{"id":2338,"date":"2015-12-08T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allisonwatts.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2020-08-28T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T17:05:28","slug":"ep-45-miracle-health-dr-uche-odiatu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allisonwatts.com\/ep-45-miracle-health-dr-uche-odiatu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep #45: The Miracle of Health with Dr. Uche Odiatu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1587010418\/Dr-Odiatu\/Dr-Odiatu.jpg?_i=AA\"><img width=\"160\" height=\"160\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-post-2338 wp-image-2339\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIxNjAiIGhlaWdodD0iMTYwIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" alt=\"Dr Odiatu\" data-public-id=\"Dr-Odiatu\/Dr-Odiatu.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1587010418\" data-seo=\"1\" data-size=\"160 160\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1587010418\/Dr-Odiatu\/Dr-Odiatu.jpg?_i=AA 160w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/w_150,h_150,c_fill,g_auto\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1587010418\/Dr-Odiatu\/Dr-Odiatu.jpg?_i=AA 150w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/w_144,h_144,c_fill,g_auto\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1587010418\/Dr-Odiatu\/Dr-Odiatu.jpg?_i=AA 144w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week on <em>Practicing with the Masters, <\/em>Dr. Uche Odiatu joins me to share his incredible wisdom on the power of your health. Dr. Odiatu is a dentist, certified personal trainer and lifestyle coach, and a professional member of the American College of Sports Medicine. He is also a life-long athlete, practicing dentist, and a licensed Zumba instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Odiatu, along with his wife, is the co-author of the books\u00a0<em>The Miracle of Health<\/em> and <em>Fit for The Love of It. <\/em>He has been invited on over 400 radio and TV shows, including ABC, 20\/20 and Canada AM. He is a sought-after speaker, giving over 500 presentations all over the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Odiatu\u2019s presentations are typically super fun, interactive and end up getting everyone out of their seats and moving around. His talk today is no different. He shares his years of study and inspirational stories of change, as well as how you too can change the course of your career and life.<\/p>\n<h3>What You&#8217;ll Learn From This Episode:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why you can only improve one part of your practice at a time.<\/li>\n<li>What happens to your body when you don\u2019t drink enough water.<\/li>\n<li>Why being a perfectionist may be making you sick.<\/li>\n<li>The power of exercise in your life.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Odiatu\u2019s pillars of health.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Listen To The Full Interview:<\/h3>\n\n<h3>Featured On The Show:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect with Dr. Uche Odiatu: <a href=\"http:\/\/fitdentist.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fit Dentist<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:Uche@DrUche.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/odiatu?_rdr=p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fitspeakers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Miracle-Health-Solutions-Extraordinary\/dp\/0470156619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Miracle of Health : Simple Solutions, Extraordinary Results<\/a> <\/em>by Dr. Uche Odiatu and Kary Odiatu<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fit-Love-It-Uche-Odiatu\/dp\/0968825818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fit For The Love Of It!<\/a> <\/em>By Dr. Uche Odiatu and Kary Odiatu<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spark-Revolutionary-Science-Exercise-Brain\/dp\/0316113514\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain<\/a> <\/em>by John Ratey<\/li>\n<li>Tabata<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vitamix.com\/Home?cid=07-0063&amp;coupon=07-0063&amp;gclid=CIPk2_-exskCFYiCfgodQh4HmQ&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vitamix<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Full Episode Transcript:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allisonwatts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/EP045-PWTMTranscript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img width=\"311\" height=\"77\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-post-2338 wp-image-2277\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSIzMTEiIGhlaWdodD0iNzciPjxyZWN0IHdpZHRoPSIxMDAlIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjEwMCUiPjxhbmltYXRlIGF0dHJpYnV0ZU5hbWU9ImZpbGwiIHZhbHVlcz0icmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpO3JnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC4xKTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuNSkiIGR1cj0iMnMiIHJlcGVhdENvdW50PSJpbmRlZmluaXRlIiAvPjwvcmVjdD48L3N2Zz4=\" alt=\"Allison&#039;s-Button\" data-public-id=\"Allisons-Button\/Allisons-Button.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto,q_auto\" data-version=\"1587010383\" data-seo=\"1\" data-size=\"311 77\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1587010383\/Allisons-Button\/Allisons-Button.jpg?_i=AA 311w, https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/transformational-practices-llc\/images\/w_300,h_74,c_scale\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1587010383\/Allisons-Button\/Allisons-Button.jpg?_i=AA 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>The Miracle of Health with Dr. Uche Odiatu<\/h3>\n<div id=\"transcript-link-2338\" class=\"sh-link transcript-link sh-hide\"><a href=\"#\" onclick=\"showhide_toggle('transcript', 2338, 'CLICK HERE TO READ THE TRANSCRIPT (11,030 WORDS )', 'Hide The Transcript (11,030 Hide Transcript)'); return false;\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span id=\"transcript-toggle-2338\">CLICK HERE TO READ THE TRANSCRIPT (11,030 WORDS )<\/span><\/a><\/div><div id=\"transcript-content-2338\" class=\"sh-content transcript-content sh-hide\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to <em>Practicing with the Masters<\/em> for dentists with your host, Dr. Allison Watts. Allison believes that there are four pillars for a successful, fulfilling dental practice: clear leadership, sound business principles, well-developed communication skills, and clinical excellence. Allison enjoys helping dentists and teams excel in all of these areas. Each episode she brings you an inspiring conversation with another leading expert. If you desire to learn and grow and in the process take your practice to the next level, then this is the show for you. Now, here\u2019s your host, Dr. Allison Watts.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome to <em>Practicing with the Masters<\/em> podcast. I&#8217;m your host, Allison Watts, and I\u2019m dedicated to bringing you masters in the field of dentistry, leadership, and practice management to help you have a more fulfilling and successful practice and life.<\/p>\n<p>Uche, we\u2019re excited to have you tonight. I\u2019ll just do a little formal introduction and then we\u2019ll just jump in. So, Uche is, he\u2019s a dentist and he\u2019s a certified personal trainer, a certified lifestyle coach, professional member of the American College of Sports Medicine, and a co-author of the books <em>The Miracle of Health<\/em> and <em>Fit for the Love of It!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s a lifelong athlete, practicing dentist, licensed Zumba instructor, and a dad of four. He\u2019s been an invited guest on 400 radio and TV shows including ABC\u2019s 20\/20 and Canada AM. He\u2019s also done over 500 presentations in Canada, the US, England, Europe, and the Caribbean. You can learn more about him on www.FitDentist.com.<\/p>\n<p>So what I\u2019ve seen of Uche, I\u2019ve seen him speak a couple of times, and it was super fun and interactive. I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be like on the phone, Uche, if you\u2019re going to have us up and jumping around and stuff. [Laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You never know, you never know. [Laughs]<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But I also know that your wife is quite fit and your team looks like they\u2019re quite fit. Like you inspire them to do some of these things at your work. Last time I saw you at Pankey, I was like, \u201cI\u2019ll have whatever he\u2019s having.\u201d You just radiate energy and excitement about what you do. I\u2019m really excited to have you here tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love sharing and I don\u2019t want to keep this a secret if I feel there\u2019s something I know or a skillset I do, naturally, or I\u2019ve just honed over the last 38 years. I started working out when I was 14, certified as a trainer for the last 11 years. But my wife and I have been married 16 years and she\u2019s Miss Fitness Canada, Miss Fitness Universe. She\u2019s also a physical education teacher. So fitness, nutrition, just weaves its way through every part of our life.<\/p>\n<p>We do a lot of these things almost naturally now, or unconsciously, like in Stephen Covey, you go from unconscious incompetence, to conscious incompetence, to conscious competence, to unconscious competence, which is the highest level. I\u2019m sure a lot of your dentists and yourself are so good at what they do, it comes naturally. So when you get that kind of unconscious competence in an area, it becomes effortless, it just becomes natural.<\/p>\n<p>Many times, sometimes the person who does things naturally has a hard time chunking it down to make it seem doable. My gift, the way I like to share and lecture and write, is to make it appear easy, which many times it is. But also to break it down into easy steps, so people can have success really early, and they can enjoy the benefits without having to wait until they get the six-pack, or they don\u2019t have to wait until they\u2019ve run a marathon. They can do it the first meal that they decide to eat with all the food groups and multiple servings of vegetables. They can celebrate that rather than waiting for some far-off trophy to get.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s awesome. I\u2019ve been on that before, where it\u2019s like you\u2019re working really hard, and feel like you\u2019re getting nowhere. I guess it depends on what your goals are.<\/p>\n<p>Uche: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 True. It\u2019s like a dentist who just wants to have more and more new patients and more crowns. At some point, why can\u2019t you have some kind of maintenance area, where every now and then you plateau? Plateauing doesn\u2019t mean a bad thing, it just means\u2014I wouldn\u2019t even say it\u2019s coasting, you\u2019re saying \u201cI\u2019m very happy with where I am, and I want to let this stay in a very steady fashion. I\u2019m going to work on my other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to a prosthodontist who comes into our office weekly about how many dentists, or how many health care providers aim to be excellent in that clinical area. They\u2019re also good in their community. They\u2019re also good parents, or a good son or brother or sister. They\u2019re also physically fit, they\u2019re also financially taken care of their debts and putting away things for their future. And they also read fiction and nonfiction books, and they have a spiritual component.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that\u2019s what Pankey talks about, all the spheres, but it\u2019s something I guess to go for, that\u2019s why you can\u2019t always \u2026 I believe even athletes, you can\u2019t improve every part of your game at once. You can almost work only on one area at a time, to really get proficient, before you move on to another area. The fitness, I guess, is some kind of esoteric \u2026 and I think a lot of people who aren\u2019t fit really make it seem in their minds that it\u2019s something very hard to do, so they just postpone it for some other time. You don\u2019t want to be sidelined by an injury or a chronic disease, so being proactive is really a great way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah. There\u2019s kind of a buzzword now about sustainability of our food and everything, but I think dentists, I\u2019ve found, because I\u2019m 46 now \u2026 Gosh, there could have been some things that I could have done earlier that would have made my career\u2026 Dentistry is hard, it\u2019s stressful physically\u2014I mean, I\u2019m sorry, stressful emotionally and all that\u2014but it\u2019s also stressful physically.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I agree. If you had a good day, if you prepped a full mouth case so you\u2019ve done multiple units or even a new patient exam. When you do a new patient exam, you\u2019re on your best behavior, you\u2019re putting your best foot forward. It\u2019s like having your in-laws over for the first time. The house is perfect, like everything is, you\u2019ve got the music on, the apple pie scent is going through the house. So a new patient exam can be intense if you want everything to appear perfect at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a big believer that dentistry is not only intellectually challenging, emotionally and physically, but my take on it, when you look at how much having a really strong physical foundation leaves you with. I love that JFK quote, John Kennedy, he said that physical fitness is the foundation of all excellence. Basically which is kind of annoying, when you think of, I thought, good perio was. I thought having good bone structure, and having good occlusion is the foundation. No, physical fitness is.<\/p>\n<p>Because if you have a patient who is a shift worker, who works four nights in a row, and they eat a lot of refined carbohydrates, they sit at a desk the whole time. Let\u2019s say they\u2019re a telephone operator and they work nights. They sleep maybe four hours a day. Anyone who eats at nighttime, during the evening, has been shown that digestion slows at nighttime.<\/p>\n<p>So if someone is eating throughout the night during their shift, digestion is poor, they\u2019re more likely to have reflux and acid. Which means it\u2019s going to create havoc with enamel. They\u2019re more likely to have dysfunctional breathing because of sitting when they should be sleeping. They have a thing called thoracic spinal dysfunction by leaning over so the brain\u2019s not getting oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not sleeping well during the day when they should be awake, because now it\u2019s the shift is to be in bed during the day when they should be up. The body is not getting oxygen, which means neurotransmitters don\u2019t get set right, and this is a patient now coming to you to get an implant or connective tissue graft. So they\u2019re not going to heal well. I always say, \u201cPoor sleepers make poor healers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, you have a dentist who\u2019s got a new baby at home. If you have a dentist who is just newly married. If you have a dentist who just came back from a week vacation in Kathmandu, Nepal, giving back to dentistry. So you have a dentist who\u2019s been burning a candle at both ends with being in a different time zone. You have a patient that\u2019s overtired, not sleeping well, and not eating well, those two together don\u2019t make for a good treatment, no matter how excellent the person\u2019s skills are and about how well-intentioned the patient is.<\/p>\n<p>So physical fitness, being well-rested, well-fed, well-hydrated, no injuries, breathing deeply, stress-managed, definitely lays a good foundation for excellent dental work and also excellent treatment planning.<\/p>\n<p>Allison: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So the question for me then is, \u201cOkay, that sounds great, Uche.\u201d And I know you\u2019re a dentist, so you know what it\u2019s like. Even drinking water, I\u2019m not going to keep a bottle of water in the operatory because that\u2019s gross. So I find myself, and I know better, I know how much I should be drinking, and I know how good it is for me, and I still find myself many days in the practice not drinking enough water. I\u2019d love for you\u2014I mean, we have a good 45 minutes or whatever to tell us\u2014is that something that\u2019s a reasonable question?<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I love to start with water, I was thinking I&#8217;d start with some kind of interval training, or compounds or multiple sets, and how do they work, and their heart rate maximum. So you know what, let\u2019s leave that for another day. We could talk about it today, but I think foundationally\u2014when I think of the pillars of health, staying hydrated is definitely right up front.<\/p>\n<p>You know, within four days of not drinking water, we die. So it\u2019s definitely very important. I think I described this on a Facebook post, and I invite any listener in the future, the ones live now, to friend me on Facebook, only because my wife and I, we share posts all the time. Little tidbits and strategies and insider information on how people can get fit really easily.<\/p>\n<p>One of them being just to stay hydrated. Most people know they should drink six to eight glasses of water a day. And this is actually from research and a study done back in the 70s. They talked about how much moisture the body gives off in a day. Through breath, bowel movements, and how much saliva is made and urine. And basically it amounts to about two liters, or two quarts if you want, which is about eight to ten glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Basically what happens though, if you\u2019re not putting fresh water into your body, the body is great at recycling. So when people say they don\u2019t drink water, I\u2019ll often say, \u201cYes you are.\u201d And they\u2019ll say, \u201cUche, how\u2019s that? I don\u2019t put any water in. I just eat boxed food, I eat some fruit.\u201d Obviously, there\u2019s some moisture-rich food that does count, but the health purists say it should be clear water.<\/p>\n<p>Any liquid that\u2019s dark or has some color to it, has some solute. Which means the body, the liver and the stomach, has to digest it. So clear, filtered water is much easier for the body to clean and utilize and help digest and clean out the person better than any colored liquid, tea and coffee being included. A lot of medical doctors and experts will often say coffee and tea can be included in your water intake. It can be included in your fluid intake, but water as most high-end athletes know, it\u2019s a separate quality to think about.<\/p>\n<p>But if the human body is not getting the water it needs, the body is very smart. It needs a certain amount of fluid in the body. So what it does, it lowers the urine flow, but at the same time though, there\u2019s one organ in the body where the body scavenges water from. I\u2019m not sure if I shared that in the Pankey lecture, the keynote two months ago in September.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I don\u2019t remember that.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, so most people when they\u2019re dehydrated, their eyelids feel dry, or their mouth feels kind of sticky, or their skin feels dry. But the number one place your body scavenges water from that\u2019s important for reabsorption, is the colon. I\u2019ll often get people looking at me with a blank stare, like, \u201cSo, big deal, colon.\u201d I\u2019m thinking, what is in the colon? And then people think, \u201cOh.\u201d I say, \u201cYep. Fecal matter or poop, may you say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the body is very smart, the colon is actually for reabsorption of water. The body reabsorbs water from the fecal matter, believe it or not, Allison. So you can run for the glass of water right after I talk about this. The body is reabsorbing water from a dehydrated body.<\/p>\n<p>If a dentist has had a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, hasn\u2019t had breakfast, has worked through lunch, and now it\u2019s two o\u2019clock in the afternoon and they haven\u2019t had one glass of water, the human body is reabsorbing water from the fecal matter. And that water, that is as it squeezes out of the fecal matter, that water is filtered obviously and obviously it\u2019s very good filter.<\/p>\n<p>However, think of that water as being reingested and reabsorbed into the body. What it does, it goes back into the body. And blood is 95 percent water, so blood is one of the first things the body sends it to, because blood is the river of life. Also that same filtered water that\u2019s in the fecal matter becomes your tears, your saliva.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u2019m trying to do now is create a picture so vile that people are thinking, after this call, I\u2019m getting a glass of water because you can either drink water down the hatch up there, or you can take it from down there. So as much as I\u2019m being a little graphic, the true physiological story, it makes almost every audience or every reader think, \u201cOh my god, if that had been explained to me in grade twelve, I would have been drinking two quarts or eight glasses of water a day every day since I first heard that story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So my gift to the listeners now and in the future, if you visualize where that water is coming from, it\u2019s coming from your colon. If you\u2019re not drinking anywhere from six to ten glasses a day. Depends on your energy output, your body weight, obviously, and also if you live in a hot climate or a cold climate. But we need clear filtered water, so the fecal matter can stay moist and leave your body like it should one to two times a day. And you do not want your body scavenging water from your poop throughout the day to refurbish your saliva, your tears, your perspiration, and your blood.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No. That doesn\u2019t sound very good. It\u2019s for many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On many different levels it\u2019s gross.<\/p>\n<p>Allison: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah it is. I don\u2019t want to totally talk about water the whole time, but I do have a question. What about all the stuff that\u2019s going on right now about the alkaline water? You know, supposedly we\u2019re drinking more water than we ever drank in our lives and we\u2019re more dehydrated than we\u2019ve ever been. Like the quality of water, what about that?<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good question, and I think a lot of times really smart people like dentists, multiple degrees, hygienists, college, multiple degrees, we overthink things. And we have a thing called \u201cparalysis by analysis.\u201d The minute a dentist gets his or her hands on a possible to-do list, right away they think of, \u201cI\u2019ve got to get some evidence-based information. I\u2019ve got to look at some peer-reviewed journals. I\u2019ve got to look at Google, I\u2019ve got to ask my doctor, I\u2019ve got to ask my trainer, I\u2019ve got to ask my psychic, I\u2019ve got to ask my spouse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By the time they\u2019ve done their research, over six weeks of research, their fecal matter is like squeezed dry. So I say, stop being so intimately mired in the esoteric.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Just drink the water.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And just start drinking water. Flat water. I\u2019m a big believer in keeping it simple. So, filtered is best. So, tap water is fine, I\u2019m fine with fluoride in the water. I\u2019m like the ADA, they talk about fluoride in water is totally fine.<\/p>\n<p>I do get patients asking about fluoride in the water and all these other things. I\u2019m thinking like, \u201cDo you exercise?\u201d They say, \u201cNo.\u201d I say, \u201cHow much do you sleep a night?\u201d They say, \u201cFive hours.\u201d I say, \u201cIt\u2019s not enough.\u201d I say, \u201cDo you love your job?\u201d They say, \u201cNo.\u201d I say, \u201cDo you eat fast food?\u201d They say, \u201cFour times a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019ll say, \u201cDo you like where you live?\u201d They say, \u201cI hate my street, where I\u2019m living right on the corner.\u201d \u201cDo you have a pet that you stroke and increase your oxytocin at the nighttime?\u201d \u201cNo, I don\u2019t have any cats or dogs. And I hate my kid\u2019s snake.\u201d I said, \u201cWell, fluoride is the least important thing for you to get healthy.\u201d There are so many foundational things to get healthy, other than worrying about fluoride in water.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t mean to disparage people who really want to get some answers about that. But when you think of exercise, posture, nutrition, sleep quality, stress management, and being happy. They\u2019ve done studies where they\u2019ve just shown that people who love their job and love their family and are content overall have less C-reactive protein in their body than someone who\u2019s perfectionistic, never good enough person. This is some research and that makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>Because perfectionists are people\u2014it might be a compliment when our patients call us a perfectionist\u2014but a perfectionist means you\u2019re never happy. Never happy means you\u2019re at a chronic level frustrated to the psyche, or to emotions, being frustrated is a sign to your body that it has some slight uneasiness to it, or disease.<\/p>\n<p>Anytime you\u2019re uneasy or frustrated or annoyed, our ancient bodies raise levels of cortisol. People who are chronically irritated, chronically irritated, chronically frustrated, chronically not happy, have higher levels of ambient cholesterol\u2014sorry, cortisol. Cortisol is a breakdown hormone in the body. Anytime you have breakdown, you have inflammation, because the body needs to use inflammation as part of the demolition and the rebuilding process.<\/p>\n<p>So people who are perfectionists or chronically annoyed, have higher levels of C-reactive protein in their body. And C-reactive protein, 80 percent of it\u2019s made in the liver. Anytime someone has heart disease, or has a cancer diagnosis, many times C-reactive protein is elevated. So mood and emotions have effect on our bodies. So being content and happy definitely has a part to play in living a long, happy life.<\/p>\n<p>Allison: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Interesting. I know that, that a different kind of work, works. Not like exercise. Although you said to me the other day, that exercise does also affects the brain. We know that, right, we all know that exercise affects our mood and our emotions. How does that work? Is that a pretty direct correlation, or are you a proponent of personal growth kind of stuff? Or, all of the above?<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I like that. I\u2019m glad you asked, because many times we think that exercise is strictly just for aesthetics, it\u2019s strictly just for looking great for your Facebook picture. It\u2019s strictly great for your 20<sup>th<\/sup> high school reunion, you want to get in shape to show all those people that you still got it. But I\u2019m saying that exercise has a huge value added when it comes to your brain power.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a book called <em>Spark<\/em> by John Ratey, he\u2019s a Harvard-trained psychiatrist who is a professor at Harvard who wrote a book called <em>Spark<\/em> eight years ago. In it, it\u2019s called <em>Spark<\/em> because it\u2019s the new science of exercise revolution. What it basically comes down to, it says the people who exercise on a regular basis have more of this thing called BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor. It\u2019s a neurotransmitter, or neurotrophic factor\u2014so B, D in Dog, N in Norman, F as in Factor\u2014so people who exercise have more of this neurotransmitters called BDNF. The analogy he made, he said it\u2019s like Miracle Grow. Miracle Grow, being if you have two plants of equal rain, sun, and food, the plant with the Miracle Grow fertilizer will grow thicker, bushier, and faster.<\/p>\n<p>What happens is BDNF, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, increases the communication ability between neurons. There are studies that show, and scientists show that every neuron communicates with 10,000 other neurons in a complex web. The brain being the most complex computer in the known universe.<\/p>\n<p>So people who have more of this BDNF from exercise, there\u2019s no other way to get it, you can\u2019t get it from a transplant, from a drug, from anything else, from food you can\u2019t get it from. What they\u2019ve shown is exercisers have more of this Miracle Grow-like neurotrophic factor in it.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why when you do more studies you realize that 85 percent of CEOs are exercisers or forced to exercise. All the U.S. presidents exercise. The sad thing is, it\u2019s the complete reverse in the general population. In the general population, only less than 15 to 10 percent of people exercise. With the average household income in the United States being $50,000, the average CEO compensation of a Fortune 500 company is anywhere from 1 to 70 million, if we look at some of the American Express CEO compensation.<\/p>\n<p>When I look to increasing my productivity and my brain power, I don\u2019t think of eating more fish oil, which is a big part of having your brain work better, I\u2019m thinking of exercising. I\u2019m thinking of moving my body, getting oxygen to my brain, getting oxygen to my heart, and leveraging the power of exercise to increase my brain power. That\u2019s why I did a course in Washington, DC a few weeks ago, called Power Up Your Brain with Burpees<em>.<\/em> It was a little bit of old-school, because burpees was just a metaphor. But it was all about the power of exercise to increase productivity, increase your reaction time.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve shown that men who are 55 have a slower reaction time than men in their 30s. Fighter pilots often choose a younger fighter pilot to fight the battles rather than the older ones. But a 55-year-old who exercises can have equal reaction time to someone 10 to15 years younger.<\/p>\n<p>So you can imagine now as a dentist, whether you\u2019re finishing a temporary crown and it\u2019s caught in your glove, and as the temporary flies up in the air, and the patient looks up at you with sheer horror, you\u2019re able to grab it with your ninja-like grasp. And not look so silly as when that temporary goes flying as it gets caught in the burr in your gloves and it goes flying into a plant on the windowsill and you\u2019ve got to start all over again.<\/p>\n<p>Having increased reaction time, having increased productivity, having increased Miracle Grow in your brain, can definitely sustain healthier conversations but also better treatment planning, better working on the fly with putting out fires in the office. At the same time, having genius in your conversations with your teenage son, or your spouse that wants 110 percent of you when you come home at nighttime.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What about the other chemicals that exercise \u2026 like doesn\u2019t dopamine and serotonin, doesn\u2019t it affect a bunch of different chemicals too?<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh yeah, there\u2019s one called phenylethylamine. Phenylethylamine is, PEA it\u2019s called, P-E-A. And that is elevated for about 30 to 45 minutes after a workout. So phenylethylamine is the hormone that raises when\u2014and I\u2019m not being sexist\u2014but a woman eats chocolate or has chocolate, that so feel-good sensation that a woman will often get if they love chocolate. It\u2019s phenylethylamine that rises in the body. So after you exercise, a person who enjoys exercise, will have higher levels of phenylethylamine, PEA, P-E-A, in their body after.<\/p>\n<p>The other hormone that increases during exercise is endorphins. Everyone\u2019s heard of endorphins and all the listeners and future listeners have heard of the word endorphins. Endorphins are feel-good hormones that surge through an exerciser\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>I get that myself, like I\u2019ll think, \u201cI don\u2019t want to go out for a walk, and I haven\u2019t been out all day, it\u2019s cold.\u201d And anytime I think of maybe I should exercise, this is my little tidbit, Allison, in terms of a tip for the listeners. The minute you think, \u201cI wonder if I should go to the gym, I wonder if I should get outside the house to move,\u201d the minute I think \u201cmaybe should I?\u201d I start walking toward the door. And as I walk toward the door, I can\u2019t go back at that point in my mind. I put the shoes on. And then I\u2019m outside the door.<\/p>\n<p>And then I think, \u201cYou know what, I\u2019m outside the door with my shoes on, hopefully I have clothes on, okay. I\u2019m going to start walking. Five, ten, fifteen, twenty minutes.\u201d In the first few steps, thinking, \u201cIt\u2019s cold, it\u2019s late, why am I doing this? It\u2019s 9:30 at night.\u201d But about two minutes into the walk, endorphins start flooding through you. So it doesn\u2019t just happen five miles into the run.<\/p>\n<p>They actually have shown that endorphins start almost immediately. It\u2019s feel-good hormones that flood your body. Those feel-good hormones basically also lessen your pain interpretation. They know this because people have endorphins flooded during a race when they\u2019re really happy. They won\u2019t feel the pain of the stitch in their side, or the cramp, just because they\u2019re in their first marathon, they\u2019re in front of 8,000 people and they\u2019ll finish the race and then they\u2019ll collapse after. The endorphins give you a chance to not feel the discomfort of running.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019ve shown is, and I just heard this just last week from Laura Pollock, she\u2019s a dietitian and a master of science in nutrition. She said there was a study done where they had people lift weights and they had a dumbbell set up, and they had people lifting weights. They were measuring their endorphins inside them, and they acknowledged they had a certain amount of \u2026 they were flooded with endorphins.<\/p>\n<p>Then they had the same group, I\u2019m not sure if it was done IV or injection or how they were taking it, but they had the chemical or the prescription medication called Nyloxin, which is an endorphin blocker in the body, an opioid blocker. So these people are exercising, the same people then who love their dumbbell curling.<\/p>\n<p>When they had Nyloxin go through their body, Nyloxin blocks opioids, they actually blocks endorphins. Well the people who are lifting weights with Nyloxin inside them, four repetitions into the study, could not stand the pain of the muscles contracting and the weight coming up and touching their shoulder. They were floored at how quick lack of endorphins could make a person ache during their workout.<\/p>\n<p>I lift weights. I was working out today, I had a 45-pound dumbbell in each hand and I\u2019m doing dumbbell curls. Sure it hurts, but at the same time I\u2019m feeling good. I see the muscles moving, I\u2019m feeling good, it\u2019s about an hour and a half out from my first patient and I\u2019m working out hard this morning, because it was my morning off. So if I had Nyloxin in my body, the endorphins would be blocked and at that point then, what I\u2019m having doing is I\u2019m going to feel every pang of that muscle being worked. And I would stop.<\/p>\n<p>Endorphins are a huge part of that feel-good sensation that a regular exerciser will have. Even for the new exerciser. If someone doesn\u2019t walk every day, Allison, and they went out for a walk tonight, and they walked five minutes, it\u2019s really hard not to start feeling good just having moved four or five minutes, especially after being sitting all day or working chair-side and leaning over a patient. Even with your loupes on, the stress of not breathing deeply causes muscle adhesions and cramps in the body that are totally taken away when someone sits up straight or stands up and goes for a walk in the fresh nighttime air.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So that\u2019s the kind of stuff you\u2019re saying that\u2019s just simple little things that we can do. Just get up and move. Just take a walk. I know it\u2019s silly, because I\u2019ve been through times when I made exercise part of my life, and whatever\u2019s important to you, you make it happen. And it has been important to me, but it\u2019s also been something where I was just so exhausted it\u2019s hard to make myself get up early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m curious how you\u2019ve been able to\u2014I know it\u2019s a part of your life, but maybe not speaking from your perspective, but other people you\u2019ve seen. I don\u2019t know, most of these people on this call are probably the healthy ones, we\u2019re probably preaching to the choir. I actually know several of them, and some of them are pretty healthy. I\u2019m just thinking of day to day, how to, what about the different flexibility is one part and strength is another and cardio is another. Working all that in, if you could give us some pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great question. First, I think everyone who doesn\u2019t exercise or leads a sedentary life, or used to be an athlete when they were younger in college and no longer \u2026 ten, twenty years later, and they have a belly, they have the skinny legs, they have rotator cuff problem or a knee replacement. They\u2019re thinking, \u201cYou know what, it takes too much time and I don\u2019t have an hour and a half every day. So why bother?\u201d A lot of former athletes think unless I have ten guys or ten women with me, if I don\u2019t have an hour and a half, if I don\u2019t have my cleats on, if I don\u2019t have my stadium stairs to run, I\u2019m not going to bother. I call it the all or nothing phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of dentists, because we\u2019re so intense, we so want to do the best thing for our patients, we also so want to have everything complete and perfect before we exercise. That all or nothing phenomenon will also lend itself to thinking, \u201cWhy bother? It\u2019s eight o\u2019clock at night. All I have at the gym is 20 minutes.\u201d Or, \u201cWhy bother, there\u2019s construction at the end of the road, I can\u2019t ride my bike through it, I\u2019m not going to bother.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But I\u2019m a big fan of less is more. The new research has shown that with interval training, five to seven minutes, as much as ten, is equivalent to 50 minutes of steady-state exercise. The neat thing about that is, that actually studies as far back as the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>It was Professor Tabata, T-A-B-A-T-A, Professor Tabata, and it was a Japanese study. He took athletes and he had them exercise at interval training, which is high intensity, low intensity, high intensity, low intensity. They did it on a stationary bike or a treadmill, I think it was. They had them run on an incline, lots of resistance on the treadmill for 30 seconds, and then after 30 seconds they ran flat again with low resistance. And they did 30 with high intensity then 30 with low intensity. Back and forth for five minutes. And they had a whole other group that they trained 50 minutes. And they did also three to four times a week.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of four months, they found out that the intensity, or the interval training group, had a better increase in VO2 max and cardiac output and stroke volume than the people who did steady state exercise. They\u2019ve now shown that less is more. Meaning that, you don\u2019t have to work out for an hour to have the benefits that a lot of dentists think you do.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t do an hour, trust me, five to seven minutes has equal ability to improve your heart, your VO2 max\u2014VO2 max is a classic parameter or metric of how well your body consumes oxygen, distributes oxygen and utilizes oxygen in your body. And they\u2019ve shown that people who have a good VO2 max have a better quality, longer life. So VO2 max is a classic metric to see.<\/p>\n<p>If we took all the listeners, myself, and you included, Allison, and measured our VO2 max, all weight and age being put aside, they can predict the length and the quality of our lives simply from who had the highest VO2 max. Who has the ability to use oxygen and take it in and utilize it and give off CO2 more efficiently than the other person? That\u2019s why I mention it in my lectures. Oxygen, or your ability to intake air in a healthy manner, is one of the best ways to improve your health immediately. Just by taking a deep diaphragmatic breath in.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a fan of interval training in terms of its ability to, especially for a busy person. We talk about 65 percent of us don\u2019t have time to exercise. Well, interval training takes that excuse away because as little as five to seven minutes as the research has shown is equivalent to 50 minutes of steady state cardio. You don\u2019t have to run on that treadmill for an hour anymore to increase your VO2 max. How does that sound?<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s awesome. And I have the little Tabata app on my phone and it\u2019s really cool and I sometimes, actually pretty often, don\u2019t think about using it. But I do do some interval stuff. It\u2019s just a consistency thing too. I don\u2019t know about anybody else on the call, but for me it\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If anyone wants to jump in and ask a question, I\u2019m totally fine. I know sometimes we have some experts also too. Many times you\u2019ll have an expert but there\u2019s thousands of couch potatoes. Or you have an expert whose son is 300 pounds and fourteen years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Many times being expert doesn\u2019t mean everyone in your life is also healthy. Many times being an expert almost creates a distance between your spouse or your brother or your son, and it\u2019s more challenging to get a 300-pound son or daughter healthy. Especially if dad is a marathon runner and mom is an Iron Man or triathlete. If someone has any questions they\u2019d like to come in with, Allison, I\u2019m totally willing to share at this point, if they like.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah. If you guys, I wanted to say that, if you guys have a question or comment, push *2. I guess really what I\u2019m wondering is, like, developing healthy habits. You talked about the pillars too, that it\u2019s not just exercise and water. The breath I think is an interesting thing, I think a lot of people don\u2019t breathe well, right. I think we hold our breath or shallow breathe all day. I know I can speak for myself that I\u2019ve done that. Especially doing dentistry and you\u2019re doing fine things with your hands. I would think breath, water, exercise, diet, sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019m going to leave you with seven. You\u2019ve got a bunch in there. So air is number one. One time my daughter asked me, \u201cWhat\u2019s the most valuable thing on the planet?\u201d She asked if it was diamonds, I said no. She goes, \u201cIs it oil?\u201d I said, no. \u201cIs it mama?\u201d I said, \u201cI\u2019ve been away from mom for three days,\u201d I said, \u201cbut I can\u2019t be more than a minute without oxygen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And my nine-year-old daughter looked with shock, she said, \u201cYou mean, air is more important than mom?\u201d And I said, \u201cWell, listen. If I don\u2019t have air for one minute, I\u2019m dead.\u201d So she goes, \u201cOkay, so oxygen\u2019s more important than mom.\u201d I said, \u201cNo, water. I\u2019ve been away from mom for four days, I can\u2019t go more than four days without water.\u201d So she goes, \u201cAir, water, what else, mom?\u201d I said, \u201cNo, sleep. I can\u2019t go more than two nights without sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when it comes down to it, when people talk about they love their family, they love their car, they love their Lexus, they love their staff, they love their team. Oxygen is the most important thing on the planet. None of us on this call could be without it more than sixty seconds. Four minutes, we\u2019re brain dead. So how we breathe tells the body a lot of how we\u2019re going to feel. How we breathe is how much cortisol is going to run through our body.<\/p>\n<p>The minute we don\u2019t get the oxygen that we need in, the body starts setting up a low-grade fight or flight response. It stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, or your hypothalamus pituitary adrenal gland axis and starts spinning. Because the brain needs a constant supply of oxygen. Even though the brain only weighs three pounds, it takes 20 percent of the oxygen that comes into our body.<\/p>\n<p>Which means also it has lots of free radicals in exhaust, which if you\u2019re not in a good posture, you also don\u2019t remove it well. Hence the big need for a sigh when you\u2019re leaning over or stressed out. The body\u2019s trying to get rid of the exhaust, and it\u2019s got to go [makes breathing sound]. You\u2019ve got to do a big gasp as the body tries to get rid of the CO2, or the carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>Just having poor posture\u2014I\u2019ve done crowns or I\u2019ve been extracting a tooth, and I look over at my assistant, she\u2019s looking at me, like, \u201cYou look like Pee-wee Herman.\u201d As I look at some weird Gumby-like position I\u2019m in and I realize I\u2019ve held my breath, or I\u2019m breathing shallow. I\u2019m struggling why my wrist is so sore. Because my body starts shutting down and gets excited when it doesn\u2019t have enough oxygen.<\/p>\n<p>So the minute I straighten up my back, and inhale through my nose\u2014and we talked about inhaling through the nose increases nitric oxide, which is one of the best basal dilators in the body. It makes the endothelial lining, which is a single cell lining, in all the 60,000 miles of blood vessels, it makes those blood vessels more flexible.<\/p>\n<p>So the minute you breathe in through your nose, your nitric oxide levels go from 97 to 100, and right away the brain is happier. A lot of times the aches and pains go away. You\u2019re better able to access the different parts of your brain which allow you to get that tooth out in four or five or six minutes compared to the hours struggling, holding your breath and breathing shallow. Definitely air is the number one pillar of health.<\/p>\n<p>If everyone right now who\u2019s listening, if you\u2019re sitting, get your shoulders back and your chin tucked in, and take a big deep inhale. Or if you\u2019re sitting, the best way to get more air, good air into your body, is to stand. Standing and walking is one of the best ways to pump more oxygen into your body rather than sitting. Sitting stooped over is the worst, sitting with your shoulders back is better, standing up is better, then walking while standing with your head slightly, your eyes above the horizon is the best way to get oxygen into your body.<\/p>\n<p>Not that you can walk around during your crown prep, but you can definitely\u2014I know a lot of dentists can relate\u2014you\u2019re having trouble getting a crown out, or a tooth out, so you have the person bite on gauze. Tell them to take a break. Then many times as a dentist, I\u2019m not sure Allison has even done this, I\u2019ll get up from the seat, walk down the hall. Move my head around in a circle, give myself a minute, come back, and many times then, because I\u2019ve got oxygen in, I\u2019ve felt a different way I\u2019m actually starting to luxate the ridge, I\u2019m able to get the tooth out easier than if I struggled holding my breath for those few minutes in the chair.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That was a question I was going to ask you after we went through the seven pillars, but we also have a hand raised. I\u2019m going to write myself a little note here so I don\u2019t forget that one. But it is about taking breaks. Taking breaks during the day. Building that into your schedule somehow. I will come back to that because Jill has a question. I\u2019m going to unmute you, Jill. There you go.<\/p>\n<p>Jill:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yoga. Yoga really has helped me, especially being a hygienist and being in the chair, working and things. When I lived back in Ohio, I used to teach yoga after work at the office. We would clear the reception area and we would do yoga. Then in between patients during the week, we would practice breathing in the middle of the hallway. Just bust out a sun salutation or something. Nothing, nobody\u2019s around, of course, but it was a lot about breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Since I\u2019ve always done yoga, I don\u2019t sit in the proper way when I\u2019m working on patients sometimes I bend over weird. But I don\u2019t ever have any back problems, I don\u2019t have any neck problems. Everybody asks me, you kind of sit weird sometimes. I said, \u201cWell, do yoga. Then you can get away with that.\u201d And the breathing, that\u2019s what yoga does. It concentrates on your breathing.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exactly. Jill, you\u2019re awesome. You\u2019re obviously not the majority of dental health care professionals, because yoga, people look at you and think, \u201cYeah, it\u2019s something I saw my uncle do once, my sister do once.\u201d It\u2019s amazing, you have 600 muscles, 206 bones, and you know, weight training, cardio, they build the muscles, build the heart. But somehow yoga or Pilates, yoga in particular, has a way to all those 600 muscles and tendons and joints and 206 bones, it helps them coordinate. Almost like you become a better symphony and things work more harmoniously. It\u2019s definitely a good way to integrate muscle.<\/p>\n<p>And men more than women, because women naturally are more flexible than men. I think many women would benefit from doing more weight training, because they are more likely to have sarcopenia, or muscle loss, but men, we do retain our muscle more, because we have 30 times more testosterone. So if a man was going to try yoga, or some way to integrate stretching and breathing into his workout, men benefit majorly by doing yoga. It can make a 60-year-old man who is stiff and tired feel like a 35-year-old again, because it\u2019s amazing yoga\u2019s ability to correct posture.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re right, Jill. Many times a really healthy body can be off balance longer than someone who has small legs and a big belly, or a rounded or kyphotic posture.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s like having good flexibility and good muscle is like having three months of emergency money in your bank account. When you have three months of emergency money in your bank account, if there\u2019s a recession or a correction, or emergency, you don\u2019t feel so stressed out about it. Having good muscle tone and flexibility and being pain free is like having a huge reserve in your bank account.<\/p>\n<p>What it does is, it allows you to weather the storm of missing a few days\u2019 workout, traveling overseas to Turkey to take a cosmetic course, or there\u2019s an emotional crisis in your family. Your body is better able to attenuate and not be so reactive when you\u2019re an exerciser.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve shown that exercisers are better able, they\u2019re not as knee-jerk in their reactions to stress. Being a yogi and a breather and flexibility Jill, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve found you feel more balance in your coordinated conversations with difficult patients. You\u2019re not thrown to the curb when a patient throws a question at you because you\u2019re thinking with all of your body. Like a beautiful orchestra rather than just like hammering with a cymbal or knocking them with a drumstick.<\/p>\n<p>Jill:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right. It concentrates a lot more on your breathing, too. It is about flexibility, obviously, but the breathing is the most important thing that I\u2019ve ever taught when I\u2019ve taught yoga. Anytime you go to a yoga class, it\u2019s like you got to concentrate on your breathing to get through the stretches. To get into the stretches.<\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of men that are doing it, so it\u2019s good. And no, they\u2019re not flexible, but yoga\u2019s not about a competition. It\u2019s about your own self.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right. That whole idea about it\u2019s all about, yeah, getting oxygen into the body, getting the person focusing, being mindful. When you\u2019re breathing deep, you\u2019re more mindful in your body. When you\u2019re holding your breath, right away the brain is on emergency fight or flight mode. So anytime someone is aware of their breath, or inhaling deeply, through their diaphragm, or through their abdomen sticking out like a baby does. Your body is in the zone where you\u2019re fully able to embrace the present, where all our joy is, in the present. You\u2019re not worried about the past, where people hold their breath, and anxious about the future.<\/p>\n<p>They say 80 percent of people who are anxious have poor breathing. Anxiety and depression, depression over what happened in the past, or resentment, changes how you breathe also. When you\u2019re fully present, and you\u2019re breathing deep, the brain basically transcends time.<\/p>\n<p>Like Eckhart Tolle in his book <em>A New Earth<\/em>, or <em>The<\/em> <em>Power of Now<\/em>, he says all our power, all our enjoyment, is simply slices of present moment time. So breathing deep puts us into our power position, which is being present. We can enjoy the conversation with our spouse, we can enjoy the new car scent. You get into that new car, \u201cOh, yeah, I got my new car months ago, it\u2019s worn off.\u201d Be present next time you sit down, still breathe in, that feeling of sit down, that smooth leather, that heated seat if you\u2019re in a cold climate.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a big fan of breath as being definitely a way to change your emotion and be grateful and definitely harmonize your body\u2019s muscle. So Jill, that\u2019s a great comment and a great also addition, bringing yoga into the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Jill:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, you\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That kind of fits with where I was headed. I picture your office, Uche, kind of like that, where you guys probably stop during the day. I\u2019ve been playing with this idea of\u2026 putting on dance music every hour and a half or something and just having everybody take a dance break.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah, a bell goes off and we hand out kale and spinach salad, and people meditate, and we chant and we look at our life goals. No, that\u2019s that Shangri-La thinking, \u201cUche\u2019s life must be full of perfect posture, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019s never sworn or all his crowns probably fit because he\u2019s so present. He gets the path of insertion properly.\u201d But let me tell you, I\u2019ve realized, Albert Einstein said, \u201cThe best teacher is role modeling. It\u2019s not only the best teacher, it\u2019s the only teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I was 18, 19, 20, when I might have been working out five or six years, I used to tell people how to eat, I told people what I ate for breakfast, and I lost all my friends and alienated my family. So I\u2019ve long since lost the need to tell people what they should eat or how many calories they have in their lunch or how much fiber they\u2019re missing eating that processed food. I want my friends, I want to have a good interaction with my family at Christmastime and everything else.<\/p>\n<p>I now just role model it and I enjoy good health. And when people invite me into their lives by asking me a question, then it\u2019s easier to chat and share rather than telling people what to do. Even with my patients, you\u2019d think every one of my patients meditates and they have a Vitamix, and they do weights, cardio, and flexibility, balance training.<\/p>\n<p>I have patients who are smokers, I have one patient who is probably 350 pounds, he\u2019s 70 years old, diabetic, but he enjoys me telling him, \u201cDon\u2019t you remember being an athlete?\u201d He goes, \u201cYeah.\u201d I say, \u201cWouldn\u2019t you like to go back there one day?\u201d And this guy, named Jack, says, \u201cMaybe, but eh, I\u2019m 70 now.\u201d I said, \u201cJack, if you have diabetes and you\u2019re 70 and you\u2019re 310 pounds and you\u2019re still standing, and you\u2019re coming in for your tooth whitening, the chances are you\u2019re going to live another two decades. Now\u2019s the best time for you to recommit.\u201d He says, \u201cYeah, Dr. Odiatu, I love coming here because you\u2019re so optimistic.\u201d But he goes, \u201cIt\u2019s not my time yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I try not to be judgmental with my patients, and I want to always let them think I\u2019m not judging them for where they are. All I see is how they could be. In the same breath, in that moment then, let\u2019s just get on with the tooth whitening and I\u2019ll make a note in the chart, \u201cDiscussed lifestyle issues, patient not ready to commit. Will bring up the same topic next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I really love that approach. It\u2019s very volitional, it\u2019s very I\u2019m not pushy. If a patient wants to go to a natural path, if a patient wants to know more about Vitamin D and Omega 3s, if they want to know about hydration, etc. I\u2019m there. But in the same breath, though, if they\u2019re not ready, I\u2019m not going to lose that patient or alienate them.<\/p>\n<p>Because there will come a time like Walter Hailey said, if you keep a patient in recare long enough, eventually they\u2019ll get everything they need done. So I\u2019m a firm believer, if I keep these patients in my recare long enough, eventually they will turn their tide and possibly exercise one day and six to eight glasses of water. And sleep seven to nine hours a night and breathe deeply and with their shoulders back and their chin tucked in and in a perfect posture.<\/p>\n<p>Allison\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yeah. If they leave because you make them mad, then they\u2019re going to go somewhere else where they\u2019re probably not going to have that positive influence. They\u2019re not going to have somebody who stands for them like that.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Allison, I\u2019m like you. You seem so positive and happy, my first impression of you is that you\u2019re smiling, which tells me that you like yourself. You came up and asked me this question at this Pankey keynote. And I thought, \u201cWow, what a happy, abundant, nice dentist you are.\u201d And I\u2019m sure patients love not being judged. Who likes being judged?<\/p>\n<p>I have friends that don\u2019t exercise. People think, \u201cOh, Uche, I bet all your friends exercise. I bet you don\u2019t like anyone who doesn\u2019t.\u201d Well, not really. Exercise is only one part of my life. I still want friends. I enjoy people.<\/p>\n<p>I do find though, that exercisers definitely have an easier time hanging out with each other because we order very similar things on the menu. Instead of walking to a dessert coffee place\u2014sorry, driving a car to a dessert coffee place, we\u2019ll walk to a coffee place and we\u2019ll spend more time talking and snacking on thousand-calorie dessert coffees. We don\u2019t express disdain at each other for not ordering the free-range chicken and \u201cWhy did you get the pork chop today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I do think, if you want to get in shape, I think you need to spend more time with healthy people. Part of that is finding out people who do exercise, maybe going for a walk at lunch hour. You may walk alone, but it\u2019s definitely more fun walking with someone.<\/p>\n<p>Again, another way of spending time with healthy people is to read. I love reading about Jack LaLanne\u2019s history, I love Billy Blanks, I like Jillian Michaels\u2019 books. I like Tony Horton, P90X, I think he\u2019s done a great job with P90X. P90X is a definitely interval-style workout that\u2019s done with CDs. I\u2019m sure people have seen it advertised on television.<\/p>\n<p>I think if people friend me on Facebook, they can hang out with me and they can feel they know me just by commenting or liking posts and asking questions. Part of getting around healthy people these days is social media. You know, follow certain healthy people. Learn the language of fitness nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>Be able to define glycemic index and know why having a good blender and mixing up a number of different servings of vegetables at one time is good for you. How blending fruit and vegetables is better than juicing, because juicing gets rid of all the fiber. When you blend in a Vitamix or some of these really good high-quality blenders. I like Vitamix because it\u2019s American-made and it\u2019s got blades in it that can probably, if you threw a car tire in it would probably chew it up and spit it into a glass.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I got a new Vitamix eight weeks ago\u2014I\u2019m not sponsored by Vitamix\u2014but Vitamix, I can throw kale, celery, ginger, carrots, an apple, a banana, hemp seed, a little bit of olive oil, and some pea protein, and it\u2019s an amazing drink that I know I\u2019m getting five or six servings of fruits and vegetables when I know the average American gets two. The average Canadian, three servings a day. So I\u2019m doubling my vegetable intake simply by having my blended vegetable drink.<\/p>\n<p>All those things help me stack up and feel I\u2019m healthy rather than having washboard abs like I had at 20 or having the same amount of body fat I had in high school. To me, I like to celebrate every healthy decision along the way. Which makes me have ten reasons to celebrate today. Rather than just having, \u201cThe marathon is six months off. I guess I better wait to have my victory beer with my friend in October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No, you can celebrate the fact that you have three different pairs of runners. One for sprints, one for marathon and one for lounging around the house. I really believe in anyone who wants to get started, they need to celebrate more often so they can feel better about going on their fitness or wellness journey.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Oh, yeah. That\u2019s awesome. So I want to know your seven pillars. I am thinking that attitude or stress reduction or something about positive attitude\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay. I love that. Air first. Breathing is number one. You can\u2019t go anywhere without breath. Sleep is number two. If someone doesn\u2019t sleep well, it means their body is not having enough melatonin, their body does not have the growth hormone. The body only releases the growth hormone, 80 percent of the growth hormone we have is released during stage four sleep. If you had a sleep study done, or a polysomnography test, they\u2019ll tell you what the percentage of time you spend in deep sleep, which is stage four.<\/p>\n<p>You need to at least be able to have about 25 percent of your sleep in a night in stage four. And as we get older, we spend less and less time in stage four. Less and less time, less and less growth hormone, which means flabby skin, loose muscles, cellulite, and droopy arms. Simply because we don\u2019t have as much growth hormone.<\/p>\n<p>When you think we have a seven-month-old at home, he\u2019s tight, he\u2019s turgid, the guy, he feels so hydrated, because he has tons of growth hormone at seven months. A 65-year-old man, 70-year-old woman, much less growth hormone. Being a good sleeper means you have optimum levels of growth hormone. So it\u2019s really hard to be healthy and a poor sleeper.<\/p>\n<p>If someone says they sleep poorly \u2026 I had a dentist come up to me in Washington, DC, just after a talk. We did a talk called Exercise is Medicine, a few weeks ago. He said, \u201cDoc, I\u2019ve just been told I\u2019m diabetic.\u201d I go, \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d He goes, \u201cYeah, my A1C levels were out of whack over the last few months. The doctor said I have diabetes.\u201d I said, \u201cYou look lean, you\u2019re not overweight.\u201d He goes, \u201cThat surprised me.\u201d And I said, \u201cHow do you sleep?\u201d And he goes, \u201cWhy do you ask?\u201d He said he sleeps horribly. And I said, \u201cYou know what, people who do shift work, people who sleep horribly, you become 17 to 30 percent less insulin sensitive if you\u2019re a poor sleeper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Your body literally becomes a poor sugar burner if you sleep poorly at nighttime. So people, they\u2019ve done studies where they\u2019ve shown after four nights of shift work, a person will have pre-diabetic blood sugar levels. If you\u2019re a poor sleeper for months at a time, for a lifetime, you\u2019re more likely to develop diabetes, which kills people ten to fifteen years earlier if they\u2019re poorly maintained.<\/p>\n<p>So air first, obviously oxygen. Two is good sleep. Third is hydration. Fourth is exercise. Fifth is nutrition. Sixth is stress management, how you manage stress. And seven is, I like the seven pillars, it\u2019s oral hygiene. You really can\u2019t be healthy with periodontal disease, gingivitis, brown tongue if you don\u2019t drink coffee and loose teeth. Those are my seven pillars.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Great, great. So we have, gosh, only five minutes left. Is there anything I should have asked you that I didn\u2019t? Or anything you want to share, or if anybody has a question, you can push *2.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, I guess the biggest thing for me, is if someone has any kind of chronic disease or chronic condition, or an issue or a muscle sprain or strain, or having trouble with their memory, or a skin condition, or a joint pain, or a chronic condition like reflux or high cholesterol, look to the pillars first. You still use your doctor, obviously. But look to see what you can improve with your pillars first.<\/p>\n<p>Any chronic condition is made better\u2014not gone away completely\u2014is made better by sleeping more. Any chronic condition is made better by breathing better. Having better posture. Any chronic condition is made better by a regular exercise habit, two to three times a week. Any chronic condition is made better by eating more vegetables and fruit. And if you love meat, I still love my meat, but I\u2019d rather have free-range chicken, or free-range beef, which means grass fed. Grass in the summer on the range and hay in the wintertime.<\/p>\n<p>Being happier, managing your stress better, will help every chronic condition. Now with the new body-mouth connection, they\u2019ve shown how even diabetics can improve their diabetic condition by having better oral hygiene. And they\u2019ve now, I saw a link the other day, there was some science done, I think it could have been in Europe, where they showed how they found P. gingivalis in the brain of people who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s during their lifetime during an autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazing how often I\u2019ll think of my seven pillars if I\u2019m not feeling well. If I have a headache, am I hydrated? How am I sitting? If my stomach is having butterflies or I feel like a little bit of heartburn, what did I just eat, and how rapidly did I eat? Who am I spending time with? If I have a knee injury, right now, my MCL is bugging me on the medial side of my right knee. It\u2019s getting better now through chiropractic and physical therapy. But I\u2019m thinking, I\u2019m sleeping better, I\u2019m hydrating, I\u2019m nutritionally being perfect because I want this to go away.<\/p>\n<p>So I love looking at the seven pillars to help with any of my conditions that I might have, or any of the listeners or future listeners might have. Look to the seven pillars of health. Not first, but part of your health care team, whether you see a medical doctor, a naturopath, or osteopath, look to see what you can do yourself to get better and being part of the solution.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Wonderful, I love that. I\u2019m going to make a little poster and post those things all over the place, make a little sticky note or something. So I can remember what they are. I know them sort of, but I don\u2019t think that I think that way when something\u2019s wrong. I\u2019m like, \u201cHow can I get rid of this pain?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uche: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Give me an Advil, give me a Tylenol. I\u2019m thinking of how am I breathing, am I hydrated, am I drinking from down the hatch here, or down the hatch there, you know?<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, though, if someone wants to get ahold of me, I know you probably posted it on your website, Allison. You\u2019re such a great resource yourself. I know you\u2019ve talked to some of the best people in the industry, so you\u2019re getting people the best information and you\u2019re getting it firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>If someone wanted to get ahold of me, my website is FitDentist.com and trust me, I used to be 225 pounds 20 years ago. My website now for fat dentists is called FatDentist.com. So I\u2019ve been big before. I love being 180. I\u2019m 52, I\u2019m 5\u20198\u201d, 180 pounds. Body fat is ten percent. I\u2019m lean, I\u2019m as light as I was in grade eleven. And between the last ten and fifteen years, I eat and exercise and move a certain way.<\/p>\n<p>I love to share how I do this, but join me online, on Facebook. I love, we have lots of friends on Facebook, lots of experts and trainers that we hang out with. People can lurk and just read posts, or they can comment anytime. They\u2019re more than welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The other option is to directly email me. If they go to FitDentist.com, the other name that goes directly to that website is DrUche.com but fit dentist is much easier to spell. And they can go to the contact page and they can put their question in the contact page in the subject and send it to me. I\u2019ll be able to answer a direct question if they like. Or if I don\u2019t know the answer, I\u2019ve got some resources and I know some really, some of the best trainers in the world, who are our friends and our colleagues in the training industry and nutrition industry. I could possibly give them a resource.<\/p>\n<p>And also our book. I forgot to mention <em>The Miracle of Health<\/em>. HarperCollins bought the digital rights to it, so they can download it onto their e-reader or iPad or smartphone by going to harpercollins.ca or .com or Amazon.com. The book\u2019s name is <em>The Miracle of Health<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Awesome. They can also, do you use Facebook messaging, if they send you a little message on Facebook?<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yes. The last name Odiatu. So if they do a search on Facebook for Odiatu, O-D-I-A-T-U they can message me directly, or they can friend me if they want. We have 3,800 friends on Facebook. My wife\u2019s on there posting all the time, she\u2019s amazing. She\u2019s 45 years of age, she\u2019s competed 20 times, eight times I think as a professional IFBB women\u2019s fitness athlete. This lady can do 22 chin-ups at 45 she\u2019s doing this. When you think of just to get into the Marines, you have to do minimum of three as an 18-year-old, this mother of four can do 22 chin-ups. She\u2019s a great resource too and she inspires and motivates me daily.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aw. Yeah, she\u2019s beautiful. She\u2019s amazing. You guys are very inspiring. I do want to say, I had somebody email me before this call and they were trying to go to FitDentist.com and the host was down. Don\u2019t worry, guys, if you try to go to his website, there\u2019s nothing wrong with it. It works. Just try again. Sometimes the hosting goes down on mine.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The other option is, it\u2019s spelled the same way, if you go to DrUche, so D-R-U-C-H-E dot com, let me see if that\u2019s on right now. Server says, maybe the server is down. Okay.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Somebody emailed me and said they tried to go on your website and they couldn\u2019t get it. It\u2019s just a hosting thing I think, Uche, I think it comes right back. I\u2019ve been on it, one time it did that, and one time it worked again. I think it\u2019s just Blue, Gator or whatever the hosting is.<\/p>\n<p>Uche:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Okay, I just went to FitDentist.com now, so it\u2019s open. So FitDentist.com, it\u2019ll go there. They can go to the contact page and send me a direct question. They\u2019re more than welcome to friend me on Facebook. I have a Twitter following, it\u2019s called FitSpeakers.com. I tweet a couple times a day about random thoughts and facts and tips I have, and books that I\u2019ve read. I answer people on there too.<\/p>\n<p>I love to share, I really want to see everyone I know or in my circle of influence. I want them to get as healthy as possible. If there\u2019s a resource they need, a vitamin to take, or should I take an Omega 3? What kind of a whey protein do they need to take? I love sharing what I\u2019ve found on my journey and I love helping people.<\/p>\n<p>Allison:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Well, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us tonight. I really appreciate it. You are a wealth of information and so fun and energetic and so I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening to <em>Practicing with the Masters<\/em> for dentists, with your host, Dr. Allison Watts. 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