Pickleball and ... Homeopathy??

[00:00:00] Speaker A: We tell this story in certain circles, and we tell it differently, but the last time she worked for me, I fired her. [00:00:10] Speaker B: I did her. [00:00:10] Speaker A: Is that worked? [00:00:11] Speaker B: Kinda. [00:00:12] Speaker A: So we can't decide if she quit because she was mad at me, or I fired her because I was mad at her. But one of those two things happened. [00:00:18] Speaker B: It was more of a, this isn't a good match for me. I made a big mistake, so I'm just gonna bow out. And so he turned that into. [00:00:26] Speaker A: We'll do a whole podcast on why we think that's different now, but we got to take advantage of having Meredith here. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Yeah, we. We like to joke that he fired me, but the reality was he. I did. He did. [00:00:37] Speaker C: It was mutual. It was a mutual. [00:00:40] Speaker A: It was a mutual. [00:00:41] Speaker B: Yes, it was. He needed somebody in a pinch, and I filled in and I made a big, big mistake, which did. Which, fortunately, did not talk about that money, but it could have cost him money. [00:00:54] Speaker C: Well. And I love that your marriage, like, survived through this. It just goes to show, like, how strong you two are. And when two humans come together and view the other person in their humanity, like, you can have those hard conversations of, like, this isn't working. Let's shift and do something different. And that's just such a great example of it. [00:01:13] Speaker A: That's probably the synthesis of our entire marriage. Every day. [00:01:18] Speaker C: Every day. [00:01:20] Speaker A: We are going to be at 33 years this year. [00:01:22] Speaker B: Meredith. [00:01:24] Speaker C: That's incredible. [00:01:24] Speaker A: 33 years. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Such a. Such a remarkable goal. [00:01:28] Speaker A: Yeah, well, it's all her. I married way up. In fact, I could say that I married ahead of the game, which. I'm gonna pull up our little lovely music here. [00:01:37] Speaker B: Let's see if she gets the right button. [00:01:39] Speaker A: Let's go. Yeah. We are Sky. We are here with one of my favorite people in Minnesota. I'm gonna introduce her in a little different way than I normally introduce people. I want to tell how I know her. [00:01:54] Speaker B: Okay. [00:01:55] Speaker A: Instead of her background. And we'll let her give us her background. She'll be much better than I would. I have a company that's worked with Comcast as a client for. We're in our ninth year now. [00:02:06] Speaker B: Wow. [00:02:07] Speaker A: And in the first year, I met her husband. His name is Tom, and he's been. I've just been a fan of Tom since day one. Really love the guy. And, you know, you've met him. He's a great guy, I think. I don't want to put words in Tom's mouth, but we have a mutual respect for each other is how I would say it. And I've done a lot of work with him. I've been able to be a part of his journey, getting promoted multiple times. He's a vice president now at Comcast. Super stoked. He and Meredith, which is his lovely wife, tried to get me over to their house for probably. I feel like it was, like, two years. It was just bad timing. Things happened. I don't know what they all were. It wasn't that I didn't want to go, because, in fairness, it was a vegan meal offering. And I was like, eh. But I was gonna go either way because it's Tom, and I'm not a vegan guy, as everybody is. [00:02:54] Speaker B: No, but you are a foodie. [00:02:56] Speaker A: Yeah. No. So, anyway, we finally figured out how to make it happen. And I think the first time was when sky was in town, right? [00:03:02] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:03] Speaker A: So all four of us got together, hung out in your lovely home in your backyard, and had an amazing meal. And then I'm just gonna make one more comment, and then I'm gonna go ahead and bring her on. And we had ice cream, and I was like, vegans have ice cream. So, Meredith, you're one of my faves, as I mentioned, and it would be much better for you to tell us about your homeopathic background and what you do and why. We all thought this would be a good conversation to have relative to pickleball. So why don't you jump in? [00:03:32] Speaker B: This is pretty unexpected for pickleball podcasts. [00:03:34] Speaker A: Yeah. Jump in and give us some stuff. Yeah. [00:03:36] Speaker C: Well, hi, Kevin and Skye. Right back at you. You are two of my favorite humans, and we just had a blast playing pickleball last year. [00:03:44] Speaker B: That's true. [00:03:45] Speaker A: We did play before dinner. [00:03:47] Speaker C: So Kevin is the reason I am a casual pickleball player, because you have taught Tom in the past. And then Tom taught me on a lake vacation last year, which is really fun. [00:03:58] Speaker A: Wait, wait, wait. I'm gonna stop you. When is that? Because you're gonna. [00:04:01] Speaker B: You're about to go again. [00:04:02] Speaker C: Yeah. So when I. I learned in our week vacation at this lake resort, and then we had a pickleball tournament for all the resort, you know, visitors, and Tom and I placed second. [00:04:13] Speaker A: Yes. [00:04:14] Speaker C: Tournament. Behind a high school tennis player and his dad who plays pickleball regularly. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:04:21] Speaker C: So I was very proud. I. I, you know, learned in a couple days and placed second. So our revenge tour is this summer. I'm hoping for first place. I haven't had a lot of time to play pickleball, but training starts this afternoon. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Okay. All right, back to Back to where you were going. [00:04:36] Speaker C: Yes. So I am a very casual pickleball player, but I am a professional homeopath, or more specifically, a certified classical homeopath. And what that means is I practice homeopathy, which is a holistic medicine. So I would like to use a pickleball analogy, if I can, to explain kind of where homeopathy falls, because a lot of people think homeopathy stands for all medicine that's holistic or natural, and it actually doesn't. So if you think of all sports kind of as all medicine. Right. Because you know how to play pickleball doesn't mean you know how to play basketball or dancing like my daughter or baseball. So we can think of all sports, you know, as all medicine. And then if we drill it down to racket sports, just because you know how to play pickleball doesn't mean, you know, all racket sports. So if we think of racket sports as kind of the holistic umbrella, and then under that would be pickleball. So pickleball has its own rules, etiquette, you know, court size, equipment. Same with homeopathy. So it's its own standalone system of medicine under kind of the holistic umbrella, if that makes sense. [00:05:48] Speaker A: Great analogy. [00:05:49] Speaker B: I love the word picture. Yeah. [00:05:51] Speaker C: So homeopathy is actually the second most use system of medicine in the world behind conventional medicine. In the U.S. it was really popular into the early 1900s. We had, you know, 20% of medical doctors were homeopaths. We had homeopathic medical colleges and universities. It disappeared. And I would say now it's really making a resurgence in the US as people are turning to more, you know, natural modalities. But across the world, India, Europe, South America, it's very popular. It's integrated into their regular medical system. So I'm excited for more people to know about homeopathy here in the US and certainly for pickleball players to know more about it. [00:06:30] Speaker A: Sure. Yeah. I consider myself fairly knowledgeable compared to maybe the average person in terms of medicines and whatever. And that just becomes. I have a family that's just been all doctors and nurses and paramedics and EMTs, and we just always are talking about that kind of stuff, and one of them is a do. So we also had sort of that more natural right side of things, not just the pure A pill for every ill side of things. [00:06:58] Speaker B: True. [00:06:59] Speaker A: But I was blown away by, like, going, yeah, I know nothing. I don't know anything about homeopathy. [00:07:05] Speaker B: So, I mean, like, we. We've been using ARNICA gel for years. [00:07:08] Speaker A: Sure. Does that fit into homeopathy? [00:07:11] Speaker C: It does, yeah. [00:07:12] Speaker A: Well, we use aloe vera, too. [00:07:13] Speaker B: I think what was striking to me during that conversation was when you were describing different things and, and talking about different therapies and treatments. That's when we learned. That's where I learned that Arnicode was part of homeopathy. And I think people don't realize they are probably already doing. Yeah, they may be on a very small, tiny minute level and it works and then they. But they still go back to whatever's mainstream. [00:07:47] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:07:48] Speaker A: So how do you see it fitting in with pickleball? I know you do, obviously. [00:07:53] Speaker C: So tell me, are you, are your, your pickleball mates, are they getting regularly injured and are there common injuries that you see in pickleball? [00:08:02] Speaker A: Regularly? I would say no. But are there common injuries in pickleball? Absolutely. [00:08:07] Speaker B: Yep. [00:08:08] Speaker A: I think fairly common is tennis elbow. I think fairly common is lower back strain. I think we see some, some tenderness in the feet, anything with joints and for sure, you know, head, shoulders, knees and toes. [00:08:25] Speaker B: Shoulders. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Yeah, all the joints along the way. [00:08:28] Speaker B: Of course, the common stuff, too, from being outside sunburn. [00:08:31] Speaker A: I, of course, never get hurt. [00:08:32] Speaker B: I'm fine. Bites, poison ivy, just. [00:08:37] Speaker A: No, like, I, I have torn part of my meniscus. So, yeah, by all means, right now. [00:08:41] Speaker B: He'S on the injuries. [00:08:42] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I remember that. [00:08:43] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:08:44] Speaker C: Well, so, yes, the lower extremity injuries. So homeopathy can really help a person with anything. So the sunburn, the poison iv. I won't talk about those things today. I, I, you know, brought info on kind of those lower extremity injuries, the overuse stuff, tennis elbow. Um, but yeah, homeopathy can definitely help a person with anything. And we're just, you know, the repetitive movement that happens in pickleball, that maybe going too hard, maybe a long tournament weekend, um, you know, that's all going to set people up for various injuries or just kind of the aches and pains. And I think what's great about homeopathy is it's really supporting the body to do the healing work. Whereas, you know, something like an ibuprofen can be useful in the moment, but it's going to suppress that inflammatory process in the body and it might then take the body longer to heal. And sometimes we need something like an ibuprofen just to make it through. But what homeopathy does is it's going to support the body to do the healing work and, you know, not suppress an inflammatory process like bringing blood flow to the area or bruising, which we know is actually the body sign of healing. So homeopathy is a really individualized system of medicine. So we're looking at the whole person, their physical, mental and emotional symptoms when, when we're considering a remedy. And two people might have the same diagnosis, but they might be on two completely different remedies because of their presenting symptoms. And that's what's really cool about homeopathy. We also, it's based on the principle of like, cures, like, which. This is where people get kind of confused. So instead of turning off things in the body, you know, which is something like ibuprofen does, we're giving a remedy. So if you take a group of healthy people and you give them a homeopathic remedy and it produces symptoms in them, then when someone is sick and experiencing those symptoms, we know that that homeopathic remedy is going to be a good fit for them. So based on the principle, like cures, like. And then in homeopathy, you know, there is no person that cannot be helped by homeopathy, whether it be physical, mental or emotional. But we have kind of this distinction of acute and chronic. [00:11:04] Speaker A: Sure. [00:11:04] Speaker C: So acute is what we'll talk about today. And this is really great for home prescribers to try different homeopathic remedies. So these are, you know, those short term issues like the, the injury, the cold, the flu, the poison. [00:11:18] Speaker A: I just, I just realized what the number one injury in pickleball is. [00:11:21] Speaker B: What's that? [00:11:22] Speaker A: Because of what you just said, Meredith. It is for sure getting hit by a ball. [00:11:26] Speaker B: Bruising. Bruising, right. [00:11:28] Speaker A: Yeah, by far. We call it, I mean, arnica gel. Done. But that's the number one. That's. [00:11:32] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll talk about that for sure. So getting hit by a ball would be acute. Things like a uti, you know, all of those sort of short term, haven't experienced things before. And then the chronic is what we call constitutional homeopathy. So that's the bulk of my work as a professional homeopath. Those are those chronic health issues, whether they be migraines, autoimmune disorders. Maybe you're really prone to injury or an injury has never healed. And then, you know, mental, emotional symptoms too, depression, anxiety, all of those things, if a person experiences them, can be helped over time with homeopathy because we're building up a person's constitution for the body to kind of come out of those symptoms, if that makes sense. [00:12:20] Speaker B: Absolutely. So you, you mentioned injuries. The funny thing about pickleball is a lot of people were former tennis players or they were a former athlete in a different sport. And they. At a different age and a different age, and they chose to go back to or to start pickleball because it was easier on the body. Um, even some court surfaces are easier on the joints. So, yeah, you're coming into a sport sometime in this, into the sport of pickleball, sometimes already carrying injuries. And so you're moving muscles you don't normally move. So muscle aches are definitely something that beginners see a lot, especially since it's so fun that they overplay. [00:13:08] Speaker A: No. [00:13:08] Speaker B: Yeah. And so I think that what you're going to share with us today is going to be so relevant not just to our beginners who are listening to this podcast episode, but also to those of us who are bringing a former sport injury into the court. [00:13:28] Speaker A: No, she's already showed some great stuff. What else you got for us? [00:13:31] Speaker C: Well, we can jump into kind of what remedies are in homeopathy and then what to look for and shop for. [00:13:40] Speaker A: Okay, like, so in other words, you want to pick, like pick an el tennis elbow or something and give us some suggestions for that one. Is that what you're thinking? Or. [00:13:46] Speaker C: I'll go into some specific remedies. I have a bunch of them that I'll talk through that are good to have in your pickleball bag. [00:13:53] Speaker A: Do it. Let's go. [00:13:55] Speaker C: Okay, well, let's talk about remedies to begin with. Just generally homeopathic remedies. So they are a specific, you know, we talked about. Pickleball has its own set of rules and etiquette. So same with homeopathy, we have our very specific preparation of homeopathic remedies. They have their own pharmacopoeia and whole own, like, manufacturing process. So typically, you know, you mentioned arnica gel, and I'll talk about that. But typically we're seeing homeopathic remedies as sugar polish that have been medicated. So they're actually really easy for people to take. You just let them melt under your tongue. A tube of a homeopathic remedy. Pellets are usually about the size of a chapstick, so easy to throw in your pickleball bag your pocket. My kids carry them around. Brands that are pretty easy to get, you know, at your local health food store, online through different sellers are going to be Boiron, which is the blue tube most people know about. And then a brand I really love is olos. They have a really clean manufacturer manufacturing process. So the remedies I mentioned today that we'll go through. I would recommend getting in a 30C potency that's really easy to find. Okay, so dosing what I'm going to recommend that if, if any of these remedies today sound like a good option for you to take, you're going to take two to three pellets under your tongue and you're going to dose about every two to three hours. In an acute injury, if things are really severe, you're dosing much more often, you know, every 15 minutes to an hour. And you just let them melt under your tongue. Remedies don't expire, you just keep them out of heat and, you know, harsh sun. Here's what I'm going to say is that when people start taking homeopathy, they're expecting it to work like conventional medicine or an ibuprofen. So, you know, you have a headache. [00:15:51] Speaker A: Experience something in 30 minutes. [00:15:53] Speaker C: I know, I'm moving. [00:15:55] Speaker A: No, no, I'm saying like we would expect a result in 30 minutes. [00:15:58] Speaker B: Pain relief in 30 minutes. [00:15:59] Speaker C: So they're expecting it to work like conventional medicine. So yeah, you take your ibuprofen, your headache disappears, you know, within five minutes. Right. And it might come back much more raging, but it's that automatic turn off. Homeopathy is going to work a little bit different in the, in the body. So first of all, we're taking one remedy at a time. You don't want to throw a bunch of different remedies in your body. You want to respect the remedy, give it the space to do its work, to heal the body. Right. And then we're, we're taking maybe three to four doses before we're like, and this, maybe this remedy isn't a good fit, I need to try something else. And we're wanting to see a healing response from the body. Sometimes it's the bruising's disappearing, sometimes the bruising, you know, we're seeing more blood flow to the area. But you're really, it's really calling on you to like check in with your symptoms in your body rather than let's just turn everything off in the body. Right, okay. So should we jump into some remedies? [00:16:57] Speaker B: Well, yes, definitely. With arnica in particular, whether it's a bruise or an achy joint, I did not know about the dosage for and the frequency for the tablet. So thank you so much for that. I literally am going to do that today. But I've also heard that with arnica in particular, you have a gel or a cream, you can put it topically on the injury as well as take the pill or the tablet. [00:17:25] Speaker A: Will you be taking it for trauma or another reason? [00:17:28] Speaker B: Yard work is kicking my butt. So the weeds are overcoming and some of those weeds are medicinal. So for muscle soreness. [00:17:39] Speaker A: Yeah, I just want to make sure our listeners know it's not for trauma, it's for muscle soreness. [00:17:42] Speaker B: Muscle soreness. And of course, you know, just because. [00:17:45] Speaker A: You can't take arnica for both of those things. [00:17:47] Speaker C: Well, yeah, you would take it in, you know, traumatic. That would be. If I was in a car accident, had a shocking situation, arnica would be the first thing to pull. Do you want to talk about arnica? [00:17:58] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I'm just whatever you want to talk. So if it's, if it's something like arnica that you're recommending, you know, are you, are you recommending both the topical and the tablet? So that's kind of what I was. [00:18:10] Speaker A: Yeah, the dosing. [00:18:11] Speaker B: Yeah, the dosing. [00:18:12] Speaker A: But whatever you think we should cover about arnica. [00:18:15] Speaker C: And I was going to talk about the gel and the cream because that's how most people know about especially sports. [00:18:20] Speaker B: Yep. [00:18:21] Speaker C: So let's dive in. I have kind of a handful of remedies that are good for sports injury and overuse to go over. So the first is Arnica Montana. I mentioned it already. This is like, I think this is the most used homeopathic remedy in the world. Most people don't even know it's home, homeopathically prepared. And it is like the gateway into homeopathy for so many people. So yes, this is like the first go to remedy in any sort of like accident, injury, trauma. It's the don't even think, just grab the arnica remedy. So we think of this for bumps, bruises, sprains, bump of the head, any like bleeding injury, you know, you hit your nose, even a bloody nose, being hit by the pickleball in the face on the body, you are going in your bag and grabbing an arnica. Every person needs this with them at all times. Parent, grandparent. So sky, you mentioned you are tired from gardening and weeding. And yes, this is me too. [00:19:27] Speaker B: It's keeping me from the pickleball court too. So true. [00:19:31] Speaker C: This is the kind of overuse, aching muscle remedy as well. So you just like, you overdid it. Maybe you trained too hard, too long, maybe on a surface that you're not, you know, regularly on for sure. So this is a great starting remedy just to start using homeopathy. But also if you have that kind of bruised feeling. Okay, let's talk about the gel and the cream versus homeopathic pellets. So many people use the cream and the gel. It's okay. It's usually a very low potency and it's going to act more superficially. Whereas I prefer the pellets because it's going to have that deep acting, whole system kind of movement to bring the body back in balance. So I reach for pellets. However, let me say you guys know my oldest daughter, Ada, is a nationally competitive fencer. She has all of these remedies we're going to talk about today in her fencing travel bag. She knows how to use them. Well, there was a tournament she was at and she had some bruising on the surface of her weapon hand and she just grabbed the arnica cream, threw it on that bruising and it was gone within 20 minutes. So I have seen it work. It's just going to be at that more superficial level. So often people are using that and they're like, well, arnica doesn't really work. [00:20:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:20:48] Speaker C: And see what happens. [00:20:49] Speaker A: I'm with you. But let's be honest, Ada's younger than we are. [00:20:52] Speaker C: True. Yeah. [00:20:53] Speaker A: So it probably was a part of her just natural healing process to be faster than it would be for me. [00:20:58] Speaker C: Yes. And we see that with kids in homeopathy too. They just have a stronger life force and they just respond to remedies. [00:21:06] Speaker A: Their bodies are just smoking compared to what we're doing at this age. [00:21:10] Speaker C: I also want to say a really cool story that I saw with an Arnica 30C. So my son plays baseball, you know, rec league. We were at a game last summer. I was sitting on the bleachers, there was a five year old climbing around on the top of the bleachers. He fell off the back of the bleachers, head on concrete. [00:21:27] Speaker A: Oh. [00:21:27] Speaker C: And you know, was crying, screaming. His mom gathered him up. I kind of gently walked over and said, hey, can I offer some arnica? Well, we dosed an Arnica 30C every 15 minutes and he had this huge goose egg developing on the back of his head. And after three doses of arnica every 15 minutes, it disappeared. And his demeanor just calmed and was happy and he was off playing. So, I mean, this is a miracle. Sometimes it's just really unbelievable to witness, you know, these sorts of movement in the body and healing responses from something super cool. Arnica is a must have for sure. [00:22:04] Speaker A: Okay, Arnica 30C. We're gonna come back at the end and ask you how people can get it because you offer it and we'll put like a link or something out in our. [00:22:13] Speaker B: Well, I don't ruin the surprise because she has a surprise for us at the end. [00:22:17] Speaker A: Oh, see, I did not read the email you sent us. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Okay, I tried. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Sky did. [00:22:22] Speaker B: I did. She is. [00:22:24] Speaker C: You're keeping things exciting. [00:22:25] Speaker A: I don't because I like to. [00:22:28] Speaker B: He likes to be spongebob. [00:22:29] Speaker A: I like to play off of my natural curiosity. That's honestly the truth. So. Yeah. [00:22:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:33] Speaker C: Okay. The next one I threw in here, I think it's really a helpful one for parents. And you'll have to tell me if this is a helpful one for pickleball players. So the next one I put in is a remedy called hypericum. And we consider this one the arnica for nerve rich areas. So this is your fingers, your toes, your tailbone. And usually when you need hypericum, you're going to have shooting pains. And the injury again happened in an area that like has a lot of nerve endings. So this might be. You fall on your tailbone, you smash your fingers, your toes get stomped on. You know, my kids have gotten their fingers caught in the car door and I'm reaching for the hypericum. So I threw it in there in case it was helpful for pickleball players because I thought those might be some injuries that are happening. Maybe you smash your foot, gets smashed by your partner or something like that. [00:23:26] Speaker B: Partners do hit each other with their paddles. Not always intentionally, but you know, if you're going for. You're both going for a ball. Sometimes paddles clang and hands get hurt. [00:23:37] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:38] Speaker B: So absolutely. [00:23:39] Speaker A: And this is St. John's Wort, right? Yeah, yeah, this is St. John's WORT. Very common name for it. But it sounds like it's from like Harry Potter, like hypericum, whatever. Perfratum. [00:23:52] Speaker B: Yeah, I might just start calling it because it makes me sound. [00:23:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:23:56] Speaker B: Very knowledgeable. It's fancy word. [00:23:59] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:24:00] Speaker C: In homeopathy, we use the Latin names for the plants. [00:24:03] Speaker A: I love it. [00:24:04] Speaker C: It's not like going and pulling a plant and you know, using its herbal material form. In homeopathy, we're highly diluting and putting potentizing these plants and these natural substances. So hypericum is a great one if, let's say. So I cut off the tip of my thumb cutting kale this winter and I was alternating arnica and then a few hours later I would take hypericum. So again, giving those remedies the space to work. But, you know, using both because it was on the tip of my finger. I had a lot of bleeding. It healed beautifully, by the way. [00:24:41] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm so glad. [00:24:42] Speaker C: Okay, so those are like my first go to. When in doubt, use arnica. But hypericum is good if it's in those nerve rich areas. So those are my first. I don't think. I just grab remedy. [00:24:54] Speaker A: Got it. [00:24:54] Speaker C: Good. Okay. [00:24:55] Speaker A: And easy to carry in our bags with us. [00:24:57] Speaker C: I'm hearing totally easy. Again, the size of a chapstick. So then. [00:25:01] Speaker A: But wait, let's go back to St. John's Wort for a minute. It is very popular and I think this is something, Meredith, that we need to discuss really quickly. I can go to the grocery store and see 15 different branded bottles of St. John's Wort, but the likelihood of me actually grabbing one that is going to have the type of results you're talking about isn't necessarily great. [00:25:21] Speaker B: True. [00:25:21] Speaker A: Because a lot of those supplements or whatever you want to call them are like watered down or not the right. They're not the right potency or they're not the right. Whatever dosage. Yeah. [00:25:31] Speaker C: And what you're usually seeing is the herbal material dose of something. [00:25:36] Speaker A: Right. [00:25:36] Speaker C: So you're either your teas or your tinctures. In homeopathy, again, we have that. Remember, it's its own set of rules and preparation. [00:25:46] Speaker A: Subset. Subset, yes. Yeah. [00:25:48] Speaker C: We are highly diluting, potentizing, you know, material substances to where no longer is. Is there a material substance detectable and it's just kind of the essence of the material. [00:26:03] Speaker A: Yes. [00:26:04] Speaker C: It's like providing a message to the body in homeopathy. [00:26:07] Speaker A: Yeah. And I think we talked about this, but my personal example of this is definitely turmeric. Everyone knows that turmeric is great for inflammation. Here's the problem. You have to eat like 20 pounds of it and you can't process it. So that's no good for you. [00:26:19] Speaker B: Tummy aches. [00:26:20] Speaker A: But if you take the curcumin out of turmeric, which is the 3% part of turmeric that actually, you know, can fight inflammation. And then you can make it bioavailable. Right. By doing nano sized droplets of it, let's say then all of a sudden your body can absorb and respond in the way that it would to a wonderful homeopathic medicine like turmeric. [00:26:41] Speaker C: Right. [00:26:42] Speaker A: And so that's why I think, you know, if you go to the store, you go, oh, everyone's read about St. John's Wort. Everyone's read about turmeric, but none of us are actually, or most of us aren't really. Getting a bioavailable version, which just means we're just wasting money. [00:26:53] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah. Homeopathy is definitely a nano medicine. I think that's a great framework for it. Now, what were so the more. So the goal of homeopathy is to help the body heal in the most gentle and swiftest way. That was the. The goal of the founder of homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann. And so, you know, a material dose of something and. And you had this example with. With turmeric, even though curcumin isn't a homeopathic medicine, but you saw the more diluted it became, it was like the easier for the body to use. Right. So in homeopathy, we're taking something like St. John's Wort and we're making it into homeopathic preparation. And the body is then able to use it as a message to heal itself. And it's just. I have so many examples that are just. I'm flabbergasted by something so diluted can actually shift things in the body. [00:27:53] Speaker A: So. Yeah. [00:27:54] Speaker C: Okay. Should we talk about some more? [00:27:56] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:27:58] Speaker C: Okay. So, you know, again, arnica hypericum are great. Kind of those first go to don't think remedies. Just grab, grab and take. Then you're kind of assessing the situation. Now, there is nothing wrong with taking something like arnica for a day or two as your body is. You're kind of letting the body heal and go through that process and you're wanting your nervous system to kind of calm down, especially if there's like a fracture or a sprain that's happened. You know, those are often very shocking for us and there's a lot of emotions wrapped up in it. So we're kind of assessing the situation. So again, hours, maybe days. Homeopathy is really a modality that calls you to tune into your body. So you're saying, what makes me feel better? Am I restless? Do I like to move? Do I need to stay absolutely still? Still? Does warm feel better? Does cold feel better? You know, what are my emotions like? So we really have to kind of tune in to our symptoms and what's happening in our body to find the remedy that's going to be the next best fit for us. Okay. So we're getting kind of a clear picture. And then there's some other remedies you can bring in that are helpful for injuries. So the first is bryonia elba. So this is a great post injury, you know, post sports sprain remedy. There might be joint pain and stiffness for Someone that needs Bryonia. So someone who needs Bryonia is worse for any movement, they need to stay absolutely still. I don't know if either of you have ever experienced this kind of injury. You're like, I cannot move from the couch. I can't even move a muscle. I need to stay still. That's someone who needs Bryonia. They are also going to be better from pressure, like a wrap or pressing on the injury. So again, sprains or fractures is where Bryonia is great to bring in. [00:29:46] Speaker B: I had a bone bruise that I still have discoloration from, from a martial art injury. [00:29:53] Speaker A: But we're talking five years ago. It's not like she just had it. [00:29:56] Speaker B: Two or three years ago. Yeah, at least. And so, man, I could have totally used this. [00:30:01] Speaker C: That would have been great at the time. But there's another remedy we're going to talk about shortly that you might want to try now and see if it helps to move the. The pain. [00:30:11] Speaker A: This one is good for a dry cough. [00:30:13] Speaker B: This one is good for dry cough. [00:30:15] Speaker C: Are you Googling? [00:30:16] Speaker B: He is. [00:30:17] Speaker A: I. I pulled this one up. I pulled this one up. [00:30:20] Speaker B: He's so. [00:30:21] Speaker A: So I know alba is white. Right. So I. Because I took Latin, so it's one of my favorite things to do is. [00:30:26] Speaker B: He's a linguist. [00:30:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm a linguistic major. So. But I didn't know brownia. And it's just brownie, plant, white plant or something like that. Right. White brownie plant. But I. But I have to look up Latin words because it just. It's just a thing for me. So when I looked this one up, it was like, yeah, this is good for a dry cough. And I was like, oh, yeah. [00:30:44] Speaker B: So is Mullen. [00:30:45] Speaker A: I have a dry cough right now. That's why I'm bringing it up. [00:30:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:48] Speaker C: Are you cranky from your dry cough? [00:30:50] Speaker B: Yes. [00:30:50] Speaker A: No. [00:30:51] Speaker C: Yes. [00:30:51] Speaker A: No. [00:30:52] Speaker B: Very. [00:30:53] Speaker C: Someone who needs Bryonia is going to be like a crank. [00:30:56] Speaker A: I'm not cranky. [00:30:57] Speaker C: Their ailments. Okay, so this. I'm so excited you brought this up, Kevin, because when we look at a remedy, it's almost like a remedy is like a character or a personality and it has this whole, like, kaleidoscope of uses. So we are just talking about, like a minuscule part of a remedy, of course, with the injuries. But yes, Bryonia is used in flu and cough. It can be used constitutionally for mental and emotional symptoms. So there's like a whole bunch of part of a picture of the remedy that we're not even Talking about today. But it is. That is why homeopathy is so marvelous. [00:31:35] Speaker A: I'm gonna pause and say something here because we don't have this on video. We don't. Our podcasts are all audio at this point. They are so people can't see Meredith. [00:31:43] Speaker B: She's beautiful. [00:31:44] Speaker A: And Tom was on earlier with. With her, and they are, like, the most gorgeous. In shape, healthy, Their skin, amazing. No, seriously, like. But I think that deserves stating because if people could see Meredith, they would get what I'm saying. [00:31:59] Speaker B: Like a walking billboard. [00:32:00] Speaker A: She's a walking billboard. And Tom's a walking billboard. Their children are walking billboards. We don't like you anymore. [00:32:05] Speaker B: And they're brilliant. [00:32:06] Speaker A: They are smart, too. Yes. [00:32:08] Speaker B: So it makes you. [00:32:09] Speaker A: They got the whole package. We only got, like, half of it. I'm not very happy about telling you. [00:32:13] Speaker B: If you could see her, you would understand. [00:32:15] Speaker A: Anyway, I just wanted to say that Meredith, because you guys are definitely walking billboards for what you're saying. So keep going. [00:32:20] Speaker C: You are very kind. We are a balanced family. Right. I love sweets and. And all of that. And, you know, we do pizza and, like, drink alcohol, all those things. But we. We try to have balance. [00:32:33] Speaker A: Those are the bad things in our life. We have pizza and drink beer. Oh, whoa. [00:32:40] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure there's no. There's an arnica gel for that in their diet, though. So. [00:32:44] Speaker C: Yeah, well. And like, we. So homeopathy is now the primary. Primary modality that we use. Of course, we go to the doctor when we need to. My kids get stitches and we do checkups, but this is our primary mode of medicine. And over time, you know, we work regularly with our homeopath. It's really cool to see my kids. You know, they get sick. We don't want to not get sick. But also, they are able to get over things so much more quickly than their peers. And things don't become severe, and it's because their body is getting the tools it's. It needs to do the healing work. So I am very grateful for homeopathy, and I'm so grateful to. To support other people and families, you know, homeopathically. So. Okay. So actually, earlier, sky, you mentioned poison ivy happens. [00:33:37] Speaker A: Toxic. Toxic. Toxic Dendron. I don't know. There's another word, though. I don't know the other word. [00:33:44] Speaker C: Rust. Toxicodendron. [00:33:46] Speaker A: Rust. Toxicodendron. [00:33:47] Speaker B: Well, first of all, I have never had poison iv. I trumping. I. I go through the woods. [00:33:52] Speaker A: She swears she's not. [00:33:53] Speaker B: I pull wheat. I pull it out of my garden. And I have. [00:33:56] Speaker A: She swears she's not affected by it, but I don't believe people that say. [00:33:58] Speaker C: That, people that are more susceptible to it than others. [00:34:01] Speaker A: I am that person. [00:34:02] Speaker B: He gets it, and then when he does, it just spreads. It's awful. [00:34:04] Speaker A: When I went to my allergist and they did the prick test on my back, 31 Baskin Robin flavors or whatever it was, 30 of them was me. So that'll tell you. [00:34:13] Speaker B: That might also be why he's grumpy. [00:34:16] Speaker C: So, Kevin, then this might be a remedy that you go to the health food store and you get. So rust toxicodendron, or rust tox is a homeopathic remedy made from poison ivy or poison oak. So we can use it. It is one of the kind of family of remedies we would use when someone has poison ivy. But it's also really good for joint pain. [00:34:37] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:34:38] Speaker C: Yeah. So kind of think of that, like, arthritic joint pain. So we call this the squeaky gate remedy. Right? So think of a squeaky gate. You kind of get it. You know, it takes a while to, like, get it going. This is someone who has really stiff joints, you know, muscle and tendon injury. And they're worse for the first movement. So it takes them a minute to go get going. But then they're better. Once they've been moving for a while, they're going to have, like, a restless energy. They're going to want to move. They're often better with warm or hot applications or a hot shower. And this is when you know it's good for poison ivy as well. Kevin, if you feel like you want to get in a hot shower and your itch feels better from a hot shower, interesting. Rust tox is going to be your remedy. But also with, like, your joints or your, you know, muscle injuries, if warm, hot feels good, you're worse on that initial movement. Better once you get going. Rest tox is going to be. [00:35:36] Speaker B: I feel like you're describing half of the pickleball players on. On morning drills right there. [00:35:42] Speaker C: Maybe everyone just needs a dose of rough talk as you get on the court. [00:35:47] Speaker B: They're like, let me warm up first. That's me. I have a whole. [00:35:53] Speaker C: That's when you get to 40 plus, then you really need a good warm up and a stretch right before you. [00:35:58] Speaker B: Please, everybody, warm up and cool down. Yeah. [00:36:00] Speaker C: Okay, so this next one, sky, is the one I was thinking maybe you want to see if it helps you with that bone bruise. And this one is really ruta graviolan hold on. [00:36:09] Speaker A: Don't say anything. So ruta. [00:36:11] Speaker B: Delicious. [00:36:12] Speaker A: Ruta. Ruta. Come on, Sky. You should be able to figure out ruta. [00:36:15] Speaker B: Well, root. Yeah, okay. [00:36:19] Speaker A: Yeah. What? Graviola. [00:36:21] Speaker B: Something. [00:36:23] Speaker A: Gravio Lens. [00:36:24] Speaker B: Something grand would be my guess. [00:36:26] Speaker A: Grave. Grave. It's grave. I don't know what gravulin is. It's obviously two words, but it's not coming graviolin. [00:36:36] Speaker C: So ruta is R, U, T, A, and raviolins is G, R, A, V, E, O, L, E, N, S. Yep. [00:36:45] Speaker B: Okay, linguist. What does that mean? [00:36:47] Speaker A: All I know is that ruta is citrus or involved with citrus, but I don't know graveulins at all. I have no idea what that word is. [00:36:53] Speaker B: Bergamot. [00:36:54] Speaker C: You guys, I'm failing right now because I actually don't know what the substance is. [00:37:00] Speaker B: I'm sure out of, like, the millions of things, it's rue already. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Common roux. [00:37:04] Speaker C: We have seven remedies and homeopathy. [00:37:07] Speaker A: You don't have them all memorized. [00:37:09] Speaker B: Come on. [00:37:10] Speaker A: It is. I looked it up. It's common rue. [00:37:12] Speaker B: Common. [00:37:13] Speaker C: Oh, sure. [00:37:14] Speaker A: Does that make sense? It doesn't make sense to me, but that's what it is. [00:37:17] Speaker C: And the character from Not Catching Fire, but like, Katniss Everdeen. What? Yes. Yeah, yeah. She's rue. Okay, so ruta is one that's really good to have on hand. So this is going to be your injuries to tendons, especially when there's been overuse. This is going to be your tennis elbow remedy. Tennis elbow bicep strain. Has that ever happened to you? [00:37:46] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:48] Speaker C: So those fibrous tissue tendon areas is when root is really good. So Tom just went on a middle school trip with our daughter Ada to Chicago. You know, he's super athletic. He was running in the morning, then they're walking all day, and he called me and he said, my foot really hurts. I think it's the tendon. Well, Ada, of course, had ruta on hand, and he took it, and instantly his pain went away. So, again, those tendon areas that overuse and then. This is really good, sky, for the injury to the surface area of the bone, and it's called the periosteum. So if you're getting kicked in the shin or you have shin splints, this is the remedy you're going to reach for. Which my guess is that's happening pretty regularly in pickleball, of course. [00:38:34] Speaker B: Yeah. Lots of stopping and starting a lot of lateral movement. Yep. [00:38:39] Speaker C: Okay, so some other. If you have an injury, sprain, fracture, you know, any Bruising. There's just a couple other things I would recommend for people. So the first, most people know about an Epsom salt bath. You travel for tournaments with Epsom salts. You know, we put out a dose in a Ziploc to dump in the bath. Then another thing I'd really recommend is a red light therapy device. I really like the Lume box. It's, you know, nice and handheld. We can travel with it. [00:39:07] Speaker B: What's it called? Loom box. [00:39:09] Speaker C: A loom box, yeah. So red light therapy has been shown to help with cell repair and really bringing down that inflammation and injuries. And, you know, someone can go on the sidelines and use one, you know, in between matches or whatever. I think it's just a really handy, handy tool. And there's many other uses for it, including, you know, skin. So making your. Making your collagen production better. But I do love it for injury or kind of, you know, any muscle strain or ache. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Okay, so when you're talking about dosage, this is something that you help people with. Like, I. I mean, like that for me, I mean, like, I can read or I can study. This podcast has definitely been helpful, and I'm hoping others find this as helpful as I do. But if people are battling several things at once or if they are wanting to learn more about dosage, that's something that you can help them with. [00:40:09] Speaker C: Yeah, I think there's some really great resources out there. The national center on Homeopathy is one of them. You know, for acute issues, that's when someone can really try to prescribe on their own and then call a professional if they need to, or, you know, if there's a fracture, you know, you can certainly go get, you know, go get medical attention. But then a professional homeopath can help you through the healing process of that fracture. If there's a nagging injury, that's when we can call in a professional homeopath. But of course, I'm always available to people as a resource on dosing and what to grab for a remedy. [00:40:44] Speaker B: I love that because having watched my mom go through a knee surgery, and also with Kevin having gone through several knee surgeries, that healing process can. Can make the difference whether or not surgery was successful or not successful. And I don't think that the medical profession is talking enough about the healing professor or healing phase. They give you printouts and they ask you to do these exercises, but with my mom in particular, and hopefully she doesn't get mad. [00:41:17] Speaker A: She'll listen to this one, though. [00:41:18] Speaker B: I hope so. Is that They. I feel like they gave her too much painkiller. And so she ended up sleeping more than she needed to because she wasn't getting her exercises in. And so her lack of. [00:41:34] Speaker A: Because of her sleep, she wasn't getting exercises. [00:41:35] Speaker B: Yeah, her mobility actually got worse. So she's better now because she took a while. She's bike riding and sexually work at it. A lot more work than probably was necessary. [00:41:46] Speaker A: Meredith. So I'm gonna put you on the hook for a question that I have. And I did look at gravulence, and I knew it was two words in Latin, and I should have known the first one because it's very obvious. Grav means gravity or heavy, and olens means smell, which olfactory, but I don't understand the ENS part. Anyway, it's a heavy smelling. It's a heavy smelling ingredient. Whatever. Whatever that is. I just was curious. I had to look it up. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Well, I would. I'm guessing that a lot of these herbal or a lot of these homeopathic remedies could have some strong smells. Maybe like peppermint, maybe. Yeah. [00:42:25] Speaker A: Here's the question. [00:42:26] Speaker C: Remember that the substances are highly diluted in homeopathy. So we actually. They're all. They all look the same. All the white pellets are going to look exactly the same. [00:42:36] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:37] Speaker C: Not like an herbal supplement. [00:42:39] Speaker A: Yeah. You say that word diluted, and I know you're right. It just sounds weird to me because diluted means there's less of it rather than more of it. [00:42:48] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:42:49] Speaker A: And isn't that interesting, because you would think that the more of it, the better, you know, the healing process would be. Well, but there's something, too. [00:42:56] Speaker B: It's this whole dosing process that you need and not. And not giving. [00:43:01] Speaker A: Maybe. [00:43:03] Speaker B: Celery. [00:43:04] Speaker A: This is a. [00:43:05] Speaker B: You'd rather have a certified superstar versus having to eat the whole celery. [00:43:11] Speaker A: Okay. If celery tasted great, I'd eat a lot of it. [00:43:14] Speaker B: It does taste great. [00:43:15] Speaker A: Here's the. I told you I was gonna put you on the hook. Here's the question. Are there any homeopathic. Do you call them medicines? [00:43:24] Speaker C: Often remedies is what we typically call them, but yes, medicine. [00:43:29] Speaker A: So are there any homeopathic remedies. I wanna use your word. Remedies that can help the body. I'm not sure what the right term is, but recreate. So, for instance, I have a torn meniscus. Is there a homeopathic remedy that will help my meniscus heal itself rather than going the surgery route or. I mean, a broken Bone is probably out of the question. But hey, I don't know, some of this stuff's magical. You said it earlier. So that's kind of what I'm wondering. Can an ACL be repaired through homeopathic approaches rather than having to have a new ACL put in as an example? [00:44:08] Speaker C: Okay, so the short answer is it depends. [00:44:12] Speaker A: Yep, that's fair. [00:44:12] Speaker C: So homeopathy is always treating the person as a whole rather than you have this. I'm giving you this. Right. So we're treating the person and their constitution as a whole and we're trying to bring the body back in balance to do the healing work. There are absolutely many instances where the body has been able to repair itself and then other instances where someone needs to have surgery and they'll also be bringing in homeopathic remedies to support the body in the healing process from that surgery. So the thing is, it's completely individualized and we just stay curious and it is always putting the person in the driver's seat to make the decision of what is best for them. Right. [00:45:00] Speaker A: Yeah. Love it. I ask because peptides are really popular right now. [00:45:06] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:45:06] Speaker A: And I don't know, I doubt they fall under the homeopathic subset just based on my guess for. Because of how they're made because they seem to be not diluted but rather high dosed. But there are peptides that claim. Right. That your body will regenerates. The right word I was looking for earlier, regenerate, you know, tissue. [00:45:29] Speaker C: Well, and the homeopathy has the, you know, central belief that the body is an intelligent thing. [00:45:37] Speaker A: Sure. [00:45:38] Speaker C: And the body wants to be in balance. And actually our physical symptoms are clues and messages from the body of what needs to, to be given to it, to bring it. [00:45:47] Speaker A: Right. Right. [00:45:49] Speaker C: But you know, we live in a modern world where there's a lot of input that can be, you know, harmful to our body or cause injury. And so we have to balance that, you know, and bring in the appropriate medical care when needed. Certainly I was going to say earlier too, sky, when you were talking about your mom, what I love about homeopathy is it can always be used with other modalities, whether it's conventional medicine, whether it's herbs, whether it's supplements. [00:46:15] Speaker A: Right. [00:46:16] Speaker C: It can always be used alongside. It's not an either or situation. So if someone is getting surgery, homeopathy can help to clear anesthesia from the body, help the body's healing process, get a person moving, all of that. So it's just a really good partner in any you know, healing process. [00:46:34] Speaker B: I love that. And I love that reminder. [00:46:37] Speaker A: Yeah, me too. [00:46:39] Speaker B: One thing that you mentioned to us in an email is you had some ways for us to prepare ahead of time for a tournament using homeopathy. [00:46:52] Speaker C: Yeah, well, this is kind of a fun, some fun remedies for people to think of and maybe they'll hear kind of their common pattern in these remedies and they'll maybe want to try using them before a tournament. So a sort of fun fact about arnica, since many people have this on hand, is it's actually a really good jet lag remedy. [00:47:14] Speaker A: What? [00:47:16] Speaker C: Yeah, they just fist bumped everything. So if you're traveling overseas dosing yourself arnica throughout the flight and then when you arrive, you know that'll help your body move through the jet lag. It is one of our jet lag remedies too. So arnica, the wonder homeopathic remedy. [00:47:33] Speaker A: Well, and also just driving in a car all the way to Minnesota from here also makes me tired. So I would suggest that it should work for that too. Right? [00:47:43] Speaker C: Or just your muscle aches from sitting in the same position for a long time in the car. Kevin. Yeah. [00:47:48] Speaker A: When I come to see you in July, I have my 30 ready. My 30C. [00:47:51] Speaker C: So Kevin, this is going to test your Latin. So coffea cruda, coffee. [00:47:57] Speaker A: How's it spelled? [00:47:58] Speaker B: He always does that to me. [00:48:00] Speaker C: F, F, E, A C, R, U. [00:48:03] Speaker A: D, A caffea cruda. I mean, you know the obvious answer for caffea, which is what I really want to say, what do you think it is? Is coffee. [00:48:15] Speaker B: Yeah, I was gonna say coffee, but I felt like that was too easy. [00:48:19] Speaker A: No, but kruda. [00:48:23] Speaker B: Would that be the fruit? [00:48:25] Speaker A: Is it? [00:48:25] Speaker C: Yeah, Coffee bean does. [00:48:27] Speaker A: Crude. I mean crude. Yeah, yeah. So like a rough version of her, just pure, clean. [00:48:33] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is a homeopathic remedy made from the coffee bean. Again, remember, highly diluted potentize. It doesn't smell like coffee. But this is like our night before Christmas remedy. Okay, so like how is, how are kids the night before Christmas? Right? [00:48:51] Speaker B: They're like crazy. [00:48:52] Speaker C: Yeah, the walls. So me maybe you're a person who like can't sleep the night before a tournament. You are overexcited, over stimulated, have a lot of emotions going on. And this can include positive emotions like joy. Usually this person can't sleep around 3am they just have these like racing thoughts, you know, just like how you are when you have too much coffee. I'm raising my hand. So this is a really good remedy for that. Kind of overexcited, excited, jittery person who can't sleep before a tournament. Kevin, you feel like a cafe accrued? [00:49:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm at 3:00am I have a. Sometimes I have to get up and grab my phone and start writing down notes. But then sometimes I wake up at 5am and I go, what the heck did I write down at 3am like sometimes I have no clue what I meant, but other times I'm like, that's really good stuff right there. [00:49:43] Speaker B: True. [00:49:44] Speaker C: So this is also a good remedy for parents to have on hand the. With the Santa. You know, everyone's excited about Santa coming. So. [00:49:52] Speaker A: Okay, so another one that's still me by the way. It's always excited for Santa. [00:49:59] Speaker C: Okay, so the next one I want to talk about is gel simium. So this is our. So gel simium sempervi Viren's Kevin remedy. This is a plant remedy. So this is the quintessential stage fright remedy. Oh, so this is like anticipating a big event, you know, performance interview, big tournament. So someone who needs gelsemium is going to be like trembling, really fatigued, weak, dull mind. They might have a stomach upset or diarrhea. They're going to feel like they can't face the event. So think of that. You know, really dull. They want to be alone, quiet personality. So that's someone who needs gelsemium is really withdrawing, can't face the event. I'm trembling personality. [00:50:50] Speaker B: Interesting. [00:50:52] Speaker C: Okay, so on the other hand is a remedy, Argentum nitricum. So this is also a kind of stage fright, nervous before performance remedy. But they're going to have a different energy. They are going to be the revved up nervous energy. So like leave me alone and like gotta go to the bathroom and I want to be quiet. And all that argentum nicher comes going to be hurried, worried about being late, talking a lot. They want to be around other people. They're going over what if scenarios in their head and ruminating. So they are like super revved up. [00:51:32] Speaker A: Oh my gosh. On a daily, sometimes like 15 minutes before we're supposed to meet with you today. She's already like. I'm like, we don't start. She's like, are you gonna turn on your laptop? I'm like, I have 15 freaking minutes. [00:51:46] Speaker B: Mind you, it was three minutes before we start and your computer was still off. [00:51:50] Speaker A: Still didn't have to have it ready yet. We were still here on time. So yeah, that's her. We'll, we'll back off of our little lovely titat here. Yeah. Oh, boy. [00:51:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:01] Speaker C: And then I have one final recommendation for everyone to have on hand. And we have many bottles of this in my house. I keep it in every. Every bag. So this is kind of a homeopathic adjunct. It was developed by a homeopath. It is Bach flower essences. So these really work on the mental, emotional level, and you can dose them more frequently than a remedy. So I would recommend everyone has the Bach flower flower blend of rescue remedy. And you can find this, actually in most stores, including grocery stores. So this is a blend of five flower essences. But this is really great in times of shock, trauma, injury. And you can put it on the skin, you can put it a dropper full under your mouth. But this is actually what my daughter brings to her big fencing tournaments. And we put about four drops in a water bottle for her to sip throughout the tournament. That just is really calming on the nervous system. Brings down those jitters that panic. And again, if we're having an injury, we might be giving arnica. And then we're also giving a few drops of that rescue remedy as well. So this is a great tool for anyone to have on hand. [00:53:09] Speaker A: I love it. [00:53:09] Speaker B: And what was it called again? [00:53:11] Speaker C: Rescue remedy, which is not the Latin. [00:53:15] Speaker A: That would be rescuus remedius. I have one last question for you, and then we're gonna. This is gonna be one of our longest podcasts ever, which is great. We're, like, in an hour. But this has been great. So, like, why wouldn't we. This is out in left field. But would any of these not pass a drug test? [00:53:34] Speaker C: No, because the substance is so diluted. You will absolutely. You. Yes, you will pass a drug test. [00:53:42] Speaker A: Okay. I mean, you never know for future. That could happen for pro events. And we're working towards getting this into the Olympics, so. Yeah, I could see that eventually happening. [00:53:54] Speaker C: Well, and so homeopathic remedies don't work on a biochemical level like a drug or a pharmaceutical. They're working on a different level. [00:54:01] Speaker A: Well, I get that they're not necessarily a ped, but in some ways, my performance might be enhanced by calming me down. [00:54:08] Speaker B: Oh, performance enhancing. Got it. [00:54:11] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay. [00:54:12] Speaker B: That's a good question. [00:54:13] Speaker A: You have been awesome. So I'm gonna just comment. Meredith Sami Badelik. They have a crazy weird last name to spell, so they go by S.B. thomas B. And Meredith S.B. so her website is meredithsb, like superbowl.com. and then she's actually created for us. Right. A cheat sheet for pickleball or really sports Injuries and. Or not just injuries. Right. But the whole nine yards. Right. Sports wellness. Let's call it Sports Wellness. [00:54:45] Speaker B: I like that. Sports Wellness. [00:54:47] Speaker A: Has anyone coined that yet? [00:54:48] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure. [00:54:49] Speaker A: New business idea. [00:54:50] Speaker C: TM. [00:54:52] Speaker A: Yeah, we just did. Anyway, so it's meredithsb.com sweetloves. [00:54:58] Speaker B: Love it. Thank you. What a gift. [00:55:01] Speaker A: And you will send us maybe a link to. Can they just order from your sb.com. [00:55:08] Speaker C: So I do not have homeopathic remedy kits on my website for people to order. So I recommend, and I put in this cheat sheet, two brands I recommend that are widely available on, you know, health food stores and online retailers for people to get. [00:55:22] Speaker A: But that's because as a practitioner, you want to assign what you believe they should have, not just hope that they win the lottery and guess the right Latin name. Right. I mean that. Right. I mean, that's why you don't just sell it, people. [00:55:35] Speaker C: I want people to feel empowered to home prescribe. And I certainly do provide, you know, kits for injuries and things. I just don't have something available right now. But, yes, for more chronic issues, you know, that is when you want to work with a professional. But I love empowering people to use homeopathy and try remedies, you know, at home or at tournaments. [00:55:55] Speaker A: You know, super cool. [00:55:57] Speaker C: It's a medicine for the people, Kevin. [00:55:59] Speaker A: It is a. Well, that's because we treat the person as a whole. [00:56:01] Speaker B: I love it. [00:56:03] Speaker A: Meredith, thank you. Thank you so much for being not just ahead of the game, but. Well, I think if you think about it, because you said. When did this. Night before 1900. Oh, yeah. When did that. You mentioned the guy's name. 1700s. [00:56:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:56:19] Speaker A: Was when that dude introduced homeopathy to the world. So she's not. She's not really ahead of the game. [00:56:25] Speaker B: There, but she's bringing. [00:56:26] Speaker A: But she's well. And if you think about COVID and how everyone's sort of a lot of attitudes have shifted towards traditional versus, you know, whatever medicine and. Yeah, Meredith, we love you. Good to see you, buddy. [00:56:38] Speaker C: I love you both. Good to see you. [00:56:40] Speaker B: You too. Thank you so much. [00:56:41] Speaker A: Meredith. Means one extra listen for this podcast when it comes. [00:56:48] Speaker C: Whoa. That's what I'm ahead now. I'm ahead of the game. I'm ahead of the game.