[01:00:03:15 - 01:00:19:10] (Water Running) (Dramatic Music) [01:00:19:10 - 01:00:44:26] Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. [01:00:47:15 - 01:01:20:25] Yes, wherever you are in the world, I hope you're having a great day. Today is June the 22nd, it's the second day after the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. And it was the longest day of sunlight yesterday. Today it is 24 degrees at 751 Eastern Standard Time. We're looking at Lake Ontario and a few people across the lake there walking around and taking in the beautiful sight and warm air. [01:01:24:14 - 01:01:25:18] So a couple of updates. [01:01:29:20 - 01:01:52:17] My book on inflammation in the body and metabolic syndrome which includes type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes is published in paperback, e-book and audio book on Amazon.ca. I'll have a link in the description. [01:01:54:08 - 01:02:14:05] And also, now that I'm off CGM monitoring, I'm off my diabetes medication, getting used to not being able to monitor my blood glucose levels has been an interesting challenge. [01:02:16:09 - 01:02:44:11] I used to use the CGM 24 or 25 sometimes 30 times a day to check exactly where my blood glucose was at any particular time. Especially before and after eating or consuming some food or drink. Especially things that I hadn't consumed before to see what the effect was on my blood glucose. [01:02:45:17 - 01:03:50:08] And also the combining things which I hadn't combined before. So if I, for example, I ate some Ezekiel bread which is a very low carbohydrate bread and it's very good for diabetics. If I put honey on a slice of Ezekiel bread toast or if I put honey on top of all the actual peanut butter on a slice of Ezekiel bread. I'd be looking at my CGM readings to see what the impact was on my blood glucose to see if I wanted to do the same thing again. Now without that monitoring I have to use my smarts a little bit more. I have to be more cognizant of what it is that I'm consuming. Even if I'm not being able to see the results of it on my iPhone. [01:03:52:00 - 01:04:08:17] This makes me much more aware of my habits and it makes me much more aware of the possible impact on my body even if I'm not seeing it in a concrete number or on a graph on my iPhone. [01:04:09:24 - 01:04:27:15] So, where does that leave us? Well, in September I'm going to go back to the doctor and have more blood work. I've already got the requisition for that and we're going to see where it is that my blood glucose is at that time. [01:04:30:05 - 01:04:58:06] This of course raises questions that are coming up in a book called Outlived by Peter Attia. The last name is ATTIA. He's a medical doctor and he's looking at longevity and how things that we're doing and consuming and how we're living our lives and our lifestyles is having an effect on our ability to live longer lives. [01:04:59:23 - 01:05:42:19] One comment that I have which is starting to come out in the book is that my father passed away two years after he retired. Up until he retired he was very active, he was very interested in things that were going on, he was a very positive, outgoing person. But as soon as he retired he's not driving to work, he's not interacting with the people at work, he's not interacting with the work that he had which was to coordinate contractors and pay bills for work done on UK government offices. [01:05:44:01 - 01:06:18:17] In other words, he had a downgrade in his ability to participate in the world. Yes, he would go for a walk, but a lot of the time he spent sitting in his chair. And at that time, smoking at home was something that happened. And he was... he'd always smoked about a pack a day, which in the UK was about 25 cigarettes a day. [01:06:19:27 - 01:06:33:12] So his activity level, exercise, which Dr. Attier is saying is a very significant part in the longevity life cycle. [01:06:34:25 - 01:06:59:09] His mental engagement with the world, things around him, was much less because he didn't have these people walking into his office. He didn't have people phoning him. And in an age before the internet and having a computer on your desk, he was reliant on internal mail for sending and receiving information. [01:07:00:09 - 01:07:06:17] The point about that is that his world closed in. [01:07:08:01 - 01:07:14:01] And I think that was a big contributing factor to him, simply not wanting to live anymore. [01:07:15:05 - 01:07:28:23] So we want to get a handle on our consumption, our activity levels, what it is that we're consuming, how we're consuming them, when we're consuming them. [01:07:29:23 - 01:07:36:28] Because a lot of what we have today in our world is over-nutrition. [01:07:38:01 - 01:07:56:19] We're eating too much of the wrong things, and these are all consuming to being obese and to our surge in diabetes and cardiovascular and other significant diseases. [01:07:58:04 - 01:09:40:15] So my book on inflammation has been published and I'm working now on herbs, diabetes and vitamins for diabetics. But I will be expanding on an earlier book that I had which was early mistakes where over the past 30 years my diet and nutrition and other things that I've been consuming and my behavior have contributed to what I see as my type 2 diabetes and my metabolic syndrome. So let's keep ourselves aware of what we're doing when we're doing it and what it is that we're consuming and when we're consuming it. Too much sugar, too much refined carbohydrates, not eating enough fiber, eating an apple with the skin and all the pulp is much more beneficial than drinking refined apple juice which is basically just a sugar bomb. Drinking whole fat milk, 3% milk in Canada, is much better than low fat milk or skin milk which is because the fat has been removed and other processing has happened to it is basically a sugar bomb. So let's give some thought to what we're doing now and how we can change it to reverse any conditions that we've got. [01:09:41:16 - 01:10:24:20] Do it naturally, do it insightfully but also consider I'm 30 years old now, where do I want to be at 60 and you leaving work at the retirement age is not actually retirement because you can have many more years to live. As Dr. Atty. here is pointing out and you want that time to be as good and as helpful and beneficial to you mentally and physically as your age right now. Sorry about my voice, it's... [01:10:26:08 - 01:10:32:00] It's a combination of all of the good things that I'm seeing and hearing the animals, the water. [01:10:33:22 - 01:10:54:15] There's a lot of positive time and emotion here today, this morning. Especially as we are so close to the summer solstice, as far as trying to say. Anyway, have a good day, good afternoon, good evening and look forward to tomorrow. [01:10:55:29 - 01:11:00:13] And be positive about tomorrow, be positive about your life. Take care, bye now. [01:11:03:20 - 01:11:19:15] (Water Running) (Dramatic Music) [01:11:19:15 - 01:11:42:19]