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090 // Shadiness in the Supplement Industry · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome back to another episode of Health with Hashimoto's. This podcast is
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  where I hope that every single week you find simple and sustainable things that
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  you can do to improve your health.
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  When you have an autoimmune condition like Hashimoto's, you know that every
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  single thing that you do, it really adds up.
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  And you want to be making sure that what you're doing is making a positive impact
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  on your health, your health today, and your health going forward.
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  Because our health is a treasure.
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  Our health is a gift. And as you know, as somebody who has had their health
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  taken from them or decreased, you'll do anything to get your health back.
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  I have seen that in the emergency department as a nurse. I've seen that in the
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  clinic. I have seen that with my work as a nurse coach and nurse educator.
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  I have seen that so many times.
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  Your health is the most valuable thing that you have. And we really want to
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  make sure that we are supporting it as best we we can.
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  So today on the episode, I'm going to share about some shadiness in the supplement
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  practice or the supplement industry and why I now have a full script link that
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  you can get your supplements from.
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  But first, let's talk about supplements in general. Do you need them?
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  Well, when I went to nursing school back in, well, I started school in 97.
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  I was taught in my one nutrition class that people do not need multivitamins.
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  They do not need supplements. those just make expensive urine.
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  Now, as the years have gone by, I think that philosophy has gone down,
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  especially as more and more and more research has proven that we actually all
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  are deficient. We're deficient in minerals because there's not as many minerals in our food.
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  We're deficient in antioxidants.
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  We're deficient because our bodies are using more things.
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  When you're under more stress, you use more nutrients to combat that stress
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  and to support the different processes in your body that have to combat that
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  stress and, you know, fix up the damage.
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  So there's a lot of things that go into our need for supplements.
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  So where do you get them? Well, for about 20 years, well, not 20 years,
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  from the beginning of when Amazon had supplements, I have been talking about
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  that because I am older than Amazon.
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  And when it started, it was just books. And then it became this store where
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  you can get everything and you can get counterfeits of everything.
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  And that's one reason why I tell people do not get your supplements from Amazon.
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  But another reason is it's just really hard to verify that you're getting the good stuff from Amazon.
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  And the only time I will buy a supplement from Amazon is if the supplier themselves
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  says we are selling through Amazon.
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  There was one company probably, I don't know, seven years ago that had the best
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  probiotic on the market at that time.
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  And the only place that you could get it was via Amazon.
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  So I would make sure that I went to their store specifically on Amazon and I would buy it from them.
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  And that's where I would tell my people to get it. But there are really no quality controls at Amazon.
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  You can sell anything on Amazon and that's a good thing and a really bad thing.
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  So please do not get your supplements on Amazon.
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  So where do you get them? Well, you can get them directly from the manufacturer.
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  I really like the companies that sell directly to you.
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  A lot of those are network marketing companies because really good supplements,
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  they have a story behind them and they have a little education behind them.
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  And now with the internet, and with as much as the internet impacts us now,
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  we can dig for information.
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  But 10 years ago, we couldn't really as much.
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  And so the word spread from person to person is, have you heard how much this can help you?
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  And did you know that most people are deficient in minerals?
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  And did you know that your body can create its own antioxidants?
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  There's so many things that we need education about. And that is one of the
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  really good things about network marketing is it's an industry of primarily
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  people who want to help other people and they are helping educate them so that
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  their friends and family and their friends and family can all improve their
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  health through different products.
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  Unfortunately, there are some shady companies in the network marketing world.
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  You know, I've been a nurse for 25 years, 24 years, I don't know.
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  And of course, people have brought dozens, if not hundreds of different companies
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  products to me and asked me to evaluate.
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  And I have seen some definitely not good companies that I would never support.
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  And I've seen some really good ones. There's like all in between.
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  So look for good ones. But if you're just looking like you want the Amazon of
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  supplements, that is where Fullscript comes in.
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  Now, Fullscript, I don't know when it was created, but their mission is to to
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  provide people with a place to buy quality supplements.
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  And recently, they did a sampling of magnesium and to find out how pure all
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  of the products that they sell are.
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  So let me tell you a little bit about magnesium and why they did this study and what they found.
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  All right, so this story starts back in 2022 when a company did a study on products directly from Amazon.
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  They took 16 products and they tested them and they found that out of those
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  16, only 12 of them met even the label claims for the magnesium content.
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  So, I mean, what is that? Like 75%? So there's right off the bat,
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  you're looking at 25% of the stuff that you buy on Amazon, according to that
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  study, it doesn't even have what it says on the label.
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  That's just ridiculous. You want to make sure that when you are investing in your health,
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  whether it's the money that you're buying the products or
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  the actual work of taking the products not that's
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  you know a huge hassle you pop
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  a pill in your hand and you swallow it right but still you want to make sure
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  that every single investment that you have in your health is doing something
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  you don't want to be paying for and using something that is not going to work
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  especially if it's going to do damage and some things on amazon will do damage
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  other companies have bought their quote, own products,
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  which were actually counterfeits being sold on Amazon with very,
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  very legitimate looking labels and everything.
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  And they have found that they were like filled with wheat, they were filled
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  with sawdust, they were filled with other things.
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  It's just please don't buy your stuff on Amazon, your supplements.
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  All right, so the 2022 study revealed that only 12 out of the 16 were good.
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  Now, the FDA, that's the regulation agency in the United States,
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  they require now that all dietary supplements meet 100% of their label claims
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  throughout their shelf life until they expire.
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  I don't think it used to be that way. It used to be like 10%.
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  And now, thankfully, they have to meet 100% of label claims.
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  It's no longer like a pepperoni pizza.
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  You know, a pepperoni pizza could have 10 pepperonis on it or 500 pepperonis
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  on it, and it would still qualify as a pepperoni pizza.
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  That's how the supplement industry used to be regulated.
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  But now the FDA has really cracked down, which is a good thing for us as consumers.
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  So Fullscript ran their own testing, and they actually pulled 100 products off
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  of their shelves, and they tested them.
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  But before that, I guess I should tell you, why magnesium? Why is magnesium important?
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  It is important because it's.
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  Well, all minerals are needed for your cells to do things, to have enzyme reactions.
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  And your cells run on enzyme reactions. You run on enzyme reactions.
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  So you need minerals in order to make those work, to make you work, right?
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  And magnesium is involved in, I believe, over 300 different enzyme reactions.
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  And those include things like making proteins, contracting your muscles,
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  relaxing your muscles, your nerve functions, regulating your blood pressure,
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  regulating your glucose or your blood sugar.
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  Magnesium is involved with your hormone receptors.
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  And if you have Hashimoto's, then you have thyroid, which is a hormone.
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  You have thyroid problems. You
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  really want to make sure that your hormone receptors are working, right?
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  And magnesium is also related to your heart function.
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  So many things, 300 different things within your body.
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  And magnesium is also one of the top deficiencies in the Western world.
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  We want to make sure that we're getting enough magnesium, obviously.
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  Getting it from food is the first source. And if you're not getting what you
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  need from food, that's where supplementation comes in. That's why we have the word supplement.
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  It's to supplement what you're already doing. It's to fill the holes of what
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  what you're not getting in your diet.
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  So Fullscript took 100 different magnesium products.
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  They took different forms because there's a lot of different forms of magnesium.
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  Like glycinate, citrate, malate, you know, lots of different forms.
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  And they also took a lot of different.
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  Delivery formats. So capsules, soft gels, liquids, gummies, lotions, all these things.
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  And then they tested all 100 products because they want to make sure that what
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  is sold on the Fullscript platform is actually good.
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  They want to make sure that we are getting quality products.
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  They're committed to purity. And even though the different products that are
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  in Fullscript that that are available through that, even though they've been
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  through other testing, ideally, I mean, obviously through the company itself,
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  the manufacturer, but then also a lot of manufacturers and companies send their
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  stuff to third-party testing.
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  That's one thing that I look at when I am ordering supplements is,
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  does it have third-party testing?
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  And now Fullscript has done additional testing to make sure that what they have
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  is pure and it does have the potency that it's supposed to have.
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  And I just really appreciate that because it takes a lot of time to go through
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  and investigate every single one.
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  And I have sat at my computer or sat on my phone and done the investigation.
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  Like I said, over the years, people have brought hundreds of companies to me. Hundreds?
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  Dozens? I don't know. It seems like a ton. It seems like I've looked at every
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  single network marketing company, and yet people are always bringing me new ones.
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  So I haven't looked at them all, but I have looked at so many and every single
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  time it does take time because I'm looking at the claims. I'm looking at the research.
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  I'm looking at the purity. I'm looking at the third party testing.
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  I'm looking to see if what it says
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  that it's going to do, if it's actually going to do it. Now I am a nurse.
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  I'm not a researcher and I don't know, like, I don't know everything clearly.
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  I am just a human being. I don't know everything, but I work really hard to
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  make sure that what I am telling you is true and it's simple and sustainable.
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  And it's not simple or sustainable to dig into every single supplement and company like I do.
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  It takes me time. And when I have somebody ask me for stuff,
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  I put it on a list and I wait until I have time.
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  Sometimes I open that list and I open up that site up to the first person on
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  the list who's asked me to look up something and I open it up.
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  I'm like, well, yeah, nope.
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  I can tell you right away that that's just a load of poo. It is not okay.
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  And so I'll tell them, like, this does not meet my criteria.
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  It's not something that I would choose to support my health or that I could recommend to others.
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  And quite often people just don't even respond when I tell them that because
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  what they really want, I think, what they really want is when they're sending
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  me a network marketing company is they're hoping that I'm going to join and
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  I'm going to tell you about it.
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  And then they're going to make a whole bunch of commission. And that's not how I do things.
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  When I tell you about something, it's because I believe it. It's because I've
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  done the research and because I believe that it can actually help you.
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  And I have told you about things from different network marketing companies.
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  When I tell you about the NRF2 pathway within your own body,
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  where you can create your own antioxidant, where you can create glutathione,
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  which does so many different things.
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  In fact, endogenous glutathione, the glutathione that you make,
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  that's what endogenous means.
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  It was the number one thing that predicted if somebody was going to have a good
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  outcome from COVID or not.
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  If you had endogenous enough, endogenous glutathione, then your chances were...
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  Phenomenal versus, you know, other. And so when I talk to you about the NRF2
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  pathway and activating that or the NRF1 pathway, where you're activating your
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  mitochondria, you know, every single cell needs to run in order for you to run, right?
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  Of course. And every single cell needs to run well in order for you to have
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  healthy organs, right? Of course.
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  And so what does every single cell need? Well, it needs the energy to be able to run.
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  And that energy, of course, you know, from high school biology.
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  It's the mitochondria that creates that.
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  And the mitochondria is impacted by the NRF1 pathway within your body.
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  So when I'm talking to you about activating the NRF2 pathway and the NRF1 pathway,
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  the products that I talk about, it's a network marketing company because it's
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  the best that I have found.
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  If I found a different one that was just as good or better, I would switch what
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  what I'm telling you. And I have done that in the past.
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  I used to talk about a phenomenal product that had humic and fulvic acid in
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  it. Now I love humic and fulvic acid.
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  They are little things from the dirt and they contain so many minerals.
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  They are so helpful to the body. I talk about them as kind of like college parents,
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  a college student's parents.
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  So those parents are going to go and visit their kid at the dorm.
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  They're going to go in and they're going to look around the dorm and they're
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  going to say, oh, these things are missing.
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  Let's go to the store, grab these things and bring them into the dorm room.
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  And then they're also going to look at the dorm room like, oh,
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  there's a lot of trash in here.
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  Let me take that out. That's kind of what humic and fulvic acid do within your cells.
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  They go in, they look around, they bring in what's needed.
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  They can carry in 77 or more minerals, and then they carry out the trash. They are phenomenal.
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  And I used to talk about it all the time until that company that I was talking
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  about got acquired by another company.
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  And that company was not good. And I could no longer promote that company.
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  Now, since then, I have found another company.
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  Actually two different companies that have humic and fulvic acid because it's
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  still something or they are still something that can really help your health.
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  But when I tell you about something, I'm going to make sure that the company
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  as well as the products are worth telling you about because I do not want you
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  to waste your time or your money or your efforts.
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  I want everything that you do to have a good result, at least as far as it is in my control.
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  So all of that to say, I have looked at so many different companies,
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  and I really appreciate that Fullscript actually tests their products above
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  and beyond what the actual manufacturer and the companies do themselves.
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  And then those companies send it
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  to third party, but then Fullscript occasionally does their own testing.
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  Now, Fullscript is not a store like Amazon where you can just hop on,
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  anybody can hop on and order.
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  You need a link, and I do have a link so that you can create an account.
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  Now at this time, I do not do any monitoring.
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  I will not do any recommendations as far as like sending you stuff.
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  That's all on you. I give you the link. I educate you on this podcast and I
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  hope that through this podcast, you have learned so much and you can make educated
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  choices to support your health.
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  I believe that you are the CEO of your own health. You make the decisions.
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  I as a a nurse and as a podcaster, I am on your board of directors.
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  Hopefully your doctor, your chiropractor, your therapist, they are on your board
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  of directors. Ultimately though.
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  You are the CEO of your own health and you make the decisions.
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  So I supply you with the Fullscript link in the account and you can get what you want.
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  Now, the glutathione stuff, the NRF2 and NRF1 activators, those are not on Fullscript,
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  but other things are like magnesium.
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  Now, anything that I have purchased from Fullscript and that I will use for
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  my family or for myself, I will put them in in my favorites.
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  So when you log into your account, you should be able to see,
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  I think it's the catalog, and then you can see Esther's favorites,
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  or maybe it says health with Hashimoto's favorites.
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  And like I said, those are things that I have actually purchased and used because
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  I want you to know that I'm not just selling you something.
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  I want you to be able to trust what I say.
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  And yeah, I'm going to stick by that. So head over to Fullscript and browse if you want to.
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  If you want some information on the nrf2
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  and nrf1 pathway which i believe are foundational i
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  would do those and i do do those before anything else
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  because activating your own body to do what it's supposed
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  to do is going to be more impactful than other things but of course if you're
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  not giving your body the building blocks to make what it needs then you have
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  to fill those gaps too so i do take several different supplements i take a pre
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  and probiotic so that would be called a symbiotic and I take the one from Seed.
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  You can get that on Fullscript.
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  You can also get it from Seed themselves.
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  And both of those have a subscription if you want.
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  So I take that. I do take a calcium and magnesium at bedtime because I find
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  that I sleep better and that I have less muscle cramping.
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  I take a fish oil every day because I do not get enough healthy fats in my diet.
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  Let's see, what else do I take? I think that's about it. I take the activators. So NRF1, NRF2.
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  Oh, you know what? I do take a multi-nutrient because I want to make sure that
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  I'm getting the minerals that I need, the vitamins that I need,
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  the adaptogens, which which is a fancy way to say helping my body combat stress.
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  I want to make sure that I'm getting those.
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  So I take a multi-nutrient. Now, all of those things, the NRF1,
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  NRF2, and the multi-nutrient, they come from the same company so that I can
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  take them together and they all complement each other.
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  And I love that they complement each other because they're designed to be used
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  together to make sure that you're getting the ingredients that your body needs
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  in order so that, you know, number one, it's activated,
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  but then two, it has the ingredients to be activated, to create those antioxidants.
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  You need both things. You need it to want to create it and to be able to create it, right?
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  Like I can want to go downstairs and make a recipe, but I also need the ingredients.
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  Is that making sense? I hope it's making sense. I feel like I kind of complicated it. Sorry.
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  But you know what? Full script is not complicated. Head over there and get what
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  you need or head over to LifeVantage.
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  My affiliate link is down in the show notes and you will get a 10% discount
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  when you go on subscription.
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  And I recommend that first because
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  activating your own body is always more powerful than something else.
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  All right. I'll see you next week in the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please be sure to discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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