, it takes many different forms, but like your greens powder, your reds powder, you know where they're high in antioxidants.
Those would be two perfect examples that I think most people are aware of. Like I come from Ireland, I've visited the US and Canada, like I don't know, thirty forty years ago and I was saying greens powders then and it was the new big thing and you know where today it's just you know, everybody's drinking greenspowders, but
functional foods with like for designs for health. We also have meal replacements, so high quality protein powders that are so clean along with vitamins, minerals and overall nutrients to ensure or that you're meeting the needs of individuals that are either living a busy life and they just want to have something that they can put in a blender
bottle and drink for lunch. But more importantly, people that might you know, after an operation and you're you're just not feeling that you want to eat a full meal, that this ensures, you know, that you have something that you can drink that's going to give you, you know, again a proper protein level and all the nutrients, the vitamins and the minerals that your body is desiring and
needing at that time. And certainly people that are on you know, anybody that's told to take products like ensure, for example, I would look for a functional food like from a nutriceutical company instead, so that it doesn't contain you know, like sugar and other ingredients that again are not optimal getting you to where you want to be in your health as fast as fast as possible.
Perfect. That was again excellent, and thank you everyone. I see the comments, don't forget to comment, share the link like subscribe because Gary already in the few minutes that we've spoken, has educated me, re educated me and really like the foundation that Bruce and I said, take the complicated and make it simple. So thank you for breaking down functional foods. And by the way, if anyone wants to get a hold of me through this show, Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom dot ca is the best way
to get a hold of me. Wisdom at walkwi Wisdom dot ca. That's my email. I do life coaching, nutraceutical coaching, and so this is one way to get a hold of me and any of the guests who have come on. If you have further questions, Gary's not going to talk about him specifically, you go through me because I know all these things that he's talking about and have used
them and love them. Gary. Next question, so you actually covered a lot about nutraceuticals because for instance, I well, one thing, maybe you can go in a little bit deeper because you're giving everyone a foundation of what's coming next, which is protocols that we're going to put together. By the way, we've been talking about a specific phase of youthful aging GARY, which is menopause, and I don't like to leave the men out manopause, which is really anenterpause.
We know all of it, but I think menopause. I heard that term and I love it. So a lot of what we're going to talk about, we're going to put together protocols eventually to help our audience get to where they need to get through through through this stage. One of the questions that I had is where can you find a nutrireceuticle? So we talked about, you know, the difference. Can someone just go in anywhere or do
they have to come through someone like me? Or certain types of pharmacies, where can they find your your nutraceutical for instance a Dfhe.
Yeah, So would you mind if I take a step back and just maybe explain the difference. Would I feel like a nutroceutical and a product that's available at a retail.
Store, Absolutely please?
Yeah, it'll just lead it lead. Yeah. So I get asked all the time, why would I buy a product, you know, from a nutraceutical product that compared to you know, something that I can buy at Costco or like a leading high street pharmacy for example. So with nutraceuticals, what I truly believe is, you know, you're dealing with companies that are truly looking at the purity and the potency of the individual ingredients that are going into the product,
and that you have the correct form. And I do tend to say, like with magnesium, that's a good example. If you know, I was that guy on the street that didn't know anything about nutraceuticals, and if somebody said you should take magnesium, yeah, I would have gone to the high street store and looked at magnesium and gone, this is the cheapest one. You know, it's magnesium, I'll grab it. And then you know, like this is a
conversational topic. So I go and buy let's say, a magnesium sitrate powder, and I take maybe a little bit more because I think I need more magnesium. And then magnesium citrate is going to move your bowels, so the next morning you're going to be very busy in the bathroom. So it's it's without the proper you know, indications for products. It's so necessary to understand what you are buying. So
purity and potency, you know, so it shouldn't. Each product should include active ingredients at the amounts stated on the label, without any contaminants like heavy metals for example, pesticides, harmful microorganisms,
et cetera. Again, quality ingredients, looking at manufacturing standards. So typically you would have like three ingredients should be brought into an independent lab for testing before they get anywhere near the company's facilities, and if they meet, you know, very high standards, then those ingredients get shipped out to the manufacturing facilities. They should be quarantined in their lab
before they get access to the main building. If they pass the company's standards, they would go into the manufacturing process, and then the final product is tested again, because you really truly need to ensure what I've just said that the dosing on the label is actually showing through, you know, in the finished product. So that would be a Designs for Health way of looking at quality. So that there's three key steps that need to need to be covered.
Clinical evidence as well, transparency. So reputable brands really should have no problem talking about where ingredients are sourced from, talking about their manufacturing processes, talking about why they put certain ingredients in a product, and then obviously, you know, being compliant with regulatory associations or the government, you know, whether you're in the US, Canada, et cetera. So so vitamins like what you buy in retail stores typically are
lower dosing and are not really designed. They're not nearly as absorbable or what we say, bioavailable. And even though you might be paying a little bit more buying a true nutraceutical product, I truly believe you're getting so much more absorbed that you know, taking a product from a retail store, you're not getting the same dose. So if you truly want, you know, to be cost effective, buying
the cheaper product is generally not the right answer. Taking a good quality product, even if you need to take a lower dose because you know, for you to meet your budget, you know, take one every two days instead of one every day, you know, but at least you're going to be getting, you know, like those ingredients actually being absorbed at a very high level. So your original
question was back to where can you buy them? So a company like ours would tend to work mostly with practitioners, so naturopathic doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, registered helistic nutrition so you must have a license and be certified in order, you know, to open an account. But you will find, like pharmacies, people are looking for more access to these high quality products that make claims, that are allowed to make claims.
And so we have found that working with pharmacies and registered holistic nutritionists gives us an option of in some instances, you know, as long as there's staff on the floor that have a certification on the I mean on the floor of a store obviously not lying on the floor, you know what I.
Mean, And.
So you will so mostly as I said, it has to be in a location where you have a certified practitioner, be it a pharmacist or a registeredlistic nutritionist.
Fantastic, Thank you Gary. That is perfect timing. Everyone. We're going to take a break and we're going to come back from after a short word from more sponsors. Hi, everyone, welcome back to Walk with Wisdom. Genevieve Wisdom, your host.
This is Gary. Gary is an amazing expert in nutraceuticals and this is important because if you have watched their last few shows, and if you haven't, you have to go back and see the foundation that the great Bruce Pollock and I set about going through a certain stage when you're youthful aging called menopause and menopause. Gary's here to give us the expertise on a lot of what we use to get through that, which is nutraceuticals, and
he has some of the best. There are many companies, but I really like a lot of what Gary has from his nutraceutical company. Now, Gary mentioned so many things in the last section. Please email Wisdom at walk with Wisdom dot Ca and I will be able to answer any of your questions. Bruce again is joining us, and it's really Bruce and I that's going to help to really decipher put toget us. Some protocols do more one
on one. So Gary, thank you again for coming back what Bruce and I talked about, which was so incredibly brilliant because of the stage menopause, menopause, it's so huge. Then there's the Perry stage, and you know what I'm going through. Everyone, I go to everybody I know and these brilliant men in my life with their wisdom and go help me. I'm really hot. Now Gary has heard way too much information about this stage. So this is what Bruce said to me, which was amazing, and we
started there. You have to deal with the gut. We want to go to the symptoms. Of course we're having the hot flashes, weight gain, all of that, but if your gut isn't in a state where it helps to absorb, break down all this information a pardon me, break down all these nutraceuticals. It doesn't matter how bio available, et cetera. You've got to start foundationally. So what I wanted to ask you is about nutraceuticals for digestive support within the
context of we're going to go to menopause. Menopause, but what do you see is amazing in general for people for gut health from designs for health.
It's a really good question. Thanks for asking it. Yeah, whether it's hormones or brain health or performance or whatever, the gut is central. And if the gut is off a little bit, you'll definitely feel it. You know, whether you're sluggish or you know you're not sleeping well, or skin issues, it does. It truly affects everything. So I would definitely say most of us will have some sort
of an inflamed intestine. We most of us might not even notice anything, you know, wrong, but generally you know that that dyspiosis or that inflammation of the gut could show itself, you know as again pain in the gut that could ultimately, you know, cause nausea and stomach. There's a thing called leaky gut where you know, food is sort of getting trapped but not being absorbed. You know,
the nutrients, et cetera not able to be absorbed. So products that like Designs for Health you know, would offer and that I regularly, you know, will use myself. You cannot get away with something simpler than like eld ludamine powder, and that's you know, a wonderful you know, it will
help to take down the inflammation. So whether you're looking to take down the inflammation in your stomach or in your gut, generally, you know, you could be taken anywhere from like fifteen hundred to five thousand milligrams per day. But our big formula at Designs for Health is GI Revive powder.
So it's yes, it's sorry I had to say that aimen to that. This is sad to say that A to that, Yes, everyone gr revive And I know because I've used Gary's products and I've Bruce and I have dealt with thousands really of patients if they're coming from their natural path or medical doctor customers. And we also have our own coaching practices. As you know, Gary, we've dealt with a pleasora of people across the board. And I know your GI Revive I had to jump in.
Is really a great foundational resetting your gut product and why does it work so well well?
But i'd even going into the ingredients. I always talk about the fact that number one, we talk about delivery systems. So that's as simple as saying it comes in the form of a tablet, a capsule, a powder, a liquid, a soft jail. So GI Revive is a powder. It can be mixed in water, so you're not adding anything inflammatory that is going to make your inflamed gup even worse. It stays very watery, which is nice. It has a peach flavor, so most people are going to like drink
it and go, oh this is not bad. This is actually going to help heal me. But overall, I think if you look at the formula, it's heavily biased towards anti inflammatory ingredients, and those are going to as you drink it. You know, I always like to have the patient think about the how it's mode of action, how it's working on them, and as you drink it, you know, those inflammatory ingredients are crossing the intestinal barrier and they're
starting to heal the gut from within. But while that is happening, it doesn't happen overnight, but it's relatively fast. That inflamed gut is still going to be sore, and when stool is passing, et cetera, it's still going to cause that pain. So you want mucilaginous ingredients and that's one of the big pieces of this ingredient, this formula
as well. So those mucilaginous ingredients coat the intestinal lining and so as students passing it, just it takes the edge off and it really starts it sort of calms, you know, the gut lining. And then I'm.
Jumping about the mucilogenous ingredients and this is something that I'm building on. So Bruce and I had talked about this and the women know, especially for us girls, usually we are constipated boys, yeah, you get there, but across the board from a very young age, women are constipation constipated.
So that's what I found Gary and I can talk to This is that it just softens the stoolents so many women and men, but certainly the girls, especially going through the change metopause and having that IBS or constipation. This is a great ingredients, So please continue mucilaginous ingredient. And I interrupted, no, Well.
The last thing I would say is we do have prune and pectin in the formula, and those are there to help with regularity, and so it's sort of it seems to just bring into balance the IBS and IBD. So it doesn't make if somebody has diarrhea, it doesn't make it any worse, it doesn't, you know. But if it's constipation, it tends to just regulate as opposed, you know. So I always say, you know that this is one of my biggest selling products. And the nice thing about
it is it literally is one tub will work. You know, it'll be like a one month supply. But most the majority of people just need one tub and then they can a lot of people might buy a second one just in case they have a flare up, but it's not something you need to be on long term. That's the nice thing.
That is the nice thing. And so one thing that I I know that I say to patients, clients, customers, They ask, well, how long is this going to take to work? And this is everybody knows this. Now you get to hear it here, Gary, I have little words of wisdom or little stories or little sayings, and one of my sayings is the bell curve of life. So everything falls on a bell curve. So when someone asks like, well, how long is it going to take to work? And as you say, you don't have to do it for
a long period of time. It really depends on you. And so ten percent will go, oh, my gosh, I was fixed in seven days. Ten percent will say, you know what, Genevieve, can we talk to Gary? You know, because this thing, you know doesn't necessarily work and the
rest of us are around the eighty percent curve. The one good thing though about nutraceuticals, it knocks out a lot of products not working because of the studies, right Gary, because of the research on the ingredients and how they're put together.
So that was one of the things that definitely sets nutraceuticals. And you know, your standard sort of retail products apart. Designs for Health was set up, you know, probably thirty five years ago, and research and science were the two primary facets, you know, like the pillars that supported the company as they launched, and they've staid true to those. So a lot of the products that we have actually
do continue. You know, we have clinical studies in white papers on many of the products, and even you know, against specific ingredients like I'm trying to think collagen peptides, Like we use collagen peptides that are the most researched in the world so that we can use the claims you know, from that research to highlight that this product you know, will work and will do what you know,
the clinical studies are showing us. But I would say that again just my opinion that since sort of COVID the pandemic and all that, I feel that the general population is looking outside for more support in their health, and nutraceutical companies have a requirement and I think more the moral compass and they have to you know, step up and do even more, you know, clinical research, because if you are, you know, paying a little more, you know for a nutraceutical, you want to know Again everything
that I've told you, probably nobody really in their everyday life is going to like look at into what a newstritic is. Why am I paying you know a little bit more for this, but I know we're being asked as designs for health, and our focus is very much being that brand for practitioners. You know that they can trust because they can see how we put the formula together and brought in patented or trademarked ingredients that have clinical research and including our own like our DIM for example,
has been used in human clinical trials. Arthur Bin is a collagen powder with bioflabinoids, major like clinical research and you know, again a huge anti inflammatory product. So yeah, there's lots of lots of products out there that have that clinical background and it's been you know, it's been demanded more. And I'm so pleased because we do need to be able to stand up and say we stand by our products.
So absolutely, and thank you, and so everyone Gary mentioned dim DIM is going to be something. Bruce and I are, by the way, going to put together protocols so you don't have to guess what to do. So we're going to put together some protocols which you can get from Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom dot ca email us. Because as you hear what Gary has said, everything is researched, but we're still individual, and especially if it comes to hormonal things, deeper hormonal things, we want to talk to
you as an individual. Make sure we're giving you a protocol for you. Gary, I just have to jump in and say, you did a phenomenal job and I don't know where the time went. And I'm going to put you on this spot because I'm seeing some of the comments, thank you so much for those of you or commenting on the live love what you're saying, Gary, And can you come back?
Only if ten people say we want and done?
That's just on that one platform. I can see everybody else.
So I think the questions might have been can we have subtitles next time so we understand what he actually said?
So that's not true because those of you who know me know that I'm thirteen percent Irish. Gary, here's that all the time. Well, if it would be great if you can come back and join us next week, because then we can build on what we started building the foundation of gut, liver and hormones. Talk about that menopause and menopause dim et cetera. I would love to have you back. So with everyone else, they're saying yes right here, I see the little Class and that's notice some titles.
Thank you very very much. It was an absolute pleasure and I look forward to joining you again next week.
Fantastic. Thank you Gary. Everyone, the show isn't over. Please come back. A short break for sponsors, please come back. It will be Bruce and I. Hi everyone, Jennievieve Wisdom, welcome back to Walk with Wisdom. I'm here with the great Bruce Pollock. Bruce, you look great today.
Feeling great today? Jen? Thank you?
You are welcome. Now everyone, I think we should explain to everyone what's going on because I think this is the fourth time. Isn't the fourth time we've been together on the show.
It is the fourth absolutely well.
It's really based on several things, but certainly the feedback that I've gotten as well from our valued audience. By the way, thank you everyone for joining us live. Always share the live but you can go to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and certainly to Bowl Brave TV to set the reminders to have this show come to you every Friday. Now. Bruce, some of the feedback that I got was people really love how we took the complicated and made it simple. Do you remember I said that I love that about
you and together we could do that. People love that and said could we have more of Bruce? And I asked you, Bruce, can we have more of you? And so everyone, Bruce is going to be with me on the shows at the end of the show to do a little wrap up and that's just going to take what you hear from the guests and break it down into actionable steps for you. So, Bruce, that was a lot from Gary today. Where should we start? Please? I would love to hear from you.
It was amazing. He's so full of information. I'm going to look down every once in a while I have notes about what Gary was talking about, just in case you're wondering. But when we talk about nutureceuticals, I like that Gary said to treat or prevent disease. That's very different than just taking a vitamin C or taking a multi vitamin. We're actually trying to cure problems and stop them from getting worse and actually make them better. So
the quality has to be there. And you don't know he didn't say this, but nutriceuticals are used by ND's natural pathic doctors and natural path deductors have to have quality supplements because if their patients don't get better, their patients leave them. So you're looking at the top quality products because they have to cure people, they have to make them get better. A cool thing that he didn't mention that's out there is all these nutraceutical companies have
DNA readers. So everything that he did say that they're all checked, but they actually have DNA readers to read what's coming in. A normal company doesn't have to do that. I believe they only have to check their product once every six months. So if they get a product sent to them in between that six months that has nothing in it, they can still encapsulate and sell it and call it what it's supposed to be because they do
what they need to do every six months. Whereas with the nutraceutical companies, it comes in, it gets checked, before it goes out, it gets checked. They know exactly what's in there. So this is part of that that he was talking about. The quality based of it.
Absolutely problem A question, Bruce, if you I'm so sorry, I'm just gonna interject because you said a really big word or topic, which is DNA readers. Can you just define what type of DNA you're talking about? Can you give us a little simple example.
Absolutely, yeah, sorry, Well, they know they know what the DNA of every product is supposed to be. They have it all all programmed into the reader. So when they stick the product in the reader, it comes back saying either what percentage it is of that product or one hundred percent of that product or or it's not that product at all. And often you'd be surprised how often stuff gets sent back because it wasn't to be. But yeah, but if you're not but if you're not checking it
every time, how do you know? And so this is but now you're looking at a lab to do this in, so now you're you're looking at more cost. So these nutraceuticals are going up in costs just to keep the quality there. So it's it's really and it's it's really cool once you start thinking about that. And also the purity impotency in the correct form he talked about a lot, and the purity has to be there as well. Again,
you what is it in Canada? I believe you only have to have eighty percent of what you claim in the capsule. That's the Canadian standards. But you expect with a nutraceutical, you expect ninety eight percent, that's right, So you know, and I know one company claims ninety nine percent, right,
so is a nutrition company? Right? And that and you imagine if you really need an AC for example, if you really need that, but you're only getting eighty percent of the dose that you believe you're getting that the doctor says take fifteen hundred, Well now you're only getting eleven hundred, right, So that's very important as well.
And Bruce, I'm going to interject here so everyone, that's how Bruce and I comes in as a coach. As he said, natural paths have nutraceuticals, they have the research behind it, not unlike pharmaceuticals on the allopathic medical side.
But then what often patients have a list of supplements that they have to take and they're confused, they don't have compliance, so they don't really finish what's in the bottle and maybe they need to find out something so simple that Bruce said, But it's not up to you to figure it out. And we wouldn't even think to ask is this one hundred percent of what it says here or is it eighty percent? And it makes a huge difference to healing, prevention and having things go away, doesn't it.
Bruce, Absolutely, And to further along, he was talking about dosing and studies with the nutriceuticals. The dosing on the labels is studied doing with the exception of when the government says, our government is quite conservative in Canada, when our government says, oh no, they can't take that much, then they have to put the government level on it. But other than that, it is the amount that's been studied for that problem, which isn't the same case as
when you're just taking a vitamin off the shelf. The other thing is is most of these companies have studied the nutriceutical combinations have been studied. So when it says when it says take four a day, if you take one, you're not going to get the You're not going to get the value of it. You need to take the four of them. But if you take the four of them, the outcome has already been studied. So that's an important one with them as well.
I'm going to jump in here. I know you probably have heard this, Bruce, but I have people saying, oh my gosh, I got to take four. I say it. And by the way, another time we'll talk about something called pill fatigue. It's a real thing for us worlds, especially you guys don't get it right, I mean, man, swallow.
Again, Absolutely we do. There's no yeah, but phil fatigue is a real thing, and you can only take so much. Each person there's so much is different. But if you're the type who can only take three or four pills a day, go back to your natural path and say, look, which one is a priority for me. He won't get you won't get well as quickly, but at least you'll
be compliant in taking your supplement. Because non compliance, if it's just sitting in your cupboard because you just don't want to take that, many leave it in the store. They'll their shell for you. But if you're so if you can't take six or eight or twelve five different kinds of supplements, tell your practitioner and he'll pick out the one that he feels you need the most. And
then you can add to that. Once you've got that habit, that twenty one day, three week habit of taking that one, you can add another one to it and slowly build up to take them instead of and unfortunately I've seen this too many times. Here's eight hundred dollars worth of supplements, take them off, and less than a week later they're on the shelf, not being taken because the person says, I can't take this many. I don't know why I'm taking I don't feel any better.
Absolutely, I get you, Bruce really on that. And so everyone again, that's how Bruce and I comes in because we can help with that, help you with the questions to ask your primary care practitioner. But also, Bruce, here's something just because you brought up take four a day, there is a reason why they say, for there is a reason why they say to take four in divided doses. That something that I get a lot where someone says,
well can I take all six at once and go? Well, divided doses is better because you want it in your body and the system. So that's what we do. We take the time to sit with you to explain, and it helps save you time and money because you're gonna be more compliant, you're gonna get healthy faster, you're gonna prevent things more, and you're gonna save money. But also, Bruce, there's liquids and powders as well. We'll talk about that
another time, but I've taken so much supplements, Bruce. You know I've come to you going, Bruce, I'm still hot. What else can I take? And you go, Genevieve, how many pills are you taking? On on oh thirty eight? And I go, can I open them? You know? Or there are different formulation liquid pills, powders and so on, so we can talk about that later. Bruce, it looks like you made a lot of notes.
It was really interesting. I really enjoyed it. But speaking of the pills, powders and liquids, I'm like, pour what I give her. I give her capsules after capsules after capsules. I want her to live forever. I just love the woman. But come bedtime, she's saying I don't want to take any more pills, and I'm saying, you got to take your magnesium. And that's what we did, is we ended up getting her a good, solid liquid magnesium and she loves the flavor of it and it's no longer a problem taking it.
So that's a good point. And again, everyone, if you have for the questions, thank you for your comments. They're awesome. My ask is that you put it in an email so I can get to you directly Wisdom at walkw Wisdom dot Ca. And now you all know, I'm going to put Bruce on the spot. It's not just going
to be me. If Bruce and I are doing a rapport like this and there's a question that you have for both of us, or you need counselor consults from Bruce alone or Bruce in conjunction, you can reach us there Wisdom at walkw Wisdom dot Ca, Bruce, anything else that you got that was into response.
We need to also consider the clinical research behind it. Most companies piggyback on other researching. And I mean that's great if research has been done invitement C, it's been done invitenment C. But when you're buying six or eight different products together, there is no research on that. The company you're buying it from needs to do that research. And again that research costs money. And Gary was saying
that they do clinical research on their products. I know another company they send all their probiotics to a university and they say publish whatever you find, whether it's good or bad. Well, that's costing money. So those pro biorecs are going to cost you more than the ones you're going to find in costco because in those ones they say, the study this one on this one strain says, oh, it's good for this. The study on the other strain says, oh, it's good for this. So if we put them together,
it should do this. Well, what you want is the ones where they put them together and done the studies. And so this is again and when we talk about that powder Gary has, it's a fabulous powder. By the way, it does everything it says it's supposed to. And they know it does because they've studied it absolutely.
That's excellent, Bruce. This is a great spot for us to take a break so we can hear from our sponsors. Bruce and I are gonna come back, and we're gonna come back with what we like to call the Wisdom Tip section. So now we're gonna kind of put everything together and tell you if you had to get one thing out of today's show, what would the thing be. And so we'll be back in a short break. Hi, everyone, welcome back. I'm Genevieve Wisdom here on Walk with Wisdom,
and this is Bruce Pollock. Today we're talking about nutraceuticals, that big word that you've heard about. We had Gary from designs for health with us today. And then Bruce and I are just breaking it down for everyone, aren't we. Bruce, just what is it? What is the takeaway? What is it that's actionable that you can use? So, Bruce, I will let you lead us off. Is there one thing that any all of our listeners today can take away from this one product? One action? What do you think?
I don't think there's one product, but one action is really check out the product you're getting and make sure it's good quality. And again let's talk about fish oils. You can get fish oils that they say our second party tested and they own the second party. You can get fish oils that have had have been checked for twenty six different or twenty seven different things, or you can get fish oils have been checked for four hundred
and twenty different things. You want the ones to the cleanest because our oceans are very toxic, so you want to just if you're gonna take a product, make sure it's a good product, make sure the quality is there so that you're actually getting what you're paying for, and I'll actually do what you're supposed to do. That's my tip for today.
Fantastic, Thank you, Bruce, that's an actual excellent tip. And so for me everyone, I'm going to talk product and only because as you know, when Bruce and I started, we started with the gut. So this is all still along the path of us being forty and over and dealing with some hormonal things. So everything that we're talking about here goes back to helping us balance our hormones and really make it through this stage as easy as we can. Remember, Bruce, when you told us about the gut,
which was so important. So Gary mentioned a gut supplement. I would prefer for you to talk to Bruce and I about it, just because we're talking about nutraceuticals. You can't just walk and pick it up from anywhere. So again the best way to do that is to email Wisdom walk with Wisdom dot Ca, and then you can talk to Bruce Ri about something that's going on with you.
But with designs for help. The Revive the GI product is it Revived GI Revive g excellent, is excellent, and we can talk further about it now, Bruce in this section, we're gonna bring Gary back next week. And do you remember last week I mentioned that because everybody is different, maybe you and I could put together some protocols on whether you're going through mild menopause, medium, hot, and picante like me. Do you remember I mentioned that at the end.
I do, indeed, Yes, So I'm thinking maybe this week, especially with Gary coming back, we could have one or two protocols even maybe even for the mild and medium group of women, and we'll also talk about the men what that looks like going through menopause or Andrew pause, Bruce, we have a couple of minutes. Someone thought this show was just about menopause, and my husband said to him, well, man go through menopause, and his head snapped up. He's
sixty something and he goes, oh, yeah, you're right. Can you just mention one simple or one symptom that a man could have going through menopause?
Uh, the dad but the dad bud, the gut, the gut, the inflamed and fat around the Torso that's a that's a pretty quick and simple one.
Yes, yeah, absolutely, So we can talk about that, introduce that next week as well, and about what we can do actionable steps but also specific supplements. And by the way, there is something called lots of write ups about menoba, which I think is a common thing for the menopausal age is just the fat around the mid section. And I'm drawing my hand and I really shouldn't, Bruce, because.
Really glad that starts here.
Thank you, especially where my little tiny ways started. And now I'm going what happened? But you know, everyone, that's why we're doing this show, and I'm so grateful to have Bruce and his wisdom and really having that balance of us girls and the men in our lives, whether it be or spouses or sons or you know, all the different dynamic to talk about this openly, but talk about it on this level where we've taken the complicated made it simple so that we can actually have actionable
steps to change. Bruce, do you have anything else to wrap up? No?
Thanks, thank you, but thank you for having me on the show. I always enjoy talking to you.
John, Thank you, Bruce. Thank you everyone for joining us today at Walk with Wisdom. We look forward to seeing you again. Next week. We're going to have Gary back, We're going to have those protocols that Bruce and I talk about. We're gonna talk about Dad, Bob a little bit more and what we can do to help one another through this stage. Remember, share the link, put a thumbs up like, set your reminders, and certainly join the
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