Hi everybody, I'm Ashley, with Jigsaw Health.
And today I am here with Dr. Sean Hesler.
He is a Naturopathic Physician and also the
Executive Director of Naturopaths Without Borders.
Dr. Sean, why don't you tell us first,
how you found out about Jigsaw Health?
- Hi, so I first found out about
Jigsaw through Natural Partners.
It was a new, up-and-coming company that they
started carrying and I fell in love with the MagsRT product.
- Yeah, so word on the street is,
you're pretty into magnesium.
- I love magnesium.
Any of my students will tell you it's my favorite nutrient.
So when patients have tension that's either emotional,
or muscular tension, constipation, trouble sleeping,
they will respond very, very well with magnesium.
- Well we happen to love it too.
So, tell us a little bit about
Naturopaths Without Borders and what you all do.
- We are a not-for-profit organization.
We do service projects internationally
and in the United states.
We have a collaborative project in Phoenix
with Phoenix Allies for Community Health,
it's an all volunteer free clinic.
We work in Haiti, Mexico and pretty soon
we'll be launching in Thailand.
So in these service projects we do a mix
of clinical care, health education,
and we also will help communities with supplements.
Jigsaw has been instrumental in helping us
help our patients.
- Yeah, that's awesome.
I mean, we love being able to support the cause,
we think it's super important and to be able
to spread these good nutrients to other parts of the world,
where people really need it, is amazing.
So, it sounds like you're quite the traveler.
Can you give us some expert tips on how people can
travel and stay healthy at the same time?
- So the first thing is probiotics.
Probiotics not only help us make our own nutrients in our
body and they help with our immune defense, they can prevent
us from getting sick in our guts as well.
- Right.
Especially with different types of food
and different countries,
and your body's not used to certain things,
so it kinda helps to make that transition inside the gut?
- Right, so, they help you break down your food, so you're
eating- you know, if you change over to a different culture,
you're eating totally different foods that are
just new to your body- - Right.
So some of the stomach upset you get is
just from different foods.
They help you digest your food,
and help defend you against bugs,
that Montezuma's Revenge.
- Yeah, nobody wants that.
Okay, what's your next tip?
- So, jet lag.
The further you go, the harder it is to adjust.
- Right.
- So, melatonin is really important for making that shift.
One tip that I give people when they're changing time zones,
is, on the day that you're traveling,
fall asleep
at the same time
that you would in your target time zone.
And melatonin can help make that happen.
- Okay. Right.
Well, on that note, so Jigsaw carries
Ancient Minerals Magnesium Lotion.
This stuff is the goodnight version
so it has melatonin in it.
This is a nice, easy travel size, it's only two and a half
fluid ounces so you can throw it,
even if you're using a travel bag.
But, I just keep this on the nightstand and
if I have trouble falling asleep,
just a little bit of it goes a long way
and it really helps to fall asleep.
- Topical magnesium, this is a lotion,
is really good for those aches and pains you get
from sleeping weird on the plane,
or hauling a heavy pack when you travel as well.
- Absolutely.
And, of course, don't forget to bring with you your MagSRT,
because that's gonna be your biggest dose of magnesium
for the day and it will slowly release so that
you can avoid some of that muscle stiffness and cramps.
'Cause, you know, let's face it, there's not a lot of room
on the airplanes these days.
- Yeah.
- Okay, what's your last tip?
- Taking care of yourself emotionally
is also really important.
When you're doing a service trip like this, you're working
a totally different culture, it's easy to get homesick,
it's easy to have culture shock-
- Yeah. - When you're traveling.
So it's important to take care of yourself.
there's an exercise that we run through with our volunteers
called "The Unpacking Exercise."
where we basically practice with each other, speaking
for two minutes on some event, something that happened
on your trip that impacted you emotionally.
So you're kind of practicing processing everything
and figuring out how you're going to tell people
back home about the things that you did on your trip.
- Yeah. - And, as well it's also
really important to have someone back home
who you can talk to.
- Yeah. - About your trip,
for a couple hours, and just download.
Get updates on what happened, you know-
- Yeah. - stateside when
you were traveling.
- Yeah because a lot of times, after a big experience like
that, it's really hard to condense it down and everybody
wants to know how your trip was and it can
feel overwhelming to try to explain it.
So, I can see how that exercise would be really helpful in
preparing you for that when you get home.
Alright, and as always, of course hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.
Especially when you're traveling.
These easy-to-go electrolyte supreme packs are awesome
for travel, I'm sure you took a bunch of these with you,
or you do every time you go somewhere.
You can pop it in your bag, your purse, whatever.
And it's easy just to pour into a bottle of water and
stay hydrated and feel your best while you're traveling.
So thank you so much, Dr. Hesler.
- Thank you. - We will see you next time.
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