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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- Together we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- Today we're gonna discuss the five best tactics
to beat SAD.
That's seasonal affective disorder.
Seen a lot of this in my life to be honest with you,
not me myself but actually my daughter.
- [Brad] Sure.
- [Bob] Suffers from it,
and a good friend of my wife
is dealing with it.
- Right.
- So it's a tough seat.
- I know I have a mild case.
This time of year, especially when
daylight saving rolls around
everything changes.
It's like, I gotta get used to this and change my whole
daily routine. - Yeah, I don't think
this is uncommon at all.
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- So, Bob, we did one of these last year
and I got some new information, wanted to put it out,
and it's just one of those things
maybe every year we should do this and come up with
something new. - That's right.
- Because I'm telling, like I mentioned,
that change in light and all of a sudden
at five o'clock it's getting dark
and it's like, I got the whole evening
to change what I'm gonna do.
Before I'd be outside doing things and whatever.
So anyways--
- It just seems to me to be almost
accumulative effect on me.
Like, I do okay with it for a while
and then by
February and March I'm just like it's wore me down,
you know what I mean?
- Yeah. - It's dark all the time,
you wake up and it's dark.
- And this can be serious like you said.
The article I was looking at,
they were saying 1-2% of the population
actually has the serious effects,
and it can be the point where there's
suicidal thoughts. - Suicidal, yeah.
- If that's the case, you know,
I really think people need to seek professional help.
- Of course.
- And get that addressed as needed.
They also said another 10-20% of the population
has a much lesser degree, like I would say myself,
where "The Winter Blues".
- Sure. - Is how that was termed.
So, the first thing, what I did, I thought,
"I wanna go to an expert on this."
- Good idea.
- Not a professional expert so much,
someone who lives this,
and my cousin lives in Tok, Alaska,
which is midway up Alaska
and there's, like, four hours of daylight.
- At this time in the winter.
- Yeah, and so how do you deal with it?
And he's been up there for 20 years.
- So 20 hours of nighttime basically.
- Yeah.
And, you know, working full time,
work just like us, they get through it.
- Sure.
- And he loves it up there.
So this is what he said.
Wake up in the morning with a purpose,
whether it's day or light
and get to it.
And that's not all, you know, it's that old
pull up your own bootstraps,
that attitude is a big part of it
but he says a couple of other things that really help them
is they have a couple rooms with full spectrum LED lights.
And the idea with that is they're as close to sunlight
as you can get.
You know, this LED technology is really quite the deal.
- So yeah, I got a lamp for my daughter.
- Yep.
- I don't know if you're a fan of the show Shark Tank
but they just had a light on there
where you could put it on your desk
and it was really kind of decorative.
- Sure.
- And not really intrusive.
- Right.
- And I'm actually gonna look into
getting one for my daughter.
We'll put a link below if we find it.
But it's just a great one that you can have on your desk
if you're a desk worker.
- It's made specifically for the desk
and the SAD.
- SAD, right.
With that in mind.
- Let's go to number two, we've got five of them.
- The second one is get outside when it is light,
particularly if there's sun out.
Take time out of your day whenever you can
but get outside and absorb some of that sunlight.
It's gonna help you out.
- Unfortunately my daughter moved to Seattle
which is like... (laughs)
- Cloudy. (chuckles)
- There's no sun during the winter there.
- You better get her a light.
- Better get her a light, yep.
- Also, keep the drapes open in the house.
Let that natural light in.
- Especially when there is light
take advantage of it.
- Right, exactly.
Next one is diet.
What you eat can affect this one way or another,
and this is probably gonna be no surprise,
avoid sugary foods.
Pastas, bread, those carbs, all those things
that you may crave more that time of year.
- Consider comfort food
and you can have some of course
but if you go overboard that's where you're taking in
a type of sugar really
and that's not gonna help your overall disposition.
- Shop on the outside isles of the market.
- Right.
- Because everything on inside...
- Is processed and bad.
- Right, and they do say consume a lot of foods
with omega 3s.
You know, fish, walnuts, flax seed oil.
And this is one, I think I read about it a while back.
- Grass fed beef.
- Grass fed beef is different than your traditional
beef that's...
- Hormones.
- And everything else they put in it.
So, you know, some people are into that, some aren't,
but that's a better source of it.
Number three, exercise.
As therapists, we should've put this one at number one
but we thought we'll be modest.
- It's amazing how it can, you know,
boost your natural endorphins
and improve your disposition.
- Right.
- And your health of course.
- Yeah, you're usually not as active
unless you're a cross country skier
or something of that nature,
but yeah, 30-60 minutes
I would say at least five days a week.
Three days minimum.
- The problem, though, is where you gotta
figure out something to do indoors a lot of times
because it's so dark out you can't even.
- Right.
- Or it's snowy.
- So naturally if you just Google Bob and Brad,
like indoor running we just did or indoor swimming,
things you can do in your house
with just some simple equipment.
- Right.
- There is options, there's no doubt about that.
We'll come up with some more too.
- There we go.
- And the last one, but not least,
is stay connected to positive people.
Family, friends.
But again, make sure that they're positive ones,
not the, what is it?
The Debbie Downers or whatever?
- Debbie Downers.
Danny Downers?
- Yeah, whoever uplifts you.
You can have a conversation and laugh, you know?
(exaggerated laughing)
- Right, yeah, Brad, you're a good guy to be around.
- Really?
- Yeah, sometimes.
- My wife doesn't say that.
- No, she does.
- She does.
- She loves ya.
All right, thanks everybody for watching.
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