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This conversation is taken from my video review of the Slate Electric Flosser. The company describes it as “the future of floss”. It’s listed online at $79.99 and comprises three elements - a flosser, a massaging gum sweeper, and a tongue scraper.

I bought it and used it for six and a half weeks before I went for my routine dental cleaning appointment and got my dentist’s reaction (!). You can hear about that in my review video of the Slate flosser that’s now on YouTube.

See my video review here: https://youtu.be/cN7whzlICnM

As part of my review, I interviewed the company’s CEO and co-founder - Brynn Snyder. Fun fact: Her husband, Dr. Danny Snyder invented the Slate Flosser.

Among my questions for Brynn, I asked about the alleged benefits in early users, the possibility of inadvertent gum trauma with the device, the potential benefit to waiting after eating before using the flosser, and what kind of feedback they’d had on the almost $80 price tag.

I recommend you take a look at my video review on YouTube to hear what I feel were the pros and cons of my experience with the Slate flosser. And, find out what happened when I went to see my dentist after I’d been using the electric flosser for six and a half weeks.

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❗️ Transparency: I do not earn any money from sales of the Slate Electric Flosser. I paid for my Slate Flosser Starter Kit just like any other customer. The company sent me a replacement after I had a technical issue and I returned my original kit to Slate Dental (you’ll see that explained in my video review). Slate did not finance the making of this episode.

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This interview is taken from my video review of the Weo bottle. See the full episode, including my ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes’ about using the $219 smart bottle on the healthHackers® YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/E2LUCbpvBIU

Weo uses electricity to apparently enhance the natural health properties of your drinking water at a molecular level. The brand suggests this provides an antioxidant-rich water that “enhances physical performance, cognitive function, and skin health.”

In this interview, the company’s chief health officer, Dr Kelly Halderman, spoke to me about all kinds of alleged potential benefits linked to drinking Weo water, including improvements in exercise performance, metabolic health, skin health, gut health, sleep quality, lowering body fat, and more.

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Weo Science: https://we-o.com/science/

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Do you find yourself comparing your little one to their peers, wondering why yours isn’t sitting, crawling, walking, or climbing yet? Then this episode is for you!

In episode 63, you’ll hear:

🔹The most important tip for every parent of an under 18-month old to help with physical development
🔹Ways to hold your baby for optimal muscle development
🔹The milestones to be concerned about in the first year of your baby’s life
🔹How important is crawling? What about babies who go straight from sitting to walking?
🔹Baby walkers - which ones are a help or a hindrance? (Check out the healthHackers® YouTube channel to see Nicole’s images of both kinds!)
🔹At what age should you get help if your baby still isn’t walking?
🔹Shoes - what to look for when buying footwear for your baby
🔹Ways to make playtime a success (even if you think you’re not a ‘fun’ parent)
🔹How screen time affects physical and visual development (plus the key age range when this matters most)

Follow Nicole on Insta:
https://www.instagram.com/nicole_kidsphysio/

Nicole’s academy:
https://academy.westernkidshealth.com/nicolekidsphysio/

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In this episode of healthHackers®, Meenal Lele - medical researcher, author of ‘The Baby and The Biome,’ allergy mom, and founder CEO of Lil Mixins - spoke to me about:

🔹How your baby’s risk of developing allergies, asthma, eczema and even IBS can be linked to the gut microbiome
🔹Major players in microbiome dysfunction: antibiotics, pregnancy and baby care, diet, and environment
🔹The age most food allergies develop in children (it’s younger than you think!)
🔹The only proven method to cut the risk of your baby developing food allergies
🔹How Meenal’s son’s number of food allergies jumped from 8 to 10 following oral immunotherapy
🔹Why feeding nuts, peanut, egg, and other allergenic foods in infant-safe powder forms should not interfere with breastmilk or formula
🔹The clinical studies that support the feeding of allergy-causing foods from the age of four months
🔹What we’re doing wrong when it comes to diaper changing and washing our babies that can harm their immune systems
🔹The biggest mistake we’re making with antibiotics
🔹Why eczema can trigger a chain reaction leading to food allergy and asthma
🔹Probiotics - the key strains with evidence for eczema prevention, but WHEN you take them matters

Meenal's company: www.lilmixins.com

My review of Lil Mixins Daily Mix: https://youtu.be/8aQEqahz8fk

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Common sense caution: Not personal or medical advice. You know the score - always talk to your own health provider about your concerns.👌

The author of ‘Bumpin’ - the Modern Guide to Pregnancy’, Leslie Schrock, joined me for this special episode of healthHackers® to talk all about essential preparation for labor and delivery in a hospital setting.

Leslie’s book has been described as the “new pregnancy bible” and came about because of her feelings of helplessness following several complicated pregnancies and losses.

Bumpin’ was written in real time while Leslie was pregnant with her son TJ. Since then, she's had another baby - Dylan, who’s now three months old. Both birth experiences involved difficult and unexpected events.

There was SO much I wanted to talk to Leslie about (the book covers conception all the way to postpartum and has been a resource for me in my own pregnancy) but for this episode we honed in on the key event that pregnant women (including me) spend a lot of time thinking about… the big moment, the showdown… the actual birth.

Leslie covers:

🔹why she’s not a fan of birth plans
🔹medicated and non-medicated pain management
🔹how a barber’s comb became an effective pain reliever for Leslie
🔹benefits of a having doula and how to choose one
🔹how Leslie successfully reframed her fear of vaginal tearing (this technique will make you smile)
🔹the most helpful thing Leslie did during pregnancy to prepare for birth
🔹what she wished she’d known before her birth experiences
🔹the difference between Braxton Hicks and labor contractions
🔹how you’ll know when the baby is coming
🔹when to go to hospital
🔹back labor - what is it?
🔹handling the unpredictable

Find Leslie:
https://leslieschrock.com/
https://twitter.com/lesliejz
https://www.instagram.com/lesliejz/

Thank you to the sponsors of this episode: https://glycanage.com/
See my review of the GlycanAge biological age test and details of your 15% discount here:
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Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and how to choose the way you feel about… anything.

When I watched a video of psychologist Dr Debbie Joffe Ellis giving a presentation in which she suggested that anxiety, anger, and other emotions are a CHOICE, I knew I had to invite her to appear as a guest on healthHackers® so she could share with all of you (and me!) HOW we get to create our own emotions.

Dr Debbie is a world-renowned expert in REBT. She spent years collaborating with her husband, the father and creator of REBT, Dr Albert Ellis, before he passed away in 2007.

His work is understood to have helped lay the foundations for the well-known CBT; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

One of Dr Debbie’s primary goals is sharing the techniques of REBT with everyone - not just teaching health care professionals.

In her words, REBT “minimizes misery and maximizes joy, when the reality is that life probably will contain loss and suffering for most of us.”

In episode 60, Dr Debbie covers:

🔹Why she describes REBT as “a no nonsense, no BS” approach
🔹Why it’s never about the event, it’s about the way you view it
🔹Key questions to challenge your own beliefs about any situation
🔹A demo of how to dispute irrational beliefs (using my upcoming childbirth as a real-life example!)
🔹Healthy and unhealthy anger
🔹Letting go of unhealthy anger aimed at another person because of something they did to you
🔹Unconditional self acceptance - even when you screw up
🔹What happened when Dr Albert Ellis first proposed the concept of REBT

Learn more about Dr Debbie and find a free emotional self care and self help sheet on her website: debbiejoffeellis.com

Follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drjoffeellis

Thank you to the sponsors of this episode: https://glycanage.com/
See my review of the GlycanAge biological age test and details of your 15% discount here:
https://healthhackers.org/handson/glycanage-biological-age-test

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