NTD Evening News Full Broadcast (Sept. 12)

Welcome to Entity Evening News. Here are your top stories tonight. President Trump in Ireland today weighing in on Irish unification, this as he combines diplomacy and sports, meeting with local leaders before heading to the Irish Open Golf Tournament. A key route for Saudi oil exports now shut down after a drone attack. Iraq says the attack came from its territory and is now investigating. The Iran-backed Houthis capture a strategic shipping route off the coast of Yemen, putting pressure on Saudi Arabia and its shipping. We break down the latest with a foreign policy expert. In college football, while Michigan seeks redemption against Oklahoma, Texas looks for revenge versus top-ranked Ohio State. Dave Martin joins us with all the latest. And when you're under pressure, your body may be paying a price beyond what you feel emotionally. We look at how chronic stress can exhaust key nutrients that your body needs. This is NTD Evening News, live from our global headquarters in New York City. Thank you for joining us tonight. I'm Arlene Richards. President Trump is in Ireland today where he spoke with Irish President Catherine Connolly and Prime Minister Michal Martin. Discussions including Ireland's trade deficit with the U.S. and a pharmaceutical industry imbalance that favors Ireland. But the spotlight falling on the president's opinion on Irish reunification. Well, I don't want to cause any problems, but I will bet you I'd love to see it unified. I think it would be a great, a great feather in everybody's cap. Does that happen? It's going to happen eventually. Mr. President, you know what? It's going to happen eventually. It's going to happen now. In a later meeting with business leaders, President Trump saying there was no good answer to the question, though he stood by his support for unification. Northern Ireland is part of the U.K. and any reunification would require voter approval. The current arrangement helped end decades of violence in the region. President Trump also addressing mass immigration in Europe, saying, quote, you're just killing yourselves. The president then landing at his golf course to attend the Irish Open Golf Tournament. From a midterm GOP convention to tensions in Middle East and solemn 9-11 tributes, it's been a pivotal week for President Trump. NTD's Daniel Monahan has your White House week in review. President Trump headlining the first ever Republican midterm convention in Dallas. The president warning that if Democrats win, a group of about 20 lawmakers he calls the Communist Caucus would control Congress. We hand America's future to the radical left Democrats and our nation will spend the next decade just getting back on its feet. It will be a tragedy. The president making an offer he hopes Americans can't refuse if Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate. I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. Vice President J.D. Vance saying the midterms are about rejecting what he called the Democrats crazy candidates. Let's fight for our people. Let's send the Democrats back in and let's never forget that America loves you. Middle East tensions flaring up this week. Iran backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen targeting oil and other infrastructure in Saudi Arabia. And the U.S. sinking multiple Iranian oil tankers, a response to attempted attacks by Iran on a U.S. Navy ship. President Trump says he believes the war will end immediately after the midterms. Because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election so that we can get a nice, weak group of people in there and leave them alone and let them have their nuclear weapon. America remembering the 9-11 terror attacks this week, which killed nearly 3,000 people. President Trump recognizing first responders who sacrificed their own lives for others. And they knew what they were getting into. They saw it. They knew what was going to happen. They were running up those stairs and they knew what was going to happen. There wasn't one of them that thought otherwise. You never know about bravery until you really test it. You don't know. U.S. envoy Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner projecting optimism after separate meetings with Presidents Putin and Zelensky to end the war in Ukraine. Kushner remarking that President Trump seeks win-win solutions. You know, how do you create opportunities for both sides to do what's in their interest? War is negative sum. You know, everyone loses from war. Whereas, you know, business and peace is positive sum. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on a three-nation Latin America tour this week with stops in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Rubio outlining a broad challenge facing countries across the region. Left-wing groups have already been here and they've destroyed the hemisphere. The left-wing destroyed Venezuela. The left-wing destroyed Cuba. The left-wing destroyed Nicaragua. The left-wing has basically destroyed every country they've gotten a hold of in the hemisphere. And the National Medal of Honor Museum Board of Directors presenting President Trump with the Champion of Honor Award. For his unwavering commitment to preserving and sharing the legacies of the Medal of Honor recipients, his tireless effort to ensure the Medal of Honor and those who received it are celebrated nationally. From Kyiv to Dallas to Washington, another action-packed week for the Trump administration. Daniel Monahan, NTD News. Iraq is investigating an attack on a key Saudi oil pipeline after confirming it originated from Iraqi territory. The government firing two senior officials in response. A coalition of Iran-backed groups is suspected of carrying out the attack but has denied responsibility. Saudi Arabia shut down the cross-country pipeline Friday as a precaution, a day after it was hit by drones, saying it would not retaliate but would give Iraq an opportunity to respond. The pipeline provides an alternative route for Saudi oil exports when shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is disrupted. The developments come as Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen are putting pressure on Saudi Arabia and shipping in the Red Sea. Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei is calling for an immediate slowdown in the pace of AI development. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman agrees, saying the industry needs to take more steps on safety. Amadei warns that swarms of rogue AI agents could potentially take over the internet within six months if development continues unchecked. He points to a recent incident involving OpenAI and the AI platform Hugging Face. AI models being tested escaped their testing environment and compromised parts of Hugging Face's production infrastructure. Amadei warns the rogue agents could have caused far more damage. Amadei says Anthropic will give external evaluators employee-level access to help ensure safety procedures are followed and incidents are reported. The company is also calling for legislative and regulatory action. SpaceX AI CEO Elon Musk has endorsed Amadei's call, while critics question whether the push could also benefit Anthropic's position in the AI market. And staying on AI, a new report from Anthropic reveals that foreign malicious actors have used its AI system, Claude, to monitor and target individuals and groups. The report says several of those actors have direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party and have used the platform to gather information on dissidents as part of a transnational repression campaign. Here's NTD's Fiona Ji with the details from the report. Anthropic's report covers malicious activities from the last nine months, and it lists actors ranging from suspected financially motivated criminals, politically motivated individuals, and commercial spyware vendors, all the way to state propaganda institutions and state-sponsored groups. The report says that cases range from, quote, a network of fake dating apps designed to defraud users, to surveillance systems built to identify and monitor dissidents. A notable section of the findings reveals how users with links to the Chinese Communist Party use Claude to gather information and then build profiles of overseas dissidents. Targeted groups include Tibetan Buddhists, Catholic leadership, and Falun Gong, which is a spiritual practice brutally persecuted by the CCP since 1999. The report says the users instructed Claude to comb through domestic and overseas platforms for birthdates, birthplaces, immigration dates, and social media profiles of individuals. They also used the AI system to conduct reconnaissance on religious or lawful protest venues. In one specific case, the report finds that an instructor working at an American institution that's affiliated with Falun Gong was surveilled as part of the CCP's campaign of repressing Falun Gong overseas. Essentially, malicious actors are using Claude to replace teams of multiple intelligence collection workers. Now, just one single operator can input instructions into Claude, which then aggregates information from all online sources on its own. The report explicitly states that these are concrete acts of transnational repression. Anthropic says it has taken action to ban the threat actors' accounts and track their digital footprints to prevent further misuse. The tech company urges AI developers and governments to understand the risks of AI and to work to create safeguards. The AI race has been at the forefront of many geopolitical discussions, and the findings of this report are particularly pressing considering the Trump-Xi summit in Washington, D.C. is scheduled for September 24th. Reporting from Washington, D.C., Fiona Ji, NTD News. A Chinese national who worked as a Customs and Border Protection supervisor is accused of illegally modifying computers used by Homeland Security at land borders. He allegedly swapped out the components, NTD's David Lam reports. The FBI announces that CBP supervisor Terry Liu, a 39-year-old Chinese man, was seen on security footage in January making alterations to several DHS computers. He was arrested and later admitted to having replaced computer parts with cheaper parts during overnight shifts. The criminal complaint says Liu traded the original government computer parts for credit to a retailer receiving offers of $200 per processor. This comes as the FBI identifies counterintelligence and espionage from the Chinese Communist Party as a threat to the U.S. According to the FBI, Liu had IT-related duties but was not authorized to modify computers, and was told specifically not to do so. In 2025, CBP personnel found computers with non-standard processors, memory, and hard drives. Many of them were connected to the Border Protection Network. Liu is charged with theft and damage of government property involving 46 computers at three border facilities in Maine. The government estimates that replacing all 46 computers would cost more than $100,000, not including configurations. David Lam, NTD News. Coming up, Saudi Arabia is under pressure from multiple points by Iran-backed terrorist groups. We discuss what it could mean for the Middle East and energy with a foreign policy expert. So at the age of five, I was sexually molested. I had my first child at the age of 15 and became homeless at the age of 16. 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Now before 2023, roughly 12% of the world's goods pass through the Bab al-Mandeb, but that's dropped by about 60% since the Houthis started attacking ships there. So what does the capture of the Karim Island mean for Saudi Arabia and global trade, especially now as the Iran war is underway? Yeah, it makes it worse. It's very serious because there are two shipping lanes, a minor one that runs near the Yemeni coast, and then a major one that's about 12 miles wide between Karim Island and Djibouti, the other side. And that's where all the ships of the world go. And before this, before they captured this island, they had to shoot at ships from farther north on the coast and hope to hit them from quite far away, from 20 miles, 25 miles away. Now, they can shoot them from a mile away, or two miles away. There's only so far away that the ships can get. And they captured not just Karim Island, but they captured at least another one, and possibly the greater and lesser Hanish Islands. I've seen reports that they've captured those as well. And they've captured the port of Mocha along the east coast of Yemen, and well down past Hodeidah, past Mocha, and all the way down toward the tip, where that sort of thumb sticks out from the Arabian Peninsula. It was a rapid advance, and now they have a whole shooting gallery lined up along the coast. And today, President Trump responded to a question about the capture during his trip in Ireland. So let's listen to that now. The Houthis called us, and they don't want to fight with us. They let us know they don't want to fight with us. They don't want me to go after them. They're letting most ships go through. It's just one country that they're not too happy with. We'll get that straightened out. So Bart, what could the president do to solve this problem? And what would the ideal situation look like? Well, it sounds like he is trying to do what he does best. He's trying to negotiate a settlement with the Houthis. I can't imagine what that would look like. I think maybe they're simply trying to squeeze out money from us or from the Saudis. They know that they can't win a fight going toe-to-toe with us. They know they can't win a fight going toe-to-toe with the Saudis if the Saudis are really dedicated toward eradicating them from that coast. So I believe this must be an attempt at extortion. This is essentially land-based piracy. Now, Saudi Arabia has said the east-west pipeline was attacked by several drones coming from Iraq this week, and they've shut it down as a precautionary measure. So President Trump says Iran's probably behind the attack. But what would Iran gain from an attack like this? Oh, quite a bit. That east-west pipeline is a game changer. That's what all of us in the foreign policy and energy communities are looking at and saying, the Strait of Hormuz will become irrelevant if that east-west pipeline really expands the way the Saudis are planning for it. Right now, I think they're shipping just shy of four million barrels a day. Maybe it's four and a half million by now, or until they shut it down. It used to be shipping nothing and then less than a million barrels a day. They're turning it into a full-blown alternative to ships going through the Strait of Hormuz. And so having the Houthis squeeze the Bab al-Mandab, the so-called Gate of Sorrows, the strait going into the Red Sea, and then having their allied militias in Iraq attack the pipeline is Iran's attempt to squeeze exports from Saudi Arabia to prevent Saudi Arabia from exporting their oil. The pipeline goes to Yanbu, which is north of the strait, north of the islands, north of the Yemeni coast. And with the pipeline, the next choke point is the Strait of Suez, unless they're going out through the Bab al-Mandab and around the southern route. Now, on Iran, the regime is putting its foot down. No negotiations until all their terms are met first. So U.S. forces say they've redirected 100 commercial vessels over the past two months. But what does this mean for Iran? Well, Iran talks like they are winning the fight. They're like the Black Knight in Monty Python. You cut off an arm, you cut off a leg. He's still challenging you and calling you a coward because he's certain he can still win the battle. Yes, they can still do damage if it's close to their shores, but they're out there. It reminds me of an Arabic saying, the dogs bark, but the caravan passes on. These are dogs barking and yeah, they will attack a caravan, they will attack tankers, but they don't have the capability to do what they're threatening to do. A lot of it is just noise and they issue these lists of ridiculous demands and they're not going to get them. And we know President Trump has spoken to Saudi Arabia about this, what recently happened by the Houthis. So we just have to wait and see if any action comes out of that. Mark McCoy, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. It was a pleasure. And Ukraine continues striking targets in Russia deep behind the front lines. Drivers in major Russian cities are seen waiting in line for gas again, as Ukraine targets Russia's fuel supply. NTD's international correspondent Ariane Pasdar has the war update. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday posting these videos of attacks on targets in Zelensky says Ukraine struck seven different regions, damaging an oil facility, a logistics center, and more. A video posted on social media shows thick black smoke coming from the ozone warehouse in the Russian city of Saratov. The company confirms that the Ukrainian attack caused a fire at the center. And in St. Petersburg, dozens of drivers are seen queuing at gas stations as a fuel crisis is returning to Russia. Some gas stations have closed entirely, while others are only selling diesel. The local vice governor says the main reason for the shortages is logistical failures amid attacks on refining capacities. Russia experienced similar shortages in July, when Ukraine first started targeting Moscow's energy sector. Meanwhile in Ukraine, officials say Russian airstrikes injured eight civilians and caused a fire in a nine-story apartment building in Kiev on Friday morning. Moscow resumed attacks on the Ukrainian capital after a short ceasefire for a visit by a U.S. envoy. I'm so tired of this that I don't know what to say. I don't see anything positive. Things are only getting worse and worse. Zelensky says, quote, Russia's escalation with Shahed drones is gradually becoming increasingly terrorist in nature. The Ukrainian president adds that Ukraine's attacks on Russia's war machine are the appropriate way to respond. He's also calling on Western partners to increase sanctions on Russia. Ariane Pasdar, NPD News. Coming up in college football, while Michigan seeks redemption against Oklahoma, Texas looks for revenge versus top-ranked Ohio State. Dave Martin joins us with all the latest. Being a cowboy, I don't know anything different from when I was three or four years old. I did tough things. I thought everybody needed to do tough things, and if you didn't, I didn't have time for it. I had a very successful career at a very young age, and life is fast. I was preparing physically. I wasn't doing anything mentally on the inside, and then I got hurt. I wanted to be better as a person, and I really dug into mental health. I start my day with 20-minute workouts. I live life eight seconds at a time. Horses are so therapeutic. They know what you're feeling. When you're nervous, they're nervous. You won't say that, but we're pals. I take a lot of responsibility in taking care of my kids, my family, being there for them. You're going to have tough days. Everybody does. 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They are now in the third set in this one. Last I saw, Rabaquino was a 3-1 lead in the third set there. And we've got tomorrow going on. Tomorrow, we've got the men's championship going on. It's going to be Ben Shelton, ninth rank, versus second rank, Alexander Zverev. Now, Zverev is in his third straight major championship final. He won the French Open back in June. He was runner-up at Wimbledon then in July to Yannick Sinner. Meanwhile, Shelton, looking to become the first American man to win a major, any of the Grand Slams, since Andy Roddick did all the way back into Carlos Alcraz in a five-set thriller earlier this week. And he also beat Francis Tiago in the four sets yesterday. So Shelton versus Zverev is going to be tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern time. So this is not the American sport, I guess, huh? You know, it used to be. You know, back in the 90s, remember Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi dominated? Oh, yeah, Andre Agassi, yeah. Of course, you know, Shane Wood, Jim Currier won a few. Even before then, you know, of course, you had John McEnroe. You had some legends before then. Right. So they had been typically dominated by Americans. But really, the big three had dominated really the last 20-something years. You know, Djokovic, Nadal, Federer. Right. Not Americans. And pretty much not many people have been able to get in there at all. Andy Murray got a couple of titles in there. So the Americans have not had someone that elite in more than 20 years. For a while. So what do you think? What's going to happen here? I think Shelton's got a very good chance. You know, I mean, Zverev is very good too. Shelton, he hits hard. I mean, if you see, that's usually pictures of the guy. He's got some major biceps. And boy, that ball is flying when he hits it. So he's very good at that. I'll have to see. Zverev, though, he's very good himself. As soon as Sinner and Alcarez kind of went down this year because of injuries, he's really stepped up. And I'm going to go out in the limer and say Shelton wins. All right. America all the way. He's not favored to win. Let me just say that. He's not favored to win. But we're rooting for him. We're rooting for him. I'd like to see it happen. OK, so let's move on to baseball. We got the regular season ending two weeks from Sunday. What does the playoff picture look like right now? Well, until last night, it was kind of pretty barren. There were no teams that actually used until yesterday. It was the Tampa Bay Rays clinching with a two. They actually won. Let me just say if you saw it, you would see the Tampa Bay Rays celebrating there because they had an incredible walk-off home run to actually clinch their playoff spot. So they won 3-1 over the Astros last night to get to clinch their spot. Yeah, I'll do a little b-roll for you. They didn't win the division, but at the very least, they are getting in as a wild card. But they're leading the division right now. That just hasn't happened yet. Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Brewers, instead of winning via walk-off home run, they beat. They won 20-0 last night over Cincinnati. Now, this was the largest margin of victory ever by a team that clinched their playoff spot on the same day. It was pretty amazing. Now, for today, both the Yankees and Dodgers had chances to clinch playoff spots entering the day, if at least they won. Now, the Yankees ended up losing to the Mets, though, 12-2. New York still would have needed the Blue Jays also to lose the Orioles. Blue Jays won, so maybe tomorrow for New York. And the Dodgers, currently playing the Marlins right now in Miami. They also need Arizona and San Diego to lose. Giants actually lead the Padres 7-4, so that could happen. Diamondbacks, meanwhile, play tonight, hosting Texas. I think it's pretty clear, though, that Dodgers are eventually going to clinch, which is just a matter of what day next week it'll be. It could be tomorrow. It could be Monday. They've got a huge lead in the last league West. The Yankees, meanwhile, they're in second place in the American League East, so that could be happening soon. So when does the baseball season end? Or did it just start? It's so long. And it seems like it's always going. They start all the way back in March. Oh, March. I think it's been going for a while. So we start with March Madness, some baseball starting. It goes all the way into football season, which you got all of October then for the playoffs. Oh, wow. So the regular season ends in two weeks, and then about two and a half weeks, the playoffs begin. All right. Well, now my sport would be, what do you call that? What we're doing? Fantasy football. Fantasy football. Fantasy football. Our name is very good, and I can attest to that. But wait, we haven't gotten to it yet. I won last time. But anyway, we've got college football first today. We have a full slate of games where they stand now. Yeah, let's look at some ranked teams in action. We're going to start with a big upset down in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Oklahoma State Cowboys number six, Oregon, this afternoon, 39 to 31. That's the first win, at least at Oklahoma State, for head coach Eric Morris. And it's a good one. Cowboys tallied 554 yards of total offense in the win. Elsewhere, Texas A&M number 10 beat Arizona State 48 to 20. Michigan, meanwhile, got some redemption today, winning 17 to 10 against Oklahoma. I guess number 11, Oklahoma, so a nice win for them. Second round of games, there's like waves of game. You've got the 12 o'clock to 3.30 games. You've got 3.30 to like 7 o'clock game. The second round of waves of games, we've got Alabama leading Kentucky 23-17 in the third quarter there. Number 15, BYU is up 21-17 over Arizona in the third quarter. Then tonight, we've got the big game. Number one, Ohio State is playing at number four, Texas. Now, this is the third straight season these two powerhouse programs really have met. 2024 playoffs, Ohio State won in the semifinals on their way to winning the national championship last year. Then last year, they met in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio State won that one as well. This one is going to be in Austin, Texas. That starts at 7.30 Eastern time tonight. Also tonight, Iowa versus Iowa State. Number 21, 21st ranked Iowa against Iowa State starts at 7.30. 13th ranked Texas Tech plays Oregon State at the same time. At 10.15 tonight, 20th ranked Utah faces Arkansas. If you really want to stay up late, 11th ranked USC, I think they face Louisiana tonight starting at 11 p.m. Eastern time. Of course, that's only going to be 8 p.m. out where they are actually. Now, Ohio State's going to win again? Man, you're really putting me on the spot today, Arlene. I want to know. You're very good at that. You and Paul love to do that. We love to ask you that, yeah. I'm going to say Texas gets the better of them today. Really? Now, that's not really going out of limb because Texas at home, I think they're maybe the slight favorites. That home crowd advantage makes a big deal. Plus, Texas, you know, Arch Manning, this is Peyton Manning and Eli Manning's nephew. He didn't have a great year last year, but I'm expecting big things from him this year, so I think he's going to leave the slight upset over Ohio State. Obviously, if I'm wrong, you won't remember this next week, yes I will. Okay, now we want to get to what I've been waiting for, what I jumped the gun on. We've got NFL football. That's the fantasy football that we're playing, and they are looking at week one. The season kicked off this week. We've got 13 games on this weekend, tomorrow, right? We've got 13 games just tomorrow. We got 16 in the whole game. So, what stands out for you? All right, I'm looking at two main games. Bills versus Texans tomorrow should be a good one. Now, Buffalo fired their head coach, Sean McDermott, after a playoff loss to Denver last January. Despite eight playoff appearances in his nine seasons there, including the last seven in a row, he also won five division titles. As you can see, it was a bit of a surprise, at least to me. So, they've replaced him with one of his assistants. That's going to be offensive coordinator, Joel Brady, where he'll start his career against Texans. The Texans' vaunted defense, led by Will Anderson. That's at 1 p.m. tomorrow. Then, the Sunday night game between the Cowboys and the Giants looks like a good one. Now, the Giants, meanwhile, they've got a new head coach, John Harbaugh, after he was surprisingly let go by the Ravens after nearly two decades there and a Super Bowl win. He starts off with the Giants against one of their bitter rivals. He, of course, Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys seem to be rivals with a lot of teams. That whole AFC East division is just all rivals. Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, Commanders. It's one of the oldest divisions, you could say, or at least the oldest teams. They're all major rivals against each other. Anyway, they play at 8.20 Eastern time tomorrow night. It's going to be in, well, New Jersey, where the New York Giants play. Okay. So, this could be a good one. John Harbaugh brings a certain toughness to the team. I will say that. His teams always play hard. So, the Giants, they haven't had much success recently. I think they're going to have some success under Harbaugh. Well, you know, I'm a little upset that I got a C-rated team again this year, same as last year. I don't know. It must be rigged. But, I mean, I did manage to, you know, get into third place last time. So, I mean, there's always a chance, right? You know, the ESPN fantasy football ratings aren't always 100% accurate. I think I got a C- actually, if that makes you feel any better. We had an auto-draft people, all right? So, they just kind of choose for us. If we had 20 teams, it was impossible to schedule everyone. So, we had an auto-draft. That's what happens. Everybody, plus we have 20 teams. So, every team is really watered down. You only get, like, a couple good, a couple really good pairs per team. So, you hope the ones you do get stay healthy the whole year. That's probably the key. Well, how can you be an A-rated team if you only have a couple of healthy, good players? Exactly. I wouldn't be surprised if nobody got an A, to be honest. There's a lot of A's in there. What are you talking about? I didn't see. No one told me they got an A. If they got an A, I'd like to see their team, because my team did not get anywhere near that. I wouldn't have rated an A, the team that Maestro I had. All right. Well, I'm raring to see what happens on Sunday. My team's going to win, or my people are going to win, right? It's a long season, right? A long season. All right. Dave, thanks so much for that update. Thank you, Arlene. All right. And when life hits you hardest, eating well might be the last thing on your mind, but that may be exactly when it matters most. In this preview of Vital Signs explains how chronic stress doesn't just affect your mood, but also quietly depletes your body of nutrients it depends upon. Sheridan, so great to have you join us on Vital Signs today. Thanks for having me, Brandon. I think most of us, when we think about stress, we think of it as a purely psychological experience. But what effect is that actually having on the physical body? And what implications does this have as far as nutrition goes and what we need to be eating to stay healthy at that time? Well, we've actually connected mind and body used to be recognized in traditional medicine for a very long time in history in other cultures, that whatever's going on emotionally and mentally is physically existing in the body as well. And when I was writing my book, one of the things that was so fascinating is we're getting nine signals from the gut to the brain versus one from the brain down. So every time we are chronically stressed physically, it is actually changing the way we behave and the brain. So it's affecting everything. And we can't separate the two, unlike how we try to only focus on the physical sides these days. So there's lots people can actually take, but it's usually baby steps to get started when they're under a lot of stress. Which specific nutrients does chronic stress deplete most significantly? And what are the consequences of running low on those specific nutrients? The main nutrients are the ones that support the nervous system. So the nervous system is actually our primitive alarm system. And when we're in fight and flight, which a lot of people have heard of, we use up a lot of magnesium, B vitamins, our blood sugar automatically goes up because we're needing that extra glucose for our muscles and our lungs to run. So it's why even people that I see in clinical practice fasting for all day and then maybe eating only at night, they wonder why it's so easily for them to store on fat or have really poor sleep. And they think, well, fasting is supposed to work for me. But if they're chronically stressed, these vitamins and minerals are used up so quickly that, and then the gut and how we eat is affected as well. So there's no one single fix with even supplementation. And so it's a combination of focusing on when we eat as well as how we eat and then what. So it's like a triangle if people were thinking about how to start with the steps in place first. How to eat. That's intriguing. Could you sum that up quickly? What do you mean when you say how to eat? Yeah. So once we've got the actual ideal meal focused in front of us, if we are mentally focused on something else and our heart rate is being affected, when we actually become conscious of this, what you'll notice is that you're pumping blood much more quickly and your breathing rate is affected. What that is giving you a signal is that your digestion and the blood flow to digestion is being slowed down. So that means even if that perfect meal is in front of you, it's actually not going to be absorbed as well as what it could be if you were to really slow down and breathe more deeply, even a couple of breaths. I love listening to music if I'm not with good company when I eat, because it helps me very quickly shift into a more relaxed state, which is our parasympathetic rest and digest state. So it's often the missing component that is always work in progress for the rest of our life, that if we can be relaxed and breathe properly when we eat, we're going to get a better result from what we're eating. Any specific music that you're applying there, Sheridan? Yeah. I love classical music and there's often some piano. It could be even sounds of nature if I'm not able to have any headphones where I am. It's usually very gentle though. It's not rock music and it's not techno or anything like that. It's much more relaxing because I'm trying to send my body a signal of safety. If we think of how we watch an animal running around, they rarely eat or defecate at the same time as they're running. It's almost impossible. So our bowels are affected also with our chronic stress because it's saying, hold on, it's not a safe place. And our digestion is also the other thing that is affected when we're chronically stressed. So we're trying to mimic a signal of safety when we eat our meals. And that's just like a little micro habit that you can do with awareness and very quickly change the way you eat. I want to ask, is there a difference between different types of stress, say if your body is under acute stress for a temporary period of time versus a prolonged ongoing stress? Absolutely. There is really three phases of stress that they've talked about in research for a very long time. There's the acute, then the resistance phase, and then there's the chronic phase where we go into a depleted state. And the energy levels that you have in those different phases of stress are also very different. So in the early stages, let's say you're driving to work and a dog runs out in front of you and you slam your brakes on. That's a fast heart rate. It's protective. It's a very healthy response. It's very good for you to have that acute stress, but your body should reset. And this is what the modern world is, that it's not often given long enough time to reset and go into that, oh, I'm safe. Everything's fine. And it's going into a resistance phase for a lot of people. Chronic stress can be going on for years or decades and people have learned to live with it, but the quality of the way people are living with it is really what, in my influence of being able to say these habits and awareness, and then what you choose is in your control. One of the things I can touch on is in my book, I didn't have a specific treatment plan that I used to personalize a lot of the diets and plans that I wrote about for years. But in writing of my book, I came up with the acronym CARE, which stands for C is for control what you can, A is for add in foods that you're missing. And they're the key foods. R is the relationships with yourself first, and then with others, you have something to give. And the E is for experiment. So this is where it's very personalized and it's an experiment. So when we try and see what works for us personally, the best way to think of it is a bit like when you're driving out on the road, everyone is going to usually a different destination, and we've all started at a different destination. So it's very difficult to compare where you're going with your health and with your action steps with other people, because we've all got different places that we're traveling to. And so when we think of what puts things into experimental action for us with CARE, then it really helps someone to be able to just reset and get back on their own road to be able to get the results and feel like the effort they're putting into their diet and their food choices or supplements is going to be worthwhile and continue with it. To see that full interview and others on how to optimize health, go to ept.ms forward slash vital signs. 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Take a look at this rough photo finish as a dog tries a tactical takedown on Spud to try and stop him from winning the race, causing Spud to slip and slide his way to the winner's circle. That's the highlight from the Best in Show Championship at Canterbury Park in Minnesota. A gaggle of good boys and girls racing for the title of top dog 2026, and while some seemingly got distracted, others resorted to sabotage to try and stop their fast and furious opponents. Thankfully, the shady scheme didn't work. Spud's little legs and big heart carried him to victory, even if it meant crashing his way to becoming the champion. If that good boy was fazed, it wasn't for long. The one-year-old bulldog celebrating his title with a crown fit for a king and a delicious steak. Well earned, my friend. Beer and pretzels, a typical sight in the nosebleeds at Ohio State's opener against Ball State, became rescue tools when a little squirrel got stuck at the top of the stadium. Body cam shows a Perry Township officer making do with his makeshift tools to help the frightened animal, as we see him using the food to coax his way closer and closer to the creature. After a few moments, offering the squirrel a Michelob Ultra box for temporary shelter. Sometimes you gotta work with what you got. College, am I right? Eventually, the squirrel worked its way into the container, with the officer sealing it tight and giving the little one a love tap after getting it safely secured. They worked their way outside the shoe where the animal was released, and a Facebook post noting, sometimes police work is serious, sometimes it involves squirrels. And that's the news for this evening. I'm Marlene Richards. Thank you for joining us. Good night.