February 28, 2025 • 30 mins
After Kelly’s conversation with Michelle Jungmin Bang about Korean wellness and longevity, she and Chip put themselves to the test—are they actually on track for a long, healthy life, or is a major lifestyle overhaul in order? They break down the biggest takeaways from Korean self-care, explore the rise of biohacking (ice baths, fasting, red light therapy—are they really worth it?), and take a Longevity Quiz to see how they measure up. Listeners can take the quiz along with them and find out if they’re future centenarians… or if their current habits might need some work.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, Schipper, Hi, we just were saying, well, what's going on.
I'm not going to say what we were just.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Some things are best left off the podcasts.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Did you want to try to say that again? Because
you kind of miss the.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Best things are best left off the podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
There we go, I would agree. I would agree. We're
not trying to get canceled anytime soon. Anyway. We are
going to take a little trip today to Korea.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yay. I've never been to Korea.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
My podcast Wednesday was with Michelle jungman Bang and she's
an author. She wrote this book called Son and Sue Scott.
These are hard words for me to pronounce, but it's
about the Korean art of self care, wellness and longevity.
I mean, she's also just like an award winning entrepreneur.
She went to Harvard Business School. She's very very smart.
But she splits her time between New York and Korea
(00:55):
now and she literally is just like explaining to me
everything of Korean culture, and I'm thinking to myself, why
are we not doing this? Like it's all the things
that I talk about all the time, like healing your
body with food really like meditating and being a part
of breath work and calming your nervous system. They do
this on a daily basis, lowering stress and literally in
(01:17):
twenty thirty they're saying that Korea is going to have
the highest longevity rate, and so they're just doing it right.
And it's one of those things where I feel like
we complicate things over here, like we either are making
ourselves sick, or we're taking these small principles that they've
been doing forever and doing in a day situation and
(01:39):
we make them into some big, complex thing. I'll talk
a little bit more about that later, but when I
mentioned to you that this is what we were going
to be talking about, you were like, the only thing
I know about Korean culture is about bathhouses, which we
did talk about, right. What do you know about this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Though, Well, they have when I lived in I lived
in Los Angeles for eleven years and they have some there.
I never went, but I had some female that would
go together, and I was always just kind of shocked
by the fact that it would be like a girl
stay out and I'm like, and they were butt ass
naked on a tape. They're like, oh know, these Korean
women come in and you're like stripped down. They throw
(02:14):
water all over you. They're like scrubbing you, lifting your legs,
lifting your tits up, like they're getting every crevice. And
I'm like, it's like Grandma giving you a bath, but
in front of your.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Friends, right and you're all doing it together.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm just like, that is mortifying to me. But I
also think, like I would love I would love to
think that I could get to a place where it's
just the body is the body, you know, and it's like, yeah,
obviously it's not a sexual situation. You're being scrubbed by
an older woman, but it just it makes my like
every like piece of my puritanical body squeeze up, like.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It just seems like, oh well, she kind of talked
about that, so she she kind of breathed over the
fact that you're completely naked in that. So if you
did listen to Wednesday's podcast, that was one of the
things I was kind of holding back as well. I mean,
she talked about it, like she briefly touched on it,
but in my head, I was thinking about we have
a mutual friend who used to go to these as well,
and she would describe that to me, and I was like,
(03:10):
you're just they're like naked soaking in these big baths
with other women, like and it's it's so silly almost
that we have this idea about nudity that we do here,
because in other cultures it's really not looked at that way,
or it's it just feels like here it's like either
over sexualized or like we don't think that's.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What it is. Is like, yeah, our reaction to it
actually sexualizes it, but we tell ourselves that our reaction
is because the other people are sexualizing it, right, And
that's just not the case. They're just like, I'm getting
my body cleaned well.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And the thing that she taught me was basically part
of that experience because you're sitting with all these other people.
I mean if you either do all women or all men,
depending on your gender, but you're sitting with these people.
And she said, it is an experience of practicing self love.
And I really thought that might resonate with you a
little bit because you talk about being comfortable in your
(04:05):
own skin and in your own body, and that is
what that experience is also about. So instead of critiquing
yourself or going, oh my god, that woman has the
most amazing body and look at mine and kind of
picking ourselves apart. You're supposed to sit there and really
feel content in what you have and who you are
and what you look like, and not let your narratives
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go to those places.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right right.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I mean if you think about like the locker room too,
it's like that is a place where people tend to
just sort of let their free will. I mean I
hear about like women's locker rooms and people are like,
I mean, this lady's just bent over just like putting
her socks on, just showing everything to everybody, and like, yeah,
that sounds weird, but it's also like we all have
those body parts, you know what.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I think you get to a certain age where you're
like I do not.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't. I'm just getting dressed after having worked.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Out exactly, and they're just comfortable, right.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah. So it's not that foreign a concept. It's just
it makes my puritanical bones like quiver. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I feel like every time you say you want to
squeal a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, one of the main things I mentioned that we
talked about was longevity, and I thought this was kind
of what I was saying earlier, where it's like Americans
we tend to take these concepts and we make it
into this big thing. Like all of a sudden, all
over the US, I'm seeing all of this conversation about biohacking,
and I asked you, and you were like, I've never
(05:30):
even heard of this, but I wonder if some of
our listeners have, because it's such a big conversation. Like
there's this guy, Brian Johnson, and he is doing all
of these things to his body to really up his longevity.
I guess he wants to live to be at least
one hundred. There's another guy, Dave Asbury. He started Bulletproof,
so I've been a fan of his for a long
(05:52):
time as far as the products that he creates. But
both of them are going to these really extreme ways
of trying to you really live the longest that they can.
Like they is one of them.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The guy I read recently about a guy who got
a blood transfusion using his son's blood.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Probably that seems like a Brian Johnson kind of thing.
Maybe I don't know specifically.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I was like, wow, I mean that is pretty extreme.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean he's about to be on the Kardashians is
how you know? This is very pop culture like this
it's having a moment, this bio hacking thing. But really,
as I was listening to Michelle talk, I was thinking
to myself, I mean, these Koreans are bio hacking every day,
Like that's just how they live their life, you know,
because the things they do are like extra cold plunging
that their diet. They're really big on gut health, which
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is huge in Korean culture because they said she said
they start kids on kimchi, which is like a fermented
food at like six months old. So they just live
their life like they're not thinking, oh, I want to
live to be one hundred. They're just like, hey, I'm
gonna take care of my body and like this is
good for me, you know, I don't need to go.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Also, they do practice the sun before screen situation, which.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, like we talked about last or I think that's
actually in another future podcast we did podcast out of Orders.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, but I think it's you know, like the sun
salutations and like it's a very important part of the culture,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yes, that's what I was saying about breath work and
things like that, like it's just a part of the
way they live and cold plunges or bath houses, different
ways that you take care of even your skin. I've
been obsessed with Korean skincare. That's one of the reasons
that I even wanted to have a shell on is
because I've actually become kind of obsessed with their culture
(07:37):
the more I've learned about it based on how good
they look. Yeah, but it is, it's crazy. All of
them have amazing skin, and it's just like, have you
ever heard of that glass skin type thing. It's a
huge thing now in America. Again, another thing we've made
into this like massive concept as if we've created it,
and it's like no, these cultures, these ancient cultures have
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been doing it forever and it's just a part of
their life. So I don't know. I just got to
think and I was like, do I even want to
live to be one hundred? I just want to be healthy. Like,
I don't know if I need to follow these extreme
measures to try to live to a certain age or
like really outlive all these people. I just want to
(08:20):
be healthy and I want to feel good and I
want to be my best self at all times. But like,
how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, my grandparents on my father's side live to be
ninety six and ninety eight, and up until probably the
last year of both of their lives, they were fairly
active and left the house and drove and did all
the things. So on one hand, I would say, yes,
I would want that, but the big there's an if
to that, Like I would want to still be somewhat vibrant.
(08:49):
I don't want to be just an old person who's
sitting around watching television. And you know, I make a
joke like, if I ever get to that space, that's
when I want to try heroin. But if I'm really
old and and the drug is that good given to
me then because if I die from it, I don't care.
But if it's great, I want to ride out the
(09:11):
next few years of my life doing it. Wow, because
it's just a kind of joke I say sometimes, but truthfully, yeah,
it's like what do you have to lose at that point?
But you know, if you're super vibrant, like, yeah, I mean,
it'd be amazing to live as long as you can.
The downside to living that long that I experience I
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witnessed with my grandparents was their friends are dead and
it gets to be really lonely. So yeah, if you
don't have the purpose of family and loved ones and friends.
I mean, they obviously had family around them, but my
grandmother had lost her sisters and all of her best friends,
and she used to talk about all the time. She'd
be like, it's really lonely. Everyone that I know is
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dead except for my younger family members, and at a
certain point she was just ready to not be alive anymore.
So I don't really ever want to get to that point.
So if that means I live to be eighty and
that's eighty fruitful years, awesome. But if I get to
be one hundred and ten and I'm still like getting
up in a part of my community and not living
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in a nursing home, then great, I'd live that long.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, there is an interesting genetic component to it, because
I've known people who seem to have taken care of
themselves that have died earlier than people who I'm like.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh are that?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
How are they still alive?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's kind of crazy some of the genetic components to it,
but I'm with you. It depends on the quality of life,
like what is my health? How am I functioning? Am
I able to get up to move around? One of
the things Michelle and I talked about was walking, like
how good that is for our bodies just movement in general,
(10:50):
and that's such a big part of her culture. She
says after meals in Korea, they just go walk for like,
you know, twenty minutes or whatever it is, but just
to move to help aid digestion, right, says little things
that if you can't do that kind of stuff to me,
I don't know. I don't know if I want to
be here suffering in a bed all day or you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like, and now's the time to start those practices, Like
you don't wait until you're eighty and can't do it
to be like, oh maybe I should start walking now,
Like now's the time. So it's like you're buying the
time on the back gad for your body.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I mean, I will say, there's this sweet little lady
in my neighborhood and I actually was on a walk
the other day and saw her again. I was telling
my boyfriend about it because she's not in the best condition,
like she's kind of hunched over, but I see her
get out there and she goes up and down her
street probably every day. So it's just a part of
her routine, and she, like I think, is still living
(11:53):
by herself. She's functioning even though she's maybe not in
the best shape or the best health. She does what
she can for herself right to stay active, to keep
moving and I'm sure that helps with your emotional health
as well, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, I'm sure that is why she's able to do
it every day, is because she's been doing it. And
it's those things that I I mean, witnessing my grandparents
getting that old, Like I do believe that there is
a will, like there is a will to live, and
I think you have to want to, which means that
you have to put in the work to survive that long.
(12:31):
And if that means like walking past your prime, keep walking,
you know, until you can't anymore. It's one of those things.
It's like, I'm sure she wakes up every day and
is grateful for the fact that like her legs still
work the way that she needs them to, so she
gets that walk in.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah makes sense to me, But I'm with you. It's
like start now and if you if you do want
some tips on how to do that. The podcast on
Wednesday was a really great one with all kinds of
insight about the kind of food that we can eat
to heal our own bodies. Like in Korea. She told
me that this goes back to even when they used
to have a king, but the king's doctor, his first
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call when the king would like come in with some
sort of ailment was to the chef and he would
be like, Hey, here's what's going on. How do we
fix this? And they literally use food to heal their bodies,
which is essentially the opposite of what we do here,
Like we're making ourselves sicker by the way we eat
and the kind of chemicals and processed food and lack
(13:28):
of nutrition that we put in our bodies. And over
in other countries they're like, oh, you have a cold here,
let me make you this soup, or oh you need
to work on your gut health, let's add some more
cabbage to your diet, or like up the fermented foods.
It's just crazy that we don't think about it that way.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
To me, it must go back to the pharmaceutical companies
wanting us to be addicted or dependent on things like, yeah,
this is not a revelatory thing. But even when I
get ahead of I don't like to take a tail
in r advil or and trust me, I've put plenty
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of bad things in my body over the years, but
I think that like just having an app and letting
your mind rest and your body sort of recover is
always a better option. You know, there's obviously times where
it's like you just have to, like your body aches,
your head's killing you, You've got to get through the day.
But you know, how do you think that, Like, our
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bodies are designed to heal, and the fuel that really
like makes them work is food. And I think that
the American culture could certainly take a few pages from
the career lots of cultures and in an effort to
change the way that we relate to food.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's really just the lifestyle, though, So that's one piece
of it. I agree with you. One of the other
things we talked about was this word. I think it's
pronounced jong and I was telling about it before, but
it's basically about that our human need for connection, and
so they really value like relationships and connection and fueling
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your soul and how other people can like expand our
lives and our livelihood and our love capacity and all
of that, and the warmth and working in a community,
so like everything they do. She told some story about
whenever they had like a financial crisis, everyone went in
their house and they melted down their gold and it
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became like this pot of money for everyone in that
community and they all, right, you know, were able to
rise above because the community had come together. And I
was like, God, what a good concept gets Again, that's
like the opposite of how it is here. Now, what
an amazing concept that we all contribute to one pot.
We all try to help each other out in this
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community mindset. And the amount that that actually helps your
longevity is massive because think about the amount of stress
that that would remove.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Right, Yeah, and the sense of loneliness that's sort of
taken out of the equation because you feel like you're
part of something bigger exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So anyway, those are all the concepts. If you want
more details on some of the insights that Michelle gave me,
you can check out her book, but also you can
listen to the interview on Wednesday. It was very informative. Again,
like I said, she's brilliant, so she had lots and
lots of information. I thought it would be kind of
fun so put this into chat GBT because I was like,
I wonder how we would test this, but like, how
(16:34):
would we test our own longevity? And so it made
a quiz for us, and I thought this could be
kind of interesting and maybe the listeners could play along.
So I have ten questions that I'm going to ask you,
and you probably need a pen and paper, chip or
your phone or something. Okay, so perfect can you keep
track of mine? Too?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And so I'm going to be facilitating the quiz. So
basically the way this will work is I'm going to
ask the question in and then there are going to
be four like four choices like an, A, B, C,
or D. All of the a's are worth three points.
So if your answer is A, you get three points.
If your answer is B you get two points, if
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your answer is C you get one point, and if
your answer is D you get zero. Obviously, now that
I've told you the way that the numbers work, you
would probably want to get the most points, but.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's the lowest points.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Is oh good point, Well, it'll it'll pretty quickly give.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Itself, right, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
But the point being you want to answer honestly because
also then you can look at the areas you want
to work on. So right, Okay, you know what I'm saying. Okay,
So number one, how often do you eat fermented foods
like kimchi? Like we talked about, yogurt, anything with like
a probiotic within it, sour kraut? Those are the options.
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A says every day, my gut is thriving. B A
few times a week. I'm doing my best. D rarely
does beer count D never? Bacteria freaks me out.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'm a B okay eating a lot of yogurt.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I think you know what I'm gonna say B as
well for me right now, but I could sometimes go A.
I'll just say B.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm almost in A now, but it's new within the
last few weeks, so that's why I'm gonna say B.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I'm like a B point five, but it's okay, I'll
just take B okay. Number two, how many servings of
vegetables do you eat daily? A five plus. My body
is basically a garden B three to four. I try,
but fries are technically a vegetable. C one to two.
Do pickles on a burger count D? None? My diet
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is ninety percent vibes and caffeine.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
This is per day, right, Yeah, mine's probably a C. Okay,
eating very protein heavy.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, so you're C.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm gonna say C.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'm definitely be like A feels just like a lot
of food. Who eats that much?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, I mean so many vegetables have zero are so
low in calorie that and it's like here's a question
like if you eat a salad and there's and peppers
and I mean I think for serving.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's a valid question.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna go two with me. I mean C
two Okay. I was like, what I'm playing the wrong game?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Speak English? Okay. Three? What's your sleep routine? Like? A
I get seven to nine hours and I have a
solid wine down routine. B. I sleep most nights, but
love a Netflix binge. See sleep is a suggestion. I
function on caffeine. D. I don't sleep. I simply close
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my eyes and pray for the best.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm a solid B.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I think I will go be to And that's not
because I don't like to sleep or want to sleep
or need to sleep. It's because I just am not
a very good sleeper. Yeah, okay. Four do you take
regular movement breaks throughout the day? A? Yes, A stretch walk,
or exercise daily. B. I try, but some days I'm
glued to my chair. C does walk into the fridge
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count D movement? I prefer to rest my body at
all times.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That would be an a for me.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh okay, actually I think me too.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I have a full body thing that my trainer has
taught me. It takes eight minutes. It's like a mobility sequences.
You do that at least every day?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yet, Yeah, that's how I feel. I like, either try
to if a minimum go on, like a twenty minute walk,
do some sort of movement, or if stretching counts, then
for sure. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Five?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
How stressed are you on a daily basis? This is
gonna be an interesting one. A chill is a monk
dress doesn't touch me? Be normal levels, but I manage
it well. See, pretty stressed, but I suppress it with snacks. D.
I am one minor inconvenience away from a breakdown.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well do you want to go first?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
What are you trying to say here?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm not inferring anything.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I think it's like it has definitely varied throughout my
life and depends on obviously what you're going through. I
would say at the moment, I feel it's between B
and C for memm hmm, I'm gonna go be. I'm
gonna give myself some.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's gonna go be with myself too. I mean it's
there's obviously moments where I'm the days or like windows
where I'm much more stressed. Yeah, but I actually feel
like I've got a pretty good handle on my stress,
you know, like it will be specific things that set
me off. It's not just it's not how I exist though.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, I actually think you're.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
More Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Six Do you engage in social activities and strong relationships. A. Yes,
I'm surrounded by jong and love. B. I have a
good circle, but love my alone time. C. Socializing feels exhausting,
but I try. D. I actively avoid people. It's me
and my cat dog in Netflix. I know your answer, easy.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, I'm an A.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I actually think i'm an A too, because even if
I don't see people, I'm on the phone. Yeah, I
think I'm an A. Okay. Seven what's your hydration situation. A.
I drink herbal teas and lots of water daily. B
I try, but sometimes I forget. C. I mostly drink
coffee and sodas. D. I survive purely on vibes and dehydration.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
People that are like that, they're literally drink.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Too and you do not understand it. My friends call
me the camel because they're like, where does it go?
Because I drink so much water. I'm definitely an a.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm an a too, as I sent for my hydro jug.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I know we both are. The interesting thing that she
did teach me is that in Korea they drink a
lot of decaffeinated or like just herbal teas for hydration,
like and I thought, oh, I've always thought tea and
coffee dehydrates you, but she said, if there's not caffeine
and they're herbal teas, it doesn't. And the other thing
I've been doing is something she and I talked about, Like,
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I have a bunch of fresh ginger, like I accidentally
ordered too much when I got my groceries delivered, and
so I've been cutting it up and putting like lemon
and fresh ginger under like I put hot water over it.
It's so delicious and it's so good for my digestion,
but it also is just like another So I'm just
not drinking yeah, Like I'm just not drinking like water
(23:58):
all day like it kind of just gives you like
a variation. Okay, so we're both A on that one.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Eight How often do you spend time outdoors? A? Daily?
I love fresh air and sunshine. B A couple times
a week, mostly for Aerran's c rarely does walk into
my car account D never indoors is where I belong.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I would say I'm a B, but like chat ChiPT
got a little snarky on its response because I can't
do it every day. If it's pouring down rain, I'm
not outside.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, our weather isn't always conducive, but.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I walk my dogs pretty much daily, So I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
B yeah A couple times a week. I'm gonna say
the same when it's pretty out for sure, it's every day.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That kind of varies here. Nine do you practice mindfulness, meditation,
or relaxation techniques? A? Yes, I meditate and practice mindfulness daily.
B occasionally when I remember CE not really I should,
but I don't. D my mind is pure chaos twenty
four seven. I mean I feel like my mind is
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pure chaos twenty four to seven. But I actually am
an A.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I'm like a B minus, so I don't know if
I should give myself two and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I don't know. I don't think you should. I think
it's occasionally when I remember or not really I should,
but I don't which one feels more actively.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I think it's more occasionally when I remember. You're B three,
so you're A four.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You're confusing me. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The number of points?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm out, Oh, you're B right, and I'm a, yeah,
you do it at the end of sorry this, I
mean you could, I guess, do it as we go,
but you're saying it to me, so it's in a
confusing moment.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I'm also doing the wrong number of points.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But of course, okay, yeah, there's no four.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
There's no four.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, So I'm an A for sure. I do it daily, absolutely, okay. Ten.
How would you describe your diet overall? A balanced whole foods,
minimal process junk B pretty good, but I indulge in
treats see mostly processed foods, but I survive d fast
food and snacks are my entire personality.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I'm going to say A.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I'm saying A as well. Okay, okay, So now total
up our answers.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Okay, so the math works out to be where you're
twenty three and I'm twenty five.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You just start back.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I just sid it backwards. I'm a twenty three and
you're twenty five.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yes, okay, so you're twenty three and I'm twenty five.
So here's the results, every one. If you scored between
twenty four and thirty points, you're a centenarian in training.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So this is it's about one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Like, okay, okay, So it says you're on track to
live a long, healthy life. Keep doing what you're doing,
all right, sixteen to twenty three points. You're doing all right,
but you're making some great choices, but there's room for improvement,
time to add some bond sean to your life. That
was a word she used in our podcast on Wednesday,
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and I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We all have to look it up.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, so healthy living though, I think it's like, honestly
with you, I just feel like it's like a couple little.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I'm at twenty three, I'm on the CUSP so
and a lot of those answers were yeah, they were
also based on sort of my new path, right, So
I feel like I'm I probably would have been more
of a closer to sixteen before or lower.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, that makes it.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I feel like I'm moving in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If you got eight to fifteen points, you might need
to rethink some choices. Your lifestyle could use some tweaking,
more sleep, veggies and fresh air wouldn't hurt. If you
got zero to seven points, the universe.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're not even alive anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
The universe has questions. You might need an intervention. Have
you considered drinking water today?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But seriously, how are you alive? If you got a zero?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I really hope nobody listening got zero to a seven.
I mean, the other interesting thing that I think they
left out is talking about alcohol, because like, you haven't
been drinking, and can I be honest, your skin has
never looked better? Oh wow, Yeah, I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, I mean I think it's like I'm not poisoning
myself from the inside. I know, both with drinking and
the food choices too.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't ask, like how often you
consume alcohol or smoking? You know those things also are
not overall?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Was that part of your discussion in any way?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, it really wasn't. I know. I wonder what they
think in Korean culture about those two things. Yeah, I
don't know. They're so like living such a full love
and light kind of life. They might not even like
it or want it or then or they drink like
really clean wine that they made from their own graves,
right right, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
They like they've got the purest cigarettes on earth. Yeah,
it's just tobacco and no other chemicals.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Anyway, I thought this is kind of interesting. I also
feel like I did know. Okay, I think I live
a pretty fairly healthy life, but there's a couple things
I would really like to work on, like lowering us
my stress levels, having a better sleep schedule. And then
I'm always constantly working on movement, water, eating right, and
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you know, those things can kind of vary too sometimes
when you get really busy or you have a lot
going on, or you're traveling or things like that. So
like really making sure you're doing the best you can
even amongst different kind of circumstances.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right right. I also just did a quick little google.
Soju is a really popular drink there, and it's a
distilled spirit that is consumed by Korean ancestral disease and
bad spirits. Yeah, soju means a welcoming spring. So it's
like even their alcohol is at least in theory.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Energy about it. Well, also, have you ever had soji? Yeah,
it's like so strong you really don't need very much.
So it's like it's almost like drinking moonshine. It's so potent.
So I'm sure they're like you take a shot of
it or something and you're like, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh I'm cleansed. Yeah, just drying the devil's fire.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Anyway, if you guys took this quiz, send us your
results to the Edge at Velvet edge dot com. I
think that would be really interesting to hear.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How you gotta know if anyone's got.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
A zero, if anyone got a zero to seven, we're
gonna start praying for you now. But also please send
us your results. Yeah, you guys can also slide into
my DMS. I'm at Velvet Edge Chip.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm at Chip Doors. It's ch I P D O
R S C H.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And as you guys are going into a weekends and
you're living on the edge, I hope you always remember too.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I casual. Bye bye,
Hey, Schipper, Hi, we just were saying, well, what's going on.
I'm not going to say what we were just.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Some things are best left off the podcasts.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Did you want to try to say that again? Because
you kind of miss the.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Best things are best left off the podcast?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
There we go, I would agree. I would agree. We're
not trying to get canceled anytime soon. Anyway. We are
going to take a little trip today to Korea.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yay. I've never been to Korea.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
My podcast Wednesday was with Michelle jungman Bang and she's
an author. She wrote this book called Son and Sue Scott.
These are hard words for me to pronounce, but it's
about the Korean art of self care, wellness and longevity.
I mean, she's also just like an award winning entrepreneur.
She went to Harvard Business School. She's very very smart.
But she splits her time between New York and Korea
(00:55):
now and she literally is just like explaining to me
everything of Korean culture, and I'm thinking to myself, why
are we not doing this? Like it's all the things
that I talk about all the time, like healing your
body with food really like meditating and being a part
of breath work and calming your nervous system. They do
this on a daily basis, lowering stress and literally in
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twenty thirty they're saying that Korea is going to have
the highest longevity rate, and so they're just doing it right.
And it's one of those things where I feel like
we complicate things over here, like we either are making
ourselves sick, or we're taking these small principles that they've
been doing forever and doing in a day situation and
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we make them into some big, complex thing. I'll talk
a little bit more about that later, but when I
mentioned to you that this is what we were going
to be talking about, you were like, the only thing
I know about Korean culture is about bathhouses, which we
did talk about, right. What do you know about this.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Though, Well, they have when I lived in I lived
in Los Angeles for eleven years and they have some there.
I never went, but I had some female that would
go together, and I was always just kind of shocked
by the fact that it would be like a girl
stay out and I'm like, and they were butt ass
naked on a tape. They're like, oh know, these Korean
women come in and you're like stripped down. They throw
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water all over you. They're like scrubbing you, lifting your legs,
lifting your tits up, like they're getting every crevice. And
I'm like, it's like Grandma giving you a bath, but
in front of your.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Friends, right and you're all doing it together.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm just like, that is mortifying to me. But I
also think, like I would love I would love to
think that I could get to a place where it's
just the body is the body, you know, and it's like, yeah,
obviously it's not a sexual situation. You're being scrubbed by
an older woman, but it just it makes my like
every like piece of my puritanical body squeeze up, like.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It just seems like, oh well, she kind of talked
about that, so she she kind of breathed over the
fact that you're completely naked in that. So if you
did listen to Wednesday's podcast, that was one of the
things I was kind of holding back as well. I mean,
she talked about it, like she briefly touched on it,
but in my head, I was thinking about we have
a mutual friend who used to go to these as well,
and she would describe that to me, and I was like,
(03:10):
you're just they're like naked soaking in these big baths
with other women, like and it's it's so silly almost
that we have this idea about nudity that we do here,
because in other cultures it's really not looked at that way,
or it's it just feels like here it's like either
over sexualized or like we don't think that's.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
What it is. Is like, yeah, our reaction to it
actually sexualizes it, but we tell ourselves that our reaction
is because the other people are sexualizing it, right, And
that's just not the case. They're just like, I'm getting
my body cleaned well.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And the thing that she taught me was basically part
of that experience because you're sitting with all these other people.
I mean if you either do all women or all men,
depending on your gender, but you're sitting with these people.
And she said, it is an experience of practicing self love.
And I really thought that might resonate with you a
little bit because you talk about being comfortable in your
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own skin and in your own body, and that is
what that experience is also about. So instead of critiquing
yourself or going, oh my god, that woman has the
most amazing body and look at mine and kind of
picking ourselves apart. You're supposed to sit there and really
feel content in what you have and who you are
and what you look like, and not let your narratives
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go to those places.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Right right.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
I mean if you think about like the locker room too,
it's like that is a place where people tend to
just sort of let their free will. I mean I
hear about like women's locker rooms and people are like,
I mean, this lady's just bent over just like putting
her socks on, just showing everything to everybody, and like, yeah,
that sounds weird, but it's also like we all have
those body parts, you know what.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I think you get to a certain age where you're
like I do not.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't. I'm just getting dressed after having worked.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Out exactly, and they're just comfortable, right.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah. So it's not that foreign a concept. It's just
it makes my puritanical bones like quiver. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I feel like every time you say you want to
squeal a little bit.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, one of the main things I mentioned that we
talked about was longevity, and I thought this was kind
of what I was saying earlier, where it's like Americans
we tend to take these concepts and we make it
into this big thing. Like all of a sudden, all
over the US, I'm seeing all of this conversation about biohacking,
and I asked you, and you were like, I've never
(05:30):
even heard of this, but I wonder if some of
our listeners have, because it's such a big conversation. Like
there's this guy, Brian Johnson, and he is doing all
of these things to his body to really up his longevity.
I guess he wants to live to be at least
one hundred. There's another guy, Dave Asbury. He started Bulletproof,
so I've been a fan of his for a long
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time as far as the products that he creates. But
both of them are going to these really extreme ways
of trying to you really live the longest that they can.
Like they is one of them.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
The guy I read recently about a guy who got
a blood transfusion using his son's blood.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Probably that seems like a Brian Johnson kind of thing.
Maybe I don't know specifically.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I was like, wow, I mean that is pretty extreme.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I mean he's about to be on the Kardashians is
how you know? This is very pop culture like this
it's having a moment, this bio hacking thing. But really,
as I was listening to Michelle talk, I was thinking
to myself, I mean, these Koreans are bio hacking every day,
Like that's just how they live their life, you know,
because the things they do are like extra cold plunging
that their diet. They're really big on gut health, which
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is huge in Korean culture because they said she said
they start kids on kimchi, which is like a fermented
food at like six months old. So they just live
their life like they're not thinking, oh, I want to
live to be one hundred. They're just like, hey, I'm
gonna take care of my body and like this is
good for me, you know, I don't need to go.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Also, they do practice the sun before screen situation, which.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, like we talked about last or I think that's
actually in another future podcast we did podcast out of Orders.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yes, but I think it's you know, like the sun
salutations and like it's a very important part of the culture,
I believe.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yes, that's what I was saying about breath work and
things like that, like it's just a part of the
way they live and cold plunges or bath houses, different
ways that you take care of even your skin. I've
been obsessed with Korean skincare. That's one of the reasons
that I even wanted to have a shell on is
because I've actually become kind of obsessed with their culture
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the more I've learned about it based on how good
they look. Yeah, but it is, it's crazy. All of
them have amazing skin, and it's just like, have you
ever heard of that glass skin type thing. It's a
huge thing now in America. Again, another thing we've made
into this like massive concept as if we've created it,
and it's like no, these cultures, these ancient cultures have
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been doing it forever and it's just a part of
their life. So I don't know. I just got to
think and I was like, do I even want to
live to be one hundred? I just want to be healthy. Like,
I don't know if I need to follow these extreme
measures to try to live to a certain age or
like really outlive all these people. I just want to
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be healthy and I want to feel good and I
want to be my best self at all times. But like,
how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Well, my grandparents on my father's side live to be
ninety six and ninety eight, and up until probably the
last year of both of their lives, they were fairly
active and left the house and drove and did all
the things. So on one hand, I would say, yes,
I would want that, but the big there's an if
to that, Like I would want to still be somewhat vibrant.
(08:49):
I don't want to be just an old person who's
sitting around watching television. And you know, I make a
joke like, if I ever get to that space, that's
when I want to try heroin. But if I'm really
old and and the drug is that good given to
me then because if I die from it, I don't care.
But if it's great, I want to ride out the
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next few years of my life doing it. Wow, because
it's just a kind of joke I say sometimes, but truthfully, yeah,
it's like what do you have to lose at that point?
But you know, if you're super vibrant, like, yeah, I mean,
it'd be amazing to live as long as you can.
The downside to living that long that I experience I
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witnessed with my grandparents was their friends are dead and
it gets to be really lonely. So yeah, if you
don't have the purpose of family and loved ones and friends.
I mean, they obviously had family around them, but my
grandmother had lost her sisters and all of her best friends,
and she used to talk about all the time. She'd
be like, it's really lonely. Everyone that I know is
(09:51):
dead except for my younger family members, and at a
certain point she was just ready to not be alive anymore.
So I don't really ever want to get to that point.
So if that means I live to be eighty and
that's eighty fruitful years, awesome. But if I get to
be one hundred and ten and I'm still like getting
up in a part of my community and not living
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in a nursing home, then great, I'd live that long.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, there is an interesting genetic component to it, because
I've known people who seem to have taken care of
themselves that have died earlier than people who I'm like.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Oh are that?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
How are they still alive?
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Like what?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
It's kind of crazy some of the genetic components to it,
but I'm with you. It depends on the quality of life,
like what is my health? How am I functioning? Am
I able to get up to move around? One of
the things Michelle and I talked about was walking, like
how good that is for our bodies just movement in general,
(10:50):
and that's such a big part of her culture. She
says after meals in Korea, they just go walk for like,
you know, twenty minutes or whatever it is, but just
to move to help aid digestion, right, says little things
that if you can't do that kind of stuff to me,
I don't know. I don't know if I want to
be here suffering in a bed all day or you
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Like, and now's the time to start those practices, Like
you don't wait until you're eighty and can't do it
to be like, oh maybe I should start walking now,
Like now's the time. So it's like you're buying the
time on the back gad for your body.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I mean, I will say, there's this sweet little lady
in my neighborhood and I actually was on a walk
the other day and saw her again. I was telling
my boyfriend about it because she's not in the best condition,
like she's kind of hunched over, but I see her
get out there and she goes up and down her
street probably every day. So it's just a part of
her routine, and she, like I think, is still living
(11:53):
by herself. She's functioning even though she's maybe not in
the best shape or the best health. She does what
she can for herself right to stay active, to keep
moving and I'm sure that helps with your emotional health
as well, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, I'm sure that is why she's able to do
it every day, is because she's been doing it. And
it's those things that I I mean, witnessing my grandparents
getting that old, Like I do believe that there is
a will, like there is a will to live, and
I think you have to want to, which means that
you have to put in the work to survive that long.
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And if that means like walking past your prime, keep walking,
you know, until you can't anymore. It's one of those things.
It's like, I'm sure she wakes up every day and
is grateful for the fact that like her legs still
work the way that she needs them to, so she
gets that walk in.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Yeah makes sense to me, But I'm with you. It's
like start now and if you if you do want
some tips on how to do that. The podcast on
Wednesday was a really great one with all kinds of
insight about the kind of food that we can eat
to heal our own bodies. Like in Korea. She told
me that this goes back to even when they used
to have a king, but the king's doctor, his first
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call when the king would like come in with some
sort of ailment was to the chef and he would
be like, Hey, here's what's going on. How do we
fix this? And they literally use food to heal their bodies,
which is essentially the opposite of what we do here,
Like we're making ourselves sicker by the way we eat
and the kind of chemicals and processed food and lack
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of nutrition that we put in our bodies. And over
in other countries they're like, oh, you have a cold here,
let me make you this soup, or oh you need
to work on your gut health, let's add some more
cabbage to your diet, or like up the fermented foods.
It's just crazy that we don't think about it that way.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
To me, it must go back to the pharmaceutical companies
wanting us to be addicted or dependent on things like, yeah,
this is not a revelatory thing. But even when I
get ahead of I don't like to take a tail
in r advil or and trust me, I've put plenty
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of bad things in my body over the years, but
I think that like just having an app and letting
your mind rest and your body sort of recover is
always a better option. You know, there's obviously times where
it's like you just have to, like your body aches,
your head's killing you, You've got to get through the day.
But you know, how do you think that, Like, our
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bodies are designed to heal, and the fuel that really
like makes them work is food. And I think that
the American culture could certainly take a few pages from
the career lots of cultures and in an effort to
change the way that we relate to food.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
It's really just the lifestyle, though, So that's one piece
of it. I agree with you. One of the other
things we talked about was this word. I think it's
pronounced jong and I was telling about it before, but
it's basically about that our human need for connection, and
so they really value like relationships and connection and fueling
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your soul and how other people can like expand our
lives and our livelihood and our love capacity and all
of that, and the warmth and working in a community,
so like everything they do. She told some story about
whenever they had like a financial crisis, everyone went in
their house and they melted down their gold and it
(15:30):
became like this pot of money for everyone in that
community and they all, right, you know, were able to
rise above because the community had come together. And I
was like, God, what a good concept gets Again, that's
like the opposite of how it is here. Now, what
an amazing concept that we all contribute to one pot.
We all try to help each other out in this
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community mindset. And the amount that that actually helps your
longevity is massive because think about the amount of stress
that that would remove.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Right, Yeah, and the sense of loneliness that's sort of
taken out of the equation because you feel like you're
part of something bigger exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So anyway, those are all the concepts. If you want
more details on some of the insights that Michelle gave me,
you can check out her book, but also you can
listen to the interview on Wednesday. It was very informative. Again,
like I said, she's brilliant, so she had lots and
lots of information. I thought it would be kind of
fun so put this into chat GBT because I was like,
I wonder how we would test this, but like, how
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would we test our own longevity? And so it made
a quiz for us, and I thought this could be
kind of interesting and maybe the listeners could play along.
So I have ten questions that I'm going to ask you,
and you probably need a pen and paper, chip or
your phone or something. Okay, so perfect can you keep
track of mine? Too?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And so I'm going to be facilitating the quiz. So
basically the way this will work is I'm going to
ask the question in and then there are going to
be four like four choices like an, A, B, C,
or D. All of the a's are worth three points.
So if your answer is A, you get three points.
If your answer is B you get two points, if
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your answer is C you get one point, and if
your answer is D you get zero. Obviously, now that
I've told you the way that the numbers work, you
would probably want to get the most points, but.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
It's the lowest points.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Is oh good point, Well, it'll it'll pretty quickly give.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Itself, right, okay.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
But the point being you want to answer honestly because
also then you can look at the areas you want
to work on. So right, Okay, you know what I'm saying. Okay,
So number one, how often do you eat fermented foods
like kimchi? Like we talked about, yogurt, anything with like
a probiotic within it, sour kraut? Those are the options.
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A says every day, my gut is thriving. B A
few times a week. I'm doing my best. D rarely
does beer count D never? Bacteria freaks me out.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I'm a B okay eating a lot of yogurt.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
I think you know what I'm gonna say B as
well for me right now, but I could sometimes go A.
I'll just say B.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm almost in A now, but it's new within the
last few weeks, so that's why I'm gonna say B.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I'm like a B point five, but it's okay, I'll
just take B okay. Number two, how many servings of
vegetables do you eat daily? A five plus. My body
is basically a garden B three to four. I try,
but fries are technically a vegetable. C one to two.
Do pickles on a burger count D? None? My diet
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is ninety percent vibes and caffeine.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
This is per day, right, Yeah, mine's probably a C. Okay,
eating very protein heavy.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Yeah, so you're C.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm gonna say C.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I'm definitely be like A feels just like a lot
of food. Who eats that much?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, I mean so many vegetables have zero are so
low in calorie that and it's like here's a question
like if you eat a salad and there's and peppers
and I mean I think for serving.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
That's a valid question.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Yeah, I'm gonna go two with me. I mean C
two Okay. I was like, what I'm playing the wrong game?
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Speak English? Okay. Three? What's your sleep routine? Like? A
I get seven to nine hours and I have a
solid wine down routine. B. I sleep most nights, but
love a Netflix binge. See sleep is a suggestion. I
function on caffeine. D. I don't sleep. I simply close
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my eyes and pray for the best.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I'm a solid B.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I think I will go be to And that's not
because I don't like to sleep or want to sleep
or need to sleep. It's because I just am not
a very good sleeper. Yeah, okay. Four do you take
regular movement breaks throughout the day? A? Yes, A stretch walk,
or exercise daily. B. I try, but some days I'm
glued to my chair. C does walk into the fridge
(20:21):
count D movement? I prefer to rest my body at
all times.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That would be an a for me.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh okay, actually I think me too.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I have a full body thing that my trainer has
taught me. It takes eight minutes. It's like a mobility sequences.
You do that at least every day?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Yet, Yeah, that's how I feel. I like, either try
to if a minimum go on, like a twenty minute walk,
do some sort of movement, or if stretching counts, then
for sure. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Five?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
How stressed are you on a daily basis? This is
gonna be an interesting one. A chill is a monk
dress doesn't touch me? Be normal levels, but I manage
it well. See, pretty stressed, but I suppress it with snacks. D.
I am one minor inconvenience away from a breakdown.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Well do you want to go first?
Speaker 1 (21:15):
What are you trying to say here?
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm not inferring anything.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
I think it's like it has definitely varied throughout my
life and depends on obviously what you're going through. I
would say at the moment, I feel it's between B
and C for memm hmm, I'm gonna go be. I'm
gonna give myself some.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's gonna go be with myself too. I mean it's
there's obviously moments where I'm the days or like windows
where I'm much more stressed. Yeah, but I actually feel
like I've got a pretty good handle on my stress,
you know, like it will be specific things that set
me off. It's not just it's not how I exist though.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Yeah, I actually think you're.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
More Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Six Do you engage in social activities and strong relationships. A. Yes,
I'm surrounded by jong and love. B. I have a
good circle, but love my alone time. C. Socializing feels exhausting,
but I try. D. I actively avoid people. It's me
and my cat dog in Netflix. I know your answer, easy.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Yeah, I'm an A.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
I actually think i'm an A too, because even if
I don't see people, I'm on the phone. Yeah, I
think I'm an A. Okay. Seven what's your hydration situation. A.
I drink herbal teas and lots of water daily. B
I try, but sometimes I forget. C. I mostly drink
coffee and sodas. D. I survive purely on vibes and dehydration.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
People that are like that, they're literally drink.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Too and you do not understand it. My friends call
me the camel because they're like, where does it go?
Because I drink so much water. I'm definitely an a.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I'm an a too, as I sent for my hydro jug.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
I know we both are. The interesting thing that she
did teach me is that in Korea they drink a
lot of decaffeinated or like just herbal teas for hydration,
like and I thought, oh, I've always thought tea and
coffee dehydrates you, but she said, if there's not caffeine
and they're herbal teas, it doesn't. And the other thing
I've been doing is something she and I talked about, Like,
(23:37):
I have a bunch of fresh ginger, like I accidentally
ordered too much when I got my groceries delivered, and
so I've been cutting it up and putting like lemon
and fresh ginger under like I put hot water over it.
It's so delicious and it's so good for my digestion,
but it also is just like another So I'm just
not drinking yeah, Like I'm just not drinking like water
(23:58):
all day like it kind of just gives you like
a variation. Okay, so we're both A on that one.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Eight How often do you spend time outdoors? A? Daily?
I love fresh air and sunshine. B A couple times
a week, mostly for Aerran's c rarely does walk into
my car account D never indoors is where I belong.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I would say I'm a B, but like chat ChiPT
got a little snarky on its response because I can't
do it every day. If it's pouring down rain, I'm
not outside.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
Yeah, our weather isn't always conducive, but.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
I walk my dogs pretty much daily, So I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
B yeah A couple times a week. I'm gonna say
the same when it's pretty out for sure, it's every day.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Correct.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
That kind of varies here. Nine do you practice mindfulness, meditation,
or relaxation techniques? A? Yes, I meditate and practice mindfulness daily.
B occasionally when I remember CE not really I should,
but I don't. D my mind is pure chaos twenty
four seven. I mean I feel like my mind is
(25:02):
pure chaos twenty four to seven. But I actually am
an A.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I'm like a B minus, so I don't know if
I should give myself two and a half.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
I don't know. I don't think you should. I think
it's occasionally when I remember or not really I should,
but I don't which one feels more actively.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I think it's more occasionally when I remember. You're B three,
so you're A four.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
You're confusing me. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The number of points?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I'm out, Oh, you're B right, and I'm a, yeah,
you do it at the end of sorry this, I
mean you could, I guess, do it as we go,
but you're saying it to me, so it's in a
confusing moment.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
I'm also doing the wrong number of points.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
But of course, okay, yeah, there's no four.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
There's no four.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Okay, So I'm an A for sure. I do it daily, absolutely, okay. Ten.
How would you describe your diet overall? A balanced whole foods,
minimal process junk B pretty good, but I indulge in
treats see mostly processed foods, but I survive d fast
food and snacks are my entire personality.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
I'm going to say A.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
I'm saying A as well. Okay, okay, So now total
up our answers.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Okay, so the math works out to be where you're
twenty three and I'm twenty five.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
You just start back.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
I just sid it backwards. I'm a twenty three and
you're twenty five.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Yes, okay, so you're twenty three and I'm twenty five.
So here's the results, every one. If you scored between
twenty four and thirty points, you're a centenarian in training.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
So this is it's about one hundred years old.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Like, okay, okay, So it says you're on track to
live a long, healthy life. Keep doing what you're doing,
all right, sixteen to twenty three points. You're doing all right,
but you're making some great choices, but there's room for improvement,
time to add some bond sean to your life. That
was a word she used in our podcast on Wednesday,
(27:04):
and I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
We all have to look it up.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, so healthy living though, I think it's like, honestly
with you, I just feel like it's like a couple little.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, I'm at twenty three, I'm on the CUSP so
and a lot of those answers were yeah, they were
also based on sort of my new path, right, So
I feel like I'm I probably would have been more
of a closer to sixteen before or lower.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, that makes it.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I feel like I'm moving in the right direction.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
If you got eight to fifteen points, you might need
to rethink some choices. Your lifestyle could use some tweaking,
more sleep, veggies and fresh air wouldn't hurt. If you
got zero to seven points, the universe.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You're not even alive anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
The universe has questions. You might need an intervention. Have
you considered drinking water today?
Speaker 2 (27:55):
But seriously, how are you alive? If you got a zero?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
I really hope nobody listening got zero to a seven.
I mean, the other interesting thing that I think they
left out is talking about alcohol, because like, you haven't
been drinking, and can I be honest, your skin has
never looked better? Oh wow, Yeah, I'm serious.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, I mean I think it's like I'm not poisoning
myself from the inside. I know, both with drinking and
the food choices too.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't ask, like how often you
consume alcohol or smoking? You know those things also are
not overall?
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Was that part of your discussion in any way?
Speaker 1 (28:31):
No, it really wasn't. I know. I wonder what they
think in Korean culture about those two things. Yeah, I
don't know. They're so like living such a full love
and light kind of life. They might not even like
it or want it or then or they drink like
really clean wine that they made from their own graves,
right right, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
They like they've got the purest cigarettes on earth. Yeah,
it's just tobacco and no other chemicals.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Anyway, I thought this is kind of interesting. I also
feel like I did know. Okay, I think I live
a pretty fairly healthy life, but there's a couple things
I would really like to work on, like lowering us
my stress levels, having a better sleep schedule. And then
I'm always constantly working on movement, water, eating right, and
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you know, those things can kind of vary too sometimes
when you get really busy or you have a lot
going on, or you're traveling or things like that. So
like really making sure you're doing the best you can
even amongst different kind of circumstances.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right right. I also just did a quick little google.
Soju is a really popular drink there, and it's a
distilled spirit that is consumed by Korean ancestral disease and
bad spirits. Yeah, soju means a welcoming spring. So it's
like even their alcohol is at least in theory.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Energy about it. Well, also, have you ever had soji? Yeah,
it's like so strong you really don't need very much.
So it's like it's almost like drinking moonshine. It's so potent.
So I'm sure they're like you take a shot of
it or something and you're like, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Oh I'm cleansed. Yeah, just drying the devil's fire.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Anyway, if you guys took this quiz, send us your
results to the Edge at Velvet edge dot com. I
think that would be really interesting to hear.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How you gotta know if anyone's got.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
A zero, if anyone got a zero to seven, we're
gonna start praying for you now. But also please send
us your results. Yeah, you guys can also slide into
my DMS. I'm at Velvet Edge Chip.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
I'm at Chip Doors. It's ch I P D O
R S C H.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
And as you guys are going into a weekends and
you're living on the edge, I hope you always remember too.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I casual. Bye bye,
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