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Unmasking Myths: Supplements and Your Liver Health... · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 1: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 1: health challenges, not just masking the symptoms. Here we dive
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  Speaker 1: deep into how holistic approaches such as advanced chiropractic care,
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  Speaker 1: personalized nutrition, and natural healing practices can transform your life.
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  Speaker 1: Now here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. Hey. I love the
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  Speaker 2: fear that is out there in all kinds of ways,
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  Speaker 2: and if you've ever been a student of anything spiritual,
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  Speaker 2: you've probably found yourself seeing fear a bit more and
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  Speaker 2: more clearly, and of course wanting nothing to do with it,
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  Speaker 2: which I would hope. However, this is interesting when industry
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  Speaker 2: or agencies or whatever you want to call them would
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  Speaker 2: like to perpetrate fear, which they have done many times
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  Speaker 2: on people throughout the world. So let's go through it.
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  Speaker 2: To this particular article that came across my desk is
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  Speaker 2: five supplements that can harm your liver. Now it was
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  Speaker 2: medically reviewed. I am surprised. I would never put my
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  Speaker 2: name to this, but this person certainly did miss Melinda Rattini. Anyways,
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  Speaker 2: this particular doctor that reviewed this, I want to know
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  Speaker 2: what their job was. So the first supplement up is
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  Speaker 2: they talked about red yeast rice. I'm thinking, ah, I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to hear how this is supposed to be
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  Speaker 2: damaging to the human body. Now Here's what's hilarious is
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  Speaker 2: that it says that some supplements may contain monocolin k
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what is that. Well, it is in the
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  Speaker 2: prescription drug levostatin. I'm thinking you listed red yeast rice
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  Speaker 2: as a dangerous substance to your liver. But it isn't
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  Speaker 2: actually red yeast rist. Now I get it. It's a supplement,
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  Speaker 2: and so we probably should be aware that there may
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  Speaker 2: be some sneaky companies out there that are trying to
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  Speaker 2: put out red yeast rice that have a chemical in
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  Speaker 2: it that would damage your liver. And what's more hilarious
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  Speaker 2: is that they gave a caution on red yeast rist,
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  Speaker 2: but they didn't caution level statin. They didn't even bother
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  Speaker 2: taking out the drug. They didn't even put out a
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  Speaker 2: warning saying, hey, everybody on level statin, you may want
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  Speaker 2: to stop that because it is known to damage your liver.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just going to let that rest right there.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't actually red yeast rice. It's the chemical that
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  Speaker 2: they use in a statin drug that some companies decided
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  Speaker 2: to put into it to hopefully try to Oh what
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  Speaker 2: they would say is enhance the red yeast rice. But
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  Speaker 2: ultimately I'm just thinking, you know what, let's not put
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  Speaker 2: red yeast rice as the problem. However, I digress. Next
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  Speaker 2: is chaparral. Now, chapparral is an interesting little herb. It
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  Speaker 2: isn't used very much, and there are some easy adulterans,
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  Speaker 2: meaning just because you take chaparral doesn't necessarily mean you're
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  Speaker 2: taking the right kind. So Loria tridentia is the right kind.
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  Speaker 2: And I may have butchered the pronunciation of biotanical because
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  Speaker 2: most of them are in Latin, but you'll get close
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  Speaker 2: there if you do look it up. And this particular chaparral,
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  Speaker 2: what even is more fascinating to me is what it
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  Speaker 2: actually is used for. Now. It is an antioxidant, but
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  Speaker 2: it's also anti tumor. I'm thinking an anti tumor what
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  Speaker 2: would cut into a lot of money. Oh, being somewhat
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  Speaker 2: anti cancer. Yeah, I could see that the FDA would
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  Speaker 2: have a big problem with chaparral. Not that I want
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  Speaker 2: you to go run out and start taking chaparral, because
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  Speaker 2: while it is an antioxidant and appears to be anti tumor,
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  Speaker 2: they say that it could actually cause permanent liver damage.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, yeah, you didn't even cite any cases,
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  Speaker 2: or you didn't even cite any research. You just made
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  Speaker 2: a blanket statement. So many of these articles that I read,
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  Speaker 2: I just I have hard time believing them because they
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  Speaker 2: don't cite anything. Now I will say that the same
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  Speaker 2: thing gets used back on nutritional supplements. You're not citing
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  Speaker 2: any kind of research that says what you're administering to
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  Speaker 2: people even works. And while I'll agree, it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like saying, do I need to tell you that food
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  Speaker 2: is probably a good idea? Do we need research saying hey,
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  Speaker 2: people that eat tend to do far better health wise
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  Speaker 2: than people who don't eat, And no, we would all
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  Speaker 2: be like, no, I'm going to keep eating, whether they
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  Speaker 2: have some studies out or not. And so I know
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  Speaker 2: that that's a bit apples to oranges. And I do
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  Speaker 2: like comparing things. A lot of things that I will
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  Speaker 2: bring to you that I appreciate or that I am researching.
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  Speaker 2: There is a ton of research on those things. Case
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  Speaker 2: in point is the next thing, which is vitamin A.
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  Speaker 2: Vitamin A they say in high doses is dangerous. Now
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  Speaker 2: I will agree that if you get a supplement of
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  Speaker 2: beta carotene and synthetic vitamin A and you're taking high doses,
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  Speaker 2: eventually it will likely cause toxicity. And as for any
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  Speaker 2: kind of supplement, I would say that's probably true. And
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  Speaker 2: of course every drug as it's max dose where it
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  Speaker 2: is now going to cause some serious harm. So whether
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  Speaker 2: we run around yelling that the sky is falling because
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  Speaker 2: of vitamin a, or we just simply realize, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: every particular vitamin or mineral or supplement or drug or
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  Speaker 2: food or water or air or oxygen, too much of
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  Speaker 2: anything is damaging. It's why everything is in balance. That
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  Speaker 2: is why I'm pretty careful when it comes to vitamin A.
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  Speaker 2: Meaning I just want to do natural things. So when
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  Speaker 2: I have a vitamin A supplement that I might give somebody,
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  Speaker 2: it is going to be beef or kidney lipids or
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  Speaker 2: liver lipids. It's going to be a completely natural form.
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  Speaker 2: But what's interesting is if they actually did cite some
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  Speaker 2: research they would have had to have cited anything with acutane.
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  Speaker 2: And I've talked about vitamin A and acutane a number
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  Speaker 2: of times. For kids with acne, even adults that have acne,
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  Speaker 2: they'll put them on accutane, which is high dose synthetic
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  Speaker 2: vitamin A. Does it help their acne? Well? Yes. Do
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  Speaker 2: they keep checking their kidney and their liver enzymes so
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  Speaker 2: that they can tell whether or not it's damaging their
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  Speaker 2: kidneys or liver, Yes, they do because it is not
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  Speaker 2: okay to do synthetic high dose vitamin A, which they
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  Speaker 2: do and acutane, but they tend to do it anyways.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's really a wake up call for medical
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  Speaker 2: doctors to read this particular section and really think, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I need to think accutane when I'm doing this.
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  Speaker 2: And what I thought was cool is at least they said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we encourage that you get safe forms of vitamina such
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  Speaker 2: as those things in certain fish. And while that is awesome,
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  Speaker 2: that's where I would prefer that you get it too.
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  Speaker 2: I love doing cod liver oil with folks because each
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  Speaker 2: caplet contains two thousand international units of real natural rent
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  Speaker 2: andyl palmitate, which is what we would like to have
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  Speaker 2: on the body instead of trying to convert beta caroteene
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  Speaker 2: of spinach, carrots and other things to try and make
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  Speaker 2: that rent and al palmitate in our body. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: for those of you that are like, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 2: do you just talk about acne and vitamin A? I
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  Speaker 2: want to hear no more about that. Well, I have
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  Speaker 2: done podcasts on vitamin A and acne, and so you're
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  Speaker 2: welcome to pull them up. But at a brief nutshell,
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  Speaker 2: vitamin A gets its title or its name A because
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  Speaker 2: they realized it was anti infection. And if you have acne,
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  Speaker 2: you have infection on your face, and it means that
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  Speaker 2: you have a lot of toxicity coming out of your
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  Speaker 2: skin rather than going through your liver and gut. And
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  Speaker 2: your gut is also inflamed and looks much like your skin.
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  Speaker 2: And so you've got a diet that is not boding
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  Speaker 2: well for your overall ability to fight infection because you're
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  Speaker 2: letting it grow on the skin and in the gut
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  Speaker 2: likely and so high vitamin A immediately starts to fight
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  Speaker 2: infection by helping I would I'd also recommend that you
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  Speaker 2: probably get a decent amount of calcium and even more
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  Speaker 2: important when it comes to acne is that we do
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  Speaker 2: some form of a natural vitamin E and not what
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  Speaker 2: you would get in a grocery store. But that's just
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  Speaker 2: my two cents. As we digress there. Now, this next
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  Speaker 2: one is quite quite comical. Number four of the five
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  Speaker 2: supplements they cited, and this is penny Royal. Penny Royal
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  Speaker 2: in its oil form is definitely damaging, and many of
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  Speaker 2: you are like, penny Royal, isn't that like a tea
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  Speaker 2: in that song? Yes, and penny Royal is part of
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  Speaker 2: the mint family and so it can have a minty flavor.
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  Speaker 2: But the reason that Nirvana sung about or sang about
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  Speaker 2: penny Royalty is because it was often used in abortions,
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  Speaker 2: and so he was always a bit melancholy, and so
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  Speaker 2: Kurt Cobain, obviously not with us anymore, would talk about
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  Speaker 2: penny Royal tea. Anyways. That's why most of us are
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily to get to know about penny royal, because
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  Speaker 2: we're probably not dealing with female menstrual issues or wanting
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  Speaker 2: to cause an abortion, which is what quote unquote midwives
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  Speaker 2: used to do a couple hundred years ago, is to
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  Speaker 2: high doses of penny royal they wouldn't necessarily do the
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  Speaker 2: oil because the oil can be quite toxic to the body,
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  Speaker 2: even though application of oil on the skin is used
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  Speaker 2: for some medicinal purposes. So there you go, Penny Royal
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  Speaker 2: tea for you last, and is certainly interesting in and
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  Speaker 2: of itself. Having used this particular herb many for many,
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  Speaker 2: many years with excellent results, I'm thinking, how did ashwaganda
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  Speaker 2: make this list? And so they say that, well, ashwaganda,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and really high doses could cause some jaundice, itching, nausea,
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  Speaker 2: and lethargy or abdominal pain. Oh got it? Okay, So
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  Speaker 2: well that's interesting. Ashual Ganda is something that we typically
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  Speaker 2: use for those that are having emotional trouble. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: will tell you that when my father passed away about
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  Speaker 2: gosh almost ten years ago, after a few months of
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  Speaker 2: morning I would walk around sighing, just sighing. I'd find
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  Speaker 2: myself just sighing, and at some point I was like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: this is no longer okay or healthy. And I simply
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  Speaker 2: took an ashwar Ganda and it was like something in
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  Speaker 2: my brain simply turned a corner and it was instantaneous.
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  Speaker 2: One dose, and I thought, interesting, how your brain can
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  Speaker 2: get on a track and just stay on that road,
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  Speaker 2: but eventually it's like you want it to get off
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  Speaker 2: of that track. And ashvill Ganda seems to be super,
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  Speaker 2: super helpful, and for most folks it actually doesn't take
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  Speaker 2: very much and you certainly don't have to use it
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  Speaker 2: very long. And so ashvial Gonda, some of you will
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  Speaker 2: find that it's called Withania, and so it goes by
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  Speaker 2: both names. But ashwa Ganda is excellent in small doses.
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  Speaker 2: You don't really need much. You could take more, but
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  Speaker 2: it really doesn't do any more than that. And so
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  Speaker 2: I have clients that just like man an ashul Ganda
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  Speaker 2: every couple of days, once a week is beautiful. Some
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  Speaker 2: that have had some issues have been on it for
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  Speaker 2: maybe six months off and on and finally like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I don't need ashvial Ganda anymore. Great. So I suppose
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  Speaker 2: if we want to test the balands of ashwaganda and
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  Speaker 2: high doses, we certainly could do that, but ultimately that's
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  Speaker 2: not the goal is to cause jaundice, itching, nausea, lethargy,
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  Speaker 2: or abdominal pain. So with that, I find it kind
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  Speaker 2: of comical that Ashvialganda made this list. It was a
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  Speaker 2: far stretch, but they did the best they could. So
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  Speaker 2: I hope that was helpful in at least thinking of
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  Speaker 2: your liver and wondering, am I taking some supplements that
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  Speaker 2: may be causing my liver problem? You may not want
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  Speaker 2: to look at your supplements as causing liver problem. You
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  Speaker 2: may want to look at your medication. Every medication is
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  Speaker 2: a chemical that is foreign to the body, almost always,
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  Speaker 2: And if you have a foreign chemical in your body,
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  Speaker 2: what does your body want to do with that? Does
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  Speaker 2: it want to keep that chemical or does it want
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  Speaker 2: to detoxic? Well, it would like to detox that chemical.
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  Speaker 2: And who's going to do that. Well, the cells of
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  Speaker 2: your body do have phase one phase two detoxification processes,
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  Speaker 2: but most of those processes are run in the liver,
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  Speaker 2: and so most chemicals in the blood are going to
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  Speaker 2: be delivered to the liver and the liver is going
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  Speaker 2: to have to dismantle them and break them apart. Now
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  Speaker 2: I've done podcasts on that process and that The deal
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  Speaker 2: is that when you have a chemical that's produced by man,
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  Speaker 2: we have no idea how what constituents or what components
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  Speaker 2: the body is going to try to break it down
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  Speaker 2: into to try to make it inert and safe to eliminate,
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  Speaker 2: and so the liver's going to do that job inside it.
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  Speaker 2: To give an example, is glyphasate, which most of us
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  Speaker 2: would know by now, but if some of you don't,
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  Speaker 2: it is roundup, and so glyphasate when it breaks down
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  Speaker 2: into its innermediaries on its way to being inert, we
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  Speaker 2: think actually worse than the chemical itself, and so it
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  Speaker 2: is very liver toxic or liver damaging. So spraying that
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  Speaker 2: stuff around your house, eating vegetables that you know are
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  Speaker 2: sprayed with it, and eating animals that eat those plants
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  Speaker 2: that are sprayed with it may not be so wise
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  Speaker 2: a choice for you. Now. I'm not here to generate
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  Speaker 2: more fear, but just some awareness. Hey, I think I
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  Speaker 2: will use my spending dollars to show where my feet
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  Speaker 2: are walking, and I will buy foods that are more natural,
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  Speaker 2: more organic, and less chemicalized than the average, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: pay for it. Isn't it funny that we have to
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  Speaker 2: pay a higher price for free food that doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: this crap on it. You would think since they don't
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  Speaker 2: have to buy the chemical and spray, that our food
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  Speaker 2: would be less expensive it was organic. I've always wondered
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  Speaker 2: why that is. However, I digress, So take a good
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  Speaker 2: long look at the chemicals that are in your house,
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  Speaker 2: your cleaning supplies, what you're putting on your body, what
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  Speaker 2: you're allowing in your food. Those would be way higher
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  Speaker 2: up the scale of things to be concerned about rather
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  Speaker 2: than these five supplements. Until next time, I'm doctor Troy,
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  Speaker 2: and remember there really is way more right with you
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  Speaker 2: than there is wrong with you.
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  Speaker 1: The information on this podcast from doctor Troy Munson is
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  Speaker 1: meant to educate the listener on a variety of health issues.
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  Speaker 1: It is not meant to diagnose or treat any conditions.