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Why holiday eating derails your gut and the simple steps to get back on track · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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As God intended.
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Let's go.
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Hello, hello, and welcome to Looking for Healing Radio on the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network.
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I am your favorite host, Elizabeth Joseph, functional practitioner, certified holistic nutrition specialist and colon hydrotherapist and instructor.
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And it is here.
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Can you believe it?
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December is here.
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You know what that means.
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The holidays.
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Granted, I know last week was Thanksgiving.
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So hopefully you know that all the shows go to podcasts the next day.
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So in case you missed it, just go wherever you get your podcast.
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You can hear them on Spotify Stitcher, wherever you get them, you can go and re-listen to that episode.
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But this happens every year, doesn't it?
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Every year, right?
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Uh holidays, the wrecking the guts, bloated, inflamed, exhausted, constipated, craving sugar, gaining weight.
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Even if you didn't eat as much as usual, or you didn't eat much more than usual, if you don't feel like you overeat, there's lots of um tools that I see people trying to use.
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Um work, some don't.
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Yeah, I really, again, I'm I'm always solution focused.
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So I really want to give y'all some real solutions that work.
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I really want to break down, you know, why the microbiome is gonna take a massive hit.
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Why holiday bloat is not the same as body fat, why nerves, stress and travel shut down the gut.
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And if you've listened to this show before, you might already know some of this, but maybe not.
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But sugar and alcohol, oh my goodness, how that creates inflammation for weeks.
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And I got news for you.
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Don't shoot the messenger on this one, but gluten, it's even longer, it's even longer.
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These meat-heavy holiday meals are really gonna clog the system along with all the other heavy foods that we eat, right?
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Colonics, sauna, and float therapy are gonna work especially well together this time of year for you.
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And I want to give you again real solutions to reset in January, or hopefully, you know, not just as a temporary um, you know, temporary goal here, right?
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With our New Year's resolutions, you know, but without punishment, without dieting, without extremes.
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All right.
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So here's the truth, right?
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This holiday damage is really 80% physiology.
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It's not a willpower thing.
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You are not failing.
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Your body is reacting exactly how a human body reacts under these conditions.
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Let's break this down.
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Well, first of all, we're going to be overeating, right?
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In general, we are definitely going to be overeating.
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Um, you know, holiday parties, we're getting together with family, right?
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So that's already an issue on its own, which is just the fact that we overeat.
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Okay.
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But now we're not just overeating, you know, healthy foods.
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It's usually gonna really be heavy on the meat, cheese dishes, eggs, butter, cream, all that heavy rich stuff, right?
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Pastries, breads, pies, cakes, added sugar everywhere.
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Very little fiber, very little raw grains.
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Now, if you're you're a black family from the south, you might have some uh collard greens on your menu.
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All right.
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Now I grew up different, you know.
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I'm always talking to my uh black friends about this, you know, that I didn't grow up with the traditional um southern food, uh traditional, you know, black food, black American food.
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I I grew up very differently, my dad being from the Caribbean, so we definitely still had heavy meals, but I didn't have collard greens until oh my god.
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Third, third over 30.
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Like I think in my 30s was the first time I actually had it, believe it or not.
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But if you have seen collared greens, this dish, um, it's cooked brown, and this definitely is a Caribbean thing as well.
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My dad, all his greens were cooked, where they're you know, they're falling apart, they're tender, and it's not that there's no nutrition in it, but you're getting very little of it.
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Um, it's gonna be dehydrating.
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I mean, think about how a beautiful piece of collard or kale or bok choy, whatever greens you're you're using.
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Think of how beautiful and vibrant it looks when you first get it, and then when you cook it, it just gets brown the more you cook it, and that's definitely the types of greens that you know I I grew up with.
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And that's if you're having any greens on the menu, not only are they cooked typically with ham hock or pork, some type of meat, they're also cooked, cooked today, cooked today.
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They they are brown.
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They're they're I mean, there's just very little nutrition in there.
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So we're getting very little fiber, very little hydration.
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Don't typically see a salad on these holiday menus, right?
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And then that's on top of you know, the late nights, the disrupted schedule, right?
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I mean, this is such uh a uh a recipe for disaster, really.
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I mean, it's it's really this combination is like the best way to shut the gut down, you know.
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And then we talk about just sugar on its own, right?
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The sugar in all of the you know, pastries and desserts.
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It's gonna feed yeast, harmful bacteria, pro-inflammatory species.
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Uh, you'll feel it as gas, bloating, puffiness, swelling, uh, cravings, uh, brain fog, irritability, suppressed immune system.
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It's also addictive.
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Um, remember, sugar has no health benefits, added sugar, not talking about fruit sugar.
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That's different.
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All right, that is completely different.
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Um, but added sugar, cane sugar, white sugar, brown sugar.
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These are inflammatory, they're more addictive than cocaine.
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They suppress the immune system, and they light up the dopamine receptors in your gut, like a pinball machine.
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Um, I mean, it's they're no good.
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It's no good.
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You know, I really watch sugar um a lot again.
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You know, my basis, um, one of the first areas I studied, rather, is actually um was blood sugar management.
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It was diabetes.
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So I have a very strong knowledge, base of knowledge there.
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Uh, so I'm pretty big on looking for you know sugar-free alternatives.
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Um, you know, I make sure our marinara sauce is sugar-free.
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I even have a sugar-free ketchup.
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Um, you know, I've just constantly looking because hidden sugar is is found in a lot of places.
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So anywhere I can take that out, you know, that way you can be more aware of, you know, desserts that you are having and more aware of really your total sugar consumption versus oh, your yogurt in the morning has it, your cereal, your bread, your ketchup, your condiments, your barbecue, you know, and it just kind of adds up, right?
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Sugar is already gonna fuel the imbalanced microbes, right?
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Candida, all of that stuff, right?
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It just makes everything worse.
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Parasites, you name it, right?
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And then what about um what's the other thing that we're all doing?
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What is it?
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Oh, yeah, we're drinking, we're drinking, guys.
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We are drinking alcohol, dude.
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Most of us.
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Alcohol is super super toxic, guys.
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Um, and again, don't shoot the messenger here.
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I am not here to make you feel guilty, but information is everything.
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And don't worry, I'm gonna give you some ways to mitigate this damage.
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Um, I have a nice little concoction that I recommend for my drinkers, all right?
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Because I was there.
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I drank the drugs all through my 20s.
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So I I was totally there.
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Um, I understand it.
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And there was a period of my life where the drinking and the um my drinking and my cleansing kind of overlapped.
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So I got got pretty good at like beating a hangover.
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Um, so if you do.
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This it will work.
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But the one thing I will say, and I'm gonna get to that at the end of the show.
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But the one thing I will say is you have to consider the amount that you're drinking, and then you have to increase these tools that I'm giving you accordingly.
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Okay, so just kind of keep that in mind.
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Um, but alcohol is antibacterial, and that sounds kind of nice, but what that means is that it's killing off all the beneficial bugs in your gut.
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All right, it's gonna feed candida, it's gonna feed yeast, it's dehydrating, it's irritating to the gut lining, it's connected to leaky gut, it's super damaging to the liver and detoxification pathways, it's inflammatory, and I know in the holistic and functional world, I feel like that word uh toxic.
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I feel like it gets thrown around a lot.
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And I don't know about you, but I feel like because of that, it has really lost some of its meaning.
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I feel like we kind of hear it so much.
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It's like everything's toxic, it's toxic, it's toxic.
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But the truth is is some of this stuff really truly is toxic and fatal long term, but toxic.
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And I'll give you proof of alcohol.
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I was a bartender for years.
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I don't know if y'all know that.
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Again, I've worked in restaurant industry for um almost two decades, okay?
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So very long time.
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Now, anyone who's worked in a restaurant um or served alcohol, you have to take what?
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You have to take a alcohol education class and alcohol certification class.
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And what does this do?
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Well, they teach you how alcohol is metabolized and how to, you know, gauge if someone's too drunk, how and when to cut them off, etc.
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Right.
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But what's so crazy about alcohol?
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That something that we drink that's totally legal.
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If you drink too much, what happens?
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You die, you die.
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I mean, literally, it can kill you.
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I mean, that's kind of crazy.
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Don't you think?
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Isn't that nuts?
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And we're just like, oh, no problem.
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We're it's no big deal.
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I mean, that's crazy.
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Think about that.
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That's nuts.
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So again, keep that in mind, right?
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One holiday weekend might decrease your microbial diversity for two to four weeks.
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I mean, that's think about that.
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Again, I want to give you some solutions to try to mitigate that damage.
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Um, if you use them, right?
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But this is why you feel the skin flare up, your eczema flare up, your psoriasis, your increase in gas and bloating, your energy crashes, you're constipated, you're getting headaches, you have more anxiety, right?
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Not to mention dealing with our family, right?
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That's that's anxiety on its own.
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And then we pair that with like, you know, this most inflammatory food.
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We're up late, right?
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We're doing late nights later than we normally would.
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So we're getting poor sleep, and then it's just like more cravings.
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I mean, it's just this worst possible combination, right?
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Alcohol and sugar, you combine it with all of this other stuff.
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I mean, it's just it's a problem, right?
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I mean, most of these holiday meals are fiberless too, right?
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We talk a lot about fiber.
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I it cannot be overstated.
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It is so crucial and important that we're getting fiber.
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I can't tell you how many of my clients are like, well, I eat healthy, I don't know what's going on.
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And there's like meat, dairy, and eggs in every meal.
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If you're doing that three times a day, you're gonna have some dysbiosis, even if you're having that with vegetables every day, even if you're dairy and gluten-free.
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I've seen it, I've seen it.
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I can test your gut, I can test your poop, I can prove it to you.
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So you gotta have more fiber, right?
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You gotta have more fiber.
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No fiber means no books bulk stool, means no motility, and no microbial food.
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The fiber feeds your microbes, guys.
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Dairy's gonna thicken and increase your mucus, not the good kind, by the way.
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Slow the gut down and contribute to this like holiday congestion that we experience, right?
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Meat is already gonna take two to four days to digest.
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It's not gonna digest even worse when the body's under more stress and dehydrated, right?
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So the alcohol, don't forget that's dehydrating as well.
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Eggs are gonna feed bacteria associated with TMAO production, inflammation, and constipation.
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So, so the result.
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Well, now we're stagnant.
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Now we've got toxic fermentation.
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Now we've got gas, float, pressure, heaviness, toxic load.
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This is when people think, like, God, I must have gained five pounds overnight.
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I had uh one of the girls who worked for me, and I remember she was like, I love eggs, but she's like, I feel so poofy and inflamed when I eat.
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She's like, and it's not my weight hasn't gone up, but my clothes are tight.
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So interesting, right?
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So it's not that you gain five pounds overnight, but it could be that you retained water or that you're inflamed, or that you're carrying three to five days of backed up poop.
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You gotta remember.
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You should be pooping one meal a day.
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Excuse me, you should be pooping for every meal you eat, right?
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So if you're eating one meal a day, you should be having one bowel movement a day.
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If you're eating three meals a day, you should be having three bowel movements a day.
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So I'm just gonna take a general rule.
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So let's just say you eat three times a day and you're pooping once a day.
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Yay, you're pooping.
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Listen, that's great.
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You are absolutely better than the general public, statistically speaking, 100%.
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However, let's do the math.
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That means at the end of a week, there's 14 extra bowel movements in your gut.
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14, y'all.
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Yeah, yeah, that's right.
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That's that math.
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So motility, fiber, water, stress relief, all of these things are super important and gonna affect your bowels, your motility, the fermentation, your toxic overload.
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It's all connected.
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And there is a way to beat this holiday toxicity.
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We're gonna continue talking about that when we come back after this super quick break.
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And it is the holidays, holiday season.
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Whatever you celebrate.
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Hanukkah, Christmas Kanza, we do Kans at my house.
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Um, and forgive my ignorance because I'm sure that there are also some other holidays around the world.
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But let's be honest, most Americans are overeating.
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We're inflamed, we're tired, we're groggy, we're toxic, we're hungover, right?
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So what about the
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Other part.
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How else is this affecting us, right?
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Well, the holidays typically for most people.
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And this is, I would say, you know, all over, not just necessarily in America.
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They're gonna involve, you know, time with family.
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So travel or long drives, um, airport travel, um, staying up extra late, uh, disrupted sleep, family triggers, right?
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Maybe even just the idea of like being on socially, which might lead to that emotional overeating, or even like overextending and like compromising your own boundaries, uh, maybe even a little extra caffeine to compensate, right?
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This is this is gonna raise your cortisol, right?
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This is the travel, the stress, this is gonna disrupt your circadian rhythm, right?
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This is gonna slow down your digestion.
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It's gonna actually increase your blood sugar, right?
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It's going to reduce your stomach acid.
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It's going to slow down motility, it increases visceral flat fat.
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Uh, it's gonna cause sugar cravings.
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All of this is gonna disrupt your sleep and lower your immune system.
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So it's not necessarily a willpower thing.
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It's really like the physiology of what is happening in your body.
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And this is why we have this show on looking for healing radio on the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network, because for me, the information is power.
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It's not a shame, it's not a judgment, but these are facts.
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This is what happens.
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So I just want you to have all the information.
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So one, you know what to do.
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You know what to do in your body, or how to mitigate this, or at least what's happening and what you're feeling inside your body, right?
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And inside your head, your your heart, your soul, your spirit, right?
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We want you to really, you know, be empowered.
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That's that's really what I want for all of you.
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I want you to be empowered so that you can know what to do so that you're not confused.
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I think I think that's the worst part for me.
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And I see that honestly, with a lot of people, is just that you you're just like you feel crappy and then you don't know what's going on.
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Like, I don't know what's happening.
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Like that that sucks.
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I think that feeling to me is is even worse.
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I, you know, you might still feel crappy.
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You might still make similar choices, hopefully improved, but I don't want you to be confused of what's happening, right?
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We want you to understand why, and like maybe there is maybe there is a little prevention that we can sprinkle in this holiday season, you know.
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So, what about this bloating after the holidays?
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All right.
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So this is not always fat.
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You know, I think a lot of us are just like, oh yeah, I'm gaining all this weight.
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You know, you can that that can happen.
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But I would say typically it's not waking.
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Typically, it's inflammation, backed up poop, gut fermentation, lymph stagnation, and again, that hormonal dysregulation, which can lead to a little bit of increase in visceral fat, as we talked about with when your cortisol is really elevated, right?
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That lack of illumination and disrupted microbiome.
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But really, we're generally, I mean, we're really talking about a couple of things here.
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You know, inflammation is gonna be the big one.
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And then being backed up, right?
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It's clogged.
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I mean, typically one or two colonics will show people this wasn't necessarily body fat.
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People will lose weight sometimes or feel I feel lighter, I feel 10 pounds lighter.
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It's because it was waste, right?
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It's just waste and toxicity leaving the body, right?
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It's not always necessarily fat.
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The caveats any of this stuff is you gotta do it.
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You gotta go get the colonic, you gotta go do the float, you gotta take the supplements, you gotta do it, right?
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So why do you feel like, you know, here's the other thing too, right?
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We hear this like flu season, but think about it.
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Why this immune system is crashing, not because of the flu season, because we're getting less sunlight, so that's vitamin D, that's immune system, right?
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But 80 to 90% remember of the immune system is in your gut, guys.
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It's in your gut.
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So you have to understand that when your microbiome is disrupted in this way with what we're eating and the stress and the travel, that's your immune system.
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It's also being suppressed.
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This is why people get sick after travel or after big meals, not because you're exposed to more germs, because your defenses went offline.
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Same thing with with just everything else with the cortisol and the stress, right?
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That that's gonna also suppress your immune system.
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Right?
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These are the hidden pieces that we don't really think about.
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You know, the the belly fat, the cravings, the adrenal shutdown, right?
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When your cortisol rises, remember that's gonna disrupt your sleep, right?
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So travel is gonna happen with that, family interactions that trigger old patterns, the sugar and the alcohol, it's gonna affect your blood sugar, all of these things that we've talked about.
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The staying up late, the dehydration, this is all gonna cause insulin issues, drive cravings, increase belly flat, regardless of your calorie intake.
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This is why, you know, there's a lot of people dieting, and they look for these quick fixes, and and you will get some quick results with some of these diets, a carnivore keto, but what's happening long-term, unfortunately, is that they really are destroying the microbiome even further, right?
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Now I know we kind of already talked about alcohol as well.
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Um, but I again I just can't overstate how toxic it is for us.
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Um, really, really jacks up the liver.
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You've got to understand that the liver is really important, not just for detoxification, but it supports digestion and blood sugar and hormone regulation, your hormones, men, women, ladies.
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That's your perimenopause symptoms, your low libido, men or women.
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This is all related to your hormones.
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So when we have alcohol and sugar that are flooding the system, this is on top of the poor diet, right?
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The uh stress, I mean, that the the travel, the staying up late, right?
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That's causing, you have to understand, that's causing hormonal imbalances on its own, y'all.
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Already on its own, those things are happening.
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And then we're coupling that with just the worst, heaviest, most inflammatory food that we can possibly eat.
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And then we're drinking on top of it because it's stressful to be with our family.
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Let's be honest.
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You can't choose them, right?
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But we love them.
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We love them.
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That doesn't mean it's not stressful or triggering or even traumatizing for some of us, honestly.
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I mean, for some of us, this might really be some real trauma coming back up, you know, or new trauma.
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Who knows?
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I don't know, you know, I don't, I don't do the big holidays.
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I don't have a big extended family.
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Um, and I love my dad, he's great, but he's an insane person.
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Oh my God, right?
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But I've heard stories, you know, people have really dysfunctional families, they're getting into fights.
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You know, it can really be a thing, you know.
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Um we live for it.
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So, you know, we're we're self-medicating, you know.
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I don't know that we've found the balance for this, right?
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If we've really found the balance of just like, okay, well, you know, what do you know?
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We want to spend time with them through our family, you know, maybe maybe it's an obligation.
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Um, but most of us were we're succumbing to that.
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We're succumbing to that obligation, and you know, we're doing it.
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Um, but again, when when you combine all of this stuff, it's gonna again back up your your detox pathways, right?
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Um, the inflammation we already talked about, you know, just all of these symptoms, right?
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But what's happening behind the scenes that you may or may not even see again is the hormones, right?
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Your detoxification pathways.
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Think about if they're already backed up.
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Think if you already have like mold or metals in your system.
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If you have breast implants, you're you're
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liver is already on toxic uh overload if you have root canals your gut is is compromised which is gonna affect your liver which is gonna affect even your melatonin your ability to sleep all of these things are connected right your lymphatic system all of these are connected right your lymphatic system is is even gonna really kind of take a hit during this holiday time right about it what are we doing when we're when we're you know during this season right parties we're sitting down for hours maybe playing board games we're sitting more we're traveling we're eating more of the inflammatory food more salts more fat we're drinking alcohol or dehydrated we're getting less movement we're thrown off from our regular routine I would say that that's a big one right that's gonna really make your lymphatic system stagnant as well which which again can contribute to a lot of these symptoms that you might feel after and if you're feeling them now then again it's like we're just pouring fuel on the fire here right I mean evaluate now right now why don't you pause I want you to close your eyes or I invite you to rather I invite you to close your eyes take a inventory of how you really feel your toes your knees your calves breathe into these spaces do you feel bloat anywhere any puffiness any pressure any congestion anywhere brain fog um any fatigue or tiredness uh circulation issues any stuck energy anywhere good I hope you did that with me what did you feel now is this how you always feel that's the next question because most of us are just moving through life just day to day right we're just kind of going through the motions we're just kind of make it through life life is hard is hard right it is hard so imagine you already have these toxins or mold or metals or implants or root canals or mercury fillings and if you have all of these oh God bless I tested a guy the other day and uh he had the highest mold results I've ever seen ever um man it was crazy the the I'm trying to remember the strain it was less than it was supposed to be less than 200 was the reference range and he was almost at 3000 and he's been feeling really crappy and doing this detox thing but my guess is he's probably in a moldy home so my point in bringing all of this up is that again we're adding fuel to the fire most of us are already fiber deficient mineral deficient dehydrated overstressed and then we kind of add this on to it right this uh travel extra travel the staying up late eating more inflammatory foods even than we already eat over eating them uh you know the family the triggers all of that the drama right it's it's a recipe for disaster it's a recipe for disaster y'all I mean it is no joke the microbes are out of balance right when the microbes are disrupted they're gonna start signaling to the brain it's not you it's not you y'all it's the parasites that's why they're craving sugar and fat dairy and alcohol but we can we can restore the gut all right so typically here's what's gonna happen internally all right after the holidays and again because it's back to back right it's like we have you know Thanksgiving in uh November right and then I don't know about you but in in December in general you just see a lot of holiday travel holiday gatherings parties and I would say this is for our younger and our family people um even when I was you know single and in my 20s you know we're going out there's lots of bar parties or DJ parties that are late karaoke whatever you you name it right so it's like all around we're just compromised right and so then we have the actual holiday and then what's after that new year's new year's it's a big if that ain't a drinking holiday I don't know what is I don't know what is uh I don't even think we celebrated last year.
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I mean we kind of did but I think we were in bed by like 10 o'clock that's so lame it's just so funny how my life has changed it just cracks me up every time I think about it but so let's get back to these internal shifts that's happening that you necessarily can't see again sometimes we might have symptoms but even if you don't it doesn't mean these things are not affecting you that's a really big misconception I hear a lot of people listen to your body and listen to your body's great I'm not discouraging you from listening to your body but you have to understand that just because you don't have symptoms doesn't mean it's not affecting you internally that's not what that means just because you have a reaction doesn't mean that thing is bad for you perfect example cruciferous you haven't a reaction in cruciferous does not mean that that is bad for you that means your gut is damaged.
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We'll get into that a little bit later all right so in December or better yet let's call it the first week of January after all of this right we're hung over after New Year's right what what's happening internally that you can't see is these certain um species of beneficial commensal bacteria we call them acromensia drops bacteroides shift your short chain fatty acid production is going to plummet that's your you know um anti-inflammatory and antioxidants your inflammation is going to increase the diversity drops fiber fermenting microbes starve that's you need that stuff alcohol resistant species grow and your protective mucous layer thins this is gonna lead to all of these symptoms that we are feeling the constipation the heaviness the poor sleep the good news is that the microbiome responds pretty fast to correction within about seven days of proper diet and hydration you're actually going to begin repairing I want to give you tools that I've used and tested with my clients and myself on how to mitigate some of this holiday damage and still enjoy yourself all right we're gonna be right back after this quick break from our sponsors please do not forget to take a look at the America out loud shop at AmericaOut Loud dot shop I'm your favorite host Elizabeth and we'll be right back.
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That's just fear-mongering.
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It's just like, this is what's wrong with the world.
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This is what's wrong.
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Like the truth is you have so much control, guys.
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There's so much that you can do.
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Okay.
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Um, especially, you know, with these holidays.
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All right.
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I mean, really, really and truly, there's so much practical, usable things that you can do.
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All right.
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So let's start with with what to do after, right?
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And then I want to give you some some solutions for during as well, like during these holiday times, during the parties, the family gatherings, the big meals, uh, or again, uh, you know, the bar parties, the DJ parties, whatever it is.
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First, colonics.
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And this is for my drinkers and my not drinkers.
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They're just so effective, y'all.
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It's gonna clear this excess waste, some gas pockets, um, a lot of the inflammatory byproducts, bile sludge, the nasty mucus, not the good kind, right?
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Just that even stagnant energy.
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Um, I mean, I have people have emotional releases more than you would think, just from their colonic.
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Just from their colonic.
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Right.
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I always, you know, hear people like, oh, I had no idea there was so much inside of me, right?
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But you got to keep in mind, one colonic is probably not gonna be enough.
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And I I really am cannot stress this enough.
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I see a lot of people coming in and just kind of getting one colonic.
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You really want to do, I would honestly recommend if you're eating, let's okay, let's back up.
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It depends on what you're eating, right?
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How consistent are you gonna be with these tools and tips and tricks?
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How are you gonna just eat whatever and try to mitigate the damage after, or are you really gonna, you know, make an effort to stay consistent with your health through the holidays, right?
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Um, again, there's not a right or wrong, but for me, there's just some non-negotiables.
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If I'm going to a party, I'm not gonna have dairy.
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That's just a non-negotiable for me.
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I'm not gonna do gluten.
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That's a non-negotiable.
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I might have a bite, but I definitely wouldn't have a plate of it, right?
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If my partner has some, I might have a bite of his, but I'll never have like a full portion deliberately.
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It's just not gonna happen.
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So if you're still consuming lots of meat, dairy, eggs, gluten, you know what I mean, just all the heavy stuff, and you're not using any of my tips that I'm gonna go over here in a minute, then I would recommend a minimum of five to seven colonics within a week's period.
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A minimum.
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Uh I mean, if you really can't do that, maybe three in a row might be okay, but you have to understand Thanksgiving just passed, guys.
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Um, I was fully booked on that Friday and Saturday after.
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And almost, I want to say, God, I want to say 100% of my clients celebrated.
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And you know, we were joking about it, you know.
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Again, no shame or judgment.
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It is what it is.
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They know what they did.
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A lot of my clients are fairly conscious anyway, right?
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So they're coming in like, oh yeah, I feel inflamed and I need this, you know, they know what's up.
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And um, you know, I didn't expect to see much from any of them.
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I'm gonna be honest with you, and that's exactly what happened because the matter is so dry and hard inside.
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We'll see some chunky matter.
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We will um, you know, see some discoloration and some flakes.
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But the truth is is that every single one of them needed to come back at the very least the next day, but really probably again after that, because we're just barely kind of getting things hydrated and soft that first day.
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We're not gonna see much movement.
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The second day we're gonna get it even more hydrated.
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That third day, we're really gonna start to see some movement and get a lot of the matter out.
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Um, you know, the backed up stuff that's that's stuck in there, you know what I mean?
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So again, getting one colonic is okay, um, but you're likely gonna need more than that, right?
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Um, but my favorite, my favorite combo, you know, just in terms of overall holiday repair or you know, backtracking, is really gonna be, you know, like a float sauna massage combo, you know, again with the colonics, right?
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Um the float therapy, again, is gonna proven to reduce cortisol by um, you know, 25% and sometimes even up to 40.
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Um, it's gonna activate that parasympathetic nervous system, right?
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It's gonna improve, boost your immune system um indirectly because it's calming the nervous system, right?
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It's really gonna reset the physiology of your stress, and it'll improve your gut motility.
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Again, this is indirectly, simply because it's calming your nervous system all the way down, right?
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And I would say, again, one float might be okay, especially if you float often, but it might be very common.
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You you might need three.
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You might want to do three in like a week.
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Now, the sauna is just gonna help you detox from all of that stuff, right?
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It's gonna improve your circulation, reduce inflammation.
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The floating is also gonna help reduce inflammation as well.
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So don't forget about that.
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The sun is also gonna, you know, again, mobilize the toxins, boost immune function.
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And the massage, while it's very calming, and it's gonna definitely help reduce that like just stiffness, you know, sometimes that you get from the holidays.
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It also is is not just enjoyable and a nice relaxing therapy.
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I really, it's it's it can be medicinal.
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It's not just gonna relax the fashion, your muscle tension.
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That's also healing.
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It's also gonna move your lymphatic system.
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This isn't a support detoxification.
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Um, so I mean, really, my favorite day would be like maybe sauna, gym sauna, maybe trying to figure out, you know, which order you want to do that.
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Um float, float right after the gym for sure.
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Maybe, maybe do float, then sauna, then massage, then colonic.
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That would be my professional recommendation.
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The gym is just your, you know, boosting all your happy brain chemicals.
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Uh, also really great for anxiety.
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Also gonna move the lymphatic system.
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Also gonna help detoxification as well and gut motility, right?
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The float therapy is gonna help your recovery.
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It's gonna also reduce inflammation, remove lactic acid, um, you know, calm you the F down, right?
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The sauna is gonna kind of go even further.
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And then the massage, I like to do the massage after a float.
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And a sauna, if you can't do the sauna, you know, at least do the float over the massage before the massage.
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I like to do it in that order because they're gonna be able to go deeper into your tissues when you um are boosting when you're getting that massage, right?
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And now I don't know if you've ever had this, but I've definitely had massages where you know, you're like mucusy afterwards, like they go really like deep tissue, you know what I mean?
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Um, that's great.
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I love that.
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When you pair these with colonics, oh my god, it's amazing.
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I mean, really and truly the results are gonna be exponential because again, you're kind of bringing stuff to the surface, right?
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You're calming the nervous system, you're bringing stuff to the surface, and then the colonics are just gonna kind of help flush it all out, right?
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Really, really, really just flush the toxins away, right?
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So, how can you mitigate, you know, some of this damage?
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So, this is gonna be like your holiday survival guide, okay.
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Um, a lot of these are very easy.
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So, I want to first start with uh the people that are preparing food because if you're not preparing food, you're it it is, it's a little different, right?
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You have less control, but I want to remind you that this is your family.
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This is your family and they do love you.
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They might be difficult, they might be a pain in your neck, but they do love you and they do care for you.
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And I encourage all of you before I go through this list to give them a little benefit of the doubt.
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Give it a shot.
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Don't shoot yourself in the foot.
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Don't assume that they'll shoot you down or it's gonna be a dramatic or a big thing, you know, and it it might still be.
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We can't control their response.
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That's the truth.
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But give them a shot.
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You know, just just try it.
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You know what I mean?
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Um, you know, hey, mom, I'm I'm doing this dairy-free thing this year.
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I was wondering, you know, would you mind using uh using this uh you know, milk for the this dish versus sure, you know, and who knows, maybe maybe I'll give you a bunch of flack about it.
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And listen, that drama's gonna happen no matter what, right?
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So let's get into it.
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Your holiday survival tool guide.
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Um, again, if you are preparing your own food, this is easy.
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Stop telling your friends and family.
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I have a client and she's so conscious and so consistent, honestly, she's really amazing.
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I was very surprised that she's like, well, my daughters were coming, so I made them the real thing.
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I'm like, they're not gonna know.
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Why compromise your health for them?
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And quite frankly, why compromise their health as well if you know better?
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I don't understand that.
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I get it.
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I get you want everything to be good.
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Give it a chance.
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Nine times out of ten, they're not gonna notice the difference.
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All right, so one of the easiest things to do is you make all the same recipes, but you just swap out some of these inflammatory ingredients.
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Your mac and cheese, your your mashed potatoes, your um, what's another one that people
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Do uh green bean stuffing, uh, green bean stuffing, green bean casserole, uh, stuffing.
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I don't think stuffing has any dairy rig in it.
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But swap it out, swap out the dairy, swap it out.
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Super, super easy to do, guys.
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Very easy to do.
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Any health food grocery store, I'll always, always, always recommend stop going to your fries in your safe way.
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I will always recommend that.
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Well, let me not let me back up.
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Let me not say we'll always because they they are changing, they're improving.
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But as of right now, they're still very conventional grocery stores.
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If I can buy Reese's peanut butter cups, Skittles, and um, you know, honey nut Cheerios or or uh Fruit Loop cereal, then that's not a store that I even I don't even want to see those on the shelf.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Those are just straight toxic poison.
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Okay.
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So you're you can get some healthy options at these stores.
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If that's the only place that's near you, if you only have a fries or a Kroger or an Aldi's, if you only have those near you, go to them.
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They are still gonna have some dairy-free alternatives.
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Oat milk, cashew milk, uh, almond milk, pistachio milk they have.
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I've seen uh black sesame seed milk.
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So these are these are pretty common nowadays, y'all.
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A lot of people are going dairy free.
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Still read your labels.
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You still read your labels, and make sure, you know, get the least inflammatory one.
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And again, do what your budget can allow, right?
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Um, but that's gonna be super easy.
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Nutritional yeast is gonna give you a cheesy flavor and get your non-dairy cheeses.
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If you go to my website, be more raw.com.
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I have a free, a free download for a dairy replacements guide.
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And I have pictures on there because I know a lot of you are already putting your nose up to me.
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I can see you, I can see you right there in the back.
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And you're like, uh, dairy-free cheese is yucky.
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Not all of them.
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Some of them are garbage.
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Let's be honest.
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Some of them are crap.
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But there's a lot of really tasty ones and healthy ones that are not super processed if you're worried about that as well.
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I don't use any of the processed ones really anymore.
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On occasion, you know, maybe for the holiday parties, but is my everyday?
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No, I'm not doing it anymore.
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Okay.
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Um, same thing with your butter.
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Um, you can get a non-dairy one.
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Um, you can look for even a non-dairy, you can even look for a recipe.
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Avocado oil, coconut oil, olive oil, um, even nut butter mixes sometimes for baking.
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Um, but this is gonna, you know, give you again less mucus, less bloat, all of that, right?
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But you can just find a non-dairy butter.
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Um, again, very, very easy to find.
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Okay.
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Even um, you know, I still wouldn't get one with canola oil, but even the ones like uh Miyoko's is organic, they do use a little sunflower oil in there, even though sunflower oil is a little inflammatory, it's way less inflammatory than actual eggs and actual butter, like a measurably so.
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It's gonna way, way plummet your blood sugar as well, blunt your blood sugar spike, and your triglycerides are going to be much less than if you were to eat the um real thing.
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All right.
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Egg, same thing.
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Um, there's actually, you can look up egg replacement guide and just go do an image search online, and you'll probably find a nice few uh graphics for this.
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I actually have one still on my fridge.
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Um, depending on what you're doing, you there's different options.
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But what I do is I do flax egg.
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It's the easiest.
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I just keep ground flax in my fridge.
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Um, but you can do like banana for baking or even soaking tofu or garbanzo.
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Um, you know, it just depends um what you're using.
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But I would say the one that works best across the board is gonna be the flax egg.
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Um, it's literally one tablespoon of ground flax and three tablespoons of water.
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You let it sit, you start around a little bit, and you will see will begin to thicken and become very viscous.
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Uh, you'll see it's very similar to the actual taste, uh texture of eggs.
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It's very interesting to watch that happen.
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Um, the other thing is uh gluten, you know, another really easy way to decrease the inflammation and just make your your holiday a little healthier.
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Um, you know, instead of you know gluten uh stuffing, get gluten-free bread, you know, get a good one.
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Um Queen Street, I'm gonna be adding actually a gluten-free guide to that um webpage.
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But in the meantime, if you want to DM me or email, um, I'll send it to you.
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I have it ready.
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I just haven't put it on the website yet.
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But I have again gluten-free breads that I've tasted and tested.
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Again, there's crappy ones and there's good ones, just like any food, just like unhealthy food.
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There's good food and bad food, right?
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Um, but gluten, you know, uh, if you're doing like a baked mac and cheese, um, you know, that's easy, get gluten-free noodles.
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Um, you do have to, you know, make sure you watch those closely.
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You don't want to overcook those, but they'll they'll taste great.
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They'll taste great, okay.
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Um, tortillas, I mean, not really a thing that you're probably eating too much of, depending on your family.
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And if so, get some gluten-free.
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Super simple.
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They have brown rice tortillas, there's cassava, um, even organic corn, that's gonna be gluten-free, right?
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Um, I'm trying to think what else.
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There's gluten-free pizza uh well, pizza dough as well, but pie doughs, pre-made pie crusts by Holy Gluten Free.
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Shout out to them.
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Um, no, they are not paying me for shouting them out, but they they make a great product, it's very versatile and pretty clean.
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Um, if you're not making the food, you gotta be prepared and for yourself.
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So, one thing is if you're going out, is again, like if they're your family, just ask to make these replacements.
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If you're really sneaky or bold, man, depending on how much you know them, honestly, I would just buy the ingredients like for my dad.
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I would just be like, here, use this milk instead.
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And you'll use it, right?
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If you're really sneaky, you can pour the non-dairy milk into their container.
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If you really want to go that far, um, you know, but before you go out, have the smoothie, eat your salad, drink your water.
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You know, you get get your food in first so that way you're not like starving, like, oh, I need to eat something when you go to the party or the the gathering.
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Um, but let's talk about the drinking part, okay.
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I know this is what y'all are all waiting for.
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So charcoal, probiotics, and coconut water.
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That is your key there.
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Now, again, this has to be used exponentially.
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The charcoal is your binder.
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You want to take that the night before and the morning of take as much as you need to.
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The coconut water is gonna be your best friend that's gonna improve hydration.
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It's got electrolytes and it's detoxifying.
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Again, increase as you're drinking more.
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The probiotics are crucial.
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You want to get a spore-based probiotic like from microbiome labs.
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Stop getting your supplements on Amazon, okay?
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But this is gonna be crucial because the alcohol is killing off all the good bacteria in your gut.
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Okay, so keep that with you.
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Um, better get if you can juice your own, like cucumber and watermelon juice.
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Oh, super hydrating and delicious.
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But again, you'll want to have a few of these throughout the night.
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And um, you know, you probably won't remember, but at the very least, have it the night before and the morning next after.
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All right.
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I hope that this was helpful.
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I hope that you can have a healthy holiday and still have fun.
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It's been a joy talking to you today, and I will see y'all next week.
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You've been listening to Looking for Healing Radio on the America Out Loud Talk Radio Network.
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I'm your favorite host, Elizabeth Joseph.