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How to Reverse Thyroid Issues With Dr. Alan Christianson · Non-Toxic Living

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One of the biggest issues today, I think most people have some level of thyroid dysfunction.
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When I was sick and toxic, I had thyroid dysregulation.
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Big time, I couldn't take heart showers because I couldn't adapt to it.
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If I stood up, I would get dizzy.
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And your thyroid's kind of connected to that too.
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Your thyroid has a pump that is nowhere else in your body.
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And it's made because the amount of iodine that it needs is very small.
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And the amount of blood in the blood is not always adequate.
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So we have to concentrate it.
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Now the problem is that...
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The standard American diet.
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I know insulin is a hormone.
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When you have insulin resistance, is that back feed-in to thyroid dysfunction in any way?
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Those on thyroid meds, there's so much disconnect between what we know in research
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and what's done in clinical practice.
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Happens all the time.
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Yeah, there have been a lot of big scathing articles saying that
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85% at least of those on their medications never needed them.
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And the meds actually taken unnecessarily raised the risk for cancers and early mortality and other problems.
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So those articles then made researchers ask your question,
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well, what can somebody do if they're already on the meds?
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And they've shown that.
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Dr. Alan Christensen, so great to have you on the show.
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Very excited.
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You're a special guest here with us.
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And let's dive in first of all.
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You've done a lot, right?
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You've helped a lot of people.
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You've educated millions of people
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about health and reversing disease in their bodies.
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How did you get into this space and why are you so passionate about it?
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You know, I'm so glad to be here with you for what you're doing,
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especially affecting kids and families.
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So I was a kid who was struggling with the issues from cerebral palsy.
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I couldn't do sports.
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I got pretty obese.
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And, you know, adolescents is tough when things go well,
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but when it doesn't go well, it can be pretty bad.
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Yeah.
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And long about by that time,
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I became desperate for something different.
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You know, I was made fun of in school and I could read well,
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but that wasn't any consolation at all.
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But I turned to health books and the things that I learned change my life.
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Yeah.
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And I realized how many people must be suffering and struggling
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for things that they don't have to that they could just connect with the right information.
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They could come back to their full potential again.
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When did you start reading books like on health?
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Well, health books about age 10.
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Wow.
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Yeah.
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Started acting on at about age 12.
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That's amazing.
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Like, there's, I don't, maybe you've heard that story,
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maybe by two other people that I've ever spoken to over the 20 years I've been in this space
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that they started that young.
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One of them was a friend of mine, Dr. Jack Tips.
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I don't know if you know Dr. Jack.
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Oh.
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He's like a, he's one of the old school guys, a wild man.
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And he started very young and then worked under gurus,
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like, herbologists and naturopathic, you know,
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experts and tinctures and, I mean, just doing crazy stuff, almost killing himself a few times.
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So that's beautiful that you're such a wealth of knowledge.
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I mean, you look great.
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You look healthy.
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You live the lifestyle and it started so young and how did,
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how did these decisions that you made?
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Like, how long did it take for you to start reversing some of these challenges that you had?
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Well, like I said, I couldn't do sports.
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I was really heavy.
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So seventh grade, I had the idea that if I just went for it in football,
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I mean, they were jocks, right?
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The athletes were healthy.
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So I wanted to be like that.
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So I figured, well, just of course we did.
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So I'll just show up.
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I'll just show up and it'll get there eventually.
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So the first day, get stood it up.
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Don't quite know how these pads work.
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Coach says, with school run out here,
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cross the field, start practice on the way to practice.
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I blacked out.
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That ended, that ended your career.
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That ended the V1.0.
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That was it.
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So you didn't go pro.
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Didn't go pro.
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That wasn't that story.
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I walked out there.
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I did it.
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I got stronger and I kept falling for it and I went pro.
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That's the end.
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And no, then I went to medical school there.
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No, I quit reading the space books for a while and picked up health books.
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So there is not a lot around.
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Things like Let's Be Well by Adele Davis.
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And I started changing my diet, you know, cut out sugar, cut out bread,
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and started exercising with no input from your family.
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Certainly no resistance.
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Right.
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But yeah, no, not so much input.
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Yeah, encouragement.
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Yeah, beautiful.
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Yeah.
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Did laps are on our kitchen?
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It was like 12 steps.
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I could do like three, four laps before I was exhausted.
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And then I could do more and more.
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And then two years later, there's the heroes journey.
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Yeah, two years later, I tried out again and I could play.
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It was one of the better, better runners.
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And yeah, things worked out differently.
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That's beautiful.
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So when did you decide to become a doctor?
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You know, I never stopped being interested in those things.
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And all along, I knew that like I said, there was that gap.
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Yeah, as a kid, I figured out that and I had seen doctors about this stuff.
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I was given medications for my seizures and whatnot.
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And they meant well, but none of it was helping me.
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And all along, I knew that was my calling.
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And I just figured I'd keep learning this stuff
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and become a doctor and apply it.
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That's pretty simple.
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Like it's a straight line to be started 10 years old.
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It would make sense that you'd want to make it a career.
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Well, but I didn't know about anything besides conventional care.
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And I figured that if I had good knowledge, good intentions,
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things I could do that would help,
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that it wouldn't matter if this is what they're already doing or not.
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But the closer I got to that,
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the more the doctor mentors of mine told me, so look, kid,
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that's cute, but that's not standard of practice.
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You lose your license doing stuff like that.
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But then how did you work around that?
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You just found ways to do it safely and correctly.
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Well, I learned about the naturopathic profession.
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So I went that direction and learned ways to go into
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still do an endocrinology specialty.
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But along the way, I saw that, you know,
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the things that helped me, many people with endocrine disorders
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like thyroid disease, those things weren't enough.
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You know, they were already trying to eat well and exercise,
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but it wasn't really helping things for them.
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Yeah, there's more to it.
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And I think we should get into thyroid.
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I think it's one of the biggest issues today.
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I think most people have some level of thyroid dysfunction.
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It's a major hormone that affects energy in our life.
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So optimizing thyroid and toxins are a big effect on that, right?
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And if you can find ways to remove toxins, support your thyroid,
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I know that if you take iodine right and wrong,
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you can kick off toxins and cause more problems.
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So it's a very, it's a complicated endocrin system
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that is not well understood by most.
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And it is your specialty.
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So I love to get some of these solutions.
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Why is it such a big problem today?
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A massive problem.
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Both the autoimmune side of it, the other side of it,
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all of it, the micro dysregulation of the thyroid.
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I know that I had, when I was sick and toxic,
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I had thyroid dysregulation big time.
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I couldn't take heart showers because I couldn't adapt to it.
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Obviously, I couldn't exercise.
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I couldn't adapt to that sort of stress.
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If I stood up, I would get dizzy.
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And your thyroid's kind of connected to that too.
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My feet were cold all the time.
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My hands were cold like all that.
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And then after I ate well, it worked for me.
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It detox ate well.
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I was able to get my, I did do the pig thyroid for a while.
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Boy did I feel great, really great.
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I took it right before I got married because I wanted some,
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to feel a little better.
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So that definitely helped there.
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So I, to give my thyroid a rest.
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So I did some of this stuff, but that's it.
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I, and there's people that are really suffering,
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and not finding answers.
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And I toxins are a definite driver of that.
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But I'd like to pick your brain on that.
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Well, and more so than any other part of the body,
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it can, there can be a big driver.
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So toxins are highly tied to thyroid disease.
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The relevance is that there is a pump.
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Your thyroid has a pump that is nowhere else in your body.
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And it's made because the amount of iodine that it needs is very small.
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And the amount of blood in the blood is not always adequate.
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So we have to concentrate it.
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Now the problem is that I think about like those,
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those airplanes that drop water in the forest fires,
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you know, they suck up all the water, these ponds.
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You figure they got to get some weeds and some frogs and stuff in there too, right?
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Yeah, they have to.
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That's the pump here.
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So the pump we adapted was evolved way before we were exposed
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to the big range of chemicals we are today.
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So a lot of waste, not only, all these things
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passively can get into our bodies and get stuck.
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That's always bad.
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But in the thyroid, they also get concentrated by the pump.
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Ah, that's why it gets concentrated.
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And I know that like mercury does,
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does mercury bind to receptor sites or something in the thyroid?
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Yeah, it simply bioaccumulates.
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It's one of those things that gets in there and doesn't get out as readily.
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Yeah, it's a mess.
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So what else?
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Like that's, you know, environmental toxins,
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a big deal, diet, lifestyle choices,
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not getting outside in the sunshine.
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Like, what else can dysregulate someone's thyroid?
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Well, I think about things that can be stressors,
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dysregulators, and then things that are causal for disease.
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Got it.
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Pull is a part.
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Yeah, big difference.
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So a causal factor could do it all by itself.
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You know, like nothing else needed,
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but that can make the disease happen.
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Whereas all these other things are like,
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you know, one more car in the bridge.
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You know, like they by themselves may not do it,
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but if things are already loose and shaky,
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they may push things along a bit further.
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The standard American diet, right?
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I know insulin is a hormone, right?
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And when you have insulin resistance,
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is that back feed-in to thyroid dysfunction in any way?
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That can be one of many contributors for sure.
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That's over here in the, then over here.
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So if you have thyroid problems,
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the mainstream medical is, you know,
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people get thyroid cancer, right?
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And they get it cut out.
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And that's hard on you.
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Then you're on what's in thyroid.
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And there's medical interventions
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and but what is the hope who someone say is hypothyroid?
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And I've seen it.
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I've seen people, I don't even know how to say it correctly,
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but they no longer have it.
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Let's just say that.
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Like I've seen it over and over again.
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Wean themselves off and make decisions
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and have a healthy thyroid and balance blood work again.
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And I've seen it over and over again in my 20 years.
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So this is an anecdotal.
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Like it's totally possible.
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Yes, totally possible that when you go to your medical doctor,
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they run it.
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I don't work with thyroid, but I'm sad, you know,
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that there is options to that aren't drug related, right?
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So when you say someone's on synthetic and they want to try a natural route
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to see if their body can rebalance that.
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Or I would make it start producing because it shuts down.
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It's kind of like when you take testosterone,
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your junk shrinks, right?
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It's just you're not working that muscle.
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Your body's like, okay, thanks.
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You know, I don't need to make that anymore.
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It adapts.
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It's a beautiful system.
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So what is that process of someone naturally supporting the thyroid
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to get the results that you'd like to get inside of what you do?
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A lot of great points in there.
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Yeah.
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So to back up a step, so those on thyroid meds,
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there's so much disconnect between what we know in research
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and what's done in clinical practice.
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Happens all the time.
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Yeah.
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There've been a lot of big scathing articles saying that 85%
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at least of those on their medications never needed them.
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And take that's a lot.
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And this is the most widely prescribed.
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Well, within the top one or three,
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most widely prescribed medications globally.
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So you see a parking lot in a pharmacy and you think
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about a third of those cars that are there,
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they don't need to be there.
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That's a big deal.
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Well, and the meds actually taken unnecessarily raised the risk for cancers
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in early mortality and other problems.
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So those articles then made researchers ask your question,
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well, what can somebody do if they're already on the meds?
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And they've shown that if someone doesn't do anything at all smart,
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they don't do anything, all the good things that they could do
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that you teach people about that are all helpful.
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Even if they don't do any of that,
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84% of the time they can lower their meds
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with no adverse effects whatsoever.
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And about half the time they can come up
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with no adverse effects whatsoever.
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And eliminate some of these downstream risks
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that really don't probably not saying that.
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Like, they just say how long, when I was sick,
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they're like, hey, I'm 5% better on effects
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or how long should I stay on the rest of my life.
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You know, I'm like, what?
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That was my journey because that's what I heard.
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A local medical doctor and nowherevill,
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zillionopal Pennsylvania that my parents sent me in
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because they saw how much I was suffering.
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Go to the medical doctor.
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My mom was using psychotropics at the time.
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And you know, I had chronic pain,
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fibromyalgia.
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It was a crazy person's disease then, right?
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Obviously, I was mitochondrial dysfunction,
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thyroid dysfunction, you know, all the things, right?
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Until my cells could regenerate,
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my thyroid could generate, took seven years, right?
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Literally, it's neat.
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Your cell turnover does kind of work out
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that seven to 10 years is what I tell people.
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Really slowest ones, yeah.
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Yeah, for the slowest ones.
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But some thyroid cells about two, three months.
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Yeah, some things, well, that's a fast one.
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Yeah, it turns over quickly.
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Your gut turns over mouth, right?
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All those things.
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So that's beautiful.
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So that's an easy solution, right?
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Is work with the right doctor and say,
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hey, let's see how I do.
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So for those on the meds,
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now, the other thing you talked about
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is those who have hypothyroidism or Hashimoto's.
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And the stories you said about folks getting better,
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totally true.
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I love clinical research because we can see
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what's most likely to work.
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You know, people are always different,
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but it's just like a product review.
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You know, you're not going to buy the two,
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you actually might like the two-star thing,
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but you're probably not going to buy it.
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You know, you could try this every word for everybody else the most.
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So there have now been studies saying that those
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who are not yet on meds
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that have pretty advanced hypothyroidism,
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secondary to Hashimoto's,
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one clinical trial did nothing other than
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one small dietary intervention.
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Within three months,
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78.3% of these participants
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had perfectly normal thyroid function.
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So that's a lot of the 22-some-myth percent that didn't.
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One big group simply wasn't very compliant.
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You got to play to win.
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Another group was very far from normal going into it.
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They weren't yet normal.
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They were heading up right.
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So if you changed the numbers to say,
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well, of those who did it,
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how many either were totally cured
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or were headed that way,
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that was 97% by one small dietary intervention.
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Well, now it's like you just did a subject line in the email
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or an ad.
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What was that one small dietary change that could reverse,
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help reverse thyroid disease or whatever.
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So what is that dietary change?
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Well, and all the things you can do for diet and lifestyle
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and health, they're all important.
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But this study had one variable,
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and that was controlling their iodine intake.
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That's a big one.
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Right, so let's talk about iodine.
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I know that's a big one.
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You can't take too much.
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If you take too much,
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you can throw someone into a thyroid storm,
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and that's dangerous, right?
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So is there blood work and testing for that?
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Well, pretty much it's,
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do you have thyroid disease
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or if you've got a lot of it in your family?
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We know there's about a dozen and a half genes involved.
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Even if you have the genes that are not always active,
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so the biggest thing is,
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yeah, if you've got thyroid disease
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or a lot of it's in your family,
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you probably want to be cautious about
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getting into a safe range for it.
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And if you already have thyroid disease
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getting into a narrower target,
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that's the best predictable way to reverse it.
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Beautiful.
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So I'm asking this question,
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and I've been in this supplement world,
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and all of it, all the things.
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So adding more iodine, was it,
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what were they taking?
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There's so many, there's different forms of iodine,
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and there's always these battles,
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and doctors say, oh my gosh,
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you got to take this form,
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and you got to get it naturally,
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else you're gonna,
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so let's kind of...
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Simple one there, so iodine's an element,
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and to be really precise,
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we ingest iodide,
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and we form that into iodine.
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Okay.
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Unless you got a particle accelerator,
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you can't change elements.
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Yeah.
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So it doesn't matter what form it is,
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it's iodide.
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That's one of them.
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So you shut that one right now
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with chemistry 101, Dr. Allen Christian.
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Sorry, sorry, it's not methyl,
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methyl, full, ladle, iodide, you know,
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it's gonna process.
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Like what mom said,
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it all goes in the same place in your stomach,
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it all goes the same,
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it all works the same way,
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once it could stay on.
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Yeah.
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So you could eat foods higher in iodide.
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I'd just say iodine, because it's iodine.
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Yeah, but yeah.
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Higher in iodine.
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So is your foods,
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your personal care products,
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your supplements, your salts,
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those are the biggest,
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biggest sources of that.
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Was anything else you wanna share on thyroid?
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Cause I wanna move into like non-toxic living,
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and you know, you live in a middle of nowhere,
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you probably walk around barefoot and garden,
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and hug your dog and hug trees,
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and cause that's non-toxic living,
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and I know that that's the sort of lifestyle
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you've chosen over the years and enjoy,
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which is beautiful,
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but if you're gonna leave someone who is listening to this
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and be like, hey, you know, being encouraged,
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you know, the thyroid diagnosis isn't a death sentence,
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it doesn't mean you're gonna be on drugs
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the rest of your life necessarily.
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You can, that's your choice,
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if you choose to do that,
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but is there any final words of wisdom?
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Cause this definitely is something you specialize in.
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If you've got thyroid disease and you're struggling,
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you don't have to struggle.
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There are solutions, there are ways you can feel better.
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You might not, if you're on meds,
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you may not need them long term.
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And yeah, the thyroid's very regenerative,
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and if you're not where you wanna be,
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don't settle for that.
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Yeah, so even if you've had this begs another question,
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if you had a, so you had cancer,
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you had part of it removed,
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have you seen it part of it grow back?
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I've seen all of it, well,
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so some thyroidectomy surgeries,
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there's actually an extra lobe
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that about five percent of people have
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that sometimes gets left behind,
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so I've seen it grow back after full thyroidectomy.
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Now that's not common,
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but seeing a lot of stuff over the years,
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and yeah.
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Yeah, because what other organs can grow back?
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Your liver's one of the best, yeah.
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I hear about that, people don't
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hang out living in the liver grows back.
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I mean, that's just 80%.
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80% you can, that's just 80%.
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It blows my mind, you know.
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That's actually like 28 days, too.
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That's a faster.
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28 day cellular turnover.
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So that means if you stop poisoning your liver with alcohol,
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right, this thing can turn around, you know,
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and I drink very little alcohol.
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It's really hard to be part of a non-toxic lifestyle
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and purposely poison yourself.
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You know, I mean, you can use it in rituals
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and certain things, it can add value, but overall,
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you know, it's hurting you.
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But the good news is it can regenerate.
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Yeah, your liver can regenerate.
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I tried for a lot of years to be sociable and fit in
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and have a few steps here and there,
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but it never benefited me in any way of alcohol,
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and the data's clear that there's no net benefit to health,
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and I just gave up, you know.
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Yeah, me too.
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And it's tough, especially at health events,
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and they're staying up late, and I'm like, what, you know.
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But such once was I, you know, but I guess age once again,
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I don't fit in, you know, and I'm doing my own jam.
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My kids don't fit in, you know, they're homeschooled,
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and it's neat to see that people are interested.
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It's like, you know, in my children and how they act
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and how well adapted they are,
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and because of all the stigmas of homeschooling
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and all the things.
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So, you've raised two children.
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We have a lot of moms following, you know, this podcast,
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and you've been, you're a great dad.
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You know, I hear that from others,
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and I'm a mutual friend of ours who said,
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you need to get on this podcast with Warren.
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And honestly, I asked them to,
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because I was like, hey, I like Dr. Allen.
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I like what he's about.
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I hear positive things.
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You've been coming to health conferences
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for years and years, adding value,
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and teaching and educating.
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So, you've adapted a non-tastic lifestyle.
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You don't do alcohol.
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Like, you're living in the woods, you know,
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you're choosing a non-tastic lifestyle,
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because it's a choice, right?
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You don't have to do it, but you can choose it.
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Well, and that's the thing, you know, as a kid,
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I figured out that not only did that make me healthier
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and take care of these concerns,
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but it was almost just hedonistic.
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I just felt better, you know,
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mentally, physically, in every way.
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I'm like, well, why would you want anything else, you know?
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And I always thought people have this idea
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that you need some kind of discipline
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or you're missing out on all these things you really want.
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No, once you feel good, that's the best high there is.
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It is the best high, connecting to your family,
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connecting to nature, it's the ultimate high.
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Yeah.
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I tell that to people, that's why I do this.
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If you can get reconnected to your health,
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reconnected to spirit to God, it feels really good.
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The dopamine spike, you know, the hormone regulation,
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the encouragement that you hear, you know,
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you don't hear the voices, right?
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You know, but they're quiet, you know,
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you're not good enough for the things that happen in the trauma.
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They're very silenced when you realize
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that this world can work for you and not against you
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if you choose it, right?
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But it's sad, it's hard, right?
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It's hard for people.
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They, you know, it happened early to you,
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you adapted early, you saw the light early.
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You're like one of those Christian kids
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where it all worked out because they, they,
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they didn't, they learned early on.
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And, you know, I'm just making a joke
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because I was raised that way and kind of poking fun.
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But I wanted the horror story, you know,
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it's like, oh, I was a drug addict and, you know,
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my life turned around, but you did learn early,
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through pain, you leaned into pain,
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you knew, you knew leaning into pain,
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you learned early on that if you lean into it
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and learn from it and focus on the solution
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and don't feel sorry for yourself
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and take, take responsibility knowing that every action
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has an equal and opposite reaction, you know,
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some of the laws that the universe revolves around.
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But what are, what are some of the lifestyle hacks
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that you use?
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I mean, you're, we don't like the word hack as much,
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but what are some of the choices?
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Like, if you would give us, and this is one of the questions
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I ask everybody, if there's, you can give me several
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because I think we have enough time here,
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but some of the things that you do to live a non-tastic lifestyle
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that have major benefits for your health
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because you can feel it.
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It's funny, you know, over the years,
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the more I think about these things,
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the more I think about the more soft touchy-feely things
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being the most powerful, you know,
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having a clear purpose, you know,
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having that, having a sense of meaning,
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you know, feeling like I'm doing something useful.
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I'm staying ground with my family, you know,
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caring for my parents, being with them
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and connecting with my roots, you know,
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where I'm from and my origin
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and being a part of that, being part of a lineage.
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So I think the softer things maybe even among the most powerful,
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more tangible things, a lot of time outside, you know,
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I love being back in Northern Minnesota
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and experiencing the seasons and, you know,
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all the differences of them and kind of rejoicing all of them
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and just finding ways to move outdoors
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and be active and be connected without.
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And mostly just eating simple foods,
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a minimally processed, a lot of cooking at home.
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I've never found extreme diets to be,
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as far as the foods that our grandparents have eaten.
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I never found good data, those things really were harmful.
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We have to be cautious about where they're from
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and they're clean or whatnot.
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But the diets that cut out all kinds of food,
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categories and groups, I've seen a lot of folks just do badly
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by being too restrictive, so I'm not restrictive,
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but yeah, just minimally processed foods, lots of movement
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and time with loved ones.
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Yeah, you're feeding your soul, you're feeding all the things,
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right? You are what you eat, you are what you watch,
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you are what you, who you become around.
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Like, I think those are really, really powerful,
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simple tools and you're doing it well.
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Do you bass fish in your Minnesota?
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Yeah, yeah.
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So, you have to know that I'm an avid bass fisherman.
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I used to fish in tournaments in Pennsylvania.
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I started a little bit here in Utah
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that I just ran out of time.
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I used to my boat twice this year,
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but I go to Canada every year and for a couple weeks,
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that's where our family's from and I'll fish every day.
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My son and I were in the Boundary Waters last summer.
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Oh, wow.
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That's how we survived.
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Yeah, it's, yeah, you're, forging.
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I tell you though, when you're purging,
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it'll ruin you though, profishing anywhere else.
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Because like two, three casts and you've got a massive
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large mouth or a big walleye or something.
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Yeah, it's ridiculous.
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It's some of the most prolific waters for growing,
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and there's no fishing pressure for the fish can grow.
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Get bigger, bigger.
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Not everyone's up there eating them like a,
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maybe I don't know what their natural predator is up there.
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So I know you live where you live
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and you have this great life, right?
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And so do I and we control environment.
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We're older, we have the how we want to live
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and we know our purposes and we're in that place.
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But I think we still all have concerns.
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And this could be any concern,
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but I just like to bring it up if you have a concern
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that you think that you could remove, right?
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Some people say it's fear or like
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there's all these different toxins, right?
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But if you have one concern that you could help humanity with
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and remove that concern, what would it be?
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Just a, even philosophical, I mean, it doesn't matter.
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Yeah, I guess those could be hard for my wheelhouse skill set,
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but in terms of toxins, the effects globally,
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the air pollution's the biggest thing.
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I mean, as far as what we ingest in a given day,
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we take way more air than food or water.
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And we see data about just the death rates now
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from air pollution in larger cities that are skyrocketing.
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So if there's one single thing or one single step,
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if I had a wand and like one charge in the wand,
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I guess that would be the thing I would do.
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Yeah, one wish from the genie.
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It's like clean up our air
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because we're not ingesting, you know,
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breathing in a microplastic a week
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and the heavy metals from the tire dust.
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And we don't think about these things, right?
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I think we can all agree that we're destroying nature, right?
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Everybody can agree with that, right?
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Whatever political fence you sit on,
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the toxins are affecting the planet,
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our microbiomes, our soils,
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and we're breathing it in.
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So that's your magic wand moment.
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That's a good one, you know.
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So how can folks find you and learn more about what you do
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and how you can help people
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if they have a thyroid concern, your social media,
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you know, all those things.
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You know, easy as single step in that case
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would be learning more about iodine, invisibleidine.com
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as a free docu-series.
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Talks all about how much the body needs,
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where it comes from, where you can might get too much,
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Twitter, some healthy ways to know what are the right amounts,
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but yeah, invisible iodine, free docu-series for the public.
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Great.
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What about Instagram handles?
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Yep, at DR Allen, Christianson.
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That's an easy one, website.
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DRChristensen.com, perfect.
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So it's been a pleasure and honor
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having you on the show.
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You're an amazing human.
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I can tell that you're, you know, you don't have an agenda.
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You just, you're living your life helping people
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and sharing the wisdom that you've gained,
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starting all the way back when you were 10 years old.
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Thanks so much for being here.
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I see the same in you.
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I'm glad to be here with you.
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Thank you.