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BONUS: How To Brew Chicory Tea · Beyond Labels Premium

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  SPEAKER_00: Hi everybody, I'm Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Cena McCullough.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining me in the kitchen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today I'm going to show you a very easy way to make chicory root tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, why would you want to consume chicory root tea?
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me tell you, it has amazing, amazing healing properties.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a stack here of scientific articles that support the healing benefits of chicory root.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, you are going to get in an email an article that I wrote for Epoch Times about chicory root.
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  SPEAKER_00: It details out different um health conditions that chicory root can help with.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that article are links to these scientific articles so you can read them for yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just going to highlight a few of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, healing powers of chicory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory can kill breast cancer cells.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory also promotes heart health.
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  SPEAKER_00: It contains anti-inflammatory and anti-thrombotic properties, which means it can lower your inflammation and it's a natural blood thinner.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory also prevents diabetes.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you already have diabetes, chicory root actually can help manage diabetes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory promotes liver health.
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  SPEAKER_00: It can fight malaria.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ancient cultures use chicory to fight malaria, and now science has validated that practice by identifying antium compounds that fight malaria in coming from chicory.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory also kills staph, E.
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  SPEAKER_00: coli, and candida.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as we know, candida overgrowth is becoming a huge problem in our Western culture as we're consuming more and more sugar and we're losing microbial diversity and quantity in our gastrointestinal tracts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So chicory can help with candida overgrowth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory also fights COVID.
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  SPEAKER_00: You're not going to hear that on the evening news, but you'll hear it on Beyond Labels.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is just some examples of the healing power of chicory.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you can see, chicory can help in not only acute situations like what we are terming infections, but also in chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, and in essence, all autoimmune and chronic diseases.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you can learn more about that in the article that I wrote for Epoch Times.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you falling in love with chicory already?
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Chicory is amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: So easy way to make chicory root.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have chicory root granules that are organic.
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  SPEAKER_00: I bought these in bulk from Frontier Co-op.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, they have an organic and a non-organic variety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Choose the organic variety.
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  SPEAKER_00: Easy way to do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a French press here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm just going to sprinkle some in along the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you get to know me in the kitchen, you'll realize that I do what's called intuitive cooking.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't tend to measure things.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't tend to strictly follow recipes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, I tap into my intuition, my God-given intuition, and ask my body what it wants or what do my children need in this meal.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I cook accordingly.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I just pour in how much my body needs.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're going to make one cup, you probably want to add somewhere between like two teaspoons to a tablespoon of chicory root.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I add it to my cup.
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  SPEAKER_00: Really simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have boiling water.
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  SPEAKER_00: I add the boiling water into the French press.
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  SPEAKER_00: I put the lid on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't press it down to strain it, but I put the lid on.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to make sure that the little slots where the liquid can pour out is turned away from the spout, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And that way you can capture more of the steam that's coming out so you can steep it longer and more efficiently.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to leave it here for at least 10 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've left it here for longer, like if I got busy with my morning routine.
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  SPEAKER_00: 20 minutes later, I remembered my chicory and I came over and drank it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can taste the difference, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Longer extraction time gives the solution more opportunity to pull out more of the healing compounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it will taste different uh depending on the extraction time.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for me, 10 minutes is a minimum time to let it sit.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you don't have a French press, there is another way you can do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or if you're not comfortable with the fact that the French press has this rubber ring around it, and you don't want it steeping there, exposed to the rubber.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another way you can make chicory root is you take your pan, you put the water in the chicory root, bring it to a boil on the stove.
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  SPEAKER_00: Once it's boiling, turn it to low, sprinkle in your chicory root, put the lid on top.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it sit there with the lid on top on low for at least 10 minutes.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can also just turn it off if you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's a second way to make it if you don't like the way that I'm currently making it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's assume that it's been at least 10 minutes and I'm coming back to uh prepare my chicory root tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: All you have to do is turn it so the liquid can come out, push it down, pour the tea into your mug.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to make this more of like a latte, you can just fill half of your mug with the chicory root tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other half you can fill with whatever you like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe raw milk, maybe if you're not drinking dairy, maybe coconut milk.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think coconut pairs very well with chicory.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I like to have the maximum benefits I can.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I filled it all the way up to the top.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now this is where I prepare mine a little bit differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can leave it like this if you want.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I said, you can add in your dairy or non-dairy alternative.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you need it a little sweeter, because it can be a little bitter, um, you can add in some local raw honey if you'd like to make it more palatable.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's my deal: I consume this in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: After I get up and I do whatever my mindfulness, my prayer, I do my exercise, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm drinking water.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then this is usually the first thing that I put into my body that has calories.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and if it's not this tea, it's another tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: But but for this, for the sake of this demo, it's this tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I ask myself and what I ask everyone in my family is how do you want to break your fast?
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  SPEAKER_00: So, not what do you want for breakfast, but if you take the word breakfast and break it down, it's break fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you're breaking your fast, your overnight fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you fasted long enough, you're consuming or your body is metabolizing more fat.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and that's, in my opinion, an ideal situation for the majority of us because when you're cons when your body is metabolizing more fat, the carbohydrate, uh, there's more healing that's going on in the body, and we can do a whole video on that.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the point is, I don't want to break my fast with a meal that's high in carbohydrate, all right, or um, that contains more carbohydrate than fat.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what I do is I turn this chicory root tea, which is a carbohydrate predominantly, I turn this into a high fat tea, more of like in lines with a ketogenic type of tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I like to break my fast with high fat meals.
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  SPEAKER_00: One reason I do that is because if you break it with a high carbohydrate meal, you're you will spike your insulin.
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  SPEAKER_00: And insulin, you know, according to what we know at this moment, insulin is one of the most inflammatory compounds that the body actually produces.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if you're healing from a disease or you're trying to just stave off disease, you want to prevent insulin spikes.
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  SPEAKER_00: An insulin spike occurs in large part by consuming a lot of carbohydrates.
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  SPEAKER_00: You want to balance your carbohydrate intake in this tea with fats.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what I do is I add coconut oil to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I add about a tablespoon of coconut oil just right there into my tea.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're not consuming a lot of fat right now, you probably want to start out slower, maybe a teaspoon and start building up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, your body needs time to be able to upregulate the enzymes and the transport molecules and so forth that are needed in order to properly metabolize fats.
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  SPEAKER_00: So rev it up slowly, start your fat intake um increase slowly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm at the point where my body loves a tablespoon of the coconut oil.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I put it a full tablespoon in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I also add collagen.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is one of the least natural things that I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will add collagen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, if, say, for instance, if I'm not going to be consuming bone broth the that day, then I will tend to get my collagen from this you know powdered variety.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's grass-fed, grass-finished.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been tested by the detox project for glyphosate residues.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I know that there's no detectable levels of glyphosate in there, but I do add that into my um chicory root tea when my body says it wants it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, another the last thing that I add is freshly ground cinnamon.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love freshly ground cinnamon.
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  SPEAKER_00: It pairs very nicely with chicory roots.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, cinnamon has well, it has many, many health benefits, but in this example, cinnamon can also help blunt the insulin response.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it's very helpful for individuals who have blood sugar regulation issues or diabetes, so you know full-blown diabetes, or people like me who just want to uh blunt that insulin response.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, what I do is I buy organic cinnamon sticks, I grind them in my spice grinder, and I try not to do it too far in advance because believe it or not, cinnamon has some fat in it, and you don't want to expose that to oxygen and have it become oxidized.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I grind it up pretty much as needed, and then I stick it in this little handheld grinder, which I don't use anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I used to grind it by hand, and that took a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one time I ground my knuckle and I said, That's it, I'm getting the automatic one.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I put the powder though for the automatic grinder in here, and it works very well as a spice shaker.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I shake some of the cinnamon on top, and I just stir it right in.
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  SPEAKER_00: It all just melts so well together, and then let's let's give it a taste.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's very good, it's a little bitter again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Local honey if you'd like, you know, lot raw local honey.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you need a little smidgen, I really try not to do that because that will uh raise the insulin higher than I want it to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: But if you need it, just put some in.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can always wean yourself off as you get used to that bitter flavor.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that's how easy it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how easy it is to incorporate one of God's plants, healing plants, into your daily diet.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want to, if you feel inspired to, read that article that we sent to you, read the health benefits, look at the studies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I feel like you will also be inspired, like I was, to start incorporating these herbs into your diet.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you like this, um, if you like these kinds of videos, if you would like me to show you other herbs and easy ways to incorporate them into your diet, then you know, send us an email with your comment and let us know because as always, Joel and I are here for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's your journey, and we're just going along for with for the ride, enjoying ourselves, and we want to be helpful.
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  SPEAKER_00: So just let us know what you'd like to hear.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, I'll see you next time.