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In Any Crisis There is Opportunity, Always Have Hope with Deanna Won · Authentic Living

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  Welcome to authentic living with Roxanne, a place where we have as conversations about
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  things that really matter in our lives.
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  And now here's your host, Roxanne Derhodge.
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  Hi, everyone.
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  It's Roxanne Durgesh.
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  I'm authentically being with Roxanne.
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  Thanks for tuning in again this week.
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  Today, I have a long, long time friend and colleague, Diana Wong with us.
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  Diana, how are you?
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  I'm doing well, Roxanne.
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  Thank you so much for having me on your show today.
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  So Deanna, has been on the show, and I'm go goodness.
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  It's been probably almost a year ago now.
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  And, I I even back then, we had said that we would try to have her back on.
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  And, so finally, with her busy schedule, my busy schedule, we were able to get this time
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  today.
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  So previously, now Diana's story is one of, a very fascinating story, and I'd like her to
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  kind of share a bit about that again.
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  But her expertise, I would say, and what she speaks on is around the element of recur re
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  recovering from cancer we thought we would talk today a little bit about the implication on,
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  stress and how that impacts the body and also nutrition because she I remember sitting next
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  to her.
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  I don't even know if she remembers this, when we went to Philadelphia, and she every day, she
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  had this jug green stuff.
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  That's all I remember.
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  You know, I was maybe having a coffee, and she was having this green stuff.
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  And I remember saying, what is that?
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  And she goes, that's that's that's nutrition.
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  So, hopefully, she'll be able to share a bit about that.
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  So, Deanna, thanks a thanks a lot for being back.
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  So, Tell me a little tell them a little bit about the story and kind of, you know, where
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  this kind of plays into where you are to now and what you've been up to?
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  Sure.
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  Well, I was working as a a physicist in the Air Force, and my my last assignment I was actually
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  in charge of the biological defense programs for the Pentagon and That's when I actually got
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  diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
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  And, my condition basically deteriorated to the point where I ended up in hospice with, 2
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  collapsed lungs that were filled with fluid, and I was given 4 weeks to live.
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  And, I am just very grateful because, you know, that was about 9 years ago when I got diagnosed
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  and, I never had chemotherapy or radiation.
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  I really give God thanks, for allowing me to really have the miracle in recovery.
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  But along with that, I learned so much, you know, about being proactive you know, for your
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  health.
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  I learned about the importance of diet and nutrition, about the, emotional aspects of
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  healing, you know, resolving conflicts, traumas.
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  I also learned about just you know, the the fact that we are spirits having a human
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  experience, at least that's what I truly believe, the importance of developing that
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  spirituality and faith because it can be a source of wisdom to tap into.
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  And and that was certainly what I saw in my own journey.
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  There were times when you know, doctors were really pressuring me to do chemotherapy and you
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  know, at a at a point of time when I thought it was really critical.
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  I mean, my life was literally in a balance.
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  You know, I actually prayed and said, god, if you want me to do the chemo, I will, but, you
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  know, just with my background in the military, I I just kind of understood just the impact it
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  would have on my, healthy cells and immune system.
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  And so what I heard back was asked for the cytology report and What's interesting is back
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  then, I I did not know what this even meant, the word Cytology report, but they had just,
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  you know, drawn out all this fluid out of my abdomen and they were going to analyze it, for
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  cancer cells.
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  And when I initially asked my oncologist for that, he said to me, no, you know, a 100% at
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  it's going to be malignant and, you you've gotta do the chemo, but I push back because of
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  what I heard and, he finally agreed 2 days later, he came back to me and told me that, it
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  it was good that, you know, that I had these instincts because he said that it came back,
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  negative for cancer cells, which actually opened the opportunity, you know, for me to
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  have surgery and you know, I I I shared that because it it it was a point where I feel like
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  I got to the end of even what I could figure out with my own mind, with my, you know, just
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  being analytical as a scientist, I I basically got to a point where I yield it.
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  You know, I realized that I could not figure it all out.
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  And I think that's what opened up the opportunity for me to actually heal because
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  prior to this, you know, they told me that you know, while surgery, was still an option, it
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  would have a low chance of success.
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  And so that's how I just kept getting worse and worse, and, you know, eventually ended up in
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  hospice.
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  And so now, I had the opportunity to to see, you know, take this last ditch effort to to
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  really try to heal and So gen
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  generally, if you had taken the guidance, you know, even as a scientist, they were, you know,
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  generally what what these oncologists would have told you more than likely they were going
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  with what they had seen, but something bigger kinda said to you look at the psychology
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  report.
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  So in in essence, what it directed you to is to take this, have the surgery versus doing the
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  surgery and chemo, or were those the options that were in front of you at that time?
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  It was it was always chemo and surgery.
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  Right.
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  Okay.
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  And, and it it it it was just really I mean, I had many doctors say, tell me that it was
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  really a miracle, that I survived it.
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  Because once they did the surgery, you know, it was confirmed with the pathology.
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  I had a very, you know, rare malignant form of ovarian cancer.
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  But I was able to witness actually tumors to pairing.
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  You know, I had tumor in my lung under my arm.
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  Those were not surgically removed.
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  They disappeared on their own.
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  And so I knew there were other variables, you know, in I actually, you know, that that had
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  contributed to my being able to really recover and survive.
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  And so I I think that there's just a lot that people can do no matter, you know, what kind of
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  crisis, you know, we're facing, and it's important to really be able to tap into that,
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  you know, inner intuition or awareness that sometime it it kinda transcends our minds even.
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  So let's let's so let's go back.
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  So you you had the the or the surgery for the ovarian, cancer.
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  And then, so then you're recovering and you start to do some things that that'll you start
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  to see the impact of other tumors disappearing.
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  Is that is that what you meant?
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  Yes.
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  And and even when I was first diagnose, you know, that's when they they told me there was
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  also, you know, a lung tumor, but but I I saw that disappearing early on.
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  And then even after my surgery, that's when I saw the other tumor in my underarm actually
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  clear up on its own, but that, you know, took a a few years.
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  And so, what that showed me is that some of these natural methods, of, you know, nutrition
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  and, you know, just the the emotional work, all of that.
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  It it does take time.
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  And so, you know, someone would have kind of way, like, you know, do you have the time to
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  try to to do this?
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  And I would say in most cases, you know, like with chronic conditions, You do because it it,
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  you know, for cancer, for example, I mean, it it it takes, you know, probably about 20 years.
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  You know, for the disease actually developed to where you can detect that there's a tumor.
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  And so during this time, there's there's so much you can do and and even after the
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  diagnosis, you know, it's, you know, in my own case, I really feel like you know, when I was
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  told that I had cancer, the oncologist, I think she was very, well meaning, very caring, but I
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  also sensed her fear and and and and she had a sense of urgency.
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  Like, we we've gotta do chemo, like, immediately to shrink the tumor.
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  So let's let's talk a little bit about inflammation because you had shared, and I know
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  your stories of for so for others that maybe haven't listened to the last podcast, For years
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  years, you had been, keeping up levels of activity.
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  I remember sometimes you're talking as a you know, as a physicist, you had sometimes 16, 18
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  hour days.
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  And, obviously, you're quite gifted to to be able to to do what you do, but you you kinda
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  intuitively knew that you were you had said shared that you retired a lot and and, you
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  know, you were consumed obviously with your work.
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  And and you had some of the signs years before.
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  And if you're telling me a tumor takes almost 20 years.
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  That's a long time for, you know, of of your of of getting these messages.
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  Right?
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  So let's talk a little bit about how that might impact the body.
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  Right?
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  Obviously, you are under an immense amount of stress, and you potentially maybe you were
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  ignoring the sides, maybe you were trying some things, but the body was in a state of
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  dysregulation.
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  And what that means is that the body was out of sync.
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  It was out of balance for a long time.
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  So let's talk a little bit about what we know about inflammation and stress and from your
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  perspective, you know, what you've learned since and what kind of some of the things that
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  you applied to help kind of with that with the with the body to potentially impact these
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  tumors going away.
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  Yeah.
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  So I I worked very long hours and What I saw was that, you know, I wasn't getting enough
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  sleep.
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  You know, I'd go to bed later than I thought I should.
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  And I just thought it came with a territory, you know, I I never thought twice about it.
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  And so, you know, feeling tired, not as energetic.
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  That was sort of a a given you know, and I didn't question it.
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  What I've since learned is that you do have to question it.
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  And when you feel even the least bit fatigued, That's your body talking to you.
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  And so, you know, part of what I learned is is just the importance of a circadian rhythm
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  because if you go to bed, you know, like, pass, you know, like, say, 10 o'clock at night, you
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  know, between 10:2, the very critical time, that's when a lot of the hormones, you know,
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  are being released in a body and, you know, their antioxidant in nature and a lot of the
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  healing, the repair begins when we sleep, but if we're awake at that time, and, you know,
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  I've heard people say, well, I still get 8 hours of sleep, but I like to go to bed at 1 in
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  the morning.
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  Well, that's not the same because, you know, you you've not allowed those hormones to be,
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  you know, generated and released.
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  And so when you're resting, it's really not as restful.
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  And so, you know, the the importance of that was really key.
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  I wasn't getting enough sunshine, you know, that's also very key, you know, to expose
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  yourself to morning sunlight, when it's, at sunrise, you know, I wasn't doing that.
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  I was getting to work so early.
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  It was still dark in the morning.
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  By the time I left, it was, you know, 9:30, 10 o'clock at night.
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  Wow.
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  So I was exposed, you know, to artificial lights as well.
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  I've worked in offices with no windows, and, it it took a toll.
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  And so that all creates inflammation.
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  Inflammation is really it's it's the first step in in several stages of disease.
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  Any kind of chronic illness, you know, whether it be arthritis, diabetes, cancer.
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  You know, it always starts with inflammation, and that's really it's it's it occurs when you
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  know, I I I like to talk about pH and all this, you know, we're just looking at the acid
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  alkaline balance in the body.
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  And, you know, and and when I talk about this, I'm not referring to blood pH because the the
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  pH of your blood is has to be between a very narrow window, you know, usually around
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  between, like, 7.35to7.43.
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  If it falls outside of that range, you know, we'll actually die.
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  So our body goes through just a lot of effort to maintain that blood pH.
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  And the way it does that is If if the body becomes too acidic, then what happens?
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  Like, you know, it it will actually draw, you know, what's the, what's the most alkaline
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  place in a body.
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  It's the bones.
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  Right?
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  It's your teeth.
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  And so if your body pH and what I mean by that is really the, you know, just the fluids that
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  are surrounding your cells if if that fluid becomes too acidic, then it's going to pull
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  minerals like calcium all that to try to buffer that acidity.
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  And and so if you think about it, you know, so many people like women, especially, you know,
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  start to get osteoporosis.
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  You know, when they get older.
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  And and see, I don't think that a lot of these conditions are necessarily tied to you know,
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  old age or, you know, middle age or whatever, it's it's really because it's an accumulation
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  over a lifetime.
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  And if this you know, just basic things with with the pH.
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  If it's not been addressed, then this can happen.
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  And the other significant thing about this PH, you know, why it's important, you know, it it
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  it's it's not simply chemistry.
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  So, I I wanna bring in sort of a a biophysics kind of perspective in all this as well.
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  The reason why pH is important is because, you know, our cell membranes, there's a voltage
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  potential voltage difference that allows it's that difference in voltage that allows
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  nutrients to get into the cell, and it also allows toxins to be released from the cells.
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  And so if that voltage drops, okay, then and and because the fluids around the cell becomes
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  too acidic, then the cell's gonna be it's gonna become less permeable.
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  It's, you know, it senses it, and it just becomes kinda harden, if you will.
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  And so pH is really bringing in more electrons to create a higher voltage potential in the
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  cell.
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  And when it drops, That's when the pH shifts towards acidity.
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  Oh, wow.
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  What an what an I couldn't have explained that in a better way.
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  What a simple way to put it, Deanna, because if you look at it like that, so that
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  electromagnetic pulse naturally our body knows what to do with it, but when it's starts to be
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  on an alignment.
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  And if we're seeing 20 years, think about that.
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  You're gonna let in certain toxins that should be kinda going out and your nutrition's not
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  gonna be taking in what it needs.
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  So that that's where we kinda look at that It's like a it's like a almost like a bit of a force
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  field around the cells then.
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  Yes.
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  Yes.
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  It's a force field, not only around the cells, but each organ and we we are energetic
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  beatings.
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  So so frequencies, each organ has its own characteristic frequency that's optimal.
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  And so when you get this drop, you know, even cellular level, it it would trickle up to
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  tissues and then organs when organs don't have the the voltage potential they need to really
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  operate, that's when, you know, you start getting diseases.
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  You know, other organs may compensate, but, you know, if it's over the span of 10, 20, 30
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  years, the body can only compensate so much.
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  And and that's the the other thing that I wanna bring in that's kind of interesting is that
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  part of, you know, you know, we started off talking about inflammation.
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  Part of what triggers inflammation in today's age that a lot of people may not even think
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  about is cell phone towers and and Wi Fi radiation that that is a non native or man made
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  electromagnetic field.
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  And it's not compatible with our biological electrical fields, electric magnetic fields.
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  And, and so that exposure And see, that was my background, you know, working as a physicist.
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  I was exposed to a lot of these different, you know, electromagnetic fields.
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  And I really believe that that was one of the contributing factors to my getting cancer, but
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  that creates inflammation as well in the cells.
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  It also creates this oxidative stress because, there's a researcher named, Doctor Martin Paul
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  a PhD who basically has, identified that these non native electromagnetic fields actually
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  disrupts the voltage gated calcium channel ions.
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  And so what that means is that you know, usually calcium remains outside of the cells,
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  but when you're exposed to these, you know, non native electromagnetic fields, it actually
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  causes an efflux of these calcium ions into the cells.
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  And so if you think, you know, just you know, physiologically, what that means is, you know,
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  that's going to create, you know, like muscle spasms and all that on on a, you know, kind of
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  a anatomical level, but at at a cellular level, this this just massive influx of of calcium
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  ions can affect your heart.
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  You know, it, I mean, it's just really massive, but it creates this oxidative damage.
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  And, you know, that's really, you know, to break that down, it's, you know, a free radical
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  when that comes in, basically, what that is is it's like a molecule that's basically you know,
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  missing a a paired electron.
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  And so it's going to seek out, an, you know, an electron, and usually that comes at the cost of
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  you know, the the molecules that are in your body.
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  And so that there's this whole cycle, that that happens And the end result of that oxidative
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  damage is that these, non native electromagnetic fields can actually cause,
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  single and double stranded DNA breaks.
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  Wow.
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  So so think about it.
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  I mean, people are more attached to their cell phones than their family members jokingly.
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  You know what I mean?
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  We're all walking around with one of these.
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  So what what should we do?
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  Because if we're saying that, you know, the magnetic fields that basically these these,
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  cell phones work on, we're constantly around them now.
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  So are there things that you would suggest?
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  Because, I mean, obviously, it's part of how our society runs now.
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  So if that's the case and it has that oxidative element to stress on our bodies, what are some
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  things that we could potentially do?
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  Well, I'll share with you some of the things I've done for myself, which is, one of the
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  things I did was to first get rid of my home cordless phone.
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  And I switched back to the old fashioned landlines, you know, with a little curly coil.
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  I also got rid of my Wi Fi modem.
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  I bought my own modem that is non transmitting, and so I've directly hardwired with ethernet
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  cable, to my laptop, and I turned off the wifi, you know, on my laptop.
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  The other thing is my cell phone is always on airplane mode.
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  You know, it's it's It's it's just not on anymore because, I I can actually sense.
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  I can feel, pain pretty much immediately when I turn the phones on.
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  And the other thing is, you know, there's there's smart meters, which is the, you know,
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  either elect or gas utility meters on your house.
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  They used to be analog.
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  You know, people used to come out once a month to see your usage and they have since, convert
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  it to the smart meters that basically transmit.
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  Well, it it doesn't just transmit once a month, it transmits, you know, many times a day.
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  I mean, probably every minute or or even less, It's transmitting.
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  And so our bodies are are just getting bombarded with this.
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  And so in your immediate surrounding, you know, where you can turn things off, you know, like,
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  I I don't have my printer on anymore because, you know, that that's also Wi Fi.
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  So, I only turn it on if I, you know, have to print and I try to just connect really with a a
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  direct cable.
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  So any electronics, basically, you're saying that's where the signal is virtual should be
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  shut off as much as possible.
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  Yes.
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  And when and when you're sleeping at night too, even the electrical wiring in our walls, you
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  know, that that's at either 50 or 60 hertz.
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  Which is 50 or 60 cycles per second, and it can radiate out from the wall several feet.
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  And so, you know, just think about it.
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  You know, most people have their head near the wall, you know, the headboard of the bed.
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  And, you know, that's that's another source of, you know, just creates massive damage.
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  And And
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  you see, and these are things that, I mean, I'm I'm listening to you, and I'm like, wow.
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  Like, you know, so as much as we can then to minimize that, do some of the things you're
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  suggesting to to gain because of that element that we're our body, like you said, that
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  whatever you called it is trying to find a spot to connect on an, an energy plane and and
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  that's where the oxidative stress would get to.
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  So as much as we can because we are surrounded.
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  Mhmm.
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  Obviously, unfortunately, by these, you know, satellites or those, you know, those types of
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  things.
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  Obviously, we we have no control.
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  So let's let's then show that something that ever increasing something for people to to,
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  think about and maybe start to think about making some changes.
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  We'll we'll try to, if you could provide that link for that researcher, we would provide that
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  resource for him too.
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  So let's talk a little bit now about the element of now we know that we have to create
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  that balance of alkalinity around the cells and and how nutrition plays into that.
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  Now I I know the average person knows a lot about things, but really let's talk about what
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  you you powered up with a lot of things that you must have been doing with your nutrition to
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  get the outside or wherever that casing was more on the more more almost like a super cell
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  to to get into your system to start it to decrease or have these tumors disappear.
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  So tell us a little bit about the element or your philosophy or nutrition.
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  And, and then some basics that we need to know or even maybe somebody that's struggling, with
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  different disorders, what kind of things they might wanna do more of.
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  Right.
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  And so, yeah, I radically changed my diet prior to getting my diagnosis, I pretty much ate
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  everything.
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  And once I got that diagnosis, it was pretty immediate.
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  I basically switch to an organic raw vegan diet.
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  And so I massively increased the amount of vegetables.
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  Sprouts.
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  And I also ate them mostly raw because, when you cook something, that actually, destroys the
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  the enzymes that are in these plants.
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  And if you think about it, you know, we're living beings, we we actually, you know, our
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  bodies operate off of enzymes for basically every function in a body almost.
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  And so, we really need these enzymes.
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  So, you know, temperature is really important because if you think about, you know, if we get
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  a fever you know, and it's like at about a 105 degrees, that's when it becomes kind of
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  dangerous because that's actually when our you know, enzymes in our own bodies begin to
• 26:58
  denature.
• 26:59
  They fold, and so things don't, you know, work right anymore in a body.
• 27:03
  And so So this 105 degrees is kind of important.
• 27:06
  That's where it all starts.
• 27:09
  But by 118 degrees Fahrenheit, that's really when you get a total just to struck of these
• 27:14
  enzymes.
• 27:15
  And so I I made that switch.
• 27:18
  I also added a lot of green juices, you know, like all those green drinks.
• 27:22
  You saw me drinking at the conference.
• 27:26
  And the reason why is that It's interesting.
• 27:29
  These vegetables and green juices that they're really higher, much higher in alkalinity.
• 27:35
  And so it's actually bringing in, and this is just the really beautiful thing.
• 27:41
  When you think about how nature works, you know, these plants are outside in the sun, and
• 27:46
  they have chlorophyll, you know, in in their leaves, which basically, receive sunlight and
• 27:54
  and it's the photons coming off of the sun.
• 27:57
  And and so it's really when we consume plants or, you know, juices, you're in essence,
• 28:05
  bringing in more, electrons into your body.
• 28:11
  So that is how that shifts the pH.
• 28:14
  You know, I can, you know, if I, you know, measure my pH, you know, and and people can do
• 28:21
  this.
• 28:21
  You know, you can buy these pH strips and you can either test your your saliva or your urine.
• 28:28
  And you can just take a look at it.
• 28:29
  You know, it's important to look like first thing in the morning after you slept all night
• 28:33
  and there's, you know, you kind of see what the metabolic waste that your body has kind of gone
• 28:38
  through to, you know, repair itself.
• 28:41
  If it's, you know, like, you want it somewhere maybe around 6.7 or so 6.75 on a pH scale.
• 28:49
  If it's lower, like, 5 or 4, that, you know, you're highly acidic.
• 28:53
  But if you drink some green juice, then you measure it again, you're gonna see it shift.
• 28:58
  It's gonna bring it into, like, 7 It's
• 29:00
  that it's that immediate.
• 29:02
  It's I wouldn't say it's immediate.
• 29:03
  I would say within maybe, like, I don't know, 45 minutes an hour.
• 29:09
  Wow.
• 29:09
  You can really see a shift.
• 29:12
  And so so that's why I think it's really important.
• 29:16
  You you really wanna shift that the the inner milieu or the environment of of your body.
• 29:24
  You know, you know, like right now with with all that's going on, you know, with this
• 29:28
  coronavirus everyone's really, concerned about microbes and bacteria and viruses.
• 29:35
  But the truth of it is, you know, our bodies actually have so much more bacteria.
• 29:41
  We're we're more we have more bacterial cells than we have, human cells.
• 29:47
  Which is, you know, and so but but they don't become pathogenic until the terrain kind of
• 29:54
  warrants them, you know, shifting towards becoming more pathogenic.
• 29:59
  You know, until that point, I mean, we're we're living pretty much symbiotically you know, with
• 30:04
  each other.
• 30:05
  I mean, and they provide a lot of useful functions.
• 30:07
  They help us to, you know, make vitamins, that we need.
• 30:12
  And so you know, it it's it's not like this, you know, I I feel like sometimes we have
• 30:18
  almost like this, kind of a war like mentality towards these, you know, tiny microbes.
• 30:27
  And and really, it's if we take care of the terrain of our bodies, then you know, it it
• 30:32
  will provide less opportunity for, you know, some sort of disease process to start.
• 30:37
  And we really if you're talking about a lot of you know, vegetables.
• 30:42
  You're talking vegetables, fruits, you know, eating as much raw as possible.
• 30:47
  Some people are probably freaking out thinking, oh my god, vegan.
• 30:51
  That's hard to go.
• 30:53
  You know, so is is meat something that you got away from for a reason?
• 30:59
  Or is it something that if, let's say, if you if you have grass fed, meets that that's also a
• 31:07
  viable option, like between the two.
• 31:10
  Yeah.
• 31:10
  I I got away from meats.
• 31:12
  And initially, I mean, I was terrified.
• 31:14
  I, you know, I was brought up like everyone else that, oh, you need to eat meat for pro
• 31:18
  teen, you need to drink milk for, you know, building healthy teeth and bones.
• 31:23
  But I was not ever what I would consider super healthy you know, eating all that, even as a
• 31:28
  child.
• 31:29
  And what I noticed is that as soon as I switched made that switching my diet, a lot of
• 31:36
  the issues I had even as a child, you know, like I used to get multiple canca sores in my
• 31:40
  mouth, like, by the twenties thirties.
• 31:43
  You know, as a little child.
• 31:44
  And I mean, it would be so hard for me to eat because it was just too painful.
• 31:50
  But And I had seen all these doctors.
• 31:53
  They couldn't help me.
• 31:54
  You know, I I I saw oral, you know, pathologists, dentists, doctors, they would
• 32:00
  just give me, pain killers to numb the pain.
• 32:03
  But when I made that switch, I was really shocked.
• 32:06
  I wasn't expecting that to happen, but I don't get those anymore.
• 32:12
  And and so the thing with the meat is that meats can create excess acidity in a body
• 32:19
  because if you think about it, it's it's really hard for the body to actually break down meat
• 32:24
  in in the digestive process.
• 32:26
  You're gonna have to actually increase, you know, your stomach acid and all that to to
• 32:31
  break it down and meets the time for the digestive process is a lot longer, you know,
• 32:38
  usually on the order of 72 hours versus, you know, the normal 24 hours.
• 32:44
  You know, for other, you know, like vegetables, for example.
• 32:47
  And so, you know, if your digestive system is not optimal and it takes you know, on the order
• 32:54
  of days to break it down, just think about it.
• 32:57
  You have meat that's at 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, you know, the temperature of your
• 33:02
  body.
• 33:03
  You know, what's going to happen?
• 33:04
  There's there's going to be a rotting of fermentation going on within your body that
• 33:09
  releases all this toxic, you know, you know, elements.
• 33:15
  And if your body is not able to really get rid of it, it accumulates and, that can also be the
• 33:22
  start of this inflammatory process.
• 33:28
  And then milk, you know, that it's kind of interesting is just so counterintuitive because
• 33:35
  milk also increases the acidity in your body.
• 33:37
  And so, actually, it does not help your bones and teeth because when you create that acidity,
• 33:43
  it's going to leach, you know, calcium out of your your bones.
• 33:48
  Out of your bones.
• 33:49
  So here it is, like, you know, you've always heard that you need, you know, and I grew up in
• 33:54
  Trinidad where milk was not as big, but I came to North American.
• 33:57
  Everybody drank milk.
• 33:58
  And I'm like, I just never took to it because I grew up, but I drank drank a little bit, but
• 34:03
  not a lot.
• 34:04
  And, you know, so that you'd always hear that.
• 34:07
  You know, you need this for your bones and your teeth.
• 34:09
  So the fact that you're saying that it actually seeps out the calcium is is something that
• 34:15
  maybe the average person, if they're not knowledgeable, about, the nutritional elements
• 34:22
  they would know something like this.
• 34:24
  Yes.
• 34:24
  And, it's it's really kind of interesting because when you look at the countries that
• 34:29
  have, like, the highest rate of needing a hip replacement surgery.
• 34:35
  Those are actually the countries that drink a high level of dairy.
• 34:41
  You don't see hip replacement surgeries like in some of these Asian countries where, you know,
• 34:46
  they don't drink milk or eat cheese.
• 34:51
  Right.
• 34:51
  Right.
• 34:52
  And then the other thing about it, that's interesting that I learned, you know, from
• 34:56
  having cancer is that, you know, Milk is really what, you know, like, like, the mother cow uses
• 35:04
  to feed the baby cow to, you know, the calf to grow up into you know, a full adult sized cow.
• 35:12
  So the hormones are optimized for that.
• 35:15
  There's growth hormones.
• 35:17
  You know, Casey in in, you know, these certain percentages that are really not fit for, you
• 35:24
  know, human consumption you know, we need breast milk from our mothers, not not from
• 35:30
  another species.
• 35:32
  And so this casing protein there have been studies that show that that's been linked to
• 35:37
  cancer growth and metastases as well.
• 35:41
  So, yeah.
• 35:42
  So all this ready, you know, This is all good information for people to take it in.
• 35:48
  You know, so any you know, I often say you know, any shifts, like like you said, with some
• 35:54
  of the information that you're sharing could potentially help you kind of get a hold of some
• 35:59
  of the the potential, acidity that you're putting into your system.
• 36:04
  Now let's talk about stress and kinda, you know, how that kinda compiles things.
• 36:11
  We've talked a little bit about us being electrical beings and some of those things we
• 36:17
  talk a little bit about malnutrition and and obviously, I think sometimes just more
• 36:23
  information about nutrition is helpful.
• 36:25
  I think Sometimes there's so much information that people don't know which way to to go.
• 36:29
  So thanks for sharing, what you've shared.
• 36:32
  So let's let's now talk a little bit about stress or, you know, us ignoring kind of the
• 36:40
  signs of the signals that our body and our our our brain and our mind gives us an and what you
• 36:45
  kind of also learned in your path around that and how that also impacts, the system, overall.
• 36:53
  Right.
• 36:54
  So so stress, you know, and and stress is like if we look at it from an energetic kind of
• 37:02
  perspective, you know, with these electromagnetic stress creates frequencies in
• 37:08
  our bodies that are not coherent.
• 37:12
  They're they're dissonant.
• 37:14
  And so what happens energetically is that this these distant frequencies that don't support
• 37:22
  biological health are present in our field.
• 37:26
  And then that actually generates you know, chemicals.
• 37:31
  So, you know, and, you know, I'll just give a more concrete example.
• 37:36
  I mean, if if someone is stressed out you know, let's say with with this, pandemic, they're
• 37:42
  they're they're afraid.
• 37:43
  You know, they don't wanna contract it or, you know, it's stressful you know, being locked in
• 37:48
  and we don't know, you know, how long we're going to be locked in and, you know, life will
• 37:53
  it ever be the same.
• 37:54
  And so there's all these fears and, you know, fear creates this whole biochemical cascade in
• 38:02
  the body, you know, first, you know, the cortisol levels are gonna you know, your your
• 38:06
  adrenals are gonna start pumping out that because it it it senses that, hey, you know,
• 38:12
  there's something that, can threaten is threatening And, you know, the response, you
• 38:17
  know, usually is is fight flight or freeze, but in that cortisol is upregulated.
• 38:23
  And so what happens is you know, that creates a hormonal imbalance.
• 38:28
  And, and and so these are these can all lead to you know, once again, the whole inflammatory
• 38:34
  process.
• 38:36
  And so, you know, and and Candice Purt, you know, she she wrote a book, you know, called
• 38:41
  molecules of emotion, kind of showing this really direct link between our emotions and,
• 38:48
  you know, the the the chemistry, what what happens chemically in our body when we're
• 38:53
  feeling these emotions, and there's so many scientists that are, you know, I think doing
• 38:59
  really good research nowadays just with, looking at frequencies, the effect of, you
• 39:05
  know, if we were to instead think, you know, like through a crisis when something's
• 39:10
  happening, that the normal default, I think, is usually fear, but can we in instead shift
• 39:16
  towards looking at, the crisis through a lens of love?
• 39:21
  Versus fear.
• 39:23
  Mhmm.
• 39:24
  You know, and so with my, when I had cancer, I I kinda said, well, you know, rather than
• 39:30
  taking the, you know, like the war and cancer mentality and we have to, you know, poison the
• 39:36
  cancer out of the body, you know, with chemotherapy, I kind of asked myself the
• 39:41
  question, can I embrace this cancer for what it's going to show me you know, the lessons
• 39:49
  that I can learn from this?
• 39:50
  This gives me an opportunity to really change my life And so that's the same thing now with
• 39:57
  this crisis, you know, we're locked at home, but, you know, looking at the bright side of
• 40:04
  it, you know, how is, you know, and and, you know, maybe some people really have to search.
• 40:09
  You know, I know that people's livelihoods, are kind of at stake.
• 40:15
  But there's always a silver lining to to look at no matter how bleak the situation is.
• 40:23
  And if you can make that shift and say this is happening for my good to help me.
• 40:28
  There's something I'm supposed to learn to help shape and mold me, my character, or or maybe,
• 40:34
  you know, these habits that I had that were really bad that was destructive to me.
• 40:39
  I have an opportunity now to change that and become healthier.
• 40:44
  And when you can make that shift, then the frequencies and and they've been able to, you
• 40:49
  know, the the sciences from Japan, Masuno.
• 40:55
  Yes.
• 40:55
  Yes.
• 40:56
  You know, with the water, just You know, when you think love, I mean, it creates these
• 41:01
  beautiful,
• 41:02
  right, symmetrical,
• 41:04
  you know, just, water molecules, And and I I mean, I just think that's powerful.
• 41:10
  And you think that the fact that our bodies are probably about 70 to 80% water just in, you
• 41:17
  know, our our minds, you know, it it it actually they can measure that, you know, there
• 41:22
  there's actually, you know, electromagnetic waves that come out of our thoughts.
• 41:27
  It can be measured, actually.
• 41:29
  And so that has a direct impact on our body.
• 41:33
  How we think.
• 41:34
  So you shifted from, you know, the natural thing is everybody hears the big c word and
• 41:38
  they freak out and they go more interfere, but you actually it around and started to say, you
• 41:44
  know, how could I look at this as a gift of things I can learn?
• 41:47
  So did you do a did you do certain mindfulness practices Did you start doing yoga?
• 41:52
  Did you, you know, meditate?
• 41:55
  Or did you just kinda say, I'm just gonna stay as present as, you know, obviously, what you're
• 41:59
  talking about is my in capsulated, right, you know, looking at, okay.
• 42:03
  Today, I could look at the fact that, I didn't, you know, I went through a difficult treatment
• 42:09
  today, or I could say, well, I got through another day and count all the good things in
• 42:13
  the day versus folks focusing on maybe one of the difficult treatments that you would have.
• 42:17
  What other things did you do to really focus on that love concept?
• 42:23
  I did do mindfulness.
• 42:24
  In fact, that's when I first started learning.
• 42:26
  I I took a class on mindfulness and, I also started journaling.
• 42:33
  I started, you know, just focusing on what are things that I'm grateful for?
• 42:38
  You know, even if I don't feel well and I'm in pain, you know, the fact is I I woke up.
• 42:44
  I'm breathing.
• 42:45
  And as one of my doctors says, as long as you're breathing, you're more alive than you
• 42:50
  are dead.
• 42:53
  I also, you know, work with a therapist.
• 42:56
  To to work through a lot of the emotional, you know, issues that I had.
• 43:01
  You know, I was, you know, afraid of of dying.
• 43:05
  I was afraid of suffering of of having pain.
• 43:09
  And and just the sadness and and grief, you know, just I I thought that, you know, I
• 43:15
  wouldn't be able to accomplish my dreams.
• 43:18
  I wouldn't be able to spend time with my family and loved ones And so, you know, just having to
• 43:24
  deal with all of that in a way and, you know, I got to a place where I was actually able to let
• 43:31
  go and and not hang on.
• 43:34
  And when I let go, I I just sense this sense of amazing freedom because at that point, it
• 43:42
  didn't matter whether I lived or die.
• 43:45
  I I sensed that, you know, the lessons that having cancer, those lessons that I learned,
• 43:54
  that was the most important thing.
• 43:57
  They they were life lessons.
• 43:59
  And so I was content, you know, at that point, with whatever the outcome would be, you know,
• 44:07
  and, and I think that's something that we can all take with us, you know, just with you know,
• 44:12
  this current crisis, the uncertainty.
• 44:16
  It's it's trusting in the process.
• 44:21
  That even though, you know, there there's a lot of people that are talking about, you know,
• 44:27
  what's what's actually happening, you know, with this something that's, you know, naturally
• 44:34
  occurring?
• 44:35
  Is this something created in the lab?
• 44:38
  Was accidentally released?
• 44:40
  Was it purposely released?
• 44:42
  You know, regardless of that you know, whatever it is, wherever you fall under your beliefs on
• 44:50
  that, can you be present in the moment?
• 44:54
  Because it's when we start thinking about our futures and what this could all mean, that
• 45:00
  creates fear.
• 45:01
  And so one of the things that I think it's really important is developing an awareness,
• 45:06
  and that's what I developed when I had cancer was just getting a sense of, okay, I feel this
• 45:12
  in my body, what does it really mean?
• 45:14
  Because it's a language that the body is using to communicate with you.
• 45:18
  You know, if you have this headache, you know, are you experiencing tension?
• 45:23
  You know, do you have, you know, stiffness and and pain in your your shoulders and neck, which
• 45:29
  is where a lot people carry tension or maybe you have knots in your stomach or, you know, or
• 45:36
  difficulty digesting, bloating, gas after you eat, These are all different signs and
• 45:42
  symptoms.
• 45:43
  And sometimes it may not be a physiological reason as far as, you know, there there's some,
• 45:50
  you know, you're fighting some sort of, you know, germ or something.
• 45:55
  Sometimes it could be just how you feel emotionally.
• 45:57
  You know, that's why know, when people are upset often, it's probably not the best time to
• 46:02
  eat.
• 46:03
  You know?
• 46:03
  Yeah.
• 46:04
  You're not gonna be able to digest your food.
• 46:06
  Because everything is just so intimately, you know, connect it.
• 46:12
  And so
• 46:14
  So the the main pervasive thing is just to listen and to recognize that your body you
• 46:21
  know, I often say, you know, and and even more, so today, just listening to you, describe it as
• 46:26
  from a from a person that's recovered, but also from a scientific view.
• 46:30
  Shows me the amazing, elements that our body has the capacity to do on an ongoing how many
• 46:38
  things have to go right for us to be able to function in her body.
• 46:42
  Right?
• 46:43
  That's the amazement that I'm listening to you.
• 46:45
  I'm like, wow.
• 46:46
  You know, and that it takes so much, and it gives us so many opportunities to be able to
• 46:51
  create shifts.
• 46:52
  Right?
• 46:53
  You know, like you
• 46:53
  said, if
• 46:54
  it's her if it's her mind, if it's her her tummy's flippy today, maybe it's something that
• 46:59
  I ate, or maybe I'm worried about something that's happened, or maybe I just listened to
• 47:03
  too much news today, or But I think that re that reflection.
• 47:07
  Right?
• 47:07
  So biologically, obviously, there's certain things that we can do, like you said, to help
• 47:12
  you know, accentuate what we have.
• 47:14
  There's actions that we can take.
• 47:16
  There's food that we could put it in good nutrition that we can put, but also to deal
• 47:20
  with that that that moments to be able to to learn to, you know, and most of us are not very
• 47:26
  good with at it at really stopping and teaching ourselves just to stay in the present, which is
• 47:32
  the most difficult things and and for most of us to do.
• 47:35
  It is.
• 47:36
  It is because I think sometimes, you know, we we kinda let our minds run away and, you know,
• 47:42
  it's interesting because when I had cancer, and and I I had, you know, I had such excruciating
• 47:50
  pain in my body that when they put me on this morphine IV, it didn't take any of the edge of
• 47:55
  the pain off.
• 47:56
  And so initially, I was just I was terrified because My body was actually convulsing
• 48:02
  involuntarily from the pain, but then I remembered something that I heard from Deepak
• 48:07
  Chopra who said that wherever you're feeling pain in your body, breathe into that space, and
• 48:14
  send it love and compassion And so I did that, and it took 6 hours of doing that, but it
• 48:21
  completely resolved the pain.
• 48:25
  And so this whole mind body connection is so strong.
• 48:30
  And, I mean, so where you know, where the mind goes, the body kinda follows.
• 48:35
  Mhmm.
• 48:36
  So, you know, if we're we're following fear and, like, what you had talked about the news,
• 48:40
  you know, news can be, kind of more slammed towards a lot of negativity.
• 48:46
  And so, So what I found when I had cancer, for probably, like, 2 years, I did not watch any
• 48:56
  news I totally just
• 48:58
  Yeah.
• 48:58
  Yeah.
• 48:59
  Backed away.
• 49:00
  Yeah.
• 49:01
  As much as you can.
• 49:02
  And I think that's something that's really valuable in this time.
• 49:04
  I I I get that we need to do certain elements of what's happening, and I'm not talking about
• 49:09
  being remiss to not having certain knowledge, but then to just check it if you need certain
• 49:15
  information and then turn it off
• 49:17
  Yes.
• 49:18
  As much as you can.
• 49:19
  Well, Diana, I this has been tremendous.
• 49:22
  I enjoyed our our conversation the first time, and you've added so much more, wealth of
• 49:27
  wisdom, today.
• 49:28
  Thank you so much.
• 49:30
  So any last words that you want to share?
• 49:33
  And, also, I want you to I'm sure people are gonna have a lot, more they would love more
• 49:37
  information from you, tell people where they can reach you.
• 49:40
  And I think you wanted to offer something to anybody that's listened.
• 49:44
  You can tell them about that too.
• 49:47
  Oh, sure.
• 49:47
  Yeah.
• 49:48
  I just wanted to say that, you know, no matter what's going on in your life, no matter how
• 49:54
  challenging things may be, always have hope, you know, because if you can really remain
• 50:01
  present, you realize that there's just an infinite number of possibilities that can
• 50:07
  happen out of any situation, any crisis you know, there's always opportunity.
• 50:13
  And, so, you know, hang on to that hope and stay present.
• 50:19
  And, you know, seek out, you know, things that you can be grateful for because I I really
• 50:25
  believe that having a spirit, this attitude of gratitude, It changes.
• 50:31
  It changes everything just energetically within your body.
• 50:35
  And I think that you know, in case people are, you know, kind of home, you know, thinking
• 50:41
  about, you know, even potentially reinventing themselves in light of you know, what's going
• 50:47
  on in our world.
• 50:49
  I did create, something called the passion journal, which is really to help people to get
• 50:55
  in touch with what what your passion is, you know, what what really makes your heart sing
• 51:01
  because I think that if you can, you know, spend your time doing that, you know, there's
• 51:08
  no stress.
• 51:10
  You know, there's the only gratitude for being able to do that, which brings you joy.
• 51:15
  And so, people can, find me on my website, which is my name, deannaone.com, deannaw0n.com.
• 51:25
  And, I'll I'll send you a link also
• 51:29
  awesome.
• 51:29
  Awesome.
• 51:30
  It's also gonna
• 51:30
  show notes for this journal.
• 51:32
  Well, thank you again.
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  Your wiz your wisdom has just been amazing.
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  And for everybody, I guess, what am I taking away?
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  I'm taking away that our body has the intuitive knowledge.
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  We just have to listen to all the great tips that Diana gave today.
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  Start even if you implemented 1 of what she shared with us today.
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  1, maybe 2.
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  And, you know, progressively start to make a bit more changes as you go.
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  You know that you're working with your body to keep an alignment.
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  And then the then the body just naturally does its thing that, it's been doing, all our lives.
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  So, for everyone, you know, I'm a mental health and wellness specialist, I do keynote speaking,
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  training, and consulting.
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  If you're needing any information on me, I can be reached at Roxanne Derhodge dotcom.
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