Scott DeLuzio: [00:00:00] Thanks for tuning in to the Drive On Podcast where we are focused on giving hope and strength to the entire military community. Whether you’re a veteran, active duty, guard, reserve, or a family member, this podcast will share inspirational stories and resources that are useful to you. I’m your host Scott DeLuzio and now let’s get on with the show.

Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Drive On Podcast. Today my guest is Emily Gold Mears. Emily is a former attorney who shifted her advocacy efforts to seek information on optimizing health through research analyst in science and medicine. In this episode, we’re going to. Things like sleep issues, reducing exposures to toxins stress and other ways that we can improve our health our ourselves through our health and the various things that we can do in that area.

So welcome the show, Emily. I’m glad to have you here.

Emily Gold Mears: Thank you, Scott. I’m delighted to be here.

Scott DeLuzio: Yeah. Why don’t you tell us a [00:01:00] little bit about yourself and your back.

Emily Gold Mears: Well, as you mentioned, I used to be a lawyer. I did not love the practice of law, and I was always fascinated by science and medicine and health.

And when my father became ill, he had vascular dementia. I saw how the conventional healthcare system treated his disease, and I was very dismayed. So I began researching frantically, and those are skills that I’ve learned and honed from being a lawyer. And what I found, Particular for neurodegenerative diseases was very grim and not very hopeful because there’s not a lot that we can do once one is diagnosed.

But I broaden my research to find out about chronic disease and how one can prevent them or at least postpone the onset of them. And what I found was actually quite hopeful and very optimistic. There are many things that we can do most of these diseases. Have a small genetic component and are [00:02:00] driven by environment and lifestyle.

And the reason why that’s so optimistic is that we can take some control over our environment and even more control over our lifestyle choices

Scott DeLuzio: for sure. And I know. Things like the environment. You may not have total control over that because you may grow up in an area that there are some exposures to certain things, and you may not have a choice as, especially as a young child, you’re gonna live where your family lives.

And that’s the extent of that. But everybody has choices in terms of their lifestyle the foods that they eat, the the beverages that they drink. The exercise and the, all the things that go into your lifestyle you have choices over all of those things.

And those things can really make an impact, especially long term when you start off young and you’re living a healthy lifestyle and that just becomes a habit. And that’s just how you are, that’s how you live. That has a super profound impact later on in life.

Emily Gold Mears: Indeed it does. And there’s nothing that we [00:03:00] can do about how we grew up or what’s already passed.

We can’t do anything about that. But we can start from today and move forward. And I have to confess that most of the things that I learned were, because I did everything wrong. My nutrition was poor. I overexercise, my sleep wasn’t. Functional, everything was wrong and I began becomin...