Real Life Lately, Thoughts That Hit When Things Get Quiet and What Actually Matters - 1255
The Chalene Show | Diet, Fitness & Life Balance
Chalene Johnson
4.8 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This episode feels like taking a long, quiet walk while the Christmas lights are glowing and your brain finally gets to exhale. Chalene Johnson starts with why Southern California just does the holidays better and slowly eases into a real, honest conversation about December, aging, marriage, empty nesting, money, convenience, and generosity. There are funny tangents, opinionated takes, and moments that land deeper than expected. It is cozy, reflective, slightly unhinged in the best way, and the kind of episode that makes you feel less alone and more grounded.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, before we get too far, I know I've talked a lot about the supplements that I take in powder form. |
| 0:06.4 | There's a lot of them. |
| 0:07.6 | And there's, of course, the things I take in capsule form. |
| 0:10.8 | But I also take a few things in gummy form. |
| 0:14.6 | And one of the things that I started taking about a year ago, actually, when we were in Europe last year, is saffron. And I started taking it |
| 0:22.2 | because I heard about quite a few studies that demonstrated that saffron made significant |
| 0:30.9 | improvements in people's, their ability to reduce their anxiety, to feel more relaxed, to have mental clarity. And of course, that's going |
| 0:41.1 | to improve your sleep, right? Because that's one of the main reasons why so many of us |
| 0:46.0 | struggle to sleep and now you lay down and your brain just doesn't stop spinning. So anyways, |
| 0:51.5 | I looked into it. You know me. I love to see a good study and there's been a ton of |
| 0:55.4 | them. In fact, April through July 2025, this is brand new, a randomized, double-blind, |
| 1:04.2 | placebo-controlled study looking at the impact of taking saffron daily for just three months. |
| 1:13.0 | And the results I can tell you were pretty astonishing. |
| 1:16.2 | A marked decrease in depression, anxiety, and stress. |
| 1:20.8 | 72.3% of the participants in the saffron group achieved significant improvements on their mental state. |
| 1:29.7 | So talking about having less anxiety. |
| 1:32.2 | And, of course, that I think is one of the reasons why it contributes to fewer sleep |
| 1:36.2 | disturbances for those especially who are taking the saffron. |
| 1:39.6 | So listen, I'm definitely not telling you to go off your SSRIs. |
| 1:43.1 | And if you're on an antidepressant, |
| 1:44.6 | that's awesome. But if you're one of those people who you've been thinking like, I don't know, I don't know what it is, I just, I don't feel as happy as I usually am, or I just feel kind of me. You know what I'm talking about. You can't put your finger on it, but you're like, I'm just not as happy or maybe I'm dealing with more anxiety or things are bugging me more than they usually do. |
| 2:03.6 | You've heard me talk about Organify for years. And Organify |
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