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24 Seven March 2022

24 Seven is a monthly, free magazine for personal growth, professional development, and self-empowerment. The approach is holistic, incorporating mind, body, soul, and spirit. As philosopher Francis Bacon said, “Knowledge is power.” Use this information to live your best life now.

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EDITOR IN CHIEF

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ASSOCIATE EDITOR

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GRAPHIC DESIGNERS

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CONTRIBUTORS

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Rena Greenberg

Gayle M. Gruenberg

Joan Herrmann

Linda Mitchell, CPC


FROM THE EDITOR

Over the past years, the human microbiome has been

dramatically altered. Chemicals in our environment, over

exposure to antibiotics, and industrialized food, have

created changes that pose silent dangers for health.

According to Dr. William Davis, we desperately need to

reintroduce our bodies to the microbial species that once

lived in our ancestors, while pushing back the army of

interlopers that have taken their place.

Dr. Davis joined me to talk about how we can reprogram our

microbiome to improve our health. Dr Davis is a cardiologist

and author of the number one New York Times bestseller,

Wheat Belly. His new book is, Super Gut: A Four-Week

Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and

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ISSUE NO.137


LOST LOVE

INSIDE THIS

ISSUE

BY WILLIAM DAVIS, MD

PAGE 12

MIND POWER WEIGHT LOSS

BY RENA GREENBERG

PAGE 18

ON THIS MONTH’S

COVER

DR. WILLIAM DAVIS TALKS ABOUT HOW WE CAN

REPROGRAM OUR MICROBIOME TO IMPROVE

OUR HEALTH. DR. DAVIS IS A CARDIOLOGIST AND

AUTHOR OF THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES

BESTSELLER, WHEAT BELLY. HIS NEW BOOK IS, SUPER

GUT: A FOUR-WEEK PLAN TO REPROGRAM YOUR

MICROBIOME, RESTORE HEALTH, AND LOSE WEIGHT.

LISTEN TO THE CONVERSATION WITH DR. DAVIS:

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TIPS TO SPEED UP YOUR WEIGHT LOSS

BY RENA GREENBERG

PAGE 22

TOOLS FOR A JOYFUL SPRING RENEWAL

BY LINDA MITCHELL

PAGE 24

RECLAIM YOUR HOME OFFICE

BY GAYLE M. GRUENBERG

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TINY BUSINESS, BIG MONEY:

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BY JOAN HERRMANN

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ISSUE

NO.137

MARCH

2022

LOST

LOVE

Have you ever taken an antibiotic for a urinary or

upper respiratory infection? Most of us have, given

the fact that 800 antibiotic prescriptions are written

for every 1000 Americans every year. By age 40, most

Americans have taken 30 courses of antibiotics.

Written by William Davis, MD


By taking antibiotics, you join the huge number

of Americans who have disrupted their intestinal

microbiome, i.e., the composition of microbes that dwell

in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Many healthy

microbial species that are meant to occupy the human GI

tract are eradicated by, say, a 10-day course of ampicillin

for a sore throat. There are microbial species that are

important players in human health that are lost with a

single round of an antibiotic.

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that

over a third of the antibiotics prescribed are unnecessary

and provide no benefit. It might be a prescription for

ciprofloxacin for a viral upper respiratory infection

for which antibiotics have no effect. Or a course of

azithromycin for a fever without an identifiable source.

In the nearly 100 years since Dr. Alexander Fleming

discovered the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, in

1928, antibiotics have become an all-too-familiar

accompaniment to modern life — but one that comes

with a substantial health price.

One of the microbial species most susceptible to

common antibiotics is Lactobacillus reuteri, named after

the German microbiologist, Dr. Gerhard Reuter, who

first identified it in 1962. Performing his investigations

in the 1960s until the 1980s, Dr. Reuter remarked how

L reuteri was a common microbe in the microbiomes of

people when he first began his research, only to become

uncommon towards the end of his career studying

bacteria. A recent survey to identify how many people

still harbor this species found it lacking in 96 percent of

people studied.

L reuteri is a microbe that has been recovered from the

stool of indigenous human hunter-gatherer populations

unexposed to antibiotics, such as people living in remote

areas of New Guinea without access to running water,

toilets, supermarkets, and, of course, antibiotics. L

reuteri has also been uncovered from most mammalian

species—chipmunks, squirrels, possums, dogs, as well

as non-mammalian species such as chickens. But most

modern humans have lost this microbe and thereby the

advantages it provided.

What makes this particular microbe so important is

that, when restored, it takes up residence in the entire

length of human GI tract, then sends a signal to the brain

to release the hormone oxytocin, the hormone of love,

affection, and empathy. It is the hormone that brings you

closer to your partner, family, co-workers, and helps you

understand the opinions of other people.

Indeed, the thousands of people who have restored

this microbe report feeling closer to their partner and

families, feeling closer and less annoyed by co-workers,

experiencing less anxiety in social settings, becoming

better able to understand the opinions of people whose

views differ from yours. In other words, the boost in

oxytocin makes you more social, more loving, more

understanding — a better human being.

As powerful as these social and emotional effects can

be, there is another dimension to the effects experienced

with restoring this L reuteri. Not only are you a nicer,

more understanding, person, but many people also

develop smoother skin because of increased dermal

collagen, experience a return of youthful strength and

muscle, experience deeper sleep and increased libido,

have reduced appetite, an improved immune response,

and accelerated healing from an injury or wound.

Smoother skin, greater muscle, better sleep and libido,

improved immunity — doesn’t this all add up to turning

the clock back a few decades? I think it does. And these

are the benefits of restoring just this one microbe.

L reuteri is one of many microbial species that we can

restore with some pretty spectacular effects. You can

restore a microbe that, for instance, reduces arthritis pain,

or a microbe that shrinks your waist, or helps a newborn

experience improved neurological development, sleep

through the night, and have less asthma, skin allergies

and have a higher IQ as an older child.

If this and other ways to manage the universe of

microbes that inhabit your body by applying strategies

that go way beyond “take a probiotic and get some fiber”

interest you, then I invite you to take a look at my new

book, Super Gut: The Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your

Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight.

About The Author

WILLIAM DAVIS, MD

William Davis, MD, is the #1 New York Times bestselling author

of the Wheat Belly series of books. His newest book is Super

Gut: The Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome,

Restore Health, and Lose Weight, the book that provides a

roadmap on regaining control over the human microbiome to

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March 2022 Issue

Mind Power

Weight Loss

Written by Rena Greenberg

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When you have 30, 50, 80, or more

pounds to lose, the prospect of weight loss can be daunting. You

can see how easy it would be to just give up at the first signs of

difficulty.

Since 1990, I have helped over 100,000 people to lose weight,

including myself, so I have absolute faith that it can be done. The

key to success is simply keeping your mind straight.

Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can help you to do just that.

It’s a state of focused concentration and physical relaxation that

invokes the power of suggestion and images to create personal

change.

Suggestion with repetition can place the images that lead to

success, front and center in your mind, ahead of any voice of doubt

or self-sabotage that wants to creep in.

We move towards pleasure and away from pain. The brain is

wired that way — it will never change. In a state of hypnosis or

self-hypnosis, suggestions can be planted to help you associate

absolute pleasure with looking and feeling your best, with being

in control of your life and your eating habits, with eating small

portions of healthy, delicious, nutritious, water rich food, and

moving your body.

Since it is your deep-seated beliefs that create your reality, and

not just fleeting thoughts, you’ll need to implant these positive

suggestions so they become your new normal way of thinking.

Many of us who like to consider ourselves “positive thinkers” like

to believe that all we need is positive suggestion. That would be



wonderful, but science tells us the opposite. Studies indicate

that most people are more motivated by what they don’t

want, than by what they do want.

What that means is that most human beings are more

likely to take action to avoid a negative consequence than

to gain a positive result. This understanding about the

human psyche can be extremely beneficial in helping you

to achieve your weight loss goals. It lets you know that you

are more likely to do what you need to do (eat less, exercise

more, and eat healthy food) by the fear of loss — whether

that be the loss of health, family or social status — than by

the promise of fitting into a size four pair of jeans.

Based on this understanding, to succeed over time

without feeling deprived, it’s necessary to associate pain

with the harmful, energy draining, life sucking foods that

propel you into food addiction.

Unless you condition yourself to associate a great deal

of pain with harmful foods (whether that be pipes in

your stomach, being too uncomfortable to move, loss of

mobility or even loss of eyesight or feeling ashamed and

being isolated), you are most likely going to want to continue

to eat the foods that are causing you to be overweight, since

undoubtedly you currently link the culprits with pleasure.

If you want to live the rest of your life at your ideal weight,

the trick is to associate fat-producing foods with pain. This

makes it easier to eliminate those foods from your diet,

permanently, without ever feeling as if you’re on a diet.

Think of getting rid of those foods as if you are banishing a

toxic relationship from your life.

Instead of fantasizing about all the pleasure these foods

give you by focusing on the fleeting sensation of a tempting

taste, remember the result of eating them and all the pain that

has caused you in your life on so many levels — physically,

mentally and emotionally.

To strengthen yourself, associate those foods with rolls of

fat, illness, disease, shame and guilt.

Roger, who has lost 60 lbs. since he came to see me for

gastric bypass hypnosis last year, told me that what helped

him change his eating habits was imagining the horror of

having half his stomach cut out, and a pipe put in, and months

of dealing with the aftermath of that! He knew that was his

fate if he wasn’t successful with his weight loss attempts and

he felt a great deal of relief and joy in avoiding that.

You, too, can imagine the pride you’ll feel when you get

down to your ideal weight and are no longer even tempted

by harmful substances (if you like, instead of thinking

of such edibles as food anymore — substitute the words

harmful substances that the food industry tries to seduce

you to eat).

A Successful Mind-Set

Deprivation and the state of wanting will cause you to

feel pain and in your desire to escape pain, the old impulse

will be to reach for food. To avoid wanting, convince

yourself that you are doing what you want by not eating

that which hurts you.

Success is so much easier when the goal is optimal

health in mind, body, emotion and spirit, and you think

of weight loss as the side benefit.

Focusing too much on the result of weight loss puts

pressure on yourself that creates desire for rebellion, or

self-talk that says things like: I’m fine the way I am, one

cookie won’t hurt me, or this is going to be hard.

It can be more helpful to think of food as either lifting

your vibration or lowering it, increasing your energy or

decreasing it, building your life force or destroying it,

perpetuating health or addiction. This line of thought

makes it much easier to make good choices.

Eliminate Emotional Eating

If you are an emotional eater, realize that reaching

for food when you are feeling strong emotion is just a

habit that you can shift. Set your intention to make that

change and stay committed. Use the power of hypnotic

suggestion by planting new seeds of thought and positive,

reinforcing images in your subconscious mind to help you

stay on track.

To help you cope with disturbing feelings, it can be

helpful to write down your thoughts and then write down

the opposite thought and realize that they are both true.

There is usually some truth in opposing thoughts – so

you might as well choose the highest thought. The highest

thought leaves you feeling expanded and the lowest thought

leaves you feeling constricted.

Next time you feel upset, notice the constriction you are

feeling in your body. When you check-in to your bodily


sensations, you may feel tight in your neck, upper back or

jaw.

Write down the thoughts that are floating through your

mind, without sensor. Your journal may look like this:

“I am too tired to do anything.”

“I am a fat slob.”

“This diet is not working.”

Now, without talking yourself out of it, write down the

opposite of these thoughts:

“I am not too tired to do everything.”

“I am grateful for the energy I do have.”

“I am attractive in many ways.”

“I have successfully stopped drinking soda and that is a

great feat.”

Now, without making yourself wrong, notice what

happens to your areas of tightness when you breathe in the

more positive, generous statements.

Since there is a shred of truth on both sides, why not

nurture your loving thoughts? Remember that what

you focus on grows. By reinforcing your kinder thoughts,

you are growing your own self-love and at the same time

increasing the likelihood that you will act on your more

positive impulses in the future.

The bottom line, is that your mind is more powerful than

you know. The key to success is to commit and re-commit

every day to the road ahead of you. The more you do, the

easier it gets.

Tomorrow will come either way, so you might as well

increase the likelihood of having the life (and body) that

your heart desires. You’ve got to talk yourself into it! Trust

yourself, you can do this! Create a sensible, doable plan of

action. Never give up on yourself! The only one who fails

is the one who abandons their own dreams. See (visualize)

yourself in five years. This is an important choice point in

your life. Decide what you want in your life and claim it!

About The Author

RENA GREENBERG

Rena Greenberg is an author, healthcare expert, and educator

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Joyful Spring

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Written by Linda Mitchell, CPC, LMT

S

Spring is the perfect time for renewal and

rebirth. You may be one of many who have

abandoned their new year resolutions, but

instead of feeling bad about that use this

Spring to amend your goals and forge ahead

with a fresh focus and motivation!

Acknowledge yourself for each success,

assess where you are now, and reestablish

your personal values before hurrying forward.

Reflect on what works, what doesn’t, and what

most needs to change to make you truly happy.

Recognize it’s not your decision to make

massive changes that work, it’s intentional,

daily choices that really lead to lasting change.

You’ll feel restored by making better choices


daily. Here are some tips

for creating your successful

spring renewal.

Reassess obligations.

Want more time for what’s

genuinely important to you?

First look at everything

you’ve taken on that isn’t

essential. Consider each

commitment and extended

family or friend obligation

that no longer feels aligned.

If they feel burdensome,

reconsider them. Yes, it’s

challenging because no one

wants to let others down,

but this is your life, and it is

time to choose you instead

of what others want.

Break it down. Whether

you want to save for a new

home, start a business, or

get healthier, recognize it

will take time. The desire

for instant gratification can derail you.

Choose one big goal and break down each

step you need to make it happen. Then break

them down even further so you have at least

one small actionable step to take each day.

This consistency will serve you well. You’ll

not only see your goal as a journey, but you’ll

create manageable pieces that’ll keep you

motivated and on target.

Track your time. Everyone is busy but many

use busyness as an excuse for staying stuck,

even when they want to change. One simple

way to find wasted time in your schedule is

to track it. For at least three days, keep track

of what you do all day long. Use an app,

spreadsheet, or a simple notepad. The time

you invest will pay you back tenfold. You’ll

quickly notice you spend more time watching

TV, scrolling through emails, and checking

social media than you thought. Once you’re

aware of this wasted time, invest in yourself

instead. Repurpose that time. Either spend

more time on reaching your goals, relaxing,

filling your cup, or making memories with

family and friends. That’s more productive

and rewarding.

Redesign your life. Most of us sleepwalk

through life more than we care to admit. If

you want a happier, more fulfilling life, take

stock of what makes you happy. What brings

you joy and makes you feel alive? Make sure

From The Story

“By choosing

to make small,

intentional

changes daily,

you’ll start on

a path to feeling

more joyful,

renewed,

and fulfilled.”

those things are a bigger part of it. Look back

at your time-tracking list. What obligations

and expectations can you modify or delete

entirely, so you live a life full of joy and

purpose? Consciously decide to live life to the

fullest. Do more of what makes you happy.

Pursue dreams and goals. Many people use a

lack of time or money as reasons why they stay

in dead-end jobs, don’t pursue their passions,

or make real change in their lives. Reflect on

what you truly want and make it a priority. Is

it going back to school, starting a new career,

or turning your side-hustle into a business?

Finding ways to put your dreams first will feel

so uplifting and rewarding.

By choosing to make small, intentional

changes daily, you’ll start on a path to feeling

more joyful, renewed, and fulfilled. Be bold.

You deserve happiness and tranquility. Grab it,

and don’t look back!

About The Author

LINDA MITCHELL

Linda Mitchell is a board-certified coach,

speaker, intuitive healer and LMT.

She empowers people who feel stuck,

overwhelmed or desire change to move

through challenges and transitions with

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ISSUE NO.137 MARCH 2022

RECLAIM

YOUR

HOME

OFFICE

Written by Gayle M. Gruenberg, CPO-CD ® , CVPO


A

Are you in the throes of workat-home

fatigue, sick and tired of the kitchen table doing

triple duty, surrounded by the constant buzz of a noisy

household?

Has your home office become the family dumping

ground, where everyone just shoves their stuff inside and

closes the door, oblivious to the growing mountain of

obsolete clothes, books, toys, papers, and forgotten gifts?

Do you dream of creating a peaceful place for managing

your personal and professional lives?

Yes, it is possible to reclaim control of your home

workspace.

If you have a room that used to be an office and it has

become a dumping ground, set aside a few hours to go

through everything piled up on the floor and in the closet.

Remove anything that doesn’t support the activities you

need to do there: put tools in the basement or garage,

toys in the playroom, and food in the kitchen.

Put like with like. Gathering similar items together

makes it easy to see how much of something you have so

you can decide what you do and don’t need. Even if you

keep it all, you’ll feel a sense of control having everything

grouped in one place.

Clear off or set up a horizontal work surface. It doesn’t

have to be an expensive desk; it could be as simple as a

door set on two sawhorses. Equip it with only what you

need at your fingertips while you’re working: computer,

pens, notebook, files.

Create areas for filing away papers and storing supplies.

A rolling file cart is an efficient way to do both and could

easily be tucked away under the “desk” to conserve space.

Add a flat top and you have a compact mobile office that

can be moved to wherever you need a quiet place to work.

Two of my favorite organizing techniques are to go

vertical and utilize hidden spaces. Use walls and the

insides of cabinet and closet doors. An inexpensive

shelf unit increases horizontal space and maximizes the

height of a space. Hanging mesh shoe pockets inside a

closet door or on the back of the door to the room is a

great way to store supplies and keep them out of sight.

Make sure there is enough light in your workspace,

both general illumination and task lighting.

Your chair should be comfortable enough so you can

sit and concentrate, but not so comfortable that you fall

asleep. Sitting on a balance ball strengthens your core

and improves your posture while you work. A standing

desk eliminates the need for a chair altogether and lets

you burn a few calories at the same time!

Need to stay 100 percent focused on a task? Use

earplugs or noise-canceling headphones.

Decorate the space with items that are beautiful,

motivating, and meaningful to you. A welcoming space

is one you will want to work in!

About The Author

GAYLE M. GRUENBERG

Gayle M. Gruenberg, CPO-CD ® , CVPO is the chief executive

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March 2022 Issue

BOOK

CLUB

TINY BUSINESS,

BIG MONEY

A CONVERSATION WITH ELAINE POFELDT

The increase in the number of people

starting their own businesses in the

United States has surged. And so far,

the entrepreneurial boom has proved

to be more durable than early skeptics

expected. Starting and growing a

business can be challenging, but it also

provides many rewards.

In her book, The Million Dollar

One-Person Business, Elaine Pofeldt

outlined the pathways to joining the

entrepreneurial movement. Now in

her new book, Tiny Business, Big

Money: Strategies for Creating a High-

Revenue Microbusiness, she offers the

steps toward the next entrepreneurial

venture – a microbusiness. Elaine is an

independent journalist who specializes

in small business and entrepreneurship.

Her work has appeared on CNBC, and in

Fortune, Money, Forbes, and many other

publications.

Pofeldt believes that many people are

becoming entrepreneurs because they

were in work situations that weren’t

ideal for them, that weren’t healthy for

them. During the pandemic, people

who couldn’t cope with the discomfort

any more, started to experiment with

the idea of launching a small business.

Working from home provided the

privacy and opportunity to try.

Many realized they like working for

themselves and that they were good at

it.

Making the transition from a nonemployee

business, one with no

payroll, to a microbusiness, one with

employees, comes with new challenges.

There is a big change in mindset that

is required when you’re managing a

team because you have to convey the

purpose of the business, said Pofeldt.

How you want things done, how you

want customers to be served. That can

be difficult for people who have been

solopreneurs.

Knowing when to grow a business

can be frightening for many, but as

Pofeldt notes, that point usually comes

when you start noticing slippage in

the business; you’re not able to make

deadlines or you get sick for one day

and the whole things starts falling

apart. That’s usually a sign that you’re

maxed out and don’t have enough

backup in place.

Before taking the leap, Pofeldt

cautions business owners to make

a financial analysis to be sure the

company can support employees. “You

have to make payroll, that’s a legal

requirement,” she said. “You can’t just

not pay people because you’re short on

cash. You have to make sure you have

the cash flow to support paying each

employee consistently.”

Pofeldt’s best advice for success?

Don’t be afraid to trust automation.

Analyze how you are spending your

time during the week. Create a sheet

and put down what you do every hour

of the day and take a look at where

you are spending tasks that could be

done with technology, an outsourced

service, or somebody else.

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