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How Holistic Health Works · Wellness In Every Season

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SPEAKER_01: We are talking about how holistic health works.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Wellness in Every Season.
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SPEAKER_01: We talk all things wellness regarding the environment that you spend a lot of your time in, your physical health, your intellectual health, your financial health, your spiritual health, your professional health, your social health, who you have relationships with, your emotional health.
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SPEAKER_01: This is a really big umbrella, so expect all kinds of topics within all of these amazing dimensions of your wellness.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's dive in.
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SPEAKER_01: First of all, let me welcome you to the show, Victor.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for being here.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me on, and it's great to be here.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm very excited.
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SPEAKER_01: And he is currently traveling, so we get to be envious of his travels, right?
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SPEAKER_01: All together while he's traveling around.
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SPEAKER_01: So he said health, wellness, and nutrition is his passion.
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SPEAKER_01: And he loves to help people get healthy.
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SPEAKER_01: And he came to realize that there are many people who want, I need to get my microphone out of the way, who want to lead healthier lives, and people who need someone to help teach them how to do that.
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SPEAKER_01: And it feels great when you are able to help people achieve their health goals.
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SPEAKER_01: I totally understand that.
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SPEAKER_01: And what motivated him is he saw friends and family around him getting sick and he wanted to help them get better.
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SPEAKER_01: So I assume that led him down a huge rabbit hole of how to do so.
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SPEAKER_01: So tell us a little bit more about your journey and let's kind of go from there.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'll pull up my questions after researching you that I have for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Sounds good.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: So about 20 years ago, I started reading some books on health and wellness and nutrition, and I started realizing that much of the information we were given on them was wrong.
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SPEAKER_00: We were told to eat certain kinds of foods, we were told they were healthy and they were not healthy.
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SPEAKER_00: We were told to avoid other foods because they said they were not healthy, but they actually are healthy.
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SPEAKER_00: One example is eggs.
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SPEAKER_00: We were told to take all kinds of medications, say they're going to help us.
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SPEAKER_00: But what I discovered is many of these medications, they really don't cure anything.
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SPEAKER_00: They just master symptoms.
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SPEAKER_00: And so they don't address the root cause of the problems.
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SPEAKER_00: And many of them also have really bad side effects, and many of them also drain you of nutrients, which your body really greatly needs.
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SPEAKER_00: So people, and I just found out that the more of these medications people are on, the worse they tend to get.
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SPEAKER_00: I've never met a person who said, I'm on 10 meds a day, and I feel awesome.
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SPEAKER_00: It just doesn't exist.
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SPEAKER_00: So I slowly started getting into more and more, and as you mentioned, I started seeing friends and family getting sick, and I still see that.
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SPEAKER_00: Montenegro right now, I was seeing a lot of people here also in the country of Serbia, which is right nearby, friends and family there too.
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SPEAKER_00: They're doing all the wrong things.
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SPEAKER_00: They're drinking lots of alcohol, they're smoking a lot, they're nutrient deficient.
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SPEAKER_00: And it breaks my heart watching them do this.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm telling you, you guys need to stop it by 20 years ago.
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SPEAKER_00: You guys are probably going to get cancer, heart disease, or some other of these other diseases like Alzheimer's, et cetera, diabetes, if you don't change this.
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SPEAKER_00: You can't force these people.
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SPEAKER_00: All you could do is you can make recommendations.
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SPEAKER_00: They have the freedoms to do whatever to do it or not to do it.
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SPEAKER_00: But just watching them go through this, a lot of these diseases are so avoidable if you do the right things.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't know it.
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SPEAKER_00: Some people do and they choose not to do it, and that's fine.
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SPEAKER_00: If they don't want to do it, you that's fine.
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SPEAKER_00: But I know I know a lot of people who don't know this information.
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SPEAKER_00: When I start sharing it with them and they start implementing it, they start improving.
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SPEAKER_01: You were looking over my shoulder today, weren't you?
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SPEAKER_01: I went into ChatGPT and I started plugging in two different medications that I take, and they actually conflict.
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SPEAKER_01: And the doctor looked before I was prescribed, so I don't know what was there.
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SPEAKER_01: But I was starting to question some of my vitamins, and right away, ChatGPT was these two medicines you should not be taking together.
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SPEAKER_01: Of course, I really like the way that whoever rewrote Chat GPT now says, course you should talk to your provider about this first.
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SPEAKER_01: So I was in there in the the the chat box for my provider.
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SPEAKER_01: Can I take this instead?
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SPEAKER_01: What do you think?
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SPEAKER_01: I'm worried about this.
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SPEAKER_01: And it also went through, and some of your vitamins are a little too high, and you might not have realized that this vitamin also has this other vitamin in it, and you're taking this separately.
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SPEAKER_01: It was becoming a little too high in certain areas.
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SPEAKER_01: So it was amazing just to have that because it used to be that you would talk to your pharmacist and they would go over those things, or your doctor would spend a little more time, but that's not the day and age we live in anymore.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's hugely the difference between seeing a primary care provider who is MD and working as a typical MD compared to someone who looks at holistic health, everything that deals with you.
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SPEAKER_01: And I really loved what you said in the beginning.
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SPEAKER_01: Say it again.
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SPEAKER_01: How do you spell holistic health and why?
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SPEAKER_01: Because I love this.
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SPEAKER_00: We spell holistic with the letter W because we look at the whole person.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't just look at one part of the person.
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SPEAKER_00: We look at the physical, the psychological, the mental, the spiritual.
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SPEAKER_00: Everything is interconnected.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't just say, Oh, look at the kidney, look at the heart, look at the stomach.
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SPEAKER_00: We look at the entire person because all these things interact with one another and they affect one another.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think it's easier to ignore these things when you're younger, but as you get older, you start to get frustrated going to different specialists and saying, No, you need to talk to this other specialist because and all of this is connected because it is in within my body.
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SPEAKER_01: And go ahead.
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SPEAKER_00: No, yeah, you're right.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, look, if your thyroid's out of wax, it's gonna affect so many other parts of your body.
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SPEAKER_00: The thyroid drives so many things going on in your body.
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SPEAKER_00: Many illnesses are caused by a lack of nutrients like the iodine and selenium that your thyroid badly needs, and it can lead to heart issues, cancer, and all kinds of other issues just by having thyroid problems.
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SPEAKER_00: So it can it affects so many other parts of the body, and people are just not aware of it.
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SPEAKER_00: People have issues elsewhere, and they don't realize that very often the origin is the issue in the thyroid is affecting other parts of the body.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's why you can't just look at one part of the body as a whole, because they often affect other parts of the body.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And it totally goes with, and you started this part about talking about conflicting nutrition advice.
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SPEAKER_01: This is me actually going off the questions that I wrote out for you.
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SPEAKER_01: How can someone tell the difference between good health information and misinformation?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, that's what you really need to do a lot of research on it.
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SPEAKER_00: So, and and here's the thing: there are a lot of good guys that are gonna agree 100% on everything.
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SPEAKER_00: And they might agree on 90, 95%.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you're gonna make your best judgment based on the things you've learned, saying, Do I believe this guy, this woman, this guy?
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SPEAKER_00: It's sometimes not an easy thing to do.
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SPEAKER_00: There is definitely conflicting information on it.
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SPEAKER_00: You also need to know who is the source of this information.
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SPEAKER_00: For example, you'll see studies saying, oh, this vitamin doesn't work, it causes health issues.
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SPEAKER_00: And then what they don't tell you is that very often those studies are funded by bake farmer, and then they'll do these studies based on synthetic versions of the vitamins.
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SPEAKER_00: And I would say in general, you should avoid the synthetic version of the vitamins.
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SPEAKER_00: You want the natural form.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you do it with the natural form, you would the results are totally different.
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SPEAKER_00: So you also got to see when you get CD studies who's funding it.
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SPEAKER_00: But some said digital is funding it, and if it's and it supports what they want, they'll publish it.
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SPEAKER_00: But if it goes against what they want, they will not publish.
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SPEAKER_00: There are a lot of studies big pharma will not publish because it goes against what they want the public to know.
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SPEAKER_00: And a lot of people are not aware of that.
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SPEAKER_01: We actually have an episode that I recorded with a scientist on how do you research what does this look like?
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SPEAKER_01: And she broke it down for us.
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SPEAKER_01: So I will link that episode in the description with us because they correlate a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: We and you're saying, Victor, we take things that are maybe they're not quite one size fits all.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe they're fits most in certain categories.
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SPEAKER_01: We'll go with thyroid some more.
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SPEAKER_01: If you have this particular thyroid disease, this one size fits most, and then you can take the research to make it fit you.
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SPEAKER_01: So I really like how you added that in together.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And so I'll give you an example for now.
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SPEAKER_00: People say what recommendation it could be.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll a lot of times I'll tell people keep a food diary of what you eat every day.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't realize what they're eating.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes when you look at the food diary, you think you're eating healthier than you really are.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you look at the food diary, oh, I went to McDonald's seven times last month.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe I'm not eating as healthy as I can.
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SPEAKER_00: But the other reason I tell them to keep a food diary is you need to see when you have certain bad things happen to you, what foods you were eating that day.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes foods that are very healthy for people, for most people, sometimes can cause problems.
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SPEAKER_00: Some foods are high in histamine.
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SPEAKER_00: For example, avocados are generally healthy for the vast majority of people, but they're also high in histamine.
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SPEAKER_00: So people who have histamine issues may have a problem when they eat avocados, and they might they had a problem going on.
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SPEAKER_00: So maybe they should cut down on eating avocados.
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SPEAKER_00: So generally, for most people, it's very good to eat, but for high histamine people, it could be a problem.
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SPEAKER_00: So even foods in general that are generally good, on occasion may be a problem for certain people.
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SPEAKER_00: And they might see from their food that I they're having certain problems, certain issues come up when they eat the same foods.
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SPEAKER_01: That makes sense.
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SPEAKER_01: Tell us, because not everybody knows what this means, what does histamine mean?
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SPEAKER_00: No, no, the the the histamine causes these issues in you.
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SPEAKER_00: There's it causes inflammation, all these other things in your body.
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SPEAKER_00: So, and and and there's a lot of food, spinach and other things that are actually high in histamine.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of certain number of these fruits and vegetables that are generally good for people cause issues.
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SPEAKER_00: But then there are there are supplements that, for example, like vitamin C, there are antihistamine that helps bring these problems up, and they can also lead to more free radicals, which is another big problem that happens in your body that the high histamine foods can cause for you.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's yeah, actually, you need a small amount of free radicals.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't need that.
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SPEAKER_00: But the problem is people have way too many free radicals in their body, and that that can wreak havoc on your immune system.
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SPEAKER_01: Give us some examples on that part.
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SPEAKER_00: It can lead to a whole bunch of other diseases.
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SPEAKER_00: It could eventually lead to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and all these things, Alzheimer's.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of that's caused by way too many free radicals.
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SPEAKER_00: And and leading eating a poor diet, a lot of oxidized foods, a lot of foods high in sugar, seed all, stuff like that, low in nutrients.
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SPEAKER_00: You gotta avoid eating foods that are high in calories but low in nutrients.
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SPEAKER_00: If they're high in calories but high in nutrients, that's usually okay.
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SPEAKER_00: But the problem is so many of the foods we're eating are also low in nutrients.
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SPEAKER_00: So they're ultra-processed, they're really junk foods.
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SPEAKER_00: So your body very often is not crying for more food, it's crying out for more nutrients, which is why we need to focus on eating high nutrients too.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why I'm a big supporter of eggs.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, not there occasionally some people who have egg issues, so those who obviously they may not be able to eat eggs, but most people are able to eat eggs.
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SPEAKER_00: And they're some of the most nutritious foods out there.
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SPEAKER_00: And yet we were told for many years to avoid eggs, which people have been eating for centuries with no problems because they're high in cholesterol and they cause cholesterol issues.
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SPEAKER_00: Number one, cholesterol food, and the government admitted this 10 years ago, cholesterol foods that are high in cholesterol have a minimal effect on the blood cholesterol level in your body.
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SPEAKER_00: But also, cholesterol is actually a very important nutrient.
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SPEAKER_00: You need it for your brain, you need it to make bile, you need it to make vitamin D.
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SPEAKER_00: You need it to make without cholesterol, but there would be no human race because you need it to make testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone.
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SPEAKER_00: And your cells need cholesterol.
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SPEAKER_00: So it's an extremely important nutrient and it's been totally vilified.
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SPEAKER_00: It is a problem only when it becomes oxidized.
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SPEAKER_00: So when it becomes oxidized, it's a problem.
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SPEAKER_00: But in most of the time, cholesterol is your friend, not your enemy.
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SPEAKER_00: And you don't want too much of it.
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SPEAKER_00: So drugs such as Stannis that lower your cholesterol, it's no surprise that ever since they introduced Stannis in the late 1980s, the rates of Alzheimer's and dementia have skyrocketed because it gets rid of cholesterol, which your body needs.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of focusing on cholesterol, they should be focusing on triglycerides.
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SPEAKER_00: But there really aren't many meds that can lower the triglycerides level in your body, but there are plenty of meds that can lower cholesterol, but it's the wrong thing to focus on.
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SPEAKER_00: We need to get we got to take care of the triglycerides.
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SPEAKER_00: That's often one of the big problems going on in your body.
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SPEAKER_00: Your triglyceride levels are high, and it's usually a blood sugar issue.
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SPEAKER_01: How do you help your triglycerides within your foods?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, again, you gotta lower the foods that are lowered the ultra-processed foods, lower the foods that are high in sugar, lower the seed oil foods that's causing a lot of the problems.
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SPEAKER_00: Your supplements, you could say.
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SPEAKER_00: B1 is very important for processing sugar.
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SPEAKER_00: And when you take too much sugar, it lowers your B1 levels, and you're deficient in B1.
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SPEAKER_00: So B1 is extremely important.
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SPEAKER_00: In terms of blood sugar issues, chromium and vaninium are extremely important for the cells to put the insulin in the cells instead of outside the cells, which often happens when you're insulin resistant.
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SPEAKER_00: So chromium and vaninium, many people are deficient in.
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SPEAKER_00: Another supplement that can help with your blood sugar issues and the triglycerides is berberin.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of taking medforin, take something more natural, which works just as effectively as medforin without the side effects.
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SPEAKER_00: So I think berberin is something good people can take.
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SPEAKER_00: So I've been taking it for years.
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SPEAKER_00: So these are things I use.
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SPEAKER_00: And my blood sugar instant levels are fine.
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SPEAKER_00: And the people who take these things, they'll have the same results.
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SPEAKER_00: You gotta limit the sugars.
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SPEAKER_00: People, and I'm just not talking about regular sugars.
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SPEAKER_00: The artificial sweeteners are also a big problem as well because they affect your gut health, they affect your brain.
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SPEAKER_00: Sugar, it it it it sugar affects the brain in a very negative way.
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SPEAKER_00: And the big problem is something called fructose, which it's been linked to cancer, a whole bunch of other diseases.
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SPEAKER_00: And it works similar, it just destroys your liver similar to the way alcohol does.
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SPEAKER_00: So for many years, fatty liver disease was caused by alcohol.
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SPEAKER_00: But now millions of Americans have something called NAFLD, which is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which is caused by too much sugar, especially the fructose, because it can only be metabolized by the liver.
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SPEAKER_00: And the liver is your great detox organ.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you overwhelm it with too many poisons, like too many meds, too much fructose and other junk, it's gonna get overwhelmed.
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SPEAKER_00: It can only do so much for you.
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SPEAKER_00: If you give it too much to handle, it's it's gonna it's gonna start breaking down.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's why you want to limit the fructose.
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SPEAKER_00: And which is why I recommend don't eat fruit, don't drink fruit juice because it's higher fructose and it doesn't have fiber to slow it down like regular fruits do.
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SPEAKER_01: That was perfect to add in.
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SPEAKER_01: If we are shopping in the grocery store and we're looking at packaged foods, of course, unpackaged is better, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Natural, naturally grown.
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SPEAKER_01: If we are looking at ingredient labels, what is the highest amount of ingredients that we should allow in our packaged food?
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SPEAKER_00: In general, I would just say here, the fewer the number of greens, probably usually the better it is.
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SPEAKER_00: The three or four grains is probably fine.
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SPEAKER_00: If the 35 grains is probably full of lots of junk.
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SPEAKER_00: If it's a lot of ingredients you can't even pronounce, it's probably food you shouldn't eat.
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SPEAKER_00: If you can't pronounce it, you probably should not be eating it.
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SPEAKER_00: And there are a lot of foods out there, a lot of the cakes, the hostess cup cakes, the Drake's cakes, all that stuff.
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SPEAKER_00: They usually have a lot of these things, the entoman's cakes, all those things, little Debbie's, all those things have a lot of ingredients you can't even pronounce and you should not eat it.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of those things have lots of sugar, lots of seed oils.
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SPEAKER_00: Just read the ingredients.
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SPEAKER_00: And usually usually that's 30 grains, you probably shouldn't get it.
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SPEAKER_00: Three or four or five ingredients, it should be the max in general.
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SPEAKER_01: Perfect.
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SPEAKER_01: What are some foods people commonly think are healthy that they that may not be as healthy as they think?
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SPEAKER_00: Well, one of them is modern wheat bread.
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SPEAKER_00: We've been told it's healthy.
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SPEAKER_00: Unfortunately, modern wheat, the reason they came up with modern wheat bread probably about 60 years ago is because the traditional wheat, which was healthier, unfortunately had low yield.
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SPEAKER_00: So they came up with this idea.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't think there was a conspiracy behind it.
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SPEAKER_00: I think just they just thought it was it was going to lead to a higher yield, which it did, but they didn't do enough experimenting and research to realize there were a lot of bad side effects.
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SPEAKER_00: It can lead to celiac disease, it can lead to irritable bowel surgery, increase inflammation, affect your brain negatively, it leads to diabetes and weight gain.
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SPEAKER_00: And in fact, modern wheat bread actually has a higher glycemic index than regular stable sugar, and many people are not aware of that.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you worry about your glycemic index, you probably should limit the amount of wheat bread.
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SPEAKER_00: The only thing that really gives you extra is it's a little bit of extra fiber, but most of the other stuff that it gives you is bad for you.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's something that's not healthy.
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SPEAKER_00: So fat-free foods, again, another thing that people should be careful of because when you get rid of the fat, you get rid of the taste.
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SPEAKER_00: So what do you replace with?
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SPEAKER_00: Lots of sugar.
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SPEAKER_00: So if you look at a lot of fat-free foods, they usually have a lot of sugar.
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SPEAKER_00: Same thing with gluten-free.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm all supportive for eliminating gluten because gluten can be really bad, which is something also monoweed will do.
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SPEAKER_00: It gives you too much gluten, which can very often destroy the villi in your intestine, which can make it harder for you to absorb foods.
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SPEAKER_00: So gluten-free foods, you've got to be careful with them because a lot of times they have a lot of these sugars in them, like modified sapioga starch or something, usually under a lot of different names.
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SPEAKER_00: So don't just look for the word sugar.
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SPEAKER_00: Look for high fructose corn cereal or corn silk.
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SPEAKER_00: There's a lot, they're probably 80, 90, 100 different names for these various sugars.
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SPEAKER_00: And you'll see them a lot in gluten-free foods because, again, they put a lot of these fake sugars in them.
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SPEAKER_00: So those are things we've been told are healthy that are not healthy.
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SPEAKER_00: And as I mentioned before, eggs are have been vilified as being bad, but they're actually good for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Salt is another thing that's been vilified for being bad, but it's actually very important for you.
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SPEAKER_00: You need it to avoid being dehydrated.
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SPEAKER_00: That's actually what you need, the various electrolyte salt.
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SPEAKER_00: That's more important than the water.
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SPEAKER_00: Obviously, you need water, but you need those electrical.
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SPEAKER_00: When you have a fever, what happens?
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SPEAKER_00: You're usually low in those salts.
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SPEAKER_00: So you take something like pediolite or something, it'll give you those electrolyte salts, which your body needs when you lose during a fever.
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SPEAKER_00: And when I'm talking about salt, I don't mean the salt you buy in the store that might have some iodine, which is a very important nutrient, by the way.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about the salts that have 60 to 80 minerals, whether it's Celtic sea salt, retinal sea salt, or Himalayan salt.
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SPEAKER_00: Those are the kind of sorts that are good for you.
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SPEAKER_00: They have a minimal effect on your blood pressure.
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SPEAKER_00: And people have been eating salt for thousands of years with no problems.
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SPEAKER_00: And in the countries where they actually have a higher salt intake, like Japan, South Korea, or France, their longevity rates are much higher than the countries which have low salt intake.
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SPEAKER_00: So you should get your have your salt and eat it.
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SPEAKER_00: So don't worry about eating to it.
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SPEAKER_00: It's only a problem, for example, if you have kidney issues, because when the kidneys are working fine, they can get rid of the excess salt.
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SPEAKER_00: But if they're not working fine, yeah, they have to be careful because they may not be able to get rid of the excess potassium, for example.
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SPEAKER_00: So then you may need to limit the salt also.
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SPEAKER_00: So you have heart problems, that could be an issue.
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SPEAKER_00: But in general, if your health is fine, you can pretty much have as much salt as possible.
19:26
SPEAKER_00: And it's important for your cells as well.
19:28
SPEAKER_00: So another one that's been vilified for no reason whatsoever.
19:33
SPEAKER_01: That is actually one that I was surprised by with working on my blood panels, and I did a hair follicle analysis with a functional medicine nurse.
19:43
SPEAKER_01: I'm low on salt.
19:45
SPEAKER_01: I was raised in the generation that salt's bad for you.
19:48
SPEAKER_01: So I've had a low salt diet by choice for most of my life.
19:52
SPEAKER_01: Oops.
19:53
SPEAKER_01: And also I was low on iodine because they go together depending on which kind of salt I use.
19:59
SPEAKER_01: So that was very eye-opening, especially because thyroid issues run in my family.
20:04
SPEAKER_01: So thankfully I don't have thyroid issues and I want to keep that keep that away.
20:10
SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I'm increasing my salt intake, and I notice I am thirstier today, and I forgot to put a little bit of salt in my water over here.
20:19
SPEAKER_01: So I will be doing that when we're done.
20:22
SPEAKER_00: That's awesome.
20:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
20:24
SPEAKER_01: What is my next question?
20:26
SPEAKER_01: You already answered that one.
20:28
SPEAKER_01: What actually makes food ultra-processed?
20:31
SPEAKER_01: What you said a long list of ingredients, ingredients that we can't pronounce.
20:36
SPEAKER_01: Pronounce.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: What else is in there?
20:39
SPEAKER_00: A lot of times they strip out the fiber, which is very important for you.
20:42
SPEAKER_00: Because this way it allows the food to last longer on the shelves.
20:46
SPEAKER_00: And they put in a lot of these ingredients like potassium, bromate, something, which actually is forbidden in a lot of other countries, but there are certain ingredients that they allow in the U.S.
20:54
SPEAKER_00: that are forbidden in many other countries because they've been classified as being harmful, sometimes carcinogenic.
21:00
SPEAKER_00: Thankfully, uh a few months ago, the government announced they're going to be taking colored dyes out of foods, which has been banned in Europe for decades.
21:06
SPEAKER_00: So that's a step in the right direction.
21:08
SPEAKER_00: And I think the new food period is definitely a great stop, a great start in the other direction, too.
21:14
SPEAKER_00: So it's and and a lot of these ultra-processed foods, they're usually lower in potassium levels, they're lower in magnesium levels, and some of these other important nutrients as well.
21:23
SPEAKER_00: So that's what's tripping the fiber and other important things that are necessary up happens during this ultra-processing thing.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: I mean, process foods get processed all the time.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: It's the extreme ultra processing that puts a lot of these chunks in, makes a lot of people think, oh, this is gonna last you for four years.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: That's great.
21:39
SPEAKER_00: That's not a good thing.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: It's usually if it's lasting you for four years, it's probably ultra-processing, it's probably not good for you.
21:45
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, this is amazingly helpful for me.
21:51
SPEAKER_01: I know most people that I've spoken to, I found this for myself and then others, are lower in magnesium.
21:58
SPEAKER_01: Can you talk about that?
22:00
SPEAKER_01: Where do we find this naturally in foods?
22:03
SPEAKER_01: It sounds like one reason why many of us may be lower is having ultra-processed diet at some point in our lives.
22:12
SPEAKER_01: And for me, I'm realizing looking back, this has been a generational problem in my family.
22:19
unknown: Yeah.
22:20
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
22:21
SPEAKER_00: It starts out with the fact that the soils are deficient in minerals.
22:24
SPEAKER_00: And we've known this since 1936.
22:26
SPEAKER_00: The U.S.
22:26
SPEAKER_00: Center report came out saying that the soils were deficient in minerals.
22:30
SPEAKER_00: That was 90 years ago.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: And it's only gotten much worse.
22:33
SPEAKER_00: So even if you eat a really healthy diet, there's like all organic foods, the very little processing, all that stuff, you eat as healthy as possible, you still will not be able to get all the nutrients that you need, which is why I also say you need to supplement.
22:46
SPEAKER_00: Maybe in 1900 you could have done it without supplementing.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: It's impossible to do so right now.
22:50
SPEAKER_00: So the soil's joint don't have.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing plants cannot make minerals on its own.
22:55
SPEAKER_00: If it's not in the soil, the plant will not be able to give it to you.
22:58
SPEAKER_00: It can sometimes make certain vitamins and it's nourishing out, getting enough water and some stuff like that, but plants cannot make minerals.
23:05
SPEAKER_00: And we need about 60 minerals every single day.
23:08
SPEAKER_00: So that's been part of the problem, too.
23:10
SPEAKER_00: The ultra process caused issues like that.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: Now, especially for magnesium.
23:13
SPEAKER_00: Again, it's stripped out with uh when they take the fiber other things out.
23:17
SPEAKER_00: Another problem is magnesium used to be in the many of the city waters from the falls.
23:22
SPEAKER_00: It used to be able to get some magnesium, but now most cities do not have magnesium in the water.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: There are a few that do, and probably those cities have fewer deficiencies in magnesium than the other cities.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: I think we need to start putting magnesium back in the water.
23:36
SPEAKER_00: That's going to help it too, because over half the country is definitely deficient in magnesium.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: So you can get them from various green leafy vegetables.
23:44
SPEAKER_00: The greens will do a lot of veggies, have them, bananas will have them, avocados will have them.
23:49
SPEAKER_00: I wouldn't recommend overdoing it with the bananas just because of the high sugar content.
23:54
SPEAKER_00: But there is also almonds will have it as well.
23:57
SPEAKER_00: Some peanuts will have it.
23:58
SPEAKER_00: But those are probably the best sources of food for magnesium.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: And you can just get good subs.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: Now, you got to be careful because I over here, one of my friends, she was taking magnesium.
24:08
SPEAKER_00: I looked at it and she was in the in it, it had magnesium oxide, which is one of the worst forms of magnesium.
24:14
SPEAKER_00: It's only about four to five percent absorbable, which means you're basically throwing your money away.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: So you want better forms of magnesium.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: Probably the best form of magnesium is magnesium glycinate, which is very highly absorbable.
24:25
SPEAKER_00: Magnesium citrate is also very good.
24:28
SPEAKER_00: Magnesium malleate is also very good.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: So you might want to try one of those, but definitely stay away from magnesium oxide.
24:33
SPEAKER_00: It is one of the worst forms of it.
24:35
SPEAKER_00: So I got her on magnesium glycide that they had at the store.
24:38
SPEAKER_00: She's been taking it.
24:40
SPEAKER_00: She's been feeling definitely better because she's getting real magnesium in her.
24:44
SPEAKER_00: So it's not what you take what matters, it's what you absorb.
24:47
SPEAKER_00: So you've got to make sure these things are absorbed.
24:48
SPEAKER_00: So if you get a multivitamin, some people I got this nice multivitamin on Amazon for 10 bucks.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: There's a reason why it's only 10 bucks because it's probably only 8% absorbable.
24:57
SPEAKER_00: It's better to spend 50 bucks on a multivitamin that's 80 to 90, 95% absorbable because it's absorbing a lot more.
25:04
SPEAKER_00: So you gotta sometimes you get what you pay for.
25:07
SPEAKER_00: So you need to do the research, making make sure you're getting these good quality supplements that's giving you higher absorbability because if you're absorbing little, you're not getting much benefit.
25:16
SPEAKER_01: And is this something that you go over with your clients?
25:20
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
25:21
SPEAKER_00: Some people complain about the money.
25:23
SPEAKER_00: The supplements I do on the average, it costs about$150 a month for most people.
25:28
SPEAKER_00: And people say that's too expensive.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, is five dollars a day worth it for your health?
25:32
SPEAKER_00: How much you you people go to Starbucks and spend five dollars on a cup of coffee?
25:36
SPEAKER_01: Which is this much sugar.
25:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, exactly.
25:39
SPEAKER_00: Lots of sugar.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
25:41
SPEAKER_00: So why not spend it on your health?
25:43
SPEAKER_00: You should think of your health as a good quality stock.
25:45
SPEAKER_00: You spend money on a good quality stock because you think it's worth it.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: You should see your health as the exact same thing.
25:50
SPEAKER_00: It's worth your health should be worth spending money on.
25:53
SPEAKER_01: And it's cheaper than a nursing home.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: Absolutely.
25:56
SPEAKER_00: People don't look at the cost of how much it's gonna cost if I'm in a nursing home if I can't, or if I'm in mobile, I can't get up.
26:02
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the thing is it compounds.
26:04
SPEAKER_00: If you had a heart attack after eating a Big Mac, you would never have a Big Mac again.
26:08
SPEAKER_00: The problem is, or have a cigarette, if you had a heart attack after having a cigarette, you would never smoke.
26:12
SPEAKER_00: But in four case, years of smoking, years of eating McDonald's, Big Macs, and other junk food, and slowly compounds, and over 10, 15, 20 years, you see these disaster results to your health.
26:23
SPEAKER_00: So that's why people don't realize because oh, I had uh I smoked a pack of cigarettes, nothing I was like, but smoking a pack of cigarettes over the course of 10, 20 years does a lot of damage to your health.
26:34
SPEAKER_01: And I have one last question because we're getting close on time, and then the rest of them I'll email to you.
26:40
SPEAKER_01: And those that are listening, I will have this in my newsletter.
26:46
SPEAKER_01: So jump over to my newsletter and we will continue the conversation there.
26:50
SPEAKER_01: He will respond to my questions and then you'll have links there because I had this idea from listening to another podcast, and I had so many things that I wanted to think about as homework.
27:03
SPEAKER_01: I hate that word now that I'm postgraduate of homework.
27:09
SPEAKER_01: But the next podcast episode came on, and I quickly forgot what I wanted to continue thinking about.
27:14
SPEAKER_01: So this is my grand idea is that I'm going to have this so that you can think about these things and you'll have them in your email so you can think about it easier than getting it out of your head so easily with another podcast episode.
27:28
SPEAKER_01: So know that this will be on.
27:30
SPEAKER_01: But for somebody who is deciding I need to eat healthier, quote unquote here, how can they get over the overwhelm and find their starting line?
27:43
SPEAKER_01: Where would you have them start?
27:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, here's the thing just try to do little steps, don't try to do everything all at once.
27:51
SPEAKER_00: If you if you want to walk five miles a day, don't try to walk five miles a day.
27:54
SPEAKER_00: Try to walk two or three blocks.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: Do that first.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: It becomes two or three blocks, becomes five blocks, then ten blocks, because it will come pounds.
28:01
SPEAKER_00: Like if you go lift weights, you don't have to work out for three hours the first time you go.
28:04
SPEAKER_00: You can work out for five, ten minutes because it becomes a pattern.
28:08
SPEAKER_00: Five, ten minutes becomes fifteen, twenty.
28:10
SPEAKER_00: So do little things.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: If you're eating five different types of junk food a day, cut it down to three.
28:16
SPEAKER_00: And then cut it down to two, and then to one, then you start eating good quality food.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to do it all over all at once because it could be overwhelming for you.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: And your body, when it's detoxing, it can have overwhelming.
28:26
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes you might feel worse before you start getting better.
28:29
SPEAKER_00: I know that when people get out of supplements, they don't they sometimes have withdrawal symptoms.
28:33
SPEAKER_00: So the first few days they feel worse, but after a week or two, they start feeling a lot better.
28:38
SPEAKER_00: So you sometimes might have detoxes.
28:39
SPEAKER_00: So I would say start slowly.
28:41
SPEAKER_00: Be gradual with the changes you make.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: You don't have to do it all at once because if you try to do it, it can be overwhelming.
28:47
SPEAKER_00: You might say it doesn't work.
28:48
SPEAKER_00: That's why I say do it.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: How do you eat an elephant?
28:50
SPEAKER_00: One bite at a time.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: And that's the way you should approach this as well.
28:54
SPEAKER_00: One step at a time.
28:55
SPEAKER_01: And like I said, we will have these things in the newsletter as well as how to reach out to him.
29:01
SPEAKER_01: It's in the show notes.
29:02
SPEAKER_01: But if sometimes we have life where the next episode automatically goes on and we're trying to search back through what we already listened to to find who you are.
29:12
SPEAKER_01: But for those who they're about to pause and move on to the next thing, not another episode, so they can quickly Google you.
29:20
SPEAKER_01: How do they find you?
29:21
SPEAKER_01: If they're looking on social media or they want to get on your website, how do they find you?
29:32
SPEAKER_00: They can find me on Facebook or LinkedIn as well.
29:35
SPEAKER_00: They can also get a free health evaluation at your freehealth evaluation.com.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: They can also email me at VictorDodaj at VictorDododge.com.
29:43
SPEAKER_00: And if you want to learn more, I have a book on Amazon called You How to Be Happy, Healthy, and Whole.
29:48
SPEAKER_00: And I made it affordable.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: So if you have Kindle, it's only 99 cents.
29:52
SPEAKER_01: Oh, you really did make it affordable.
29:54
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
29:55
SPEAKER_01: Thank you so much for this.
29:56
SPEAKER_01: And I said, as soon as we are done here, I'll email you the rest of my questions.
30:01
SPEAKER_01: Because I want to continue this conversation.
30:04
SPEAKER_01: I want people to be continually thinking about how to become healthier, not just, oh, next episode, whether or not it's my show or somebody else in their queue.
30:14
SPEAKER_01: I want them to have this front and center.
30:16
SPEAKER_01: You said we live in such a world where we eat a lot of highly processed foods.
30:21
SPEAKER_01: And then when we think we're choosing healthy, maybe we're not because the soil's been depleted.
30:26
SPEAKER_01: How are we taking care of ourselves?
30:29
SPEAKER_01: And how can we eat our own elephant?
30:31
SPEAKER_01: Because our elephant is going to be different from somebody else's.
30:34
SPEAKER_01: So thank you for this conversation.
30:37
SPEAKER_01: It was impactful.
30:38
SPEAKER_01: I know it was for me.
30:40
SPEAKER_01: And I know that we will be getting a lot of responses saying how impactful it was for others as well.
30:45
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you're welcome, Autumn.
30:46
SPEAKER_00: Thanks for having me on the show.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: It was a real pleasure being here.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
30:50
SPEAKER_01: I hope you have a wonderful day.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
30:52
SPEAKER_00: You two take care.
30:54
SPEAKER_01: Bye.
30:54
SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye.
30:55
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30:58
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31:02
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31:17
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31:20
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31:28
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31:40
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