Christa 0:00
Okay, so today I'm excited about this conversation because it's just kind of our keeping it real type of episode. And I want us to really dive into what kind of hacks we do for, you know, living wild and well. So let's talk about the wild part. And how do we integrate wellness into, let's say, going to concerts that go run late at night, going traveling Crossing time zones, like, let's just dive into what we personally do, because I think what we do can kind of get people up here behind the curtain of what maybe they can try and things that we've really tested out to see what helps us so I know that we both love concerts, we both love EDM concerts, and those concerts do not end at 10pm. They are generally music festivals that say they you know, maybe three days I don't always go for three days, but I've definitely gone to some that are two or three days. So that involves really wacky sleeping hours and involves typically some alcohol. So share with me because I know you've recently gone since it's summertime currently in New Zealand, kind of concert festival season, why don't you start share with us some hacks about how you keep your health? How do you prepare? What do you do to kind of keep yourself together health wise to make it through a festival and still feel amazing on the other side?
Sheree 1:17
I love this question. And honestly, like the time of recording this, I'm about to go away for a three day festival. And it is being the month of February. So I'm literally every single weekend, I have had either a concert or a festival on. So it's been a lot and something I've been sharing a lot is this concept of living wildly Well, right. And I think there's we kind of think it's either one or the other. It's like, oh, we have to live as perfect balanced live, I can't do that. If I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna go to a festival. It's kind of like this bucket mentality, where, oh, well, I'm going to end up hungover I know, I'm going to deal with this, like, I know that I'm going to have low energy. It's like, actually, when you live wildly Well, when you know how to look after your body. I say to people all the time, I do not get hungover. And that is not because I go to these festivals, and I don't drink. And hey, if you want to go to these festivals and not drink totally fine. There's no judgment in that. But I do have some really key things that I do. But before, during and after. And so what I always start with is making sure I have a solid meal, and not just a breakfast or something like let's take a one day festival for example, or a concert that you're going to I always make sure like I have a solid lunch a generally trained in the morning of so in some capacity and making sure I've got something to align my stomach a lot of the time we go and I know from past experience, like I've gone into these big days of even if it's just an event, and you ended up drinking a lot and you haven't mind your tummy, like we're triggering leaky gut, we're putting a whole lot of stress on our system. So just having that firstly there to absorb is key. And the other thing I'm obsessed with at the moment is electrolytes. So I will I've actually been starting to mix all my if I'm mixing drinks, like pre drinking or whatever, it's with coconut water, or I'm having electrolytes with me to sip on while I'm actually drinking alcohol. When I am at the festival, I'm at the concert, you know, it's very easy to not have a water in between. And I will definitely go through phases where I do, but at the same time I'm conscious of how can I actually get a little bit of water especially when you're out in the sunshine, you're already adding to the dehydration, like a lot of these festivals are outdoors. And so you need to make sure that you are hydrating as much as you can. And then when I get home it's really where where the rubber meets the road. And it's like these are my non negotiables when I get inside it's taking my binder so I take a biotoxin binder, I make sure that I am having some food whether I've had food just before I've left the concert or the festival or I have some some sort of carbohydrate when I get home. Yes, you're eating late. Yes, it's not ideal for the digestive system. But you know what? I don't wake up feeling like crap. Make sure that I'm having more electrolytes and I know this sounds ridiculous, but it's one of the biggest things that's been such a game changer for me because I'm rehydrating right before bed. I will often take melatonin or I'll take a CBD drop. And what else do I do? Those are the key things and then I make sure I've set myself up for enough hours sleep like honestly two of the biggest reasons people get hangovers or they feel like crap and extended as a result eat like crap the next day is because they're tired and they're dehydrated. That's what alcohol so those are probably my biggest things that have just become especially you know, I've got it down pat at this point because it's been every weekend for the last month was
Christa 4:43
super fun. Yeah, I I've definitely noticed the older I've gotten that hangovers tend to be a bit more present. So for me, I recently got back from a ski vacation. So you know that's going from essentially sea level here in Texas and then Going up to the peaks of Colorado where it's about 11,000 feet at the top of the mountain where you're skiing down. So and we, you know, we ski every day for three days, let's say so I don't sleep as well at our altitude as well. So I keep that into play. But a couple of things that I have found that are really supportive is at nighttime before I go to bed, I take one of my favorite supplements, it's called detox Antiox by designs for health. I love that one. So I take that every night along with some NAC with milk thistle. So that's some liver support that really does help kind of take the place of it. Sometimes I use a binder as well like a charcoal or something like that. Because typically on these vacations, we I like beer in the mountains, right. So we'll be you know, we have a couple of beers every day. So at nighttime, I support my liver with that Antiox support and as well as NAC in the milk thistle. And then in the mornings, I always start my day, same thing, electrolytes. So I like element tea, it's lowering the sugar, I drink big amount of water, at least eight to 15 ounces of water in the morning with electrolytes with my breakfast. Breakfast is very important here because we're gonna be skiing all day, right. And then I also take a B complex, because that really helps us detoxifying, it helps us helping my mitochondria to really support those processes of needing that extra energy. And then I also take an L theanine. So the reason I take an L theanine is because sometimes for me, if I drink the day before, or there's, there's just a lot going on, it stresses the body, right. And so Elfine just kind of keeps me able to have the caffeine without feeling kind of jittery. And I'm out of all out of sorts kind of thing. So be complex l theanine and electrolytes in the morning, and then I repeat the cycle at night, and you're right, seven hours asleep, even if it's not the best sleep, because it's you know, maybe you'd had some alcohol and maybe at altitude, at least committing to that amount of time can be really helpful. And then making sure that I'm eating, you know, some quality foods vacation, it's never, you know, the same kind of things that you did home, I'm going to be eating more outside of the realm of what I find healthy, which is totally fine, right? Because in the downsides before going on vacation, or when I get home, let's say so once I get home, I incorporate getting right back into exercise and sweating. I also love my red light panel. So that helps me kind of detoxify just the toxins from travel in aircraft, also just the alcohol that maybe you've consumed and the processed foods that you've had more of on vacation. So those are, that's my go to. And I have found that when I am very consistent with some of that supplement regimen and hydration on vacation, I feel a lot better, I enjoy myself more towards the end of the vacation where sometimes you start to shrivel up, you know, you literally feel shriveled up. Tell us about though I mean, you did a massive trip this year in 2023, when you came from New Zealand to the US and there's a lot of people that love to travel, right, that's part of living wildly well, so I can share also kind of what I recommend my husband to do, because he is an international pilots. So he's he's gone a lot. But I'm curious what you do when you cross massive time zones like that to say and recover quicker from that shift.
Sheree 8:09
Yeah, I mean, the first thing I do is actually what happens before I get on the plane. So I have like a little jetlag protocol that you know, and we could probably put something together for you guys, if you want to check it out to make sure that you are the biggest complaints that I get. And that I you know, I have experienced personally don't anymore is like the constipation and the swelling when you're getting on a flight. So to give context, flying from New Zealand, I was flying into Chicago check, which was my first stop 14 hours on the plane, right. So that's a long period of time I do try and get up and walk around. But to be honest with you, it's really hard. I love it when the seat so I don't like to be that annoying person that's constantly I'm just gonna climb over you every 20 minutes and go and walk up and down the aisles. And you kind of freak people out when you do that I've noticed. So if I do get up, I will go up to you know, use the bathroom or whatever. And I will be walking up and down. But it's probably only you know, two or three times during the flight. And so some of the key things to do is making sure you are again going to harp on about these electrolytes, but making sure you have that Vitamin C is another huge one. I can't remember exactly how much it is on the top of my brain. But it's like a certain amount of milligrams per hour you're in the air that actually helps prevent the body from being constipated, holding on to too much water or that sort of thing. So having that same thing with cookie tin, which is an enzyme to really support your mitochondrial health and your energy. So those of proby that on top of the electrolytes I actually took electrolytes with me on the plane as well so I was adding that to my water. One of the biggest things that make you do before you get on the plane obviously is empty your water bottle, and that's really frustrating for people like us who want to stay super hydrated. So making sure before you get on the plane once you've gone through customs and that I go and fill up like I have a two liter water bottle which I think is like 34 ounces, I go and fill that up. Before I get on the plane, I add my electrolytes to it. The other thing I did this time around, which was so helpful on my way home was actually fasting. So I bought bone broth sachets like powdered bone broth that had 10 grams of protein in each one. And I made sure that for about three, I had a good meal at the airport, it's good as you can get in from the goods, as you normally have to be three hours or so before for an international flight. And that was it. I stopped eating after that point. Then I had a 12 and a half hour flight home so I was flying home from LA. Now then when I got landed in New Zealand, I still made sure I maintain that far. So gave my body a full 24 hour fast. And honestly the difference in my mental health like the clarity that I had the brain fog wasn't there. I wasn't super tired. And, you know, bear in mind, like I literally landed at seven o'clock in the morning, I took on the plane with me I took melatonin so that I could fall asleep. I took CBD drops so that I could sleep while I was there. And I was very smart about taking my melatonin just after I'd eaten my food because you do have to make sure you're eating food when you're taking melatonin. So I was quite drowsy getting on the plane and I crashed out straightaway. I didn't have the food from the plane. And I made the world of difference. So yeah, the vitamin C, the cookie tin, the fasting was I say fasting that bone broth fasting, essentially. And then making sure you got those electrolytes. They were like from a supplement perspective, from a food nutrition perspective, that was the biggest game changers for me this time. That's the first time I've done anything like that made a big difference. So if you're traveling for a long way, yeah, that's.
Christa 11:39
So one thing I recommend my husband does, because he crosses massive time zones as well, pretty often is to really dial in what drives circadian rhythm. So lightened foods tend to drive the circadian rhythm, which sounds like that you did. So sleeping, you know, making sure whatever room you're in is dark. I like it when he prepares sometimes he'll be able to it's daylight wherever, whatever country he's in, but it's dark, it's nighttime for us. And so he'll kind of try to get on that pattern before he travels. So closing the hotel curtains making it dark sleeping when his desired location the next day is sleeping, right. And then pairing that with meals as well. So eating when he plans to be awake and vice versa, right like not eating when he plans to be sleeping the next 24 hours. Supplement wise, I think it's really helpful to use the detox antibiotics because there's a lot of toxins in airplane travel and you're being around other people and you're just exposed to a lot more when you're around a lot more people and in the traffic area. So supporting with that I also just bought him a it's miter light, I believe I have a portable red light. And the red light really does help to stimulate the mitochondria. So it helps with those detox pathways, it helps with the added stress that changing time zones can do. So he has that opportunity to use that in the hotel rooms every day. The other thing just coming back to hydration. And the electrolytes are such a good idea when you're traveling. Because interestingly, whether you are just in the mountains at altitude, or the airplanes are pressurized at 10,000 feet, so you are elevated, you're at a higher elevation flying. And that can impact the altitude can actually impact the kidney. And so you actually do pee a lot more when you're at altitude for some people. And that can really deplete your hydration. So it's actually more important not only because the air is dry, but also because in some people, your kidneys can really not hold on to fluid as well and can affect the antidiuretic hormone. And so you're actually are paying out more of your fluids. So it's important to replenish that as well. Yeah, I love all of this information. I think that people can kind of take and try the things that we've tried and see. See if it helps, because the whole point of most of our conversations is how do we live, you know, an adventurous life, whether that's travel or whether that's just the activities that we participate in and still feel good because it's one thing to say, oh, yeah, I went on this long vacation, but if you felt like garbage half the time and what that is, is that right? I love
Sheree 14:17
you want to
Christa 14:18
try new things, right? Like yeah, I tried to experiment but these are these are what experiments have worked for us. And so
Sheree 14:25
one thing I will say just before we wrap up to is that I didn't mention when you are drinking like one of the biggest game changers for me has been opting away from like the highest sugared drinks. We have a lot of ranges here in New Zealand that are, you know, pre mixes or whatever that you can buy at the festivals or buy at the concerts that have really bought out lower sugar options. And so if you're not having the massive amounts of sugar, you're gonna wake up feeling a million times better because that's also what contributes massively to the hangover and what makes you feel like crap the next day that makes you eat like crap the next day to so You know, it may be that yes, you do want to enjoy the beer or whatever while you're away or you want the wine. But also bear that in, like, bear that in mind that it may be an option to not every time actually opt for something that might be a little bit lower sugar, or maybe it's not all the really sweet cocktails that you're aiming for. And you can opt with some things that aren't going to burn the body even more because alcohol is a poison. We don't want to add was one of the sugar with it too.
Christa 15:24
It really is, you know, if you haven't drank a ton to where you're really sedated. Why it actually does stimulate histamine. So sometimes taking maybe a Zyrtec or Claritin or an anti histamine can also kind of help some that histamine response because that can really linger the next day also, you know, just that histamine reaction in the body can also do that, you know, when in doubt, don't drink if you really want to feel amazing the next day, however, a lot of times you know, vacations and concerts they do involve some of that and so how can we support the body and dealing with some of the toxic After Effects? It's more like the breakdown of the toxins that really makes us feel bad the next day? So making sure Yeah, electrolytes and other ones magnesium that's also a really great booster of the detox pathway. Yeah. I have I love learning from other people you do what do you try? Yeah, cuz you want to walk away from an experience feeling like yes, I was present I was there. My body felt that the whole time so whatever we can do to to hack that. I'm here for it. Amazing.
Sheree 16:20
Yeah. And if you love more episodes like this, where we're just keeping it real and sharing our behind the scenes hacks, let us know
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