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Welcome to the fifth thing.

It's the Q&A episode of my Four Things podcast.

So every Thursday, we've got the Four Things episodes.

And then every Tuesday, we do the Q&A segment.

So what I want to ask of you guys, because I'm loving all the questions that are coming in, but if you're sending an email and you are hopeful or you wanted to end up on the Q&A or you'd like to get an answer, then what I want you to do is in the subject line in like all caps, put question or Q&A or Q&A for the fifth thing, something like that to where it really stands out that you've got

a question for the Q&A segment.

And I think that'll be really helpful when we're sorting through stuff.

Four Things with Amy Brown at gmail.com is the email.

So we're really trying to get to them all and loving everything that comes in.

And I hope that if one of you has this question

or these questions that I'm about to share, that maybe there's multiple people that have it.

So me addressing it here on this Q&A is hopefully helpful.

So I'm going to start with an email that I got from Catherine.

Hey, Amy, one question.

Is it okay to put your vital proteins in hot lemon water that you drink every morning?

So, Catherine, I wouldn't.

Keep that part just the lemon so it goes straight to work detoxing.

If you add the protein or the collagen peptides from vital proteins, like your body's going to start breaking that down. And I'm not an expert, but I've heard others that are experts say to keep it

just hot lemon, water, that's it. Your body's been detoxing while you're

sleeping. So you want to keep that going by drinking that first thing, prepare your body for

digestion and food after that. And the protein's going to disrupt that process. So I would keep

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