okay next I know you mentioned feeling like like you have a taste of both like Eastern health trends Western health trends are there times where they like conflict with each other and I don't know how do you kind of merge

the two yeah that's that's a great question the one of the key ways that they do totally conflict which I think I mentioned a little earlier is that there was this like health trend in Western culture around eating a variety of like super fibrous and like raw vegetables right

yeah I remember that it was a whole like yeah till four trend yeah that trend yeah I've heard like I've heard people like ate a lot of bananas oh my gosh I did

remember this yes there's someone on YouTube who likes to say banana crawlers of people the banana it's pretty crazy but that directly conflicts with a lot of like Eastern approach which is you should never eat raw food you should almost always have food cooked

and what is the reason the

reason at least and this I might not be officially like perfectly saying this but from what I understand it's that it takes your body more energy to digest the raw vegetables and in Chinese medicine they have like cold versus hot food so if it's a raw food I think they might say that it causes too much like coldness in the body or it causes too much dampness so in Chinese culture you always like at least like you know very it doesn't have to be like overly cooked but at least it's like it's heated up and so I remember there was a drug conflict in that where you know I'm like making a big salad and my mom's like what are you doing I'm like this is healthy she's like no that's absolutely the opposite of healthy you need to be like you know cooking cooking eating the cooked vegetables or cooked foods and the way that I've learned to remedy that is it's kind of basically incorporating a little bit of both and experimenting with both and seeing how it works with my body and in our household because there is this kind of like clashing that what I think has been really beautiful is that we've been able to you know like my sister and I practicing and being brought up with like Western ideals kind of like challenge some of the Eastern ideals that my parents might have and then they'll challenge us and then my mom always encourages that it's about that it's different for every person and that you need to figure out what works for you and your particular body so in that way I've I have gone through periods where like I ate a little bit more raw I found personally that yes I had a lot of energy but I found it really challenging to sleep so I almost feel like it was too too much energy and then and then with the vegetables or like with the cooked foods in Chinese culture it's also meat is a pretty big part of the diet and so when I was not eating meat that was something that really freaked my parents out and as kind of a way to compromise I started eating seafood again and fish and I would incorporate it just not not super frequently but just enough so that you know it kind of like qualmed them but that's once again where I kind of like took a blend approach and I and I did find that in my own experimentation that I did feel better or is easier for me to feel better eating fish than a strict vegetarian diet and part of that is just not necessarily to say that you can't feel completely healthy on a vegetarian diet I think it just takes more effort and so just the way that I was leaving my life and what was available to me and my family you know eating eating seafood and incorporating that worked better for me but it was always like you know I kind of try to see it as that you have two different ways of looking at something and it means that you have like an extra an extra perspective and an extra and you can really oftentimes blend them or experiment and you know different things work for different people so yeah I

mean