This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals

and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life. And now, here is your host,

nurse practitioner Cynthia Thurlow. This is the Friday 5 for October 22nd, 2021.

Hard to believe we are a week out from Halloween.

I actually just recorded a YouTube video,

kind of suggesting ways to navigate the pre-holiday onslaught of sugar and

candy, made some suggestions of cleaner brands, definitely options for people so that they can live

in a state of moderation, not deprivation. Next, expressing a little bit of gratitude. I won the Health Influencer Award for

the Mindshare community, huge honor, largely because I was nominated by my peers. I take this with

such tremendous humility and I'm just so very grateful for so many things that have happened over the last

two and a half years. I also was in Las Vegas

last weekend at a keto summit, was able to connect with some of my very favorite keto influencers,

include Benazotti, Dr. Banna-Kobaca, as well as many others. I'm going to be heading to Scottsdale

next week for another event. Actually, my last formal speaking event for 2021, pivoting a little bit. My book cover launch, actually my last formal speaking event for 2021.

Hivating a little bit.

My book cover launch actually occurred last Friday the 15th.

It is now available for a pre-sale, intermittent fasting, transformation, I have 45.

You can find out on Target, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, as well as some other smaller retailers

and just know that there will be lots of opportunities to get lots of extras for anyone

that places the order prior to when the book is being officially published on March 15th.

And let's lean into a study that I was looking at that was talking about the rate of sarcopenia or age-related

muscle mass loss that can contribute to significant poor health outcomes and reduce quality of life

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