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Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and Gut Health | Dane Johnson on Chronic Stress, Cortisol and Healing Your Body · Cortisol Coach

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Welcome to the Cortisol Coach Podcast. If you're exhausted, gaining weight,
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losing your hair, your anxiety is through the roof, or the depression and emotional
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overwhelm have completely consumed your life, or maybe you're not showing up
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You've spent years never feeling good enough, taking care of everyone else while
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you quietly fell apart, and your body has been keeping score of every single bit of it.
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whatever season you're in, cortisol is making all of it worse.
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And until you heal the root, nothing changes.
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But this show here is about to change that.
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Okay friends, so this episode is probably going to hit a little bit different.
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I know it did for me. My guest today is Dane Johnson.
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He's a board-certified nutritionist at 19 years old.
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He started showing signs of Crohn's disease, but by 26 he was on a feeding tube,
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60 pounds underweight, and cycling through drugs, and he was literally fighting for his life.
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By 28 he was in remission, no surgery, 60 pounds of lean body muscle back on him.
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He went on to build the Crohn's colitis lifestyle and him and his team have
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now worked with thousands of people to reverse IBD symptoms using his shield method.
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Dane didn't come on today to be a metaphor. He built something real that has
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helped thousands of people and I want you to hear it straight from him. This is why I.
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For you specifically. Maybe you don't have Crohn's, but maybe it's your hormones
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are a complete disaster and no doctor is giving you an answer that is leading you to a solution.
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Maybe you've been doing all the things and you're still not seeing results and
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you're just tired of being tired.
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So Dane's story isn't really about a diagnosis. It's about a mindset. It's about belief.
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It's about overcoming and healing. Truly, I want to dig into what does it actually cost to heal?
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Because I think that's one of the pieces that may be stopping some of you right now.
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So if you've lost all hope that your body will ever feel different,
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I want you to buckle in seatbelt for today's episode.
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Dane, welcome to the Cortisol Coach Podcast.
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Thank you so much for having me, Christine. What a beautiful intro.
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Thank you. And I feel so grateful to be here. I just want to bless everyone
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who's here and say you can heal. You're not meant to be sick. God is in your corner.
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We're going to take the worst thing that ever happened to us and we're going
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to make it the best thing and healing is really hard and i've dedicated my life to not just.
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Studying it but living it and seeing it,
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and now we work with thousands around the world we have doctors on our on our
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staff and coaches around the world and all our coaches have been chronically
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sick themselves today i did a testimony with a kid who went from 6'6 95 pounds
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to 200 pounds all natural
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role, no symptoms in remission.
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We see like 250 chronically sick people a week. This is all I've been doing
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for 12 years and I'm in love with it.
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And I really hope I can share some stuff today that can get you real results.
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Not just the science is great.
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The discussions and debates are great, but the real down to earth.
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What needs to happen to actually heal your body. Thanks for having me, Christine.
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I am so excited. So it's interesting. And I don't think I've ever shared this
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testimonial, but when I was 24 years old, I was diagnosed with IBS.
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I had ulcers and I was barely hanging on.
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I had chronic migraines every single day.
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I think I was on, they had me cycling between three different migraine medications,
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and I didn't understand what I do know now, and chronic stress can absolutely
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lead to all of these digestive issues,
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and it's been a journey.
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I would love to hear more about your journey. Take us back to the beginning. What led you here?
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So my story, and I think a lot of people listening, the biggest things that
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I want to share is that my story is a pain to purpose. It is suffering into mission.
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It is darkness and loss and spending all my family's money and spending all
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the time and spending all the energy and still being sick and feeling utterly like a victim,
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and feeling like maybe everything around me is a scam.
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It's either a scam or my body is not capable of doing what everyone's talking about.
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So that was the battle I was in for, you know, fighting for a sense of reality.
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I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, then Crohn's disease,
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and then ulcerative colitis with gastritis, then Crohn's disease,
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just widespread severe inflammatory bowel disease. It wasn't that bad at 18, 19, then 22.
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Got a little worse by the time I was 26.
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I was on TPN feeding tube, 200 milligrams of infused prednisone.
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I had to be put on chemotherapy to save my life because it was a root cause,
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I'll tell you about, that I found that helped saved my life.
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And then I was on Antivio, Methotrexate, Dilaudid, three grams of Dilaudid,
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now Dilaudid seven times stronger than morphine to give you an idea of a painkiller.
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And I was on Ambient because I couldn't sleep.
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And I'd have at the worst, you know, 20 to 30 bowel movements a day.
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So sometimes up eight to 10 times a night, plus 15 to seven with severe blood,
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urgency, mucus, diarrhea, cramping, pain, hemorrhoids, ulcerations,
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gastritis, you name it, arthritis, brain fog, no energy.
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I would lose vision and collapse. I cracked my head open once just walking with
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my buddy. It was so anemic, so dehydrated.
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It was all diarrhea, so I was losing all my minerals and vitamins.
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And at 26, I was in the hospital for a month straight.
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I nearly died in that hospital. Family flew out, took turns taking care of me,
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slept at the hospital, changed the bedpan under me, just blood mucus came out,
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do that 10 times a night. And then the chemotherapy saved my life.
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And I checked myself out of the hospital.
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I decided not to get any surgeries, even though they told me I had to,
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I decided not to. And I was housebound for a year where I relearned how to walk, how to eat.
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And I went from six to 120 pounds to 190 pounds.
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And I've been medication free for 10, 11 years and predominantly symptom free,
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no major issues. I never got any surgeries.
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And so it's not easy. It wasn't this walking on water experience.
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It was hard. It was ups and downs. I've still had ups and downs over these last
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few years. Like when I got COVID, my body freaked out a bit.
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But so it's a learning experience. But I learned how I learned the mechanics
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of how the body works, what's actually happening. I put it in layman's terms. So it was more simple.
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It was repeatable. It was balanced in our Western world of life.
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I was able to learn how to respond to symptoms respond to negative energy respond
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to bad things happening in my life instead of just trying to cure right you can't eradicate
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the things that happen to us but you can learn to respond to live your best
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life like for instance you can't just stop brushing your teeth if you stop brushing
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your teeth your gingivitis will flare and come out of remission right and so,
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I learned how to live in a way that gave me my life back and I've that was a bit of my story.
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So you talked a little bit about root cause. What did you identify or what were
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you able to find that was the root cause?
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Number one, there is no root cause. It's always root causes.
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Nothing works singular and something is out of balance.
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The word you need to understand when you're healing is the idea of balance.
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You're not going to eradicate H. pylori that can cause ulcerations and IBS,
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you're going to balance it. Everyone has some level of H. pylori.
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That's why if you do a quantitative PCR stool test, they're going to check so
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sensitive so deep because everyone's got ancient bacteria at a certain depth.
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So you're building a balance. The microbiome is not eradicating,
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you know, pathogenic bacteria.
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It's balancing them. It's balancing the immune system, the diversity,
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the beneficial bacteria, the keystone bacteria, the short chain fatty acids, that.
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So that was one of the things about root cause. And then I started simplifying
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the idea of root cause into branches. So number one is going to be hidden pathogens.
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So infections, pathogens. Now, a lot of this will happen and some people won't
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react to it. Others will get really bad. So for instance, what nearly killed
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me in the hospital was cytomegalovirus.
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So it's an opportunistic virus that when your immune system gets depleted,
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or maybe because you've taken a bunch of immunosuppressants and been stressed
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and you're not sleeping and your cortisol is all jacked up and your immune system's
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jacked up and your microbiome's jacked up,
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that opportunistic virus can take over your body and everyone's going to react
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a little different to me.
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Me, my body's wildly sensitive to it. So I get any kind of IgA antibody reaction
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to cytomega or Epstein-Barr. My colon will freak out.
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I'll get brain fog. I'll lose weight. My digestion, my pancreatic enzymes will suffer.
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Stomach acid will go down. I'll get all these different reactions.
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We all react different to mold, virus, candida, parasites, bacteria.
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The sixth one that you kind of have to watch out for is Lyme disease, Sparachetes, right?
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So then the second branch I realized about being sick was toxin overload.
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Now, toxins can come from many things. Now, pathogens release toxins.
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So, parasites release a ton of toxins.
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Mold releases mycotoxins.
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SIBO, IBS, where you have dysbiosis, release endotoxins. Okay.
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So, another branch and a hidden problem of root cause is everyone responds differently to toxins.
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So, when we say online that everyone responds differently, this is why.
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Because we have a different epigenetic profile. So, some of us can detox well.
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That's our liver lymphatic system, ability to poop, ability to sweat or kidneys,
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and that's the ability to release toxins.
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So I have poor epigenetics. I can't release toxins well. So when these things
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build up in my body, I react heavily where my friend, no problem.
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So that's the second thing. So toxins are in your air, food,
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and water. You could be eating great, breathing in mold. Your body's freaking out.
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And you're going, Dane, I eat the perfect diet. I take all my supplements.
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I'm on astaxanthin, CoQ10, ashwagandha.
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Why do I feel, I'm on three cups of coffee. Why am I so brain foggy?
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Why am I so hormonal? Why am I getting arthritic pains?
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Oh, you're breathing in mold and you can't detox it. You don't have the genetic profile to do it.
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And mold's one of the hardest things to detox. Or you got low stomach acid with
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poor microbiome balance. You've been eating raw sushi forever.
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You've got a certain amount of back parasites that have grown like blastocystis hominis.
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What I found after years of trying, no doctor found, I had to find through tons of different lab work.
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Parawellness is what I used. I actually found that, the Parawellness toolkit.
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So toxins can be in your air, food, and water. It can be the water you drink,
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chlorinated water with radioactive compounds and heavy metals.
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It can be in your air, mold, environmental toxins because you live in a city.
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You know, how many VOCs, PCBs, polychlorinated bifidols, all these different
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man-made chemicals. The simple thing you have to understand is we live in a
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world that has thousands of chemicals. Chemical means man-made toxic substance.
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Okay. That's the, that's all you need to understand.
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And when people go, why is all this disease going up? These didn't last.
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Well, do you think that 200 years ago, your grandparents had genetic mutations
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that made them susceptible to man-made alien chemicals in the air?
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They did, but they were never exposed to them.
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I love that you're bringing this up because I have gone down the trail of all
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the separate testing, finding out that I had genetic mutations that I never knew about.
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My body had a buildup of glyphosate so badly. Mm-hmm.
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That I only now eat chicken and turkey because that's just what's best for my
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body. Because unless you're going to go organic, I mean, the food that is fed
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to the cows contains glyphosate.
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And so my body had a hard time detoxing from it.
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So I love that you're going down this route. So I guess because it's so important
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because I never realized without all of this testing what was really impacting me.
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And knowing that what your genetic makeup is makes such a huge difference in
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how your body even processes things.
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Yes, but don't think of your genetics as like if you have the ability to properly
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detox or the glucuronidase pathways to create glutathione that has the major
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powerhouse antioxidant to clean out the cells.
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That is like a Jector escape goat from the Western world. Here's the simple answer.
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Divorce the toxic world. Build a healing home and live a balanced life the way
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God intended it and get around others who share the same values and it won't be weird anymore.
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That's it and then make it simple and go through the the little bit of suffering
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a little bit of the discomfort to re-envision your life.
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And the thing that gave me hope around that is how much time energy and money
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did people spend on their food,
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and their ability to eat their ability to live normal and have shelter and have
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heat in the winter 200 years ago how much time 200 years ago,
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how much time to prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
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Right. How much time to prepare the house? How much energy?
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Like 80%? Where's my husband? He's out hunting. Right, right.
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He's gone all day. He's hunting.
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Okay. How much money? One clinical research article I was looking at a while
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ago, I did a speaking engagement from a thousand doctors.
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And I think it said roughly, I can't remember the exact research article,
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but there was there was a one part of it talking about how people would spend
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upwards of 40 percent of their finances on money about 100 years ago in the early 1900s,
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well it was interesting because my husband and i we went to costco i think two
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weekends ago and it was 700 for one grocery cart of food yeah wow and people
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said how could you spend so much
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and i said when you buy because they're like i could have spent 300 on that
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same cart and i said yeah but when you're adding organic meat.
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That's $40 for a package of chicken breast for organic, right?
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And I even double took the moment with my husband and I was like,
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do we really need organic? And he said, don't you realize what we've gone through
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to get your body to the place that it is? Why would you put anything else in it?
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And I, so anyways, it just interesting piece that they're spending 40% of their income on food.
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Yeah. Well, nowadays it's about eight.
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And so it just goes. And I'm not saying, hey, I understand they didn't have cell phone bills.
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They didn't have all these other things. I'm just putting it in perspective.
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We got to learn and make the best decision for us. I'm not just saying spend
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more, but that can absolutely. Like for me, every time I buy from the Amish and that's straight.
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Amish. Okay. There are like, there's, it's ancient practice food.
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There is no corn. There is no soy. There is no GMO. There's none of that.
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And every time I go, I spend at least a thousand dollars, but I've got a freezer in the garage.
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I got freeze. I mean, I pack up and I've built my life to focus on saying my
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mission is to eat 70 to 80% of my food at home. So why do I invest not in a
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foreign car, not in foreign clothes, not in, you know, alcohol. I don't drink alcohol.
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And how do I take that and put energy, because money is just a type of energy, really.
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How do I put that energy into a healing home, into a lifestyle that makes me
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free and happy, not standing on my high horse with my nose up saying I eat organic
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and I'm different than everyone. No, I'm happy, I'm free, I feel good, I have a purpose to it.
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But to finish that root cause thing about that, the last one is the body's physiological imbalances.
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So I really, when I looked at it, there are three main root cause trees that
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I want to understand and write those down and say, which one am I suffering in?
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Have I checked? Do I understand if there are hidden pathogens?
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And pathogens aren't just because I swam in a lake or took care of some farm
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animals and got parasites.
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If your body is weak and you have physiological imbalances, you're more likely
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to get pathogenic bacteria from an imbalance.
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So write this down. Small intestine bacteria overgrowth is a pathological inflammatory
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imbalance, but it's not necessarily a new infection. It just became overgrown.
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So when there's an imbalance, it becomes pathogenic.
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So it's not just that you ate something that had parasites or you drank some
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water that was bad or you got the COVID or Epstein bar from someone you hugged
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or shared a glass of water with.
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You can get an imbalance in your body that becomes pathogenic.
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So that's where we have to understand about that pathogens, right?
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And we all have a certain amount of parasites and viral and all of that.
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I mean, it's considered that 95% of America has some sort of Epstein-Barr or
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cytomegalitis in their system, right?
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That physiological imbalance is no matter what gut health disease you're dealing
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with or what kind of health issue for the gut's going to be involved,
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you have to fix these five imbalances. You have to optimize your digestion.
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You have to rebalance your microbiome.
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You've got to seal up your gut lining and rebuild that mucosal membrane.
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You've got to optimize your detox pathways, okay, which we talked about,
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the liver, the kidney, the lymphatic system, the ability to poop,
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the ability to sweat, and then the advanced one is cellular.
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And then you've got to the fifth imbalance is your nervous system.
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You've got to rebalance your nervous system, which is how you get in touch with God.
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Prayer, purpose, meditation, grounding, tapping, EFT tapping, all wonderful things.
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Sunlight, love, hugs, put down the Netflix, put down the phone, get some love, right?
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So those are the three things. You work on those three things.
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I believe that you are going to drastically change your life with any disease.
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So how does a woman get started with any of this? Because for me,
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I'm like, yes, yes, yes, I want to do all of this.
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How? And I'm sure our listeners are saying the same thing. Oh, yeah.
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Because it's not just cortisol. It's not just hormone imbalance.
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It's a whole body that's out of balance.
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So how do, what is the first step that somebody's going to take or how can they
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have access to doing all of this?
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I think the first thing you have to do is accept.
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Accept that it should be overwhelming. If healing your body has been difficult
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and you haven't gotten where you want to be and you haven't arrived to a place,
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and we never fully arrive, like life is always happening.
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So there's always something to talk about. There's always some objective.
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There's always some mountain. So make peace with that.
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But if you haven't felt accomplished that your health is, you know,
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an eight out of 10 or higher, accept that the answer should be a little overwhelming,
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but once you start understanding it and implementing it, it actually gets easy.
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So the understanding is hard, but the execution as you practice is easy.
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Success always becomes easy and failure always stays hard.
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Can you explain SHIELD to us? I want to hear more about that.
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Yeah. SHIELD was my way of trying to solve the problem of natural healing and make it actually work.
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Because my family spent so much money. I tried every diet. I went all these
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places. I was too severe. It just wasn't enough. It didn't have flexibility.
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It didn't teach me. It didn't make me the answer. You're not going to get great
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results until you become the answer. You're not going to get great results if
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you're trying to do the plan. You're not building your plan.
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You're not going to get great results unless there's flexibility and ways to
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continually, infinitely move throughout your strategies.
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That fits what's happening with the kids. That fits your age.
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That fits if it's winter or summer.
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That fits if you're in a season of working out hard or taking it easy.
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That fits if you're in a hard schedule of work.
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And it kind of goes into like, where do you start?
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You start by building your, what I call your daily blueprint.
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And that's part of the SHIELD program, okay?
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So I'm kind of wanna answer both those because we could really deep dive,
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like where do we start? Acceptance, start with what your daily plan is gonna look like.
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And just a side note on where to start also is if you're getting overwhelmed, just focus right now.
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I want you to write down three or four things that you're no longer going to
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do that are only causing inflammation, only causing stress on your life,
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only causing stress on your pocketbook and are making you sick.
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An example is going to be alcohol, soda, fast food.
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It's going to be staying up till two in the morning watching Netflix.
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It's going to be donuts, sugar, candy.
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It's going to be engaging in fights with those that you are in your life family
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instead of just allowing it to release and heal and not engaging,
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okay? Because you know it's just going to stress you out and it's going to zap
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your energy to get into that argument.
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Examples. Moving that into SHIELD.
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And I just want to start by like, I just want I want to serve.
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I am not here just to market some my business is like that. I have a business.
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I'm passionate about it.
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My sole purpose is to help people get unbelievable results in their life.
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And I believe I know we're the best in the world at doing that.
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So I just want to say, I am here to serve.
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Do what's best for you. If I can help you out, we are excited to talk with you
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and build that trust and integrity. If not, I want you to get something out
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of today and make it shareable and get that massive result. So I just want to
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start with that. I love that. Okay.
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The idea of shield, as I said, is a customized solution for you.
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The metaphor for shield is it's not the idea to walk on water like Jesus.
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It's to defend against disease, not eradicate it. Shield.
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Think about what you want. You want to get married. You want to look good in
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that bikini. You want to have great energy in the morning.
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You want to have start that second business and get your income up so you can
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retire at 50 instead of 65. You've got these dreams, but you go,
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but I'm tired, but I'm sick.
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My hormones are off. I don't feel good. And I'm overwhelmed with that.
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And I feel like it's zapping me. So I need a shield to go after my dreams.
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Everything in your life, write this down and just make peace with this.
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Everything in your life requires stress. And two, because dreams.
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They require a dose of stress.
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They just are. Like, I want to get in great shape. Well, it's going to be stressful
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to get on that treadmill and lift those weights and go hard and restrict your
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carbohydrates, all that, right? When you're looking at your SHIELD,
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you're defending against adversity.
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You're going up the hill and taking care of yourself and protecting yourself
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while you go for all those dreams. And SHIELD stands for, so that's the metaphor
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of it, the acronym is Supplements, Herbs, Imagination,
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exercise, lifestyle, and diet. Six pillars of health build your shield, not the shield.
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Now, the idea is also that you talk with everyone else in the community.
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So I work with people who have IDS, IBD, 95% of diagnosed Crohn's colitis,
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proctitis, microscopic colitis.
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But the really cool thing is they talk to each other about what's working and
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they cherry pick then to their shield.
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So we work with vegans, we work with meat eaters, we work with people who are
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Orthodox Jewish or Muslim or Christian. I'm Christian, right?
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But it doesn't matter. Your religion, your culture, your creed, your eating habits.
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We have testimonies getting people in clinical remission in Africa,
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India, Dubai, all that. So the way it works and why it works is because everyone
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can learn from each other, but it's not church.
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You just cherry pick what works for you. But then you need to,
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and for us, a side note, we do private coaching. We don't do group coaching.
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So everyone gets a private coach to build your personal answer.
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So you get highly trained.
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So then you know how to listen to someone.
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So one of the problems with healing is you hear all people who do all these
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things. Like I did all these things to heal. You're completely overwhelmed.
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You don't know what actually you should do.
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So you've got to get trained what your issues are, what are issues you're focused
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on and learn when to leave something and learn when to take it and build it into your plan.
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So one of the single biggest things that helped me heal, finally get real results,
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is I listened to everyone and I cherry-picked what would work for me because
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I was educated and intuitive enough to understand the purpose of a supplement,
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a herb, a biohacking, a peptide, a diet, a nervous system regulation because
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I had the training behind me to understand its value.
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It's so powerful because a lot of times I, you know, on my social media platform,
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I'll talk about specific supplements that have changed my life.
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But the piece is there's no supplement that is a magic cure.
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It's a piece. And so I love that you specifically talk about that.
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And then it's also figuring out what worked for my life.
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Nervous system regulation. I think a lot of times they say, like,
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go walk on grass and be peaceful and Zen with your whole life. No, that's not it.
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It's to really truly be able to for me it's trusting god yeah and saying,
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i may feel stressed out right now but i'm going to lean on him and surrender
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this piece and i know you and i talked a little bit about this before we hit
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record but truly the act of surrender.
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Is so powerful. And trusting, I am trusting,
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the people who are drawn to this episode today truly needed to hear these pieces
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so that they can understand that you paid a huge cost in your healing.
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Huge. Yes. And I feel like a lot of people could have been in your same situation,
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and it would have destroyed them and they would have adopted,
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and I'm not saying this in a negative way at all, because we all have our own
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journey, but a victim's mindset of why me? How could this happen?
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But you truly had to overcome that. And your story is a story of triumph and,
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God's healing and you're walking right beside him and doing your part.
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Well, and to be quite honest, there was a recipe in that and a part of it to
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give you the truth. I mean, yes, willing to stand up and fight and all that,
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but part of it was also arrogance.
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And stubbornness and self-righteousness.
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I saw a big life for myself. I saw a big life for myself. So when this happened,
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I didn't care about all sorts of class. I just like, no, you're not going to
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imprison me in my twenties.
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I'm 22. I moved to Southern California, got my own place, got in the best shape
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of my life. And now I'm going to get my colon removed and I had a bag on my stomach.
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So a lot of it was just like, there's no way I'm going to let go of my life.
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And so that was then I, as I went through and I suffered more,
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I, that's where I had to really surrender. It's like to heal,
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you have to hold on like a bolt to a bull, but at the same time, surrender to God.
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I didn't get results till I started prayer. I didn't get results until I did
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morning prayer and night prayer. And I put.
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God and healing and faith first. I swear. I mean, I had already done diets,
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spent all this money on supplements, flown to the best doctors.
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I went to all the hospitals, tried conventional medications.
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I did not get results until my heart changed.
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Healing starts in the mind and the heart. You have to get happy before you're going to get healthy.
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And I promise it's like a, it's like a perfect.
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It's like God made the notes. You've got to put the notes in order for the Mozart
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symphony and it's not going to sound good until you spiritually heal.
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Because when you do that, your nerve, and then if you look at the science, right?
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We understand faith. If you look at the science of that, your nervous system
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is going to get into the parasympathetic. You're going to sleep better.
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You're going to let go of what you have to prove in society and where you have to be.
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What was holding me back is I felt like I needed to drink alcohol to be cool
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and go on dates and go out on a Friday night till two in the morning because I was 22 years old.
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I was coming out of college. I was trying to date. I was trying to be a cool guy, right?
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Oh, I know. I got this is my chance. I got to build my career.
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I got to work 60 hours a week. I was in that rah, rah, rah capitalism mentality.
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I had to put my faith in something different and I had to get happy.
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I don't know how many 22 year olds know, you know, who took care of 50 plants
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a day and went outside and did meditation and read for three or four hours and
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went to bed at nine o'clock because that wasn't me.
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So what gave me? Those are all things that changed, but my heart changed that
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allowed me to walk on that journey. That's what I don't think people get about
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God. It's, you don't, it all, God made this world. He made the truce. He made success.
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He understands it. He's the one who built it.
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So when you follow and you really learn what we're saying there, the symphony goes out.
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I don't need alcohol. I don't need fake food that wasn't made by God.
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What are you eating? Everything you eat that wasn't made by God.
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Science keeps showing us that it's bad for us. Eat God's food from the earth.
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Like, I don't even do diets. I teach something called food philosophy.
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I teach people how to eat God's food and then prepare it in the way God made.
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Fermentation is God's design.
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Right, right. Right? Like sprouting and fermenting or germinating or,
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you know, broccoli sprouts, one of my favorite types of vegetables to eat,
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has 100 times the sulforaphane phytochemical that's anti-cancer,
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than a mature piece of broccoli that's cooked.
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So are these all things that people would learn in your SHIELD program?
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Yeah. Well, in the SHIELD program, it's not just like this hidden gem of a thing.
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We have the SHIELD program. We have 12 other micro courses of like,
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hey, this is just for IBD with parents.
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Hey, this is just on rectal insufflation or ozone. Hey, this is just on peptides.
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Hey, this is just on hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
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So we're always learning and growing. It's like, it's a healing home.
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It's a digital healing home with thousands of people talking to each other,
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asking me to, and my job is just to research, educate and learn.
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But I wanna get back to serving, what can people do with this?
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So when you're looking at this and where do you start.
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Build your own shield. What's your daily blueprint? Start thinking about what
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the rest of your life is going to be, what's going to overwhelm you.
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Start with what your best day looks like.
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When you wake up, you know your best thing for the morning routine?
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What makes you, again, the parasympathetic, what makes you laugh,
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happy, calms your spirit down, then what hydrates you and moves your bowels?
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So an example for your daily blueprint, I'll give you an example daily blueprint
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that I do. How about that? I think that's one of the best things people could
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hear right now. Like, dang, give me some hard evidence. Give me something. Okay.
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Okay, I'm gonna wake up. And I try not to wake up with an alarm.
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And I've worked it so I go to bed early enough that I wake up at six naturally.
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And six is usually a good time. I don't want my nervous system to start with
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a like, I know some of us have to do it. I used to do it. I just worked it out of my system, okay?
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So that, I'm gonna wake up. I'm going to have 24 ounces of hot water.
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I don't drink cold water. I drink room temp or hot water only.
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It's more bioavailable. It moves the liver better. Your cells can use it better.
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I don't drink out of plastic.
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Unless I'm at an airport sometimes a little bit, but I really don't.
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I'm going to put a little lemon juice in there. I put a little apple cider vinegar
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because it enhances my digestion.
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Remember my five physiological imbalances? Number one was digestion.
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Low stomach acid is one of the core problems with IBD that I can tend to run
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into. When I get stressed, my stomach acid will go low, my pancreatic function
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is low, and I'm going to have problems.
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So a little bit of bitters, apple cider vinegar can really help.
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Sometimes I'll put a slice of ginger in there.
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I drink that all down and then I'll take some supplements with it. I like to take curcumin.
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I like to take something called GR revive. That's got a little glutamine,
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slippery elm, marshmallow root, mucosal healing agents. It's like my natural
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mesalamine. If If anyone understands IBD, that's a 5-SA anti-inflammatory stomach
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coder, but I do everything natural.
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So I just keep that in because it feels good. My body feels great.
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And then, you know, and that's a lot of, and then I'm usually my,
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one of my favorite things to help my liver. I take TUDCA, T-U-D-C-A.
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Okay. It's a natural bile salt that helps to activate bile flow in the liver.
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Stagnant bile is one of the core problems with every single autoimmune disease on the planet, okay?
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Wow, okay. But bile is how your liver transports toxins.
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If you have stagnant bile, you can't break down fats. You can't absorb your
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fat-soluble vitamins, which means you can't make proper hormones because remember,
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fats create cholesterol, which creates balanced hormones.
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Microbiome balance helps create 95% of your serotonin.
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You want to feel good, get a microbiome imbalance and get your liver moving
33:46
and your brain fog will go away. Your headaches will get better and your bowel
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movements will move because if you have poor bile, bile moves bowel movements too.
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So if you, bile, you need bile to move through the entire small intestine and
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then get reabsorbed down towards the ileum. Okay, that's the lowest part of the small intestine.
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And that's going to help all those bowel movements come through properly.
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And you're going to release all those mycotoxins and those heavy metals and things like that. Okay.
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So I want my liver to move. I want to get absorption in the morning.
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I need water. And I want new things that calms down the gut lining and helps
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restore the villi because of my severe background with IBD.
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So everything I do makes sense. It's simple.
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And it takes two seconds to do. It was hard to understand, but easy to execute.
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That is how you do it. So powerful. Now, what was that supplement you said again
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for the last one you said?
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Tudka, T-U-D-C-A.
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Such a great product. I remember I was on the Ben Greenfield podcast a little
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while ago and I introduced him to Tudka. This was probably like two years ago.
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And he was like, what the heck is that? I'm like, you got to know Tudka.
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Tudka is a moderate to advanced product. So when you get trained properly,
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you need to be trained on solving supplements. There are things that are good
34:54
for you, but not right now. So metaphorically, one thing, if you're gonna get
34:57
great results, you have to understand this.
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Healing is like physical therapy. If I tore my knee or blew out my knee,
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everyone can imagine and understand if I do jump rope in the two weeks in on
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physical therapy, my knee is going to get worse. I'm going to get more inflammation.
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It's going to set me back.
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But if I had done jump rope in my physical therapy journey around step three
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on day 90, after doing step one and step two properly, it would have been therapeutic
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healing and probably would have got me closer to being able to go on a run or
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get on the basketball court again. Does that make sense?
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Yes. So what you do in your healing response, it has a paradigm and what same
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person, same disease, same root cause. It can cause an inflammatory negative
35:36
reaction, but done properly can be healing and get you past that ceiling of your healing.
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Same thing. Okay. So you have to understand that there are layers to healing
35:47
and you have to do it in the right manner.
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Tudka is more like a phase two, phase three, depending on your liver health,
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your biohealth, or how sick you are and how long you've been sick.
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If you start with that and you're not right, you're going to feel worse.
35:59
That's where you need to be trained. So whenever I listen to a podcast,
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whenever I read a book, I have the foundational training to assess whatever
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it is they're saying and what it will do in my body and what category I want it to fix.
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My physiological, pathogenic, okay? Toxic load, right? Or epigenetics.
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Does that make sense? So, right? So I do that. I got all that water.
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Then I usually don't have, now I love a morning smoothie.
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Now, sometimes I'll have a breakfast And like, for example, I'll have four or
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five pasture-raised eggs, maybe from the Amish.
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Then I'll have a homemade yogurt with berries and sprouted nuts,
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okay? Sprouted walnuts, pecans, and pumpkin seeds are my favorite.
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Sprouted makes them more bioavailable. What does sprouted mean?
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It means you soak a seed in water and it releases the plant defenses that allow
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your small intestine to use all those powerful phytonutrients in the seed at a cellular level.
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The key to nutrients is not always just clean food, but then it's bioavailable food, okay?
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Bioavailable. So if you have an injured gut, you can take the perfect food,
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it's still not bioavailable.
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So there's two ends of that spectrum. You gotta make, you gotta optimize your
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digestion, your microbiome, your gut lining, and then you gotta optimize the
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food and how it's bioavailable, okay?
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So then that's an example of breakfast I might have. I'll do like a homemade
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yogurt, either with like Electro-Bacillus bulgaricus or L-ruderai.
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I'll use an A2 cow or I'll use goat.
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And then I might have a shake. Now, my favorite greens, I do sun chlorella.
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I do sprouted broccoli sprouts, a key hack with vegetables. I don't want to
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look at some vegetables then.
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Chlorella is a supplement, but it's a food.
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It's a superfood. So there's a great, I listen to everyone, right?
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There's great research on the problem with synthetic supplements versus real
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foods. We've all like, yeah, totally.
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One of the best hacks for that, I believe in the world, is chlorella,
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sun chlorella on Amazon.
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The sun makes all the nutrients bioavailable. Chlorella is an allergy,
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allergy, algae that has natural, real, God-made sources, B-complex,
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complete amino acid profile, iron,
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fat-soluble vitamins, ADKE, and it's one of the highest sources of chlorophyll,
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which is the plant blood that is massively powerful for your mitochondria energy,
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your hemoglobin, oxygenating the bloodstream.
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And anti-inflammatory. It's like one nature's best blood cleaner.
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I was like, I think you just took
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like five supplements on my bathroom counter and just put them in one.
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In a real God-made food. Right, right.
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The amount of vitamin D, it's not a lot, right? So yes, I still take a vitamin
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D with K2, 10,000, even 20,000 I use sometimes on and off. I live in Southern
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California, so I get a lot of natural sun, right? All the things.
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So I've just built, these are examples. Now, I'll put sun clorella.
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Broccoli sprouts have the most clinical research to have that sulforaphane,
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extremely good for you. All methylfolate, all this good stuff in broccoli sprouts.
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Then I'll put an, I do unsweetened hydrolyzed beef protein, okay?
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So I don't do natural sweeteners. I only do, or I'm sorry, fake artificial sweeteners,
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only natural sweeteners.
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Then I use like just ingredients, fruit punch electrolytes because it's sweetened
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with organic dried strawberry.
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So my shake is sweetened with organic dried strawberries.
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I don't use any artificial chocolate and I don't use, I don't even stevia like there's just a lot of.
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Up and down evidence on some of those sweeteners so I just go with organic dried strawberries,
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and then I'll put in there acacia fiber, sprouted flax and chia,
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I get over 40 grams of fiber when I was chronically sick I couldn't handle hard
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DNA fiber so the first diet I ever used was AIP carnivore but now I eat a.
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Lot of polyphenols, resistant starches, antioxidants, prebiotic fibers,
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insoluble, soluble fibers, all of that, right?
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So I've taken this idea, and I want you to hear me on this, guys.
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I've taken this idea of restrictive eating because I've got an autoimmune disease.
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I've fixed it, and I've gotten on the offensive food to eat food for longevity.
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So now I eat not for IBD, I eat for longevity. I eat for optimal bowel health.
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And because it's like, remember, I go back to the jump rope or the running?
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I'm on phase four or five of the physical therapy that now I'm getting my knee,
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quote unquote, metaphorically, stronger than it ever was before the ACL tear. Wow.
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You get it? So diagnosed with purpose. I took the worst thing that ever happened
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to me, and then I went beyond what it was before I ever got sick.
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That's what you want to do. You want to get on the offensive heating.
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So there's the defense and offense.
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Defense i'm going to stop inflammation and to get my body calm offense i'm going
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to make myself healthier than the healthy right,
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you get it so that's the exploration that's what gets me excited that's what
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i pay for now is to meet with specialists around the world on infinite matters
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to optimize my health on an offensive way i don't stay on my heels i stay on
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my tippy toes and i move forward,
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right i'm never so it's like fitness same thing you know it's like i'm getting into.
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Like more functional movement instead of isolated fitness, right?
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It's just, you just learn and grow.
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So an example, and then I try not the snack. Mostly I drink water.
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I might have teas and then dinner. I might have like wild caught salmon.
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I try to eat salmon more often, more fish.
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If you read about longevity, you're going to read that most of the blue zones
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eat a lot of fish as one of their main protein sources, clean different varieties
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of fish. You don't get all the heavy metals and mercury and all this.
41:38
So I might do wild caught Alaskan salmon, or I might do Atlantic sockeye salmon,
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or I might do halibut or yellowtail, or I might do sardines,
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mackerel, and then I'll have grass-fed beef infused with organ meat.
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Okay. From the Amish. I love this. I feel like this is a life hack.
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Buy your food from the Amish.
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Yeah, and that's just once in a while. And everyone's like, where is that?
42:04
You'd have to just kind of get lucky on that and figure it out.
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But the Amish, you know, they live in Pennsylvania and, you know, you do what you do there.
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But so that's an example I just gave everybody of, okay, you know,
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and I also have a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in my house.
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I have an infrared sauna. I built a home gym. I chose to live in Southern California
42:20
because I get perfect weather year-round, which I can get outside.
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I've got three kids, and we eat about 85% of our meals are home-cooked.
42:29
We can afford to go to restaurants. We just do it every once in a while because
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we just don't feel as good.
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We're happier this way. It's just I've gone through the divorce of Western world.
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Yeah. I can drink alcohol.
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I did for a lot of years. I would have a glasses of wine from Dry Farms Wine
42:46
that keeps you in ketosis, that's low PPMs. I just got to a point where I just
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felt like I wanted to lead and I just don't need it.
42:52
I just don't want it. I can have it. So that's another thing I want you to do.
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I want you to get to a point where it's not because you have to,
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it's because you want to. It's not out of fear, it's out of desire.
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Yeah. When those come true for the way you live, I promise you,
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it's like the heavens will open.
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You will have divorced the shackles of a fake life, of fake world and fake food.
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And fake experience. You're not actually having fun. You're drunk.
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You're not actually interested in him. You're drunk. You're high.
43:24
Right. The music wasn't as good as you thought because you couldn't dance that way sober.
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So powerful. I am just, I am so thankful you were on the episode today.
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So, I mean, I have a list of notes myself.
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And so if you're listening to this episode and you want more information,
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you want to learn from Dane directly, how can people connect with you?
43:50
Yeah, you can connect with Instagram. We're on Instagram. I'm DaneJohnson1,
43:55
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Crohn's, C-R-O-H-N-S, Colitis Lifestyle. We're all over. You can find us.
44:02
You can Google us or find us on YouTube or Instagram or wherever.
44:07
And if you need help and you have IBD, IBS, if you've ever got out of the shoes,
44:13
we do offer a free IBD strategy session to discuss your case and your needs
44:18
and there's no cost, no gimmicks, no hassle.
44:21
Anyone we work with, we just want to make sure we have trust and integrity and
44:23
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44:27
show we have the best results in the world and I'd put mine up against anyone's
44:30
out here in the IBD consulting world. So we're very proud of what we do.
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Well, thank you so much and you can find all of his information in the show
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notes for today's episode.
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Dane, thank you so much for being on the show today. Thank you so much for having me. God bless, guys.
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Friend, I am so thankful that you are here today. I pray this episode blessed you big time.
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That's where I show up every single day and send me a DM. I would love to connect
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