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The Hidden Toxins Making You Sick (Even If You Eat Healthy) | Darci Frankel · Willow Healing Matters Podcast

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SPEAKER_02: welcome to willow healing matters the podcast we are so excited
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SPEAKER_02: hey everybody it's katherine cristani with another episode of willow healing matters
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SPEAKER_02: and today i'm joined by the delightful darcy frankel so she's the founder
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SPEAKER_02: of serious cleanse method and owner of the hanalei day spa on kawaii's north shore
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SPEAKER_02: for more than 32 years she has
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SPEAKER_02: worked in ayurveda detoxification wellness and helping people better understand
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SPEAKER_02: the hidden toxic burden affecting modern health darcy combines ancient wisdom
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SPEAKER_02: with practical real-world strategies
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SPEAKER_02: to help people support detoxification pathways nervous system regulation hormones
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SPEAKER_02: energy metabolism and overall well-being
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SPEAKER_02: her work focuses
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SPEAKER_02: on helping people understand why they may still feel off despite doing everything
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SPEAKER_02: right in addition
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SPEAKER_02: to her wellness education work darcy has spent decades working hands-on with clients
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SPEAKER_02: through massage therapy lifestyle guidance cleansing protocols
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SPEAKER_02: and transformational wellness experiences she's known to make
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SPEAKER_02: for making complex health topics accessible practical and thought-provoking
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SPEAKER_02: darcy also brings a unique entrepreneurial perspective for building and operating
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SPEAKER_02: a successful wellness business in kawaii while helping thousands of guests
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SPEAKER_02: and clients over the years so big welcome darcy thank you so much catherine
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SPEAKER_02: for having me on today so straight away my question that's popping
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SPEAKER_02: in my head is how did you end up on this path of wellness and detoxification
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SPEAKER_02: and everything that you do i'm trying to think about where to start
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SPEAKER_00: the elevator speech or well you know from a young age a from
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SPEAKER_00: a young age i was always fascinated about health and well-being you know my mother
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SPEAKER_00: my brother was reading the new york times when he was four and
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SPEAKER_00: and i i just my mother would take me to the library every every week and we went
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SPEAKER_00: through a to z and you know towards the end what i was interested is herbology as
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SPEAKER_00: a young child and then i actually my mother
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SPEAKER_00: was a medical transcriptionist and she took me to one
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SPEAKER_00: of her continuing education classes when i was 13 and it was
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SPEAKER_00: about trigger point therapy and travail work and i devoured it i still have the book
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SPEAKER_00: and i started my first took my first massage therapy class when i was 13 and
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SPEAKER_00: then you know practiced did yoga home practice and then i became a massage therapist
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SPEAKER_00: and right after that
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SPEAKER_00: a dear friend of mine brought home a book on ayurveda
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SPEAKER_00: and i knew this was my thing i knew it so much so that when i first went
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SPEAKER_00: to see visit my teacher dr vasant lad i i knew that i had to study with him
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SPEAKER_00: and i had just gotten married in florida and he was in new mexico so i spent
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SPEAKER_00: a year going back and forth and back and forth and then and then i did the
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SPEAKER_00: official first year and second year guru kula and so i've always been in the health
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SPEAKER_00: and well-being so that was my early 20s and and
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SPEAKER_00: then i i had different healing centers over the years and i don't know if you know
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SPEAKER_00: that much about ayurveda
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SPEAKER_00: but it's very all-encompassing ayurvedic medicine is it's like traditional chinese
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SPEAKER_00: medicine but it's from india and so we feel the
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SPEAKER_00: the pulses for the organs the systems and the tissues and the health and imbalances
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SPEAKER_00: and if i'm not face to face with somebody i can hear the tone of their voice
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SPEAKER_00: and know things about them and know different indications on their face and
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SPEAKER_00: and help them in that way so it's a very comprehensive
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SPEAKER_00: ir means life and veda means wisdom so it's the science or wisdom of life
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SPEAKER_00: and healing and it's been around for five to seven thousand years and so i practiced
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SPEAKER_00: that and did the rejuvenation and cleansing program for decades and you know
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SPEAKER_00: for 32 years and as you know i live on kawaii and i also run a day spa here but
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SPEAKER_00: in 2018
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SPEAKER_00: kawaii broke a record we had 50 inches of rain in 24 hours which is a big deal
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SPEAKER_00: and uh it broke the road to where it literally broke the road and it took them about
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SPEAKER_00: a year and a half to fix
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SPEAKER_00: so i i couldn't run my day spa i couldn't guests couldn't come
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SPEAKER_00: in only residents could come and go
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SPEAKER_00: and then only on a schedule and i locked us in so i i took a bunch of time off
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SPEAKER_00: but not too much because i'm a little obsessed with helping people and
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SPEAKER_00: then i codified my i remembered what my vedic astrologer told me
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SPEAKER_00: and he said make why don't you have an online course and and i it took me a year and
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SPEAKER_00: a half to make 30 day cleanse challenge to cover all aspects
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SPEAKER_00: of cleansing emotional cleansing physical cleansing
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SPEAKER_00: we start with a sugar and gluten cleanse and go through all the different areas
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SPEAKER_00: of people's lives and i help them to learn about toxins to cleanse them
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SPEAKER_00: to track our progress as we go through and to prevent those toxins from getting
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SPEAKER_00: in our bodies in the first place and so for me that which what was a catastrophe
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SPEAKER_00: and i still process through some of the trauma from that you know
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SPEAKER_00: when it rains heavily but it was for me and that's one of the things i see
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SPEAKER_00: for people when we struggle with illness or death
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SPEAKER_00: or disasters i i think there's this is for me this is for us you know this is
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SPEAKER_00: for you know my my patients and when we flip it like that
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SPEAKER_00: we have less resistance to that experience and that's 90 percent of
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SPEAKER_00: the healing i find hundred percent and i love too that
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SPEAKER_02: the road collapsing made you collapse those beliefs that were stopping you
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SPEAKER_02: from doing what you knew was in your chart the whole time
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SPEAKER_02: or doing what you knew you were feeling pulled to the whole time
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SPEAKER_02: but also i love the timing of it because you said it was 2018 right because then
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SPEAKER_02: in 2020 we went into lockdown so it was
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SPEAKER_02: yeah it was it was ready it was it had to it was perfect timing for those
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SPEAKER_00: to happen it it was oh my gosh because then so
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SPEAKER_00: that we opened we reopened my hanalei day spa reopened and then we were and
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SPEAKER_00: then it we were only open for like three months so then we were closed
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SPEAKER_00: for another year and a half so i was technically closed my business
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SPEAKER_00: for three years so then i said okay what am i gonna do now bring it on and
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SPEAKER_00: then i learned how to do all the tech behind it the marketing the facebook ads
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SPEAKER_00: the this that that the video and it was actually fun i didn't want
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SPEAKER_00: to react i understand you just and then you get
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SPEAKER_02: to this point you're like do i bother or do i do i keep going
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SPEAKER_02: and sometimes that's life is just has that ability to steer us to where we're meant
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SPEAKER_02: to be going right it's it allows us
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SPEAKER_02: sometimes in extreme circumstances but it allows us to find our way to
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SPEAKER_02: the next best thing that we need to be doing in that moment yeah so true
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SPEAKER_00: so true it's it goes back to that piece of that life happens for us
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SPEAKER_00: not not to resist the changes you know we we practice that in hawaii
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SPEAKER_00: in australia too you know the surfers it's like what do we do we get on that board
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SPEAKER_00: and we paddle in the way that the wave is going we run you know we work
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SPEAKER_00: with life theoretically i think that's that one of the highest forms
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SPEAKER_02: of expression yeah and being in flow right there's this big thing that we talk
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SPEAKER_02: about being in flow rather than in resistance and
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SPEAKER_02: if you can surrender to the flow that's taking you along
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SPEAKER_02: the way it it's less work weirdly like you're still doing inner work or
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SPEAKER_02: and all those sorts of things but it's just it's it just seems
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SPEAKER_02: to be easier things just align better and things start to come to you yeah
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SPEAKER_02: that's true and darcy then from there where did the creating the detoxification and
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SPEAKER_02: the cleansing protocols and those sort of things so i'm assuming it stemmed
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SPEAKER_02: from your ayurvedic knowledge and teaching how did that become a bigger factor
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SPEAKER_00: of your life well i think that it's always been
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SPEAKER_00: a factor i actually got poisoned twice as a child and
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SPEAKER_00: one was a was misdiagnosed and given too much medication because i had
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SPEAKER_00: an allergic reaction and then i realized i was just it was around that time i was 13
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SPEAKER_00: and i realized doctors don't know everything and i you know i come from a family of
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SPEAKER_00: a medical background and and i have a medical background
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SPEAKER_00: an ayurvedic medical background which is a bigger piece so i think it's always been
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SPEAKER_00: with me about noticing and learning that there are toxins around
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SPEAKER_00: that same time i heard a news report i'd forgotten about this they said on the radio
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SPEAKER_00: in florida where i grew up there were a lot of elderly folks and they said if your
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SPEAKER_00: if your parents or grandparents are getting disoriented in the shower it's probably
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SPEAKER_00: because they've had too much exposure to too much chlorine in
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SPEAKER_00: the u.s i don't know what you use in your water there but we use crazy things
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SPEAKER_00: in our water here like chlorine and fluoride and other same same same same
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SPEAKER_00: other contaminants i mean why don't they just use ozone or activated carbon
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SPEAKER_00: or anyway so so i realized oh my gosh we can absorb way more through our skin
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SPEAKER_00: than we could ever drink in a day of these toxins and so i actually started working
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SPEAKER_00: with herbal medicines at a really young age to
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SPEAKER_00: to try to like counteract these things and figure it out different concoctions
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SPEAKER_00: and combinations of herbs when i was really young for for these things
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SPEAKER_00: so it's always been with me i think some people might say oh past lives or whatever
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SPEAKER_00: and but i don't know so when i had all that spaciousness
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SPEAKER_00: to codify my 30-day cleanse challenge like people
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SPEAKER_00: come with a symptom and a lot of times there are causative factors right there
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SPEAKER_00: in their lifestyle that contribute to this same illness and so eliminating and being
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SPEAKER_00: a little bit of a detective and eliminating those causative factors
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SPEAKER_00: can nine times out of ten create a big health turnaround for folks yeah and
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SPEAKER_02: then you become more conscious about all the toxins that you actually consume
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SPEAKER_02: in your day i know when i started to look into it ditched
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SPEAKER_02: the makeup brand i was using ditched the under or under the sink under
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SPEAKER_02: the sink was horrific when you open your eyes to all the chemicals that you can put
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SPEAKER_02: under there you know perfumes
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SPEAKER_02: and then i started on the food element
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SPEAKER_02: and i was like oh my goodness i remember throwing out half my cupboard
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SPEAKER_02: because i didn't realize how many numbers were contained in things
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SPEAKER_02: or how many things like that and then i found once i took all of that out i felt
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SPEAKER_02: so much better that i was also more sensitive to if i was exposed to that because
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SPEAKER_02: it's almost like it numbs our sensations and numbs our ability to connect
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SPEAKER_02: with our body and definitely the water i'm so passionate talking about living water
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SPEAKER_02: and not the tap water because when we when you allow water to work
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SPEAKER_02: in its natural form without other chemicals and pollutants and everything that's put
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SPEAKER_02: in it it's truly magical and it can be really healing and restorative but
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SPEAKER_02: when you have those chemicals added in
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SPEAKER_02: and i so agree with the chlorine because i remember um we were renting
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SPEAKER_02: and we got this notification
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SPEAKER_02: in our letterbox saying don't worry your water's even cleaner now we've just put in
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SPEAKER_02: a brand new chloralation plant around the corner and i was like oh no and my husband
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SPEAKER_02: and i were like uh when are we moving like when's our house done to get away
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SPEAKER_02: from this but i would fill up my son's bath and it would smell like
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SPEAKER_02: an olympic swimming pool like an indoor swimming pool because the chlorine was
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SPEAKER_02: so strong
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SPEAKER_02: and it was amazing how many little humans i was working with at the time and
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SPEAKER_02: the parents like oh their eczema is really bad i'm like it's the bath water just get
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SPEAKER_02: a filter for it it's the bath water it's
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SPEAKER_02: the bath water you know they're like well it can't be
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SPEAKER_02: the bath water i said no like our our water has chlorine and fluoride in it
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SPEAKER_02: and fluoride actually doesn't help your teeth it actually is
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SPEAKER_02: a brain altering substance so you know there's that whole argument
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SPEAKER_02: about our water being medicated
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SPEAKER_02: without our permission and things like that as well
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SPEAKER_00: and the amount of toxins that we're exposed to that they put
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SPEAKER_00: in i i'm still processing through the the i think i through the anger and
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SPEAKER_00: the sadness about this
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SPEAKER_00: because it's almost overwhelming it's almost overwhelming we're exposed
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SPEAKER_00: to tens of thousands of more contaminants than our parents
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SPEAKER_00: and grandparents have been exposed to and something as innocent
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SPEAKER_00: as giving our children our grandchildren
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SPEAKER_00: a bath could be causing eczema could be causing even lower iq and other things
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SPEAKER_00: that we can be censored for if we say that
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SPEAKER_00: that out actually outrages me it really does and i think
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SPEAKER_00: along with processing our feelings about that the more we're armed with the truth
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SPEAKER_00: the more we can take action to do those four things those are the four pillars
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SPEAKER_00: that I realize these are the four pillars of everything that I do with people is
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SPEAKER_00: to learn about these toxins which is
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SPEAKER_00: like phd level when we really you were talking it's like the water the air and
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SPEAKER_00: the different environments that we can be exposed to and all
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SPEAKER_00: the subtleties there you know so to learn about the different types of toxins and
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SPEAKER_00: where we get these exposures to cleanse them from the tissues and where they
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SPEAKER_00: where they live in our bodies and then you know
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SPEAKER_00: to track our progress is really important to see how we're doing
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SPEAKER_00: and then to prevent them so preventing them and learning about them go hand in hand
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SPEAKER_00: so like for instance in the united states a lot of people most people are
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SPEAKER_00: on hormone replacement birth control pills they're on antidepressants they're
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SPEAKER_00: on painkillers those are the top four
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SPEAKER_00: so what happens is they here we say they they go they eliminate into the toilet
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SPEAKER_00: then that's that goes into a sewage plant and is then treated
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SPEAKER_00: with more chemicals they can't take out the micro particles of the drugs we're
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SPEAKER_00: so we're taking drugs through our water and we don't know about it when we're
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SPEAKER_00: in these big cities so i think it's we either be the filter
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SPEAKER_00: or we buy the filter so you're you know advocating for these parents and children
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SPEAKER_00: to filter their water it's brilliant because that helps to reduce our toxic burden
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SPEAKER_00: if we're not being constantly exposed to those toxins in our water here we have
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SPEAKER_00: a really great spring a natural spring but we were getting that water for years and
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SPEAKER_00: then one day i looked very closely at it and i saw there were little things swimming
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SPEAKER_02: in it
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SPEAKER_00: so then i did a parasite cleanse and then i said i did a deeper dive
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SPEAKER_00: and i said okay i need to get a good water filter so i found
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SPEAKER_00: a nine step water filter for my house i have no affiliation and i won't mention
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SPEAKER_00: the name if you don't want me to and it even structures it after
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SPEAKER_00: but i want to say something for the the viewer if you can't if you can't do you know
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SPEAKER_00: if you can't buy a fancy full house whatever you can bless your water
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SPEAKER_00: and just simply saying this is my water
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SPEAKER_00: and electrolytes you can just simply maybe we've all seen
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SPEAKER_00: the dr emoto work we can just simply say i love you i love you i love you i love you
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SPEAKER_00: and
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SPEAKER_00: and you know water is part of nature and it hears us and it changes
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SPEAKER_00: the structure even when we do something simple like that so
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SPEAKER_00: if we are traveling you know i went to the airport i just came back from
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SPEAKER_00: the biohacking conference i told you earlier and i there are times when i've walked
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SPEAKER_00: miles in an airport to find water and glass and didn't find that so
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SPEAKER_00: at phoenix sky harbor they didn't have that but
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SPEAKER_00: at san francisco they had little small bottles of avion in glass so i bought that
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SPEAKER_00: and and when i went just a note to the viewer i went there i had
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SPEAKER_00: a smaller mountain valley you know the green bottle and i put electrolytes in it
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SPEAKER_00: and i went to tsa and i said this is medical water
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SPEAKER_00: i need this i need this and they let me take it through of course they x-rayed it
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SPEAKER_00: so i blessed it i blessed yeah so i blessed it and i had some water
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SPEAKER_00: so i wasn't dehydrated on the plane but there are things that we can do
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SPEAKER_00: that are low cost for you know people who don't you know have the funds to do these
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SPEAKER_00: and i just wanted to say that of course even just
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SPEAKER_00: a simple carbon activated carbon charcoal filter can really help as well you know
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SPEAKER_00: if you're in a pinch but definitely
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SPEAKER_00: filter your water that you drink that you bathe that you shower in
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SPEAKER_00: because we absorb 10 times more through our skin that's a piece that i wanted
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SPEAKER_00: to share
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SPEAKER_00: with the viewer is that we consume through our skin in ayurveda we use this
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SPEAKER_00: if somebody can't eat you know over the years i've had people who are emaciated
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SPEAKER_00: and had severe digestive issues and so i would bring them through a program
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SPEAKER_00: where i applied herbalized oils to their skin and other methods
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SPEAKER_00: to help them get stronger and and of course sweating and you know going through
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SPEAKER_00: the whole pancha karma program
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SPEAKER_00: and have seen great results because our we eat everything we put on our skin
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SPEAKER_00: so think about that when you have that laundry detergent and the fabric softeners
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SPEAKER_00: with all the chemicals the forever chemicals that interfere
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SPEAKER_00: with our hormone processes you're living sleeping in your clothes a hundred percent
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SPEAKER_00: of the time unless
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SPEAKER_00: you're not walking around naked but that's another story you still sleep
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SPEAKER_00: on sheets too right so you sleep on sheets yeah that's right and so one of
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SPEAKER_00: the things we found some years back is a machine that goes
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SPEAKER_00: into my washing machine it makes ozone water it cleans with ozone which is
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SPEAKER_00: an extra part of oxygen i love ozone
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SPEAKER_00: and so that's a simple thing so that people could make a swap out
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SPEAKER_00: and you're however much you're spending on the machine you'll probably spend
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SPEAKER_02: on laundry detergent and i use bicarbon vinegar that's what we wash our clothes in
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SPEAKER_02: and if we want them like if you want to add a bit more smell we put essential oils
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SPEAKER_02: in as well and we normally do it if we're using the dryer they try and dry the sun
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SPEAKER_02: so a lot of people i heard this the other day and i feel to share it but when you're
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SPEAKER_02: dry your clothes on the washing line in
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SPEAKER_02: the sun it actually creates your your absorbs the sunlight and
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SPEAKER_02: then your clothes become a shield like a protective shield because it's absorbing
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SPEAKER_02: the sunlight into the fibers of the clothes so obviously if you're wearing polyester
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SPEAKER_02: or nylon it's not going to work but if you're wearing cotton or linen
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SPEAKER_02: or those higher frequency clothing then it becomes a shield but what we do
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SPEAKER_02: if we put it in the dryer because it's raining and terrible
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SPEAKER_02: i will put on the little wool dryables i will put oils in it and
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SPEAKER_02: then our clothes smell amazing and then they get the oils charged through them
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SPEAKER_02: as well but it would that works for us it's so simple you know
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SPEAKER_02: and it's really cheap like vinegar like for us i don't know what the metro
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SPEAKER_02: to imperial conversion is but two liters of vinegar i think is a dollar something
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SPEAKER_02: or two dollars australia and so it's
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SPEAKER_02: you know and then the bicarb i buy in bulk and you don't have to use
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SPEAKER_02: that much use like a capsule if that
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SPEAKER_02: so yeah it's just these small things even our cleaning products we use eucalyptus
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SPEAKER_02: oil clove oil and tea tree oil you know and then we put a little bit of each one and
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SPEAKER_02: then put water in the rest of it and off we go you know so it doesn't have
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SPEAKER_02: to it actually works out cheaper because
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SPEAKER_02: when you go shopping you bypass nearly every single aisle
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SPEAKER_02: that has all this expensive chemicals in it
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SPEAKER_00: you do you do which is great so you're not breathing it in because
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SPEAKER_00: when you smell one of the pieces i i saw this in a movie and it named it so well
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SPEAKER_00: and i actually put this clip in one of my videos and youtube banned it
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SPEAKER_00: but it was a show called bosch and they were talking about a dead body and
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SPEAKER_00: a little morbid but the man said you know he put on mask you know or he went away
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SPEAKER_00: and the guy said oh you're you're being a little bit of a wuss and he said
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SPEAKER_00: when you smell that the smell is the particulate you're breathing that in
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SPEAKER_00: so when we smell something like mold or you go through that aisle on the in
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SPEAKER_00: the grocery store where they have all the strong scented laundry detergent
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SPEAKER_00: the smell is the particle you're breathing you're taking that in so think about
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SPEAKER_00: that next time we we smell mold or chemicals we take that in and yeah baking soda is
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SPEAKER_00: a great source and you know what we clean with is water and vinegar
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SPEAKER_00: i use that at my my business my business is holistic
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SPEAKER_00: in all areas hanalei day spa you know we help people with massage
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SPEAKER_00: and we only use organic coconut oil because we eat what we put
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SPEAKER_00: on our skin right we only use healthy cleaning products there's no scented things
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SPEAKER_00: except for some aromatherapy that we use yeah i had to unmute a hundred percent
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SPEAKER_02: and i guess this is where
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SPEAKER_02: it doesn't have to be complicated and my my pet height is walking into bathrooms
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SPEAKER_02: with those automatic air fresheners and you just like i just need to pee
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SPEAKER_00: and you're like go go go go go go go so funny i have my sister in that i do
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SPEAKER_00: the same thing i hold my breath you know i train for that now that i think
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SPEAKER_00: of it i do wim hof breathing almost every day so i could hold my breath for about
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SPEAKER_02: a minute and a half just so you can use the toilet if you're out in a mall
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SPEAKER_00: we're armed with these things a little bit of knowledge and wisdom and then okay
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SPEAKER_00: so let's take that further so you know i encourage i encourage my patients
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SPEAKER_00: and my clients to communicate in a cooperative way and to disagree on the same side
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SPEAKER_00: in a cooperative way and maybe write a letter to these big hotel chains
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SPEAKER_00: or other places that have these fragrances
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SPEAKER_00: that you know fragrance these synthetic fragrances that we breathe in have chemicals
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SPEAKER_00: that alter our hormone and gene expression potentially depending on what's in there
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SPEAKER_00: so it behooves us to speak about that in a common cooperative way i recently i was
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SPEAKER_00: a guest at this big conference and the hotel i decided to not stay at the hotel
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SPEAKER_00: because number one you couldn't open a window and number two they spray a fragrance
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SPEAKER_00: in the lobby and in common areas and i wrote a letter and it's
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SPEAKER_00: a very like fancy big chain you know and i wrote a letter to them and i talked about
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SPEAKER_00: the potential health effects negative health effects and i asked them if they knew
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SPEAKER_00: if they had a white paper on the health effects and well
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SPEAKER_00: they didn't get back to me of course not because
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SPEAKER_02: then they're admitting potential liability
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SPEAKER_02: because there there is no anyone wondering what the white paper is it's like
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SPEAKER_02: when you have a business you have to have a health and safety protocol and
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SPEAKER_00: if there's any chemical yeah it was a safety sheet thank you for yeah
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SPEAKER_02: yeah and if you have to have it for any chemical that you use so for example
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SPEAKER_02: when i owned my company and we had i was getting audited there's a whole other story
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SPEAKER_02: but when i was getting audited for this funding
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SPEAKER_02: that we were accessing they checked all
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SPEAKER_02: that they actually like okay what chemicals do you use i said we don't use any i
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SPEAKER_02: said we use vinegar and same it's very similar to you darcy i was like we use
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SPEAKER_02: that we have essential oils the ones that kids can't drink have the child safety cap
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SPEAKER_02: on so and we keep them out of reach
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SPEAKER_02: you know but we had to have all of those things in place so
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SPEAKER_02: when like they just think that they're putting an air freshener
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SPEAKER_02: in they're not actually thinking about that i've gone to hotels
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SPEAKER_02: and my husband has asked for us to move rooms because they cleaned the bathroom with
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SPEAKER_02: so much bleach we couldn't even breathe so we we have had that as well and then
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SPEAKER_02: the funny thing is a lot
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SPEAKER_02: of people don't realize bleach doesn't remove anything it just hides it
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SPEAKER_02: so bleach is like bleaching your hair
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SPEAKER_02: if it goes on mold it actually just removes it and
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SPEAKER_02: then there's actually been all this research to show
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SPEAKER_02: that there's been massive outbreaks of bacteria and things in hospitals
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SPEAKER_02: because they started cleaning with bleach and they stopped using things with clove
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SPEAKER_02: whereas clove removes and kills the mold and there's a whole heap of other things
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SPEAKER_02: that they've done that's not right but you know that's a whole other thing
27:46
SPEAKER_02: but these are these things the more conscious you are of them
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SPEAKER_02: and and you do need to speak up a hundred percent you know you need to speak up
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SPEAKER_02: and say something because the more you bring it to people's attention the more
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SPEAKER_02: that they will start to be aware of it and even if it doesn't change
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SPEAKER_02: the company's policy you've educated the people who are reading your letters
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SPEAKER_02: or you're educating the people who are you know have to review it or whatever
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SPEAKER_02: that process might be it's true it's true
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SPEAKER_00: yeah i think it's really important that we speak up and communicate for our needs
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SPEAKER_00: for ourselves you know especially as women you know and and educate people
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SPEAKER_00: about these issues you know years ago i i was visiting my brother in florida
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SPEAKER_00: and we went to the big health food store the can i say the name
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SPEAKER_02: or should i not say yeah yeah it's fine we went to the whole foods
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SPEAKER_00: and uh you know it's supposed to be all healthy well
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SPEAKER_00: we started looking at all the labels this was four three four years ago all
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SPEAKER_00: the prepared food had seed oils in in them catherine yeah yeah this is this is
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SPEAKER_02: the problem we've found too like even products that we used to buy that were okay
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SPEAKER_02: and used olive oil in it or use coconut oil
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SPEAKER_02: or i could make it like even avocado oil all of a sudden and now
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SPEAKER_02: canola oil and if anyone's like what are they talking about just search the impact
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SPEAKER_02: of soy seed oils on your health and see what comes up
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SPEAKER_02: because there's fortunately there's more and more things coming up
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SPEAKER_02: but yeah it makes it really hard to buy things like i just wanted
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SPEAKER_02: to buy some sun-dried tomatoes to put in with like because i used to use them all
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SPEAKER_02: the time but they're all like stored in canola oil and i i don't want to put that
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SPEAKER_02: in my body knowingly i don't want to knowingly put it in my body
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SPEAKER_00: we don't we don't want to knowingly put those things in our body seeds seed oils
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SPEAKER_00: a lot of people are getting hip to seed oils now which is great because it's
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SPEAKER_00: a major driver of inflammation in the body and when we eliminate and this goes back
29:57
SPEAKER_00: to what i was saying in the beginning a lot of times we have these uh symptoms and
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SPEAKER_00: then come to find out that the causative factor is in our everyday life
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SPEAKER_00: like the water for the eczema like the seed oils
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SPEAKER_00: for you know different inflammatory conditions and so you know stores work on supply
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SPEAKER_00: and demand if people aren't going to use something and the thing is just going to
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SPEAKER_00: the product will just sit on the shelf or if people make recommendations
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SPEAKER_00: to their store owners then you know that can help us so
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SPEAKER_00: you know we want to be an advocate for our our health and well-being and
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SPEAKER_00: the community so these are things we need to speak up about recently
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SPEAKER_00: the restaurant next door i live on kawaii right next door to
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SPEAKER_00: the hanalei colony resort which is where my the five acre beachfront property
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SPEAKER_00: where my day spa is and the restaurant changed hands
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SPEAKER_00: and and i would ask them you know what kind of oils well we use olive oil
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SPEAKER_00: and we use tallow we also have some seed oil i don't remember what they said
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SPEAKER_00: but i kept asking about and when i'd order i'd say can i just have it
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SPEAKER_00: with butter can you cook it with butter and so recently they made
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SPEAKER_00: an announcement gaia on kawaii
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SPEAKER_00: that they will they are no longer using seed oils it's all olive oil butter
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SPEAKER_00: and tallow which we're really happy about so big round of applause for them
31:28
SPEAKER_00: so it helps to be an advocate for ourselves our family and our community
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SPEAKER_00: when we do find these things at stores and restaurants
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SPEAKER_00: so speak up use your god-given power to you know be armed
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SPEAKER_00: against these things rather than feeling powerless these are things that we could do
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SPEAKER_02: one of my friends was traveling in indonesia and she just learned the phrase
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SPEAKER_02: that said i can't have seed oil i want coconut oil instead
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SPEAKER_02: and they cooked all her food in coconut oil no problems like it was just
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SPEAKER_02: so it's just being an advocate for yourself i feel more than anything and
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SPEAKER_02: and learning to speak up when you need to as well and as we start
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SPEAKER_02: to finish our time together darcy i asked the guests that come on the show
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SPEAKER_02: if you could heal or change something in the world what would it be it's hard
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SPEAKER_00: to only pick one thing
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SPEAKER_00: it would okay i'll i'll raise that i'll see that
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SPEAKER_00: and raise you it would be awareness it would be awareness of the provider
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SPEAKER_00: of services and foods you know utilities it would be increasing awareness of
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SPEAKER_00: the people who are in these positions
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SPEAKER_00: of controlling what people consume it would be increased awareness
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SPEAKER_00: and having them be guardians of everybody's health
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SPEAKER_02: that's a great question i love that thank you and i love your response you managed
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SPEAKER_02: to cover everything in one go well done and if people want to come
32:57
SPEAKER_02: and find you darcy and learn about your cleansing programs your detoxification
33:03
SPEAKER_02: as well as your day spa what is
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SPEAKER_00: the best place they can go find you oh they could just call me not just joking
33:14
SPEAKER_00: people can go to serious cleanse serious just like it sounds cleanse.com
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SPEAKER_00: and serious cleanse on instagram you can find me
33:27
SPEAKER_02: but thank you so much darcy for sharing your journey
33:31
SPEAKER_02: and also just some really beautiful tips for people to start to take hold
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SPEAKER_02: of their health again and really start to create a beautiful wave
33:39
SPEAKER_02: of change i feel is a beautiful that's the image i'm getting and
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SPEAKER_02: if you have found your own ways or little tips for
33:52
SPEAKER_02: you know finding ways to get around chemicals or anything like that please feel free
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SPEAKER_02: to share them
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SPEAKER_02: in the comments.
33:58
SPEAKER_02: You know Darcy I would love to see because i love learning new things and sometimes
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SPEAKER_02: you know it's through sharing is caring right so again thank you Darcy for being on the show
34:08
SPEAKER_02: and sharing so much. Thank you so much for having me, it's been a pleasure. Hey beautiful souls
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SPEAKER_02: it is Catherine Cristani here and I wanted to have a chat with you about
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SPEAKER_02: really amazing
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SPEAKER_02: cacao that i drink to help me get in ceremony to help me ground but also just
34:24
SPEAKER_02: because it tastes freaking good so if you're curious and want to know
34:28
SPEAKER_02: about drinking something other than coffee
34:30
SPEAKER_02: or your standard tea why not check out creation cacao i love this with a bit
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SPEAKER_02: of honey and cinnamon sprinkled in and
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SPEAKER_02: just letting it brew and having that whole intention as you create this cup so
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SPEAKER_02: if you're curious about want to know more check out the link in the show notes and
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SPEAKER_02: in the bio and enjoy
34:51
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