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Vitamin G: Why Glutathione Is the Wellness Powerhouse You Need — with Dr. Gina Nick · Holistic Health with Melissa

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welcome everybody back to holistic health with Melissa
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I'm so excited to have you here today
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we have a super special guest
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her name is Doctor Gina Nick
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she is a world renowned naturopathic physician
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researcher and formulator based in Newport Beach
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California with a dedication to holistic wellness
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she's known for her expertise in treating
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a wide range of health concerns
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from autoimmune diseases to addiction recovery
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anxiety and more after graduation from medical school
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she became the director of research for a leading supplement company
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earning the company billions
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she's since held the roles of executive
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healthcare consultant to local and government agencies
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president Emeritus of the California Naturopathic Doctors Association
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as the founder and director of Health Bridge in Newport Beach
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California her practice was awarded Top Medical Practice of 2017
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a testament to her commitment to excellence
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Doctor Gina I'm so thrilled to have you here
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thank you so much for being on
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well thank you for having me
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I'm happy to be here Melissa
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yeah I am so fascinated by um
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what I know about you
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and really excited to dive into talking about your
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your supplements and your journey and um
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everything that you that you have to offer
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so I'm just gonna kind of open up the floor and let you
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just tell us who you are and how you got into all of this
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what LED you here and tell us about your supplements
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well um
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let's we already gave the little bio
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so we'll bypass that part um
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well right now
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my biggest passion is in creating
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or making gluthione a household name
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that's what I'm really here to do right now
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um and so
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I've been in the nutritional supplement world for over two decades
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as a physician using supplements in my practice
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then also as a researcher and formulator um
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for all that time and I came across glutathione
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so I'd used it in my practice for a long time um
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but then I was actually hired by a um
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a company who makes a form of glutathione that's absorbed orally
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which was kind of unheard of at the time
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and I really because I was hired to do this
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I did a real deep dive into glutathione
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way beyond what I Learned in medical school
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way beyond what I knew from using it in practice even
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um and it was through that journey that I was like wow
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why doesn't everybody know about this mother of all antioxidants
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why isn't it you know
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readily available and accessible to everyone
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because truly as I looked at it more and more
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and again I've been in the supplement world forever
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and I've come across so many different ingredients
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and formulated a ton of products and all that
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but this one was just different
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it really stood out to me
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and I wondered why it wasn't
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why everybody didn't know what it was
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you know was it because gluttonous is just kind of a technical word
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you know it's not like an easily remembered word
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I coined the phrase vitamin G instead cause that's easy to remember
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and I really see it as like the next vitamin uh C
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you know how vitamin C became so popular
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we all know that it's good for your immune system and everything
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vitamin G is equally
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if not more important or so many different functions in your body
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and we need it more and more these days
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so I formulated a product
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um called Best Daily Ever
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I created a form of glutathione that actually tastes good
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tastes like a pixie stick
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and normally glutathione doesn't taste good
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so um
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let's see so with all that
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um let's see
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my first real magical experience with the use of LSD was
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one of my first patients I ever had was a drug addict
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heroin addict and he was recovering
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and I had done all the things I knew to do as an alternative doctor
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in terms of all the functional medicine
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testing and all of it and he said
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the thing that he noticed the most benefit from was glutathione
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and then and so it kind of planted a seed
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and then fast forward
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and one of my dear nephews was diagnosed with autism
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and I kept telling my sister
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we need to get glutathione into him
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I know it we need to
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we need to figure out a way
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and the challenge was that the form
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of glutathione that actually worked
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which was liposomal didn't taste good
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it was hard to get and you know adults to take it
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let alone kids you know
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and it was a problem and so and then
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you know he was young and I'm his aunt
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I'm not gonna inject him you know
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and he wasn't gonna like me and he wasn't gonna comply with that right
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but that was the other way at that time that
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you know would really work for him
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and so my sister reminds me today that
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that also planted another seed for me
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of coming out with a form of glutethione that kids could take
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that was that would make it accessible to everyone
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a form that was actually bioavailable and worked
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that wasn't liposomal um
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that didn't have to be refrigerated and so I like to say
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you know I was inspired to take the ick and the ouch
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factors out of getting glutathione into your body
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or into a child's
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um and so then Covid hit
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I've been doing some lecturing on gluttony
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and realizing most doctors were not using it in their practice
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they're using it sporadically
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you know at least from the doctors I was speaking with
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and then I would go to local health food store
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and nobody really like knew what it was
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it was just wasn't out there and so I said that's it
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I'm gonna this is my next supplement I'm gonna create
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it's gonna be glutathione
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Covid hit and I was homeschooling my daughter
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and I was looking over at her like
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how do I get glucothione into her
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because we know
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it can help to prevent a severe reaction to things like covid
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um and that I decided I wanted to make uh
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glutathione taste like candy but have the opposite effect of candy
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right so
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actually help the brain and lower a neuro inflammation
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and help with balancing addictive behaviors and all of that
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um so I created a formula and I
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I always say it was divinely inspired because it literally just like
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you know I always I
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I have a passion for formulation
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it's what I love to do I love to put ingredients together
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whether I'm injecting them or putting them in a supplement
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it's it's what I love to do
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I always have and
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but this one was different
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you know so I create this formula
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I send it off to the lab I get it back
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first try Melissa it tasted amazing
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and gluathione has like a sulfur
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you know a component to it
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so it smells horrible even when I'm injecting it
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if I'm injecting patients
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you know the whole office smells like lythane and it's gross
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it doesn't smell good doesn't taste good
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this came back and with no sugar
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I only used a little bit of stevia
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and then I used glycine to sweeten it
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and glycine is one of the amino acids that makes up glutathione
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but it has a slight sweet flavor to it
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and I'd remembered I'd use it
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when I formulate supplements for patients
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I would use it as a sweetener and I'm like
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oh my gosh it's cause glutathione is a tripeptide
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it's made up of 3 amino acids
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glycine is one of them like that's perfect
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anyway I get back the sample and it tasted like a pixie stick
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no joke it was like perfect from the gecko
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and so I knew there was something there
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I knew this is something I needed to bring to market
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and so through a lot of work
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a lot of time and energy and money and all of it
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um we've been able to bring it to market
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and so I'm really excited about it
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um we launched with a fruit punch flavor
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uh but I have a rose lemonade flavor as well
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that is my favorite actually
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and so that'll come next
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but that's you know that's kind of what happened
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and so I've been spending a lot of time just talking about ludethane
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educating people on it um both doctors and consumers
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i just gave a talk at the american academy of anti-aging medicine on
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using glutathione to protect and heal your cells from radiation
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and that includes you know uh radiation
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cancer treatment
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you know and exposure to radiation like electromagnetic frequencies
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X rays and you know of all of the talks I've given over the years
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this one it was like so important to me to get all the day
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I spent so many hours putting this presentation
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it's only a half hour presentation
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but something about it I was like no
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this is unbelievably important
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I ended up with almost 100 slides
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had to pair it down and then I
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I still it was 72 slides
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um and I just told the attendees
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you know hold on to it as a reference for later
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cause I couldn't go through everything
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but there's just it's just
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it feels to me like it's time for everybody to know about glutathione
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and figure out how to use it to help heal yourself
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and protect yourselves
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everything that we're being exposed to these days
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yeah um
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one of the areas where glutathione really shines
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that isn't talked about a lot is cognitive function
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so it helps to lower neuro inflammation
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um and
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and with that it helps to improve cognitive health
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um because
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and there's a direct
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connection between things like alzheimer's disease
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and Parkinson's disease and glutathione deficiency in the brain
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yeah I've heard that about um
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alzheimer's before um
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that's really fascinating
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that talk that you just gave
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was that the one in Vegas
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yes at the American
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oh I was
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I almost went to that that would have been so cool
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go you should go next year
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it's yeah it's
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it's one of my favorite conferences to go to
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it's just it's called Longevity Fest
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there were over 7,000 doctors there
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and you really get exposed to next level information on um
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you know what's
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what's coming down the pike in terms of real healthcare
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and treatments that haven't yet been popularized
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yeah sure
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that just made me remember
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yeah that just made me remember
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I think we have a mutual friend
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I think that's what we talked about initially maybe
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or maybe I was talking to your assistant
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but Dr Laura Desusaris is your right
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yeah yeah
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shout out shout out to Doctor Laura
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oh I love that
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she's awesome oh okay
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she's amazing yeah
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um oh
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so cool so
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I have so many questions um
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so why don't you start by telling us like
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what is glutathione and why is it so important in the body
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sure so glutathione is considered the mother of all antioxidants
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the master antioxidant um
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there
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there are three main antioxidants that you must have in your body
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for proper functioning uh glutathione
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vitamin C and vitamin E
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and those are the three like foundational blocks
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you know and they all work together
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they all cycle around each other
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they help one another they work together
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but glurthun is the master
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and so it's manufacturing every cell in your body
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higher concentrations in the liver
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which is the main detoxification organ
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glutathione helps to protect your cells from free radical damage
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free radicals are toxins in the environment
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that are produced in your own body
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that cause damage to the mitochondria
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the powerhouse of your cells
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and glutathione is there to help protect the mitochondria from harm
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from toxins
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um glutathione helps to lower inflammation throughout the body
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it works as an immunomodulator
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which it really like
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I love that word
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I love what it represents because it really speaks to the just
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you know the
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the the amazingness of the human body really
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and you know
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it's divinity because um
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as an immunomodulator it'll boost immune function as needed
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and then it'll calm down an overreactive immune system
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so it helps to balance everything out
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um glutathione is really important for
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I mentioned for brain health
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because the brain is more vulnerable to exposure
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to toxins than any other area in the body
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and so
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the levels of glutathione get depleted pretty readily in the brain
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and that's where
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then it leaves you vulnerable to damage from exposure to toxins
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and that's where I'm very passionate about
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making sure that your glutathione levels are sound
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as an in an effort to protect your brain from harm
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whether it's from radiation or
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you know toxins or inflammation
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you name it right
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and so um
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glutathione is also very powerful at detoxifying things
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like heavy metals from the body
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is that the most common way to like um
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deplete your glutathione is be exposed to toxins
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yes would you say
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oh yeah
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absolutely cause it gets
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gets used up you know right
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so um
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and it's reduced so there in the body
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there's something called reduced glutathione
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and then there's oxidized glutathione
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so reduced glutathione is the active form of glutathione
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and it then takes toxins
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and converts them into a form that can then get
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excreted out of your body
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whether it's through the colon or the skin or the kidneys
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your other detox or lymphatic system
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and so um but the thing is
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is you're supposed to have a lot more reduced glutathione
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active glutathione than oxidized because once
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once the glutathione is used
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it becomes oxidized
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and then it has to get recycled back in your body to a reduced form
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well guess what
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that takes a lot of different co factors and minerals and stuff
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nutrients to make that process happen right
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and the ideal ratio is 100 to 1
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you want 100 times as much active
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reduced glutamine in your body than you do oxidize
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and that always doesn't happen right
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and so yeah so I always tell people like
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it's not just taking a bunch of glutethiamine
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that's not the answer
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you also want to be making sure that your levels of the co factors
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that glutathione eats up to make more glutathione
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or turn it back into an active form are there as well
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yeah which is probably hard in in this day and age
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cause we're not getting like we're exposed to so many toxins
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we're not getting the nutrients that we need
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we're not getting the sunlight that we need
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we're not getting the exercise that we need like across the board
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right yeah
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yeah magnesium selenium
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zinc glycine
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I mean all these things are essential and necessary
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the bee vitamins you need all of that and
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and those things are naturally occurring
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glutathione's naturally occurring in quality foods
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it's there you know
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grass fed beef um
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more so than other beef um
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all your fresh fruits and vegetables
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uh members of the Brassica family of vegetables
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so things like broccoli and cauliflower are higher in glutathione
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um and also eating those foods it
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it triggers it's a particular
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it's a transcription factor called NRF 2
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but basically
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that's what triggers your body to manufacture glutathione
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so by eating those quote
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anti cancer vegetables that we've all heard about right yeah
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what's act so this is fascinating to me
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what's actually happening is
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there's chemicals in those foods that trigger a transcription factor
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NRF 2 that then tells your body make more glutathione
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oh that is cool
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isn't that interesting and that's really
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so that's one of the main quote
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anti cancer results of consuming those anti cancer foods
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yeah so
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so I'm curious to know
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you talked about your nephew and like you were thinking about like
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how do I get glutathione into him
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and then with your daughter
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how do I get glutathione into her
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I'd love to know like did you
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does your nephew take your formulation and has it helped him
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how is he now he loves it he calls it Gina Juice
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but so he takes every day he takes the Pixie sticks
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which to me I was like just that alone
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I'm happy do you know what I'm saying
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like I served because I mean
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it really it is coming to me
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it's like it just came full circle
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and I it wasn't even again
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sister had to remind me do you remember
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when you used to try and figure out a way to get this stuff into him
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and I'd like open up capsules of anastylcine and mix it in apple sauce
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I'm just trying everything right
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um and so to know that he now takes those every day
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as do my other nephews but he in particular it's
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it's special to me um
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and then also you know
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so my daughter she
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she she loves
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she loves the pixie sticks
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but she takes them to school
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and I had envisioned like these little sticks in every kid's lunch box
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you know like just where at least if they've got that they're covered
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and so she's telling me that
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her friends are begging her for more pixie sticks
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I'm like okay
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this is cool this is really cool
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there is a way here to to get these kids just support it
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supported so that they can think well yeah
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and they can have a little bit more of a robust immune system
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and so to me it just
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I mean it's it
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it yeah
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it's it's awesome
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you know it also helps so many things
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there's so many things going against those kids right
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I mean it
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today's generation the young generation
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I mean all of us
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but really right
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the kids like they have it coming from every
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from every angle and
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you know they're
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they've got developing brains
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and what's to me
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like one the most important things here is we want clear thinking
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yeah kids and adults
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but you know
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this next generation of leaders or creating
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they need to be thinking clearly and have truly
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and so what can we do my area
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right is nutrition and supplements and all functional medicine
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what can I do to help that
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you know to help ensure that we have clear thinking kids
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when you talk about like the journey
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like from that first like
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one of the first patients that you had that was a drug addict to like
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right now it sounds like it was like
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like last year that that happened
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like tell it was it was obviously like a
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a big long journey oh gosh yes
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yeah I mean I
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I became fascinated by detoxification
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and the whole concept of detoxification
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even during medical school
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and then afterwards um
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and then glutathione and then the patient
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so that that happened gosh
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it's been 20 years right
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uh and so it's been a long journey to get to here right
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and it's the connection like glutathione and
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and just the fact that
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it's so central to the human detoxification system
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which is an area that I had
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have been fascinated
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I didn't really learn a lot about it in medical school
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it mostly was just stuff I did on my own
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you know I went to it at this detox institute
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because this woman at a health food store told me about it
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and something told me you need to go check it out
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and that was the beginning of the journey
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it's like oh
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my gosh there's this whole
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human detoxification system that is so unbelievably powerful
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in our bodies that impacts everything
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hmm immune function
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cognitive health you name it
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and the human detoxification system plays a huge role
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in what's happening with us
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and now you look at everything we're exposed to
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and it's now even more important that we really pay attention to
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this system which
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you know we hear about the cardiovascular system and
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you know the immune system
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but how many times do you hear about the human detoxification system
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but it's it's
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it's such a powerful system in the body that yeah
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we need to be talking about um
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so that we can take care of ourselves
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yeah I love that so much
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I think you're so right that we just don't talk about it enough
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I feel like some I hear people talk about it a lot right now
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like in the last couple of days
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they're like oh
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I need to detox yeah
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the New Year I want detox and it's like no
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no no
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like this is like a an ongoing like forever thing
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you know you always need to detox
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not just at the beginning of the year
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yeah right
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I mean gluttonous
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great for that too for out detoxing from alcohol
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a lot of my patients be like
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you know Doctor Gina
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why I get so much of your best daily ever
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it's because well
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I know that if I've been drinking too much and and they know I'm
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you know I'm I'm always telling people to stop drinking
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and so they don't like that about me
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but they know that right
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but they'll be like look
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I'm gonna drink and I take best daily ever and then I feel I don't
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you know I don't have a hangover in the morning
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I'm like well
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it is helping you to detox
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you know yeah
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but with regard to detoxification
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so I mean we're detoxing 24 7
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our bodies are
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there are so many amazing innate mechanisms in place designed there
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and they're so intricate
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but they're designed to take toxins from our environment
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and remove them so they don't cause harm
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and so yes
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like you're saying it's a day to day thing
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we wanna be supporting our detox system in one way or another
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day to day you know
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not just you know
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once a year or after partying right
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right and that's right
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and it is we all know
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that it's our daily habits that have the biggest impact on our lives
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so I'm always saying just pick one
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do one thing consciously daily that
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you know is supporting your human detoxification system that
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that system in your body um
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and you will be serving your body well
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you know because it just
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but like actually making that conscious decision okay
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I'm going to make sure I sweat every day
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because your skin is your largest detox organ right
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or I take I'm big fan of glutathione
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taking glutathione every day
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I'm getting out in the sun
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I'm spending time in nature every day
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and that's regulating my cortisol levels
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and that's supporting detoxification cause
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limiting the amount of toxins that are burning my system
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um there's so many ways
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sauna therapy
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removing plastic you know
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stop drinking plastic uh
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water from a plastic bottle right
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that's that's one you can do
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where you just make that decision and you pivot away from it
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but whatever it is everybody's different right
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and so whatever works for you
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there's something so yeah
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just it and just making that conscious decision
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I'm gonna support my body's innate detox mechanisms
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as a way to work with my body
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that's working for me 24 7
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I love that
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um I wanted to ask you about
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you mentioned a couple times you said one thing
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you said that um
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the whole
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like a couple times you said that the process was kind of divine
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like you and you felt like you were caught
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like this is your calling right
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like and I just wanna point out
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cause I spend a lot of time talking to clients and
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and other people I interview and stuff
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talking about kind of like
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leaning into like your intuition and trusting the process
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because like sometimes
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like for you right now you're launching you
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you're launching this plutonium
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like this supplement finally came to fruition
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but this is like a 20 year process that you've been on this
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this journey and like
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so I just wanna like
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I'd love to hear kind of your take on that piece of it
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of it being like this whole process that took over 20 years or 20
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took you 20 years like
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how did you know along the way that you were like going the right way
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that this was what you were supposed to do
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and this was you know
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your calling how did you know
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so you know
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what's weird about that is it wasn't like a
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I didn't question it like
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how do I I question a lot of things
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you know I've got an analytic mind
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so I'm questioning things all the time right
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and when I when you ask that question
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I I was kind of processing it
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I'm like it just naturally happened
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the whole thing with like formulating supplements
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and it just kind of happened
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and I think back my parents had this um
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it was it was uh
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what was their what their names
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I don't wanna say their names wrong
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it was the life extension book
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and I can't think of their names right now
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but anyways
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this is big thick book and it was all about nutritional supplements
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and this is back you know
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we're talking in the 80s right
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and nobody talked about supplements
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and I remember I would sit there and read through it
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and I was so fascinated by it
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so that's why it's like just kind of naturally something about it
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right and then when I was in high school
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I started taking college courses at like the local community college
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cause my mom was like okay
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she's bored and she was a teacher
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so she saw that thank god
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and so she was having me take
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and I took a nutrition course
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and that just like opened up my whole world
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oh my gosh nutrition is so powerful right
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um and then like I said
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there was a speaker that came when I was in medical school
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just starting out and he was from the supplement world
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I'm like okay
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this is definitely what I want to do
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I just knew it you know
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um and so it wasn't
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like I I always knew I wanted to be a doctor right
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like I don't
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I don't know where like it was because my parents talked about
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I don't know but I just did the supplement thing though
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it just it just organically happened over time
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and I didn't have a um
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I didn't say okay
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I wanna create 10 supplements by the time I'm 30
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you know it wasn't that
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it wasn't that type I didn't have like a goal about that
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but it just always sort of
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it developed over time
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I was hired as a director of research for Standard Process Nutrition
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I built out their research department
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formulate a bunch of products for them
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you know and loved it
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loved it and so um
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yeah
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I think it didn't matter that it's taken so long
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yeah so that like there
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and I'm not the most patient person on the planet
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not at all you know
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and so when you when you say it that way
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when you're like wow
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it's been 20 years I'm like yeah
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that's
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but I've never every step was important in that journey though yes
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I had to be I had to have the knowledge
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you know
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I had to have personally experienced the benefits truly and had it
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you know
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really walk the talk and feel the difference and know it to be true
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regardless of what I was taught
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I had to know it and experience it
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um and then little by little
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like when I was to get through medical school
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I was hired to educate doctors
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in the clinic on nutritional supplements
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from a supplement company that I was hired by right
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and so I've been just little by little I yeah
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it just happened over time and it's kind of
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cause I think about like where did glutathione come from
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you know that again
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it fell in my lap I was hired by a company
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who made a form of glutathione that was bioavailable in oral form
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and they wanted me to research it in my practice
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because I was really big on detoxification
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and because I was hired I spent the time
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you know what doctors don't really have that much time to spend
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doing the type of research
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I did but I was hired to do it
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and so you know
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I was like okay
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god was like okay
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we want you to really focus on this right
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yeah and then it just kind of it it
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it continued from there I had to really understand the
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the
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behind the scenes of what it takes to create a nutritional supplement
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a quality one what is involved
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and so by being director of research of one of the world's largest
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nutritional supplement companies
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it gave me so much experience
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I'm so grateful for that time
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um
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and so yeah
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and then it's kind of funny um
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one of the people that I work with
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he was like I don't know how he came up with Vitamin G and it was like
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Doctor Gina Vitamin I was like
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oh that's weird
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but it's kind of stuck right
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because I was I was saying
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we need a better word than glutathion
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nobody can remember that it's like from a marketing perspective
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who's gonna it's just not an attractive word
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and then vitamin G came to be and it's just kind of funny that is g
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you know yeah
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that's so cool I just feel like I asked that just because I'm like
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I feel like so many times I talk to people who are like
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comparing their their journey
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like I talk to people who are go on a health journey right like
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and and they're comparing their chapter 1 to my chapter 20
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they're saying like oh
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well like how do I get there
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and then they just get like focused on like okay
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well that's like so far off and I'm like no
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you just like baby steps right
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like just like with anything with your with your whole journey
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it's like you maybe you didn't know the endgame
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you didn't know that gluthione supplements like 20 years ago
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you might not have known that
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but like you just kept taking the next step
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and just following your intuition
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and taking the opportunities when they came up
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and just trying to be better every single day
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it sounds like yeah and I mean I've had many many Roblox along the way
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especially with no way with creating this product
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holy moly if I told you the number of sleepless nights I've had
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it's been a journey
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and but but every time I wanted to quit because it's overwhelming
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I'm a single mother I'm doing all you know
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it's like I've got a lot on my plate all the time
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and every time I'd wanna be like forget
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I'm done I'm I'm sick of this
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I can't handle it anymore
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something would happen
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it'd either be a testimonial would come in where I'm like
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oh no I can't stop or a comment with something inevitably happened
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I'm like okay
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I need to keep going and and it it it's still to this day
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it's like oh my gosh
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another moving part that I have to deal with
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like it's not easy to be the CEO of a supplement company
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it's it's it's a big job and always and that's where I'm like
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you know that's where I just have trust because yeah
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it just seems like I'm like look
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if this is what's meant to be and I'm meant to do this in this way
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I'm going to allow this to happen
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and I have big I have visions like I have bigger dreams
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like I have a foundation called the Brain
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Health and Mental Wellness Foundation
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you know I
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I wanna create a retreat for mothers and their children
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to help them to improve their
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through like biohacking treatments and glutathione and all of that
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but truly that's you know
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supported by the foundation
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so mothers and their children who are struggling in any way
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that they have a place to go to heal
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and become more of who they really are
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so they can be wonderful leaders for their children
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and their children can learn from them um
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oh I love
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and there's a whole thing to that there's
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you know regenerative agriculture
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farm and animal sanctuary
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that it's all integrated into this whole thing
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so that's kind of brewing out there um
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I can't like you know
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how it happens and when and where that's not
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you know that's all in divine right timing and
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and it's hard to have patience
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cause I mean I'm like half there already
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you know sometimes it feels I'm like half of me is already there
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so I'm like okay
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I'm ready for the other half to be there and just fully do this um
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but I kind of um
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you know the five hour energy drink
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so you know how um
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Minaj who who started that company
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how he had like you know
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it became really successful as this one product
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but then he
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he was committed to investing the majority of the proceeds into like
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things that help to heal the planet
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different technologies and things that help and
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and and so I was like okay
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this is gonna be not the same as
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you know I'm not him and all
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you know I'm
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but it's like a similar model where I envision this glutathione
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these glutathione products as
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you know
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a way to fund the foundation and the things I'm really here to do so
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yeah
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wow what incredible incredible story what an incredible person you are
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what so cool I am so cool
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I'm just blown away by by everything but again
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it's it's it's like I've had so I've been challenged in every way
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like truly in every way possible
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and so when I finally got the product
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and I'm like holding it in my hand like
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oh wow this is a miracle
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it's a miracle that this is here in the way that I wanted it
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cause I was very particular about I mean
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the ingredients and how it's manufactured
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like the manufacturing company
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it like gets annoyed with me all the time because I'm so picky right
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but it's so I got to create something that I
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that I personally take my child take my nephew takes that I love
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and that's after against formulating products for 20+
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what an accomplishment that is so cool yeah
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well if anybody wants to try it or wants to look you up
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how would they do that
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so the product if you're interested in the glutethione
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it's the website is best Daily ever.com best at daily ever.com
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my daughter came up with that name
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there are branding people that are saying they wanna change it
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and who knows but it's best at daily ever.com
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and then my my just my medical practice and stuff
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it's just Doctor Gina dot com d r g I n a dot com perfect awesome
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and that will all be in the show notes
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thank you so much for being here
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it was such a pleasure pleasure to chat with you
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I could go on forever we could talk all day
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but alas it will end
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so thank you thank you
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thank you everyone for listening
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tune in for the next episode
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thank you