Andy Smith 00:00 
A quick disclaimer we begin, the PEMF podcast does not contain any medical advice and the content provided is for informational purposes only. If you have any health concerns, please visit a healthcare professional.

Welcome back to another episode of the PEMF podcast and today we are joined by a very, very special guest, probably the most special guest we've had on our podcast and we'll come to why. So if I let you introduce yourself.

Dorothy Smith 00:27 
I'm Dorothy Smith.

Andy Smith 00:29 
So, Dorothy Smith, and I shouldn't ask you this question. Nobody should ask a lady this question, but can you tell me how old you are, Dorothy?

Dorothy Smith 00:38 
I'm a 100 years old.

Andy Smith 00:40 
So today we're joined by Centurion and this is a very special Centurion to me because this is actually my Nan. So, uh, my Nan has been using PEMF for maybe 10 years, the same, the same time that I introduced Newmed and started the company, but we'll come to the PEMF side of it soon, so we'll go through those questions soon. Um, but let's get to know you a little bit more first. So, um, one thing I'm really interested to know is, uh, have you, did you get a telegraph when you turned a hundred because unfortunately you actually turned a hundred slightly after the passing of the Queen in England. So, and the Queen used to send out telegraphs to those people. So did you receive something for when, when you turned a hundred?

Dorothy Smith 01:27 
Well, I did. I received... Actually, it was a birthday card you get from the palace and it was the king and the queen sent it.

Andy Smith 01:39 
And so was that signed by the king?

Dorothy Smith 01:40 
Yeah, and it came by, what was it, a post. Like Royal Mail. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It came by, what was it, a post. I said it came by.

Andy Smith 01:53 
Special delivery.

Dorothy Smith 01:54 
Special delivery, yeah. Came by special delivery. And so it was nice.

Andy Smith 02:01 
Mm-hmm and and you're a little bit of a local celebrity at the moment aren't you because you've just featured on the BBC So which is a TV program

Dorothy Smith 02:09 
That's right, I was on the one show.

Andy Smith 02:12 
And what was that for?

Dorothy Smith 02:14 
That was because of the G-Day landings 80 years ago and actually I was in Southampton at that time and I was in the Rens then.

Andy Smith 02:26 
Okay. So, so you was a Wren back in, back during the war. Yes, during the war. Yeah. So, what is a Wren?

Dorothy Smith 02:35 
Well, it's a women's Royal Naval Service, and furthermore, I mean, I don't think they had friends. I'm not sure about that before the war, but anyway, we had to go into one of the services here for the Army or the Navy, or else if you didn't do one of those, you had to go and work in munitions, so I chose to go in the Wrens because my dad was in the Dutch merchant's even, so I thought that would be nice.

Andy Smith 03:16 
So what was you doing in the Rens? What was your role?

Dorothy Smith 03:19 
Yeah, well, I was a writer, which meant that I could work in different offices, and it wasn't a special job, really. It was just a rotating office because I was already working in the bookkeeping at my job before I joined the Rens.

Andy Smith 03:43 
Yeah, so I mean, but you'd probably be a modest about it. But back then, any job in that sort of industry was, was, was incredible. Um, you, you did the program with some other Ren's and you said that you, you know, you thought they were doing other things, but what, what sort of things were those, were those friends?

Dorothy Smith 04:03 
They were doing signals, like one lady, she lives in Barnet, and she was at that place where they sorted out all the codes, what's it called, Broughsley Park. Okay. And so she, and they all had signal jobs, like on the switchboard, one was on the switchboard, and so they were more into that, actually, to the DJ landings than what I was. They're actually involved more in the actual- But there was the seven of us, so that's why they, I think, because we're better than friends, so that's why they chose me to go in.

Andy Smith 04:51 
Oh, amazing. And a little birdie tells me that you met the princess recently.

Dorothy Smith 04:57 
Yes, I did. Yes, I went to Buckingham Palace for the tea party, and there was the six of us, because one lady had already had gone to Normandy the day before, so there was just a six of us, and she came and spoke along the line, all sat down, and she came along and had a word with us all, and it was lovely, and we had some nice little bowls and cup of tea, and it was all lovely and friendly.

Andy Smith 05:34 
Yeah, yeah. Oh, amazing. Yeah. And you keep it active as well. I hear that you're still walking down to the shops.

Dorothy Smith 05:42 
Yeah, I do, I do go shopping. Not saying it's my favorite place, Sainsbury's, but anyway, I carry on. If I want to eat, I have to go shopping.

Andy Smith 05:55 
Yeah, which is incredible. So we're in your home at the moment recording this podcast and each day. What is your typical day look like? So do you go to the shops at a certain time? Do you go to the park as well I hear?

Dorothy Smith 06:10 
Well, I don't have a strict routine. I get up when I feel like it, which is about between eight and nine, having breakfast, and I don't watch much television during the day, but I just, to what, you know, different things, like.

Andy Smith 06:32 
And you're enjoying the tennis room.

Dorothy Smith 06:34 
bit of dust in this morning. I thought I'd better get rid of some of the dust before you come.

Andy Smith 06:41 
He was out in the garden yesterday, he told us.

Dorothy Smith 06:43 
Yeah, and I did a little bit of gardening yesterday. I cut the plants down out of the back, outside the back window. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I cut some of that down. It's come up nice.

Andy Smith 06:58 
So talking about PEMF, it's the PEMF podcast, so we, well, my dad, who's obviously your son, he got you one of our devices, which is the Biomag device. So if you're watching this online, you should be able to see that my nan is sitting on the Biomag device, which is convenient for you because it's able to go on your chair and it's nice and easy to use. So how often do you use your Biomag mat?

Dorothy Smith 07:33 
Well, every day. Every day I use it and I read, well, I've got that on, I'm reading, I get the books from the library so I go on to print and I can sit and read while I'm on it.

Andy Smith 07:49 
No, so good. So it's a bit of time to yourself as well, a bit of time for reflection too. And you mentioned to me you were using some programs earlier. So what programs do you use often?

Dorothy Smith 08:02 
Well, I use my knees as pain relief, and also I use the joint, joint one, I'm number five, I think that is.

Andy Smith 08:18 
And that's...

Dorothy Smith 08:20 
I think that was an hour.

Andy Smith 08:22 
And how does it make you feel when you're using it? Can you feel anything or?

Dorothy Smith 08:26 
I did have quite a lot of pain this morning because when I first get up, I've got pain all over, elbows, everything is hurting. Once I'm up and start walking around, I feel better, but I've still got the pain in my back and my shoulder sometimes, so I think it is helping me because that all seems to go away for a while, but it's never going to go away forever, it's just losing that I think is a help.

Andy Smith 09:04 
Mm. Yeah, for sure. OK, and before you had this one, we had one with a bit of a jacket, wasn't it? Did you use the jacket one? It was an old German product we used to stock.

Dorothy Smith 09:15 
I can't remember that. I can remember the mattress. Okay. Yeah, the mattress you put on the bed. I don't know why I didn't keep that. I'm not sure about that, but I can't remember the jacket one. Yeah, okay. It must have had. We've given you quite a few. I couldn't have had it for a very long. Yeah, yeah. I sort of remembered, but I've had this one quite a long time.

Andy Smith 09:37 
And we want to get you our device that we've manufactured. So with the help of dad, he's helped me put this product to market and we're going to get you one of those soon. But we're waiting for the two piece version to come out so we can put it on your chair. So that's going to be very soon. So don't worry. We'll have another one to give you soon and it's a nice easy one to use. So we'll get that one on you and see if we can get some even more, you know, benefits for you and hopefully knock that pain on the head. So, okay, so you're saying that you've got, you're quite active person. So it would be nice to know, I think for our audience too, you know, it's not often you get to talk to someone who is a hundred years old and or above a hundred years old because, you know, we're hoping you're going to live to many, many, many years to come. So, you know, we'll be doing this podcast again in another 10 years.

Dorothy Smith 10:33 
Well, my birthday's in August again, and I didn't think, when I said I'll see you next year, I didn't think I would be here. Oh, bless you.

Andy Smith 10:40 
No, we hope we see you for many, many years. So we, you know, what would be good to do in this platform and this podcast is to find out how you got to this age and what you do, you know, what you do and if you have anything you think has helped you get to this age. So do, you know, there's lots of things on the internet, on the news that is going around recently that there's a lot of misinformation and people don't know what to believe anymore. So I'm going to ask you a couple of questions and we'll see whether someone that's got to your age does these things, okay? One of the questions I wanted to ask you is, is do you drink tap water?

Dorothy Smith 11:30 
Yes, I do.

Andy Smith 11:30 
Yeah. And how often do you drink tap? Is it the main source of-

Dorothy Smith 11:34 
quite a lot of tap water. I must have about, I should think I would have five or six classes a day and then I've got some orange drinking that I take as well.

Andy Smith 11:49 
Is that like orange juice? Yeah. Yeah.

Dorothy Smith 11:52 
Yeah. And I sometimes squash my own, squeeze my own juices. Oh, so some fresh OJ. Yeah. Fresh OJ. That's a cool bit.

Andy Smith 12:00 
No, good. Okay. And a microwave. How often do you use a microwave? Do you have a microwave?

Dorothy Smith 12:06 
Yeah, I do.

Andy Smith 12:07 
And do you use it often?

Dorothy Smith 12:08 
I usually have about three microwave dinners a week. Well, I buy three, but sometimes I've cooked them in the oven. I don't always do them in the microwave. Maybe one I do in the microwave, but the other two I usually do in the oven.

Andy Smith 12:26 
No, good. So it's not every day.

Dorothy Smith 12:28 
No, because I sometimes cook my own dinners, I have fish that I cook.

Andy Smith 12:36 
Yes, you mentioned to me before this podcast that you, you're walking down to the shop and you're buying some fresh fish.

Dorothy Smith 12:42 
Yeah. Well, no, I don't actually buy it as fresh, because they haven't got fresh fish counter in that, that sounds weird. I get it. It's chilled. Okay. Yeah.

Andy Smith 12:51 
And what fish are you, what fish are you eating?

Dorothy Smith 12:55 
Well, I like place and I like salmon, fresh salmon.

Andy Smith 13:00 
So places are very British fish for anyone who's ever seen.

Dorothy Smith 13:04 
I've smoked salmon nearly every lunchtime. If I don't have a boiled egg or something else, I usually have smoked salmon sandwich. Yeah.

Andy Smith 13:16 
and eating lots of eggs, eating lots of eggs.

Dorothy Smith 13:20 
No, I don't eat a lot of eggs. I probably have three a week.

Andy Smith 13:23 
Oh, okay. Any tips that you think has got you to this age? How do you think you've got to this age?

Dorothy Smith 13:29 
Well, I don't really know. It's just that I don't do anything, maybe. I mean, I decided that, you know, I wasn't going to sit around. I've got to do things, even if I don't go out. I've got to do something, you know, like...

Andy Smith 13:47 
So I think for me, something that you talk about a lot is your movement. You know, you you're still very active at your age, still walking to the shop, still going to the park, getting outside. Yeah. And I think that is, you know, a big contributing factor. And your your social side as well. So you you have some friends, lots of family. You know, I've.

Dorothy Smith 14:13 
I haven't got any friends, not really. I've got acquaintances, but because all my friends have died.

Andy Smith 14:19 
Oh, bless you. Yeah, so you've outlived a lot of them, haven't you?

Dorothy Smith 14:24 
Jim died. He's been gone 16 years!

Andy Smith 14:26 
Yeah, so Jim was your partner for a long time, wasn't he? 

Dorothy Smith 14:28

Yeah, do you remember him? 

Andy Smith 14:32 

Yes, yeah, I still remember Jim, yeah. So, but you've been living in this house quite a long time now, haven't you?

Dorothy Smith 14:38 
Yeah. Yeah, I've been here 50 years.

Andy Smith 14:41 
Yeah. Wow. So, but I mean, your, your social surroundings, I think, you know, you might not think it, but you, you have connections to, to, and you, you, you see people a lot.

Dorothy Smith 14:51 
because all the people around here, they know me, well I've been here for a long time so I know people, but I don't actually socialise with any of my neighbours. We don't go in and out of each other's places or anything like that. I've never have done that because I've always been too busy bringing up the family.

Andy Smith 15:13 
Yeah, exactly. Well, that's the thing, you've always stayed busy, haven't you? And even like you're saying now, you're keeping yourself active, lots of things to do, you're reading, watching like minimal TV, but you're up and about. And I think that's a big part. So you said to me before that you're what you eat, you just eat to enjoy. So you eat what you want to eat. Yeah.

Dorothy Smith 15:38 
do eat what I like because, you know, when I was younger, our food was different to what it's like now. It used to taste. They didn't put stuff into it to keep it. We shopped every day for fresh food.

Andy Smith 15:55 
And that's the thing, I think you say that you eat what you want to eat, but looking at your diet from coming around here, I can see that your diet would be perceived as quite a healthy one. You cook your own food and lots of salmon, lots of like fish and meats and vegetables. I always have porridge with bread berries and honey for my

Dorothy Smith 16:22 
breakfast, always.

Andy Smith 16:24 
Okay, so, and you know what, so you rarely go to stuff that what we would call nowadays is ultra-processed, so food that it comes out of packets and it's ready to eat when you buy it. Yeah. So, you know, although you say you eat what you want, I still think you eat quite healthy and nice and balanced and what I would consider quite tasty food. Yeah. So it's, you know, it's not like you have to eat these ultra-processed food to enjoy them.

Dorothy Smith 16:56 
No. I don't like ham. I like sausages. I have sausages once a week.

Andy Smith 17:07 
Yeah. No, good. Bang as a mash.

Dorothy Smith 17:10 
and my show and fried onions.

Andy Smith 17:15 
Exactly. Enjoying it.

Dorothy Smith 17:17 
I eat quite a lot of greens as well, broccoli and beans and all that sort of stuff, green stuff. I always have green stuff with my dinners, always, even if I buy a ready meal and it says it's got beans in it, I always cook my own beans.

Andy Smith 17:37 
So you're always making sure you've got something green on the plate. We'll talk a bit about the PEMF again. So your PEMF, Matt. Yeah. Um, do you think you notice it when you don't use a PEMF for a day? So if you forget to use it or if you're traveling or something, do you feel that you miss the PEMF or that it, uh, that you don't feel as switched on that day?

Dorothy Smith 18:10 
Well, maybe some days I might not do two programs, but when I've got that little one, I've got a small one, I take to the hairdressers. Oh, so you've got E-boxers?

Andy Smith 18:24 
got a little Medi-Cure. Yeah, because... And...

Dorothy Smith 18:26 
fingers they're getting a bit more straighter than what they were because I keep pressing them down and not only that I'll use that when I'm in bed as well

Andy Smith 18:36 
OK. Yeah, you're using a little localised. Yeah, I'll put that until.

Dorothy Smith 18:40 
Three times and then I fall asleep. So I use that. That's very handy. But when I stayed at Gillies for three weeks, I didn't have it at all. And her stairs are winding and they were terrible, no banisters. I wasn't very active then, but I still used to go for a walk there, but I wasn't all that active and I did get a lot of pain. So I was glad to get back so I could use this, really.

Andy Smith 19:13 
yeah oh good so it's like you missed it yeah i did miss it yeah yeah and

Dorothy Smith 19:19 
I kept thinking every day I was gonna come back, but I was there for nearly three weeks. Oh yeah.

Andy Smith 19:24 
And your sleep, you mentioned that sometimes you fall asleep when you're using it, it's something that people say is quite common and that PEMF really helps with your sleep. So is that something you notice as well?

Dorothy Smith 19:40 
I do sleep well. I usually go and start getting ready for bed about 10 o'clock, I'll pass 10. And then I read, and then I do the wordle when it comes on at 12 o'clock. Only because... What, midnight? The Queen does the wordle. She waits till 12, so she can do it for the next day. Oh, no. So, I've got Lily, Julie, Tracy, Valerie. We all do it every day, so that's how we keep in touch. Oh, wow.

Andy Smith 20:13 
Heh. So you're doing that on your iPad aren't you because the other thing is, yeah and you're very active on your iPad because that's a way that we communicate as well. I find that pretty crazy that I can send you a message on a Facebook messenger. Two minutes later you've messaged back. So it's also helping with your focus I think, you know, so you're still very switched on, you know, the fact that we can have this conversation today and that you're on this podcast with us is a real testament to, you know, how well you're doing as a centurion. So that's amazing. One other hot topic at the moment is vaccines and vaccinations. So do you get vaccinations?

Dorothy Smith 21:07 
I do the flu one every year, and I think every five years I have to have the pneumonia one. And then I have the COVID ones, I've had five of those, but I've not had the last one because your dad said, oh, don't have it, and everybody's telling me not to have it. So I've not had it.

Andy Smith 21:31 
So, yeah, I mean, this is why, because a lot in the media at the moment, the COVID vaccination is coming under some scrutiny, but again, we don't know if it's misinformation that's being shared, but it's very interesting to know that you've had five vaccinations and your first one was probably in 2020, so four years ago now.

Dorothy Smith 21:56 
I've got a little, you know, they give you little cards and I've got all those upstairs, yeah.

Andy Smith 22:02 
Okay, so I know it's good to know that you're keeping up with vaccinations and that's and that you think that helps with Your with the flu every year. So you haven't haven't had that have you

Dorothy Smith 22:13 
so anyway it didn't affect me at all you know lots of people said that it made them feel ill or it didn't affect me once a lot of slightest bit

Andy Smith 22:24 
Mmhmm. No, that's good to know. If you could talk to the younger generation and say to them how you think they could live a more fulfilling life, what would you say to someone or what would you do differently?

Dorothy Smith 22:41 
I don't know. I don't know what I would say to younger people really because I just think positive and try and do the best you can.

Andy Smith 22:53 
Yeah, and positivity is, I think, something I see a lot from you. Yeah. And it's another life lesson for people to go through life enjoying it. Yeah.

Dorothy Smith 23:05 
The things are so different now with young people though, they're much more grown up. They grow up very quickly, don't they?

Andy Smith 23:13 
Yeah, yeah, I think the social media and online activity has a big part of people's growing up these days, so it influences people a lot in those aspects.

Dorothy Smith 23:26 
Mmm.

Andy Smith 23:27 
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