Latest / Veteran Wellness Podcast / From Chronic Digestive Issues to a Juice Business: Joy Soto’s Wellness Journey
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- John Adams: When we're fasting or if we're on some herbal cleanse or something, we're detoxing the body. If the colon's not open, it's not moving, then and that all of those toxins that your body's trying to eliminate are stuck and they can reabsorb at a rate of ninety percent. Wow. Get the elimination pathways open. Every veteran has a story. Some stories change lives. Welcome to the Better and Wellness Podcast with Eric Lawrence. So this morning I drove down to Sedona to have a sit down talk with Joy about her juicing her juice cafe and the whole methodology behind it. So Yeah. So it started with my own journey, ⁓ through my own digestive health issues, which was most of my life, ⁓ until I started doing colonics. and juicing and ⁓ liver flush and that just really transformed everything. What were you battling? I had ⁓ well my mother had tetracycline when she was pregnant with me, so I was born already with a lot of issues. I just kept getting sick and then they kept giving me antibiotics and by early childhood I was, you know, just ⁓ having a lot of digestive issues, couldn't eat the school lunch, you know, a lot of time in the bathroom, even getting sent home from school. Special diet and elimination and seeing what would keep you balanced to some point. Yeah. And then finally later they diagnosed irritable bowel syndrome and celiacs disease. So I cut out the gluten, but then it was other foods and I started cutting, cutting, cutting until there was hardly anything I could eat and I was still, you know, bloated and all kinds of issues. So finally when it got to a crisis point, I started doing colonics. ⁓ and then I was on my own researching a lot of things. So ⁓ got into the Gerson method. Yep. In the Gerson method, they heal through coffee enemas and a lot of fresh juice and it has to be fresh. Yes. And cold crust. Yeah. So I started juicing and at some point my husband started juicing for me. ⁓ he would get up in the morning and make my juice for the day. And through my whole healing, I started doing colonics. ⁓ And my husband would make enough juice for me, but also to pour a cup for each of my clients during the day. ⁓ okay. Was he juicing? Yeah. He better be the chef. Yeah. And ⁓ so many clients were asking, you know, can I buy your juice? Because a lot of the juice in town is maybe three, four days old. ⁓ you know. not even the stuff you're buying at the health food stores that who knows, you know, how how many days that's been in a p and it's in plastic bottles and my ⁓ philosophy comes from the Gerson method where we want that fresh we want the life in the juice. We want the energy. Yeah. It needs to be fresh. So ⁓ I opened this place to provide fresh cold press, we we juice it every morning. We keep it in a glass bottle so it's preserved well. Yep. And and we ⁓ customers have been great returning the glass bottles. So we're also friendly to the environment. Well that's critical 'cause they're not cheap, I'm sure. So and glass, you know, you should be having glass in everything. You it shouldn't be plastic anything. I mean we we can go down that rabbit hole some other time. Right. But so if you're juicing it daily, how long do you keep it here if somebody doesn't purchase it? Well, if it you know, lately we've been selling out, so pretty much ⁓ good problem. Yeah, not a problem. But if we have juice left over from one day, we put it on a fifty percent rack and we have people who come in and they're, you know, looking for that fifty percent juice early in the day. So Yeah. It hasn't it hasn't really been a problem and As we expand, I mean I know we'll be doing multiple juicings throughout the day, so ⁓ you'll have to. Yeah. And Jorge, I'll love that. ⁓ So what about ⁓ what's your favorite or or the best selling recipes? Well we have a classic green vitality, and that was the original juice. Started with celery juice and added cucumber, apple, lemon, and then we ⁓ put in mint and fennel. And that that's my recipe for after the colonic because ⁓ as opposed to our green detox, which is very cleansing and kind of little spicy, ⁓ that one has cilantro parsley, dandelion and ginger. But after the colonic I want to calm. So that mint and fennel is very calming and soothing. They're both good green juices and you know, good flavor and we've, you know, honed them in over the years to get just the right balance. What's your spiciest one? What's the one that's if you're a little a little crazy? Well, it depends. So the green detox, you know, is is spicy with all the cilantro and parsley. But we have a few with a lot of ginger too. So like the grape rejuvenation, it's grape apple ginger, tiny bit of lime. ⁓ we also have ginger fire. Now if you want something really fire you up, that's like almost straight ginger. Wow. That would be ⁓ and then hold up. The orange evolution, that one has a little bit of ginger and turmeric. So very inflammatory. The flavors are great in that. And ⁓ yeah, I'm not down here often enough, but my recipes don't don't match yours at all. So And I'm having I'm having pink hydration here. This is watermelon and it's got just a little bit of lime and a lot of mint. Mm-hmm. That's a good mess. And Jorge makes it with love. He does. So he puts the little magic on it. Well, I know it works because of my own healing. Correct. And ⁓ he's working so hard. He's working so many hours ⁓ making the juice and the food every day. And he he gets up at like two thirty to start. And he ⁓ got up the other morning and he said, You know what? I love what I do. Wow. I love doing this, making the juice. So Well Yeah, he definitely puts the love in the juice and all of the food, all of our salads. Yeah, let's go over the foods. I had one the other day and it was it was excellent. Yeah. Had the Asian something. Asian bowl. Asian bowl. Yeah, that one was legit. That one ⁓ Jorge and I created the recipe together. We ⁓ We have the little black rice, there's bok choy, there's ⁓ sweet potato, edamami, ⁓ pumfu, pump pumpkin tofu. There's some carrots in it, and then it's got a nice like sesame dressing. Yeah, it was excellent. ⁓ and the portion was huge, but I I think, you know, this stuff digests down pretty quick. So Yeah, it's a combination of cooked and raw. And one of the things I try to do with our our food is I'm I'm really trying to get people more on vegetables. So sometimes it's a proportion. So while there is some black rice, there is some grain in there, the proportion of vegetables to the grain, I like to see a lot more vegetables. Well yeah, 'cause you're seeing that over on your colonic side of the business. Right. Because I know that's the anti inflammatory ⁓ healing food that we can eat is fruits and vegetables. Yeah. And so if we can just even up those proportions, we we have a lot better digest digestion and elimination. Well since you talked me into it, you know, recently, I've definitely noted a change in my digestion. ⁓ somewhat Th this can cause you to be a wee bit gassy. Well, that would be the old material that's still in there. So if we can get everything we do a deep cleaning. And it it takes more than people, you know, understand for the most part. We have ⁓ first to get all the way through the colon can take a number of colonics. You know, it's gonna be different with every person, but to get that all cleaned out and then there's the mucoid plaque and that's a whole nother level of digestive cleansing. So if we can get all of that out of the system and do a really nice deep cleaning, then you'll find that a lot of the foods ⁓ digest a lot better. They're not reacting with that old waste that's in the That makes sense. The combo of of the old and the new. Right. And the change actually. I mean, but y in your methodology, this is the way to live, not to have a juice once in a while. Out of the norm, you know. Yeah. I mean, there's the deep cleaning where we do some maybe juice fasting, maybe even water fasting, and ⁓ combine that with colonics, combine that with some liver flushing to get the liver rebooted. And then there's maintenance and Yeah, if you wanna maintain that level of ⁓ digestive health and really feel good and not bloated, usually there are some dietary adjustments. But one of our missions and and this came also out of I'd be working with with my clients and I'd tell ⁓ we made, you know, ⁓ vegan moussaka last night and I describe it and they're like, Wow, you know. Can you make that for me or Yeah, they never would have thought of that. Yeah. And so our mission is gonna be to show people that eating fruits and vegetables can be delicious. You know? My husband and I sit and we'll make another favorite vegan bolognize that we make with a lot of vegetables. I mean you're it's a pan full of vegetables, but it turns out into an Italian you know, delicious and and we feel like we're not missing anything. We'll sit there and just we look at each other and we go, We're not missing anything here. Like this is delicious. So that's that's what we want to share. We want to share how to make beautiful ⁓ foods with vegetables and fruits. We even cook the fruits. We have ⁓ appleberry crisp and that comes That originated from a mucusless diet recipe. So I had done mucusless diet during my healing and he encouraged you to cook your apples. And so we put the apples, you know, in, he said with a little lemon juice. This is Professor Spira's recipe. And I was making that, you know, and you can put cinnamon or cardamom or whatever, make it delicious. One day I was just lazy. I didn't want to squeeze the lemons, so I used our grape rejuvenation with grape apple and ginger and I cook the apples in that and then I'm like, Hmm, I'll throw in some berries. So it's berries and apples cooked in that ⁓ grape apple ginger. And then we throw in a little cardamom and cloves and top it with a little bit of granola and coconut. ⁓ And it digests so well. No one would think of that. No no one would think of that. And there's not one thing that's bad for you unless you have some type of allergy, which I have a blueberry issue. Yeah. There's only one juice here. I'll have to make it for you with raspberries somehow. Yeah, raspberries or or blackberries. Well, one of the concepts I I like to teach people is living within your digestive capacity. That's hard for Americans. It's hard. And even when you wanna go healthy and people want to go all raw suddenly, ⁓ that that can be that situation where you're having a lot of gas and bloating because you've still got that old material in there and now you have this raw food that's trying to clean it out and it's creating a mess. So one of the things I talk to people about it's okay to cook your vegetables, it's okay to cook your fruits, you know. at different points in time. You might you might eventually want get to all raw, you know, that can be a goal to get to. But just kind of honoring, you know, what our capacity is We go the wrong direction. We go with what we want to eat instead of what we should eat. Yeah. I mean there is just a lot of American way. Just a lot of consciousness when you learn about, you know, and tune into your digestion of being able to say, you know, s see what feels, you know, doable today, what what your system needs and tuning into that rather than, yeah, our habits, our our cravings, our cultural programming from what we're using. A lot cultural because a lot of people won't even look at this until there's an issue. Then they're all curious about what should I be doing? You know, we we outrun our headlights. Yeah. And do what we want until it doesn't work and then we go, ⁓ we gotta back off. And I would say too, the issues are not always digestion. Some people have respiratory things, autoimmune, some people have, you know, ⁓ diabetes or met metabolic. There's all kinds of things that we can correct by getting the elimination pathways open. Getting your digestive system working so that you're processing, you're taking out the trash. Your your body is reviving itself and and especially with the the liver flesh and the liver fun functioning, getting that liver up and running again. Now suddenly our system has the capability of rebalancing, restoring, you know. Yeah, i every time I get on a kick and do it, you feel so much better. It shouldn't be a kick. I know, I know. I'm be a lifestyle. We're ever evolving. Some of us are slower than others. You know, some of us are knuckle draggers. Well, some of us had that crisis point, you know, where it you know it it was necessary to make these changes. But I also want to encourage people not to let it get to that point. There's gotta be fire support amongst elements. What do we have to do today? day to get you through to tomorrow. Buy fire support today at VSSBooks.com. Right. Of course, but we're we're knuckleheads on that. You know that. So but what about some customer transformations? I mean somebody's had to have taken this on and understood your system and and actually fixed a lot. Yeah, yeah. I've worked with people with ⁓ all sorts of things. People who had to have their gallbladder. The doctor said your gallbladder's gonna have to be taken out. Yeah. No? We do some cleansing, we do that liver, gallbladder, flush a few times, adjust the diet and they go back. Nope, it's all clear. Another one I've had ⁓ a a number of cases with people with kind of mold or Lyme disease. Which is can be really difficult and pernicious. Well, it took me years to get rid of Lyme. It was an incredibly arduous program too. I would never try to do it the way I did it again. I mean maxed out on antibiotics. I mean just nuclear And that's just on the system. Destroying the digestion. It got rid of the lime but we have a yogurt ⁓ for that, the El Ruderai yogurt. ⁓ I used to make my own of that. Yeah. Yeah. Make your own you have to make your own pretty much, which is why I wanted to provide that for people for the antibiotic repair. Yeah, it doesn't survive if you don't make it fresh and you can't buy a I don't think you can buy a pill and run it through your entire system of acids and it get get to where it needs to go. Yeah, but back to b those, you know, kind of critical cases of people who have been really suffering with something for years. ⁓ there are some people who are they just need some cleaning, you know, I'll say just just eat more fruits and vegetables, you know, right? And That might be enough for some people, but there are some people I'll say to them, ⁓ you have a situation kind of like mine. You need to make this jump. Like you're gonna need to go a little more extreme. Yeah. You know, if you've hit that point with your body and nothing's working and you're really having trouble solving an issue, I encourage people to take that leap. You know, and go for it. Well, I think you're seeing Yeah, I mean we're we're our consciousness is in this meat suit and we have to understand how to operate it, you know. And that's where years ago I started, you know, with to a point, you know, juicing vegetables and this and that. But I'm really big on the filter cleaning, the livers, the the colon colonics, you know, we've we've talked about that many times. I've put it in my book I don't know how many times, and people still look at you funny and you're like Yeah. There's a lot of Change your oil filter. There's a lot of messaging and propaganda against, you know, natural methods. But that that's interesting you you say meat suit because that ⁓ brings up for me another whole aspect of what we're doing here, which is I see a whole spectrum everywhere from our standard American diet, meat and potatoes that we, you know, were we growing up with and programmed here in America and then moving towards more fruits, more vegetables, all the way to even fruitarian or raw or fasting, cleansing, and then we have Breatharians and Yeah, that was new to me. Yeah. We have people who are taking in their energy and for their body and and po power for their day through sunlight, through breath. So there's a whole spectrum. And I think that spectrum kind of aligns with our consciousness. So as we move down that spectrum towards more plant based, more even fruits, being, I think, the king for detoxing, cleansing, you know, like the perfect food. And then ⁓ into fasting, cleansing, we're we're opening up those chakras and and consciousness and getting into a higher vibration consciousness. I know some channelers and psychics who will ⁓ eat vegan and either maybe even fast a day before they have a big event just because they know that's opening up their consciousness more. Well of course when I fast I mean the mind works so much better. And then we have like Sundance, you know, where the tribes would they would dry fast for four days to get the vision. So we know fasting is helping us to open all of that up. So I I'm I'm just wanting to nudge people down that spectrum a little bit, take a step, a little more, eat more fruits and vegetables, eat more fresh. Seafood not so much as protein and carbs and fats and you know, all that stuff on the label, they don't put on the label li the life. The life of the food, you know, the freshness you're eating it freshly squeezed today, you know, or fresh vegetables. There's a life in that food that can't be put on a label in our standard Yeah, you know. Quantified. Yeah. Yeah, but that's where, you know, folks in Sedona are lucky you're here. Because They can just pull in, you know, do a program, do a cleanse, knock out a colonic and actually make it part of their day. There are plenty of people here in Sedona who understand you know, understand that ⁓ not everything we've been told not everything that's, you know, on the labels or that your doctor tells you is ⁓ absolute truth. ⁓ well you and I know that, but you know, you you're Preaching the choir there. You know, everybody believes a lot of a lot of bullshit I think and ⁓ until they get to the point where it it makes sense to learn something different, you're not gonna talk ⁓ into it. So I don't even try. You know, I write the books and you know, if they don't want to read ⁓ say love. I can't help ya. Yeah, we're doing the juice book for you. ⁓ you know, with the recipes and the and the philosophy and and hopefully people will you know, if they're not in Sedona, they can still make the same type of ⁓ Come visit, do a little cleansing, come in, do a juice fast, do some colonics, we'll get you on the liver flush and do some beautiful hiking and No Sedonas, that that's where we met. I was here a year ago to do like a ten day water fast. Mhm. But I understood I've gotta clean the colon too. I mean, 'cause you you're foolish to think you don't have to flush the hose out even though you're you're not eating. ⁓ you know, I want people to do it as a system in some way and you know, to talk to you or someone like you that they can get onto that program and it makes sense. 'Cause you have to do it in the right order. Mm-hmm. You you can't do a a three week fast and then do a colonic. That's just chronic. What happens is when we're fasting or if we're on some herbal cleanse or something, we're detoxing the body. If the colon's not open, it's not moving, then and that all of those toxins that your body's trying to eliminate, they're stuck. Mm-hmm. And they can reabsorb at a rate of ninety percent. ⁓ wow. So I say start any cleanse that you do, any herbal cleanse or herbs that your naturopath give you, get that colon open first. Yes true. So that as you detox you can eliminate. Makes total sense. We we say it this way, get the elimination pathways open. So Yeah. And that's what I'm saying. You gotta do it the right order. Yeah. Because otherwise you're you're not gonna get the maximum benefits. And then you're probably, you know, talk yourself out of doing it again, even though you didn't do it in the right order. Well, I remember once I tried I you know, I tried every diet in the world before I I went through this healing. And I had tried the alkaline diet and I was like I was going for it. I was g I'm like, I'm gonna do this. Two days later, I'm curled up in a ball, not just nauseous and had you know, total headache, but like everything in my body was hurting. Wow. Pain. I was detoxing hard. Yeah. That was before that was before I knew about colonics. Yeah. Now I ⁓ you know, I can go all day and just have juice or not even some days don't even eat most of the day, I don't even feel it. Yeah. Because when your your body's able to eliminate, you don't have to go through those detox symptoms. Yeah, I learned that fighting Lyme. But that's where I really started learning about the lymph. Mm. Because when you're detoxing, you need to flush that lymphatic. Well, and the lymphatic is your sewage system. So very closely tied in. We need to take the trash out, you know? Open up the pathways. And that's one of the reasons I love fruit ⁓ and consider it king of all the foods is fruit is your cleanser, detoxer. Yeah. And it's and it's also why some people have an issue with fruit is because They're detoxing on it. ⁓ it's true. Yeah. They don't get clean enough on the other end to where it's okay. Right. They they quit. If we can get ⁓ cleaned out enough, then that fruit is just gonna move right through. Yeah, that makes sense. Makes sense. Well, where where are you located? We're at forty soldiers pass road, ⁓ suite sixteen. So soldiers pass and eighty nine A. Yeah, top of the hill. Yeah. Top of the hill and turn right. And ⁓ you're in a little a small little, you know, shopping kind of center in the corner. ⁓ easy to get to. You know, you can always hike on soldier pass. It's very kind of homey, comfortable in here. We also have some seating outside, in a beautiful garden area. So Hm. Anything else you'd like to put out? I mean, that's that's a lot of information. So I think it Lot for people to digest. Yeah. Or you know, if you have any questions. ⁓ huh. ⁓ So I gotta keep up over here. Yeah. Lot to digest. Yeah. ⁓ yeah. Get a hold of us if you wanna, you know, have any questions. Yeah, I'll put I'll put our contact info on the on the the butt end of this video and then Or if you wanna plan to come to Sedona and do a little Healing retreat, we can line that up as well. We'll get into that. That's that's a no brainer. That's Sedona's famous for that. The energies here and and the people. It's it's the cleanest place for your soul, I think I've been to. Yeah. There's some weird people here. So you gotta you gotta bunker that it's it's a mix, but there's there's some weird cats walking around. They made it It's true. It took me a little while coming into Sedona, but and I I a lot of people have this reaction of law, it's just I say spirituality's a business plan. Yeah. Here. But then you meet but then you eventually meet the the people who are authentic and You know, I've I've met amazing people here in Sedona, both here in the shop and with the Kalonics and ⁓ at the yoga studio. So come on down, I'll help you find the right crowd. Yeah. Well she's full service, so come on down and ⁓ get on it get on some kind of system. 'Cause it only makes sense. So thank you. Thank you, Eric. No. We'll get it cracked.