Radical Common-Sense: Simple Healing Steps for Women | Dani Williamson
35:58 Share

Hey friends, Dr. Motley here and let's talk about healthy blood circulation, heart rate, and blood pressure. Nitric oxide is an important substance that helps your body increase vascular flexibility, lower your blood pressure, and improve your circulation. The Zona Plus is a natural tool that uses the proven science of isometric exercise to keep your heart fit and boost nitric oxide production in your body.

I suggest it to all my patients and I use it every day. This is a handheld device that combines calibrated hand grip exercise with cutting edge algorithms that trigger your body's parasympathetic response. Use it consistently and Zona Plus will train your body to keep optimal heart health and circulation on its own. The Zona Plus tailors every session to your body, creating a personalized cardio workout.

It's a system designed to help your body work smarter, improving your heart health with every single use. Try Zona Plus risk-free for 90 days. Use code DRMOTLEY for $100 off the Zona Plus device at Zona.com. Zona is now HSA FSA eligible. If you're looking for an easy and simple way to increase your heart health, please try Zona Plus.

Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast, where East meets West in the world of medicine. I'm Dr. Chris Motley, and here we explore how modern Western science and traditional Eastern wisdom come together to unlock the body's full healing potential. Each week, we'll dive into powerful tools, techniques, and approaches from both sides of the world to help you optimize your health and live with vitality. Let's bridge the gap between ancient practices and cutting-edge medicine. Let's get started.

- Hey everybody, welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Chris Motley. Today, I'm very, very honored and very happy that one of my dearest friends. - Yes, yes. - Danny Williamson.

Danny Williamson and I started on the Sunday night service. And Danny is a very well-known nurse practitioner in the Nashville, Franklin area. And she has a beautiful book. It's called Wild and Well. And she talks about her six common sense steps. She loves radical freedom. And it has steps about the thyroid, women's health, women's vitality. And she also has a really good Sunday night service. Like I was saying, she has a great Facebook page.

page and she's going into the whole nutrition realm too and she has her own store it's a beautiful storefront and I really mean if you come to Franklin she's got it all right there and it's one of the stores now that when patients come I've said go to your store manager and I mean really and say hey we needed a certain type of magnesium I tell them to go so with all to say thank you so much I really appreciate it's been a long time coming and we want to do more podcasts together and I really mean that and so

First of all, I mean, we have so much we can talk about. So we don't have to get all crammed in like one day or anything like that. We can just sort of like say, let's go tell about...

Some of your avenues about women's health too, I think. But first of all, I want people to know about you. I want you to give us a backdrop about who you are and tell us what's going on. 60 second little. Yeah. Well, you know, I'm a family nurse practitioner who did a career change at 40 years old. Went to school. My whole first 20 something years were in fashion design, fashion merchandising. So then I went back to school at 40, got out at 44, became a nurse practitioner. But prior to that, I had 24 years of career.

chronic lifestyle diseases, four colonoscopies before I was 40 years old, right? Chronic diarrhea and chronic itching and diagnosed with lupus in my 30s and fibromyalgia in my 30s. I was depressed. I was in a bad marriage. You know, my grandfather had died by suicide. I had tremendous amount of childhood trauma. And I was 44 years old, just gotten out of nurse practitioner school, two little kids, single mom.

Before a doctor, Dan Cowell, leaned into me and said, Danny, what are you eating? Don't you know your diet controls your symptoms? Four gastroenterologists did colonoscopies on me. Never asked, what are you eating? Took my entire career. Well, my career, yes. It changed the trajectory of the career. But my life changed my health, changed the whole trajectory of my health. And now it's changed thousands of patients' lives when I realize what's at the end of your fork.

can heal you or kill you. But what I learned was that I got much better healing the gut, right? You got to heal the gut. You got to eat real one ingredient food. You got to decrease stress. You got to sleep. You got to move. You got to poop. All the things. Until I addressed the childhood trauma though, it did not...

not take my healing to the next level. So the whole first part of the book is on you are not your past because I am living proof that your body does keep score. But if you were born healthy, man, you do not have to live sick. And I reversed 24 years of chronic disease. I still have lupus, but I don't have any symptoms.

It is amazing. Like when you saw that, those steps in your life and Dr. Cobb, like he's telling you, like watch what your food is doing. Like, yeah, it puts you on a mission though. And you were like seeing things like, you know, what did to look out for? Oh my gosh. I mean, the first time that I got my food sensitivity results back November of 2010, I'll never forget it. I said, I'm

I'm not doing this. There were 29 foods on it. Everything. Eggs were the highest. My body hates dairy. My body hates gluten. Can't stand cashews. And I threw it on the ground. It was the week before Thanksgiving. I said, I'm not doing this. He said, if you're going to work here, you're going to do this. He said, if you're asking your patients to walk the walk.

then you're going to follow this or you find a new job. I had $200,000 in student loans at that point and I was like, well, hell, I guess I better learn this. And I'm telling you, it doesn't take long for your body to start to feel better. It wants to be healthy.

right? It wants to be healthy. It doesn't take much. So yeah, that's what I do. And I love it. And then I ended up with, you know, really a focus on women's health and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. I want to talk like, um, one of the biggest things though, uh, for all of you out there, if you've had Hashimoto's or thyroiditis, any type of thyroid conditions, Danny's an expert in it. And so, I mean, literally, I mean, I know she doesn't, can't say names, but like

you know, around Nashville, you know, all the stars, all the stars go to Danny. And so Danny knows everybody. But can you touch a bit on it? Because you're saying women's health. So you're seeing a decline. We have bad foods causing inflammation, causing to get energy drained. Your thyroid gets really, really injured and then it affects your hormones. Can you touch a bit on that too? Oh, absolutely. Well, inflammation. Well, inflammation is the root, right? Although I just heard this week,

Inflammation is not the root. It's a symptom of whatever the root is. And I was like, "Oh no!" It's the root of the root.

So I got to figure that out, but I got to really break that down. But what I know right now is until we heal the inflammatory response, right, which would be caused from the food or it could be viruses, right? It could be Lyme disease. It could be a million different things, heavy metals and all that. We're never going to bring down that inflammation, that inflammatory response in the body and the thyroid mainly for me. And, you know, gluten and dairy are the top two triggers for Hashimoto's thyroiditis,

Food wise. Food wise. Food wise. Yes. And so, and all that stems to, you know, when you heal the inflammation, you begin to start feeling better. Yes. You know, instant. I mean, it's almost instant. Totally instant. My joint pain went away. That's exactly. What were your symptoms like? Because people often are going to be like, you had so. Oh, joint pain. Right here. Right here in that thumb pad. Oh my goodness. And do you know how common that is? Yeah. Just grabbing somebody's thumb right there and it hurts. Oh, it hurts. Yeah.

Well, for me, it was dairy. That was dairy. When I finally gave up that tiny little bit of half and half in my coffee. Went away. Lord.

Lord, it doesn't hurt at all. You can squint. Yeah. So, but, but joint pain, you know, people say, oh, I don't have any gut issues, Danny. I don't have any gut issues. I don't need to do food sensitivity. You don't have any gut issues. Well, do you have joint pain? Do you have fatigue? Do you have anxiety? Do you have depression? Do you have insomnia? Right. Do you have ADD, ADHD? It doesn't have to be explosive diarrhea or constipation where you don't poop for five days. Right. Doesn't have or gurgling or gas. Right.

Food affects every system. Inflammation affects every system in your body. It's true because I think when people come to you, there's times when people would say those low-level subclinical symptoms. That's right. You're trained to say that's not normal. You should not have fatigue and some hair that's breaking off. Or foggy-headedness. That's a huge one now. Now for inflammation. Oh, you bet. It's like because most people think they equivocate it to saying I'm just getting older. Yeah.

And I get to an age, I'm like, I'm just I'm used to it. But you're like the root cause, like

you find inflammation, inflammation is produced because there's a root cause underneath that and that's what we're there studying now. That's exactly right. Yeah. So we address that. We look at labs and we start working on changing your lifestyle. This is a lifestyle, right? This is not a six week, oh, I'm going to change this and everything is great. It took me 44 years to get into the shape I was in. That was 14 years ago. I'm going to be 59 next month. Great. Can you believe that?

that? But it took me 44 years. It's going to take longer than four weeks to reverse this. But literally within 10 days, you start feeling so much better when you control what's at the end of your fork. And then we work on diet or sleep and things like that as well. Truly, I remember we share patients, but one of the most beautiful things, I say it sincerely, is that

There's times when patients would come in and they've had really bad anxiety. And I try to do my best in some ways, but then they'll come in and like, oh, my anxiety is not there anymore. And they've gone to Danny and Danny would say like, well, I found severe iodine issues with you. I found severe magnesium. They get it going and they're like, dude, I got that and it's not here anymore. And that's the beauty of like somebody who like just doesn't look like, you know, you're looking at blood pressure, look at this, but you go further and say, okay, you have iodine deficiency. You may have thyroid issues or vice versa.

But that's what I love about like when in the book, I mean, I want to go over this. Like what are the six steps? I want to go over this. Eat well, sleep well, move well, poop well, de-stress well, and commune well. Those are my six steps. We'll talk about it. Yes, but eat well. So we talked about that. You got to eat one ingredient, healthy, in-season food. In-season.

not processed Franken food, right? You know, and I drive, I look at, we're in Vegas right now, you know, guaranteed there's a line around Chick-fil-A as we speak in every town. Oh no, there's not. It's a Sunday. Ooh, they're close. But anyway, every,

Normally there's a line around every Chick-fil-A because that's about addiction. And that's 53 ingredients in one chicken sandwich. So that's not real food. That's frankenfood. So we're talking one ingredient, cut it up, fresh fruits and vegetables and in season. That's where we start. Yes. Eat well. Eat well. Sleep well. Sleep. If you don't eat well, you'll never sleep well. But if you don't sleep well, you also don't eat well because you're exhausted. Wow.

Right. So I think eating and sleeping are hands down side by side. There should be no TV in your bedroom, no computer, no wireless router, no cell phones. You know, distance is your friend. Right. When it comes to electromagnetic fields and radiation and stuff. So the bit and if you snore, OK, you need a sleep study. Yeah. If your partner snores and they refuse to get a sleep study, well,

You need to be in the next room or another room. You just need to switch rooms because you can't heal if you're up all night long, you know, poking him, pushing him or her, you know, whatever. I mean, what would I know? I sleep alone. But anyway, I'm good.

going forward if there is somebody else, if they snore, that's out. That is a deal breaker. I'm going to have to be in another room. That's right. Or they're going to another room. I'm not leaving my room. But your body heals when you sleep, right? And you detox, right? Between what is it?

10 and 2, 12 and 2, 12 and 2. And that's when that brain downloads and that body downloads and detoxes. You have got to sleep. And if you sleep on an electric bed, that's a problem too because it's a minefield, right? That is nothing but electricity. So my friend Vicki Warren says, if you refuse to give up your sleep number, set it where it goes.

unplug it. And just leave it there. That's right. I mean, you still got some current going through there, but it's not plugged into the wall. Gotcha. Gotcha. Right? So with that... Unplug, leave it there, and find your favorite position, and that's what you do. Always find your favorite position. Absolutely. And leave it there. I said that. No, I'm not.

So anyway, sleeping. So maybe you need some magnesium, right? Maybe you need some ashwagandha. Maybe you don't need to drink at night. I'm going to tell you right now, alcohol, the older I get, the more I realize alcohol affects every system in your body and it does not help you sleep. If you wake up between two and four in the morning, oftentimes it's a blood sugar crash, right? And if you're drinking wine, for sure, that blood sugar is going to go up.

crash down and you're going to be awake. It does not help you sleep unless you pass out, like totally black out. Right. Totally. And you won't, you'll sleep, but you're going to feel like amazingly horrible. Oh, it's terrible the next morning. So yeah, I mean, so, so decrease the alcohol. Magnesium is one of my favorites, a good nighttime ritual, but you've got to sleep and you got to figure out what it is. Cats, dogs, children, all of that

All of those things. Absolutely not. Get them out. And nothing comes between you and your partner. That's right. There's no dog between you two or no child between you two. If you're going to be in the bed together, it's the two of you. Yeah, that's right. Together. You've got to have energy together. That's exactly correct. So you've got to eat well. You've got to sleep well. You've got to move well. You won't eat well or sleep well if you don't move well. Exercise is key. Yeah.

- Exercise, like how much exercise? - Oh, I don't know. I tell people do what they're like, what? I don't care what you do. I don't care if you hula hoop. I don't care if you ballroom dance. I brought a professional hula hooper in to my office two years ago. - You did? - Oh gosh, and you missed it. You would have been a great hula hooper.

It is a heck of a workout, let me tell you. We had 30 women come to this free, well, no, they paid for it. They paid her, but hula hoop class, 30 women. You should have seen us hula hooping out there. So I don't care. Ballroom dancing, hula hooping, rollerblading, Pilates, I don't care. Just something that's going to get your body moving. But as you become an old woman like me, you got to build muscle.

Right. So now I've started with a trainer and I'm weight training. You've seen it. I need to get his name because he's so good. He's like right around the corner. He's right. I walk over there. If I I've got to make it easy. Otherwise, I'm not going. That's what I'm saying. You've got to make it simple, you know, and if you can't go to the gym or you can't get a trainer. Well, you know what? You can lift iron skillets. You can lift, you know, big laundry jugs of.

of laundry deter, I mean, you can do pushups on your cabinet. You've got to work in the movement. Jack LaLanne, who was my favorite exercise guy, and he's long dead now, Jack LaLanne, that shows my age. He hated to exercise, hated it.

That was a little secret about him. He had the longest running health show in the history still in the United States. But he said, I exercise in the morning. I will not eat until I exercise. Really? And he liked to eat.

So he had to exercise in the morning. So that was his rule with his wife. Such discipline. Yes. And it takes discipline and it takes consistency. Consistency and discipline are what you have to start to practice. But that's the same with eating, sleeping and moving. You have to be consistent. And all three of those go together. And then the poop well step. Yeah.

Well, you're not going to poop well if you're not eating, moving, sleeping, right? That's right. You're not going to poop at all because- No, not at all. And I have patients whose doctors tell, they go, I poop once a week. Good heavens. You poop once a week?

You have a bowel movement once a week. You need a new doctor if they told you. That's true. Right? So dehydration, number one reason, I think, for constipation. So some people, all they need to do is just up their water intake, right? Half your body weight. Half your body weight. There you go. I know you've told me this and we've said, I've had some patients like you with acupuncture and they'll talk to you and they'll go,

Knowing how much water they drink, they'd say, oh, I drink maybe a cup a day. And you're like, you can't go off a cup a day, right? I mean, there's no way. You won't have any bowel movements. You will not have any bowel movements. You'll be irritable. You'll be fatigued. And now, I've never been a fan of electrolytes. I mean, I personally have never been a fan. I know the benefits of electrolytes. Well, now I've started putting electrolytes in my water. What? You

Totally. I love it. And the energy I get and the clear headed. It's really interesting in the afternoon. So bowel movements are key. Magnesium. Most people have a magnesium deficiency, right? Something like 75, 80% of the population. Maybe you need a little magnesium. Maybe you need to move. Maybe you need to eat better, but you definitely got to poop better. And if you don't have a squatty potty,

When you put your feet up, I mean, not like this. I mean, you could do this on your toilet, but you'd fall. I mean, I'd fall off. I'm so coordinated. Yeah. So we can get your feet up here, but you've got to get a squatty potty. Yep. Right? You've got to do it like, definitely. I have squatty potties in my, yep, definitely. What does it do? How does it, I mean, like- Well, it helps flex that rectum out there and that colon. So, I mean, it just poop, just poop right out. I mean-

I don't know. The squatty potty people, if I have nothing to do with squatty potty, I should have a stock in squatty potty. I have sold so many squatty potties. I have them in the office. But they just lift your feet up. You know, we're not designed to sit, excuse me, and have a bowel movement. We are designed to squat and have a bowel movement. And it helps it.

It helps you eliminate. That's why, like, in some countries, like, I mean, literally, my mom's from Korea. Yes. And you go to Korea and you go into the wooded areas. I mean, I'm not saying it's just wooded areas, but even in the city, they have it where you just squat right there. There's no toilet right there. Well, I've been in Indonesia twice, and they absolutely, they have where you just squat down and go, which is right up my alley. I love it. So you can't have a baby laying down. You can't poop sitting without squatting.

I mean, without lifting your feet up. I mean, and when you're in a hotel like this, get the trash can in front of you and it acts like a squatty body. That's amazing because I've had two patients, just comes to mind when they said that they were constipated and they saw that and just doing that helped their body like a reason. They actually said it helped me relax. Like it actually felt like I just calmed down. Absolutely. And it takes a lot less too. I mean, who wants to spend 30 minutes on toilet? I don't know. Just go poop and get out.

I mean, no hanging around there. So you got to poop and there are multiple reasons why people don't poop. I mean, they could be dehydrated. They could be not have enough magnesium, stress.

Stress, stress. And a lot of childhood trauma, right? I think women lock down right here. And so some women... Right in the lower... You bet. What I see with trauma is the thyroid gets destroyed because this is your voice, right? This is your fifth chakra. And this is your voice. And when you have lost your voice or you feel like you don't have a voice, oftentimes...

autoimmune disease takes place here. And then for me, it was here. I never shut up in my childhood trauma. I just, I never shut up, but it affected me here. It not constipation, but you know, I had irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea constant. Hello friends, Dr. Motley here. And I wanted to ask you a question. Have you ever had the problem keeping your energy levels up or sustained throughout the day? I did for a very long time until I started to understand about mitochondrial health.

I learned that I had to support my cellular health, longevity, and energy levels by providing nutrients to the mitochondria, which are the power plants of the cell. And one of those main nutrients is urolithin A. It is found in an awesome supplement that I use every day that supports my health by encouraging cell renewal.

It promotes energy and it addresses common signs of aging at the root. And not only does it help you with energy levels and healthy skin, but it also helps with muscle tone. It's been shown to increase muscle strength without a change in exercise. MitoPure is a research-backed innovative supplement based around Urolithin A. This will promote healthy, strong mitochondria.

Timeline is offering 10% off your order of MitoPure if you go to timeline.com slash Dr. Motley. That's T-I-M-E-L-I-N-E dot com slash Dr. Motley. Awaken the strength, power, and resilience already in you with the first and only supplement clinically proven to rejuvenate your mitochondrial health. So trauma could be affecting that as well, and I think we have to address that. And then you have to de-stress well.

Stress will destroy all the other four, right? Eating, sleeping, moving, pooping. If you are so stressed that you can't see straight, then you will never do any of the rest of those. And stress will kill us. We know that we're the most stressed society that we've ever been in. And as women, as women,

Maybe we're not the head of the house. I am the head of the house because I'm a single mom. I am the head honcho. There's nobody higher than me in my house. But oftentimes we're not the head of the household, right? I mean, maybe partners, but we set the tone for the entire home. Women do. And women oftentimes are so overcommitted, over, you know, we have no margin, right?

in our life, no margin. One thing goes wrong, one kid goes a little crazy one morning, or we're late for work and our entire day is off because we have no margin. We walk in that home at night and that mom or that woman sets the tone for that entire home, whatever kind of mood she's in, sets the entire tone. And we've got to learn to automate, eliminate and delegate. Michael Hyatt taught me this years ago, AED your life.

Boom, bring it back to life. Automate everything you can. Eliminate everything you can. Delegate everything you can. If I didn't want to do this today, now I'm better at this than you are. Setting boundaries. Am I right? This doesn't mean talking to you about it. Yeah, well, I'm just... Yeah, she's right. She's right. Okay. Right? Yeah. But I'm also a lot older than you. And so had I not wanted to do this, I'd have said, dude, I don't want to do it. I'm not doing it. I don't have time. Or...

- No, no, no is a complete sentence. And as women, we don't say that very often, right? And we feel like we have to be the room mother and we have to be whatever at work, we have to take on every project. No, you don't. No, you don't. I am much better now that I have boundaries.

in my life. You know, Eleanor Brown said, you cannot pour from an empty vessel, right? You've got to fill your vessel up and it is the overflow that everyone benefits from, right? They get the overflow. You get the full vessel because you're worthy to have a full vessel.

You put that oxygen mask on first lady and gentlemen. I mean, men are overstressed as well, but women as a rule. And then we get angry about it. Yeah. Right. And we take it out on other people. Nothing gets on your calendar unless you put it there. Wow.

Wow. That's a great rule. So de-stress well is a big deal for me. And there's a huge chapter in the book on de-stressing well. And then you have to commune well because community is key. Eyeball to eyeball. Yep. Not on your phone. Nope. Not on your Facebook, not on your Instagram, not on your YouTube. Let's get together.

- That's it. - And let's break bread, gluten-free bread, of course. But let's have coffee together, let's laugh. Your cortisol levels go down, right? Your immune system goes up. When you're with your people,

That's exactly right. And you know that. I'm a very social person. There was no community in my home. It was all trauma. I was an only child. It was nothing but chaos. So I am very intentional about building communities and building relationships. Those are my six steps. Eat well, sleep well, move well, poop well, de-stress well, and commune well. I mean, seriously. It's common sense. It is, but I say...

Honestly, when you say commonsensical, but I know many people out there right now are going, I do one of those. That's fine. Got to start somewhere. Then the sense is like, it is common sense. We're born to be around other people and we're born to drink a lot of water. When you talk about

like literally adding like magnesium or something like that, that you would naturally need like common sense steps. You would see profound changes in your digestion, little baby changes, little changes, the biggest thing. And that's what like with your book and with what you're doing at the clinic, most people would say like, you mean I have to like, even my clinic, they'll say, you mean I have to use this or this in my water or use this? I'm like,

we're in a society where it's sick and we don't have enough of these things and these are some of the things we need like in our body like magnesium or minerals or vitamins to keep us going in those common sensical directions sometimes and but

With that involved, with what you got there, also these physical things like moving well and just doing these things all together work so well together. You bet. That's what you said. And nobody has all those balls in the air at the same time, right? I mean, not six balls going all at the same time that are just beautifully equal. No. No.

Right. We're all sometimes we're going to eat better than we move. Right. Or we're going to be. But you can't out exercise and you cannot out supplement a bad inflammatory diet. You can't do it. That's amazing. That's amazing point. You made it like you have to have a balance. And that is amazing. You're right. You can't out exercise because some people do that. They're like, seriously, I ate so many cookies, but I'll just drink a lot of water. I'm like, you can drink a lot of water, but you still get a lot of sugar in your system. So you're right. You have to use the common sense. Right.

This is like the conversation I want. This is so good. Okay. Well, it is common sense. And so, and we don't have a lot of that left. I don't think in the world anymore. Not anymore. And especially the older you get, right? You start thinking, holy cow, it's possible. I have more years behind me than I do in front of me. But, but,

But maybe, I don't know, it could be 120. Well, 119. Well, there you go. But I want to be healthy. If I'm going to live that long, I want to be healthy. I want to be on my A game. But I am living proof, living proof that you're not born broken. If you were born healthy, you do not have to live sick. And man, it is common sense.

It is common sense. It is common sense. And it's like, I've always wanted to get, when I get older, I've always, like you just said, I just always wanted to be mobile.

- And always one in my mind. - So what's about, right? You want to be able to stand up. - Yeah, I mean literally. - I mean, my mom just died, 78 years old, full blown Alzheimer's in a Depends, in a diaper, right? Could not stand up out of her chair, could not walk, could not put two sentences together, 78. 72 is when we really saw things were, or me, I saw things were really going down south. 72, what?

That means that probably started in her 40s, 50s. She smoked like a fiend since she was 12 years old. Smoked two cigarettes a time the whole time she's pregnant with me. Right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a miracle I have half a brain left. Smoked, drank like a fish. Splenda, you know, Splenda, Splenda. Artificial, we could talk days about artificial. We'll do it on another podcast. Didn't exercise. Drank a lot of alcohol. And she's dead.

Okay, that's terrible. That's horrible. She was born healthy. Chris, I did her genetics on her. She had zero genes for Alzheimer's disease. No APOE4. Nothing.

100% lifestyle. And I checked hers and mine at the same time. And I don't have any either. So if I get Alzheimer's, it will be a lifestyle thing. It won't be genetic. That's amazing because you and I, we are similar because you give me advice like with my mom and stuff. And it's like, you know, like the gene, I've done some gene testing and it's like, she doesn't, she's not supposed to have that. It's just like, why? It's like there's

There's more things we can talk about. So many things like the inflammatory process, the sugars. You bet. My mom smoked for a very long time. Not blaming my mom. We're not blaming our parents. We're not blaming our parents. They just lived a life that was very stressful and they had to get... Yes. They had a life of, like my mom, of abandonment and desertion. And it's like they needed that dopamine hit. So you had that, like you said, de-stress. And when you see it, you go, there is a way out. There is a way that you can actually live healthy. I've seen people, and I know you have too. You said 44, right? Yeah. Yeah.

And you and I have seen patients that are healthier

at 58, 60 than they ever were in their 20s. Dude, I am. I feel better at 59 next month than I ever felt at 29 or 39. That's awesome. I'm never going back there. There is no amount of gluten to make me go back there, but I've built up enough resilience in my body. That's exactly right. I think I got gluten a little bit last night, but you know what? I feel fine. That's what it's about. It's about resilience. It's not about...

you know, all the time, just denial, denial, deny, you know, deny me this pleasure is what I'm saying. Not, not I'm in denial. It's not about that. It's about building up enough resilience so that when you do get gluten or you do get dairy or you don't sleep for a night or whatever, you know, you, that you have enough resilience to bounce back. That's right. That's what it's about. That's right. And, and,

But man, it takes a lot of work. It takes a lot of work initially. And you have to take the emotion out of this. This is what I finally figured out as an older woman, you know, getting older. I'm not old, but woman is take the emotion out of this. We're so emotional about food.

We're so emotional about food. Everything we do revolves around food. When you take the emotion out of it and you look at all the hundreds of other foods that God made for us or whomever you believe in, designed, all the foods that were made for us to eat out there, we only eat about 12 to 15 foods, the research shows. Really? There are hundreds of foods. How often do you eat a rutabaga or a parsnip or a daikon radish or a bok choy? Yeah.

I love bok choy. He taught me a lot about bok choy. Yeah. What did you just say? I'm half Korean. Oh, half Korean. Oh, yeah. I mean, when you take the emotion out of it and you eat to live, you don't live to eat. That's good.

Man, but I eat amazing food. Yeah. But I've taken the emotion out of it. I don't look at what I can't have. I really look at all the things that I can have and try to open my horizons up. I'm a little redneck kid from Gilbertsville, Kentucky. I ate the same thing over and over. There's Pringles over there on that thing right there. I grew up eating Pringles, which there's no potatoes in that, by the way, I don't think. I think there's, yeah. Yeah, it's the snacks. And I'm like, no, leave it there. It's not even potato chips. They've taken the word potato off of it.

Really? Yeah.

Don't touch it, they'll charge you $40 for it. But anyway, when you take the emotion out of it, man, it's incredible. It's amazing what happens. - That is a mic drop for you. Take the emotions out of food. And we can go more and more, 'cause I can go like, we have these stories because people do, they do really get emotionally like, no, I can't stop my dairy or I can't stop this. It's like, my life is like, literally I can't stop putting creamer in my coffee. Now I understand that's your ritual, but like you just said, look at the stuff you can do. And I think that is so eyeopening.

So, okay, we're going to do more parts, Danny and I, because you see how we have this camaraderie here. We do. We love each other. And really, like, I love it because really I can have you just take a subject and you just can roll with it. And I love it so much. I'm common sense. You're the brain. Oh, stop it. You're like the whiz bang who can process every pathophysiology mechanism of action process. And I'm like, oh, yeah, just don't do it. Just don't do it.

I love you, dude. Love you. And then I remember, hey, we're going to do a Sunday night service, Facebook at times. We'll do some more of these with her. We'll talk about some other stuff in the next few videos. Let's do it. But guys, remember, tell everybody where you're at. Tell them your Facebook, your Instagram. Danny Williamson Wellness, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all the things. DannyWilliamson.com. And the book is everywhere. It just went number one again on Amazon in three categories after I did the Dumb Blonde podcast.

Right. So maybe after I do this podcast, it'll go number one again as well. Right. So wild and well, Danny, six common sense steps to radical healing.

It is a good book. It's common sense. It's on Audible too if you don't like to read. It's great. I read it. It is. I am so thankful. And if you're ever in Nashville or Franklin area, come see us. Go see the clinic. I'm not too far from there. Go see the store. Yeah, it's beautiful. The store's open six days a week. It's awesome. Guys, we're so thankful for Dandy coming with us today. Take all these steps. Read her book and follow her. And I'm telling you, if you do the simple common sense steps,

you'll make profound changes in your health that you never thought you would. Anyway, from all of us here at Intel Podcast, I'm Dr. Motley. Thanks so much. Have a great day.

Before we wrap up, please remember that the information shared in this podcast is for educational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine, nursing, or other professional healthcare services, including the giving of medical advice. No doctor-patient relationship is formed through this podcast, and the use of information here or materials linked from this podcast is at your own risk. The content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Always consult with your health care provider before making any changes to your health regimen and do not disregard or delay seeking medical advice for any condition you may have. Thank you for joining us today on the Ancient Health Podcast. We hope you've gained valuable insights into the harmony between Eastern and Western medicine. If you've enjoyed today's episode, be sure to subscribe, share, and leave us a review.

Remember, true health is about balance, mind, body, and spirit. So stay tuned for more episodes where we continue to explore how ancient wisdom and modern science can work together to help you thrive. Here's to your health, balance, and well-being. I'm Dr. Chris Motley, and I look forward to our next episode together.