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!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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 sureyou're hydrated, and there's
probably like a 99% chance thatthat's what you thought I might
say, along with being active andeating healthy and being around
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other people and not isolating.
And mine said oh my goodness,we can't skip hydration, though,
and the problem is, what I'mlearning is that a lot of times,
we're trying to hydrate, butwe're not doing it in quite the
right way, with quite the rightwater, believe it or not.
So let's talk about it.
Welcome to Mind your Midlife,your go-to resource for
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confidence and success.
One thought at a time.
Unlike most advice out there,we believe that simply telling
you to believe in yourself orchange your habits isn't enough
to wake up excited about life orfeel truly confident in your
body.
Each week, you'll gainactionable strategies and oh my
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goodness powerful insights tostop feeling stuck and start
loving your midlife.
This is the Mind your Midlifepodcast.
I used to drink diet soda allthe time and when I finally
stopped, saying, let me have myone vice.
I know it's not good for me,but I don't do all these other
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things.
When I finally stopped sayingthat, I switched to green tea
and fizz, if you know, you know.
And then I discovered lemonwater and I started to feel
better in a lot of ways.
I started to understand thepower of hydration.
It makes such a difference inour bodies.
I felt better and part of that,I think, was starting to
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believe that I could feel better.
So we're going to be talkingsome very practical advice today
and I want you to keep in mindsince this is Mind your Midlife
that it's also about believingthat you deserve the best care
that you can give yourself.
You deserve the best hydration.
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You deserve to eat healthy,nutritious foods.
You deserve for your body to bestill amazing and strong, no
matter what age you are.
That belief will bring youthrough all of this information
and you'll be able to startgradually, as Kristen's going to
tell you, and do the thingsthat will make a difference.
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So let's talk about whetherwe're doing them right, now,
that we have that belief right.
So why did I have to always getup and go to the bathroom?
Was I really having the rightthings?
Was I actually hydrated enough?
Why do I still have dry skin?
I don't know, but my guest,kristen Cofield, knows she is
the founder of the Culinary Cureand Active Grandparenting, and
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Kristen is here to help us withwhat really her mission is, and
that is to be well and healthyand energized, no matter what
our age, and I love that.
So let's dive in.
Let's dive in.
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Well, let's just start with howyou ended up working with women
, especially midlife women, onliving healthy and active lives.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
My favorite topic and it's interesting because we use
the word midlife very freely.
Because we use the word midlifevery freely and because we're
all living longer, midlife isreally well into our 60s and
even into our 70s.
So one of the things that'salways interested me is how we
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can use food to effectivelybiohack our health and wellness,
our food, our habits, ourhydration right.
So when we get these habitslocked and loaded to support us
with our biggest goals for howwe want to look, how we want to
feel, the kind of energy we wantto have, it actually adds more
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active years to our lives, and Ithink everybody is interested
in that.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, and we're going to talk about hydration today,
but your active grandparentingthat you are helping so many
people with, I think, is justfantastic.
Fantastic, because I have a momwho was a really active
grandparent for my kids whenthey were younger and it was
amazing.
Because I have a mom who was areally active grandparent for my
kids when they were younger,and it was amazing.
So I certainly want to be ableto do that as well.
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Yeah, and there's a couple ofinteresting things here.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So I'm a boomer, but the top of Gen X also falls into
this category of grandparents.
Our kids are getting marriedlater and they're having kids
later, which means ourgrandparenting years are getting
pushed back later.
So there's even more reason forwomen.
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Whether you're a grandparentnow or you're just an active
ager, there are more reasonsthan ever to want to add more
active years to your life and tolook at your 70s as a potential
active decade for you.
And in Europe, if you go hiking,I remember being in college and
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I did a lot of walking.
So I was living with a familyoutside of Florence and I would
walk into Florence.
It might take me two hours, butI would walk in and take the
bus back and I'd walk throughthese little towns and I would
see these hikers that wereeasily in their 60s, 70s and 80s
walking along a lot of thevineyard trails and other areas.
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You know those Germans who arehiking in the Alps in their 90s.
No reason, this can't be areality for all of us.
So the thing is we don't stopwalking because we get old.
We get old because we stopwalking.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, there's a mic drop.
Thank you for that.
So so, so true, and this is whyI forced myself to exercise
regularly, even though I'm not asuper exercise lover.
Absolutely could not agree withyou more.
Now, this kind of relates towhat you just said, because if
we're walking and we're beingactive and we're not hydrating,
I think we do have a problem.
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So let's, let's talk hydration.
We all know that we're supposedto drink water or whatever.
We know we're supposed to behydrated, but I'm not sure we
really know what that means.
So tell us more about whatbeing well hydrated really is.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, first of all, there's so many misconceptions
about what hydration is, and,trust me, it is not just
drinking more water.
The second thing is, most of uswere never taught to hydrate
properly.
We didn't really need to learnhow to hydrate properly when we
were kids because there weren'tthe millions and millions and
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millions of beverages beingmarketed to us daily.
We could drink water, we coulddrink juice, and juice glasses
look like shot glasses.
Right, we might drink milk, butthere wasn't a lot of soda.
You know bottled water.
There wasn't sports drinks.
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We didn't have that.
So the need to create ahydration practice is truly a
modern concern.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I'm just going to pause there for a second and
say this is a question I'veasked myself, because we didn't
walk around with water bottleswhen we were kids.
We might've had a sip from thewater fountain if we had a dry
mouth, but I have wondered whyis it so different?
So thank you for addressingthat.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh, and we're just scratching the surface.
So let's just talk about ourhomes, first of all.
We didn't have.
You know, maybe your family hadATV, but we didn't have cell
phones, we didn't have computers.
All of these things that putout electromagnetic energy in
our homes are dehydrating.
We were eating food.
Now I'm 66 and I've seen, youknow, there were a lot of things
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like shake a pudding and jelloone, two, three and instant
breakfast.
All that stuff started tohappen.
Red dye, number three was likeout there.
But we have grown up in thechemical revolution and there's
more chemicals that we're beingexposed to than ever before in
human existence.
So what that means for us aswomen.
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First of all, we want tocontrol the chemicals to the
best of our ability, and I'mtalking everything from ladies,
your deodorant.
You know what?
You could rub a half a lemonunder your arms and it would be
as effective and a thousandtimes safer than most deodorants
which contain all kinds ofthings that you're putting right
in those lymph glands underyour arms, right by your breasts
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.
Okay, so you want to thinkabout this really, really
carefully.
So we want to control thetoxins in our environment, and
that means things like open yourwindows in the morning, let
some fresh air in.
There's a little more oxygen inthe air in the early part of
the day, so let all thoseexhales out, okay.
So that's going to bring alittle fresh air into your house
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.
Do it before you go to bed,right after you wake up in the
morning.
And indoor air pollution is abigger problem than outdoor air
pollution.
Most people don't realize this,but during COVID everybody
really stepped up chemical usein their homes.
All those chemicals out gasinto your air and become toxins
that are in our home environment.
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So we've got that problem.
Then we've got the water problemitself.
Our water's processed.
It's been through the municipalprocessing plant, it's been
treated with chemicals so thatwe don't get some sort of
waterborne disease, andbasically the water that comes
out of our tap that we thenfilter and you should filter it
doesn't have any of the minerals, the salts and the elements
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that should be in the watermammals drink.
So we're designed to drinkwater that contains potassium,
magnesium, chloride, bromide,all these things that would be
in water that's flowing overrocks and getting all those
minerals.
So we're not getting theminerals and the salts that help
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the water we drink get into ourcells.
Wow, so our water is a problem?
Bottled water is a problembecause it contains
microplastics.
We are at the tip of theiceberg about what the heck are
microplastics and like.
Why should we be concerned?
And every time the human bodyis forced to process things it
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was never designed to encounter,it creates low level
inflammation, and low level IgGinflammation is linked to every
disease you never want to haveNeurological design, cancer,
diabetes, heart, you name it,it's.
You don't want it.
So back to okay, we know we'renot getting enough water to
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hydrate, because the averageperson drinks two and a half
cups of water a day.
Really Even carrying around ourbig bottles Well, and if that
water is not getting into yourcells, maybe you're going to the
bathroom a lot more.
So there's really a way tohydrate properly in today's
world.
This is a modern problem.
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I created a 14 day hydrationtraining that people can go to
my website at the Culinary Cureand download it.
Why 14 days?
Because it takes 14 days tobecome fully and properly
hydrated, and I could talk allday about this.
But gulping a lot of waterdoesn't help you hydrate.
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This is boosting your waterwith things like electrolytes,
herbal teas, citrus, to helpthat water get into your cells.
Once that water gets into yourcells, it's going to help all of
your major organs function moreproperly, including your brain.
Your blood is 99% water, so nowyour blood is going to be able
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to detoxify better.
So now your blood is going tobe able to detoxify better, and
you can see how this allconnects with helping our bodies
function better in thischemical overload that they find
themselves in as women.
Here's something reallyinteresting and goes back to
those lymph glands.
So when we wake up in themorning, so many of us go into
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the kitchen and have a cup ofcoffee or tea, right, first
thing.
That's not the way that you canreally optimize your caffeine
or help your body rehydrateafter the fast that occurs
during sleep.
So when you're asleep, yourbody's in fast mode.
All of your major organs arefasting so that they can go
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through their major metabolicdetox.
So think of it like this it'slike the oil in your car After a
while you've got to change theoil because the oil gets junked
up.
Well, all your major organskeep you functioning all day
long and the byproduct from thatis metabolic waste.
And when you're sleeping andthose organs detoxify, all that
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metabolic waste ends up in yourlymphatic system.
The lymphatic system is thetrash can of the body.
It's located between yourmuscles and your skin, and the
lymphatic system can't reallytake out the trash without your
help.
So there's a couple of thingsthat help the lymphatic system,
help your body detox Movementand hydration.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Fascinating.
So, yes, I wanted to get intothe benefits and I want to talk
about this for a minute, becausewe know that we are huge
percent water, we know it's goodfor our skin, we know it's good
for our blood flow, but this Ihad not heard.
And I used to have a lot ofproblems with particularly one
side of my body but withswelling and bloating and it was
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because of lymph issues, and Ihave figured out that staying
hydrated helps.
That for sure, but I never putall of this together.
That's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah.
So for me personally, in myfifties, I went through a very I
had a really awful decade.
Everything that could go wrongfelt like it did go wrong.
My mom's cancer came back.
My dad, who we were allestranged from, started acting
strangely.
It turned out to be Alzheimer's.
My husband was in a difficultpartnership and it put a huge
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financial strain on our familyand on our marriage.
Our last child left for collegeand so this happened over like
a decade and, like so many women, I was keeping all the balls in
the air.
Right, you know you're robbingPeter to pay Paul.
You're maxing out a credit cardhere and paying it off later.
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You know you're being creativewith how you pay tuitions and
mortgages.
And my big world and I wasalways that girl.
I was always like, oh, askKristen, she'll know, ask
Kristen.
And I was always that girl.
I was always like, oh, askKristen, she'll know, ask
Kristen, she's got, she knowsall this.
Well, you know this big worldthat I had became smaller and
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smaller and smaller because I amtrying to handle all of these
stressors.
Now, at the same time, I'm in myfifties and I'm going through
all kinds of hormone changes, soit's like this perfect storm
and many women go through thisin their late 40s and 50s where
it's just like you.
Just you're like you wake upevery day and you're like what
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else is going to go wrong.
You know this is, and it got sobad for me.
I realized now I was clearlydepressed and I went from doctor
to doctor and I would describemy symptoms and they would say
maybe you need a sleep aid or abeta blocker or an anti-anxiety
medication.
But then they'd look at myblood work and I've been in the
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health and wellness space for along time and they're like oh my
God, your blood is amazing.
I mean I wish I had your blood.
Well, here's the deal.
I had an underactive thyroid,so all that stress was like
shooting heroin through my youknow, it was like cortisol going
through my thyroid, like heroin.
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So I'm living in this highstress, high anxiety space.
I finally get diagnosed withthyroid cancer Little tiny, itty
bitty speck Best thing thatever happened.
They took out my thyroid andthe doctor says yeah, kristen,
that is, it's the craziest thing.
I mean I take out thyroidsevery day.
Your thyroid looked like aprune.
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It was all shriveled up, it was.
It was clearly not working, yeta dozen doctors only looked at
my blood work and told me I wasjust fine.
So that's when I was like, oh mygosh, I can't be the only woman
that found herself upstreamwithout a paddle in her 50s and
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had to reboot her life.
Yes, in her 50s and had toreboot her life.
Yes, and while that devastating, tsunami-like decade of
horrible things was happening,even though I was in the
wellness space, I was drinkingmore coffee, opening a bottle of
wine at five o'clock, I wasn'treally getting to the gym as
much.
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I was dealing with a lot of, Iwas internalizing a lot of
things, so I wasn't socializingas much.
Because the truth of the matteris, when your life gets messy,
people get tired of hearingabout it, and when you have a
decade of messy stuff, yourfriends just are like, yeah,
tired of hearing about this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, I'm in my 50s and there is messy stuff not as
much as you're describing knockon wood right at this moment
anyway, but I know listeners aregoing to be identifying with
this too, because there's justmessy stuff that happens.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah yeah, these are real life struggles.
So at this point I reallydoubled back on the wellness
stuff and I'm not sleepinganyway.
I'm like do I stay in mymarriage?
Do I leave my marriage?
How am I going to pay thisquarter of a million dollars of
debt?
It was so bad.
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So I found a gym that opened at5 am.
I was like I could lie here andruminate or I could just get up
and go to the gym.
So I start going to the gym andthen at the same time, I'm
doing a lot of research likewhat is the one thing that I'm
not doing that really couldchange me?
And I'm thinking it's nutrition.
And you know, I know food ispowerful.
But what I discover is thatit's hydration.
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Wow, that hydration is thisunderutilized opportunity for
women to really reclaim theirwellness, and nobody's teaching
us that we need to get thehydration part right first.
And let's be clear you can onlylive for three days without
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water.
You can live for like 30 dayswithout food.
Water is an essential nutrient.
It's a nutrient that means yourbody can't make it.
You have to get it from anexternal source.
So now you look at where we are.
You look at all theseconditions of life that aren't
supporting the life we want tolive.
You look at these environmentaltoxins.
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You look at what's happened Ourwater is different.
You look at our fruits andvegetables we're monocropping so
they don't have the samenutritional value as the foods
that we ate as children.
So now we're all running aroundmineral deficient and our
water's mineral deficient, andso this hydration component, and
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I just went so deep into it andwhat I discovered was so
profound.
If we could just get people tofocus on hydrating properly, not
using the fancy electrolytes.
You know nothing.
That comes in a little packetthat's got a flavor.
You just need plain old,unflavored electrolytes, which
you can buy from a companycalled Trace Minerals.
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They've got something called40,000 volts.
I share all this in my free14-day hydration training.
Or you can add a pinch ofHimalayan sea salt from ancient
sea salt.
It has to be mined sea saltformed before pollution, so it
doesn't have those microplasticsbut it does have all those
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minerals and salts and elementsthat are so beneficial to how
our bodies and brains function.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Okay, well, you also just answered another question
for me and for a listener hereor there, I'm sure because I've
been told to use Himalayan seasalt, but I never knew why.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So I guess that's why although I maybe need to check
the source clearly yeah, youwant Himalayan sea salt that has
been harvested, preferably fromthe Kerala mines in India or
Pakistan.
So it's, of course, sea salt,is a whole, you know, like olive
oil, like all of these things.
You could go down the rabbithole, but at the end of the day,
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what you want are the purestingredients that you can get,
and we're not talking spending afortune here.
You just need to do a littleresearch.
There's a company calledSymphony Naturals that has
something called Sol S-O-L andit's literally a lump of sea
salt and it comes with a jar andyou add water and then you can
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put a little spoonful of thesalt water into your beverages
because you want to make surethat salt dissolves, so you get
the benefits.
So, symphony Naturals I don'thave a link or anything, but you
can find them.
Some people like that Redmond'ssea salt, the pink salt, but
we're not talking the saltyou're buying at Trader Joe's
here.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, good to know and a side benefit of this
conversation for sure, becausethat's what I was buying.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So here's another thing about the salt and this
may answer another question.
So when people hear me talk andthey're all super excited, you
know, and then they want to askall these questions, I say get
the 14 day hydration training,because it's 14 days of
knowledge, like I could tell youwhat to do.
It's so much more effectivewhen you get the information and
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you start to understand whyyou're doing what you do.
We start to add thesebeneficial salts and minerals
and elements.
And once we stop gulping andstart sipping and Emerson's like
, how do I get to that?
100 ounces Eight to 10 big sipsan hour will get you there.
Your first beverage of the dayis a nice big glass of lemon
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water with some, you know,himalayan sea salt or
electrolytes in it.
And and then when we're sippinginstead of gulping and you know
that could be herbal tea tooyou can sip herbal tea all day
what happens is you have toretrain your body.
That that forgot how to hydrate, hydrate.
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Your body had to adjust to whatyou were doing, right, so you
weren't drinking enough.
So your body like kind ofdumbed down your sense of thirst
so you wouldn't go crazy.
Maybe you're having foodcravings because your body
doesn't know if it's thirsty orhungry.
But once you start sipping, andsipping consistently, your body
starts to trust you again andyour cells start to absorb the
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water as you're drinking it.
It is normal, to everybodylistening, to go to the bathroom
five to seven times a day.
That's normal.
You want to drink your waterand be done before five o'clock.
You never want an alcoholicbeverage unless you've had all
your water for the day.
You don't start with a hundredounces there's.
Everybody has the right amountto start with.
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For them, it's half their bodyweight in ounces of water sipped
throughout the day.
And so, yes, you are going tofeel the urge to go to the
bathroom at first, and you knowwhy Because your urine is
concentrated in your bladder,because you're not drinking
enough water.
So then anything you sip isgoing to stimulate the urge to
go.
So we got to get you move pastthat.
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We got to get you sipping, notgulping.
We have to have you starthydrating first thing in the
morning and then sippingthroughout the day, and being
done with all your major liquidsby five o'clock so it's not
affecting your sleep.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So that's fantastic information, and I know I
mentioned this to you, but mypod squad group on Facebook was
throwing to me questions that Ineeded to ask you when I was
going to record this, and thatwas Becky's question, saying I
feel like I have to go to thebathroom all the time.
What kind of, what kind ofadjustment period would there be
from I feel like I have to goto the bathroom all the time to
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your body, your body kind offiguring it out?
Is that the 14 day?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, the reason I say 14 days is you know, I'm not
talking with each individual toknow how they're hydrating.
Maybe Becky gets up and has twocups of coffee before she does
anything.
Now there's acid.
So anything you drink afterthat, you're really going to
feel it.
Here's the coffee hack.
(25:50):
I do want to share the coffeehack.
So I said, most people really dolove their ritual of their
morning beverage, whatever it is.
So if you drink a caffeinatedbeverage, the optimum time to
enjoy it is 90 minutes after youwake up.
And I'll tell you why.
First of all, you don't needcaffeine to wash your face and
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brush your teeth and shower andmake your bed and get dressed.
Those are habits, they're onautopilot.
And when you delay the enjoymentof that caffeinated beverage
now we love caffeinatedbeverages because they have
nootropic benefits.
That means it stimulates thebrain in a kind of a positive
way and helps us focus a littlebit more and get excited about
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ideas and things.
So when you wait 90 minutes,you're much more likely to be at
the point in your day whereyou're going to do something
that might require a littlebrain work.
Maybe you're going to drive acar, maybe you're going to
answer some emails, maybe you'regoing to an office, maybe
you're taking care of grandkids.
You definitely want it then.
Right then, before you're withthose grandkids, and then you're
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less likely to drink a secondcaffeinated beverage later in
the morning, where now you'regetting into the half-life of
caffeine, which has thepotential to interrupt your
sleep.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I love it.
That's really smart.
I could see, because if youwait 90 minutes now, you have
your coffee or your tea orwhatever and maybe you enjoy
that for a bit.
Now it's much later in themorning maybe than what you're
used to.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So to get back to the question, I would say, for
anyone who's listening andthey're really excited because
they're like, yeah, I want thefountain of youth.
You know which is literallywhat water is.
So if I was going to write amarketing sequence and I said,
hey, listen, I have got thisunbelievable product, I mean
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this stuff is literally thefountain of youth.
It improves the way your skinlooks.
It improves your musclepliability, so exercising and
movement become easier.
It elevates your mood, yoursleep improves, food cravings go
away, you have more energy.
I mean this stuff isunbelievable.
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Do you want me to tell you moreabout, like how much it?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
costs what is?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
it yeah.
Do you want me to tell you moreabout, like, how much it costs?
Yeah.
And and then when you tellpeople it's hydration, it just
doesn't seem sexy enough.
They really want to drinksomething that's $7 and comes in
a can, or they really want tobuy a bougie supplement.
But the fact of the matter is,if you don't get your hydration
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right first, you'll never knowwhat else is working for you or
not.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
You know, it's fascinating, because the other
question I wanted to pass on toyou from my group was from Sarah
, who was basically asking whatis all the stuff about these
supplements, the electrolytes,the colleges, all that stuff?
Is it real or is it just amarketing ploy?
Now it sounds like you'resaying marketing ploy, except
maybe the electrolytes.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, and within the electrolytes you need to find
the ones that don't come withflavor and ingredients that are
part of the marketing, right?
I mean, when you buy a bottleof the and you know I like the
trace minerals I have met withtheir medical director they do
(29:30):
have some flavored ones Don'tbuy those, just buy the plain
old 40,000 volts.
It's like $18 for a big bottleof electrolytes.
That's going to last you acouple of months, you know.
And then you go and you seeliquid IV and element and all
this other stuff and you'repaying more for the packaging
than the product.
So to answer that question,yeah, I am not a big proponent
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of paying for marketing andpackaging.
I want to get the real stuffthat humans are designed to eat.
And a lot of that packaging Idon't know.
Is that, what's it lined withthat little package?
Am I getting microplastics?
I don't want that.
Here's the bottom line.
When you buy something that'sgot 200 products in it, you
don't know what works and whatdoesn't work for you.
(30:17):
That's a good point and you arebeing marketed to heavily.
But you think that you aregetting like magic when you get
the stuff.
The magic is hydration.
Get hydrated.
Eliminate the foods that createlow level inflammation.
Become a label reader.
Like become a label reader.
If you don't know what aningredient is, do not buy the
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product.
Eat the way your greatgrandparents ate.
If it wasn't around then, don'teat it.
Now I just really want peopleto understand that the magic in
the bottle there isn't such athing.
The magic is coming out of yourfaucet and you need to boost
that water and then approachyour diet in a way to make what
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you're eating matter.
You have to eat like an adult.
You have to eat like your greatgrandparents seasonal, local,
more vegetables, more seeds,more nuts, more fungi.
You know less food with labels.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, it's, and I don't want to get too far down
this path because we are focusedon hydration today.
But I appreciate you sayingthat, because I actually do have
some vitamin supplements I like, but I did a ton of research on
that to figure out whether Iwould trust it and if I ate more
vegetables, that would probablybe better, you know.
So I fully agree with you 100%,and it was a novelty to me when
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we were initially talking tothink that I could just take
something unflavored and justput it in my water and it would
make a whole change in how mybody absorbed it.
And I really want people totake that away because that is a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And just one more thing, because the collagen did
get brought up.
I am a big fan of bone brothand bone broth counts towards
your hydration.
I work with women over 50 andmany of them are not getting
enough protein, so this is aproblem and we're not getting
enough protein.
It goes back to getting badinformation as young women about
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cutting back on calories and indoing so we cut back on fat and
protein and we're not eatingenough.
Fight enough fruits andvegetables, so we're not getting
all that fiber that we're noteating enough fruits and
vegetables, so we're not gettingall that fiber that we need for
our gut.
Fruits and vegetables arehydrating, so they do help you
hydrate and that is where we getthe most important fiber for
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our health and wellness.
So I encourage everybody to eatthe fruits and vegetables every
day.
Eat your fruits in the morningso your body can convert the
fruit sugars into fuel, and theneat a lot of vegetables, you
know, in all of your meals.
But bone broth is so interestingand I do, you know I do have a
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one ingredient bone brothprotein powder that I combine
with one of those bare bonespackets of bone broth in a big
glass mug and the two of thosecombined and there's no
additives.
It's all very clean.
The two of those combined addup to 25 grams of protein and I
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encourage people to do thatbetween breakfast and lunch and
between lunch and dinner, andthis is a very bioavailable way
for women to add an additional50 grams of protein a day.
I mean, we're supposed to begetting 30 to 35 grams of
protein a meal.
That's a lot.
It is hard to eat that muchprotein.
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So this is a.
This is a great.
You know it fits in with thehydration, but it also it also
supplies that protein.
So you can be hydrating with aprotein beverage and it's doing
double duty and we love that.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, Kristen, we're going to have so much to take
away from today.
My goodness, my goodness.
I'm going to have to listenback a couple times.
So I know there will be peoplewho want to connect with you,
want to learn more.
So tell us how can they do that?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The culinary cure is my website for recipes and the
free hydration program all myblog posts.
There's so much on there, so Iencourage you to go to the
culinary curecom and then followme on Instagram because I am
posting daily motivation foractive agers and active
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grandparents.
My posts are color coded andI'm taking everybody through a
journey that starts withhydration and moves into
nutrition, and I'm takingeverybody through a journey that
starts with hydration and movesinto nutrition, and I did it
color coded so that I can sendpeople back to watch those posts
over and over again and getsome of this information.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Nice and so, yeah, that I do follow you on
Instagram and I have beenenjoying that, so thank you for
that, absolutely.
Now, to wrap up, tell us peopleare maybe thinking, wow, that's
a ton of information.
I'm going to listen again, butwhat is kind of the one most
important thing that you wantthem to take away?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, well, just start, like, don't think you
have to wait to start hydrating.
I have people who are like theyget the hydration program.
They're like, well, it's notreally the right time to start.
I'm like what are you talkingabout?
You know hydration.
You can only live for threedays without water.
You need to just start.
Don't think it's like a bigdeal.
Just start where you are, dowhat you can and just do a
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little more each day.
Because I have people who'venever bought a thing from me but
they have taken my freehydration training and they
reach out to me all the time andsay, wow, I am so glad I did
this, because I can feel and seethe difference.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That's amazing.
Thank you for joining me,Kristen.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
It was my pleasure.
Thank you so much, Cheryl wasmy pleasure.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Thank you so much, cheryl.
I'm not sure I could havechosen a better OMG moment just
start, just start.
And if I may say again whatKristen said towards the
beginning of this episode youdidn't stop walking because you
got old.
You got old because you stoppedwalking.
Because you got old.
You got old because you stoppedwalking.
And while I don't love to usethe O word and my friends know I
(36:30):
like to say seasoned insteadthat is a profound statement.
So there's OMG moment numbertwo for me today.
Now you heard me ask somequestions today from friends in
my pod squad group on Facebook.
I would love for you to comeand join us.
It's the Mind, your Midlife podsquad group.
I will put a link in the shownotes.
(36:50):
Come on over.
Pod squad members get to helpme figure out questions to ask
guests all kinds of cool stuffhappening in there.
So come join us and make sureyou've hit the follow button,
because next week we're going tobe talking about whether you
fall into the trap of rejectingbefore getting rejected, and
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this could be related to people.
It could be related toopportunities and ideas.
Sometimes we just trash them sothat we don't hear no, and
let's figure out what we shoulddo In the meantime, oh my
goodness, let's keep creatingconfidence and success, one
thought at a time.
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 sureyou're hydrated, and there's
probably like a 99% chance thatthat's what you thought I might
say, along with being active andeating healthy and being around
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other people and not isolating.
And mine said oh my goodness,we can't skip hydration, though,
and the problem is, what I'mlearning is that a lot of times,
we're trying to hydrate, butwe're not doing it in quite the
right way, with quite the rightwater, believe it or not.
So let's talk about it.
Welcome to Mind your Midlife,your go-to resource for
(00:46):
confidence and success.
One thought at a time.
Unlike most advice out there,we believe that simply telling
you to believe in yourself orchange your habits isn't enough
to wake up excited about life orfeel truly confident in your
body.
Each week, you'll gainactionable strategies and oh my
(01:06):
goodness powerful insights tostop feeling stuck and start
loving your midlife.
This is the Mind your Midlifepodcast.
I used to drink diet soda allthe time and when I finally
stopped, saying, let me have myone vice.
I know it's not good for me,but I don't do all these other
(01:28):
things.
When I finally stopped sayingthat, I switched to green tea
and fizz, if you know, you know.
And then I discovered lemonwater and I started to feel
better in a lot of ways.
I started to understand thepower of hydration.
It makes such a difference inour bodies.
I felt better and part of that,I think, was starting to
(01:53):
believe that I could feel better.
So we're going to be talkingsome very practical advice today
and I want you to keep in mindsince this is Mind your Midlife
that it's also about believingthat you deserve the best care
that you can give yourself.
You deserve the best hydration.
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You deserve to eat healthy,nutritious foods.
You deserve for your body to bestill amazing and strong, no
matter what age you are.
That belief will bring youthrough all of this information
and you'll be able to startgradually, as Kristen's going to
tell you, and do the thingsthat will make a difference.
(02:38):
So let's talk about whetherwe're doing them right, now,
that we have that belief right.
So why did I have to always getup and go to the bathroom?
Was I really having the rightthings?
Was I actually hydrated enough?
Why do I still have dry skin?
I don't know, but my guest,kristen Cofield, knows she is
the founder of the Culinary Cureand Active Grandparenting, and
(03:04):
Kristen is here to help us withwhat really her mission is, and
that is to be well and healthyand energized, no matter what
our age, and I love that.
So let's dive in.
Let's dive in.
(03:26):
Well, let's just start with howyou ended up working with women
, especially midlife women, onliving healthy and active lives.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
My favorite topic and it's interesting because we use
the word midlife very freely.
Because we use the word midlifevery freely and because we're
all living longer, midlife isreally well into our 60s and
even into our 70s.
So one of the things that'salways interested me is how we
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can use food to effectivelybiohack our health and wellness,
our food, our habits, ourhydration right.
So when we get these habitslocked and loaded to support us
with our biggest goals for howwe want to look, how we want to
feel, the kind of energy we wantto have, it actually adds more
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active years to our lives, and Ithink everybody is interested
in that.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yes, and we're going to talk about hydration today,
but your active grandparentingthat you are helping so many
people with, I think, is justfantastic.
Fantastic, because I have a momwho was a really active
grandparent for my kids whenthey were younger and it was
amazing.
Because I have a mom who was areally active grandparent for my
kids when they were younger,and it was amazing.
So I certainly want to be ableto do that as well.
(04:51):
Yeah, and there's a couple ofinteresting things here.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
So I'm a boomer, but the top of Gen X also falls into
this category of grandparents.
Our kids are getting marriedlater and they're having kids
later, which means ourgrandparenting years are getting
pushed back later.
So there's even more reason forwomen.
(05:16):
Whether you're a grandparentnow or you're just an active
ager, there are more reasonsthan ever to want to add more
active years to your life and tolook at your 70s as a potential
active decade for you.
And in Europe, if you go hiking,I remember being in college and
(05:37):
I did a lot of walking.
So I was living with a familyoutside of Florence and I would
walk into Florence.
It might take me two hours, butI would walk in and take the
bus back and I'd walk throughthese little towns and I would
see these hikers that wereeasily in their 60s, 70s and 80s
walking along a lot of thevineyard trails and other areas.
(06:02):
You know those Germans who arehiking in the Alps in their 90s.
No reason, this can't be areality for all of us.
So the thing is we don't stopwalking because we get old.
We get old because we stopwalking.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, there's a mic drop.
Thank you for that.
So so, so true, and this is whyI forced myself to exercise
regularly, even though I'm not asuper exercise lover.
Absolutely could not agree withyou more.
Now, this kind of relates towhat you just said, because if
we're walking and we're beingactive and we're not hydrating,
I think we do have a problem.
(06:41):
So let's, let's talk hydration.
We all know that we're supposedto drink water or whatever.
We know we're supposed to behydrated, but I'm not sure we
really know what that means.
So tell us more about whatbeing well hydrated really is.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, first of all, there's so many misconceptions
about what hydration is, and,trust me, it is not just
drinking more water.
The second thing is, most of uswere never taught to hydrate
properly.
We didn't really need to learnhow to hydrate properly when we
were kids because there weren'tthe millions and millions and
(07:18):
millions of beverages beingmarketed to us daily.
We could drink water, we coulddrink juice, and juice glasses
look like shot glasses.
Right, we might drink milk, butthere wasn't a lot of soda.
You know bottled water.
There wasn't sports drinks.
(07:40):
We didn't have that.
So the need to create ahydration practice is truly a
modern concern.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, I'm just going to pause there for a second and
say this is a question I'veasked myself, because we didn't
walk around with water bottleswhen we were kids.
We might've had a sip from thewater fountain if we had a dry
mouth, but I have wondered whyis it so different?
So thank you for addressingthat.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Oh, and we're just scratching the surface.
So let's just talk about ourhomes, first of all.
We didn't have.
You know, maybe your family hadATV, but we didn't have cell
phones, we didn't have computers.
All of these things that putout electromagnetic energy in
our homes are dehydrating.
We were eating food.
Now I'm 66 and I've seen, youknow, there were a lot of things
(08:35):
like shake a pudding and jelloone, two, three and instant
breakfast.
All that stuff started tohappen.
Red dye, number three was likeout there.
But we have grown up in thechemical revolution and there's
more chemicals that we're beingexposed to than ever before in
human existence.
So what that means for us aswomen.
(08:57):
First of all, we want tocontrol the chemicals to the
best of our ability, and I'mtalking everything from ladies,
your deodorant.
You know what?
You could rub a half a lemonunder your arms and it would be
as effective and a thousandtimes safer than most deodorants
which contain all kinds ofthings that you're putting right
in those lymph glands underyour arms, right by your breasts
(09:21):
.
Okay, so you want to thinkabout this really, really
carefully.
So we want to control thetoxins in our environment, and
that means things like open yourwindows in the morning, let
some fresh air in.
There's a little more oxygen inthe air in the early part of
the day, so let all thoseexhales out, okay.
So that's going to bring alittle fresh air into your house
(09:42):
.
Do it before you go to bed,right after you wake up in the
morning.
And indoor air pollution is abigger problem than outdoor air
pollution.
Most people don't realize this,but during COVID everybody
really stepped up chemical usein their homes.
All those chemicals out gasinto your air and become toxins
that are in our home environment.
(10:04):
So we've got that problem.
Then we've got the water problemitself.
Our water's processed.
It's been through the municipalprocessing plant, it's been
treated with chemicals so thatwe don't get some sort of
waterborne disease, andbasically the water that comes
out of our tap that we thenfilter and you should filter it
doesn't have any of the minerals, the salts and the elements
(10:28):
that should be in the watermammals drink.
So we're designed to drinkwater that contains potassium,
magnesium, chloride, bromide,all these things that would be
in water that's flowing overrocks and getting all those
minerals.
So we're not getting theminerals and the salts that help
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the water we drink get into ourcells.
Wow, so our water is a problem?
Bottled water is a problembecause it contains
microplastics.
We are at the tip of theiceberg about what the heck are
microplastics and like.
Why should we be concerned?
And every time the human bodyis forced to process things it
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was never designed to encounter,it creates low level
inflammation, and low level IgGinflammation is linked to every
disease you never want to haveNeurological design, cancer,
diabetes, heart, you name it,it's.
You don't want it.
So back to okay, we know we'renot getting enough water to
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hydrate, because the averageperson drinks two and a half
cups of water a day.
Really Even carrying around ourbig bottles Well, and if that
water is not getting into yourcells, maybe you're going to the
bathroom a lot more.
So there's really a way tohydrate properly in today's
world.
This is a modern problem.
(11:57):
I created a 14 day hydrationtraining that people can go to
my website at the Culinary Cureand download it.
Why 14 days?
Because it takes 14 days tobecome fully and properly
hydrated, and I could talk allday about this.
But gulping a lot of waterdoesn't help you hydrate.
(12:20):
This is boosting your waterwith things like electrolytes,
herbal teas, citrus, to helpthat water get into your cells.
Once that water gets into yourcells, it's going to help all of
your major organs function moreproperly, including your brain.
Your blood is 99% water, so nowyour blood is going to be able
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to detoxify better.
So now your blood is going tobe able to detoxify better, and
you can see how this allconnects with helping our bodies
function better in thischemical overload that they find
themselves in as women.
Here's something reallyinteresting and goes back to
those lymph glands.
So when we wake up in themorning, so many of us go into
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the kitchen and have a cup ofcoffee or tea, right, first
thing.
That's not the way that you canreally optimize your caffeine
or help your body rehydrateafter the fast that occurs
during sleep.
So when you're asleep, yourbody's in fast mode.
All of your major organs arefasting so that they can go
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through their major metabolicdetox.
So think of it like this it'slike the oil in your car After a
while you've got to change theoil because the oil gets junked
up.
Well, all your major organskeep you functioning all day
long and the byproduct from thatis metabolic waste.
And when you're sleeping andthose organs detoxify, all that
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metabolic waste ends up in yourlymphatic system.
The lymphatic system is thetrash can of the body.
It's located between yourmuscles and your skin, and the
lymphatic system can't reallytake out the trash without your
help.
So there's a couple of thingsthat help the lymphatic system,
help your body detox Movementand hydration.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Fascinating.
So, yes, I wanted to get intothe benefits and I want to talk
about this for a minute, becausewe know that we are huge
percent water, we know it's goodfor our skin, we know it's good
for our blood flow, but this Ihad not heard.
And I used to have a lot ofproblems with particularly one
side of my body but withswelling and bloating and it was
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because of lymph issues, and Ihave figured out that staying
hydrated helps.
That for sure, but I never putall of this together.
That's really interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah.
So for me personally, in myfifties, I went through a very I
had a really awful decade.
Everything that could go wrongfelt like it did go wrong.
My mom's cancer came back.
My dad, who we were allestranged from, started acting
strangely.
It turned out to be Alzheimer's.
My husband was in a difficultpartnership and it put a huge
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financial strain on our familyand on our marriage.
Our last child left for collegeand so this happened over like
a decade and, like so many women, I was keeping all the balls in
the air.
Right, you know you're robbingPeter to pay Paul.
You're maxing out a credit cardhere and paying it off later.
(15:27):
You know you're being creativewith how you pay tuitions and
mortgages.
And my big world and I wasalways that girl.
I was always like, oh, askKristen, she'll know, ask
Kristen.
And I was always that girl.
I was always like, oh, askKristen, she'll know, ask
Kristen, she's got, she knowsall this.
Well, you know this big worldthat I had became smaller and
(15:48):
smaller and smaller because I amtrying to handle all of these
stressors.
Now, at the same time, I'm in myfifties and I'm going through
all kinds of hormone changes, soit's like this perfect storm
and many women go through thisin their late 40s and 50s where
it's just like you.
Just you're like you wake upevery day and you're like what
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else is going to go wrong.
You know this is, and it got sobad for me.
I realized now I was clearlydepressed and I went from doctor
to doctor and I would describemy symptoms and they would say
maybe you need a sleep aid or abeta blocker or an anti-anxiety
medication.
But then they'd look at myblood work and I've been in the
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health and wellness space for along time and they're like oh my
God, your blood is amazing.
I mean I wish I had your blood.
Well, here's the deal.
I had an underactive thyroid,so all that stress was like
shooting heroin through my youknow, it was like cortisol going
through my thyroid, like heroin.
(16:54):
So I'm living in this highstress, high anxiety space.
I finally get diagnosed withthyroid cancer Little tiny, itty
bitty speck Best thing thatever happened.
They took out my thyroid andthe doctor says yeah, kristen,
that is, it's the craziest thing.
I mean I take out thyroidsevery day.
Your thyroid looked like aprune.
(17:14):
It was all shriveled up, it was.
It was clearly not working, yeta dozen doctors only looked at
my blood work and told me I wasjust fine.
So that's when I was like, oh mygosh, I can't be the only woman
that found herself upstreamwithout a paddle in her 50s and
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had to reboot her life.
Yes, in her 50s and had toreboot her life.
Yes, and while that devastating, tsunami-like decade of
horrible things was happening,even though I was in the
wellness space, I was drinkingmore coffee, opening a bottle of
wine at five o'clock, I wasn'treally getting to the gym as
much.
(17:56):
I was dealing with a lot of, Iwas internalizing a lot of
things, so I wasn't socializingas much.
Because the truth of the matteris, when your life gets messy,
people get tired of hearingabout it, and when you have a
decade of messy stuff, yourfriends just are like, yeah,
tired of hearing about this.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Yeah, I'm in my 50s and there is messy stuff not as
much as you're describing knockon wood right at this moment
anyway, but I know listeners aregoing to be identifying with
this too, because there's justmessy stuff that happens.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yeah yeah, these are real life struggles.
So at this point I reallydoubled back on the wellness
stuff and I'm not sleepinganyway.
I'm like do I stay in mymarriage?
Do I leave my marriage?
How am I going to pay thisquarter of a million dollars of
debt?
It was so bad.
(18:53):
So I found a gym that opened at5 am.
I was like I could lie here andruminate or I could just get up
and go to the gym.
So I start going to the gym andthen at the same time, I'm
doing a lot of research likewhat is the one thing that I'm
not doing that really couldchange me?
And I'm thinking it's nutrition.
And you know, I know food ispowerful.
But what I discover is thatit's hydration.
(19:16):
Wow, that hydration is thisunderutilized opportunity for
women to really reclaim theirwellness, and nobody's teaching
us that we need to get thehydration part right first.
And let's be clear you can onlylive for three days without
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water.
You can live for like 30 dayswithout food.
Water is an essential nutrient.
It's a nutrient that means yourbody can't make it.
You have to get it from anexternal source.
So now you look at where we are.
You look at all theseconditions of life that aren't
supporting the life we want tolive.
You look at these environmentaltoxins.
(19:58):
You look at what's happened Ourwater is different.
You look at our fruits andvegetables we're monocropping so
they don't have the samenutritional value as the foods
that we ate as children.
So now we're all running aroundmineral deficient and our
water's mineral deficient, andso this hydration component, and
(20:23):
I just went so deep into it andwhat I discovered was so
profound.
If we could just get people tofocus on hydrating properly, not
using the fancy electrolytes.
You know nothing.
That comes in a little packetthat's got a flavor.
You just need plain old,unflavored electrolytes, which
you can buy from a companycalled Trace Minerals.
(20:44):
They've got something called40,000 volts.
I share all this in my free14-day hydration training.
Or you can add a pinch ofHimalayan sea salt from ancient
sea salt.
It has to be mined sea saltformed before pollution, so it
doesn't have those microplasticsbut it does have all those
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minerals and salts and elementsthat are so beneficial to how
our bodies and brains function.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Okay, well, you also just answered another question
for me and for a listener hereor there, I'm sure because I've
been told to use Himalayan seasalt, but I never knew why.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
So I guess that's why although I maybe need to check
the source clearly yeah, youwant Himalayan sea salt that has
been harvested, preferably fromthe Kerala mines in India or
Pakistan.
So it's, of course, sea salt,is a whole, you know, like olive
oil, like all of these things.
You could go down the rabbithole, but at the end of the day,
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what you want are the purestingredients that you can get,
and we're not talking spending afortune here.
You just need to do a littleresearch.
There's a company calledSymphony Naturals that has
something called Sol S-O-L andit's literally a lump of sea
salt and it comes with a jar andyou add water and then you can
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put a little spoonful of thesalt water into your beverages
because you want to make surethat salt dissolves, so you get
the benefits.
So, symphony Naturals I don'thave a link or anything, but you
can find them.
Some people like that Redmond'ssea salt, the pink salt, but
we're not talking the saltyou're buying at Trader Joe's
here.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Okay, good to know and a side benefit of this
conversation for sure, becausethat's what I was buying.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
So here's another thing about the salt and this
may answer another question.
So when people hear me talk andthey're all super excited, you
know, and then they want to askall these questions, I say get
the 14 day hydration training,because it's 14 days of
knowledge, like I could tell youwhat to do.
It's so much more effectivewhen you get the information and
(22:55):
you start to understand whyyou're doing what you do.
We start to add thesebeneficial salts and minerals
and elements.
And once we stop gulping andstart sipping and Emerson's like
, how do I get to that?
100 ounces Eight to 10 big sipsan hour will get you there.
Your first beverage of the dayis a nice big glass of lemon
(23:18):
water with some, you know,himalayan sea salt or
electrolytes in it.
And and then when we're sippinginstead of gulping and you know
that could be herbal tea tooyou can sip herbal tea all day
what happens is you have toretrain your body.
That that forgot how to hydrate, hydrate.
(23:39):
Your body had to adjust to whatyou were doing, right, so you
weren't drinking enough.
So your body like kind ofdumbed down your sense of thirst
so you wouldn't go crazy.
Maybe you're having foodcravings because your body
doesn't know if it's thirsty orhungry.
But once you start sipping, andsipping consistently, your body
starts to trust you again andyour cells start to absorb the
(24:03):
water as you're drinking it.
It is normal, to everybodylistening, to go to the bathroom
five to seven times a day.
That's normal.
You want to drink your waterand be done before five o'clock.
You never want an alcoholicbeverage unless you've had all
your water for the day.
You don't start with a hundredounces there's.
Everybody has the right amountto start with.
(24:25):
For them, it's half their bodyweight in ounces of water sipped
throughout the day.
And so, yes, you are going tofeel the urge to go to the
bathroom at first, and you knowwhy Because your urine is
concentrated in your bladder,because you're not drinking
enough water.
So then anything you sip isgoing to stimulate the urge to
go.
So we got to get you move pastthat.
(24:47):
We got to get you sipping, notgulping.
We have to have you starthydrating first thing in the
morning and then sippingthroughout the day, and being
done with all your major liquidsby five o'clock so it's not
affecting your sleep.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
So that's fantastic information, and I know I
mentioned this to you, but mypod squad group on Facebook was
throwing to me questions that Ineeded to ask you when I was
going to record this, and thatwas Becky's question, saying I
feel like I have to go to thebathroom all the time.
What kind of, what kind ofadjustment period would there be
from I feel like I have to goto the bathroom all the time to
(25:25):
your body, your body kind offiguring it out?
Is that the 14 day?
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Well, the reason I say 14 days is you know, I'm not
talking with each individual toknow how they're hydrating.
Maybe Becky gets up and has twocups of coffee before she does
anything.
Now there's acid.
So anything you drink afterthat, you're really going to
feel it.
Here's the coffee hack.
(25:50):
I do want to share the coffeehack.
So I said, most people really dolove their ritual of their
morning beverage, whatever it is.
So if you drink a caffeinatedbeverage, the optimum time to
enjoy it is 90 minutes after youwake up.
And I'll tell you why.
First of all, you don't needcaffeine to wash your face and
(26:13):
brush your teeth and shower andmake your bed and get dressed.
Those are habits, they're onautopilot.
And when you delay the enjoymentof that caffeinated beverage
now we love caffeinatedbeverages because they have
nootropic benefits.
That means it stimulates thebrain in a kind of a positive
way and helps us focus a littlebit more and get excited about
(26:38):
ideas and things.
So when you wait 90 minutes,you're much more likely to be at
the point in your day whereyou're going to do something
that might require a littlebrain work.
Maybe you're going to drive acar, maybe you're going to
answer some emails, maybe you'regoing to an office, maybe
you're taking care of grandkids.
You definitely want it then.
Right then, before you're withthose grandkids, and then you're
(27:06):
less likely to drink a secondcaffeinated beverage later in
the morning, where now you'regetting into the half-life of
caffeine, which has thepotential to interrupt your
sleep.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
I love it.
That's really smart.
I could see, because if youwait 90 minutes now, you have
your coffee or your tea orwhatever and maybe you enjoy
that for a bit.
Now it's much later in themorning maybe than what you're
used to.
I like it.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
So to get back to the question, I would say, for
anyone who's listening andthey're really excited because
they're like, yeah, I want thefountain of youth.
You know which is literallywhat water is.
So if I was going to write amarketing sequence and I said,
hey, listen, I have got thisunbelievable product, I mean
(27:57):
this stuff is literally thefountain of youth.
It improves the way your skinlooks.
It improves your musclepliability, so exercising and
movement become easier.
It elevates your mood, yoursleep improves, food cravings go
away, you have more energy.
I mean this stuff isunbelievable.
(28:19):
Do you want me to tell you moreabout, like how much it?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
costs what is?
Speaker 2 (28:23):
it yeah.
Do you want me to tell you moreabout, like, how much it costs?
Yeah.
And and then when you tellpeople it's hydration, it just
doesn't seem sexy enough.
They really want to drinksomething that's $7 and comes in
a can, or they really want tobuy a bougie supplement.
But the fact of the matter is,if you don't get your hydration
(28:46):
right first, you'll never knowwhat else is working for you or
not.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
You know, it's fascinating, because the other
question I wanted to pass on toyou from my group was from Sarah
, who was basically asking whatis all the stuff about these
supplements, the electrolytes,the colleges, all that stuff?
Is it real or is it just amarketing ploy?
Now it sounds like you'resaying marketing ploy, except
maybe the electrolytes.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Well, and within the electrolytes you need to find
the ones that don't come withflavor and ingredients that are
part of the marketing, right?
I mean, when you buy a bottleof the and you know I like the
trace minerals I have met withtheir medical director they do
(29:30):
have some flavored ones Don'tbuy those, just buy the plain
old 40,000 volts.
It's like $18 for a big bottleof electrolytes.
That's going to last you acouple of months, you know.
And then you go and you seeliquid IV and element and all
this other stuff and you'repaying more for the packaging
than the product.
So to answer that question,yeah, I am not a big proponent
(29:55):
of paying for marketing andpackaging.
I want to get the real stuffthat humans are designed to eat.
And a lot of that packaging Idon't know.
Is that, what's it lined withthat little package?
Am I getting microplastics?
I don't want that.
Here's the bottom line.
When you buy something that'sgot 200 products in it, you
don't know what works and whatdoesn't work for you.
(30:17):
That's a good point and you arebeing marketed to heavily.
But you think that you aregetting like magic when you get
the stuff.
The magic is hydration.
Get hydrated.
Eliminate the foods that createlow level inflammation.
Become a label reader.
Like become a label reader.
If you don't know what aningredient is, do not buy the
(30:39):
product.
Eat the way your greatgrandparents ate.
If it wasn't around then, don'teat it.
Now I just really want peopleto understand that the magic in
the bottle there isn't such athing.
The magic is coming out of yourfaucet and you need to boost
that water and then approachyour diet in a way to make what
(31:02):
you're eating matter.
You have to eat like an adult.
You have to eat like your greatgrandparents seasonal, local,
more vegetables, more seeds,more nuts, more fungi.
You know less food with labels.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, it's, and I don't want to get too far down
this path because we are focusedon hydration today.
But I appreciate you sayingthat, because I actually do have
some vitamin supplements I like, but I did a ton of research on
that to figure out whether Iwould trust it and if I ate more
vegetables, that would probablybe better, you know.
So I fully agree with you 100%,and it was a novelty to me when
(31:44):
we were initially talking tothink that I could just take
something unflavored and justput it in my water and it would
make a whole change in how mybody absorbed it.
And I really want people totake that away because that is a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
And just one more thing, because the collagen did
get brought up.
I am a big fan of bone brothand bone broth counts towards
your hydration.
I work with women over 50 andmany of them are not getting
enough protein, so this is aproblem and we're not getting
enough protein.
It goes back to getting badinformation as young women about
(32:17):
cutting back on calories and indoing so we cut back on fat and
protein and we're not eatingenough.
Fight enough fruits andvegetables, so we're not getting
all that fiber that we're noteating enough fruits and
vegetables, so we're not gettingall that fiber that we need for
our gut.
Fruits and vegetables arehydrating, so they do help you
hydrate and that is where we getthe most important fiber for
(32:37):
our health and wellness.
So I encourage everybody to eatthe fruits and vegetables every
day.
Eat your fruits in the morningso your body can convert the
fruit sugars into fuel, and theneat a lot of vegetables, you
know, in all of your meals.
But bone broth is so interestingand I do, you know I do have a
(32:59):
one ingredient bone brothprotein powder that I combine
with one of those bare bonespackets of bone broth in a big
glass mug and the two of thosecombined and there's no
additives.
It's all very clean.
The two of those combined addup to 25 grams of protein and I
(33:25):
encourage people to do thatbetween breakfast and lunch and
between lunch and dinner, andthis is a very bioavailable way
for women to add an additional50 grams of protein a day.
I mean, we're supposed to begetting 30 to 35 grams of
protein a meal.
That's a lot.
It is hard to eat that muchprotein.
(33:46):
So this is a.
This is a great.
You know it fits in with thehydration, but it also it also
supplies that protein.
So you can be hydrating with aprotein beverage and it's doing
double duty and we love that.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Well, Kristen, we're going to have so much to take
away from today.
My goodness, my goodness.
I'm going to have to listenback a couple times.
So I know there will be peoplewho want to connect with you,
want to learn more.
So tell us how can they do that?
Speaker 2 (34:17):
The culinary cure is my website for recipes and the
free hydration program all myblog posts.
There's so much on there, so Iencourage you to go to the
culinary curecom and then followme on Instagram because I am
posting daily motivation foractive agers and active
(34:38):
grandparents.
My posts are color coded andI'm taking everybody through a
journey that starts withhydration and moves into
nutrition, and I'm takingeverybody through a journey that
starts with hydration and movesinto nutrition, and I did it
color coded so that I can sendpeople back to watch those posts
over and over again and getsome of this information.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Nice and so, yeah, that I do follow you on
Instagram and I have beenenjoying that, so thank you for
that, absolutely.
Now, to wrap up, tell us peopleare maybe thinking, wow, that's
a ton of information.
I'm going to listen again, butwhat is kind of the one most
important thing that you wantthem to take away?
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, well, just start, like, don't think you
have to wait to start hydrating.
I have people who are like theyget the hydration program.
They're like, well, it's notreally the right time to start.
I'm like what are you talkingabout?
You know hydration.
You can only live for threedays without water.
You need to just start.
Don't think it's like a bigdeal.
Just start where you are, dowhat you can and just do a
(35:40):
little more each day.
Because I have people who'venever bought a thing from me but
they have taken my freehydration training and they
reach out to me all the time andsay, wow, I am so glad I did
this, because I can feel and seethe difference.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
That's amazing.
Thank you for joining me,Kristen.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
It was my pleasure.
Thank you so much, Cheryl wasmy pleasure.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Thank you so much, cheryl.
I'm not sure I could havechosen a better OMG moment just
start, just start.
And if I may say again whatKristen said towards the
beginning of this episode youdidn't stop walking because you
got old.
You got old because you stoppedwalking.
Because you got old.
You got old because you stoppedwalking.
And while I don't love to usethe O word and my friends know I
(36:30):
like to say seasoned insteadthat is a profound statement.
So there's OMG moment numbertwo for me today.
Now you heard me ask somequestions today from friends in
my pod squad group on Facebook.
I would love for you to comeand join us.
It's the Mind, your Midlife podsquad group.
I will put a link in the shownotes.
(36:50):
Come on over.
Pod squad members get to helpme figure out questions to ask
guests all kinds of cool stuffhappening in there.
So come join us and make sureyou've hit the follow button,
because next week we're going tobe talking about whether you
fall into the trap of rejectingbefore getting rejected, and
(37:14):
this could be related to people.
It could be related toopportunities and ideas.
Sometimes we just trash them sothat we don't hear no, and
let's figure out what we shoulddo In the meantime, oh my
goodness, let's keep creatingconfidence and success, one
thought at a time.
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