Old Nerd in the Gym Podcast Gery L. Deer

OLD NERD IN THE GYM FITNESS PODCAST SPECIAL EDITION
BY GERY DEER
 
“THEN THE WHOS, YOUNG AND OLD, WOULD SIT DOWN TO A FEAST. AND THEY'D FEAST! AND THEY'D FEAST! AND THEY'D FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! FEAST! THEY WOULD FEAST ON WHO-PUDDING, AND RARE WHO-ROAST BEAST.” - DR. SEUSS’S “HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS”
BUT WHAT IF YOU’RE THE ONE WHO, FOR WHOM A FEAST COULD BE A CULINARY MINEFIELD? WHAT IF YOU’RE THE WHO WHO’S ALLERGIC TO THE WHO-PUDDING AND RARE WHO-ROAST BEAST?
IF YOU’RE LIKE ME AND THE OTHER 26 MILLION AMERICANS WHO SUFFER FROM FOOD ALLERGIES, HOLIDAY BUFFETS CAN BE A DANGEROUS FORAY INTO THE UNKNOWN. FOOD ALLERGIES MIGHT BE LAMPOONED ON YOUR FAVORITE SITCOM, BUT THERE’S NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THEM. IT’S TRUE THAT MOST RESULT IN MILD SKIN IRRITATION OR DIGESTIVE DISCOMFORT, BUT MANY ARE LIFE-THREATENING.
WITHIN SECONDS, AN EXPOSED VICTIM CAN EXPERIENCE SEVERE SWELLING OF THE THROAT AND LARYNX, CONSTRICTING THEIR AIRWAY, AND EVEN SUFFER ANAPHYLACTIC SHOCK. IN THESE SITUATIONS, QUICK MEDICAL ATTENTION IS VITAL.
IT’S  A GOOD IDEA TO LEARN ABOUT FOOD ALLERGY CAUSES, SYMPTOMS, AND FIRST AID. SOME OF THE MOST COMMON FOODS PEOPLE ARE ALLERGIC TO INCLUDE COW’S MILK, EGGS, FISH, SHELLFISH, TREE NUTS, PEANUTS, STRAWBERRIES, WHEAT, SOYBEANS, AND SESAME. THESE ARE CERTAINLY NOT THE ONLY ONES, AND YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN KNOW YOU’RE ALLERGIC TO ANYTHING UNTIL IT HITS YOU.
THE AFFLICTION DOESN'T DEVELOP UNTIL ADULTHOOD. I ONLY RECENTLY DISCOVERED MY OWN ALLERGY TO KIWI FRUIT AND CANTALOUPE. 
PROCESSED FOOD CONTAINS A PLETHORA OF DANGEROUS INGREDIENTS AND MOST ALLERGENS ARE PRINTED ON PRE-PACKAGED FOOD LABELS. UNFORTUNATELY, DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT, SOME INGREDIENTS MIGHT NOT BE LISTED. FOR EXAMPLE, IT’S STILL COMMON FOR SOME LABELS TO OMIT SESAME AMONG POTENTIAL ALLERGENS. A GOOGLE SEARCH MIGHT SHOW DETAILED INGREDIENT LISTS OR ALLERGY WARNINGS FOR SPECIFIC PRODUCTS. OTHERWISE, STEER CLEAR ALTOGETHER.
IF YOU OR SOMEONE IN YOUR FAMILY SUFFERS FROM FOOD ALLERGIES, I CAN OFFER A FEW TIPS TO HELP NAVIGATE THE HOLIDAYS, AND THE FIRST ONE IS A NO-BRAINER. SINCE MANY HOLIDAY GATHERINGS ARE POTLUCKS, YOU CAN BRING YOUR OWN SAFE FOOD AND AVOID EVERYTHING ELSE. OR YOU COULD HOST THE EVENT YOURSELF FOR PEACE OF MIND. IF YOU DO HOST, LABEL THE DISHES, AND MAYBE, IF YOU WANT TO BE AN ALLERGY-SAFE SUPERHERO, PROVIDE A FULL LIST OF INGREDIENTS.
        FOR CHILDREN, CARRY SAFE FOOD, OR SEE TO THEIR PLATE FOR THEM. KIDS ALSO SEEM ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE TO NUTS, AND HOLIDAY GOODIES ARE FULL OF THEM, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT. TO AVOID CROSS-CONTAMINATION, USE DISPOSABLE UTENSILS TO SERVE YOURSELF OR CARRY YOUR OWN FLATWARE. TRUST ME, IT’S WORTH THE TROUBLE.       
FOR THE FOOD-ALLERGIC OUT THERE OR THEIR CAREGIVERS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO ASK YOUR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN IF YOU SHOULD CARRY A PRELOADED EPINEPHRINE INJECTOR (OTHERWISE KNOWN AS AN “EPIPEN”). IF YOUR ALLERGIC REACTION WERE TO CAUSE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO BE PREPARED. A FOOD SENSITIVITY TEST MIGHT ALSO HELP.
FOOD ALLERGIES DON’T HAVE TO WRECK THE HALLS. ALL YOU NEED IS A LITTLE PREPLANNING, SO NO ONE TURNS AS GREEN AS THE GRINCH AFTER A HELPING OF YOUR FAMOUS WHO HASH.
 
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You can find Gery Deer’s column, Deer In Headlines II, online by subscribing to the Xenia Daily Gazette (www.xeniagazette.com) or on a two-week delay, for free, at The Jamestown Comet - www.TheJamestownComet.com.
 
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Gery Deer sat down and spoke with Hans Marlette, the Executive Director of Day of Caring 365.  The Day of Caring 365 Foundation was founded in 1991 to foster volunteerism and provide resources for communities in need.  

Day of Caring 365 is a nonprofit organization that has provided funding for food banks and shelters in local communities utilizing volunteers and donations for charity.
We have expanded to include Roberta's pantry which helps to provide hygiene products for many people in our community that do not have access to hygiene items that we take for granted. 

Every year the Day of Caring 365 Foundation hosts pancake brunches throughout the Dayton area to raise money for their partner organizations.  Last year, they raised over $ 21,000 and 100% of those profits go to the local community partner organizations.
For more information or to sign up to become a volunteer, Contact us at Dayofcaring20@gmail.com to find out what you can do to make a difference.
For Information or Pancake Brunch Site Locations
Call 937-931-2850 or visit our
website at www.dayofcaring.us


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This month our guest on Old Nerd in the Gym is Nick Wilson, a Certified EPT Practitioner at the Better Days Center in Centerville, Ohio. 
Nick Wilson is a co-owner of Better Days Center, located in Centerville Ohio and he has been practicing Emotional Polarity Therapy techniques since 2019 when he joined his wife and business founder, Chanelle Wilson.
Nick shares what he and his wife Chanelle do to help people every day. Better Days Center’s EPT practitioners offer children, teens and adults a holistic option to traditional talk & drug therapy. Emotional Polarity Therapy techniques are an alternative to traditional talk therapy and uses many holistic practices including the therapeutic use of magnets. 
Polarity therapy is referred to as "energy medicine" because it uses several techniques to influence energy flow and energy balance in the body. Practitioners believe that energy imbalances, disturbances, or blockages result in disease and can be corrected.
EPT has been successfully ending suffering in adults and children in clinical environments for more than 25 years. The immediate result is profound, empowering relief. The long-term result is permanent positive behavior changes, a healthier life and a better world.  EPT uses four major steps to forgiveness and healing including focus, find, fix and forgive. 
These four steps can release pain from old traumas, forgiveness for self and others and ultimately lead to a more positive happy lifestyle moving forward.  In 1993 Annette Cargioli began a new healing initiative in emotional healthcare. Adults and children were coming to see me to heal physical and emotional pain by releasing “old hurt” through forgiveness. She became known as The Forgiveness Doctor and  called her  discovery Emotional Polarity Technique or EPT. Since that time, She has trained hundreds of people to help others using these EPT techniques. 
For more information go to www.visitbetterdayscenter.com
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Gery Deer - host and director 
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Julie Barth - co -host and producer
Gery Deer - host and director
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
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If you would like to be a guest on Old Nerd in the Gym email us at oldnerdfitness@gmail.com.

Kristen Tamplin of MAT, Muscle Activation Therapy, talks with the Old Nerd about Muscle Activation Therapy(MAT0, health, fitness and Ninja Turtles.



Hosted by Julie Barth and Gery Deer
Produced and Edited by Julie Barth
Directed by Gery Deer
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
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Julie Barth - co -host and producer
Gery Deer - host and director
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
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If you would like to be a guest on Old Nerd in the Gym email us at oldnerdfitness@gmail.com.

For those caregivers dealing with someone suffering from a debilitating or terminal illness, hospice care can be one of the most valuable services to both patient and family. Unfortunately, there is a great deal of misinformation regarding hospice so we decided to tackle this difficult subject in this episode of the Old Nerd in the Gym Fitness Podcast.
Hospice is much more than "end of life care" for terminal patients. Services range from palliative, in-home, and in-facility care, to grief counseling and family support. There are more than 5,000 hospice organizations in the United States, many of which are not-for-profit organizations. 
Our guest for this episode of Old Nerd in the Gym Podcast is Kim Vesey, RN, CHPN, MS, general manager of Ohio's Hospice of Dayton, in Dayton, Ohio. Kim has been a hospice nurse for 37 years, starting into that area of practice only one year out of nursing school. 
But Kim isn't just a healthcare professional working in the hospice industry. Unfortunately, she's also had personal experience, going through the loss of her husband and daughter. Her experiences personally and professionally have given her insight that helps families make informed choices while maintaining emotional strength and dignity. 
Hospice care is not something arrived at lightly by patients or families. One of the most difficult aspects of caring for his parents was when Gery Deer's family had to make the difficult decision to involve hospice support. In the case of his mother, he had the support of his father, close cousin, and siblings, as well as adult nieces, to make those choices. But when it came time to care for his father, he made that decision alone - and without hesitation. The benefits of hospice care to ensuring the quality of life and palliative support were invaluable. After his father's death, hospice services included grief counseling, vital to dealing with caregiver survival issues like guilt, grief, and depression. 
Experiencing loss is challenging for anyone, at any age, but can be especially difficult for young children. Sadness, fear, and loneliness can overwhelm a child who's lost someone close to them. To help grieving children, Kim has written a series of illustrated books, beginning with, "What Cloud Is My Mommy In." Beautifully illustrated by Amy Gantt, the "What Cloud" series deals with the loss of parents, grandparents, and siblings, through the eyes of a child.

Old Nerd in the Gym is written and co-hosted by Gery L. Deer.
Produced and directed by Julie A. Barth
This is a production of GLD Enterprises Communications.
©2021, GLD Enterprises Communications, Ltd. All rights reserved.
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
Julie Barth - co -host and producer
Gery Deer - host and director
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
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“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” —William Faulkner
There’s no denying the last 18 months have been challenging for everyone. Gratitude has been something that might seem elusive to a great many people. Strangely, when times are the toughest gratitude is most important.
Many people treat gratitude as something transactional or focused within their religious beliefs but instead, it must be an active part of our day-to-day life. Those who practice gratitude are more likely to feel more positive and even show reduced signs of stress. Gratitude is not just saying “thank you,” but playing an active role in the positive achievements of others - even if it’s small or even unseen. 
In this episode of Old Nerd in the Gym Fitness Podcast, your hosts Gery Deer and Julie Barth talk about gratitude in some most unusual ways. They’ll get into what it means to practice gratitude, beyond the practical definition of the concept, and discuss where it fits into the lives of the devout and those without religion at all.

Old Nerd in the Gym is written and co-hosted by Gery L. Deer.
Produced and directed by Julie A. Barth
This is a production of GLD Enterprises Communications.
©2021, GLD Enterprises Communications, Ltd. All rights reserved.
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
Julie Barth - co -host and producer
Gery Deer - host and director
Graphics by Taylor Huggins
©2022 Old Nerd in the Gym Fitness, all rights reserved.
Check us out on Facebook and Instagram @oldnerdfitness

If you would like to be a guest on Old Nerd in the Gym email us at oldnerdfitness@gmail.com.