Celebrating Life: Simplify Your Longevity Journey

 In this enlightening podcast episode, Dr. Rodney and Karen Wirth share their journey towards healthier living, emphasizing that being healthy doesn't have to be complicated. 

They discuss the significant impact of integrating small, sustainable changes into your daily routine, covering areas like high-intensity exercise, the importance of posture, quality nutrition, and consistent rest. 

Their practical tips on reducing screen time and focusing on purposeful activities resonate with anyone looking to improve their well-being.

This episode is a treasure trove of insights on achieving a long, vibrant life without the need for extreme measures. 

Links to relevant past podcasts:

Stand Tall

Is Your Posture Killing You?

Use It or Lose It

What does rest have to do with longevity?

Uncovering Sleep Secrets - Part 1

Uncovering Sleep Secrets - Part 2

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:07

Welcome to Stance for Health Podcast with Dr. Rod and Karen Worth, where becoming healthy is not complicated. Control your health by focusing on six areas of life that we teach you so you finally have the energy you want and have to do what you want instead of being a victim of your age. I have over 20 years' experience working as a chiropractor, and Karen is an author, speaker, and longevity coach. We've seen how a tiny change in your habits today can open up your life to a powerful future. Start today and take your stance for health.

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Dr.

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Rodney Warriors, sitting here next to Karen Sebastian with the Hope Lady.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

We got married nine years ago.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

One of the things that changed for me when I first met you was exercise. Because I always would walk at a local park, but you were doing high-intensity interval training. So when we started to get a little bit more serious with each other, before you go to work at the personal injury clinic, you invited me over in the morning to do, was it a 12-minute workout every morning?

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

And so the it was really early when I'd come over when I said, Well, not compared to now, but because we're we're up in like between four somewhere between 4 30 and oh dark thirty. But we be began to do that in what I think I want to say as a longevity hack is to get in shape for a long life, you do not have to run a marathon.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

No, in fact, most marathonners don't go the distance. That's a whole nother topic we've discussed on other podcasts, but it's not about the extreme. So do you remember the second thing that we started doing?

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Posture, that has been very significant to us personally. By the way, when you hear the word posture, didn't you just I saw that?

SPEAKER_02 2:14

I did unconsciously, I totally did.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

You said upstairs funny. But posture is so important to longevity because there's research that shows that for every centimeter that your head is stooped forward, it takes away from lifetime. And so the alignment is so important. For myself, it was a dream come true to have a resident chiropractor. Well, it's great to I mean, just an incredible, incredible difference that happened to me where I had had a scoliosis and a hip that was higher than the other, and in pretty much constant pain to where it's basically taken care of now and no pain. And it just has been a true life changer. One of the ones that I think was been a real transformation is when we did several podcasts on sleep, 10 sleep secrets, and I'll put the link down in the show notes. Because here's the thing about us whatever we talk about here, we apply it.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Yes. We have either applied it for a long period of time or we're about to apply it, and we want to take you with us.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Yes. And so it has helped so much to go to bed at a regular time, to have a very dark room, to have no devices in there, to keep it cool. What else do we do that helps us with our sleep?

SPEAKER_02 3:42

We're not doing it as much right now, but we have done it uh more in the past. Since you said what you did about breath work or intentional breathing or tactical breathing, I've begun to do that again. And all I'm really saying with that is taking full breaths with my diaphragm, breathing in intentionally, breathing out intentionally, not being in a hurry to take another breath. It's a little bit like taking your time eating.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

That could be our next one that we've changed because a cancer scare in 2020 led us to a seminar where they were talking about the food that we were eating contributing to cancer.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

Wow. And isn't it interesting that we were the last surgery in that outpatient surgery before COVID shut it all down in that particular surgery center?

SPEAKER_00 4:34

So of course we were eating at home anyway, and went home and throughout half the pantry I cried because he was reading the ingredients. Nope. Nope. Nope. And that's a challenge to you is to look at your labels before you eat that food. It seems easy.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

I wonder if anything that you do long enough and you don't quit it. And if you do something that you know has benefited others and you know it's going to benefit you, and you feel safe with it, if you keep doing it, it will benefit you. And then it starts to become an easier habit or a simpler habit.

SPEAKER_00 5:15

Does that ring true with you? It certainly does because there are only certain foods and restaurants where we eat, certain foods that we eat. And so shopping is fast, and we eat at home more, but that develops so many secrets. So we're so many ways to make it fast and never felt better when it comes to eating.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

Oh, and I so appreciate that about uh that style of cooking. I think I thank her every time that she's made something.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

But then again, I thank him. This is a dream come true. He cleans the kitchen.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

I don't often think of what we do as extremes. But when you consider where this country is as far as ranking on life expectancy and overall health and money spent versus what's actually delivered in our health, it's not very attractive.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

It's not. We're sliding almost irreversibly. I mean, we started it, we were at 17. I think now we're 37 in the world. And we spend way more money than other people.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

Everybody else combined. It's astronomical. That's what it takes me back to when it comes to extremes. If you're swimming in a cesspool, let's not swim in that anymore. Let's get out of that, let's change it. And so we figured that half measures wouldn't avail us anything if we have to get out of the cesspool.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

And one of the things that I think was so different about what we did was we did not go for weight loss. We went for restoration of health and a body that could heal itself. And that's where food is medicine.

SPEAKER_02 6:56

I'm so glad you said that. You knew exactly what I was thinking with that. So I read earlier today if you eat bad nutrition, then medicine is of no use. If you take in really good nutrition, then medicine is unnecessary. So that sounds like another extreme. And yet it fits right in with where you're going. Basically, you just dump cups of vegetables in the pan and stir it up and it tastes really good. Did you want to talk about that at all?

SPEAKER_00 7:30

I just wanted to express that for those who are interested, I can show you ways that you can prepare the meals that we eat. We do get to go home for lunch every day. I will admit that that's a great, great, great de-stressor. And I take a nap every day. Just 10 minutes, that resets me and puts me in the parasympathetic. We have found a purpose in what we do. We don't live by chance. We don't just cross our fingers and hope that our genetics are good. We basically have decided I get to live one life. I have only one body. It is a temple of the Holy Spirit, and I am going to take care of it. And I'm not going to let what other people do sway me in any way, shape, or form. It's no different than my faith in Jesus. You might disagree with me, and yet it's strong. It's how I'm choosing to live. And I'm grateful for a spouse that says, Yeah, let's go. And we just embark on these new journeys. Like our most recent one is kettlebell. And that's where I started out with five. It felt almost overwhelming to do all those movements with five pounds. And now I'm like, this is easy.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Five pounds feels easy.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

That's what I want people to take away from what we're talking about. Not like, oh wow, you guys are out there. I could never do it. Yes, you can.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

We're using the weights that we can use for a period of time. It's so tantamount to what we're really talking about with like nutrition and posture and all these things. If you just keep adding these things, I like how you say it. Maybe you've never heard this term before, but I wonder if you hear the words line upon line, precept upon precept, if you just keep adding these things to your base of who you are, all of a sudden you start to see the world differently through a different lens. And that it comes into focus in Hebrew scriptures and rabbinical teaching. They call that your yoke. So our yoke has changed. It's actually kind of like what Jesus says it's it's like an easy yoke. And I never saw it that way before, but that's just where that takes me.

SPEAKER_00 9:45

What is our purpose?

SPEAKER_02 9:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:47

And one of them for me has been that I want to teach other people how they can do this. Because we're at an age where it's important to engage quickly.

SPEAKER_02 10:00

And so that's takes me full circle to the article that I read about we want to implement this quickly and yet systematically, so we're not overdoing it. You say first eight years of our marriage, you were doing the simplest level of hit.

SPEAKER_00 10:15

I have never done of the modified once. And it is still made a very big difference in my stamina, in my overall well-being. Adding weight-bearing exercise has taken it now to that next level. But we do a 10-minute routine.

SPEAKER_02 10:36

So what's really cool about that in this article is that this young man that was talking about a 68-year-old that was coming to his office, he's like, wow, what's going on with this guy? You know, 68. He's healthy, he doesn't have any injuries. He did a study on it, and he found that his fast twitch muscles were that of someone half his age. He was at 68. So you do the math. Is that where you see how you're reverse aging yourself?

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Absolutely. Yeah. And it's all important.

SPEAKER_02 11:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

If you were to ask me, out of alignment and posture and sleep and movement and food and and uh we left out rest.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Right. That's a big part of this.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

And relationship and purpose. I think you need it all. That was one of the biggest lessons we learned. We taught a class on observing the Sabbath, and it is the most broken commandment in of the 10.

SPEAKER_02 11:43

It seems like we have a podcast about that.

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Yes, we've got a podcast about every single one of these. I mean, there are going to be so many links in the Bible. But the the point being that having done all of this, if we're pushing and never stopping to rest and be grateful and to say, I'm so grateful you're in my life, Rapti.

SPEAKER_02 12:05

Thank you. Oh, the honor is mine.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Thank you. Thank you for cleaning the kitchen and eating what I cook.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

It's an honor. I really appreciate that gratefulness emotion. And, you know, you're listening to this, you're hearing that in her voice. There's real tears of being shed. One of the things I think with purpose that we've discovered lately as it relates to all of this is a life around rest. As a result of that, we center our lives on where God said to center it, and that begins with rest. The Hebrew day begins with rest. God's basically just stopped after doing all this stuff, which basically was like he could do it with one part of the universe tied behind his back. He can do all things, right? He showed us this. And it's such a gift. I've said this before. It seems like we work harder and get more out of the six, just like tithing, that we get more out of the 90%. We can have a dialogue about all of these things. If you're wondering about any of these things, we can have a dialogue about this. We realize a lot of things that we say here, you probably feel like wrestling with it because it's like, oh, I don't have time for this.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

And yet, you make time for what's important to you. And my most recent decision was the conviction I felt at the end of every week when I was saying I don't have time to write my books. Something that only I can do. And yet the hours that I was on my phone every day doom scrolling profited me nothing. Even though it was around longevity and it was around health topics and it was around spiritual topics, I accomplished nothing in that time. And so that's our latest extreme, if you want to call it, to cut that out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:16

So how much time would you say we uh spend on on the television or doom scrolling ever or gaming every week now?

SPEAKER_00 14:27

Thirty minutes? Maybe combined? All of it?

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

And you know, we still do send messages and text messages, and we use the business phone to be on Instagram to educate our tribe. But yeah, it has totally transformed, but goes back to purpose. What is it that only I can do? What is it that only you can do, Rodney? Let's go after it.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Yeah, that really reaches you. It just seems like this podcast is sort of a regrounding, almost a testimony to what we've done so far. And we're grateful to you for listening to this. We show up, and our goal is first to help you, to not give you medical advice, but to encourage you, to to show you that this can be done. We were talking to a guy named Randy McLean, and uh just honoring him. I told him, hey man, I just that's so so cool that you got to do that, that spiritual, that type of spiritual encounter. And you know what he said to me that has really stayed with me? He said two things. The first response was, Well, thank you, and yet a lot has been expected of me as a result of that. And he he said, but I one thing I have discovered, he said, Dr. Rodney, I I find that if when I take an interest in God's business, and I'm about what is interesting to God, he takes then an interest in my business and what I'm doing. Do you find that to be true?

SPEAKER_00 16:17

So very, very true. Yeah. And that's about purpose. And that's my passion is that people would live long, healthy lives so that they get to do what only they can do. Because what happens so often is that first half of our life is wonderful. You're raising your kids if the Lord has blessed you with kids. You're investing in others. And so many people then reach retirement and it hits like a thud, and their health starts to decline and they lose their purpose. My dad called it, he says, I'm never gonna retire. I'm gonna re-fire. And he did. And dad made it almost to 102. So I think it's a good formula. Just want to challenge you. What are you about? What is it that only you can do? When I stand before the Lord, what have you done with the talents I gave you? And I've never been more excited because of the health that I feel, because of the purpose that I have to just share this particular truth with more people and encourage them that they don't have to just use a walker to get up that mountain. Moses climbed up that mountain, no walker in hand, and uh his eyes were great. He made it to 120. That's what I want to do.

SPEAKER_02 17:49

So wherever we are in life, there's a couple things I'm thinking about, and and then maybe we've covered everything, maybe we can do it again next podcast. But within the last couple months, what you just said was so powerful because it took me back to what got us here in this in this um emotion, this mindset, this place, this energy in motion. I I heard Graham Cook say this once, and it feels like it's becoming mine. He said, God loves who you are, and also he loves who you're becoming. So he loves you now, and he loves who you're becoming. Something through the course of what you said just made me think, you know what? What if I've squandered everything? What what in almost like in a prodigal sort of way? Maybe I've gotten fat and happy, I've gotten satisfied, I've gotten uh uh complacent.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

How about instead of fat and happy, fat and miserable?

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Yeah, at this conference, I made the decision, I'm quitting gaming, I'm getting rid of this, I'm getting rid of that. It's about who God is making me now. It's not about who I was even ten minutes ago.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Much less ten years ago.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

It's who we're becoming so that God can do something with the the rest of the years that you have. And I think he can multiply it. He wants you to become someone. He wants you to look like somebody when you get to heaven. He wants you to look like Jesus. At the same time, you he created you for your own persona because he just loves your persona, he loves who you are. I'm talking to somebody today. He loves your persona, but he loves you. And maybe you've been in a place in your health, you've been complacent. Maybe you don't think you can do any of this. Hope is the difference between Judas and Peter, right? Some would say one betrayed Jesus, others would say they both betrayed Jesus. But in the end, it was Peter that both lived, he said, you know what? I'm all right, I'll do what I you know I love you. I yes, I love you. Whatever's happened to this point. I think it's just time to embrace that, to have the hope to be all that you can be from now on, whatever it takes. And so as we're sitting here, it's taking your stance for health. It that feels more real to say it that way, doesn't it? Than at just about any other time, because we're becoming something, you're becoming something because you heard this today, and that makes it all worthwhile to us as you take your stance for health. Thank you for joining us at Stance for Health Podcast, where getting healthy and staying that way are not as complicated as you might think. Subscribe now and discover steps and small changes that can increase your energy and open the door to vibrant health and longevity. This podcast has been helpful. Please write a review. We'll see you next time.