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The Power of Detox: Vitality, Functional Healing, and Emotional Health · Healthy Happy Wise Wealthy

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Welcome to Healthy, Happy, Wise, Wealthy, the podcast where we talk about everything
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about healthy, happy, wise, wealthy, living from cradle to
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grave. I'm your host, Mary Meyer. Hi, welcome back to
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Healthy, Happy, Wise Wealthy. I am Mary Meyer, your host. And I am excited
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for today because I've been wanting since I started this to talk about some
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physical things we can do in terms of detox. And today
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we're going to talk some detox and talk about other
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things. Vitality, taking care of yourself and Kara and
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Brittany and their collaboration and some things that
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they are working together on. So I know, Kara, we've
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had you on. I'm going to have you introduce yourself second then. So, Brittany, can
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you just introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about what you do? Yeah,
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well, thanks for having me. My name is Brittany Hyden and I am
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a functional medicine nurse practitioner and coach.
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Um, I. Yeah, I live in Nebraska
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and have known Kara for a very long time. Since we were
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five, to be exact. And yeah, I'm super
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excited for what we are going to discuss today and
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exploring our collaboration and just ways that we can
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improve people's health and,
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and vitality. Like, we want them to thrive in life.
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So I'm super excited to dive into that conversation today.
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Kara, naturally she is, because in fact, she is known
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as the vitality queen. Okay.
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She's earned the badge. Yeah.
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So Brittany and I have literally been best friends since
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kindergarten. So I just want. And I've known Mary for over a decade.
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So, you know, when you get to hang out with your friends, it's going to
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be a fun time. So we're going to talk about detox
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and pathways and all this, like, super cool, brainy
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stuff, because we're all super cool and brainy, but also we're
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going to have fun.
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So I have my background. When I first met Mary, I
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was doing more of functional
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healing and using herbs and homeopathy and essential
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oils and, you know, using biofeedback to look at the
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balances and imbalances in the body. So my background and
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then finding remedies for creating balance and looking at the underlying
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causes, having that as a background. But
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always my draw was what are
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the emotions tied into those physical things?
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And after some life changes in my own
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personal life, I ended up shifting more into
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that aspect of the personal life,
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and I believe that's part of our health journey. But I,
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you know, my people call me spiritual mentor,
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life coach. I'm an author. I have a podcast
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also. And Brittany and I have been
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working on a beautiful collaboration that we are so excited
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to talk about today. Well, since you said it, why don't we just talk about
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that? Tell me about the collaboration you two are doing.
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Yeah, so I have.
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I primarily work with women. Not exclusively, but I
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primarily work with women. And my, like,
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backstory on why I do what I do.
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My health failed. Like . And it
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just kind of leads you into. Yeah, it leads you down a
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path that you did not even know existed. And
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mine started with.
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There was many layers, but probably one of the most prominent
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layers. I started having heart arrhythmias. And there
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was no answer. I. You know, you took every
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test possible. I was on medications. The medications were not
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stopping the arrhythmias. And I was gray,
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could barely function, and I knew I was dying. I've been a nurse for
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over 20 years, and so I was very
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well aware of the traditional medical system, and I was
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doing everything in that system, and it was failing
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me. And I happened to
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be going to another cardiologist to
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come up with another plan, thinking I'd have to have ablation done.
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And I finally told Kara what was going on,
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and she was in the middle of or towards the end of
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battling Lyme disease. And she happened to mention,
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you know, parasites do weird things to people sometimes.
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And I was like, parasites? First off, we made fun of people with
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parasites because, you know, in traditional medicine, that's just laughable.
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And I was at a place that I was so desperate
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for help, I came home from. The cardiologist,
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did not tell him I was going to do something totally
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crazy, Ordered some random parasite cleanse
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that came in a Ziploc baggie from a mom and pop shop. I didn't
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even know what was in them.
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And lo and behold, after like a week or two, the
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arrhythmia started to stop. By 30 days, they were hardly
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present at all. And by 60 days, they were completely
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gone. Wow. And that was like a
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moment of like, oh, my gosh, time out.
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We've gotta rethink everything that you have learned in.
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And so that really sent me down the
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path of root cause medicine. And I went back to school and
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became a nurse practitioner. And then I dove into everything holistic
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and functional medicine. So
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knowing that that was the path that I was going down, and I start working
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with these women, and I still
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have a lot of my own baggage. You know, I am in the middle of
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healing. Things are getting better. But
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the emotional piece, which I've always been the person
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that's worked on becoming a better version of myself,
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but that part of healing really became
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apparent. And with my
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clients I noticed that I could give them
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so much information and then, you
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know, you get to a point like a standstill and you bring up
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the emotional side. But they really need someone to
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guide them through that. Like I can guide them physically and I
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can give them tools, but emotional healing is not
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my, it's not my line of genius. Even though I have
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done a lot of emotional healing myself and can,
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you know, I can kind of tell you what to do,
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but it's really carers gift. And so
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I, I just realized that we need both aspects
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if we are going to really make a difference in people's
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lives and health. They need the physical and they need
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the emotional components in order to
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really heal and thrive. For sure. I just, I think
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one of the things that's really fun about us
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working together is like I always, I, I like to like think
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about the picture of a Venn diagram. And a lot of times like on a
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team you'll have just a little bit overlap, but mostly you're doing, you
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know, your thing. And I think one of the things about
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Brittany and I is we have this massive overlap of, of
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knowledge and understanding in what
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one another really brings as their great strength. Both
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through our own personal journey and through our work with people.
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And we have these superpowers on the
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outliners that you know, we each possess. But
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the, the overlap of understanding to support someone.
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And like, even for me, there's no one I'd rather
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work with. Even Mary, when you asked me, because you know that I know
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a lot about detox and I'm very passionate about people
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being healthy and helping people be in
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tune to their bodies and live in alignment to that attunement. Because
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that, that's how we be happy and healthy. We
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have to be healthy to live the lives we want to live. And
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you know, it's like when you were talking about, I'm like, I mean I totally
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could talk about this all day, but let's bring my friend Britney on because it
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will be way more fun. And that's really her expertise.
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Like even though I have a lot of knowledge and a lot to
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contribute to the conversation.
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But it is interesting. Like in my own personal journey,
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I was coming out of an
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abusive marriage that I had been in for
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10 years and I was just so
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puny, I was so sick. And at one
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point I thought, okay, once I, once things are
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shifted and I'm, and I'm, and I'm out, I'm going to start feeling Better.
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Well, that did not happen. And you
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know, so I'm doing all this emotional work and I'm realizing,
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oh, I think this has taken a physical toll on my body. So the
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weaving together of these two things, and this is going to keep
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coming up all night as we're talking about detoxing.
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Because the, the reality that your emotional health
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is part of what causes
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dis. Ease and dysfunction
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in your body. Right. And then your,
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your healing path, like if you're working on the emotion only,
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there's a time when you have a physical body. So if that
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emotion has taken hold as a symptom, there will
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be physical work that's needed.
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So, you know, for me, when I realized like, I,
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I'm physically, like there's something really wrong with me. And then I was diagnosed
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with Lyme. But it was truly through my Lyme disease
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journey of, of healing myself that I
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deeply learned how connected
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emotional energy that we hold in our body
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contributes to our health or our illness,
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sickness, dysfunction, whatever. And I do want to clarify
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just because this is always important, we are three people
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having a conversation about health. We are not giving health
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advice. Yes, that's, that's always so
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important. Acknowledge for sure. And you know, you can't even,
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even, no matter what you, if, you know, if you're going to
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diagnose someone, it has to be a one on one kind of thing where you're
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doing all the testing and that kind of thing. And, and maybe then you don't
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even use the word diagnose. Because I don't even, I try not. To
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because I don't like, I don't like to have people associate themselves with a
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diagnosis. Yeah, I don't like the term at all. Yeah, yeah, I
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love that. I understand that. And Brittany, just to kind of like I,
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I went through something that was similar, maybe I don't know if how similar it
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was to , but I had my health failed when I was
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23, so. And I was just sleeping all the time. I couldn't really
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wake up. I feel like I had film in front of my eyes, brain fog.
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Like you don't even know how bad off it is. And I went to the
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doctor and they are like, get away. Like, they're so
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dismissive. They do not want anything to do with me. And so I just,
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you know, you work out a little bit, you go to the chiropractor, you try
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to eat some more fruit and vegetables. And it was such a long
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time. Took some supplements and it was such a long time until
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I went to Kara. And at that point, I was so
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acclimated to hiding it that I didn't even think. I didn't
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even know anything about it. And I think it took her all of five minutes
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to go, well, you have Lyme disease,
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so let's detox. And it was a detox. Let's detox that. And then we worked
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on detoxing that for a long, very, very, very, very long time.
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Yeah, I think it's a thing. Yeah. I think it's interesting
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the comment that you made, because I think we probably can all relate to
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this, is we are so used to
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pushing through that we don't realize how
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sick we are in the thick of it
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until you are better, and then you can have a moment, and it's
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like, oh, my. I
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was really, really sick.
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And, like, people around you don't even grasp
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how. How sick you are because you are so used
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to covering it up. Yeah. Especially as women, like, we. We know
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we have to show up and perform in certain ways. And,
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like, that threshold of when we will even recognize
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is so high. And we're like, well, I got to do it anyway. Well,
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I got to do it anyway. Well, at some point, there aren't any anyways
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left, and we've borrowed so much of the energy from tomorrow
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that we've run out of tomorrow's to borrow from. And it's like, oh, my
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gosh, I am. I can't do it anymore.
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Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's profound.
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And I. You know, I've had a lot of brain fog in the middle of
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all this, and it does make me think, you know, you don't even. You really
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don't know that you're not doing well when you're. When your brain is foggy and
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you're. You don't have any mental clarity. Much mental clarity.
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That's a. That's a. That's a hard one. But, yeah.
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So I. So the main question of the night, let's, you know, someone comes
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to you. I know. And we're going to get back to you guys talking more
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about your collaboration. I know you kind of. We went. We went into your backstory.
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We'll keep coming back to it. It'll keep coming up in. In conversation. But
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if someone comes to you and says, I don't feel good.
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I feel like I've heard of detox, and. And I think maybe you could help
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me with detox. What should I do? I always ask the question
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why? I. I want to know why you're
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feeling that way. And I Think there's
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lots of buzz on social media about this
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detox or that detox or, you know,
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I've recently got a lot of requests for
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ivermectin, you know, let's parasite cleanse.
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But they don't even know what they're talking, you know, they don't even know what
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they're talking about. And granted I didn't know what I was talking about or doing
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either. But
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there's a reason behind the symptoms that you're having. If
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it's brain fog or fatigue or, you know,
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joint pain or inflammation or, you know,
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there's dozens and dozens of symptoms that you can be having
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and thinking that you need to detox from, but
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just going and buying and detox probably isn't the
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best way to go about it. There can be a
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strategic way because just blindsided
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going in and doing something, whether it's a
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parasite cleanse or a liver detox can.
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It can backfire on you in a really big way.
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So. And feel free to chime in whenever you want. Kara?
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Yeah, well, I was just gonna say because
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first of all, you can have any or all of those symptoms
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and if you just take one of those symptoms,
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there could be 17 reasons why, and it's
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probably more like 77 reasons why you're having
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that symptom. So we've been taught
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in our culture to think about symptoms as something to
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resolve with medicine. Like, I'm an,
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I feel, I have. A headache, I take, I want a quick fix. Yeah, we
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want to just like, but we're fixing the symptom. Whereas the
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kind of conversation we're having is like, what's
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causing the headache? Which headaches are probably the most vague.
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It's like, oh gosh, there's so many. Different headaches and they're so
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elusive and but you know, what's causing that
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symptom? And then for your
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body, what would support
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you to overcome whatever's causing that?
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And then as you work on that root cause, eventually that symptom
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changes or dissipates or gets better, goes away
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entirely. Symptoms you've lived with for years and years and you just
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thought, oh, it was just getting older or whatever.
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But that's part of why this blind big
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picture. Detox is just a, it's a really big
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word. Right. And.
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Go ahead, Brittany. Oh, there, there's, I wish I had this
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printed off, but one of the, the courses that I've
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taken, they take symptoms. So like our major
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cancer and like life altering diseases.
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And you know, that's at the Bottom of the. The
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pyramid here. And it's. Then they start stacking
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like, okay, well, what happened on top? Like, what happened before you get to
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a cancer diagnosis? Well, you have, you know,
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this disease and this disease, and we start just adding
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to the pile and ask the question, like,
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okay, well, why do you have high blood pressure or diabetes or
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hypothyroidism? Well, the next step is we have
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environmental toxins and we have. We're deficient in
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vitamins and minerals, and the list goes on and on.
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You know, emotional triggers, work, stress. So we just keep
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building and building and building. And at the top, once you
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add everything in there, and there is a lot. I mean, this,
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if you looked at it, it is completely full of random things
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that we are exposed to every day that we're thinking were, you know,
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part of our daily lives. And at the top, it kind of boils down to
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three points. Crap, food, toxins and stress. You know,
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Crap, food, toxins and stress. Yeah, I mean,
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there's a lot can go in that. But.
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Let me step into that for a minute because, you know,
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years ago I started thinking about how
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like, you know, doctors, people in general are always
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saying, you need to have less stress in your life.
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And anybody who's living modern life, like working
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mommy, whatever you're doing, being in relationship, dating,
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whatever you're doing, it's like, you want to give me some ideas on how
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to reduce stress in my life while still living it
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right? And that's when I got really interested in
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nervous system regulation and practicing myself
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and understanding how to regulate my own nervous system,
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but also how to guide my clients to
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practice and achieve. Because rest alone
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will not restore you. You have to give
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your nervous system inputs that it's safe and
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it's calm. And you have to do that over time and
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it becomes such a regular practice.
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You know, that's part of, you know,
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owning your life, getting in control of your health. Is this
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management of the reality of stress. We cannot come cut
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out all stress. From our own inevitable. And a little
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bit of stress is good. I mean, it makes us resilient. So it's
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not bad. But I mean, we're in such a. Such
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a hustle culture that we
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think like our downtime. Oh,
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like most people don't even understand
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what the nervous system is doing. They don't realize that they're living in fight or
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flight all the time. And then watching
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TV at the end of the day is their idea of de stressing. Or scrolling
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on their phone is their idea of de stressing or
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taking a hot bath, scrolling on their phone is distressing.
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Yet the nervous system is still. It
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doesn't know how to function. It does not know how to get into rest and
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digest or false. I was talking to a client about this
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today. The false, false. Piece of
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a glass of wine, a cigarette, you know, whatever,
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whatever other ways. Yep. Yeah. So you're.
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You might feel a calm, but it's false
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peace. It's not actual nervous system rest.
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And I love reminding people because we talk about
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dysregulated nervous system,
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dysregulated emotions, but the opposite is. Isn't
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like, you can say the opposite is regulated.
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But what does that mean? What does that tangibly mean? And that's
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such a, like, broad term. And what does that mean to me? What does that
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look like? And I like telling people the opposite is
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actually expression. So if we're talking about
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emotion, when you have dysregulated emotion, it's because
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you're not expressing or you're not in safety to
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express. When we're talking about the nervous system, it needs
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the opportunity to unwind and express,
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to. To have inputs and, you know, outputs and
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an exchange within you that allows you to actually
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express what's going on in your life. Discharge. Like
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this is the tiniest example, is the way most mammals, once
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they get through a flight situation,
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chased by whatever in the woods, parasympathetically,
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meaning involuntarily, they will shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake.
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They're not doing it, their bodies are doing it until they discharge
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the fear and then they move on. Well, we have
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that situation where it's like, whatever, someone cut us off and this,
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that whatever, or we have heart racing, fight or flight kind
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of situations and we don't discharge that energy.
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So there are so many beautiful ways in which you can learn
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every day and throughout the day, hour by
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hour, to discharge this energy as it's happening.
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A healthy nervous system should be like a little
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sine wave between, you know, sympathetic stress, which
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is fight or flight, and then calm
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regulated. You know, in, in social,
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ventral vagal, where I'm just being social, I'm feeling joy, I'm open,
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my heart is open. And,
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you know, we spend so much time here or up into functional freeze
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that, you know, we, we forget how to even
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get down here. And part of functional freeze can
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feel much like depression. So I think a lot of times
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people can identify the symptom of depression.
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They are sometimes just stuck in functional
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freeze. Interesting.
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Yeah, I think, like learning those. And
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this isn't exactly detox, but it is
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part of day to day. You
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need to be discharging. So it's kind of like a nervous system
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detox, really. It's like you're
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recognizing what you are honestly up against in
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a given day and what it does to your system. And we, as
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women, we are cyclical. Not on a 24 hour
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basis. Like, we don't have full energy every day when we wake up
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in the morning. You know, we run on a cyclical pattern and
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we have different energy every day. So we have, we have different
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bandwidth to deal with things. We have different
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energy literally in our physical bodies.
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And, you know, I think even
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being able to consider how can I support my
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nervous system to get through this day and actually
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honor how I'm made as I'm going through
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the day. Yeah, there's just so many toxins,
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both emotional and physical, that I feel like
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have just been dumped on us. And every decade it's like a little get
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better people will start recognizing it, but I don't feel like they do. I.
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I think maybe small percentage people. Are even
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aware of it. You know, that's. That's
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all that I consume. So I think, oh, everybody knows about this. Why do
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I need to say this again? But like, in reality, that's not
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true. Most people are completely oblivious.
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And so from my standpoint,
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I mean, you can, you have to start somewhere. When the person comes and
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they're like, I am exhausted. I just want to do this detox, whatever do you
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think about this? Right? I mean, there is so much information
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you can learn from a simple set of
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labs and a history on the person.
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Okay. Like, there's just a wealth of
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knowledge in those two things. You can, you can
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take basic labs, look at them from an optimal
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window, and I can pinpoint like, okay, well,
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your body's fighting this infection and you're. Methylation,
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which is part of detoxification, is probably not
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optimal. You know, do we need some
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omegas? Are we like
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blood sugars? I mean, those are always a big one.
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Underlying infections, you know, those are just a few things that you can
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easily spot looking at lab work.
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So, Brittany, let me ask you to insert a question there. Do you take your
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own labs or do you just take labs that they've used, taken from a
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medical doctor to look at? I do both. I
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like to look at more than what your traditional
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practitioner is going to order. But you can take
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a basic metabolic panel and a
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blood count, and you can start with that because that
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does give you enough information to at least
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go on in the beginning
26:50
from there. I mean, I. I like. I like functional
26:53
labs, too. You know, I like digging deeper if we
26:57
need to. But our basic labs with a few extras
27:02
that can tell us a lot. I mean, you can create a very
27:06
robust detox program for 90 days
27:10
or, you know, four months,
27:13
but if you want to dive deeper, you can go deeper
27:17
than that. But like I said on the. On the flip side, just listening
27:21
to their history, listening to what their life is like,
27:24
not only that
27:28
emotional component, which is huge,
27:32
but their lifestyle. Where are they living? You know,
27:35
I live in cattle country and ranch. You know, I
27:39
have farmland all around me. And are they
27:43
spraying crops or are they organic?
27:47
You know, what type of home do they live in? Where is their job?
27:51
What chemicals are they exposed to? The other day, I spoke to a gentleman.
27:55
He'd grown up right by an airport. And so
27:59
the constant exposures and the noise that
28:03
I'm like, oh, my gosh. Something I would never even think of because I live
28:06
in the middle of nowhere. And yet that was
28:10
something that was very prominent in his life.
28:15
Yeah. So take. Take a little bit of that information,
28:19
and then you start asking, you know,
28:24
what do you do to support your detox pathways? I mean, they don't know
28:27
what they're doing. They are. They're wanting. I'm wanting to know, you know, are you
28:30
having daily bowel movements to. To begin with, you know, are you
28:34
voiding and are you pooping? You know? Right.
28:38
Two simple places to start. Most people. Well, a good
28:41
percentage of people are struggling with elimination in
28:45
some way, shape, or form. Interesting. Well, and you just said.
28:48
I'm gonna. Sorry to stop you, but you just said detox pathways, which I do.
28:52
I know Kara had mentioned that a little bit earlier, and I think in general,
28:56
this is also. Even. It's so basic, but it's also a thing we don't think
28:59
about. Yeah. And I even know about it. I don't think about it
29:03
as much as I need to. So can we just talk about detox pathways?
29:07
What. What does that mean? I mean, we need a. We need a way
29:10
to excrete the toxins. So
29:15
elimination, bowel function, bladder function.
29:19
The skin is a giant detox organ. Are you sweating?
29:24
I mean, I spent most of my years never sweating and drop. And no one
29:28
asked a question, you. Know, same, same, you know,
29:31
from the. Time I was a child, did not sweat.
29:35
So that's like a big red flag, right? In. In my world now,
29:40
the lymphatic system, it's very you know, very little
29:44
discussion on that. You know, those, those are a couple of the
29:48
main detox pathways. Respiratory is the other one
29:51
that comes to my mind. You know, what your lungs, what you're breathing in
29:55
and what your lungs are able to excrete also. Yeah, yeah.
30:00
So if, if one of those is not
30:03
functioning properly, like I said, your body is
30:06
recirculating and recycling all of those toxins.
30:10
So over time, it's just this compounding effect.
30:14
I mean, take, take your bowels, for instance,
30:18
and women not having daily
30:22
bowel movements, then we have
30:25
estrogen issues, we have estrogen dominance because
30:30
removing estrogen is. It's imperative to
30:33
have daily bowel movements in order to clear that
30:37
estrogen. So we have a
30:40
buildup of estrogen, it ends up recycling in our system.
30:45
Our body's still producing more estrogen. You end up with
30:49
estrogen dominant symptoms. Like, I think about all the women
30:53
in perimenopause and menopause, or even if you are younger than
30:56
that and having heavy periods, terrible pms,
31:04
then later, you know, hot flashes. I mean, that can be an
31:07
imbalance of hormones. Fibroids.
31:11
Fibroids, ovarian cysts, breast tenderness.
31:15
I mean, all of those things are red flags that
31:19
we're probably not clearing our estrogen like we should.
31:24
So you're saying you clear estrogen by going number two? Yeah. Is
31:27
one of the main ways. Your liver's very. Liver is very
31:31
involved. Yes. I mean, but that's the exit. You know, there's
31:35
three phases of detoxification and elimination is the
31:38
third. Right. So going back to your original question,
31:42
Mary, which was if you, if someone came and was like, I kind of want
31:46
to do a detox, what do you think? One of the reasons that
31:50
you, I mean, you can. There's all kinds of detox kits out there.
31:54
You can do a little detox. If you're not
31:57
pooping, you're just
32:00
recirculating those toxins and you are going to feel
32:05
so bad, you're really going to feel terrible.
32:09
So it's really important first, like, if going back to
32:13
your original question, that a person, well,
32:17
ultimately they would be working with someone who's helping guide them through this, because
32:21
it's actually very complicated and individual.
32:25
But if you were just like a person who's like, okay, well,
32:28
I want to kind of do this on my own. Like, it's important
32:32
that you understand your body and how
32:36
it works. How, like these different systems that Brittany's talking about and how it,
32:40
how each one of them works, works to Clear toxins.
32:44
When you understand the biology of how your body works, which is
32:47
unfortunate, unfortunately, this very
32:52
intuitive art that is lost. It's been lost
32:55
in our culture. And the more you
32:59
understand your body and how it works,
33:03
the healthier you can be. So the first layer would be
33:07
understand your detox pathways and do some self
33:10
evaluation of. Like Brittany was saying, do
33:14
I sweat? If. No. What could I
33:18
do to help that pathway open?
33:23
You know, and we can talk a little bit about each one of these. You
33:27
know, my breathing. Is my breathing clear and open? And
33:31
do I feel like, can I walk down the aisle with
33:35
all the chemicals in the grocery store? I cannot.
33:39
I cannot. I can't. I. I have. I mean, my lungs
33:43
feel pretty clear, but I definitely struggle
33:47
with that respiratory. Like when there are
33:50
chemicals in the air. I'm struggling.
33:54
Lymphatic, you know, do. Am I. Am I
33:58
puffy? Do I wake up with stuff, Sleep lines?
34:03
You know, the lymph
34:07
doesn't have a pump like your heart does. It's fluid that's moving throughout your
34:11
body carrying the things that need to exit.
34:15
But it needs help pumping. So exercising, you
34:19
know, even just walking. Yeah. And in our
34:22
sedentary life, I mean, sitting in front of computers all day long,
34:26
what are we doing to help move our lymphatic system? System, yes. And there's so
34:29
many little things. Like, let's just pop in some little things that, like with
34:33
lymphatics, I'll sit every night and I'm just doing a little
34:37
pump right here at the. This is where all your lymph comes to. It's
34:40
just right here at your collarbone. And you know, you can
34:45
do a little push and pop open. Or I'll just sit there and
34:48
it's the smallest pump. You're not pressing hard, you're not
34:52
massaging. Very gentle, very gentle. It's the gentlest
34:56
little like pulse. On.
35:00
Underneath of your armpits or your groin. You know, those are also
35:03
very prominent. Dry
35:07
brushing. Dry brushing. Really helpful. Which.
35:10
A vibration plate. Rebounding. I have
35:14
been rebounding for two decades now. I, When I was
35:18
so sick, my adrenals were so I could. I
35:21
struggled to get off the couch. Couch. And I was.
35:25
I love exercise. So that's never been like a thing for me where I,
35:29
if, if my body's able, I'm working out. I love
35:32
exercising. So this was during a time where I was just like, oh, my
35:36
gosh, like I can hardly get up and just move about. Like taking a
35:40
walk was actually too much for my body. I Got this
35:43
rebounder and a rebounder looks like a little mini trampoline,
35:47
but it's, you know, very high quality. Um, it's so
35:51
that it's not hard on your back. It's not like a $20 trampoline from Target.
35:55
And I couldn't even jump. I just bounced. I.
35:59
I stood on the trampoline and I just bounced because that's
36:03
getting at least some movement. And then I worked my way up to be able
36:07
to jump. And so
36:10
lymphatics, there's so many different things that we. Drinking
36:14
plenty of water is really important. All of our. All of them.
36:18
Yeah. There's nothing water isn't important for. And,
36:22
you know, hydrating, making sure that you've
36:25
got some electrolytes so that you're actually able to utilize the water.
36:29
Yeah. Backing up, sweating, you
36:33
know, obviously doing some kind of exercise. But like,
36:37
I know Brittany saying she grew up never sweating. When I got
36:40
really sick with Lyme disease, I was not sweating. And I've always
36:44
been a person who, like, when I'm working out, I'm sweating. And
36:48
that's when I learned like, oh, this is not normal and this is
36:52
concerning. And so, you know, some of those
36:56
heat induced therapies, like a sauna or
37:00
an infrared mat or something that allows you
37:04
to break a sweat. I have a personal sauna and I use it
37:07
almost every day. There are days that I don't,
37:11
but that's a really, you know,
37:15
it's. It's not cheap, but it's an affordable
37:18
remedy. Mine is a therasage,
37:22
and I think. I got that same one. Yeah, yeah.
37:27
It'S one of those that it doesn't. Your head is out, but it's
37:30
tight, it's tiny. It'll fit in any space. You know,
37:34
it zips up and down. It doesn't take up huge amounts of space.
37:38
And it was very affordable, you know, and I've been using
37:42
it since January of 2020. So we're at the end of
37:45
2025, and it still works like a charm. Like. Yeah, it's a
37:49
good investment. And it's. It's a way to get things, you know,
37:53
that's like, these are like easy tactics. I want to.
37:56
I want to go back and kind of recap just because I. People are listening,
38:00
probably driving, and they're like, what do they say again about lymphatic
38:03
drainage? So just, I just kind of want to recap, make sure we went through
38:07
all the different things. So lymphatic drainage, really it. You.
38:10
You guys tell me if I got this, right. It moves all the toxins through
38:14
the body, so they can get eliminated, basically.
38:18
And some different things you can do with that. Kara is going, maybe that's
38:21
Ishish. Tell me if I'm wrong after this.
38:25
You know, like the. The rebounder, where you're mini trampoline bouncing
38:29
will make it work. Exercise, movement, walking,
38:32
vibration plate, drinking lots of water, electrolytes. And then
38:36
you have the example of that little
38:40
lymphatic massage on your. Kind of your collarbone, of your neck. You'd have to watch
38:43
this on YouTube to see them do it. They're everywhere.
38:48
Okay. Or under your armpits or in your groin area are some of the
38:52
lymphatic areas. And then dry brush, you said, which is another
38:55
thing you could look at. Mary, thanks. I appreciate
38:59
it. You know what? I actually have a really funny story, and
39:03
I have to say it now because it's about lymphatic drainage, and it
39:07
just happened. So before we get back into the serious. This
39:10
is very serious. It is very serious, but also fun. I bought it.
39:14
I bought a vibration plate. And first of all, you cannot say that word without
39:17
people cracking jokes. But secondly, I've been. I've been using
39:21
it. I got one, but I had. Yeah, I had. So
39:25
I've been using it. And look it up if you guys don't know what it
39:28
is. But it's basically like, I don't even. What is it about, you know, a
39:31
little bit bigger than your stance, and it's just going to move, move back and
39:34
forth, back and forth. You feel so good after it.
39:38
So I had my lights. When I came home last week, my
39:42
lights were out in. In my apartment. And I'm like, okay, this is just
39:45
some part of it, not. Not all of it. And so I flipped the
39:49
breaker, and then one lamp started, you know, on and off, on and off, like
39:53
a Halloween movie. And then another lamp started doing it. And then the
39:56
kitchen lights did it, and then they stopped and then they turned off, and then
40:00
they turned on and they're like. And so then they just went out. And
40:03
I'm like, it's nighttime. I'm going to sleep. The next day, they came
40:07
and to fix it, and they. They couldn't figure it out. They're looking
40:11
in all the outlets, and they finally look behind the breaker box, and there was
40:14
some kind of prong in there. This has nothing to do with Detox. It's just
40:16
only funny. And it was installed incorrectly, so it's supposed to be like an
40:20
inch apart, but it's kind of together and they're like. Well, any kind of vibration
40:25
because it's installed incorrectly is going to make this disconnect.
40:29
So even walking around. And of course I started chopping my head
40:33
off. I'm like that vibration plate, you know, on the third floor,
40:37
you know, vibrating the whole. Oh my gosh. Use
40:41
your vibration plate. Go ahead and go get one. Drink your water.
40:46
Vibration plates are so good for like bone density.
40:50
They're good for like 15 minutes is worth. Is equal to
40:54
30 minutes of walking. And if you can do like a
40:57
little static squat or like hold your arms in a certain position, like
41:01
the, the input to your. To your muscle
41:06
when you're using it on that vibration plate. Yeah, it just is
41:09
like so it's so beneficial. Yeah, I feel better. It
41:13
does help. I feel like it helps a lot. And it's just too easy.
41:17
And those are very inexpensive. Yes. Couple hundred
41:20
dollars. Yeah, like it's too easy. You
41:24
got no excuses on this one. Well, I think all the
41:28
methods are kind of probably inexpensive because like the lymphatic. A lot of things you
41:32
can do at home. Yeah, that's why I want to make sure we talk
41:35
about those things. We just briefly spoke about the liver
41:40
ways to detox your liver.
41:44
Lemon water with. Well, my go to first thing in the morning is always
41:48
Redmond's real salt and lemon water. Say that one more time.
41:52
I've missed part of it. Redmond's real salt and lemon water. So
41:56
real salt and lemon water. A hot cup of water and
42:00
add some Redmonds and a slice of lemon. Squeezed lemon.
42:04
And I gotta say, like, I can't do it hot. Like my
42:08
body just. I will not drink it. I just do room temperature
42:12
water and then I love it. It's delicious. Yeah, it is. It's
42:16
addicting. Castor oil packs,
42:20
those can be very beneficial for everything.
42:25
But obviously you can. You can use it on your liver, you can use it
42:29
on your tummy, you can use it on your thyroid.
42:33
You can use it all sorts of. Places to help sprain an ankle. Throw a
42:36
little castor oil pack on there. Yeah, yeah. Can you guys
42:40
explain what a castor oil pack is? Because I know what you're talking about, but
42:43
I feel like most people probably don't. So you want
42:46
organic cold pressed castor oil.
42:51
High quality castor oil. And it's
42:54
sticky. I mean, it's a little sticky, but you put a
42:58
little on your hand and rub it over your liver. And then they
43:02
have these packs, they're cotton. I did try to
43:05
use or to make my own at one time, I don't recommend
43:09
it. I would say just buy the pack because it is such a mess trying
43:13
to do your own. I'm not quite.
43:16
That's just not my thing. So buy the pack and you just
43:20
place that on top of, you know, if you're putting it on your liver and
43:24
wrap it around, you can. I have used a little warm
43:27
heat at times, especially like when I was going
43:31
through breast implant illness and trying to detox my from that. I
43:35
would put the pack on and then use some warm heat and set for
43:38
20 or 30 minutes.
43:42
So yeah, you can get them on Amazon. I always tell people to grab Queen
43:45
of Thorns. I think that's the right name. You might have a
43:49
different brand that. You use, , but the same castor oil.
43:53
Their castor oil packs are a lot more expensive. You can get
43:56
organic cotton castor oil packs on Amazon for very
44:00
inexpensive and probably elsewhere. But the. You want it
44:04
in glass, in glass, not want it in plastic. Or it's going to
44:07
absorb whatever it's. Absorbing what it's in. So glass and
44:12
Queen of Thrones is what I do too. Organic, cold pressed.
44:17
And it's just a great, it's such a great, great tool.
44:21
Great tool. It's so good. Yeah.
44:25
And what it does is it draws things out. It's draws out
44:29
talking out. Draws out. It's drawing out the toxins, drawing out
44:32
inflammation. I also will recommend to people,
44:36
you know, sometimes people get tired of pills. So I
44:40
will recommend like a liver detox tea,
44:43
something with milk thistle, maybe a little bit of turmeric,
44:47
some vitamin C, I think beetroot
44:51
and dandelion root. You know, those are all
44:55
supportive for the liver. So
44:58
have a glass of, or, you know, if you like tea, have a glass of
45:01
warm tea before bed, or if you don't like it warm, drink it cold.
45:06
But that, you know, that's an alternative to taking another type of
45:10
supplement and even just bitter. Any
45:13
bitter greens your liver loves, like
45:16
dandelions, for example, they're very bitter, the, the leaves of
45:20
a dandelion. But any bitter greens,
45:24
the liver is like, thank you, thank you, thank you. And that's one really
45:28
easy thing you can do if you feel like your liver needs some love
45:32
is, you know, you can get bitters
45:36
to take like 30 minutes before you eat. And it kind of
45:40
wakes up the liver and kind of gets that
45:44
cascade of digestion started because you're giving
45:47
that input of, oh, bitter coming in. We're going
45:51
to be digesting Another thing about, you know, the liver
45:55
is trying to go to bed by 10pm
45:59
and not eating for several hours before you
46:03
go to bed. And the reason that's important is the liver
46:07
performs like 700 jobs.
46:11
And the way my Ayurveda teacher once explained. Explained this to
46:15
me was if you go to bed with
46:19
food in your system that hasn't been digested,
46:23
your liver has to take care of that first. So it's like a
46:27
janitor for the digestive system. Like, oh, I gotta
46:31
spend my time digesting that food. If your liver is spending
46:35
its time. So when we're resting is when the liver is doing all these
46:38
jobs for our body. And if it's spending its time
46:42
digesting your food, then it's not getting all its other
46:46
jobs done, which. So I like telling people
46:49
that because, oh, my gosh, so hard to get to bed early. So
46:53
hard not to eat late at night. Like, I know.
46:57
When you understand why. Again, when you intuitively understand
47:01
why your body needs that or why the experts recommend that,
47:05
I think it makes it a little easier to buy in and.
47:09
And get in alignment with that, to get committed to that.
47:13
I. I want to kind of circle back to talking about having
47:17
bowel movements. Before, you know, before you do that. Would
47:21
you care if I recap for the. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Let's see if
47:25
Mary was listening. This is the. This is my quiz that I give myself.
47:28
So liver detox. So
47:32
warm water in the morning with lemon and
47:36
Redmond salt. Yep. Okay. Is one. And then
47:41
castor oil pack over your liver and you. Do you sleep with that
47:44
overnight? Is that kind of a. Kind of thing? Okay, so casserole
47:48
pack with organic castor oil in glass so
47:51
it's not leaching from the plastic bottle.
47:56
Bitters, greens. Or you can just
48:00
get like a bottle, like with bitters. Like, people put in alcohol,
48:04
and alcohol is bad for your liver, but you could just use the bitters and
48:07
before you eat. If I'm. You guys gotta tell me if I'm wrong.
48:11
I'm trying to recap everything. And then the last
48:15
one I might forget to tell me.
48:19
Going to bed early and not eating and not eating and
48:23
not eating so that the liver can do its job at night and not have
48:26
to overwork. Yeah. Before we move on from here,
48:30
though, because I could have said this sooner about other systems,
48:33
but liver, it's like I can't move on from that without mentioning.
48:37
And you got to deal with the anger in your life. There was a lot
48:41
to learn with Kara and Brittany on the topics of detox and vitality.
48:45
So this is split into two episodes. Make sure you catch both.