The Hope Hotline - Special Guest: Natalie | Tylenol & Pregnant?!

Episode Date: September 26, 2025

The Hope Hotline | S03-E66 | 09-26-2025

Real talk Real talk. Real talk. Real talk. Hello and welcome to the Hope Hotline. It is somebody's birthday in this joint today. Well, there we go. Let's start the countdown all over again.

Us. Yay. Birthday. Okay. Tracy, somehow. Yes. Is it with the help of Aaron? Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay. My buddy. She made us bigger. I know. Look at this. Which has been in need for a while. I know. It looks better.

Looks way better. Now half of us aren't cut off. I know. And we're trying to go like this. I know. And usually we have a guest. Like, it's usually a lot of conversation. But with Natalie's here, we got all of us.

I know. All the time. All of us. All the time. Yes. My hair looks. Look like weird. Doesn't it look weird?

What looks like? Like it's so poofy. Oh. You don't know. You don't know poof. Natalie goes, you don't know poof. This is poof. Also.

Word. Also, nobody else has seen this, by the way. Oh, that's right. Everybody's getting a view of the new do. The new do, guys. And that's not because she pulled extensions out. That's because she cut her real hair. Yeah, it had been a while.

Then five years. Not yet. I was like, Kylie, my daughter, I was like, it's time. Because otherwise, I was like in a poll of Vanessa and just. Just do it. It looks so good. yeah it was needed i was ready you know like once you get it's like once you get the ick with like an ex-boyfriend you're like that was my hair it was like getting to the point it was getting

too thin on the ends so yes you were done you know until you get your jeep back there's no sun-in where's your daughter will kill you with the sun-in if you put any son in here she gets mad at me but i still do oh my gosh what happened to your jeep um nothing but my daughter's car needs to get fixed and she can't she's too young to drive the loners so I had to give her. Her car. This balloon is a mind of it's on. Yes, it does.

Okay, so we'll hit this. We're going to blow this candle out. Okay. And get the party started afterwards. No, at the end. We'll make her blow off the candle at the end. I love it. Let's do it.

But in the meantime, it is her birthday. It was on Tuesday. The birthday was Tuesday. Woo! Woo! Yes, it was. So, happy birthday, Natalie. Thank you.

God bless it. We got to celebrate your birthday last night A group of us, not Talia, Talia's not invited. Oh my gosh. Surprise me. As usual. The girl goes with us everywhere pretty much, please.

Literally. You had other business to attend to. Always. She's so busy. Well, she's always busy. Whatever. Were you available yesterday? No, she wasn't available.

You got home, what time? Or you got to my house. it's pretty much home now no because then you went out and you didn't get in till we were leaving no I didn't leave oh yeah you had something to do that's my point you already had something yeah

oh my gosh tell yeah we left we weren't here okay whatever okay so the balloons in my face So last night we had to celebrate you, which is fun. Yes, thank you.

Yeah. I had fun. Well, it wasn't me. That was Heather. That was Heather's. I thought I was just having dinner with Heather. I know. Surprise.

She's slicky. She's a slickery girl. Surprising girl. Yep. All right. Let's do this, baby girl. Move that sucker right on other pumpkin. Oh, she took it all the way.

God bless how. Perfect. perfect but it's coming back people yeah yeah we'll bring it back because she's going to blow out those candles your i thought your grandbaby would like that balloon oh she'll love it there you go did did you did you celebrate this weekend with your family correct on sunday i'll be there when i get home from church all right here's the thing not that this is medical or anything but tell them about that what you guys are going to have that Mississippi. Mississippi pot roast. How many of you, have you heard of Mississippi pot roast?

I've made it. Wait, tell us about it. Maybe I have. You've heard of Mississippi pot roast? I've made it. Yeah, you either use a crack pot. You're from Bama. That's the reason.

I did live in Alabama for like 18 from everywhere. Okay. I'm like, how in the world do you know about that? And it's so easy. Is that what you learned it from? It sounds delightful. Okay, listen to this. What is in this sucker?

So I take a chuck roast. You brown it, get it nice and crispy, brown, and then you put it in, I put it in an instapot, and then I take a packet of azou, a packet of ranch. Ranch. Yeah, ranch dressing and mix the packet. And then a stick of butter, and then you'd get pepperchinis. Yeah. And you take about, depending on how spicy you want it, we usually do half a jar, and then some of the juice as well.

I have never heard of this before. You close it up. You cook, my Instapot, I cook it for like an hour and a half. Then I let it natural pressure release and it just melt in your mouth. Yeah. I do a slow cooker, so I like cook it all day. And instead of the Aju, we do the onion mix. Ooh, I never tried the onion mix.

I have never heard ranch in any kind of roast. I'll have to try that. I was like, oh my gosh, that sounds amazing. It is so good. Oh, I devour that thing. Does it make it extra creamy? What does it? Why does it?

The ranch sounds amazing. The flavor of it just is amazing. I mean, there's never anything left, especially if my daughter's. And then you make mashed potatoes. Homemade mashed potatoes. You make gravy with the juice that comes out of it. That's what she's doing. Oh, yeah.

Do it. Sounds delicious. Sounds amazing. Amazing. Like, oh my gosh. I'm going to have to do that. I have no pressure cooker, but I got a slow cooker girl. Yeah, still cooker.

It works the same. Yes. I have a roast in my freezer right now. Do it. I am. It's so easy. Yeah, it's a packet of ranch. Can you believe that?

I don't use Hidden Valley anymore. I use Kinders. Have you guys tried Kinders yet? No. Kinder's Ranch packet is so much better than Hidden Valley. I love Kinders. So they have their own ranch packet now. Oh, that's new.

So use their ranch packet instead of Hidden Valley. valley and it is like level up okay i that's how you get it at Costco uh i haven't the daily place i can find it right now is publics all right i got to go to publics anyway yeah send me a text tau send me a text i'm making that i'm telling you i'm making that i might make that tomorrow we'll be having leftovers for a while yeah not in my household i'm telling you what well i think it no Tommy doesn't like ranch so literally you can't taste ranch okay if he's Don't tell him. If he finds out, he'll vomit.

Like. I think it's good for him. I think he's try it. I feel like ranch powder and ranch the dressing. Right. It's there are two totally different things than like the ranch dressing itself. Right. It just elevates.

I think whatever's in the seasoning packet elevates the meat. Okay. So we'd have to taste it first to make sure he can't taste the ranch. I think he should just not tell him. But that would be great. That'd be great content. He literally hates it with a passion. Is it like?

like because of the milk the white the white milky mayo ish oh yeah I thought it was because he threw up but I wasn't 100% sure so I didn't want to say it was that oh yeah that changes everything I have a life serial since I threw that up see I know I don't get you gosh not me I throw it up I'm still trying for it again oh my gosh well depends that's why I've gained weight again nothing's off limits, nothing. I have problems. Oh, my gosh. I have issues.

Nothing keeps me from a good meal. When I was pregnant and I would sit down, I'd have to throw up, but I'd come back and eat. Oh, you know what? There is something. My mother fixed hamburger helper when we were all little, and every single one of us vomited, every single one of us, except for my mom and my dad. But we begged her, please don't make us eat it.

And she did. and we all threw up. Everything, all four kids. That's crazy. We all threw up. We never had to eat hamburger helper again. Oh my gosh. I have never eaten hamburger helper.

Again, the smell of it makes me sick. I've only done it once. My mom used to love making that. It's easy to make. The first time was I was a married woman because casserole was another thing that I didn't know existed until I was married. Right, because he didn't have white friends. No, I didn't eat at white. You ain't white.

You don't know about that. Hamburger helper, are you kidding me? What's that? That was in the suburbs. 100%. You're not getting that down at the local in Queens, Brooklyn, whatever. Yeah. In Mexico.

We're not eating that in the barrio, okay? True. Beneath you. That's the reason why. Not us, Whitey's. It's not beneath us. Heck no. No, it's not.

Whitey's all day long. All day long. All day long. A hamburger helper. Not this whiteies. Yeah, you're done. I'm not doing it. You're done.

Have you ever made your own type of like hamburger helper? It's kind of like, but you don't use the packet and you can make your own. Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure I have with pasta and meat and stuff like that. Oh, yeah. But I call that spaghetti. There you go. I call that goulash.

Oh, I love goulash. I ain't doing no gravy packet or, eh. There we go. Okay. Oh, my God. Gosh, that's funny. All right. Now, do you want to do the thing or do we just want to hop into it?

I want to hop in. And I have the picture that I sent you if we want to like reference it. Let's do it, girl. All right. Let's do it. So Natalie, you know there was some new news. This is from a few days ago. So, but I saw this and Trump drops a bomb shell.

So effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of acidaminathan. You said it correctly. Okay. which is commonly known as Tylenol during pregnancy can be associated with a very increased risk of autism. So that was the news. And we want to know your opinion on this. Well, here's the thing about Tylenol. Tylenol, we all have an antioxidant that our body makes.

It's called glutathione. And what it does is it helps detoxify things that we come in contact with, whether it's metals, toxins that's in the air. any kind of things that our body is subjected to God created glutathione in us. And when we have a good dose of glutathione, it helps to detoxify that stuff and get it out of your system. So Tylenol is known to drop your glutathione levels to a level that's like really bad. Like risky? Very risky to the point where your body ends up not being able to detoxify from metals,

toxins whether it's airborne food whatever it is and that leaves open the ability of those toxins to cross the blood brain barrier get into the brain because it's inflammation oh wow so oh the brain i didn't okay like i've heard you talk about this before even last night we were talking about it but i didn't i miss the part about the brain barrier yeah there's a blood brain barrier yeah i know but i didn't know that it did that well if you get enough in your system Eventually, it's going to pass the blood-brain barrier, and that's where the inflammation is, like, skyrocketed. So, like, when you're sick and you have a fever, you automatically have inflammation because your body's trying to fight off something. So the glutathion is supposed to come in and help fight off the toxins that are in there.

And when the glutathion is, you know, null and void or you don't have enough, and some people just don't produce enough, whether it's what we've talked about in the past, which is M-T-H-F-R. is a gene that can be mutated, and when that gene is mutated, I mean, you're born like that. So if it's mutated, you don't know, and doctors just don't automatically test you to see if you have MTHFR. So now you're going to say, okay, Tylenol, on top of the other things that you are doing while you're pregnant can increase the inflammation that goes on in the body. So a lot of things that you can see that's going on out there, there's, in the scientific world, there's correlation. Yeah. And causation. Yeah. As hard as hard as that before. Is it necessarily a cause of autism? I think the bigger picture is the buildup of all the different things that

are happening and then you add the Tylenol on top, especially on somebody who already has a problem with glutathion in general, the natural antioxidant for our body. Yeah. It just keeps that inflammation going to the point where you can end up. Yeah, but like, I get that, but for me, like, I'll be honest with you. I ain't buying what they're selling. I'm not, I mean, I do I think that that's true about Tylenol to a, I don't believe that's really what's causing the autism. Am I a medical professional like you?

No, absolutely not. I mean, do I, but I am a conspiracy theorist now. Do I think it's the, what causes it? No, I think it's the combination. I think it's the combination of the different things that goes on with the kids. Like a vaccine maybe? And then you give your child Tylenol for the vaccine. Yeah.

See, that's what I'm thinking. I'll be honest with you. When I saw that and I saw RFK behind there, I'm like, I hope you're saying, I'm like, literally, I hope you're saying that it's with the vaccinations and the Tylenol combined, because that's what I think it is. It's the combination. It's a perfect storm, right? You know who Jennifer McCarthy is.

Yeah, and I love her because of her stand on vaccinations. 15 years ago, she talked about this. I know. I watched her on Larry King. And she talked about glute thigh on. She talked about it. And then, like, there are people. Not everybody's the same.

Again, I've been saying this since I came on, what works for you doesn't work for me. What may work for me right now work for you. So unless every doctor at the beginning part of somebody being pregnant is going to do, like, a gene study to see if you have mtHFR or if that gene even runs in the family how are you going to know if your kid has it so that's that's the that's the thing that you have to kind of sit there in way and say okay um i don't know that so let me just keep taking Tylenol which most of us usually when i was pregnant i didn't take it wait i didn't take anything i didn't take anything i just overcame like like not and i wouldn't say like i heard tom say on the podcast like you don't take

anything. I didn't take anything because he was like, you can't take anything. Like some spouses are like, they dictate what their spouse that's pregnant can eat and drink and I'm like, no, that wasn't me. I'm like, dude, I'll be, I'll be a submissive wife, but I'm going to be like, then you don't do it either. Because it's like, yeah, I'm the one carrying the baby, but like, that's a hard task. I think, like, I did drink caffeine, but I, in moderation. I didn't drink a lot of caffeine. I moderated everything and I think there's balance to everything but then there are some people are so extreme but going back to Jenny McCarthy by that time I wasn't giving my kids um vaccines and people were like thinking I was crazy to a certain extent and nobody like my doctor's

like not that he said don't come back here or whatever but he was more or less like you know what I actually take that back they didn't want to do vaccines they actually asked me to go to the health department because they didn't want to do the vaccines if i remember correctly it was it was something else but yeah they were like we don't want to do them so if you want them you can go to the health department which i did give my kids um i did take them to the health department one time and it was when they were really small but the rest of the time i never did after you know you're required to get them at kindergarten stuff like i was like yep not doing that second grade not i'm like people think you're crazy what was the reason help like why did you

stop doing that um i can't remember exactly why at that time but it was either just before or shortly or thereafter i had taken my kids to a chiropractor and that chiropractor opened my eyes to what was in vaccinations even either more so than what i already was nervous about before and i would say nervous but meaning like i was suspicious like why why are we having but my kids didn't get hardly any vaccines like when because they're 24 and 26 so they got shots but they were probably like your kids not very many not very many not very many at all and then they hit like kindergarten and it increased they were supposed to get like six or some crazy number and I'm like what yeah wait and then they want to do the chicken pox one and they wanted and I'm like this is nuts like why are we doing all of this

so you can kind of like your radar goes up and goes this doesn't sound right but it does but it doesn't it makes sense because everybody gets vaccines right right right so you're like fighting and with turmoil but then that that that that chiropractor he's like you need to look at what's inside of them before you ever give you a kid and I did and then they even had a chart of what was inside of him eventually he got like these cards that told you what was in you're like heck well because you don't put that metal and everything I'm like yeah no Yeah, they don't show you what the packet insert shows. You get your vaccine information sheet, which is written out by the CDC of what you're

supposed to know about the vaccine, and that's it. They don't give you what exactly it's made out of, which is the package insert in the box when you get your vaccines. They come in a box, you get multi-dose of them. Really? Yeah, you know how like when you get a prescription, the pharmacist will write everything like at the front of the thing? Yes.

There's a package insert in everything that they have. It has to be included. The FDA says it has to be included, so you know exactly what is being given. Plus, it tells you what can happen, what you could do if this happens, it gives you step-by-step different things. But it also tells you every single thing that's in there. And it even has your trials that they've done, which they've never really done a double-blind trial on any of them.

Yeah, I was going to say there was nothing. But he even said when he was said it causes autism, He believed it was part of ADHD, even though he had taken care. Like he had kids that came in with ADHD and he did chiropractic on him. And it was like, soft. Like he had one thing after another that proved, but he was a Christian. So what he said is he believed in the power of prayer through adjustment as well and that he believed that both of them could do things together.

But he may have told me where to go. to look up what was inside of them. But then he also ended up putting stuff on like cards and you could literally see. And then he had like ages, like your child's supposed to, which by my time, my kids were older, like the amount that they got when they were born versus what they were giving them then was unbelievable.

Just like we're talking five, six years difference. How it was huge difference in the amount that they were giving them up. birth. So I know that the media is sitting there saying he said the Tylenol causes autism. If you read what it says, it says it's an increased risk for autism because it's in combination with the other things that it's going on. I mean, and you got to remember it's maybe not just vaccines either. I mean, the things that we're coming in contact with on a daily basis is more than what our body. Well, I mean, you got your phones. Oh, yeah. That's true. Good point.

You've got your Wi-Fi through your house, you've got whatever's being sprayed in the skies, your whatever toxins are on our foods. I mean, those are all the things that in combination have changed over the last couple of decades that probably have led to the perfect storm of increasing the amount of kids that we have with autism. It's horrific. The ratio is crazy. I think it's like one in every. It's almost one in three.

It's getting to the point where it's like one in three. three but now i thought it's one and five but one and three is terrible it's getting closer and close there's more and more because there there there's not just like the extreme autism that we all think of there's a spectrum of it right there's like um you're mild your extreme there's some people that you know um we know functioning there's non functioning yes some that just don't even they're non-verbal right right yeah and some is like uh social like social awkwardness right yeah but i have a feeling that a lot of that is the home school. Are you about to say

homeschool? No. No, I was going to say like phones and stuff like that or being not like gamers. Like my 23 year old son's a gamer. He gets social anxiety just to go outside anymore because he'd rather be at home playing on his game and talking to his friends online than being holy crap. Because that's the norm.

That's the norm. That's his norm. Yeah. So he's not autistic. He's just a gamer. No, he's not autistic. He's just a gamer. But he did tell me he goes, Mom, I tested. I'm like, I'm on the autism some spectrum and I'm like when did you test I didn't test you I wouldn't believe anything I don't believe that's pretty wild I would it's probably on social media exactly on TikTok there's if he's afraid to go out in public his um

parties find out if I'm autistic oh yeah and they like and they what yeah and they do like a gender you know gender reveal yeah they do like an autism reveal are you kidding me are you kidding no no for real i've seen them oh my lands and it's not a joke either like they really are like they go get tested and their test results come back and they like reveal it to the to the room their friends to their friends and their friends are like yeah we know you ain't telling us something we didn't know i don't know about that one that's pretty wild that's funny that's terrible that is that is that is just like i don't even know i don't even know say you know yeah like world we live in oh my gosh don't even tell Tom Tom hates gender reveals

and then on top of that to do one for autism tell you please tell him oh please tell him I want to I want to hear what he has to say you should tell you yeah did you tell him about that I don't even no not yet I got him too late I don't I don't even want to be present for that that is so funny exactly that's discrimination oh my gosh that is oh my gosh okay wait so I have a question so Natalie what like okay this information just came out and before they were saying you know you should be taking Tylenol if you're pregnant like that's safe so for all these women that just learned that are pregnant right now that are taking Tylenol like just took it and then this thing drops what do you say to them don't take anymore I mean it's going to be the buildup of it it's not

going to be oh I did it one time it's not going to hurt you and usually in your first trimester, they tell you not to take anything anyway, like nothing at all. Usually it's not until like the second trimesters when they finally say, okay, yeah, you can take Tylenol, but your first trimester, they say, they tell you nothing. Yeah. Suck it up, buttercup. And half the time, if you kind of think about it, people don't know they're pregnant most of the time until like they're eight weeks, six, eight weeks.

So what you did for those first six weeks, I mean, it makes you feel guilty too, right? I used to watch a show and the title of the show. was I didn't know I was pregnant. Yes. There are women who go nine months and they don't even know they're pregnant. I don't know how that can happen. I do. They're big as a house.

Oh, my gosh. Sorry, but. But don't you feel like, I mean, I don't know about you guys. They're over there laughing so hard. Tracy, turn around, Tracy. Oh. But don't you like, we've all been pregnant. Don't you feel the baby?

It's true. Hey, listen. How do you not know they're pregnant? How do you not know as if you've already got some fluffing stuff in the way? Yeah, but don't, your baby moved. You saw your baby move, right? Yeah, but that's gas. And a lot of them think it's gas.

I've heard them. I watch that show and none of them are skinny. Not one of them was skinny. Yeah, it depends like, you know this, if your placenta is like, or, yeah, if your pelvis is like tilted or not tilted or something. like nobody's skinny's pelvic was tilted that didn't know they were pregnant okay none of you heard that that tell you said that there's no way you don't know people on TikTok like you're laying there when you're pregnant and you wait nine months you're you'll notice whenever you get married and have a baby you can actually see your stomach move from the baby

that's not gas you've missed your cycle you've missed your cycle for nine months almost 10 months oh i know there's some people they can get it there's a holistic ovarian disease where they don't have their periods i know adding up and then you just you think you're constipated one night and you try going and the baby pops out babies here that's some really bad stomach ache that's i'm just saying i still i listen i've been in medicine for 30 some years i still cannot get that through my mind how you don't know you're pregnant i know it happens it happens guys I saw the show. Is this the only country?

The whole series. Have you ever seen it in another country that people say they don't they didn't know their country? It was just the only country. I think it's only America. I think it's America. They're probably tisms. And a very large bumpabana.

Bumpabana. Saying. Oh my gosh. Just saying. Find it hard to believe. Listen, I've never seen one with a girl was skinny. All right. I mean, did you, Vanessa, was there ever one that she was then?

I need to go back. Not one. No, I think a lot of them were kind of fluffier. That's very sweet. Yeah, you're way nicer than me. Very, way nicer. But it's true. I mean, listen.

I mean, truth's truth, right? I had to lose 25 pounds. You got to own it. I lost almost 80. Got it own it. You got to own it, man. You got to own it, guys. I mean, I wasn't so big that I wouldn't have known when I was pregnant, but I was climbing.

I was borderline. That's climbing. No. No. Vanessa, I mean, I've known you at your biggest. Yeah, I'm borderline. And I'm sorry, but we would have all known if you were pregnant. I think so as well.

I mean, you've lost a lot of weight, but not enough that I wouldn't have known you're pregnant. These people were bigans. Yeah. It's true. Yeah, no, you're right. Yeah. So, on a more happier note, or kinder note, or whatever, let's go to the next question. Okay.

I've been hearing that nicotine patches might have benefits for focus in brain health. I even tried cutting up a patch, but within 15 minutes I got a headache and had to take it off. Is that just my body adjusting, or is that a sign I should avoid it altogether? Avoid it all together. Why is that? Is it true that it creates... It constricts blood vessels, right? So nicotine can constrict blood vessels.

So it's probably best if you're getting a headache, then I would suggest your body's telling you that it's not made for you. Again. Okay, but does some people, does it give them, like, clarity, focus, you think? Or is that just a whole bunch of gobbly gook? I know they were saying nicotine helps with, like, detoxifying for certain things. And there's a doctor artist. Is it Dr. Artis, who talks and really, like, pushes for nicotine and saying even kids should have nicotine patches?

I don't know. I'm on the fence with that one. So that's not something that I would say, yeah, that's something you should be doing every single day. Focus in brain health. No. I don't know. I mean, if there was COVID running rampant, you might want to slap one of those suckers on there just because people who smoke didn't get COVID. Because the nicotine, correct?

Yeah. But the COVID that is running rampant? The COVID. The COVID is still going around. It's only a cold. It really is. It's a little cold. And like the church had for like two weeks.

It's been running rampant. But for two weeks, people were sick with that. People did get tested and they did show it where they had COVID. Why are you doing that? It's not like it was when it first came out. It's actually because it's mutated so much. It really is just a cold. The strand is so weak.

Now, are there some people that can get pneumonia from it? Just like the flu. Yeah. Yes. Yes. And colds. People forget because people are like, I can't taste and I can't smell. And I'm like, before COVID, that was, thank you.

I'm like, I've had colds where I couldn't taste or smell. I mean, like, if you get stuffed up, you can't smell, you can't taste. They're kind of connected. So I'm like, that's not really like a co. I mean, yes, people have that with COVID. Yeah. But I know people who had COVID, and they could still taste and smell. So it doesn't really.

So Natalie, because like Hope was saying, when the smokers during the first time COVID, so what's the difference? Why would the nicotine patch not help for this round of COVID, but it helped for that, like, original round? Again, like I said, I'm like so on the fence when it comes to nicotine because I, some of the stuff that they say it does, I used to smoke. Right. Not a fan.

Not a fan of it. Yeah. Would I go back to putting like a nicotine patch on me? Did I have a little bit more energy? Yeah. I mean, that's what kept me awake at night because I worked the night shifts, coffee, caffeine, and nicotine. Yeah. But would I sit there and tell my patient, hey, why don't you just stick on a nicotine patch?

I'm not, again, I'm on the fence on that one. That's not a bandwagon that I've jumped on yet. Okay. Oh, that makes sense. And so nicotine gives people energy? I didn't know that. really what is it about it increases your blood pressure increases your heart rate so yes it can give you energy holy moly that's probably why people get addicted to it too like an energy drink right and it

is addictive right like even the patches just nicotine yeah can become very interesting yeah addictive yeah did you know that that it gives you energy i did not did you you didn't know either that's wild that's interesting let's go to number three please i just got the new aura ring. What the heck is an aura ring? What is that? It's a ring that tracks everything about your heart rate, how you sleep, how you're eating. I mean like everything. Too much information. Oh my gosh. That's what it says right. That's what the finishing. I did not know that. And it tracks everything about my health. Holy crap. I'm not a hypochondriac, but sometimes having that much information feels overwhelming. Even though I love the reassurance when it shows I'm

doing well. Do you have any advice on how to use these devices without stressing over the data? Like what, like, it tells you if you have high blood pressure, correct? It can tell you everything. Like if you're sleeping, if you're in a deep sleep, if you're like, your Apple Watch? Like beyond your, more, more than your Apple Watch. Like, that's one of the reasons I don't wear an Apple Watch because it tells me to get up. And I'm like, don't you, don't you do that. It does. You know, you could just do this. Time to stand up. And it changes.

Yeah. She's like, don't do it. Okay. You can turn it off. No, that's not turning it off. You just like, psych it. Like saying I got up. No, she's saying you can turn that off.

You can absolutely turn it off. But you can shake it. Here's the thing. I'm older. So you remember the saying ignorance is bliss? Yes. Yeah. So I think when you know too much, that's when that anxiety and that cycle of this can happen, this can happen, this can happen.

Yeah. Right. And it's not good to put yourself into that stressful of a position because then you're just going to walk around like a stress ball. Right. Especially, yeah, if you're a hypochondriac, probably don't need this information. No, but if she even said, whoever this was not a hypochondriac. But it's going to make you one because then you're going to sit there and think, well, do I have this now? My blood pressure changed by 10 degrees. Get over there so people can hear.

you because nobody can hear what you're saying like with the aura ring besides blood pressure its description is it tells you if you have a cold for girls specifically it's for guys too but it tells you your mental so like when you're like ovulating like all of that and then it tells you um like your sleep yeah yeah like if you get into your REM sleep if you're if you're not yeah what is it your oh man where my phone goes it has your daily steps your number of calories you burn in heart health, so it measures resting heart rate. Yeah, but that's what the Apple Watch does besides your cycle. Body temperature.

It tells your body temperature as well. So that obviously will help you with a menstrual cycle. It can actually assess your daytime stress and resilience to help you understand and manage your body's response to daily pressures. But to me, that would be like more pressure. Correct. To try to make that ring. I think so.

I don't know. To me, it's a catch-22. Right. I think from if it was mine, It would ask me, do you have a pulse? Because literally. Are you okay? Are you alive?

Because I... What is that? Seek medical attention. Very, I mean, I do get excited as far as I get happy, but very rarely, not very rarely. But I do get irritated, but I usually get irritated. I mean, I get over it pretty dang quick. So, like, does it show if you get really mad? and how I'm sure it does

probably because you're your heart rate heart rate and your stress if it's showing stress it's going to be able to show that I don't stress very much but if you get mad but that mad is mad is different than stress for me I do get mad but your body might receive it right

doesn't your body think like even though you don't feel stress your body is stress because you're angry you know like it doesn't know if you're being chased by a bear or what's the other one fight or flight that's true so it might make me think that I'm stressed even though I'm not stressed well yeah you're not your mind's

not perceiving stress but your body is yeah and do you know what cortisol face looks like you don't want it what does that what does that mean very fluffy cortisol is your stress hormone and when it increases it makes your face like round like really yeah puffy round

have you ever had that I don't know how do we know if somebody's how do we know if somebody's got it how do we know if somebody has that Natalie how do we know somebody has that if your cortisol level I mean if you're not sleeping at night that you probably in waking up every like in the middle of the night every day looks puffy you look puffy you just like like swollen I mean you can check your cortisol levels there's blood work to do that yeah I don't care I just want to know if somebody's got a fat face or they got a cortisol face right

you wouldn't know unless you did some blood work on them or you can even sit down and probably just take a health history and figure out if their cortisol is like all screwed up. That's wild. Isn't that crazy? It is. It is. It can go to your face. It's going to go to everywhere.

I mean, usually when you have high cortisol, you end up being more on the fluffy side. Really? Yeah. Holy moly. Stress hormone. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. That's nuts.

That's crazy. Yeah. I know. So, no ring or a ring. I don't need the ring. I mean. If you're, if you don't, I mean, that's going to be, again, that's going to be a you thing. I would try it.

And if you seem to be too fixated on it, then I would get rid of it. Because that's not something to be. You would automatically get fixated on the right. Some people just wear it because, hey, it's the in thing. Oh, trend. Maybe, maybe kind of just look at it every now and then. Are they going to change anything? Probably not.

Would you guys get it? Would you get it? I would not. No, Jare has one. Does he really? Does he wear it? It says, yes. He said it.

tells you who stresses you out as well. I don't know. I think he's joking. And so every time he comes to my presence, his thing goes right up. So what he loves about it is that he can see how deep his sleep is. And Jair is not a hypochondriac, so it doesn't affect him in the side. But he does know, like when he didn't sleep a lot last night, like he didn't, because he had a dream that I was stressing him out. And so he's up all the time. And then he said that he still got deep sleep during the time, even though he didn't get a ton of sleep. Which is interesting. interesting but yeah I wouldn't care but you know it's interesting he was like feeling well like last week I think he had what you guys were talking about and his body like he was getting like

hot and cold and it never said on his thing like his temperature was um off really notice he's like it's like it never told me but he was like hot and then cold and so that was interesting that it didn't would you get one no I wouldn't either no I have an apple watch and that's enough when it tells me to stand like you I just do this say okay I stood so annoying I know I know I like it for like going for walks and like seeing my page and stuff. Me too. I like to do that to see my steps and see like, oh, hey, you're outside. It looks like you're outside.

You want me to record this. Yeah, let's record that because it makes me feel like I, you're accomplishing something. I achieve something today. Right, right. I know. Let's see. Heather, the other one that's the most stressless person I've ever met in my life. Oh, she's telling me about the roosters.

She's obviously not watching the podcast. She's not. She's not. Maybe she's listening. Okay, so she's, well, the thing is, I've got to make a decision about her rooster. Okay, what are we doing? I'm telling you just get the rooster. I'm scared.

I told you last night just to get the rooster. I know, I'm scared. Your chickens will be fine. When those white ones die, I'm going to be, like, devastated. Then I might need that ring. Wait, why? Oh my gosh. I might be.

I'm telling you, if I get that rooster, it might stress me out. Oh, let's see. I love my, I love my chickens. I know, but I don't think. She and I think we'll be just fine. She and I think we might have a plan. so that I can get it. I have this, they're not, it's not a big pen.

It's not like you. Like yours all know each other. No, they all don't. Oh my gosh. Well, you don't care about yours like I do mine. There you go. There's some might care about more than the others. The ones that are sweet and jump on you and like, they want to just like be with you,

those are the ones that are like, oh. And then the other ones are like, oh, you guys are just irritated. Listen, my white chickens come running to me. I have buff orpingtons and they're like the sweetest, chickens ever and as soon as they see me they come running and they like if I'm I have to stand in there with them because they get picked on by every other one I have to stand in there with them so they can eat and they just they're they just like snuggle up and they're the cutest ones ever yeah my white ones they they let me pick them up they let me

pet them they literally will stand there well I just pet them and I'm like they're my yeah I just and so what's the rooster gonna do like stress them out or like what's He might want to mate with them and they're old and I think it would be too much because chickens can die over the like stress a thunderstorm can kill them. They can have a heart attack like that

over the most stupidest things. Chickens. They can. It's like and you don't know what it will be. You don't even know what could like I think one of them passed away from heat. Heat exhaustion. Heat exhaustion and it had been

and it likes to sit in the sun but I woke out, I walk I go into the flip and coop the next morning and it had passed away. I had three whites, now I'm down to two whites and so it was like, what are you doing to me? Right, that's really sad. There's no reason.

There's no reason. I was sad. I was sad. That's disappointing. And I don't get sad over much, but... But they're new roosters, right? They're babies. Yeah, but listen, who knows how long it'll take before that thing's like I want you. Oh, it's not going

take long trust me I know I don't know I didn't even know they start right away oh gosh so you have a plan Heather and I might have a plan okay I'm not sure it's gonna work but we might have a plan so we're talking about him okay so who knows but this is um jerry just sent this to me so this is the daytime stress of what he gets stress engaged relax and restored so that's from this morning until now yeah so that's like one of the little measures that it gives you so He has been relaxed and restored most of the day. Good job, Jare. Yeah, good job, Jay.

Way to go, dude. I mean, that to be stressed out. That's great. Come and stand in my presence. Let's see what that way goes. Yeah, let's test the theory. I guess that's how you know who stressed you out, who you were around during that time frame. That's right.

Very interesting. Man, I definitely wouldn't get one for my husband. He would know. He works out of the house. I feel bad for him because, I mean, he works out of the house and he has to deal with just tack all day. tech all day and when someone doesn't do their job it's hard for him to do his job and then oh it's just yeah i listen anybody who's tech and they have to walk me through anything i feel bad for them i always say at the very beginning of it listen you need to understand

i'm an idiot idiot you just so tech well logically illiterate no there's a difference yeah i'm an idiot That's good. That's good. I like that. Like, whatever you tell me, you're going to have to put this in the most simplest dummy-proof terms. Otherwise, it's going to be a long call. Oh, my gosh. And you're going to want to kill me. Thank God we have miles apart between us. Like, yeah, I'm telling you.

By the time it's done, I'm like, I do not know how. You're not screaming right now. Oh, my gosh. It takes a special person to be able to walk people through when you're not in front of them. Like, that takes a special person. And then they probably hang up the phone and just cuss me like there's no tomorrow. And then they say, you are an idiot. You're right.

You were an idiot. Oh, my God. Thank God I don't know. I'm not there. But it's true. You're not. I'm not. Let's question.

Let's keep it going because really that's what people want to know about. Not my chickens. Not me being an idiot. Not the rooster. Again, technologically illiterate. I'll just stick with I'm an idiot because when it's all sudden done that really defines things it's like being a janitor right what happened to just saying you're a janitor instead of maintenance technician I got a janitor like when I was a house cleaner yeah my house cleaner

not a something service something another okay I clean toilets that's what it amounts to people like titles yeah so I'll stick with I'm an idiot let's go to number there was a clip on ABC news years ago showing brain scans of a man praying in English and then praying in his prayer language or speaking in tongues I love to know I love to know have you seen more medical research on this have you I've only seen one scholarly article on it and I really didn't tell you much okay how strong is the evidence that there's a different pattern pattern of brain activity when someone praise using a prayer language versus a known language like English.

Hey, do you want to, did you have this? Oh, I got it. Let's look at this video. It's very quick. You won't believe the science proves speaking in tongues is real. They scanned a man's brain while he was speaking in English and while he was speaking in tongues. And look what happened. The first scan when he was in prayer speaking in English.

This is the second scan when he is praying in tongues. Pastor Stoltzfuss's scan showed that his frontal load, the part of the brain that controls language was active when he prayed in English but for the most part it fell quiet when he prayed in tongues it's true that when you're praying in tongues it's not you praying but the spirit praying out of you praying in tongues

is amazing well somebody's excited about it what do you think how accurate was that an accurate place you got that from Tracy it's an old ABC News thing that's artist That's right. Like I said, there was one scholarly paper that was like a research paper that I had found that they did about speaking in tongues.

I'm trying to remember the word. What was the word they used for it? I can't remember. But it really didn't amount to much because like that shows there. When you're speaking speaking, you use your frontal lobe. So this is going to like spread up more because that's where language comes from. That's where speaking comes from. and when you're speaking like in the prayer language what that showed was it wasn't as active

active yeah so you were more in the spirit than you are in a physical um i would say physical speaking does that make sense yeah makes complete sense yeah they really haven't done much on that just like i said one research paper so all i've ever found sounds like a new project we have a brain scan anywhere we got those electrodes though I've stuck on you guys that's true for shocking you that's true maybe the aurora ring will tell us I'll have chair do it okay I'll check it out there is somebody that spoke their prayer language into chat GPT and asked for him to translate it are you kidding me is this somebody we know no no no no no no no and what happened

it tried it said some stuff and I don't look accurate yeah no I don't I have no idea because I don't know if they could interpret so but I was like that's that's a way to use chat GPT that's always one way there's always one way chat GPT was able to like come up with oh gosh you better know the interpretation so you can confirm it with chat GPT that's all I'm saying yeah exactly otherwise but it's your prayer language so how are you going to know because I don't always know what I'm saying. I mean, I have it in my head what I'm praying about. Right. And then the Holy Spirit speak it for me. But sometimes I'm not even doing that. I'm just praying. You're just praying. So how? I don't know. Because if you're doing tongues for the body, you should know what the

interpretation is. But my prayer language is totally different than that. Once a gift and the other one is still a gift, but it's for your personal, your personal use versus the other ones for the body of Christ. I don't know. That's weird for the church. That's weird. Do you think it's true? What? I'm asking Tracy, just so you know when I'm looking. The brain scan? Do you think it's true? The brain scan? Yeah. Yeah, I do. Like, and it was legit? Was it legit? Because I tend to, I tend to think it might be too. But I'm a conspiracy theory. I know. So we only use like a portion of our brain. I know. We could use the whole thing. I'm sure. That's what people do not understand. We use such a small fraction of our brain, of our brain that if we use the whole entire thing,

can you imagine? Can you imagine the miracles that we could actually probably pull off? Yeah, let's go. That's what that's the brilliance that that thing has. What's, is there like a medical explanation to why we only use 10% of our brain? I've actually never looked into that. Like, why, why do we only use 10%? Like, what do they say about that? Last chat. Don't know. No? I just literally had that thought on my head. I'm like, I wonder what? I've never asked that. I know. I never even looked at papers to say, hey, why do we only use 10% of our brain? Yeah. That is an interesting question. It is. Why is that? Interesting. I'm wondering, like, let's, let's look at it from a biblical standpoint when they were building the tower of Babel, maybe they used right now.

Literally was thinking that. If they were able to use more of their brains, which they all came together and were building a tower to heaven, then maybe when God spread us apart, he was like, maybe that's just a little bit too much of them to be able to handle. So we made everybody dumb after that? Well, not dumb, but I would say a lot. I wouldn't say dumb, but maybe it's cutting back on the amount of brain power. you guys actually have maybe they just he's like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa hold up shorty

i don't know am i going to change your language now you're down give me your frontal lobe give me 90% of your lobe yeah the whole thing yeah it might be why at 25 you're like you realize how stupid you are yeah but before that you don't even know you don't even know you don't even know think you're super smart there's there's hope for tell you yet yeah there is my daughter just said that to me the other day because she has some friends that they weren't being very nice and she was like mom I think my frontal lobe is like expanding a little quicker than anybody else my age because I just don't want to hang out with these people anymore I'm like well then don't cut ties don't why why waste your time yeah find your people in life sometimes it

goes like this yeah yeah that I told her yeah I mean she's 20 so she was like I think my frontal lobe was expanding faster than anybody else my age. I'm like, well, that's a good thing. Maybe you won't do stupid things like I did. Please, God. That's the hope. All right. Please, God, right?

Thank you, Jesus. Number five. There's a viral TikTok trend right now where people are buying supplements that claim to cleanse your blood. I've not seen that one. You would use herbs, teas, or supplements. Some common ingredients in those products are turmeric.

What is that name right there? Mangista. Neem. Neem oil. Dandelion. Burdock. Parsley and antioxidant vitamins like A-C-E. Sometimes they also include, what does that word?

Diuretics. Or laxative herbs or use activated charcoal or blends of detox teas. From a medical perspective, what does that actually mean? Is it possible to cleanse your blood or is this just a marketing gimmick? marketing gimmick so turmeric yeah turmeric helps with like inflammation right so if you have like rheumatoid arthritis or you suffer from like achy joints add turmeric to your diet kind of helps take down inflammation so it's not going to so none of these clean clean your blood before while you're breaking it down there's no such thing as a blood cleanse no go ahead now that helps me now mangista i have no

idea what that is. Neem oil is used for like oh that's an oil yeah you yeah neem dandelion root big thing they those are the dandelions like you could see in your yard yeah dandelion root is used for a variety of different things to help like with detox as well and healing um interesting even though we all kill them in our yard they actually have a lot of purpose yeah burdock i don't know what that is parsley is just, you know, parsley helps, like, cleanse your palate and a whole bunch of other things. Oregino oil. I have some of that at home. I have oregano oil that I get from a store up in Georgia that when my, when anyone starts

to get a little sick, it's an antioxidant. It's an anti, helps with, like, it's like an antibiotic, like a natural antibiotic. Do you take it? I've known people who put it on the bottom of their feet. I take it with, like, a teaspoon of it. Interesting. Hold it under my tongue. and I swear by it.

Like if you start feeling icky, take it, take it for a couple days. Boom, you're good. Vitamin's A, good for your eyes. C, that's antiviral, anti, you know, helps to boost your immune system. Vitamin E's for your skin. So I, that's just, yeah. None of it's, none of it's for the blood, though. That's such crap.

What is activated charcoal? What the heck is that? Activated charcoal helps to hold on to the toxins, like when you're doing a cleanse, right charcoal is what helps take it out it's a binder to help take it

out of your system that's what we use for the parasites then yep and activated charcoal

or any toxins nobody can hear a word she's saying when you have diarrhea to take charcoal no

no don't waste your time the what for food poisoning for food poisoning food point it helps to hold pull the toxins into the charcoal but it doesn't bind your poop oh wait so food poisoning so what what do you do for food poisoning they say if you have like if you start like vomiting after you eat something you take charcoal that's what they give like if you overdose on

Tylenol they try to give you activated charcoal to try to because it absorbs it absorbs it into a like so that you it'll hold it in instead of it getting released throughout your body and absorb throughout your body. Which, going back to the Tylenol thing, which I wanted to address, you said right now people are trying to prove Trump wrong and they're losing their lives and their child's life doing it. There was a nurse that I follow. Her name is Nicole Steritech.

She was really big, especially during COVID, to speak up. And she got a call at like 4 in the morning. Her husband, this man called her to say that his wife, who was 26 weeks pregnant, tried to prove Trump wrong. It took a bunch of Tylenol. And she ended up ventilated, and they don't know if the baby was going to make it. She definitely probably was not going to make it. Tylenol is one of the worst, most agonizing ways to go if you OD on Tylenol.

Tylenol Benadryl, like they're the Benadryl challenge, is another horrible way to go as well. It's just, it's not good. I've always told people, if you want to OD on something. Tylenol. Kill your liver off. Once you kill your liver off, that's it. I mean, it's an agonizing, horrible death. It's crazy.

That sounds like people who use antifreeze. They say that's a horrible. Tylenol's worse. Oh, my gosh. You're kidding. No, Tylenol is horrible. And it's one of the, it's the most painful, horrible. It's just not good at all.

Holy moly so she did that to her baby too oh my gosh and it's not easy to trace correct not that it's not easy to trace it's not easy to once you do it you can't undo it correct whereas other ODs you can kind of like sometimes you can snap out of it like with if you OD on narcotics they have Narcan which yanks out all the opiads in your system pretty fast and pretty substantially town law there isn't I mean they give you you activated charcoal, but if that's not working, they give you another thing called mucamist.

And if that's just not working, there's nothing, there's, there's nothing that can do. Tylenol is really a really dangerous drug. It's really one that, like, to have on your, on your shelf, because if somebody accidentally starts taking more than they should, put you in liver failure and, but your liver can regenerate, but you got to stop, right? But if you take way too much in a sitting, it's just too much on your liver and it just stops and says, nope. Oh, my gosh.

What's too much? Yeah. Well, the recommended dose is you can do a thousand milligrams every six hours. And how many would that be with, how many is a thousand in just somebody's household? It depends on what bottle they have. If they have regular Tylenol, which is 325 milligrams, then I would only take two, which is 650 milligrams. In the hospital, if, or you can have extra strength Tylenol, which a lot of people take that for, like, arthritis. they're 500 milligram tablets.

So it depends on which ones you got in your closet. But no more than 1,000 every six hours. How many do, when people OD, how many do they usually take, like, not a bottle, but they'll usually take like, what, 10, 12, 15? Yeah. And that'll do it. In one sitting? It can.

I mean, like, holy moly. That's crazy. So don't do that. that people don't do that don't do that don't do it don't try to prove somebody wrong that's insanity that's just insanity to just put yourself in that situation i just oh my gosh last question a minute and 36 seconds wait a little bit social media has some viral challenges encouraging people to misuse or overuse common medications often as stunts dares are supposed hacks hello these can be extremely dangerous because they promote taking medicines in ways that they are unsafe

are prescribed. So Benadryl, they gave some examples. Benadryl challenge is taking large doses of a diphthygene. An allergy medication to hallucinate. So people are doing this to hallucinate. And this has led to ER visits and even deaths. So Benadryl can make you hallucinate. If you take enough, yeah. The NyQuil Chicken Challenge. Cooking chicken in cold medicine as a joke or hack. Heating NyQuil can release dangerous fumes and eating it saturates food with high doses of drugs. Holy moly. Who even came up with that?

Why would you cook a chicken in NyQuil? To get high, maybe. Oh, well, I mean, they've done crazier things. Over-the-counter sleep aids. Some challenges promote misusing these to knock out fast or intensified dreams. Have you ever heard of that? Uh-uh. Like, that'll kill you, right?

Yeah, I can. but here's the thing over-the-counter sleep aids are mostly made out of benadryl or dihyphetamine so then they are they can because it's just like a Tylenol then holy moly people painkiller experiments taking extra doses of that's what we talked about okay that oh right and then laxative or detox pill challenges misusing digestive aids for weight loss cleansing or shock value have you ever heard of that I've heard of diuretics and laxatives detox pills Yeah, I mean, it just makes you poop, so you're not absorbing any nutrients. So, yeah, it'll help you lose weight. Should you do it? No. People are crazy. Oh, you have no idea.

Why would you... Why would you cook a chicken in Thailand? Why would you do these challenges? Well, you've heard of the cinnamon challenge. Remember that one back in the day? Oh, yeah. Same thing. Is that dangerous?

Yeah, I mean, because it takes your breath away and then you can't breathe. It's like all, like it'll stick in the back of your throat. Who did? That's good. Lovely. Uh-huh. Great. Yeah, they had like the Tidepod challenges.

Remember that too? What's a Tidepod challenge? Eat a Tidepod. That's why they have a special. Lids on them now, especially with little kids, because little kids got in. I'm going to kill them. I mean, you're putting chemicals into your body. Special.

Why would somebody eat a Tidepot? I mean, a child I get, but an adult, what are you thinking? They were like teenagers, like doing a Tidepot challenge. Do you have any other? Viral. So they go viral. Oh, my gosh. And be famous.

Yeah, that's what this says. Social media has some viral challenges. yeah it's all and i think the people that are encouraging you to do it are just seeing if you're going to do it and then make fun of you if you're doing it right not knowing they don't care you no they don't care if it kills you or not they just have no no what's the word i'm looking for sanctity of life they don't care about your life they have no moral compass none none holy moly the blackout challenge where you choke yourself until you pass out that's been around for decades wait a minute you choke yourself where you have you

somebody choke you until you black out that's kind of like the huffing of the uh whippets that's what it supposedly makes you feel like is you're getting blacked out people are you kidding me is there any others tell me another one trace there was um sorry there was one recently where you um it was the same thing as making yourself pass out though you'd have a friend stand behind you and you would like breathe like very very very fast and do something you would make you pass out and people did in my class all the time oh you'd like you'd leave breathe really heavy yeah you'd like hyperventilate get yourself to hyperventilate get those oh my gosh people are crazy especially since the air condition's not blown uh dragon breath food dipped in liquid nitrate

and nitrogen um particular is cereal and you consume it so you can have dragon breath where vapor comes out the person's mouth and nose. Oh, my gosh. Well, it's just like the balloons. I might have done that one. There's actually. Oh my gosh. There was a place, where did I go?

It was in Texas or something. If you were in Texas, we went to a restaurant and they used to have, like, food that you could eat that would do that. Are you kidding me? Yeah, below zero ice cream. Yeah, below zero is famous for that. Yeah. That's crazy.

You look like a dragon. Right. No way. No way. let's do your let's let's let's you blow out your candle yay well no well i think i saw it well unless Vanessa sing yes okay Vanessa happy birthday happy birthday let's go one two and a three happy birthday to you cha cha cha cha happy birthday to you cha cha happy birthday to you chat cha cha cha happy birthday to you Dear Natalie, are you guys watching Hope?

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