Welcome to Wellness Unmask. I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire, and this is the last episode of 2025.

Here at Wellness Unmask with Dr. Nicole Sapphire, we launched in the spring, I think it was late spring, early summer of 2025.

It has been a steep learning curve figuring out this whole podcast thing. I am young

and I feel like I'm even more young at heart, but I'll tell you, I am not the most technologically

savvy. So heading into 2026, I have big goals for myself of continuing to evolve on this platform and trying to bring you

as much real and honest content as possible, making sure to get some fantastic guests that

only expands your knowledge and horizons, but mine as well, because there's always more

for us to learn. But I wanted to, for this last 2025 episode,

just talked to you a little bit about what we can all do to get to a little bit of a healthier

place. I, for one, I hate New Year's resolutions. I really do, because they fail. But let's

be honest, we all heading to 2026. We have big goals, big plans.

Come February, come March, do you even think about those resolutions anymore? Probably not,

because it's hard for a lot of us, too. So, listen, there's a familiar pressure in the air,

a new year, a new you, you're seeing all of the things online, on TV,

people are talking about it. But let me be very clear right from the start. You do not need to

reinvent yourself to live a healthier and happy life. You just don't. Every January, I really

see the same pattern, extreme diets, unrealistic workout goals, supplement overload,

and a whole lot of guilt by the time that February March rolls around. And as a physician,

I'm going to tell you, this approach, this extremism, it's going to fail. It is. So this year,

I would like to challenge you to do something different. I know you've

heard me talk about this before because I feel strongly about it. Instead of a total overhaul,

let's just focus on some small, strategic, and science-backed, of course, shifts that can

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