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Future-Proof Your Health At Forty And Beyond

• Julie Clark & Catherine Chapman • Episode 103

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Episode 103: Future-Proof Your Health At Forty And Beyond

Two years in and we’re raising a glass to something unfashionable but life-changing: prevention that actually sticks. Not scare tactics, not perfection, just smart self-checks, honest baselines and tiny course corrections that save you from big repairs later. We talk about celebrating milestones, then show you how to celebrate your body with an annual MOT mindset—because waiting for a diagnosis is not a strategy.

We break down practical tools you can start this week: HbA1c to see how your body handles sugar over months, simple home blood pressure checks to keep a quiet eye on heart health, and bone density baselines so fractures don’t deliver the first clue. We explore why “normal range” often reflects a tired average, not optimal living, and how trend lines tell the real story. There’s candid chat on personal training tweaks—balancing strength with Pilates and mobility, adjusting plans when stiffness creeps in, and using sleep as a lever when fatigue mimics ADHD traits.

You’ll hear how to read your own timeline, link stress or trauma to symptoms, and stop normalising daily discomforts that deserve attention. We share a client case where a “healthy” smoothie habit spiked sugar load, plus the simple swaps that steadied energy. We also cover budgeting for wellbeing, affordable lab options, and the confidence that comes from choosing your own tests and next steps. The takeaway is clear: small, consistent checks are a kinder, cheaper path to staying strong, mobile and joyful across the decades.

Help us mark two years of Far Too Fabulous by sharing your favourite episode with someone who’d love a nudge toward better health. Subscribe, leave a quick review, and tell us: which marker will you track first? Your future self will thank you.

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SPEAKER_01:

Welcome to Forty Fabulous. Fabulousness and reading my love. Hello, hello, and welcome to the Far Too Fabulous podcast. We have just realized that this week we are going to be celebrating two years of being far too fabulous. I mean, obviously, we've been far too fabulous for our entire lives. Yes, many, many years. And so have you lot listening. But yeah, on the 16th of January 2024, I'm like, oh my god, I'm counting backwards the whole two years. We did our very, very first intro podcast, and then our main episode came out on the 18th of January, which is this Sunday coming. And I know that we celebrated a hundred episodes just back at the end of last year. And so we're just going to keep celebrating.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, although you say that we haven't actually properly celebrated, and we need to do that, don't we?

SPEAKER_01:

We really do, because we did promise ourselves over Christmas and New Year that we would do that. And we were we got busy, got busy celebrating Christmas, having a bit of a relaxed, and yeah, and then and now we're here.

SPEAKER_00:

It's like the time just whiz past, isn't it? Again, as normal. So yeah, we need to definitely do that. A podcast party, that's what we need.

SPEAKER_01:

Podcast party. Do you know what? I mean this. Oh, here you go, tangents already. But we are pretty rubbish at celebrating things, aren't we? When it's to do with us. I mean, we celebrate someone's birthday who most of us don't even well, maybe we believe Jesus exists, but perhaps we don't really buy into the whole religious thing, but hell, we're gonna celebrate their birthday anyway. And all these all loads and loads of things that we celebrate, but we're not very good at celebrating our own achievements and our own milestones. We tend to just brush them off, don't we?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and even the big ones we don't celebrate. And in fact, we should celebrate even the small ones, shouldn't we? Yeah, absolutely. Just every day.

SPEAKER_01:

Yay! I've woken up, I'm alive.

SPEAKER_00:

That should be a celebration, shouldn't it? Really? Yeah, you know, it should be. It really should.

SPEAKER_01:

So, yes, so we are gonna celebrate. Will you help us celebrate? Will you share your favourite podcast with somebody? I think would be a really nice way for us to celebrate our two years in existence because there is so much. I've learned so much during these podcasts, and I know people do feedback to us that they have taken loads of sort of nuggets of information that have been really, really helpful. So if you've got a favourite podcast or you just think that somebody could do with a a bit of me and Julie in their lives, then would you please? I mean, obviously, would you please share it with them in celebration of our two years?

SPEAKER_00:

And then we can hit our next big milestone, which would be 7,000 downloads.

SPEAKER_01:

7,000 downloads. It's an incredible achievement. And we we talked about on our 100th celebration that the downloads don't really give us a massive indication as to kind of how many people are listening. Because I I don't know about you, but I think most of you probably stream it. However, it still gives us a it still gives us an idea and it's also still gives us a bit of a bit of a target.

SPEAKER_00:

So and I think I always try and do something like good every day. Do you know, like, do you have that all a good deed? Like the other day I was walking the dog and it was pitch black, and this lady was trying to do something in her car, yeah, and I had my head torch on. Yeah. And I said to her, Are you alright? Can you see? I've got a head torch. And she was trying, she said, Oh, my screenwash has run out and I need to go out. Um, so I used my head torch and allowed her to fill up her screenwash. Oh, and I thought, that's my good deed for the day. So your good deed for the day could be just downloading our episode, that would mean the world to us. Yeah, no, that would be cool.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and sharing it. And sharing it. It could be a good deed to the person for the day.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you for your good deed in advance.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I I did a good deed the other day, then in that case, yesterday. There was a man who'd just finished his run in Clouse Woods and he'd left his sports drinks on top of his car and Slesic. Started driving off, and I'm there going, excuse me, excuse me. And he's looking at me as if I am an absolute loon, which is relatively accurate. And I was like, You've left your drinks on the top of your car. And he was like, Oh, yeah. So I saved him from uh sending those winging off down the road. Nice. There we go. Right then, back to the podcast.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, back to the podcast. Julie, what are we talking about today? Well, I think we should talk about prevention because I don't like the idea of waiting until things are broken. And also, I had a client that contacted me and it was quite a big deal because this is the type of work that I would really love to do, although I love helping the people that are struggling because it's nice to see them recover and do well. But this lady in her 40s, she messaged me and she said, I understand that you do a test using hair and checks and to check minerals and things and hormone testing and stool testing. And she said, I there's nothing wrong with me. I'm really healthy, I look after myself, but I want that to continue. So could you do a bit of a health MOT on me from a naturopathic perspective, a holistic look at me, rather than she said, I have to go to the GP and and for my work for like these medicals. But she said it's just the standard stuff, you know. And I want someone to look at me as a whole and say, I'm doing this right, I could work on this, this is looking good, this marker's looking a little bit like it's creeping in the wrong direction. And I just thought, hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01:

I this is so, so exciting. I mean, prevention is better than cure. We have all heard that, and it's it's so, so true. And how wonderful that rather than her waiting to get sick from something, you can see if those any of those markers are just edging the wrong way, and you just have to nudge them back rather than having this massive health overhaul because something has gone wrong. I uh so frequently talk about desperately wanting to help people before they get sick, and so lots of this it drives me mad all the time, and I really I battle with this in my head all the time. When I'm doing my social media, talking to people about their pain points, talking to people about things that have already gone wrong, rather than helping them and encouraging them to future-proof their bodies, which is exactly where I would love to do it. But as human beings, we're a bit rubbish at it, so rubbish.

SPEAKER_00:

And I think I think what we've got to appreciate is when something has gone wrong and we've got to the point where we do need to go to the doctor, that generally speaking, hasn't happened overnight, hasn't happened in the last few weeks. It's been years in the making. Yeah, but the NHS, as amazing as it is, and we're not gonna bash the NHS, but they're not set up for prevention at all. And we've spoken before about, you know, if you had something acutely wrong with you, you, you know, an emergency situation, you're in an accident or something, there's no better service than the NHS, right? Yeah. But there's no there's nothing for prevention really.

SPEAKER_01:

No, they're just fighting fires at the moment, and they don't have the resources. They do try, there are definitely there are they're they're quite big fools prevention, is is something, well, that's always been kind of up and coming, but it's it's too big a job for them at the moment, and it shouldn't be all their job.

SPEAKER_00:

No, it shouldn't be. I think we've got to take some responsibility, and you know, most of the people that are going to be listening to us are interested in their health, are taking action anyway, and I think it's just understanding what more you can do because it's like it's simple things like the HBA1C test, which is the blood sugar test, looks over a three-month period of how your body's managing sugars, is a brilliant marker to check on a regular basis. Yeah, what you want to do is you don't want to know if you're within the range. Well, you do initially, yeah, but if you're testing and your number is within the range but it's creeping up, yeah, that is when you get a signal to go, hang a minute, what's happening there? But unless you've had those tests done, you don't even know where you're at, do you? No.

SPEAKER_01:

But also, please, people, when you have these tests done, don't and I'm getting me bunny, my quotes out here, don't behave yourself for the few months before your test. Think that you've cheated the test when you get good results, and then go back to your old ETF.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh my god, do people do that?

SPEAKER_01:

Seriously, seriously, they do. They do, they do. I mean, why are you trying to cheat a blood test that is of yourself? I didn't know this was a thing. This is definitely a thing. I've heard this quite a few times. You're only cheating yourself.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. I think you need to know, right, what is happening in my body based on what I'm doing now. Yeah, and that could be really good stuff. You could be doing really, really well, and you look at your results and you're keeping an eye on them and you're saying, Yeah, it's looking good. I'm doing the right thing. I mean, one of the things that I was saying to you earlier is that I have a blood pressure machine. Yeah, and blood pressure machines are really cheap to buy, yeah. But it is a good way of just checking on yourself because that is giving you an indication of how well your heart's doing. And I was listening to the radio, and there was a story on there. A lady had phoned in, and it was to do with like new year, new you, but this lady, well, yeah, but this lady had phoned up to say, This time last year I was expecting to do this, that, and the other, but I ended up having heart surgery. I did not expect that. And she said, but you would just wouldn't know that you've got a heart problem until you've got it. But you could know if you've if you keep an eye on things like blood pressure as an indicator, if it's going up or down. What's going on there? Why is it going up or down? You know, there will be fluctuations, but I think, and this is not about being obsessive, it's not about, you know, measuring every day or anything like that. It's just checking in. I normally check in, you know, every six months. Yeah. You know, or if there's something going on, I think, oh, let me just check my blood pressure, you know, make sure it's all right. In my family, we've got heart disease, cancer, and diabetes, right? So I'm well aware of those things. Now I go to a private hospital and have the heart health assessment done because I know that there's a strong issue with that in the family. It just gives me peace of mind, it keeps me on top of things. Now I know that there's a cost to that, but I prioritise it because it's important for me to know what those markers are, and I can have an echocardiogram and know that it's you know looking really good.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah. But I mean, even for people that can't afford to do sort of those big, big tests, yeah. Knowing that you are being preventative, knowing you're being proactive, even if there is an underlying heart condition, an underlying whatever condition, the fact that you are keeping your systems running optimally gives any of those underlying conditions like heart conditions and things. I know people do discover them and they potentially they've had them since birth. Yeah, the fact that you have kept yourself fit and healthy and vital and you've been proactive about this means that that these, you know, you kind of carry these things along and you you just remain as healthy as you possibly can be.

SPEAKER_00:

I think a lot of tests now have become more affordable. Yeah. And again, I'm not you know, I I know that I'm in a fortunate position that I can go and have these tests done, but seriously, I do prioritise it. I have in my bank account, I have a bucket that is called well-being, and I put money into that well-being bucket, it's called a bucket on my my bank account. Um, I put well-being money in there in order to be able to do these things because it's important to me, and it's not about being paranoid or being a complete health-obsessed nutter. It is just understanding am I doing the thing, am I doing the right things? And I think, like I said, the cost of a lot of these tests has come down a lot in recent years. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, we talk about cost as in money, but the cost of not doing it with regards to your health and your vitality and the things that you are or would be unable to do if you don't keep yourself well is like there's no comparison, really.

SPEAKER_00:

There isn't, but we don't tend to think about that until we're in that mess. Until it's too late, and then it's too late, yeah. So that's the problem, isn't it? So I think prevention, where we are with the state of the NHS, etc., I think we just need to be able to just take a bit more control ourselves and understand what's going on for us. Yeah. Because again, sometimes these ranges you might find that say you had your thyroid tested and your, I don't know, your TSH level, for example, was at the low end of the range, yeah, but you felt fine. Yeah. Then the next time you have it tested, it's at the high end of the range. That is saying to you, why is my body shouting at my thyroid more? What is going on here? I'm still within the range, I still feel fine, but is this giving me a trend going in the wrong direction? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Also, if you are in control of these tests, if you've asked for these tests, especially if you've paid for these tests and you get the results, you get to then decide what to do rather than if you're sat there across a desk from a doctor that's done this, it's them deciding what they what you're going to do. And lots of our parameters for blood results, for instance, are at the range that just keep you alive.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, they're just disease prevention, like the vitamin D is to stop you getting rickets, but it's not for optimal health.

SPEAKER_01:

No, and also so optimal health across uh human beings now is lower than it used to be. So these average results are lower, and and which is which is rubbish, quite frankly. Yeah, yeah, it is rubbish. You actually often you want your results to be better than than sort of being within those parameters, yeah. So you get to be a bit more in in charge with it, yeah, and that's what we want, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

We want to be empowered and we want to be able to look after ourselves, and yeah, I think it's almost laughable that we take our car for its yearly MOT. Oh my god, we've had the same thoughts all of this week. Yeah, we do that right, and then we don't take ourselves for an MOT because it's not readily available. You know, we can't ring up the doctors and say, Oh, I'd like to have a yearly check on you know what's going on with me. Yeah, I'd like to check my tyres, my water.

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Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we don't get it. And I was like, um, I was listening to a podcast with Dr. Von der Rijt, and of course, if you don't know her, she's an orthopedic surgeon. She's really good, actually. I really like her. And she was talking about the fact that we don't know what our bone situation is until it's too late. Yeah, and she was talking about using DEXTA scans or ultrasounds again as a as a like a baseline when you're younger to know what was it like back in your 20s or your 30s. She was talking about having like there should be a DEXTA scan every decade. Yeah. Yeah. So that you can see how you're changing. Because she said the most the majority of people that arrive in her hospital have broken something, and then they they look at the bones and they and then she realizes you've got an issue with your bone density here.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

They didn't know until they broke a bone. No. Too late.

SPEAKER_01:

And it's this is something. I mean, it's not very sexy, is it talking about bone density, but it's just so important. And this is very, very much, this is a big thing about prevention, isn't it? Uh bone density. And yeah, I was gonna bring that up about the about the scans and having that baseline. It's so important knowing where you're coming from. Don't be fearful. I think often people don't have these scans or blood results or what have you, because they are worried about what the results are gonna be. With regard to most things, even if the results aren't great, there is something that you can do about it. Even if you are a long way down the line, and I mean, even if it's got to the point you've broken something and that area is weakened, you will can still do something about it. You can still grow bone, like they've discovered that you can still strengthen and grow bone, you can still strengthen and grow muscle, probably forever, as long as you as long as you support it, not not as fantastically as when you're in your 20s and 30s, unfortunately. But yeah, but you can still do it.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and this is the thing, isn't it? You can do so many things to help yourself. So I think if you know where you're at and you keep an eye on it and you say, Oh, once a year I'll run a you know, a medi checks blood panel, for example, it tells you so much, and then you can catch, you know, things early, and then just because you're on that path, I mean, we spoke on our episode about you know being at one side of the field and having to hash through the brambles, yeah, then you just that's the route that you need to go down. You need to understand where is my weaknesses, what is the you know, the family inherited issues that are going on that I need to be aware of, and then you can do something about it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. As a society, we are so fixated on making things comfortable, and unfortunately, sometimes looking after yourself isn't comfortable, you do have to do some hard things, you do have to have a workout, you do have to do the strength, you do have to do the cardio. This is a if you want to be a fit, healthy 90 year old, then this is what you're gonna have to do.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm afraid. Yeah, you just you do need to put the work in, but it helps if you know. What specific work you need to do for yourself. It's very personalised at that point. So, which is basically what I do in my job. And it would be lovely to do more prevention than just, you know, treating people that have gone round, had all their tests done through the doctor, and nothing's showing up and they still don't feel right, but they're being told, well, your test results are normal, you know, that last resort thing. I mean, I had a client today, in fact, that has got some issues with energy and things going on. When I looked at her food diary, she had so much sugar in there, not refined sugar, just sugars like she would have a smoothie of a banana with berries and oat milk. So I said to her, that is a lot of sugar, not realising. And then she said, actually, we have got diabetes in a family. And my HBA1C has been on the up, and I couldn't understand why.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And she's like, porridge for breakfast, this smoothie, like dried fruit for snacks. So I thought that was good for my eye and that kind of stuff. Yes, but going in the wrong direction.

SPEAKER_01:

Looking at it collectively, it's too much.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So it helps, I think, sometimes. Like we we talk a lot about being accountable, having that support. Yeah. And it can be really, really helpful if you do come and see someone like me for this particular situation. Where am I at now? And what am I doing right? I like to tell people what they're doing right. Yeah, because there are lots of things that you'll be doing right. There might be some things that you don't realise, like with that lady in her smoothie. You might not realise until someone tells you, and then you're, oh, okay, that makes sense. There might be some stuff that you could work on, like this lady who's come and said, I just want to future proof my health, what's going on. There's a lot that you can do. So you can, in fact, book a free call with me to discuss anything and to see if I am, you know, if we're a good fit to work together. Yeah. So there's it's like there's no pressure.

SPEAKER_01:

No. And it is so, it is so refreshing. And I just I was on the other end of that phone call just like that um this week as well. That a potential client was again ringing to see if we were a fit, and she was talking about combating frailty, that she didn't want to be a a frail old lady. Yeah, good for her. And I was just like, it was it was very, very exciting.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah, it is it is exciting, isn't it? So I think that people we're listening uh listening to us are proactive. Yes. And it's just taking it another step further. Maybe you haven't thought about, oh actually, yeah, I could get some tests done, even though I feel perfectly fine. Yeah. Just see where I'm at. And then next year, around the same time, redo the tests and see has anything changed.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And I I think when you're thinking about um one year on from where you are now, how did you feel last year? Did you feel strong last year? Do you uh as strong as you do now? Did you feel as flexible now? Do you feel as cardio fit as you did then? Use like check in with yourself and and use perhaps we we're we're gonna use the whole new year, new you, use it as a use it as a baseline of of like how you feel each time. This holiday I've been definitely less active purposely, I think. I've I've tried to take it easy, but I have I have worked out every single day, but I've definitely been a bit more sedentary. I was just telling Julie, I've just discovered Game of Thrones, it's an absolute disaster. I can't I can't get away from the sofa. And I have run out of my magnesium. Oh dear, and I feel like a tin man. I just I feel so creaky, and so I've used that as my sign, not and this might I might be ruining a few podcasts time, but rather than just accepting that this is how one feels as one is getting older, I was like, what do I'm doing? Don't accept it! Hell no, what am I gonna do here? So I got on and ordered my new lot of magnesium, which is on its way, and I am going to add a little bit more Pilates into my week. I've increased my strength training just because I'm not I'm not marathon training this year. Yippee!

SPEAKER_00:

Your Sahara Desert training, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01:

I'm a Sahara training. Yeah, but how does one how does one train for the Sahara Desert? We don't know. We've been walking, which has been lovely, but yeah, I feel like I get to do a little bit of my own training. So I've increased the strength training, but I also I think that this is contributing to me feeling a little bit more stiff because uh and so I need to up the Pilates to balance those two things out.

SPEAKER_00:

So um, yeah, just being checking in with your body and just being aware, listening, yeah, listening. This makes me think about also if there is something going on, it's not just like putting it in the background and just letting it fester on. The amount of times that I've seen people with digestive issues and they've said, Oh, I've been struggling with this for 10 years, and we sort it out in a matter of weeks, and you think, what a waste of 10 years. Yeah. So again, if you've got something like that going on, just oh, please, please listen to your body and go, It's what's it trying to tell me?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and again, I think we we are, I know that we are talking to busy women, and we are not often the top of our priority list, and we do, we shove that down, don't we? We're like, oh, you know, I'll sort that out, or I'll pass it over to a physio. That that ache or pain in my body can be the physio's problem, and I will go and see them once every six weeks, and and then I will be surprised when it doesn't get fixed.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, and the and the other one at the moment is blaming everything on your hormones. Now, of course, the hormones we've spoken about this in depth, they do impact lots of things, but you've got to go back to the basics again. Take a step back, look at what you're doing with your life, and then think hang a minute, is this because I'm not fueling myself properly, I'm not moving, I'm not sleeping enough, I'm stressed up to the eyeballs. Yeah, that's why my hormones are showing me these symptoms. It's not actually them. Yeah, it's not always no, I agree.

SPEAKER_01:

We are looking at sleep in Vitality Room. So every month we are going to be looking at some foundational health thing. Nice, and sleep is is it for this month. And so, as I was looking through bits and pieces, one of the sentences that really jumped out at me was that when you are tired, and when you are chronically tired, lots of the symptoms will be the same as ADHD symptoms. And as a nation, we are chronically tired. And so I'm not saying that every new diagnosis of ADHD is because somebody is chronically tired. What I am saying is that it really will really exacerbate uh exacerbate exacerbate. I'm not sure that will really exacerbate it. Yeah, and that's the same with kind of all those things with like hydration, with nutrition, with lack of movement. They will just rev up anything that's wrong with you, just really make it show up.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, that's that's a good one with ADHD actually, because I, as you probably know, I see a lot of children and specialise in children, so I see a lot of children on the spectrum. And a lot of the time with ADHD, there is often a trauma that's triggered the body to be anxious that is that looks like it's ADHD, but it's actually anxiety.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, interesting.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, really fascinating.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, again, we're not, you know, any of these diagn diagnoses, we're not saying they are wrong or there's no. No, absolutely not. Absolutely. It's just having to look around it and being able to then even, you know, even if they are the right diagnosis, being able to support yourself in all of the other ways.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah, it's a really it's an it's such an interesting one when you do the timelines, and I know you do the timelines as well. When you do timelines, and like we said at the start, a many diseases take years to manifest, yeah, and you can often see the path, can't you? When you look at this started happening, and then this happened, and then I got this, and you can join the dots, can't you?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. And I know it sounds a bit, it sounds a bit woo-woo when we're talking about trauma starting some of this off, but it's been well documented, well researched with type 1 diabetes in when it starts in younger children, sort of eight, nine, ten, up into sort of uh teenage years. It's a traumatic experience that often kicks this off, and so I I just think that it really highlights that we are a whole system. Our medical system is quite blinkered and just looks at the the medical things and what and like what they can do about it, and they don't and very in isolation, like there's a specialist as well, aren't there?

SPEAKER_00:

They just look at this one thing without realizing that that is connected to something else, to something else, to something else, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01:

And so, yeah, being able to treat yourself as a whole, which is the benefit of you being in charge of your own care rather than going to see a specialist and and them just treating that one thing. If you're in charge of it, you get to you get to go, oh what about this, or what about that? How does that affect this? How does that affect that? And it's I mean, it's it's empowering and it's really beneficial.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. So I think your call to action should be make sure you're listening to your body, yes, because it does tell you, yeah, even though we often ignore it, don't we? We ignore it, ignore it, ignore it.

SPEAKER_01:

And it isn't until something goes wrong, and then you look back, isn't it? And you go, Oh yeah, no, it's been it's been tapping me on the shoulder for a while now.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, exactly. Stop normalising symptoms. So that is another one. Like I said, people with the digestive issues. I've had this for 10 years, I just thought it was me.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, oh, I've just got a bit of IBS.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. How often do you hear that? Yeah, yeah. And and just not normal. No, and don't suffer for 10 years and then get curious earlier, not later. Don't wait until there's a diagnosis or something's gone really wrong. Just look at where you're at now and make sure am I doing what am I doing right? What do I need to work on?

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, just be really proactive.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And and then hopefully you won't get to the point that something is is ever wrong.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, hallelujah to that.

SPEAKER_01:

That's the hope, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00:

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01:

Cheers to that.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. So if you need help with this, I'm your girl, so get in touch. You can book a free call with me on my website, which is judyclantnutrition.co.uk.

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