The Family Longevity Blueprint We Actually Follow At Home! Dr. Chelsea Axe

24:35Yes. Okay. Well, this is the best thing to eat if you want to do that, but it's your choice, right? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Giving her the choice. I think also making her aware, like we talked to her a lot about like her body, like you said before, your body is a temple, right? God, God made your body. One of the easiest baseline ways that you can bring glory to God is by making these choices in your everyday life, what you're eating. Like it's, you can bring glory to God in this and your, in your plates. And I think the other thing I've seen her respond well to is, is, you know, applauding when she's done it well, like when she's done with that shake, if she didn't want to eat at first, we'll just say, honey, I'm so proud of you.

25:08You didn't want to do that. You did it. That makes us so proud. One thing I was conscious of is our daughter, Arwen, she really wants to win. But the thing that we also have to emphasize with her is, honey, winning is important, but what's more important is that you try hard and that you're kind. And so we're always sort of judging and saying, you know what? We want you to try your best, and we're the most proud that you got better because you were trying hard. Listen, you might not have won this last swim meet. I remember she got second, but we're the most proud that you tried your hardest, and we reward her.

25:40Like she's really into eating cherries right now. So, you know, we give her cherries at night or, you know, or congratulate or celebrate her in some way because she's tried. So really celebrating, saying you're proud, making a big deal of things when your kids show good character. Yeah, the little choices like along the journey and not just like the big overwhelming things. So I have a question for you. So if someone wants to get healthier, they want to start implementing some of these things that we've talked about in their home, where do they start? Oh, goodness. Well, I think there's a few things foundational.

26:10Listen, there are so many, like if people are on social media, which I actually don't know if I've ever really been on TikTok. I've been on Instagram. Neither of us have a TikTok account. Okay. But all that being said, I know that there's a lot of trends and influencers saying a lot of things that are helpful, but really you want to build that foundation. So when I think about the things that are most foundational for somebody's overall health, I think that daily eating, especially breakfast, is probably the most important. I think getting some sort of movement in on a regular basis. And I think a good healthy spiritual practice.

26:41I mean, when I think about the foundations, those are the biggest ones. And so from a dietary standpoint, you want to eat a lot of real food. You want to do high protein, high fiber, lots of fruit and vegetables. So think organic meat, bone broth, those sorts of things, fruits and vegetables. And if that's the basis of your diet, in most cases, you're going to heal. And you're going to heal in a really, really incredible way. And so I think that getting to those basics as much as you possibly can. And listen, if you don't know where to start, just change breakfast. Do what we do, superfood smoothie.

27:13Do a big scoop of bone broth or collagen. Do a big scoop of a plant protein. Throw a handful of berries in there, water or almond milk. Boom, you're good to go. Doing that for breakfast would help so many people just get on the right track. Here's the other thing I found is when people change their breakfast, oftentimes they're more likely to eat a healthier lunch and dinner. because you've already started your day off right. You're doing the right things. So I would say that the movement part, just walking alone, 7 ,000 to 10 ,000 steps is sort of that key metric statistically where people can start to feel better, better bowel movements, better mood, better cortisol, all those, better digestion.

27:51So starting to walk more. And if you can exercise, lift weights, even if it's just two days a week, but getting in lifting weights and moving. And then some spiritual practice. I would say going to church on Sundays, but in addition to that, spend just 15 minutes in the morning, 10 minutes in your Bible. If you just read your Bible for five minutes and then you just spend a moment in prayer, it could be two minutes, that will change the rest of your day. So I think these good practices, the other thing I would say that's foundational is that you need to know what your priorities are and then learn to say no to everything else.

28:25Because all of these, I mean, you know, I think about like my mom growing up and your mom was probably the same. It was like my mom was a teacher and she was volunteering at church and school and raising three kids and trying to be a great wife and make dinner. I mean, it's like overwhelming so many things. And I think if you're able to say, listen, here's the things that are most important. We're saying no to everything else. We're going to focus on these things because I think people also need a little bit more margin and downtime in their life to have fun. Especially kids. Especially with kids.

28:59Yeah, especially with kids. One thing I can tell you too, it's so funny. We both had such amazing parents. We were so blessed. And the thing my dad said is he said, I wish I would have spent even more time with you. Now, my dad spent a lot of time. I was like, man, my dad spent so much time with us. My dad never missed a game. But even now, there's never been a parent, I've never heard of where they said, I wish I wouldn't have spent as much time with my family. All of them say, I wish I would have spent more time with my family and my kids, especially when they were younger. So I would just say prioritizing the other thing is family along with those things, I think are the things that are probably the most important.

29:36Okay. Now I have a question for you. Okay. How has your faith shaped the way you think about healing? And what would you say to someone who's believing for healing today, especially after everything you've been through with your back and everything you've walked through? Yeah, I would just say number one thing in my mind is God is faithful. He's so faithful. And when you look back over time, you will be astounded at the goodness of God and what he can do and the miracles he can perform. You know, I think about how faithful he was with my mom with cancer. I think about how faithful he was with my own health and healing and so many other people we've cared for over the years who've seen these amazing healing miracles.

30:14And so I really think that for me, you know, when I was diagnosed with the spinal infection and was told I'd likely have to have my spine fused and may never walk normally again, obviously, I mean, I had 24 to 48 hours where I felt like, I mean, to a degree, these things creeping in my mind like your life is over. And I just had to take every thought captive and say, you know what? I've got a good God that's faithful. He wants me to heal. He created my body to heal. Now all I can do is continue to pray and have faith and know that my God is healer. It says in the Bible, he says, you know, I am your healer.

30:48I am the great physician. And so really holding onto that promise, no matter what, you know, we were in the pool with the girls yesterday and they love doing this. We both get them on tubes and we kind of throw them back and forth and they, we call it the thunderstorm, you know, and they hold on and it's, but it's, you know, you got to hold on tightly, you know, because I had thoughts creep in my head constantly saying, well, you might heal, but you'll never be 100 % back again. You won't be able to throw your daughters in the pool in the air again. You won't be able to do a triathlon again. You won't be able to do any of those things again.

31:21And I think that you got to take those thoughts captive and also focus on the things. So here's something that I did too is I read stories online about people who just never recovered, but there was one person I knew who did recover. And I decided to focus on that story, that story of healing. So, so much of healing is, what are you fixing your eyes on? The Bible says, fix your eyes on Jesus, right? So, I think fixing your eyes on Jesus, asking people to pray for you for healing. I mean, how many times did you pray for me? How many times did your dad pray for me? How many times did, I mean, first off, I was so blessed.

31:58I had John Bevere calling and praying for me. Lisa Bevere. I had Jordan Rubin. I mean, all of these amazing, my parents, your mom, I mean, so many people praying for me for healing, but, and I asked for that. I said, hey, would you pray for me consistently? And I believe that those prayers, you know, it says in the Bible, God hears our prayers. So I think if you're a person who needs healing, the first thing you should do is fix your eyes on Jesus. Don't worry about the doctor's diagnosis. Don't worry about the studies. Don't worry about your friend who didn't see the result, fix your eyes on Jesus, knowing that he is an incredible healer.

32:35And with that, also ask for prayer. You know, it says this in the book of James, you know, in the book of James, it says, go to the elders of the church, go to somebody who's a mature Christian, have them lay their hands on you and pray for healing. And that's what I did. I did that consistently. And the other thing is I took care of my body, acted like it was a temple. I did everything I could to focus on supporting my body healing. So I really think fixing your eyes on Jesus. I mean, the other thing is I was praising God, saying, God, thank you for the healing that's taking place in my body even before I was healed.

33:05So I think focusing on Jesus, meditating on scripture, praising God, having other people pray for you for healing and taking action and believing and knowing. You know, I remember one thing I did too, is I said, I am going to, this is when I had this happen back in July. I said, I'm going to go and do a 5K over Thanksgiving. And I fixed my eyes on that. and said, God, would you heal me? And that happened. That did not happen. It did not happen. In fact, I was at my worst, I remember, in November. And it was the most discouraged I had been because I'd been starting to do everything right. But I kept holding on and believing and knowing, no, I will be healed.

33:45And so it was only a matter of time then to where I was back to 100%, even better now. I actually have less back pain now than I did before that. No pain and feel amazing. And again, it was throwing the girls in the air in the pool yesterday. But I think those are the things that are most important that people should focus on when it comes to healing. Yeah. So you said you talked a lot about taking those thoughts captive. What are some actual tangible ways that you did that? Because that is a huge, huge thing that people struggle with. Those thoughts can bombard your mind throughout the day. It's so easy to all of a sudden flip a switch, to all of a sudden have a negative thought enter or see something.

34:24I mean, look at the news, you look at Instagram, you scroll, and all of a sudden, something switches. How do you recognize that and then switch that over again? One of the first things I do is I try and stop the exposure, right? So if there's a show or a site or a diagnosis or something, I try and just remove those from continuing to come in my mind. But even when they do, I would have go-to Bible verses, and I would have go-to stories, and I would just refocus back on those things. And then I would pray. And I would say something like, Jesus, I am so discouraged right now. I have these thoughts creeping in my head that I will never heal at 100%.

35:03I will only get back to 50 % or 70%. And it's really discouraging to me. But God, I know that you are the healer. You are the great physician. And I know and believe that you are going to heal me and heal me completely. And so I think just going back and just re-anchoring in and recognizing that's the thought. and then here's what the Bible says, right? Here's the truth. And just continuing to come back to that over and over and over again. I would have a very similar question for you. So I know that we have seen some pretty amazing healing miracles in our family with my mom healing from cancer, me healing, friends of ours like Jordan Rubin, reversing cancer and many others.

35:42What do you feel like is sort of the, some of the key ingredients or is there anything I missed when it comes to, this is really important for faith-based healing? I'm trying to think. Anything you missed, you said, I mean, everything you said. I covered quite a bit. You covered quite a bit. You're pretty good on that. Let me ask you this. What did you see? Like when I had my spinal infection and we had these couple years of just terrible trauma, the absolute bottom of the bottom, what was sort of your mindset? Because here's the other thing. I think there are people listening to this and they've gone through a health struggle, but there are other people who, they actually are pretty healthy, but they maybe have someone else in their life who's suffering.

36:22Yeah. What is the best way that those people can support those people? I think it's actually really similar. I think you have to take your thoughts captive as well because it's the same thing. Because they're going to need people to support, right? To come alongside them. And if your thoughts are elsewhere or negative, you're not going to be able to do that. Yeah. Right? You need to be strong enough. Like, you know, in the battle when they had to hold up his arms, Moses' arms. Yes. If they weren't strong enough to hold up his arms, they wouldn't have been able to do that. And it's kind of the same thing.

36:50You need to be in a place where you can come alongside somebody and have the strength and the stabilization to hold up somebody else's arms and stand in the gap. That's what intercessory is, right? But can I say, that is so powerful because I will tell you the times when I was the most, like when I think about like a shift, like where I was very discouraged and then I got to the mindset where I'm like, I will be healed again. It was where typically you or your dad or somebody would, or my parents would put their hands on me, pray for me and say, this is the truth. You will be healed. Because it's one thing to tell yourself something, but the reality is the way we're wired, we are community driven beings.

37:30And so when someone else says it and affirms that thing that you are trying to affirm yourself, that's oftentimes the thing that completely shifts and changes things. And I think that, you know, not near often enough, are we doing that thing where we're, you know, the way that I do it a lot of times is, you know, putting someone, my hand on somebody's shoulder, looking them in the eyes and just encouraging them or praying for them and telling them the truth. Yeah. Yeah. You do a great job of that, of going to that first and inviting Jesus and Holy Spirit into the situation or whatever it is to come and just move and have his way.

38:04I'll tell you, I was so excited. I didn't tell you this. I was at Urban Market two days ago and there was a woman where we used to, we went to church and she was struggling with infertility. And so now she's got a daughter that's two years old. That's awesome. And I think we both prayed for her at one point and, you know, it helped her with her diet and everything else. And so, but she was super discouraged, you know, and so being that for somebody else is just incredibly powerful. Okay. So even though we have both been very consciously healthy, we've still had our health challenges. I've had mine, you've had yours, I know with your knee and other things, and we've had our daughters, right and our daughter arwen who has had some health challenges um let's talk about just that for a little bit and how we navigate health challenges with with our kids and you could share a little bit about one of our daughters and sort of what she has going on if you want so arwen has she we noticed a little while ago her adenoids and her tonsils were extremely inflamed right yeah um so we kind of did our baseline what we know to do cleaned up her diet and again they've already had great diets, but cleaned it up even more.

39:06And we just didn't really see anything move. We went and we, she's been doing like myofunctional therapy, like working with, you know, expanding her palates. She had her tongue ties obviously reversed when she was little, different things that we need to do in those ways. And we just weren't seeing things happen. So we had some testing done just to kind of see if she was allergic to anything, if there was anything that was like triggering this inflammation in her body and kind of find out she is a severe allergy to dust mites. And by the way, think about how challenging this is as a parent. Your child is allergic to dust.

39:38Like dust is everywhere, everywhere you go, any store, any, I mean, it's everywhere. It is everywhere. And it was the only thing, there was nothing else. And listen, my hope was, okay, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be something. Yeah. Yeah. Like a, like a leaf or something, something that you could control, but dust mites. Which we can't control it some. It's just a little bit more challenging. It's a lot more challenging. It's been challenging. It's been hard. And we've done a lot. We removed carpet from her bedroom. We removed carpet from the house. And for instance, we've done all this.

40:14She has all these stuffed animals. And so now we've moved them to a different room. We've cleaned them all. But then also we'll put the ones that she likes, these two or three, in the freezer because that's supposed to kill. 24 to 48 hours because they can't survive. and like ice cold times. Every four days you change her sheets. Like we did like sterilize, sanitize, wash, like at this high, high temperature. She has specific like covers on all her mattresses and pillows so dust mites can't live. We have air filters as Jasper's going constantly in the house. Yeah, I mean, it's been. And also, the other things that we've done is, so in one of her tonsils, this has been encouragement, reduced size by about 50%.

40:53Yep. We also started doing something called slit therapy, which is called sublingual immunotherapy, slit therapy. And basically you're getting a micro dose. I would consider it maybe to a degree in the field of homeopathics, but it's sort of a natural immunization over time to, it's micro exposures over time to the allergen. And so that's what we're doing with her. And I think that helped about 50%. But that therapy can take about three years, it says, before it's fully effective. But that's, I think, the thing we've seen the biggest probably improvement with is doing that type of therapy. Yeah.

41:29And we've also been really specific about her diet. Like, we cut out any and all dairy that would be in there. So even, like, goat and sheep dairy. Like, she has zero dairy in her diet right now whatsoever. Very specific about the amount of sugar she's getting. So, like, you've already had a Popsicle today. Yeah. You know, the other thing that was helpful, so we went and did blood work on her. Yep. We went and did, and again, we found that dust my allergy was the biggest thing. I mean, she really wasn't very deficient at all. But I will say she also, we did a genetic panel, which was incredibly helpful because you can see her genetics were very much like mine.

42:05Very similar to yours. To where taking certain supplements like N-acetylcysteine that support glutathione, so detoxification, was her single biggest thing. So knowing that for her. But I think as parents, the big thing is just keep moving forward. The biggest thing is change the diet. Sometimes getting some testing done, more thorough testing. Yeah. Which the problem is a lot of times if they go in their conventional doctor, the testing they're getting isn't all that great versus if they go to a really thorough functional medicine doctor and do a genetics panel and environmental exposure and maybe food sensitivity and some of the like looking at nutrient deficiencies like vitamin D and zinc and magnesium.

42:41That's where I think you can get a whole picture of really knowing how to most help your kids. Yeah. Yeah. And it's hard. It can be frustrating and it can be discouraging at times just because, you know, you want to help. They're your kids. You want to help them. you see them struggling, you see them, you know, not necessarily in pain, but uncomfortable. And you just want to fix it for them, but you know, you can't. Yeah. And so this has been incredibly valuable for kids doing some testing. I know also for adults. I mean, you and I are both big fans of doing advanced cellular blood work and saying, what do we need exactly?

43:13I think that's one of the biggest changes maybe we've had in our health journey is that over the years, rather than guessing, we're testing. So tests don't guess. Yeah. And so I know that when you got your blood work back, there were a few things that sort of surprised you that kind of changed the way that really pretty dramatically changed your supplement routine. Yeah, I've added a lot of different things in. I think even doing that and making those small changes as far as what I'm adding in, it was one of like maybe two times in my life where I've actually seen a noticeable difference and felt different in taking a supplement.

43:43Yeah. I think most of the time you kind of take something and you're like, I know this is what I'm supposed to be doing and I know this is good for me. And it's kind of more of like an act of faith as far as my body needs this. So I'm going to take this and I know it's going to help me, but I don't feel like it, but hopefully it is type thing. And I'm spending my money in a good place. This has been one of those times where I took it and I was just like, oh, I've got energy. Oh, this is what that feels like. Okay. This isn't the coffee. Yeah. And I had the same thing when I did blood work too.

44:08I think for you, from what I remember, it was carnitine. You were low in. Tyrosine. Tyrosine for thyroid health. A little bit mitochondrial. So you started doing more. That was the big one. Yeah, yeah, NMN. And when you started doing, and by the way, those are all really related to, especially the carnitine. But it was a specific NMN because I'd been taking NMN. Do you remember when we kind of switched as far as what the testing was based on that? Yeah, NR. And so, yeah, and you saw great results in energy. And for myself, very similar thing, mitochondrial. But I started taking N-acetylcysteine and vitamin B2.

44:39And that completely changed my energy. I went from a 6 out of 10 to 10 out of 10 after doing that. And so for a lot of people, though, they've never done the advanced blood work. And they maybe have gone to their doctors or done the big panels out there where they're doing 100-some markers. The problem is what a lot of people don't know is those markers are all the superficial markers. A lot of those markers cost like 25 cents. They're not the right markers versus testing for CoQ10, looking truly at all the B vitamins, looking at intracellular nutrients, not what's in your blood, but what's in your cell.

45:14these markers are more expensive, but they make a way bigger difference in your health. And so you and I, I notice, have noticed such a big difference in our own health because we've done the right type of blood work and testing. And a lot of people are guessing. And so they just, they don't, a lot of people are wasting a lot of money because they're not taking the right thing that would make the biggest difference for them versus a blood test. The right one will tell you, this is exactly what you need. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the body is so intricate, right there's so many intricate processes and tools it needs to continue to function right and so rather than looking like well I'm deficient in this one overall thing it's like well there's a whole process of steps that your body actually goes through to get to that end result so why is it deficient in that and actually going and looking at the steps and saying well this is where my body is breaking down or failing in this step it's not actually the end result it's that it's missing a vitamin to actually catapult this step and move it forward.

46:11So targeting that step instead of the end results, it actually, you know, gives your body what it needs to continue to function optimally as it should. Yeah. And knowing those pathways, that's one of the things, you know, when we have patients come in our clinics, like I actually, one of the things I love to show them is the actual pathway. Because oftentimes if you're just missing one nutrient, could be vitamin B2, could be NAD, could be B12, could be zinc, magnesium, glutathione. If you're missing any one of those, you can feel awful. And so you can be taking 10 supplements, but if you're not taking that single nutrient you need, people are still going to be dealing with the fatigue and the hormone imbalance and the autoimmune issues.

46:51I see this all the time, patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis. And just because they're deficient in selenium or zinc or vitamin D or tyrosine, they continue to have the thinning hair, the low energy and dealing with the issue versus if they knew exactly what to take and they take the right dose, now they can finally heal. So they actually end up taking less, but it's targeted specifically to their own body. And actually it causes everything else in their body to function better, right? Because not anything else is taking the slack, trying to take out the pressure off of different things that are trying then to work for that.

47:27Yeah. All right, so then what are the top five supplements for you in ranking order that you just cannot live without? Oh boy. Well, obviously number one is protein. Yeah. I need my protein. it's how I it's my day I need to start with it so that would be like my bone broth collagen base in the morning can't live without that number two would probably be creatine yeah need that especially with the way I work out for energy all those different things and sleep it's actually if you're deficient in sleep it's actually been shown creatine can actually help bridge that more than many other things whole nother topic we won't get into that right now I would say probably just based on what we talked about with my blood testing, my NMN, the mitochondrial support, seen such a difference in my energy levels with that.

48:15I feel like I definitely need to have that. I would say probably omegas. Just because, here's confession time, I don't like salmon. I don't like to eat salmon, so I don't do it. Which everyone else in the family does. Like myself, both our daughters, we eat salmon. We could eat it every day. Which is great. I've tried. I've tried so many times and I just really don't enjoy it. So because of that, I know I need to supplement and add that in. So I definitely need that in my top list. And I would say probably my last one. Ooh, maybe just like a probiotic or something like that. Just kind of for just like, yeah, gut support, things like that.

48:50That's just my foundation baseline. And I have many other ones I build off of there. What about you? Yeah, I would say for me, I do agree sort of the protein, collagen, you know, I would have that at the very top. I would say for myself, number two is probably, based on all my blood work, is vitamin B2 or a good B complex that has the right forms. Not even methylated, but there's actually several types of methylated that would be good. So I would do that B. I noticed a tremendous difference there. The NMN, so the NAD +, for me, these are some I've noticed a real difference with, like significant.

49:25So that would be on there for me as well. Magnesium glycinate for me. That's a good one. Or a magnesium, like a multi-magnesium. I've noticed for myself, I'm just more relaxed, healthier digestion, better sleep. So I think that would be number four. And then number five for me, this is really hard. It's sort of between, I'm going to mention three or four here. That's cheating. But probiotics, definitely notice a difference there. Vitamin D, if it's in the winter. Omegas, superfood powders, and then certain herbals. I mean, you and I definitely, I know you do a lot of turmeric. Yeah. I do a lot of turmeric and ginger, and sometimes we both do ashwagandha.

50:08So, I mean, we definitely take quite a few things. Yeah, ashwagandha, reishi, all the things. Reishi, right. But those are the things that I know that we both tend to take the most. And then with our daughter, we're really trying to do things to support her immune system and tonsils. And so she's doing a lot of things like quercetin and zinc and vitamin D and N-acetylcysteine to really support her health and immune system. And also she doesn't convert vitamin D or omega as well. So we have her doing those too, I think are the biggest go-tos for our family. But also again, in addition to that, our food is medicine.

50:41Our food is supplemental. So we are getting a lot of nutrients from the fruits and vegetables, organic meat and eggs. I don't know if I mentioned creatine too. That's another one I take. I know it's a difference with. That's way more than five. Yeah, I know. That was 10. I doubled up there. Okay, last question for you. Okay. What is one wellness trend right now that's completely worth the hype and one that's completely overhyped? wellness trends worth the hype. The viral. Okay. So here, now I think this, I would consider this a trend. I would say red light panels and red light therapy. So whether it's red light on your thyroid or full body red light, I mean, it's so good for mitochondrial function.

51:17And I would say you can also get a lot of benefits from sunbathing and not getting burnt, but just getting sun with that if you don't have a red light panel. But I would say from a trend standpoint, red light is up there. What is a trend that's not, I don't think nicotine gum is great. I mean, I think, I mean, I just know the Chinese medicine principles and the patterns that it causes. So nicotine gum before that part of doing, you know, medical cannabis or doing THC, that's not healthy either. So I would say that doing the nicotine and THC, those two sort of trends are actually going to be bad, bad for people's long-term health.

51:56Okay. You know, and then one of the last things I just want to say too, is I think it's so important if you were trying to be healthy physically, mentally, and spiritually that you're making it fun. I mean, one of the things we're trying to do right now as a family is like our daughter, we think she's a talented swimmer. She's six years old though. And so, you know, we had a coach come up to us at the end of the meet saying, Hey, your daughter, they want her to come and do an evaluation to be on like a travel, like the club team because she's done so well this year. And so we're like, okay, great.

52:23But you know, we're also trying to balance out, okay, we will put Arwen in as much swim as she can handle, but also we're going to try and keep our pulse on. Hey, she needs a break now, especially when she's younger. Or, you know, we also want her to do gymnastics and tennis and basketball, volleyball. And so we want her to try a lot of things out when she's younger. But my point there is, and then we had her do snow skiing lessons and snowboarding lessons. And so we're trying to make fitness, especially about being active, not just going to the gym and lifting weights, but being active, water skiing, snow skiing, going on bike rides, just being an active family, I think is something swimming in the pool.

52:57Just, you know, those are the things I think we really prioritize. And so when I think about the healthiest families, one of the big things that I see in terms of a trend is when they were younger, their families were active. It's not that they were going in the gym and lifting weights as a family. No, they were biking, going bike rides as a family. They were going boating. They were just going on hikes. They were just active as a family. And I think that's something that's pretty, you know, pretty important for family health and wellness as well as making it fun and staying active. Talk about great memories.

53:28Yeah, that's right too. I mean, looking back on that, like that's what your kids are going to remember. They're going to remember, oh, I was so active and all the things. It was like, man, we had fun. Yeah. I mean, one of my greatest memories of my family vacations growing up is we would rent a houseboat with my cousins and my cousin and I would, you know, swim laps back and forth. We'd water ski all day. We would just, you know, we We would have a blast on the water. Those are some of the best memories growing up. And we were very active that entire time. And so that's a great, great family rhythms.

53:53Well, babe, thanks so much for coming on. This is so fun. Can't wait to have you on again soon. I hope everybody got as much value from Chelsea as I do on a regular basis. I'm so blessed to have such an amazing wife and who's such an amazing mom and friend and just passionate Christian leader. So thanks so much for coming on. And we just also want to let you guys know, We appreciate all of you who are listening to the podcast. If you've enjoyed this conversation, hey, make sure to subscribe. It's really the number one thing you could do to support us and the show in putting out more content. So thanks so much for subscribing.

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