Dr. Lynn Anderson who’s pen name is Dr. Lynn Wylnn is a Naturopath and Yoga therapist. She is the author of many books about health, nutrition, yoga, karma, sexuality and more. Find out more about Dr. Lynn at “Doctorlynn” In this #podcast, we discuss the areas of life that you have a say in that have tremendous effects on your health, prosperity, happiness, and more.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro Snip
00:02:11 How was your diet influenced by living on a tiny island of the coast of Maine?
00:05:40 What is “Real Food” vs. Processed foods?
00:08:47 What does “Natural” mean in food terms?
00:09:30 What is a Naturopath?
00:09:55 What are some of the therapies Naturopaths use?
00:10:30 What is color therapy?
00:13:50 What is getting in the way of people’s health?
00:16:45 What is Yoga?
00:18:00 Does yoga make you stronger?
00:20:38 What areas of exercise is yoga missing?
00:25:13 What is a “Chemical Imbalance”?
00:26:58 Why are there so many medications and processed foods filled with chemicals?
00:28:58 What is the cure for cancer?
00:31:57 Where does modern medicine let us down and fail?
00:35:00 Who is a typical client patient for Dr. Lynn?
00:37:44 How much say do we have in how we age?
00:40:00 Are you loving yourself enough?
00:41:20 “You’re never too old to follow a dream”.
00:43:30 Dr. Lynn’s personal success story
00:44:10 Dr. Lynn shares a client success story
00:46:01 What is prosperity?
00:47:24 Power words that were spoken into Dr. Haley’s life
00:49:38 Dr. Lynn tells some power words that were spoken into her life
TRANSCRIPT
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This is the Dr. Haley Show podcast. Today’s guest Dr. Lynn, a naturopath and yoga therapist. She’s the author of many books about health, nutrition, yoga, karma, sexuality, and more. Her accomplishments truly are too many to name here, so you can find out more about Dr. Lynn on her website www.doctorlynn.com I’ll have links to the website and YouTube channel and other social media in the description below the video, or on whatever platform you’re watching this on, or listening to this on.
Dr. Lynn, thank you for joining me today. I understand that you’ve lived in a few places off of Maine, California. You’re in Sarasota now, is that right? That is correct. Yeah, I’m here in Sarasota. I’ve been here since the pandemic. Okay. I have a lot of family on the other coast. I’m on the East coast of Florida. Oh, okay.
Where are you? On the east coast. Fort Lauderdale. Oh, okay. Okay. Well, we’re neighbors, and we have nice, bright, sunny days. You can go out sunbathing where the rest of the country is probably dealing with snow. Still like the. Yes. Where I come from, up in Maine, it’s still pretty cold up there. Yeah, yeah. And from what I understand, you were originally on one of the little islands off of Maine.
Yes, that is correct. I grew up on an island off the coast of Maine. It was a little fishing village. And it’s part of a, The town is called Harpswell. It’s a peninsula, and it owns three islands. And I grew up on one of those islands. Now, what was different for you being on, Little Island versus on the mainland?
Well, we had to take a boat to go everywhere, and all we had, we had a small causeway, so they built a causeway between the island and the next town. So there was just a small causeway. But really, if you wanted to go anywhere, you know, off the island, it was easier just to jump in a boat and shoot across to Portland, which was the biggest city.
Yeah. Okay. And then what about as far as, you know, grocery stores and what did you have there? We had two little general stores, and, you know, they were kind of limited because the general stores were also stores that, had all the stuff for the fishermen. So they had rope and all this stuff. It was really there to support the fishermen, but there was, you know, bread and milk and the basics that were there.
So what my mother would do is she would load us up in the car and we would probably go once a month to town and get provisions. other than that, it was what we got. You know, we had fresh fish every day. It was whatever we got from the island. So I like to tell people that before organic was even a word we used, I was eating organic because that’s all we had.
I think that’s fantastic. Now, a lot of my audience will have, a very specific diet and when I want to talk about food with you, especially with your upbringing being different and, you know, not having the grocery store down the street where you can go, you know, twice a week if you wanted to and always have fresh food or whatever it is.
Because it’s almost sounding like a little Weston A. Price you kind of eat what’s there, and that’s very true. And every house had what was called a root cellar, and a root cellar was it was underneath the house, and it was cold down there. So that’s where they would put the provisions. So things that we would get my mother would canned things.
We would freeze things like, fruits and vegetables. And that’s what we ate through the winter because, you know, you couldn’t grow anything in the winter. That’s fantastic. It’s crazy, but it’s fantastic. I love it for me. You know, we’ve always had the grocery store right there, and you could get whatever you wanted from the aisles or from the
perimeters.
And, you know, we kind of grew up eating somewhat healthy food, but a lot of processed stuff, not really knowing the difference at the time. But, you know, when we talk about food, there’s some people that are very strict, whether it’s strict vegan or strict carnivores. I even have a friend that’s a strict raw carnivore. You know,
there’s people of all different,
categories high carb, high protein, low fat diets, so many different diets.
And when we talk about these things, I don’t want to tell anyone that my diet is right for you because we’re all different. And I think it’s important to establish that what works for me might not work for you. But we can definitely agree on some core essentials like there’s something called real food and there’s things that people eat that really aren’t food.
Right. It sounds like you grew up eating real food. Have your, preferences changed over the years, or do you still consume fish and. Well, I’ll tell you that. First off, when I was a child, the first time I had, like, a, I was the store bought cookie. I didn’t like it. It tasted funny. And it left an aftertaste in my mouth because we had grown up with, you know, my mother always made homemade cookies.
If you had dessert, it was homemade. And it was, you know, if blueberries were in season, you were eating blueberry cake.
that’s what we did. But of course, as
time went on and,
things changed and the roads got better. You know, when we were everybody was subjected to,
TV dinners and all of that stuff that came with the 60s,
and of course, my brother and I being children, we wanted that kind of stuff.
So
we got to that stuff. But my mother was very strict. She didn’t allow a lot of that stuff in the house. And one of the problems that I had was I couldn’t eat fish in a restaurant for a long time because it didn’t taste right, because there is a big difference when you take a fish and it’s flipping and you cook it right off the boat, it has a flavor that you can’t explain.
You know, to anyone who’s always eating fish in a restaurant. So a long story short, of course, now I eat fish in a restaurant and
my tastes have changed. But I do gravitate back to that.
I always find myself wanting to go back to as pure as I can. The food. I wonder if that has anything to do with a lot of the fish that we consume also being farmed.
And you know, when we say farmed, for those that don’t know what does that mean? Well, they’re still,
raised in the ocean, a lot of them. But they’ll have nets around them that kind of keep them in a certain area. And that becomes almost like their fish tank, where their food is just kind of dumped in.
They’re not free to, you know, eat algae off rocks or eat other fish. It’s whatever’s in their net they get to eat. And that’s probably going to be pellets, which might have genetically modified grains or who knows what in them soy products. Who knows. And what you’re not getting is the super nutrient dense fish full of the omega threes that they would have gotten from the algaes and from the other little fish that ate the algaes.
So I wonder if that has something to do with the taste difference. Well, I think it does have a big difference because I mean
nature has a certain balance to it. Nature is there. You know, the fish are supposed to eat certain things, just like we’re supposed to eat certain things. The fish aren’t supposed to eat processed food, you know, and in a sense, when you’re farming them, you are giving them a processed food, you know?
So yeah, it does. It makes a huge difference.
eating things. Right, fresh from nature. And, you know, that’s a there’s a misnomer. People out there, we throw around this word natural all the time. But if you think about it, natural really means in its natural state that means that I pick the apple off the tree and eat the apple.
That’s what natural means. But,
you see it splashed
all over packages and everything. You know, this is natural and that’s natural. It’s a bit of a misnomer. Yeah. I heard someone say plutonium is natural. Yeah. So they, you know, people will stretch the, the word to, you know, and put it on their packaging. Oh it’s natural.
It must be good for you. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the word that’s being used in creative marketing. Now what about how does that tie in with naturopath? Well yeah a naturopath Our philosophy is prevention over cure. So we approach everything of we should always focus on preventing ourselves from getting sick because naturopaths we’re doctors deal with the cure end of it.
And I’d certainly much rather be in prevention mode than cure mode, because in cure mode you’re sick. So what naturopath believes is that we should follow the three, pillars of health, the three basic pillars, which is diet, exercise and sleep. Those are the three pillars. And then we teach the natural sciences, which could be a aromatherapy color therapy, light therapy, sound therapy, all of the natural things in the world the people don’t necessarily pay attention to you are affected by the light you are under.
You are affected by the environment that you’re in. And so it’s important, as much as possible, to be out and to get into the natural environment. What is color therapy? I never heard of that one before. Well, it color therapy, I guess a good way to put that would be different colors. Like if we are, we have the color red and you target the color red.
It’s an energizing wear. Blue brings you more into that calm state. So if we were working with, color therapy, we would work on the chakras and where the person is maybe having issues in their body and try to target that with different color and light, because we know that light is therapeutic. Sunlight gives us vitamin D, we evolved under natural sunlight, and sunlight comes out into the spectrum of greens and different colors.
A really good example of color therapy would be whenever we go out into a forest or green area. And by the way, green is the biggest color in nature, you know, is green. You get that calmness. And when you feel that calmness, that is the green color working on your body and your mind to bring you into that passive state.
It’s, you know, tying back to something way back that I remember from college, and it was a friend of mine. And what she did was it wasn’t well, I didn’t know it as color therapy, but she was like a color finder kind of thing for people. And what she would do is travel with fabrics of all different colors, and she would take it and she would like, kind of lay it on her client as they were in the mirror, and she would watch their face, their expressions, and she would feed off that and figure out what their favorite colors were.
And let’s say they did settle on a green, for instance, where you kind of light up and I see you come alive
when you see yourself in green. Now let’s figure out which shade of green is best for you. And then, you know, when she was done, you know, okay, you liked red and you like green. And here are your specific shades of red and green.
And she would give them a piece of the fabric so that they could take those with them when they were shopping for their clothes. I am understanding it all the more now when you talk about color therapy. Well, you know, there was an interesting study done. They went into a jail, a prison where they were prisoners, and they did a study.
They painted the walls pink, and they found a whole different change in the energy of the prisoners. So we know that color affects us and we’re not really attuned to it. We go about our daily day and we’re not really attuned to it. But every once in a while, a color will catch you and there’s some kind of vibration that happens.
We are affected by everything in the natural environment, and that means light and all the spectrum, the color that it gives off. So it’s important to pay attention to your environment. Very, very cool. Now, I want to go back to the other pillars too, because, well, you mentioned nutrition exercise and rest. What do you see getting in the way of people’s health out of those three.
Which one seems to be the biggest problem. Oh well you know they say 70% of people are having sleep problems today.
So I think
that’s a big problem and that has to do with. But that ties back to exercise and diet, because we do know that if you’re eating garbage all day, your body is not going to be working properly and it may disrupt your sleep.
We know that exercise is really good for allowing you to sleep, so
we evolved moving as a human being and we cannot live without good nutrition. So if you combine those two things, then you’re going to improve your sleep. But to answer that more, you know, it’s very hard for people to stay to a healthy diet and exercise every day and make sure they get adequate sleep.
And,
what do they find? You know, all kinds of people sign up at the beginning of the year to go to the gym, and then it just tanks after that. You know, very few people stay to that momentum. Yeah, yeah. And then, you know, I think they it also works the other way, meaning your sleep affects your nutrition.
Exactly. And your ability to exercise,
all three of them certainly work together. But I’ve noticed, especially lately, people complain more about not being able to sleep. And, well, nutrition could be causing that. Lack of exercise could be causing that stress, could be causing that. There’s, you know, so much that’s different now than 50 years ago.
Well, we also if you think about 50 years ago, we were all much more physical. You know,
everybody had physical work that they did. You didn’t have a gardener, you did your gardening, you did your snow shoveling. You did that. Those kinds of come home from work and that’s what you did. And so the body, you know, naturally gravitated to its rest at that point.
But now,
and we’re all guilty of it. We’re on the phones. We’re sitting all the time. Yeah, yeah. You know, you and I are I mean, we’re doing this over a computer. I mean, this didn’t happen years ago. You and I would have physically had to connect somehow. And although technology is wonderful, you know, it does.
It’s like everything in life, everything has its good and its bad. You just have to find the balance in the middle and not tip to either side. Let’s talk a little bit about yoga, okay? And I am curious about it as far as is it an exercise? Is it something for the mental state? What is yoga? Well, yoga is a philosophy and it’s a science.
And there are many branches to yoga. And there are different, you know, they have different philosophy, which kind of a the same, but they branch off like karma has a different direction than Kriya Yoga, yet they both go to the same place. So yoga is a philosophy. There’s a philosophy behind it, the science behind it. Is that what you do with your body and your mind can bring you into a state of relaxation, bring you into that place of everything and balance.
So the idea behind yoga is to bring everything body, mind and soul into balance. Because when your body, if you think about it, we’ll just take the body. If everything in your body is circulating perfectly. And if I stretched all your muscles and I’ve got you breathing properly and everything is in alignment because yoga constantly is working towards posture and alignment, everything’s in balance.
Everything’s healthy, everything’s working so that the science is to bring you to that place. What would you say to someone that said, well, I’m not going to do yoga because, you know, I want to get stronger. Hahaha. Yoga will make you definitely stronger because in yoga we do a lot of what is called weight bearing and the weight bearing.
Of course, is, you know, you’re using the weight of your body. And I have I mean, I have two people who come to my class. I have women that are in women and men that are in their 60s and 70s, and they are doing a plank there on the floor, doing the plank. Now, we may not hold it for a long time, but they are doing that plank and they’re building strength.
And, you know, I’ll tell you another little story. I was teaching yoga and there was a whole bunch of, weightlifters, you know, big body weightlifters. And they were kind of joking around with me one day about yoga, you know, and I said, well, why don’t you come on and take my class? So I had five of them in the back of my class.
They could not bend over and touch their toes. At the end of the classes, they were sweating. They said that was a workout. So yoga has yoga is about building strength, balance and flexibility. And we need all three of those things.
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Yeah, I like to tell people when it comes to exercise, you know, there’s different areas such as, like you said, strength and flexibility, detoxification through, you know, sweating and opening up the pores, there’s endurance and there’s, you know, at a certain level, there’s fat burning.
And I think all of these areas of exercise are important. What is yoga missing? Well, I’ve added an element to yoga. I have a class which is called Proactive Aging. And what we do is we have a chunk in there of about 24 minutes, which is what, they are telling us today is the ideal to get your aerobics.
And every day it’s like 24 minutes is the ideal time. And so what this class does is this class gives us, we do balance strength and flexibility, and then we do 24 minutes of what I call functional dance. So we get the aerobics in there. And I created this because I found that many of my yoga students, didn’t get aerobics.
And I also am a certified spin teacher. I’ve been teaching spin for years, and my spin students didn’t come to my yoga class. And I thought, well, we got to do something. So you guys get all, all of it. And it’s, you know, and I created a DVD for it and we sold it and everything. And it’s been, you know, a big hit.
People like it because the 24 minutes is enough for most people. And if you make it creative and fun, they don’t even know that they’ve gotten a real quick workout. But they have now. Is this like Richard Simmons? Well, yeah, sort of, I guess, you know. Yeah, yeah, it’s really geared towards I geared it towards those 55 and older.
Because,
that age group is a such an active age group and they’re such wonderful people and they needed something different than the young 20 and 30 year olds, because you can’t you have to teach to your audience, and you can’t teach older people if you’re 20 because you don’t understand what’s going on with their bodies.
And so I created this so that we could kind of evolve as we’re going aging along, and they could age with me. Isn’t that true? Like when I don’t know about you, but when I was young, well, I had access to a lot of things that you didn’t because I didn’t live on the little island. But I used to think I could eat whatever I wanted, and if I just exercised, I would turn it into good stuff.
Right? Yeah. That doesn’t work anymore. No, no. You know, stuff that I ate actually causes pain now, and things hurt more. And I can feel a difference. I can tell when I’m inflamed because of what I ate. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah. And that’s getting in touch with your body. And it’s so important because that is so true. You can eat something and it can just trigger something in you.
And it’s like, like for me, I mean, I really cherish my sleep. I don’t want to eat anything that’s not going to allow me to have my sleep, because my sleep’s important to me. You know, I like my morning coffee, but I realize if I have and I don’t have that much, I have a little bit of an organic coffee with some coconut milk.
And, we make I vegan protein that I put a little bit of that in it to give it some flavor. If I have that after 10 a.m., I know it’s going to interfere with my sleep, so I won’t do that now. I usually have it around 5 a.m., so it’s safe. It’s not going to affect my sleep.
But yeah, I don’t want to consume chocolate that’s going to caffeinate me or some people. Even carbohydrates might interfere with their sleep. Other people a heavy meal before they sleep. So yeah, I want to eat. To sleep. Well, exactly, exactly. Because we do. You know, sleep is a nutrient and people need it’s you need sleep just as much as you need vitamin B and vitamin C and all those other nutrients.
It is a nutrient, and it is the only time that we are able to go in and reset the body. That’s what it’s for. Rejuvenation of the body. I think they did a science experiment, something to the effect of exchanging spinal fluid in monkeys. Now I’m not one. That’s for animal testing and things like this. However it’s done, and it would be foolish not to benefit from what they had learned after the sacrifices that they went through.
But they found out that by
exchanging the spinal fluid, they could keep certain monkeys continuously awake and others continuously asleep. Because when we’re awake, it makes this chemistry that causes the need to sleep for it to rejuvenate. And so they just continued to exchange it. And one stayed asleep and one stayed awake kind of thing. You’re changing your chemistry when you’re sleeping.
It’s interesting a lot of doctors will give medications to treat the mind because you have a chemical imbalance. Well if chemistry is really our nutrition and we can change it with the things that we eat, we can change it by sleeping it, we can change it by exercise. We can change it by laughing or by being angry.
We can change our chemistry. So you have a chemistry imbalance or do you have a nutritional imbalance. And if we just got our nutrition right through all of those different ways. Who would need those medicines. Well you know that’s where the a naturopath that is our view. Our view is that, you know we live in a world where we want instant.
And if I can’t sleep the doctor will write me a prescription. I got a pill. I’m instantly asleep. But it’s a fake sense of sleep, you know, and it’s much more difficult to go through the arduous process of eating properly and exercising. And, you know, it takes work to do that. And sadly, a lot of times human beings are lazy.
They just want the quick fix,
But you’re absolutely right. I mean, we know, for example, that vitamin B12, B12 has a connection to depression. We know that. We know that certain nutrients in the body affect the chemistry of our brain. And so wouldn’t it be better if we approached it from the standpoint of, let’s see what we can do and use medicine as the last resort instead of the first course of action?
But
We live in a world of Big pharma, and we live in a world of processed food. And it’s a lot of money, a lot of money in those two and a lot of lobbying. And you know,
I say
whether you like him or not, whether you support this administration or not, RFK has got the toughest job in the world because he’s going up against the junk food people.
He’s got the toughest job because to change that’s going to, you know, taking a lot of work. I’ll be so bold to say I like what he’s doing. I will say that. I mean, I’m behind him because I’m behind anyone who’s trying to clean up especially, You know what children are eating these kids,
if we can educate them and get them to eat healthier,
it’s such a wonderful thing.
We’re giving them a wonderful gift. Now, if the McDonald’s menu changes and reflects the menu in Europe, it doesn’t mean I’m going to go there. Yeah. But wouldn’t that be something for the people. You know if the chemicals were taken out of the foods and they will be in literally a laboratory with lab coats on adding things that aren’t meant for consumption, trying to get that exact right color and taste, because they want you to get addicted to their food.
They want you to come back. Exactly. That’s how you make money. You make money by making people addicted to something that they have to come back to, that keep coming back to. And then we have this huge obesity problem as a result of it. And then Big Pharma makes money because people are getting sick. You know,
it’s a circle.
And that’s why I say,
he’s got a tough job on his hands because he’s going up against two really big entities in this country. And you know, I it’s just yeah, it’s really sad because the most important thing in your life is your health. It’s the number one. Yeah. You know, behind me, I like pointing out the fact that is a photo green screen.
You’re seeing an image of an aloe vera field. Okay. And I’ll always remind people aloe vera does not cure cancer. Chemotherapy doesn’t cure cancer. There’s no cure for cancer. Although you can cure your own cancer, there’s not an outside in cure. There might be something that kills your cancer. Yes. And then if you didn’t get rid of the cause, maybe it’s going to come back.
But the real cure is to change so many things in your life that you get rid of all the bad influences, your you make, your body work like it’s supposed to. And in making all those changes, you also somehow eliminated the cause. If there was indeed one that was other than your immune system not being strong enough. But the reason I think that’s important is people will say, well, why can’t you say then that aloe vera helps fight cancer?
But because there’s no proven science? Well, actually there is.
but why not? Well, because it’s a food. And who’s going to pay to prove that a food can help cure you of your illness? We can’t regulate to help make you well, no one’s going to pay for it. The big machine is going to pay for it.
They’re going to pay to have their drugs on the shelves, and they’re going to pay to put them in front of doctors, and they’re going to have their reps out there educating them.
And they do not want people like me interfering with that. And it’s good reason to it’s for it’s for their own protection. Because if I could say, you know, this food or that food cures cancer, well then other people are going to say it too, whether or not it’s true.
And, you know, there is a certain protection that has to happen in that. But the reality is, is food is medicine and we’re surrounded by it and it can help us. And I do believe that the changes in the administration are going to be for our better. Right. Well you know Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, let food be thy medicine.
You know, I mean, that’s really what it is all about, is being able to take care. And, you know, I say to, you know, cancer it. I have a very dear friend who she’s lived a very pure, clean life, and she now has been diagnosed with lung cancer. But as I said to her, you will be so far ahead of anyone else who has gotten lung cancer because you’ve lived a healthy lifestyle.
Continue that healthy lifestyle. You will come back stronger. So it’s all a matter of when you take the drugs. The chemotherapy drugs, not only do they kill the cancer, but they kill other things in the body. And it’s important to rebuild. And here’s where medicine lets us down. Traditional medicine, they don’t say, okay, we’re going to give you this drug and it’s really going to beat the hell out of your body.
But here’s a diet and here’s exercise and here’s a program to keep you built up. They don’t put that extra part in there. And that’s the part that can make a huge difference in someone’s life. I personally think it’s criminal. If I’m going to put you on a drug, I should tell you, hopefully, you know, this is going to help control your blood pressure.
But what we need to do is make these changes so you don’t need this anymore, right? I mean, that should be required. Yeah. Because how many times do you hear you know there’s a drug
They’re advertising. And then they’ll tell you all the side effects of it. And then six months later they pull in that drug because it’s too many side effects.
You know, I mean
it is really scary to me. It’s very scary to take drugs because I know that behind it,
there is sometimes we do need them. Sometimes we need antibiotics to clear up something. And, you know, I’m not, you need a surgeon. I’m not a surgeon. You need them for certain things. But we need to bring everything back to balance.
And that’s where we. We fall short is we just. We go after it, and we target it, and then we leave the person without some means to build themselves back up. It was a great chiropractor. BJ Palmer said. If you took all the drugs and threw them in the ocean, it would be good for mankind. Bad for the fish.
Yeah, but you know, it’s not that. Okay, well,
if we stopped taking medicines altogether, it would be 100% better know there’s times when they’re of benefit, but on the big picture, they’re overprescribed. People are overmedicated. And it is definitely killing people and quite possibly more than it’s helping. So we need to use medicine when it’s needed.
And use it for buying time it as you’re making the changes to get well. Exactly. And then support it with a healthy diet exercise even if it’s getting up in a casual walk out in the sunshine. Get your vitamin D. You know, we know that vitamin D is very important especially with cancer because,
the vitamin D.
Sometimes it can deplete because of cancer. So it’s important to build that back up. And I like to remind people we evolved under natural sunlight. There’s a reason for that. You know get out there and get some fresh air and sunshine. We have an advantage here in Florida. And yes, we can get our daily dose in probably 15 minutes.
Yes. Outside. Yeah. For those up north, you might need a little more time or you might even need to supplement. Yeah, but if you can get it from real light that’s definitely ideal. Yeah. What is your typical client look like? why do they come to you? Well, you know, more times than not, a client will come to me, probably earlier in my practice.
Now, people are a lot older, and it might be a lot more of the older, older issues, but it used to always be, weight, they wanted to. Well, Doctor Lynn’s got to know how to just hit me with that magic wand. I’m going to be healthy and lose weight. And so the typical person would come to me with, you know, stressed out and all this stuff going on.
And,
I had to pull them back and get to what was really going on and then explain to them that
this is a process. It’s not going to happen overnight. And,
you have to give yourself at least 120 days to really feel the difference in your body by continually doing this.
And the ones who followed were amazing. They were just amazing people. I mean, they would come to me a month later, big smiles on their face because they had lost weight without really going on any strict diet because it wasn’t a strict diet. It was just eat healthy and exercise. And you know that to me, when I saw the smile on their face and I saw the lightness, I knew that it was working.
And that’s really the typical thing today. It’s more I have a lot of people who come to me with problems of arthritis. You know, they have knee and hip joints and all of that kind of stuff. And so we work on that with the exercise because I am also a yoga therapist. So we do, you know, the therapeutic work as well and more.
It’s helping people because your diet changes and everything changes. When you get past 65, things really start to change. More than 55 people think it’s 55. 65 is when people start to see those changes.
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I’m in my late 50s and, I, you know, I definitely feel it.
You know, I can definitely tell a difference. 40s I didn’t really notice much change, but, you know, I could imagine when I get to 60. So it just going to feeling a little bit more I got you. Well I got your beat, I got you beat, I don’t mind, I’m 72 I turned 72 this year And I tell people, you know, people say, you know, you’re in good shape for a 72 year old woman, I have.
What have I been doing for the last 50 years?
I have been following this,
you can’t say, okay, I’m going to eat a healthy diet for two weeks and exercise and, it’s a lifestyle. And the lifestyle begins with,
who do you really love? Do you love yourself first? And if you love yourself and you want to take care of yourself, then you have that health and you have so much more to give to other people that you love.
So to me, it was important to stay healthy. And
that’s it’s been my life. That’s my lifestyle. Now, that doesn’t mean that I don’t occasionally have a dessert, doesn’t mean that I don’t occasionally have a glass of wine. Doesn’t mean, you know, those things. I mean, we have to enjoy life, too. It’s not about. And I used to tell that to my clients.
It’s not that you can’t have a piece of cake at the birthday party. Enjoy it. Just eat the piece of cake and then go for a walk. You know, or don’t eat the whole cake. Eat a piece of cake. You know that’s the difference. Yeah, recreational foods are just that. And if you have them now and then and it’s, you know, an occasional recreation, if recreational foods are your main diet, we’re going to have some problems.
Absolutely, absolutely. I have my 40th, reunion, high school reunion coming up. And I remember the 30th and there were some people that kept their health. They looked good, they looked strong. They were thin. And then there were others that really didn’t maintain. And some that were couldn’t even walk normal anymore. And then there were also a bunch that weren’t there anymore.
You couldn’t come to the party because they’re in the ground. I do believe we have a big say in which of those we’re going to be. We do. It’s a lifestyle. It’s a lifestyle.
you make the choice.
I used to say to my clients I can be your teacher, but I can’t do it for you and I can’t make the choices for you.
You have to make that choice.
Do you love yourself? Do you care enough about yourself to take care of the most important thing, your health? And that is the focus because you know, we take our health for granted and even you can get a small cold and oh, poor me, I feel so bad and you can’t wait.
And you know the day when that cold lifts and you’re like, wow, I really appreciate that. I’m healthy today. And then we go right back into the whole thing, taking it for granted. Yeah. Usually the day the cold, lifts from me is about six hours after having a few spoonfuls of, garlic. Yeah. That just seems to melt away.
How many books have you written? Oh, boy. I can’t even keep them straight. I think I’ve written about, close to 8 or 10, something like that. And I did some checking these are not pamphlets. No, no, they’re books. They’re books. Yes. Hundreds of pages. Yes. I’m known as the Queen of content. But I’m.
But I’m actually doing something right now that, I. And I’ll share this with your listeners. You know, I had a dream when I was a passion, something I wanted to do when I was 16 years old. I wanted to write a novel. And at that time I was told, well,
you can’t be a starving artist writer.
You know, you don’t have any money, you know, and I was a single mother at one time with two kids. And, you know, that’s where my life went. So I finally have reached that point, and I am now living out a dream and writing this novel, which is very, very important to me. And I bring this up because I’m 72 years old, and I’m now doing something that I wanted to do when I was younger
I never let it go.
I always said, someday, someday, someday. And I’ll get there and I’ll get there. You’re never too old to follow a dream. So whatever it is out there, if you got a dream, just hang on to it. There will come a time when you can do it. That might be the title of this podcast. Yeah, there’ll be a time when you can just.
Well, you’re never too old, you know? Really kind of sums up a lot of the things we’ve been talking about. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Are most of your clients, local or are you doing the telehealth? What do you do? I do both. Yeah, I have people from zoom. Of course. I spent, 30 years of my life in Los Angeles.
So I still have a lot of people back there that I still,
stay in touch with and work with. Yeah. Okay. Now is the best source, the website. Doctor Lynn and doctor being spelled out. D O C T O R L Y N N.com That’s it That’s correct. And if you go there, you know, my social media handles are there, the books are there, there’s classes, and there’s a place for consultation and it’s background about me.
So everything, everything you want to know is right there. I’m, I don’t hide anything. All right. If you could share one of your favorite success stories for me,
my own personal success it could be your own personal. That could be a client that you had that had no hope. I would say if I said my personal, when I graduated,
my undergraduate, I graduated with a 3.8, as a single mother with two children.
I was on welfare.
I had student loans, work study. I was working part time as a bartender. I mean, it was crazy, crazy, crazy. So to me, that was personally my that’s my personal success in life is when I was able to do that because I knew if I could do that, I could probably do most anything I set my mind to so
that was a really important thing.
With a client, you know, I’ve had clients come to me and been in such depressed states that, you know, it’s just like their whole life was just tumbling into a big, big hole. And what I was able to do, I think of one particular one, is I convinced them to come to my yoga classes, which they did,
and then they would see me and we worked together.
And I I’ve always said to all my clients, this is not good business, but I always said to all of my clients, I’m not here to keep you forever. I’m here to teach you, and I’m here to cut the strings and give you your independence. Because I don’t. That goes against my integrity to be able to, you know, keep someone and it’s not good business practice.
But anyway and to see that person, that particular person grow and then to be able to just slip their little wings and watch them fly away, and then to have them circle around, maybe I don’t know, it was five years later. I couldn’t even remember who they were. And to have them see me across the room and come running across the room and throw their arms around me and say, you made all the difference in my life.
And to me I that point I said, I am the wealthiest woman that ever existed on the earth. Because if you can do that for one person, think about it. If everybody could do that for one other person, we’d have a great world. Yeah. And for me, it’s the fuel, you know, to why I do what I do.
It is how joyous to hear, you know, people’s success. Yes. The thing you had, shared about yourself, your personal success. If I recall, you have a book where the title is about prosperity as well. Yes. Does it come out of that experience that you had with you? Yes. It teaches you that, you know, prosperity is not the wealth that we think.
You know, it’s not having millions of dollars and big houses and fancy cars and stuff like that. Prosperity means to find wealth every day in your life. And wealth comes in very, very unique ways. You know, there were times when I would meet someone and they would say something that would make me do something different. That led me somewhere else, and it led me on this successful path, you know, relationships and things.
So wealth comes, is everywhere. We have wealth around us every day. And if you if you if you do strive to create wealth, you know, wealth is not bad material wealth. It’s greed that destroys not wealth. So strive to be wealthy in every way and then put it out there and it’ll come back to you a hundred times over.
Yeah, I think that’s a bit scriptural too. There’s something that says the love of money is the root of all evil, not prosperity in itself or money, but that love of it, which is kind of like the greed it’s creating to you also remind me of something that I probably learned when I was 6 or 7 years old.
Yeah, because sometimes people will say things that stick with you your whole life. And I’m going to ask you what sticks with you your whole life that someone in, you know, maybe a few short words, but going back, I was with my father. He took me on one of his sales calls, and the person he was with kind of pulled me aside and just kind of looked at me in the eyes and said, remember, persistence will get you whatever you want.
And I never forgot that. And in times throughout my life when I was failing at something, persistence, persistence, persistence. Oh wow. It worked again yet again. The other time. I think this, this was definitely later years but two words came from this man. I saw a chiropractor speaking at one of the big chiropractic meetings, and it was, you know, philosophy and inspiration and preparation for what you do.
And at the time, I had my own little struggles in my head about who I was as a young chiropractor, and I didn’t really comprehend if I was in a form of ministry or healer or I had too many thoughts. You know, I was I got out of chiropractic school. I was also going to Bible college. Just kind of doing some extra studies.
So a little confusion there. And at the end of his talk, when everyone goes up to ask their questions, he’s rapid firing answers because there’s so many people that want to talk to the master. And when it came my turn, he looked at me and he only had a second. And I said, I said, doc, I struggle with.
He said, stop struggling. And then he went to the next one. Because what I said after that didn’t matter exactly. The answer was stop struggling. And I’ve taken that with me and applied it over and over to many areas of my life. What are some power words that someone has spoken into your life? Well, you know, I had a really good friend who was a professional baseball player and he just keep getting up and swinging, keep swinging, kid.
Keep swinging and keep practicing. And one day you’re going to hit it right out of the park. And, you know, I remembered that because, you know, you use a professional baseball player, does a lot of they miss the ball more than they hit the ball right. You know, but you got to keep swinging. The minute you throw the bat down and you stop swinging, you’re done.
So, you know, I always it’s just like, no matter what, I just keep getting up, no matter how many times they put me out, no matter how many times they put me on the bench, you know, figuratively, I’d come back again and get back up to bat. And I think that, you know, it’s that tenacity that got me through life.
And if I had to say one thing that got me where I’ve got it is tenacity. It is the ability to just keep up and keep going, keep going and believe that you can do it. And I never, no matter how low I got and believe me, I’ve been broke, I’ve been fired, I’ve been thrown out of, you know, I’ve been really in a low place in my life.
I never sat on the ground. I pulled myself back up and said, nope, I’m going to do it. And you know, and most people would shake their head and say, she’s crazy. But it’s the tenacity, you know, you can’t give up. We’re all a little bit crazy. Yeah. That’s true. Well, Doctor Lynn, I want to thank you for joining me.
Before we go, is there anything that I missed that I should have asked you that you wanted to share with our audience? No, I think we did. I think we covered just about everything. The only thing I would say is, I will emphasize again, just remember the most important thing in your life is your health. When it’s gone, nothing matters.
Does matter how much money you’ve got, you cannot buy back your health when it’s really gone. I use Steve Jobs as an example. He had all kinds of money. So every day get up and cherish and be really take care of your health. Yeah, that’s a good word. Doctor Lynn, thank you for joining me today. There’s going to be links to your website and your social media channels on the description, under the video, on YouTube, under the podcast, however, you’re absorbing this content.
Thank you and we’ll see you next time. Thank you.
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