hol+ by Dr. Taz

How Jane Seymour Stays Vibrant at 74: Daily Habits, Supplements & Wellness Wisdom
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Jane Seymour: You read how many blueberries, how much kale, right? Right. How much celery, how much you know, the noise. All these things you're supposed to ingest by a certain time every day, and I just looked at this. I said, this is impractical. Mm-hmm. You need to know how does your body function, what works and what doesn't?

Jane Seymour: My mindset is that now is it. I love that it's not yesterday and I can't guarantee anything tomorrow. Like if I'm in the present and I'm authentic and I have a purpose, maybe that purpose is what we're doing here, which is trying to help people realize what the options are out there. Right. That's

Dr. Taz: it.

Dr. Taz: Please join me in welcoming Jane Seymour to the show. She is now 73 and currently starring in the leading role in Harry Wilde for Acorn TV and BBC America as a retired college professor who cannot quite manage to stay quietly retired to the dismay of her police inspector son, the series which is filmed on location in Dublin, Ireland.

Dr. Taz: Debuted to rave reviews in the spring of 2022. Beyond her acting, and she's got so many more projects up her sleeve, but beyond her acting career, Jane has made significant contributions as a producer and philanthropist. She has been involved in numerous charitable initiatives, including the creation of the Open Hearts Foundation, which supports organizations aligned with her mother's philosophy.

Dr. Taz: Of selfless giving Seymour's artistic endeavors extend to her work as a sculptor and painter with notable exhibitions and collaborations, including designing limited edition champagne bottles and receiving accolades for her contribution to the fine arts. Today, she continues to inspire others through her art, philanthropic efforts and motivational speaking, all while balancing her roles as a mother.

Dr. Taz: And a grandmother. You know, I've had a lot of incredible moments in my career, but this is a true pinch me moment. I cannot wait for all of you to meet my next guest. My next guest is someone I watched growing up on television I admired for your beauty, and even just for your overall presence and your acting, obviously.

Dr. Taz: So welcome to the show. Welcome to Whole Plus Jane. I have with me today, Jane Seymour. You have so many accomplishments, it'll probably take me a whole nother episode to go through all of those, but I just wanna get right into it. Thank you. You are 73 years old. You just told me you're about to turn 74.

Dr. Taz: I'm just about to turn 74. Uh, my birthday's February 15th, so I think you're such a testament to age is just a number. I know we get tired of that cliche, but. I want you to tell us how you have remained so energetic, so youthful, so still going at it. You just told me all the different projects you have lined up, coming up in the next few months and years ahead.

Dr. Taz: Yeah. You're not done right. I am

Jane Seymour: so not done, and I'm also so incredibly grateful because I've been allowed. Fairly uniquely, not many of us to age gracefully in a, you know, in, in a career where how you look is everything is pretty much everything. Yeah. And, uh, to actually be hired to act in great projects as a woman my age, but looking like the best woman my age, I can be.

Jane Seymour: And I think, you know, I think I'm fortunate to do this, not just 'cause I've been doing it for a while and it might be a. Useful at it, but I think it's because I'm authentic. So, you know, when people see me in my serious Harry Wilde, for example, they see me get angry, upset, play comedy, the rest of it, I mean, everything moves.

Jane Seymour: And so it would not be good for me. I. To not look like, you know, yourself, myself. And, but I do work from, you know, five in the morning. I'm up every day. I'm lucky if I'm back by eight o'clock at night and then I'm learning nine pages for the next day. Wow. So, and I have half an hour off for lunch, in which they usually have me either being interviewed or, um, you know, doing something, a costume change or, oh, it, it.

Jane Seymour: People don't understand the stamina it takes to do your to do what I do. And so that's why meeting you and hearing about what you're doing and being part of this is so exciting for me.

Dr. Taz: Oh, I couldn't be more honored and I'm thrilled to have you here, but I'll be honest, I meet people every single day who are like, I'm just tired.

Dr. Taz: I don't have the energy. Or, here's the classic line that I hear over and over again in my exam rooms. It must be because I'm getting old. That has to be the reason why. Yeah, and I'm even hearing, honestly, I'm hearing 30 year olds tell me that. So, you know, we have a problem with health and wellness here, not just in the United States, but I would argue globally we have a problem with how we perceive aging and what aging really means.

Dr. Taz: I spend a lot of time merging eastern and western medicine together and in those systems of medicine. Aging was kind of a gift. You became a mentor, you became a confidant, you helped others below you, and you had an identity, right? Mm-hmm. It wasn't that you were done and you were old, but I think what we've seen historically, especially with women, is that this idea that you're done, you know, you hit menopause and you're done.

Dr. Taz: You hit 60 and you're done. You hit 70 and you're done. How did you fight? That, like, did you ever feel that way? Did you ever have a period in your sort of career or your life where you felt that way? Oh, that you were, quote unquote getting old?

Jane Seymour: Oh, absolutely. You know, uh, in, normally in an actress's career that if you've had the opportunity of actually having some success, which I have had, had, had, I mean, if you haven't had success before, you're 40, you, it's pretty.

Jane Seymour: Really hard. Mm-hmm. But after 40, it seems to be sort of the cutoff date you're done. Yes, and I, and I definitely did, um, see contracts go away, roles go away, but then I got this little thing called Quinn Medicine Woman, which I

Dr. Taz: watched and I love, which you watched and, and uh,

Jane Seymour: for some reason I was 40 at the time and for some reason I was able to play 30 and everyone around me.

Jane Seymour: Most, mostly male actors who've done a series said, Jane, don't do it. Don't do it. You'll never have the stamina. You know, being a woman in a one hour series, you know, outdoors and all of that for 10 months of the year, you, you just can't do it. And I didn't have a choice at that time. You know, I'd gone through a terrible divorce.

Jane Seymour: I was left beyond bankrupt and I needed to work. And I'd also been told that when I did this little movie that it would never be a series because it was a woman in the lead, right? Doesn't work a doctor, no one's interested in doctors, uh, you know, the wild west and, uh, family values. So that was like. Tick off of like, we, we can make this and guarantee it won't.

Jane Seymour: But they did have me sign a five year contract and then the rest is history. It's still playing in 98 countries. It's an amazing show. Yeah. So I think when you're asking how do you do it, having been given that gift, it was really, it was hard to have the energy to do that. And I was of course still raising children.

Jane Seymour: Mm. And I didn't know where I was going to live. I mean, there were a lot of other things going on, but. I think the camaraderie of the people I worked with, the fact that every day I looked around and they actually relied on me showing up. Some of them would actually thank me. They'd just say, oh, thank you for being healthy, coming to work today.

Jane Seymour: I go, thank you, God, that's my job for being healthy. Thank you for being healthy. And uh, and then I realized I'd broken the glass ceiling. Mm-hmm. Without trying. And now I'm, uh, in my seventies and at 70 again, I broke another glass ceiling. Nobody works at that age. Right. And I got my own show, uh, called Harry Wild, and we've just done, we've finished our fourth season.

Jane Seymour: Amazing. Um, so. I think it's attitude. I think it's can do. And I think the principle thing for me, it's about body, mind, and spirit. Yes. She's to be your language. I love it. I love, well, it is. I mean, I, I am a doctor's daughter, so we were sharing a little bit before this, my father was an O OB G yn, so obviously he dealt with menopause and Right fertility.

Jane Seymour: That was his specialty. Uhhuh. Um. He is a lot of women doctors who he trained, and, uh, and I think I love what I do. So I think having a passion and being able to pursue it, it's so important. Whether you can do it for your job or you just do it as a, you know, as a, a, you know, as a hobby, right? Whatever it is.

Jane Seymour: I love to paint. I love to create, I love to help other people. I, you know, run work with the nonprofit that I helped, um, start, um. I mean, you're talking about being older and you know, that's in the culture of being the grandmother now. Now you give the wisdom, right? I find myself in that situation all the time.

Jane Seymour: And so I want to actually be up to date with what the wisdom is. You know, I want to read and find out what's working, what isn't, because everything's changing in science and in in nutraceuticals. So I want, I want to see. You wanna know. I wanna know. Yeah. And uh, and I also look around me and I see so many people.

Jane Seymour: Who kind of, I think, overdid it with the exercise. Mm-hmm. And they're all having knee replacements, hip replacements, shoulder replacements,

Dr. Taz: you know, one of the things insane. It's, it's crazy and you know, but one of the things that I think I keep seeing over and over again is. You know, people don't have a mission.

Dr. Taz: They don't have a passion, but sometimes they do. Sometimes they know they wanna do X, Y, and z. I wanna take care of my grandchildren, I wanna start a new business. I wanna go to law school. These are real stories that I hear from women all the time, but they don't have the energy. Hmm. They don't have the ability to put that plan into action to get to point A, to point B, and to move beyond that.

Dr. Taz: And a lot of times I find myself. Talking about, well, let's look at your chemistry. Let's see what's going on. Maybe there's a block there. Maybe it's not necessarily a mental block or an emotional block, but you have a physical block of some kind that we're so quick to dismiss as aging, you know? And when we start doing that work and we start shifting and making changes there, whether it's in their nutrients or how they eat, or how they take care of themselves, then it's almost like I talk about this and it sounds woo woo, but it's so true.

Dr. Taz: It's almost like the portal's open. You have. The visions, the ability, the stamina, the determination to do that, what you're meant to do. Yeah. What does that look like for you? You know, you are living, let, let me just say this one thing. I feel like when I listen to you talk, it's how I hope I'll be, you know, by the time I hit 73 or 74, but I hear the same passion.

Dr. Taz: The same vitality, the same zest for life, you know, that I feel like I have right now. How do you live your daily life? What's the routine, the regimen that you know, to stay true to, to keep that energy and that vibration going at all times? Well, first of all,

Jane Seymour: my mindset is that now is it?

Dr. Taz: Hmm,

Jane Seymour: it's not yesterday.

Jane Seymour: I love that now, is it? Yep. And it's not yesterday and I can't guarantee anything. Tomorrow. I can make plans, but I always have to know that I might have to alter the plans or accept, you know, that something's not gonna work, whatever it is. But if I'm in the present and I'm authentic and I have a purpose.

Jane Seymour: Maybe that purpose is what we're doing here, which is trying to, um, help people realize, you know, what the options are out there. Right. Um, that's it. So my, my day is I tend to get up in the morning, um, quickly because that's my job. It's your morning person? Nah, I, I have to be any time of day person. So people talk about jet lag or having to get up early or work nights or whatever.

Jane Seymour: I, I got over that a long time ago. It's, I give myself eight hours sleep. So whatever I have to do in life, I, and, and work, I give, I do the clock backwards and I say, okay, at this time, whether I am sleepy or not, I will be in bed. So you're a stickler about sleep? I am. Try really, really hard to do that. And I think because I do that and because I also know how to, uh, do some sort of relaxation exercises or a kind of.

Jane Seymour: Uh, tell my body, you know, it's, it's time. This is what we're doing. And I don't panic if I wake up in the middle of the night and go, oh my God, I'm awake. No, I can't go to sleep. No. That happens so often, by the way. So I, so many people have that it, and it happens to me too, but I just go, thank you, Jane. You know, pick up war and peace or, or, or, or a, or, or a document from the lawyer that you can't understand.

Jane Seymour: We'll put you seconds. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, so I that, so. Quite quickly, I have to. Otherwise, if I fall asleep again, I'm done. Um, I, uh, sometimes just to wake up I need a black coffee or a black tea, just something without any lactose or anything in it. I sometimes try not to eat too much in the morning. I, I like to have a kind of a overnight, um, intermittent fasting regime.

Jane Seymour: Okay. So that my body gets to shut off at a certain time and, uh, re-operate when it's had time to, you know. Regenerate. Uh, I dunno what you think about that whole thing, but I try, uh, then of course I, um, take my supplements and, uh, until very recently it was boxes full of supplements. Yes. It was like, oh my God, where do I start?

Jane Seymour: And which one's better than which. Mm-hmm. All these. Capsules. And are they actually going into my body or are they dispersing? And then, you know, you read how many blueberries, how much kale, right? Right. How much celery, how much the noise. Noise. Oh, the noise. All these things you're supposed to ingest by a certain time every day.

Jane Seymour: And I just looked at this. I said, this is impractical. Yeah, so I wanted to find a way that I could, uh, support my immune system, do everything I could for beauty, because my skin is everything. Yeah. Is everything. And I've already been doing skin from the outside, so I wanted to make sure that I was doing everything that I could from the inside, apart from drinking, obviously plenty of water.

Jane Seymour: And, uh, so I take care of that. And, um, then I try to work out if I have time, and if I don't have time, I do, I used to dance, I do some liaise. Mm-hmm. Like if I'm on the set, they'll suddenly see me, you know, doing some liaise, some stretches, and they go, what are you doing, Jane? I said, don't worry about it.

Jane Seymour: You know, it's, it's my gym on the side. And Dr. Quinn, I used to have this elastic band that I put around my ankles. You do those

Dr. Taz: on the side.

Jane Seymour: Well, I, I would put, I would put, you know, wear my frock on Dr. Quinn. Yeah. And they'd think, why is she behaving like a crab with, with pages of dialogue? Right. And I was going, doing my side steps Wow.

Jane Seymour: With an elastic band around my ankles. Amazing. I know. It was hilarious. Yeah. And then what I do, do, if I can work out is I get some weights, um, five or eight pound weights, and I, I do, you know, the, uh, the normal weight things, if I can't get weights, I, I go to a. Uh, you know, a sideboard or, or anywhere that's not gonna fall over.

Jane Seymour: And I, I do dips and things with my own body weight, right. Then I know because I have had a bad back in the past. Um, and like we were talking about, mm-hmm. You need to know how does your body function. What works and what doesn't. I know that if I suddenly turn to the left or the right, pick something heavy up, I'm useless.

Jane Seymour: You're useless. So, so I have to learn how to pick things up, how to get up, how to, to, you know, climb things, jump off things. I know what my body can do and I have to do anything I can, whether it's a yoga pose or isometrics or just, you know, some crunches to do it meticulously. So I don't injure myself whilst trying to maintain.

Jane Seymour: But number one, I would say is core,

Dr. Taz: core, core. So one of the things I wanna point out though is, you know, you have again, this passion, this energy, this vitality. Yeah. But at the same time, it sounds like you know your body and you know yourself and your chemistry and you're actually practicing a lot of what now research is coming out with and recommending.

Dr. Taz: Right. That moving all throughout the day is more important than these like very intense, heavy workouts. Right? Not doing super heavy lifting and using your own body weight becomes very important after 50 because for many women, they will injure or hurt themselves. Yeah, your indirect. Day indirectly, you know, kind of tackling these concepts around blood sugar regulation and metabolism and inflammation.

Dr. Taz: But it sounds like you're doing this on your own through your own understanding of what your body needs, you know, how would you advise somebody? You know, maybe who's listening or watching us today, how do they get to that level of assessing kind of their own body, how they, how they can answer what their own body is needing and desiring.

Dr. Taz: Because what's really happening is what you described earlier, where there's, you know, 20 different supplement bottles. There's the latest workout trend. They're fasting, wait, they're not fasting, they're doing keto. No, no, no, we're not doing keto anymore. Now we're doing the anti-inflammatory. You know what I mean?

Dr. Taz: Mm-hmm. And so for people, their heads are. Spinning, you know, but it sounds like you've got it figured out. How do we get there? Well, well, I've always

Jane Seymour: felt that, um, less is more, and I've always felt that. Uh, certainly for my, you know, the way I am having a very strict regimen of only this and only that, and only do this at certain times and, you know, that doesn't really work.

Jane Seymour: I need to know how my body works and I need to know how to, what normal is, or normal for me at this time is I also need to know what my injuries have been or what my weak spots are. I know exactly what they are from previous, uh, ailments and I have to, uh, be proactive about it. So I have to take supplements that I know will support those parts of my body.

Jane Seymour: Uh, I have to know how to talk to a doctor because this is whole thing of being invisible. You know, you're a woman over 50. D and you're invisible. They don't even listen to you. Right? Unfortunately. Unfortunately. So you have to to know we're how, how to talk. We're gonna change them. Yeah. Okay. They are changing it actually.

Jane Seymour: Yeah. But you know, it, it's also giving a woman the rights to actually speak up for themselves, to say, yes, you know, I hear what you're saying, but that's not actually how my body. Functions, this is how it functions. So what can we do with this? And, and then listen and hear and, and be willing to try something new and different.

Jane Seymour: But I think it's, um, as you rightly said, it's an all day thing. It's not a, you know, one off exercise. But I do find that we're all terribly busy. Mm-hmm. And we don't necessarily have time to eat all those things. So I was so excited when we came up with the idea with Body firm Yeah. Of coming up with.

Jane Seymour: With, um, phytonutrients and we've got this special way of doing it. We've got amazing ingredients and uh, you know, I've taken the green stuff and all the rest of it and I go, oh, do I really have to do that? But I happen to like green stuff, but this, you know, it tasted well, let's talk about it. Delicious.

Jane Seymour: And I was just. I went, okay, so one and done. That is my thing. I want to get up in the morning. I want to do what I need to do for myself. Sip it down, and then just know, okay, you've done it. Now you know whatever else you eat today. It'd be great if you ate a good Mediterranean diet, but if you don't, you have just covered an enormous number of.

Jane Seymour: Of, um,

Dr. Taz: essential nutrients. Essential

Jane Seymour: nutrients, and, and they're the right ones and they've got, you know, they're particularly good. They're better than other ones that are out there, and you're not dealing with a. Box fulls of stuff to take stuff that you don't understand.

Dr. Taz: We're both body firm brand ambassadors.

Dr. Taz: Yes. And for everyone, you know, watching and listening right now, tell them what body firm is, they might not even know what we're talking about.

Jane Seymour: Okay. So body firm's a company that, um, we, what we do is we've come up with, uh, we have two products basically. One is Kro Race, right. Which I've been using for, for which we, oh my God, we both been using for, I've been using for 15 years or something crazy.

Jane Seymour: 10, 15 years. I've lost count, but I wouldn't live without it. And people literally stop me wherever I go and they have to touch my skin and whatever. And uh, and then I was talking to them. About, you know, what can we do about this thing of, I wanna be healthy. I don't know the answer to all of these vitamins.

Jane Seymour: I can't believe I need to take that many. How can I possibly eat all these right blueberries and kale and everything on a daily basis, especially when I'm traveling in a place that doesn't have blueberries and kale. So, um, or, you know, the antioxidants and, uh, the blood oranges, which we have that are so fantastic.

Jane Seymour: Mediterranean blood oranges, I might say yes. Not those American ones. Um, I, uh. I, I, I just thought, well, let, let me see. Let me see. Is there a way that I can do it and be done? And so, you know, I, we found it and I'm using it and it's working for me. And you use

Dr. Taz: it every day?

Jane Seymour: Every single day. I now have a male partner.

Jane Seymour: Mm-hmm. I said, no, this is for women over 50. He said, no, it's me. Can I have something? It's me too. I'm a doctor. It is working because I'm having it too. So, and he also stole the CreER erase, by the way, so, oh, of course. They all do. You know? They all do. So I think this is great for people, right? Not just women.

Jane Seymour: Mm-hmm. But you know, we are women and we are talking about, uh, the species that actually traditionally cares about how they look, how their skin is, how we age, and what can we do that is good for our skin inside and out and

Dr. Taz: out. And I love that you've wound together the mind, body, and. Barrett as we're having this conversation around healthy aging and still being passionate, well beyond 70, even one of the things that, going back to this idea that people get blocked, right?

Dr. Taz: That's what I see over and over again, and even though they desire to do things, they don't have the physical energy to do that, or they're hurting themselves a lot. I start to go a little doctory on some of that. I get. You know, I can give you all the chemical terms for that. Well, it's because you've got mitochondrial dysfunction and inflammation and all this other stuff, but essentially what aging really is, it is where the body is not getting what it needs.

Dr. Taz: That essentially is really what it is. If we wanna simplify it down so everything slows down, but just because it's slowing down. It does not mean it has to be that way. So this whole idea around supplementation, you know, you'll see a lot of traditional doctors say, you don't need supplements, food has everything you know it could possibly need to, to help you.

Dr. Taz: And we know that's simply not true and it's not true for a number of different reasons based on food quality, the style of living that we all engage in these days, and really the exposure that we have to the elements is completely different. We're sitting here after, you know, much of California has been through the fires.

Dr. Taz: There's a higher supplement need after these major issues and trauma in life. And I think one of the things I love about something like a product that's very simple and easy to take is that you're getting a mega dose of antioxidants right away. And I think it is difficult to remember to take all the different things all the time.

Dr. Taz: So. You know, you're, what would you say to the person? I know many women and men actually who say, well, I don't need supplements. I eat healthy, or I can't remember to take my supplements. You know, or all that stuff is, you know, garbage, you know, that type of thing. And they get. That message gets reinforced oftentimes in the exam room.

Dr. Taz: What would you say to them?

Jane Seymour: Uh, I would say open your eyes and your ears. Be open-minded to, um, what's really working and try it because if you try it and it's that easy to do and it tastes great. And you start feeling better. Uh, to me that is the science. That's enough. You really need enough. That's enough, right?

Jane Seymour: People say, well, what's the science? Well, the science is, you now feel better and you look better. Hmm, okay. Well that's a good start, isn't it? You know? So when the doctor says, or when you come to me and you say, why are you, why are you the energizer bunny? Why do you, you know, why are you, why you not doing facials or Botox or anything?

Jane Seymour: You know? And your skin looks great. Uh, it is because it is from the inside out. And it's supplemented with what I do on the outside to protect, you know, to protect the skin from, from the suns and UV rays and all of that. So it's what I love about it. It's one and done.

Dr. Taz: Mm. You can't forget

Jane Seymour: it. Can't forget it.

Jane Seymour: You know it. You get up in the morning, you're gonna brush your teeth, you're gonna drink the supplement, and now you get on with your day. And now you know that if you don't manage to, you know, if you're working somewhere where they only have fast food. And you literally cannot get, I mean, I have been to parts of America where I haven't seen fresh food.

Jane Seymour: Isn't

Dr. Taz: it crazy?

Jane Seymour: It's insane. There

Dr. Taz: are food, food desert. We could, we could do a whole show about, we should go on the road, the poisons. We should go on the road. We should go on the road. You are

Jane Seymour: being poisoned by fast food. Okay? Definitely. But I don't wanna go against fast food. I'm just saying that if you're in those circumstances, that's why this is so brilliant.

Jane Seymour: Because it's one and done. You've got it. You've got everything you need that you could be grown in my garden. And if you know about this, but I actually grow, um, I grow all my fruits and vegetables in my garden. No, I didn't know that. Yes. Without any, you know, without, you know, anything. It's just amazing.

Jane Seymour: All pure, organic. I even have my own chickens.

Dr. Taz: Oh my gosh, they're so

Jane Seymour: free range. They only make little tiny eggs, usually green and blue and funny, funky little colors. Well, that food

Dr. Taz: quality is probably different than what you're picking up at the local grocery store. A hundred percent. People can't

Jane Seymour: believe it.

Jane Seymour: When I serve lettuce or arugula from my garden, people go, wait a minute, this. This actually tastes like something. It's not just like water, crispy water,

Dr. Taz: antioxidants, and they,

Jane Seymour: the tomatoes they go nuts about. And the kale and, uh. And the blueberries. And yes, it's fantastic. It's fantastic that I can grow these, but even though I grow them, I still am in a hurry sometimes and I realize that I haven't had time to make that smoothie or do what it is that, you know, I feel I need for the day.

Jane Seymour: But now I've, I've got my, uh, you know, my, my supplement and I, you know, I do it in one, I mix it immediately, drink it immediately. It, it's just, it's literally solves all my issues with. My wellness for the day. I think that's,

Dr. Taz: it's incredible. And I think that, you know, one of the things I'm hearing as I'm listening to you speak is that health is a priority for you and living a healthy lifestyle is a priority for you.

Dr. Taz: And I think that, you know, for so many people that starts to go to the bottom of the list and they don't unders understand the toll that that takes on the people around them and also on their communities and even in, in the workplace. Right. You said your crew on, uh, the pioneer one was saying thank you.

Dr. Taz: Yes. Thank you for being healthy. You know what, if we walked around saying that to each other all the time, thank you for being healthy. You know? And you know what a difference that would make, you know,

Jane Seymour: especially, you know, kids to and grandchildren. To a grandmother. Totally. I have grandchildren who say, they call me Omar, and they, they love the fact that I can jump and swim and do, you know, fun things, play some tennis, whatever.

Jane Seymour: I mean, obviously not as hard and fast. As their mother can, who's a super athlete, but they see, um, me making healthy choices. Yeah. And they've seen their mother making healthy choices, and so they understand it. It's not a question about, you can't eat this, or you sh you mustn't do that, or you've got to be on a diet, or you have to do this much exercise.

Jane Seymour: It's more, um, a holistic, just infusing, infusing, like, I love that. Good, good habits and, and if you can find something that easily takes care of one of those good habits. Without you ever thinking about it. You know, I'm on an airplane, doesn't matter what time of day I can take this, you know, throw it down there.

Jane Seymour: And I know that if I end up not eating the airplane meal, that's probably not very good for me anyway. Uh, I've, I've done what I need to do, so I want to be like you in the, um, responsible, uh. Suggestion of how you can take what we know in science and in, you know, nature and, and put together, put it together.

Jane Seymour: It together. Yeah. Because, you know, there's nothing, nothing beats being able to go in one of those machines where. They look at your body and they can tell you right away, uh, by the way, something's going on here in your kidneys or in your lungs, or something. Thank God for that. I wouldn't wanna be back in Dr.

Jane Seymour: Quin day's. No, no,

Dr. Taz: not at all.

Jane Seymour: No. We got a leather strap. A leather strap, and boiled water for having babies. Oh my gosh. No, I wouldn't go down today, would it?

Dr. Taz: No. You know, in the mission of Whole Plus. Of the show and the platform and all of it is to bring science and spirit together, bring the technology with these other ways of living and being, and I think you're such a great representation of that.

Dr. Taz: Now, I will say where I see many people start to trip when they think that way, there's a lot of guilt. Like, well, I can't go get Botox, or, you know, there's a lot of debate with, well, how holistic should I be or how, like in the modern world, or how much tech should I use? Again, how do you navigate that?

Dr. Taz: Like you've, you've mentioned when it comes to beauty, you've chosen not to go down the road. You're in Hollywood. We're sitting in Hollywood, and you've chosen not to go down the road of Botox and fillers and facelifts and all these different things, and they're widely available. You know, you at the same time have a career that demands that you're on camera.

Dr. Taz: Right? So how do you reconcile. You know, this desire to be that holistic person, to be this person that, you know, really embraces, you know, all these different healthy living lifestyle, but in a career or in a fishbowl, you know, so to speak, where there's a really big standard when it comes to how you look.

Jane Seymour: Well, it's very interesting question, but first of all, I look at the big picture. If I'm 73 or almost 74, I'm. Why would I think that I would be playing a 40-year-old or a 30-year-old? I'm not right? If I can keep myself well, I can definitely play 50 or 60. So I want to be the best me that I can be. I have tried Botox and because I tried it, I know that doesn't work for me.

Jane Seymour: I mean. Yes, it's great. 'cause suddenly, even though you've got this, you know, polished, polished face and nothing moves, uh, but if you're an actress and you are trying to, it doesn't work. You're, you're trying to have an expression, or if you're a human being in love with somebody or upset with somebody, they don't know, you know?

Jane Seymour: No, no, I don't like that. You don't, oh, you don't appear to really not like it. You're just like, anyway, whatever. I, I can joke about it, but, um. And I'm also just, you know, when, when we worry about whether something has gluten in it or, or, or dairy in it, why are we not questioning? That's so funny. Uh, botulism.

Jane Seymour: Okay. So true. All right. So, okay. So, and I'm, again, I'm not going against anyone wanting to do any of the above the above. At the end, you still need to be healthy from the inside out. Absolutely. So if you choose to do something, you know, that requires surgery or whatever, um, and that makes you feel good about yourself, go for it.

Jane Seymour: But you're still going to need to have the antioxidants, the, the vitamins. You're going to have to have a, some kind of program to be beautiful and healthy from the inside out because, um. When you're not healthy, it shows in your face and I would say on your skin basically. And

Dr. Taz: I would say these concepts are not, you know, divorce from each other.

Dr. Taz: Energy and beauty. Go together.

Jane Seymour: Yes.

Dr. Taz: And energy is driven by your chemistry, your nutritional chemistry, your passion for life, your purpose, your spirit, all those different things. Beauty is actually, you know, I was thinking about this the other day. We all think of beauty as this goal to kind of get to, right?

Dr. Taz: Like getting an A on a test. Well, I'm gonna go get X, Y, and Z so that I'm quote unquote, meeting beauty standards. Beauty's actually more of a feeling. And when that energy is there within you, it translates to beauty. And I think if we can start to change the definition around that, I think that's why we are in awe of you.

Dr. Taz: Right? It's beauty. Because it's energy in motion. It's not just like this one dimensional view of who you are. So you know, that's so important now, is it? And it's all connected. Yeah. And your energy is everything. And I think I would just encourage everybody, you know, to understand that. Uh, being healthy is a gift.

Dr. Taz: Yeah. And we have to pursue it just like you would pursue anything else. And I, I couldn't be more aligned, you know, with that philosophy. And you're such a great example of all of that. Well,

Jane Seymour: thank you. You know, the other thing I thought about is once you try it and you realize it works for you and people are going, wow, that works, just think of the times you need to give a gift.

Jane Seymour: To someone or you want to give a gift to someone that is a good

Dr. Taz: gift for, that's great Gift, gift. I didn't even, you know, they can take

Jane Seymour: it with 'em wherever they go. It's not like flowers that die or, or an outfit that doesn't fit you anymore

Dr. Taz: or a gift that you're not gonna use or gift. You're not gonna use this.

Dr. Taz: You

Jane Seymour: will use and uh, and so will the whole family.

Dr. Taz: I love that. So I have one last question for you. Yes. What makes you whole?

Jane Seymour: I think living with an open heart and an open mind, having a purpose in life and feeling that I am using the gifts that I was given in my case, the ability to come and talk to someone like you or to talk to the world, um, about what I have learned through the privilege of being around some of the best.

Jane Seymour: In terms of beauty, in terms of health, in terms of fitness, and just feeling like I can share that and, and put it out there, um, and maybe be some sort of beacon of hope. I love that. I

Dr. Taz: love it. Well, I've admired you forever. Thank you. I'm so honored that you have been on our show. I think you do embody the spirit of Whole Plus, which is really bringing both science and spirit together, and I think that for anybody out there who's just lost, I hope you watch and listen to this episode and know your next step.

Dr. Taz: And thank you again for being here.

Jane Seymour: Thank you.

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