The Single Biggest Factor In Lowering Your Risk Of Chronic Illness.

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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is

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if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be? Like? What

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would that be worth to you? What is your health worth to you?

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Think about it. Your health isn't everything. But without

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it, everything else is nothing. And yet too many of us are

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taking it for granted. until something goes wrong. No one

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wakes up hoping to be diagnosed with a disease or chronic

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illness. And yet, we've never been taught how to be proactive

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in our health through our school system, or public health. As a

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registered health coach and integrative health practitioner,

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I believe it is time this information is made available to

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everyone. Combining new knowledge around your health and

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the ability to do my functional medicine lab tests in the

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comfort of your own home will allow you to optimize your

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health for today and all your tomorrow's don't wait for your

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wakeup call.

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Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast.

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And this episode is coming out in late March 2020. To come

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rounding out the theme of the power with in. And what I mean

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by that is the power within our body to heal. And so today I

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want to talk to you about how our health has shifted in the

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last 50 to 100 years alongside our food having shifted our

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toxic load having shifted etc, etc. Because when we understand

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all of this, we can understand why we have the chronic illness

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that we have in the planet today. And if you don't want

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that to be your health outcomes, then you'll also realize you

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have choices in what you're putting in your body and what

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you're also helping your body get out in order to avoid your

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cells turning on your or triggering your genes to turn on

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disease. So we know from the science of epigenetics that's

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come out in the last 10 years or so that our genes are not the

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only factor that dictate our health outcomes. It's in fact,

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our genes plus the environment and lifestyle factors that

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impact our health outcomes. And our genes are only five to 10%

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of that equation. And our lifestyle factors and the

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environment we create inside our body is 90 to 95% of that

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equation. And that's really powerful and really empowering

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to me, because it means you have a choice, you don't simply have

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to live your life as dictated by your genes believing that, you

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know, my parents had high blood pressure or heart disease or

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breast cancer, whatever it was, therefore, I'm going to get it

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as well. We know that is no longer the case. And instead

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it's like, okay, they had these diseases. But I can choose to do

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something differently for the health of my body, the one and

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only body that I get in this lifetime, in order to ensure

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that my cells do not trigger those genes to turn on.

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And so how do we do that? Well, there's many factors here that I

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want to talk to you about today. But the biggest factor is

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inflammation in the body. It is the inflammation in the body

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that triggers ourselves to turn on those genes. And yes, the

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body needs some level of inflammation, we want healthy

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levels of inflammation, inflammation that will go to a

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sprained ankle to help it heal inflammation that goes to a

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wound to help it heal. We don't want to be living in a place of

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chronic inflammation. And yet unfortunately, because of our

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lifestyle factors, that is where so many of us are living today.

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Inflammation is caused by a higher toxic load toxins that

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get into our body that our body can't cope with. And they get

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stored in our body. And over time that causes inflammation.

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Inflammation can be triggered by us eating foods that we have

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food sensitivities to and that triggers an immune response. And

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when we do that day in and day out every day that causes an

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inflammatory response. inflammation can be caused

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simply because of an imbalance between the number of omega

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threes and Omega sixes that we are getting in our diet and our

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body doesn't make them so we have to get them through our

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diet. That's why they're called essential fatty acids. But Omega

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six is the inflammatory one is in everything so it's very easy

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to get through our diet and omega threes the anti

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inflammatory count During essential fatty acid is harder

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to get through our diet today. And as a result, we can become

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out of balance and be inflamed. Omega threes we get through our

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fatty wild fish like salmon and mackerel and anchovies, and

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sardines and oysters. And if you're not eating those four

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times a week, is probably not enough to counter the Omega

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sixes that you're so easily getting through your diet. And

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that leaves us inflamed. Poor sleep can leave us inflamed.

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Digestive struggles and issues poor stomach acid caused by high

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stress, maybe there's a beer fighting a pathogen, maybe

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there's a parasite in your belly, maybe you're, you've got

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bacterial overgrowth, or you've got Candida or yeast in your

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body, all of that causes inflammation as the body tries

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to heal. And when we have all of this going on all at the same

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time, on an ongoing basis, it causes our inflammatory levels

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to be higher, and it increases our risk of our cells triggering

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those genes to turn on disease. Many people have been diagnosed

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with chronic illnesses and told that they have to take a

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prescription drug for the rest of their life in order to mask

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the symptoms and have them feeling better. And they've also

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been told that they're going to have this for the rest of their

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life. But the reality is that dis ease of the body doesn't

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have to be a life sentence, that we can actually undo that by

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bringing the body back into balance, lowering the

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inflammation levels. And I just want people to know that that is

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absolutely possible. Yes, it takes some effort. Yes, it might

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take some dietary changes, yes, it might take some lifestyle

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changes. But if you want to heal, and you want to get off

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the drugs, and you want to get back to living life fully and

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feeling amazing again, you can do it. And if you don't ever

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want to be diagnosed with a chronic illness, you can choose

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that too. Because remember, 90 to 95% of that equation is

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triggered by the environment you choose to create inside or

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inside your body. And you just might not have ever been taught

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that before. And the other factor, of course, is that we

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can't see what's going on inside our body. And we don't

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necessarily pay attention to the symptoms that our body is giving

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us. As a society, we're very quick to write off symptoms as

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aging, and genetics, and seasonal allergies, and keep

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pushing through. Whereas those symptoms are our body's way of

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asking us to do something differently. And the sooner we

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tune into those symptoms, and try to discover what our body's

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trying to let us know and what it's asking us to do something

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differently, the sooner that we can come back into balance, and

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lower the inflammation level on the body.

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So I just want to dive into some history here that I learned

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recently. And I thought this was very interesting. And I hadn't

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actually realize the numbers or as drastic as they are. But if

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we look at heart disease, for example, which by 2010, which is

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still 12 years ago, now, it was already the cause of 32% of the

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deaths in North America, that's one in three people were dying

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of heart disease. If we go back to the 19th century, only eight

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people worldwide were ever reported to have had heart

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disease or died of heart disease, eight people in the

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19th century. And now, in the 21st century, it's 32% of the

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entire North American population. It was in the 1930s

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that it became the leading cause of death. So what changed

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between the 19th century to the 1930s to 2010. That triggered

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heart disease to become the number one cause of death. Then

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if we look at type two diabetes in the 19th century, it was

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rare. In 9919 35.37% of the population was diagnosed with

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type two diabetes. Now it is over 10% of the population

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that's diagnosed, but insulin resistance is actually impacting

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90% of the US population nine 0% and Many people just haven't

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been diagnosed, they don't realize that they're on that

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path to type two diabetes. When we look at obesity, in the 19th

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century, 1.2% of the population was obese. By 1960, that was up

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to 13% by 1999. So another 39 years later, it was at 30.5%.

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And by 2021, another 22 years later, is that 42.4% As

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statistically obese, that's not even just overweight, that is

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morbidly overweight, obese. And then we look at cancer in the

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19th century, around 1811, one out of 188 people died of

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cancer. By 1900, it was one in 17. And by 2010, it was one in

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three. So you can see from the 19th, century two now, these are

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awful statistics in what's happening with our health. It's

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declining rapidly. And we have this incredible medical system

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that is amazing when it comes to acute health needs. But it

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doesn't seem to be helping us when it comes to these

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lifestyle, chronic diseases. So what's changed in this time?

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Well, let's talk about toxins. 144,000 manmade chemicals have

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been introduced into our world since World War Two. And the

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human body was never designed to have to deal with that level of

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toxic burden. That didn't exist in the 19th century. To that

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degree. In today's world, our babies are being born toxic, you

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can go to ew g.org and look at their 20 minute documentary

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called 10 Americans. And they did a study on just 400 Toxins

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not even 144,000 toxins and found that of the 400 toxins

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they were testing for that on average babies were being born

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with over 200 of them, because they're traveling through the

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placenta for a month. So in today's world, our babies are

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being born toxic.

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With 144,000 manmade chemicals getting into our body to our

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waterway, our airways being put on our skin, and when we put

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them on our skin, they get into our bloodstream in 26 seconds.

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And the average woman is using putting over 200 Toxins onto her

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skin every morning before she goes out the door to work just

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using personal care products that you can buy in the local

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drugstore and pharmacy and etc etc. Straight to the bloodstream

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are liver was never designed to have to deal with this toxic

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load. Our daily life is literally overloading the liver.

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And our liver is the epicenter of our body trying to stay clean

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and healthy is charged with over 500 reactions in the body in

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order to help us stay clean and healthy on the inside, including

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cleansing our blood every six minutes. But when it gets

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overloaded and bogged down, it can't do its job as well. So

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besides just those toxins, let's talk about other things that are

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bogging down our liver, alcohol intake, excessive workload and

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the stress triggered by that bogs down are our liver,

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smoking, prescription drugs and over the counter medicines. The

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liver has to try and process them as well detox them from our

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body after the fact. infection and illness whether it's acute

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or chronic stress, psychological and emotional, processed foods,

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sugar and white flour products and what else is in those

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processed foods, GMO foods, chemicals in order to extend the

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shelf life of those processed foods as well as environmental

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toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, etc. Our own

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allergies and food intolerances put extra stress on the liver.

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Poor nutrition and poor eating habits eating on the run. No

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even allowing our body to properly digest our food that we

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are eating, and then coffee and energy drinks. So, as you can

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see, our liver is really overburdened in today's world.

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And our liver actually has two phases of detoxification. And in

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phase two, it is when it is D, it is converting the toxins to

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being water soluble so that we can excrete them through our

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skin, through our bowels, through our urine and even

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through exhalation. But if it can't convert them to phase two

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and into being water soluble, it can't excrete them from the

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body. And so in that case, it will store them in our adipose

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tissue, or our fat closets. In order to prevent those toxins

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from getting into our bloodstream. It's simply doing

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the best it can with what it has to work with. And part of the

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reason that it can't, or it struggles to convert our toxins

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to being water soluble, so that we can excrete them is that it

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takes very specific nutrients in order for the liver to be able

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to do that well. And guess what, we also live in a tile and a

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time of nutrient deplete soils. And so as a result, the

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nutrients that the liver needs are not in our soils, therefore

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they're not grown into our food, therefore, they're not getting

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into our body. So basically, we have an under nourished and over

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burdened liver, trying to cope with what we are doing to it. Is

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it any wonder that there are so many people with fatty liver

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disease and different types of liver issues as well as chronic

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disease, because these toxins are building up inside our body

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causing inflammation, and then causing ourselves to turn on our

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genes and triggering some kind of disease. But here's the great

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news is you can do something about this, you can support your

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liver in helping get these liver the toxins out. This is what I

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talk about a lot. If you're a longtime listener to this show,

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you know, this is what I teach. Because I truly believe that

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when we support our liver and doing what it's supposed to do,

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that we can create a body that is inhospitable to disease, or

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liver just needs more support. And the education needs to get

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out there to let people know this.

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It's not taught through public health. It's not taught through

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our mainstream education system. We've been taught that we need

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to shower and wash our outer body for good health and good

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hygiene. But we haven't been taught how to look after our

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inner body. And detoxing is still something that is

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practiced to this day through Ayurvedic medicine in India,

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traditional Chinese medicine, the Latin American cultures. And

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where do you see most of the chronic illness in the world

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today? Yes, it's in the first world countries where we don't

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have these practices anymore. And I love how responsive our

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human body is when we create an environment in which it can

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heal. When we create that environment, it starts healing

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so quickly, when I guide people through a 21 day detox. Every

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single one of them in side 21 days, which three weeks notices,

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health improvements. For some of them, it's been long standing

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issues they've been dealing with. And then they realize,

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Wow, there is something to this. I'm on the right path and my

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body is finally starting to heal. Again, that's so

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empowering for them. health improvements from things like

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aches and pains go away. You know joint pain, muscle pains,

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headaches go away. They're sleeping better, sleeping more

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deeply. They no longer need daytime naps to brain fog goes

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away. Great mental clarity comes from lowering the inflammation

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on the body, too. I had one lady recently that couldn't get out

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of bed in the morning and walk barefoot on her bedroom floor.

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It hurts so much. It felt like I've actually had two ladies

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they had different feelings of this one lady said it felt like

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she was walking on rocks. And now that feelings gone away, and

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another lady who had to put special shoes on to walk on her

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hardwood floor and Now she doesn't have to. As the

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inflammation has lowered in the body, the body has started to

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heal, and they are regaining movement and regaining their

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life as a result. So is it any old detox that you can do? Well,

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if you want the best results, I highly recommend that you do a

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functional medicine detox that's created by a functional medicine

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doctor or a naturopathic doctor. And that's what I offer. And

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it's very specifically designed so that people can do it in

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their average everyday life. So you don't have to take vacation

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to do this. Instead of doing a six or seven day water fast,

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because for somebody who did that, first of all, most of the

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world wouldn't want to. And secondly, by the end of day two,

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you're not really functioning well enough to be at an optimal

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level to be at work, right. So we fast but we fast two days,

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two and a half days of each week, over three weeks, long

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enough to get the body into a state of autophagy, or deep

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cleaning, so that it can clear out those toxins. And it can

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start to get rid of dead cells and damaged cells. And then the

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human growth hormone kicks in and starts to generate new

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healthy young cells from which you get new vibrant energy. And

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by supporting phase two of liver detoxification with very

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specific herbs and supplements, that phase two can start

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happening and the body starts detoxing. When I guide people

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through this program, we talk about poop, it's important to

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talk about poop because we need to make sure those toxins are

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coming out. And people notice in three weeks, the difference in

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their poop and how that changes over that time. And they're

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fully aware of their body releasing toxins. So fasting is

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an important part of this and fasting for long enough. But

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doing it in a way where the body is still nourished, so that you

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can still go about your daily life. And so that's what I offer

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in my program is we use a shake powder, so that you're getting

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some protein, you're getting some vitamins and minerals,

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where you're getting a lot of vitamins and minerals, actually

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everything that your body needs, when not having any food so that

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you won't starve, you might have a little bit lower energy,

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because you do have a lower caloric intake. But we're

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keeping the body in that state of autophagy. And we're not

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turning on digestion, because we're having this through the

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course of the day and four shakes that you sip slowly, so

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that the body can just really easily absorb all that goodness

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without having to turn on digestion. The moment we start

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turning on digestion, the body comes out of that deep cleaning

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mode. And it's indigestion.

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And where do you spend most of your time these days, especially

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if you're working from home and have done so for the last two

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years and the refrigerators just over there, and we're constantly

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grazing all day long. On average, it takes two hours for

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a meal to be digested. And if it's a steak or something that's

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harder to digest, it could take three hours or if you have slow

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motility, it could take even longer. And so if you're putting

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more food in before the last food is fully digested, your

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body never gets to go into that deep cleaning state between

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meals and do what it's supposed to do. And so it's just more

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food and more toxins constantly going in and no time to clean

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up. And yes, the body is supposed to detox overnight. But

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are you allowing it enough time to do that? Are you getting

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enough sleep? Are you going to sleep with your meal, your

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dinnertime meal fully digested already so that digestion isn't

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happening when you're going to bed or you eating right up until

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bedtime and your body's still in digestion mode and not able to

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get into detox mode to properly detox overnight. In even when

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you are allowing your body to properly detox overnight, that's

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awesome. But if you're not getting those nutrients, for

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phase two of detoxification, the body has a harder time getting

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those toxins out of the body. So doing a 21 day detox has

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profound benefits for everyone that I've ever guided through

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it. And I love this program because when I guide you through

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it, I also support you with recipes and meal plans and show

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you or teach you how to be set up for success and support you

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throughout the program. So when you have questions, you can get

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them answered. Yes, you can go to a store and buy a detox kit

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and start doing it and then your brain starts going, what are you

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doing? This is different. Why are you eating these foods? Why

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aren't you eating those foods? Why don't you have some ice

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cream or whatever it is that you normally like to have. And so

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often we give into those voices in our head because it does feel

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hard and we don't even know if what we're doing if we're doing

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it right if it's going to benefit at us, et cetera, et

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cetera. But when you're on a guided programming, you

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understand all those benefits and why it's set up the way that

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it's set up. And you can get your questions answered when you

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have questions. Can I have this? I'm not sure what about that, or

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I'm going to this restaurant, how do I go to the restaurant

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and have a nice time with family and friends that still stick

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within what I'm allowed on this detox program. Because we can do

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that. That helps you stick with the program, and helps you get

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the best results. Those results I mentioned earlier, for from

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all of those people that love, love, love how they feel when

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they finish the detox and start loving how they feel even

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partway through the detox. And then we make it a lifestyle

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factor. Because you can't just detox once in today's world and

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think I'm all done. The reality is the toxins are here to stay.

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So we have to recognize that we have to just accept that and go

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okay, so what more can I do in order to help my body get these

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toxins out, I can't avoid them. But I can support my liver. I

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can give it added nourishment, in order to help get those

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toxins out. And I can do it on a regular basis so that it's not

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getting bogged down. So Quarterly, we do a seven day

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detox because those toxins are always coming in. So we want to

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always get them out. People love the results that they're

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getting, because they feel so much better. It's extremely

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powerful, it is not difficult to do. And it makes such a

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difference on your health outcomes. Because when we get

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those toxins out, we're significantly lowering the

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inflammation in the body. And then we are not having our cells

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trigger our genes to turn on disease. It's in fact a complete

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reset for the body. A detox like this, because our liver is also

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charged with detoxing excess estrogen in the body. So it

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starts to rebalance our hormones, which can be really

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important for so many women out there today who are struggling

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with symptoms of pms and menopause, because they have too

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much estrogen in their body.

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And that happens very easily in today's world because we have

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toxic estrogens coming in, we get estrogen through our food,

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our body makes estrogen and then there's a lot of Xeno estrogens

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are copycat or estrogen mimicry coming in through toxins into

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our body through plastics and water bottles, and etc, etc. And

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if the liver can't get rid of all that excess estrogen, it

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puts our hormones at a balance relative to our progesterone,

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which can be lower because of high stress levels. And we have

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symptoms of pms and menopause, that we simply tolerate thinking

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it's our lot in life. And it's not again, we can do something

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about this, we just need to know how. So toxins weigh something,

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a lovely benefit of a detox for many people is actually losing

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some weight. And also resetting our metabolism, understanding

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the timing of the way that we eat so that we can eat and

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digest and deep clean and eat and digest and deep clean. And

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when we eat nutrient dense foods, foods full of nutrients

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instead of our processed foods that have very few nutrients in

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them, we actually can sustain ourselves from one meal time to

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the next meal time without having to snack and graze in

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between. So we lose some weight. And we can maintain that weight

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loss because of these newfound habits coming out of the

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program. So there are so many wins from clear skin to you

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know, the aches and pains have gone away, etc. More mental

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clarity, which means we can actually be more productive

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because when we've got that clarity, we've got that focus,

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we can get more things done, to clearing out our body and just

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feeling lighter as a result, better sleep because the body

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doesn't have to struggle so hard to detox during the night

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because all of our systems are working better, to releasing of

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symptoms of hormonal imbalances, etc, etc, etc. It's a win, win

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win. So I'm sharing this podcast with you today because again, it

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comes back to that power within the power of our own body when

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we respect it, when we learn about it when we understand how

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it functions. And when we create give it the environment when we

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create the environment in which it can heal. It will heal so if

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something's going on for you, health wise, you're looking to

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feel better or maybe you're just looking to optimize your health

Melissa Deally: 00:30:01

Maybe you're of the mindset that you want to live as long as you

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can, and not spend 10 years in a nursing home at the end of your

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life, which is how long the average North American spends in

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a nursing home. To me, that's not living longer, they might

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say, we're living longer, but you're not really living. If

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you're in a nursing home, unable to truly care for yourself. I

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love to help people, we're set them on a path to be living

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longer and dying shorter. And that's what we can do when we

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start to pay attention to the insides of our body, keep the

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insides of our body clean, respect our health, and our body

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as our greatest asset. You look after your house, you vacuum you

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clean, etc, etc. you upgrade you renovate, you replace broken

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things, because you can see the inside of your house. So you

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take care of it, you do the same for your car, you take it for

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regular services, change the tires, do oil changes, etc, etc,

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etc. What do you do for your body? Most people probably have

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a shower daily. That's what we do for our body. And we eat

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three times a day for food and energy, I should say, right? But

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what is it that we're putting inside our body in that food, if

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it's processed food, it has only 17 of the 90 nutrients that are

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needed for optimal health. So right there we're lacking. But

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even if you're eating really well, because of our nutrient

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depleted soils, your body might not be getting everything that

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it needs. And so that's where supplementation comes in. Again,

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something we can avoid in today's world. In between giving

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our body what it needs to supplementation, and helping our

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liver do its job and getting out what we don't want all of those

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toxins. That's how we can put ourselves on a path of

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longevity.

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This is something you'd like to know more about, feel free to

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reach out, go to my website, your guided health journey.com

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click on the Contact Forms, send me an email, I run regular detox

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programs for people. I love guiding people through this is

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such a critical piece on our health journey. And I just want

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to continue getting this message out. Because when you know this

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information, then you have a choice, you have a choice to say

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you know what, I think I might need that. And step into that.

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Or at least book a call to talk to me a little bit further about

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your own health issues. And how I might be able to help you

Melissa Deally: 00:32:49

don't just accept the way your feeling is normal, and keep

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going. Because the symptoms will build. And as I've said time and

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time again, initially, the body whispers to you gently in the

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touch of a feather. And if you don't listen, it might come

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along and thump you with a brick. And if you still don't

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listen, it might show up and whack you with a wrecking ball.

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And I don't want anyone to get to that state I would much

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rather work with people at the whispering of the feather or the

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thumping of the brick stage. Because we can be empowered in

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our health. So thank you for listening. Thank you for joining

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