I'm Arial Lori and this is the Blond Files podcast where I talk to experts,

influencers and inspirational people in the world of wellness and beyond.

Whether it's mental health, spirituality, nutrition,

gut health, hormones, exercise, meditation,

entrepreneurship, beauty hacks, and procedures, I cover it here with real conversations and even real guests. I know you're as

curious as I am so I'm asking the questions for you and you get to listen in.

Hello everybody welcome to the show that was a weird intro. I hope you're all safe and healthy. First of all I just want to say it's like

7 a.m. here so I kind of have like morning groggy raspy voice. I'm not sick, not that it would matter because we're obviously not in the same room.

We're social distancing, but I just want to give you a fair warning.

Anyway, what a time to be alive, right? This is such a difficult, scary thing that the world is dealing with right now.

I mean, on the one hand hand we know that for most people the

virus itself will not be a big issue and that's not really my opinion.

That's what Dr. Clodie Boldzak talked about

in my episode last week from on the front lines

of dealing with coronavirus.

For the majority of people, this is not going to be a fatal

illness but there are those people for whom this is really really devastating and

on top of that our health care system is under the

threat of if not already collapsing under the pressure of this pandemic and people are

out of jobs and it's just a shit show. The virus will

pass but I think the effects of it on the entire world are going to be around for a long time. Not that I want to be a

pessimist about it but it's just a really terrible situation made more terrible

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