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A Holistic Nurse Reviews The Biblio Diet by Dr Josh Axe and Jordan Rubin · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Welcome to a bonus episode of the Health with Hashimoto's podcast.
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  On bonus episodes, I do book reviews.
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  I would love to know what books I should be reading next. What do you recommend?
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  Let's talk about it. Hop over to the Health with Hashimoto's community over
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  on school.com, S-K-O-L.com, and let me know what books I should be reading next.
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  For any book that I give a positive book review to, there will be an affiliate
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  link down in the show notes.
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  Of course, you can still go to your local library and support your local bookstore.
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  Or Amazon is just available for everybody. So the affiliate link is down there.
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  Today's book is written by two of the leading names in this wellness space.
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  They have been pumping out books and information and knowledge,
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  education for decades. I don't know how long.
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  I feel like they both were on the forefront of things when I started learning
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  about holistic health and essential oils and diet and stuff.
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  And now they've come together and they've written a book. So the two authors are Dr.
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  Josh Axe and Jordan Rubin, who is not a doctor, but super, super,
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  super smart and educated in wellness.
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  So they came together and they wrote the book, The Biblio Diet.
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  It is healing secrets from the Bible. They say, live long, master metabolism,
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  reduce pain, fight depression, and conquer cancer.
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  That is the subtitle for this book, The Biblio Diet.
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  It is a really interesting book, quick to read, lots of facts.
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  I wrote a review, and in it I specifically said that the book is simple enough
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  that my teenage son was intrigued, yet it had enough depth that I,
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  as a holistic nurse educator, remained engaged in learning.
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  So fun fact about me, I can't handle hearing chewing noises,
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  not my own, not anybody else's, so I always have something on while we're eating.
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  If there are other people in the room, it's a non-vocal music.
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  Classical music is what I like, but whatever.
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  If it's just myself, it's a podcast or an audiobook. And so one of my sons was
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  walking through or making his lunch, and I had this book on,
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  and he was learning things. He was listening. He was commenting.
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  So it's an interesting book, no matter your age.
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  I feel like there's a lot to learn.
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  One thing that I was worried about was some books that come from a Christian
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  background, I feel like, have some shame and have some shoulds and shouldn'ts.
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  I was worried, especially with.
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  A chapter titled Eat This and another chapter titled Don't Eat This,
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  I was worried that it would be a lot of like, if you don't do it this way, you're wrong.
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  And I didn't get that vibe from the book. It was a lot of education.
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  Like, here is something that is good for you. Here is something that is rooted in the Bible.
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  Here is something that people have been doing for thousands and thousands of
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  years, and they have better health outcomes when you do it this way.
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  So I thought it was a really good book. Let me read a little bit from the back
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  and then I'll give you the table of contents because that also helps you figure
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  out if you want to read it.
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  It's not, I wouldn't say this is like a book that stands head and shoulders
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  above all of the other books about diet and healthy living,
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  but it is a very good book and it's rooted in thousands of years of history.
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  All right, so here's from the back. In this breakthrough book,
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  New York Times best selling authors and nutrition experts Jordan Rubin and Dr.
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  Josh Axe offer a simple and holistic plan for building strength, health, and longevity.
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  Based on the ancient wisdom of the Bible and confirmed by modern science,
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  the Biblio Diet's intuitive and easy-to-follow plan invites you to experience
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  a breakthrough in the health of your entire family by learning to eat and live God's way.
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  It was a very good book. One thing that stood out for me that actually my son
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  heard and he told his table at camp when they were having some fries,
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  he said, did you know that eating a large McDonald's fries is the equivalent
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  of smoking 20 packs of cigarettes when it comes to your cancer risk?
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  Which is something that we learned while reading this book. That's in a section about seed oils.
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  Changes how you look at some of the things we eat. And it's not to shame you.
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  It's to say, here is what we know, and let's change our habits.
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  Let's do a little better.
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  All right, here are some of the chapters and the chapters that I thought they
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  did a really good job with.
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  Chapter one is the biblical longevity blueprint.
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  Chapter two, nourish to flourish. chapter three
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  is all about fasting they did at one point or two in the chapter talk about
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  autoimmune conditions Hashimoto's and being a female and how those things might
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  have to change how you fast or when you do it I as somebody who is a fan of Dr.
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  Mindy Peltz and has read fast like a girl I didn't think that they put enough
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  about that in there because men and women are different and where we are in
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  our cycle does change how we respond to fasting and how it can increase the stress on the body,
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  especially if you have Hashimoto's.
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  So I felt like they could have done a little better in that part,
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  but if you have read Fast Like a Girl or if you have listened to any of Dr.
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  Mindy's information, then you probably have enough to be able to supplement
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  that chapter and, you know, implement it.
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  Chapters three and four are don't eat that, eat this. Chapter six is about fat.
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  Then, let's see, I'm going to scroll down here. There's some salts,
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  bread. They talk about spices.
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  Chapter 13 is about essential oils. And I have to tell you, back when I was
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  in high school, and my mom first learned about essential oils,
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  the one she specifically started using was tea tree oil.
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  And we were not educated at that time, and we didn't have the internet.
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  We didn't know about applying essential oils directly to the body and making sure they were diluted.
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  And so I would use one drop, just a drop of tea tree essential oil and put that on my skin.
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  And so since the time I was in high school, so it's been 30 years,
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  I think, I have had a sensitivity to tea tree oil.
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  I can't have anything that has tea tree oil in it or I will break out in a rash. It's not an allergy.
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  It's a sensitivity caused by misuse of essential oils.
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  So I am very, very leery of anything that has essential oils that doesn't have
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  a disclaimer about proper use.
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  So chapter 13 did rub me the wrong way because of my history,
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  because I am still, you know, 30 years later, impacted by using essential oils
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  improperly because we didn't know better.
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  There is some good information in chapter 13 about the healing properties of essential oils.
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  I would just add my caveat is please use proper dilution and do not ingest essential oils.
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  I know there are companies who say our oils are pure and you can put them in
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  water and drink them, but the thing is it's not the purity, it's the potency.
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  It's the potency of the essential oil and how it interacts with your cell membrane
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  and with the cells and with your digestive track and how it can cause problems.
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  So please, yeah, there's my disclaimer. Essential oils are very,
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  very powerful, which is one reason they're in this book, because they are powerful
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  and they can help. They have a lot of really good uses.
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  Chapter 14 is a reason to buy this book. Chapter 14 is about cancer and leaves.
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  Leaves, like the leaves on fruit trees. Have you ever heard such a thing?
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  Dr. Josh Axe, I believe it was him, yeah, he was talking about,
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  I don't remember if it was him or his wife had a dream that someday he would
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  figure out a cure for cancer.
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  And another day after that, you know, when he had that dream or his wife had
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  that dream, he was like, yeah, I mean, that would be a really nice God,
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  but people have been pouring water.
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  So much money and time and research into cancer, who am I to figure out a solution?
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  And then he was reading, I believe it was in Revelation, talking about a tree
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  of life and its leaves were healing for the nations.
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  And he was like, oh, I wonder, you know, and he started going down this rabbit trail.
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  And so chapter 14 about healing leaves is worth the book.
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  Like, just get the book for that chapter itself.
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  I believe on Jordan Rubin's website, you can read just that chapter,
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  but I would get the book because it's all good.
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  So chapter 17 is the Biblio Eating Plan.
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  If you get the audiobook like I did, if you get it through your library,
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  you don't usually get the accompanying PDF.
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  If you get it from audiobooks.com, which is the company that I use or Audible,
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  then of course you will get the accompanying PDF.
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  You can print that out. And I believe it's a seven-day jumpstart eating plan.
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  It gives you the grocery list.
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  It gives you everything you need so that you can follow this Biblio diet.
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  So interesting book. I would recommend it. So here are my star ratings.
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  A five-star review is something that will change my life, that I will read again,
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  or that could change my life.
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  A four-star review is something that I really liked, but I don't think I'll
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  read it again, or I don't think it will change my life.
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  I did give this book a five-star.
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  I think, really, that chapter on healing leaves would be enough to give it five
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  stars, but the book as a whole was very good, and I highly recommend either
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  getting it from your local library, getting it on audio, or purchasing the book.
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  I will have a link down in the show notes to get it on Amazon.
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  Let me know what book I should read next.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only.
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  Please discuss any questions or concerns with your healthcare professional.
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  No statements have been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and any
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  products mentioned are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,
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  or prevent any disease. Thank you.