Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I'm Dori Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hu, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is a mini episode where we hear from you. We share your comments and your thoughts,

and we answer your questions to the best of our ability. But please remember, we are not experts.

We are podcast hosts. We always encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a medical

and or mental health professional as needed.

We sure do. And sorry I sound like I'm about to lose my voice because I think I'm about to

lose my voice. And I don't know what I'm supposed to do to try and keep it from happening. I've

been having tea. We ran out of honey because I put too much of it in our lemonade that I was making

or lime aid I was making from our lime tree, our abundant lime tree in the backyard. And I don't know. Like, I think there's something, some hack about gargling with apple cider vinegar that's supposed to work. So I might try that. I don't think we're going to get that much vocal rest over the next hour, hour and a half. So not going to be

able to do that. Do you think you're getting sick or do you think you just have been like talking too much? I think I've been talking too much and then I've been shouting too much. I got in a big shouting match yesterday with Ava and it was like in the car and we were both like shouting at each other at very high volume. Anyway, I felt my voice kind of goes scratchy last night because then I ended up out at a

holiday part. like shouting at each other at very high volume. Anyway, I felt my voice kind of goes scratchy last

night because then I ended up out at a holiday party. And this morning I woke up and I was like,

why do I sound like former Arizona governor Jan Brewer? Wow, that's a deep cut. Yeah. So maybe I will let you do most of the advice giving today.

Well, before we get into that, I just want to mention that we are running a sale on our Patreon

right now at patreon.com slash forever 35. It's 20% off for the next weekish. And if you're listening to this on

the morning of December 10th, it is not too late to join the Patreon and come to our casual chat

live recording today. At 7.30 p.m. Eastern 430 Pacific. We'll be chatting live on Patreon. And you just have to be a paid

Patreon member to get access to that recording. So come check it out. Yeah, I'm really excited about that.

Also, the other cool thing about Patreon is I feel like our community is in conversation

constantly anyway because we have the running chats going. We have a general chat going and a

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