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Mike (<\/span>00:00<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nWhat’s up everybody? Thank you for listening to NextGen Radio. This is a podcast for those of you who want the truth and nothing but the truth when it comes to diet, exercise and all things health. This is episode number 39, I think, right? 39? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>00:14<\/span>): Yeah. We’re at 39. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>00:15<\/span>): 39. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>00:15<\/span>):
Next week’s going to be exciting. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>00:16<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nThe one we didn’t talk about that before we came out. Today, I am here with just one of our co-hosts today. Kelly Krauss is with us. John had some family stuff to do, so he wasn’t available to come in and we didn’t want to miss a show. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>00:31<\/span>): Nope. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>00:32<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nSo we had to leave a man behind and get this one out, sacrifice John in this one and get it out. So hopefully he’ll be back in and joining us next week. But for now, we’ll just pretend like he’s sitting here and he’s just very quiet today. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>00:46<\/span>):
Yeah. Sometimes he is kind of quiet. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>00:49<\/span>):
He is, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. Before we just came on here, you sent me an article that you were reading <\/span><\/p>\nand you wanted us to go over it today, right? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>00:58<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nYeah. It’s called Sudden Health Problems After 50. And I was listening to a podcast today. I like this lady. She lost 100 pounds and she has a podcast and she has a whole business of No More Bullshit Weight Loss or something like that. She has workbooks. It’s a very detailed weight loss business that she has. She talks about the psyche of it all and things like that. Today, I was listening to her and she was talking about specifically to the people 50 and above. She was stating that people feel like not that their lives are over, but why start now? Why try now? I’m 50, why am I going to try now? They’re kind of in this demographic of they can’t… some people have kids who are still in school and other kids, have younger kids. Like where’s my spot? Where do I fit in, in the world today? Kind of.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Kelly Krauss (<\/span>01:53<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nOn top of having that empty nest syndrome, now, why am I going to start doing something now? But she said something that’s very interesting. She said, “When you’re in your 50s, you still have 30 to 40 years left. You could potentially have 30 to 40 years.” <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>02:05<\/span>):
Sure. Especially nowadays. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>02:07<\/span>):
Yeah. That’s a very long time. It wasn’t until she said that it was like, “30 to 40 years? That’s a very long <\/span><\/p>\ntime. Pick how you want to live those 30 to 40 years.” <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>02:16<\/span>): It’s true. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>02:17<\/span>):
So, I thought that was very interesting. And then it was, of course, here’s this article, and it was like, <\/span><\/p>\nwell, this is interesting. It’s all coming together. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>02:23<\/span>):
Right. It’s mindset, right? It’s all about mindset with that. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>02:26<\/span>): Oh, yeah. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>02:27<\/span>):
This is a conversation I have had actually with my father. Now, he’s 75. He’s not in his 50s. But my <\/span><\/p>\ngrandmother, his mother, passed away at 92, 94 or something like that. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>02:38<\/span>):
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I remember that. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>02:42<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nWhen my mother recently passed away, he was struggling going through some depression, naturally. He wasn’t really exercising. He wasn’t really eating at all. A conversation I had with him was like, “You could potentially have 20 more years ahead of you. Think about that. 20 years is a long time. Do you want to live this way? Or do you want to take care of yourself?” Because when my grandmother passed away… I called her Nanny. When my Nanny passed away, she was 90. Like I said, 92, 93, 94, somewhere around there. She was a week or two away from her next birthday. She was physically okay. She didn’t pass away from a heart attack or cancer or anything. She just got old and she deteriorated mentally. Towards the end there, she was pretty gone mentally, but physically, she was all right. So it’s like, take care of yourself. You could have 20 years. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>03:35<\/span>):<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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Absolutely, yeah. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>03:35<\/span>):
You put things into context, that’s a long time. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>03:38<\/span>): It is. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>03:39<\/span>):
20 years, 30 years, 40 years. I think they’re projecting that people in my generation or the next <\/span><\/p>\ngeneration down will live to like 110 or something like that. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>03:50<\/span>): Good grief. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>03:51<\/span>):
Because of technology and medicine and all that stuff. So I think this is a very important topic that you <\/span><\/p>\nchose to talk about today because with our aging population, right? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>04:03<\/span>): Mm-hmm (affirmative). <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>04:04<\/span>):
Baby Boomers, is that still the biggest demographic around or something like that? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>04:08<\/span>):
I think so. Yeah. That’s our parents. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>04:10<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nRight, yeah. They’re just getting older and there’s more of them, and they’re staying around longer. We always talk about quality of life. Yes, it’s about living as long as you can, but if the last 20 years of your life are misery because you’re not healthy and you’re sedentary and you’re relying on medicine, who wants to live like that? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>04:31<\/span>):
Right. This is when I think all the issues start to come up. Definitely like mid 40s, that’s when everything <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Mike (<\/span>04:43<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nPhysically anyway. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>04:44<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nYeah. Or you can just accept it and say, “Well, this is, yeah, I’m 45. I’m 50. Now, this is what’s going to happen.” And then you can roll over and just… But again, you’ve got possibly 30 to 40 years left. Why would you do that? <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>04:56<\/span>): Absolutely. <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>04:57<\/span>):
So even more so if people were thinking about health and fitness, especially in your 50s, 60s, now’s the <\/span><\/p>\nbest time. Most people, your kids are gone and you have more time. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>05:08<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nRight. Time to focus on you on yourself. Before we even dive into the whole fitness side and nutrition side of things, I think it’s important to touch on the mental aspect. I know we talked about having mindset. But I was thinking about it when you were introducing this article that you read that it’s almost like a lot of these people are lost. Like they don’t have an identity. Right? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>05:34<\/span>): Mm-hmm (affirmative). <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>05:35<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nThey feel like they’re either in a rut, they’re oppressed, they’re overweight, they haven’t exercised in years. Why start now? Who am I really? You’re going through all that. Obviously, I don’t know firsthand how it feels to go through your middle ages and your midlife crisis and whatever all that comes along with that. But it all comes back to how you handle it, right? <\/span><\/p>\nKelly Krauss (<\/span>05:57<\/span>): Right. <\/span><\/p>\nMike (<\/span>05:57<\/span>): <\/span><\/p>\nAnd how you prepare yourself mentally for adversity all the time. Because whether you’re in your teenage angst years where you don’t know who you are and you’re rebelling and trying to stand out but fit in at the same time, or you’re going through young adulthood, trying to figure it out in the world, or you get into late 30s, 40s or whatever, and people have kids and you’re trying to figure that out. There’s a lot of things along the way that happen. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n