July 10, 2019 • 35 mins
Just because your grandparents suffered a debilitating disease or died at an early age, doesn’t mean you have to. Founder of Alkamind, Dr. Daryl Gioffre explains why it could be time to Get Off Your Acid.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You need to develop your why. Your psychology is critical
when you want to make a health change. I always say,
if the hy is big enough, the how, we'll find
a way. So you need to have a purpose behind
what you do. It's not just I want to lose weight.
Why do you want to lose weight? How is that
going to impact your life? So, if you're wise, big enough,
and you have a strategy, and that could just be
(00:22):
starting with one thing, nothing is going to stop you
from getting to your goals. Hello, and welcome to the
podcast where we talk about all things change on this
magnificent journey of life. I'm Lisa Oz and I am
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Jill Herzig, and I'm gonna start off today with a
very depressing statistic, sorry, which is that eighty million Americans
are pre diabetic. And Lisa, you know, and I've actually
talked about it on the podcast that I was pretty
diabetic as well and have kind of known thought that
fought back that sugar level that a one C test
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that scares the pants off me um, but it definitely
got me. I wasn't exactly a sugar addict, but it
definitely got me um set straight about sugar and added sugar.
But It is a very very depressing statistic and something
that we can't blame entirely on genetics. A lot of
this is lifestyle factors, Um, and I don't know when
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we talk about change. Increasingly, we've had some guests on
who talk about changing your physical self. It's so it's
such a catalyst to all kinds of change in your life.
So we're doing well. We are our guest today. Um.
Actually it's not just physical, because he talks about how
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a little bit about how the emotions are emotions create
physical change in our body as well, So we gotta
fix it all. We are joined today by the author
of Get Off Your Acids. Seven Steps in seven Days
to lose weight, fight inflammation, and reclaim your health and energy.
Dr Darryl Jeoffrey. Thank you so much for being here.
(02:08):
Thank you so much, guys. Absolute pleasure to be here
with you guys today. Well, your thing is acid. I
actually want to tell people, get off. I'm reading this
great book, Get off Yours. It's awesome. Well, I'm in
the arker and I talked sometimes a little fast, so
that word acid sounds like something else, which is what
it's meant to. It's kind of the play in the word.
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But it's interesting what you say, Jill, is that, um,
you know, by the year one in three people will
actually be diabetic. And that's the scary thing, you know,
when you look at acidity. Yes, it comes from stress,
which is a big thing, but it also comes from
the food. You know, if you look at the actual
sale of sugar over the last you know, twenty to
thirty years, has actually gone down. But if you look
at the actual consumption of sugar, it's skyrocketed, and and
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everything and everything. It's the hidden sugars and that's what's
getting people. Yeah, so okay, tell us a little bit
about your person story, because you're you're self confessed trugger
addict or were absolutely In fact, it consumed a good
portion of my life. You know, I was fifty pounds overweight.
I was massively addicted to sugar. You know, you take
the person you know who's addicted to sugar, and I
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say this in the book Times that by a thousand
that was me. I was drinking three cokes a day,
a box of Lucky Charms. I'd be adjusting a patient,
telling them don't eat sugar. I read in your book
that you put a lot of sugar on your lucky charms.
I put sugar on my lucky charms, like spoonfuls and spoonfuls.
It was so bad that for every spoonful of cheerios,
a spoonful of sugar will go on to that. It
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was out of control. And I tried for years when
I was young, you know, it was it was obviously
all I knew, right, um, But as I got older,
you know, I tried by deprivation, but sugar is so powerful.
I mean, there's reached your study showing it's nine times
more addicted than cocaine. It actually stimulates the dope amine
receptors in your brain, so when you try to stop,
it's become so hard. And again it's in everything. So um,
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I really literally had to become a health investigator. And
as I all the evidence, the evidence lead me to minerals,
and I started adding a green juice. Literally, it was
that simple. One green juice a day. I started bouncing
out a rebounder for twelve minutes. Then I added another
green juice a day, and I'm serious, In three weeks,
my addition of sugar was gone by adding, not taking away,
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So you were still eating sugar, but you were also
you just added these simple healthy behavior or to it. Yeah,
I mean I I didn't change my lifestyle. For so
many times I would stop. I was trying to say, Okay,
I'm gonna take this away. And again, deprivation is very hard.
There are some people that can do it by willpower.
But the problem is is that it's willpower, you know.
I remember a few months ago and if you guys
remember j L was talking about the ten day sugar
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detox and she kind of like, um, got all these
people on board, you know, throughout the country to do this,
and after day two, remember a Rod posting on Instagram like,
oh I'm dying. This is so hard, you know. So
the in theory, the concept was right, let's get the
sugar out of our diets because it is the most
acidic chemical you can put into your body. It does
fuel cancer cells. But the problem with all these people
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that try this is that they didn't go about it
the right way. The reason why we're addicted to sugars
because your body is deficient in minerals. So as I
started adding minerals into my diet and healthy fats, the
good outweigh the bad. So explain the connection. I know
this goes to a very basic level, but I explain
the connection between sugar and acid because when you say ascid,
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I think vinegar, lemon, juice. You know, I don't. I
don't think of sugar cereals or adding sugar to coffee
or something like that. Right, So, great questions. So we're
not so we don't really care about what that food
does outside of the body. What we are concerned about
is what that food does once your body consumes it,
once your body metabolizes it. So, for instance, lemons. Lemons
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has a peach of two point four, which is highly
acid forming. So if I put that on a cut,
that's gonna sting like crazy, right, But when your body
consumes that lemon, because it's high in minerals, high end fiber,
high in water, and low in sugar, that becomes alkaline
forming to the body. Same thing with spinach. Spinach has
a peach six point four. It's actually acidic. But we
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all know spinaches great for you, right, popeye? Right, Um,
So we don't really care what that food does outside.
It's what happens once you metabolize it, and it's what
it does inside the body. Why why is acidosis or
being acidic bad? Acidosis is something that literally fuels inflammation.
And when you look at every chronic degenertive disease from
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heart disease cancer, which by the way, is about to
overtake heart disease as as a number one killer, these
are all chronic inflammatory diseases. So when we're literally pumping
our bodies up with these acid forming foods, it turns
to lactic acid in the body. It creates inflammation in
our blood. And the biggest problem is is that your
body is always trying to maintain a tightly regulated blood
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pH So what happens is is that as these things
are going into the blood, the body has to neutralize
these acids. So it does what I call robbing Peter
to pay Paul. If you're not getting enough minerals from
your diet, from eating things like dark green, leafy vegetables
and healthy foods like that, the body is going to
find a way to get it. So what does it do.
Where is your biggest mineral bank in the body? Your bones?
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So the body starts to literally rob calcium from the bones,
magnesium from the muscles, by carbon it from the mouth
to throw that into the blood all in effort to
maintain a healthy pH. That's how important that number is.
Because if that number deviates by more than one point,
guess what happens? You die. So the body will do
whatever it can. It will actually let the bones fall apart,
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which is osteoporosis, or you get muscle pain, fatigue, um, cramping,
all in effort to maintain a healthy pH. That's how
important than that number is. But how many people are
talking about it? Not a lot, No, that's definitely true. Now,
how how does it? You know? When I realized that
I was pretty diabetic, one of the strangest thing to
things to me and honestly to my doctor, was that
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I felt fine and I looked fine. There was nothing.
There was nothing. You wouldn't look at me and say
that that woman's at risk for diabetes. And you know,
I walked right up to the line where where they
were ready to send me to a specialist and get
me a medication because I was you know, I hit
six on my one C, which is the sort of
crossover anything over that line, you're actually diabetic. But how
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do you feel when you're acidic? Are there symptoms? Are there?
Is there a way to know. So that's why diabetes
is called the silent killer. I mean, there's so many
people walking around with diabetes that that have it, but
they don't know they have it. It's like you can
have a cavity, but that hasn't turned into a tooth
day yet, all right, So are we going to wait
for the toothday to go to the dentist. No, It's
like we got to do self care. It's so important.
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The more self care, which is the things that we
do for ourselves, like brushing our teeth, flossing our teeth.
Healthcare is something that someone else does for you, so
that's the hygienas. So the more self care and health
care you do, we can avoid avoid the crisis care,
which is obviously the dreaded root canal. So the problem
is that so many people do judge their health by
how they feel, and by that time it's already too
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late because the symptom is usually the last thing that comes.
So we have to be proactive about our health. We
have to put you know, these healthy things into our
body least. So we have to manage our stress. And
I say this all the time, like a lot of
people in the health world talk about the foods that
you eat and the things that you ingest. But I'm
gonna tell you stress outweighs anything you can put into
your body a million times to one in terms of
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the acid and the inflammation and even the sugar that
it creates into your body. Because when you're stressed, your
body creates sugar. How does that happen, Well, the body
secretes something called cortisol through your adrenal glance, and cortisol
is your stress hormone. All right, It's like when we're
in fight or flight, and the problem is that most
people are living in fight or flight seven. And you know,
if you go back to Caban days, fight or flight
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happened when you saw a saber two tiger. So you
kind of either stayed in your fight or you ran
and got away out of danger. Then you were kind
of okay. But right now, because we're so chronically stressed
because of our fast paced lifestyles, because of all the
different types of smartphones and all the stimulation that we have,
especially here in New York to nine things you have
to check every nine minutes. Yeah nine, that's being conservative. Um,
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So what happens is the body secreases cortisol. When coralsol
goes up, your body doesn't know the difference between a
saber two tiger or just stress. So what happens. Your
digestive system shuts down, your immune system shuts down, and
your body needs to get out of danger, so it
finds its sources of fuel. And that's what sugar is.
Sugar is quick energy. It's a dirty energy, and that's
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why we have to avoid that. We need to go
more towards these healthy fats that help our body use
fat as this primary source of fuel. That's the energy
we need. So when we come back, we're gonna start
talking about how we live this alkalin lifestyle. Excellent. Before
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the week, we were chatting with Dr Darryl Jeffrey UM,
who is the founder of the Jeffrey Chiropractric Wellness Center,
about the whole acid alkhan balance and how acidity causes
most of our diseases and how adopting animal alkal and
lifestyle will keep us healthy. M can you walk us
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through some of those steps, like what we need to
do so everyone listening can to start today. Sure. Absolutely,
it's about action stuffs right, Um. There's a saying that
knowledge is not power, it's potential power. So action is power.
So these things are very important. Uh, the most important
thing about the things we're gonna talk about, it's not
about deprivation, everybody. It's about moderation, right, It's not about
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doing something drastic. It's not about you know, going on
this crazy juice fast. It's it's about putting healthy, live,
plant based foods into your diet um. And I like
to live what I call the eight twent lifestyle. And
what I mean by that is eight of the foods
you want to be putting into your body are these
healthy alkaline foods, things like dark green leafy vegetables and
your kale, your spina is, your watercress, your romaine, cruciferous vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower,
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sulfur based vegetables which are great for defeating cancer, things
like radishes, cabbage, onions. So those those vegetables are great
because they're high in chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a great blood cleanser.
And then you also want to increase your healthy fats.
Now you gotta remember there's fats that hell, and there's
fats that kill. So I'm talking about the healthy, clean
fats things like avocados, which we call God's butter. It's
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like the most perfect food in the world. I mean,
you could put avocado in so many different forms of
so versatile um raw nuts and seeds, so things like
hemp seeds, cheese seeds, flax seeds, not their oils because
their oils do become inflammatory. So I tell people please
avoid flax oil. Alright, flax oil if you buy it
in a store, by the time you open it up,
it becomes oxidized. If you're making flax oil at home,
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totally fine, right, But the seeds, we're not throwing me
off because I actually never even knew that flax oil existed.
You're starting with the real series dummy over here. All right,
It's all good, and it's about progress, you know. It's
just these things we're gonna be talking about. Just start
to add, you know, one at a time, see what
you like, what you don't like, and make it fit
into your lifestyle. UM healthy oils, things like extra vision
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olive oil, coconut oil. Cocon oil is amazing, m C
T oil, avocado oil, black human seed oil one of
the most powerful foods um three times more anti inflammatory
than tumoric. Right, it's amazing. There's a component in it
called thimo quinon, and thimo quinnon is one of the
most powerful anti inflammatories you can put into your body,
and it's a thousand times more active and antioxidant in
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vitamin E. So this is something you find at a
health food store, but you can find it in a
healthful store. We're actually launching a phenomenal product in two weeks, um,
because I'm so passionate about this. It's actually my mom
unfortunately lost my father to cancer about a year and
a half ago, and you were all dealing with this,
you know, in our our own ways, which is very hard,
and my mom, thank you so much. And it's the
opening story of the book. It's it's a pretty insane,
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powerful story. When you read it, you won't even believe
that how he was diagnosed. Um. But anyway, my mom's
blood pressure just shot up. It was about one seventy
over one oh five, and of course, you know, they
wanted to put her on medications for it, and she
knew that once she went on a medication was gonna
be pretty hard to come off that. So I put
my mom on you know, high levels of Omega three
fatty acids because that helps inflammation. And then I combine
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that with the black human seed oil because when you
take those two together there is a huge norgic effect. Um,
they kind of compound each other and within forty five
days her blood pressure is actually the normal range right now.
So it's just so amazing that, Um, we can avoid drugs.
You know, obviously drugs there therefore we need it. It's
for crisis care. But the question is what are we
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doing in between? And we have these powerful plant based
foods that you can use to decrease the inflammation, and
it's amazing how it just changes everything in the body.
And it's not just about again to what you're saying before, Jill,
it's not just about how you feel. It's about function.
It's about what you don't know, what is going on
the body, What are you preventing? Your body always has
all these a million things going on. Because there's also
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something really exciting when you can control a downslide with
your lifestyle behaviors. I mean that kind of change, being
able to say no, I'm going to turn this around
and I'm going to do it, and I'm not going
to take a pill that can make you feel pretty
strong and strong enough to stop drinking your coffee. Well,
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there is fashion a large mug of freshly brewed coffee
in front of me. Coffee is I've read the book
really acidic, super bad. Yeah, I mean and and again,
there are some health benefits to coffee. I'm not going
to deny that. But why is coffee bad? It drained
your minerals. So anything that drains your minerals is bad.
Anything that gives you minerals is good. But to your
point about lifestyle, Yes, it's so cool that we can
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actually take control of our health. We could get it
back in our own hands as opposed to being controlled
by a medication. Why not just take supplements? Why not
just take mineral supplements? Well, I do believe that there
are a few things that supplement wise we all need
to take. Um. You know, a hundred years ago we
could get the nutrients that we want from our food.
But are our modern toxic age. I mean, the average
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person is exposed to eighty thousand toxic chemicals in a
given year, so supplementations become necessary. There's a study on spinach.
We talked about that last week, and what the studies
showed this is a two fifteen study that it takes
sixty servants of spinach right now to give you the
same mineral, specifically iron content that one servant gave you
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a nineteen forty eight That was two thousand fifteen. Now
it's seventy five servings. So here's the challenge. Even when
we try to be healthy, it's become hard. Hope I
would look like a little bit of a weak wing.
And right now exactly so, we do have to supplement
um every morning. You know, I take a green supplement,
the greens powder. My wife does it, my five year
old does it, my two year old does it. And
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I'm so proud to say that at their age, they've
never been on a medication once in their life. And
you know it's it's I'm not saying that to impress,
but more to impress upon you that you know, we
can change our kid's life. You know, Um, if our
kids are at school, you know we're not going to
deny them the cupcake. We let them live their lives.
But when we're home, we control what we can control.
And you know, if we look at our children's health,
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what's going on, it's staggering. You know, for the first
time in human history. Our children's lifespan is less than ours,
and that scares me as a parent. Yeah, tell us
what the diet is that you recommend. So um, talking
about those alkaline foods. That's so, those are the things
that you really want to promote. You want to start
to add. Add those now if you're not twenty. When
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I started, when I was at dated to sugar, I
was twenty eight the other way, so there's no way
I was going to eight twenty. Maybe that worked for
two weeks, but it was only gonna take me so
far before I went back to my old ways. So
wherever you're at, just start to add. If you're twenty
eight in terms of healthy acid, then go to thirty seventy,
then fifty fifty again, go with that ad not take
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away approach. But the twenty percent once you get to
eighty twenty are the acid forming foods that you don't
want to put more of in your body, things like sugar,
especially the hidden sugar. Grains. Okay, grains is a big
one because grains will pump up your insulin, and insulin
is your aging hormone. Alright, Artificial sweeteners, dairy, I mean,
when you think about dairy. We are the only mammals
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that consume another mammal's breast milk after weaning. Cattle mill
cows don't even drink cow's milk, right, so we got
to avoid the dairy um. You know, things like soda.
Carbonated beverages is a big one. You know, carbonated beverages
CEO two, highly acid form into the body. Even if
you're into Seltzer, not good. Seltzer has a pH of
six point oh, and it is absolutely going to sidify
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your blood. And think about it from a common sense standpoint.
When we drink, when we breathe in oxygen, we were
talking about breathing before oxygen is the fuel for the body.
What are we exhaling carbon dioxide gas? That's the waste product.
So when you put carbon dioxide gas into a beverage,
you're infusing the waste product. So it absolutely sidifies the body.
And Kelly Ripples, she wrote the forward of my book,
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She actually talks about this in there, that she was
drinking carbonated water every single day and she was seeing
specials for twelve months. No one could figure it out.
After three days of being on the program, she was
symptom free. She took carbonar water away. Her symptom was
what she was having. Nothing crazy, she was having a
usual I mean, she looks like the glowious, she's happy,
she's amazing, and she defines balance. It's about balance, you know,
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the funny part where she's like, I'm still drinking my coffee.
So it's okay to have your coffee, you know, because
if you're doing of these good, healthy foods, then the
coffee is not an issue. You just have to pick
the thing, yeah, that you absolutely absolutely cannot give up,
and then figure out how to sort of nudge all
the other bad stuff out of your diet by adding
lots of good stuff. Okay, so I just walk us through.
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Here are my my very rudimentary understanding of the um
digestive system is you've got ascid in your stomach that
digests things. And so a lot of people, because I
have to say, the most of the medical establishment that
I interact with don't really buy into the whole ascid
alkalin theory as much as they should, and a lot
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of them have said, well, you know, everything just gets digestive.
Your your your digestive systems all ascid. Anyway, what you
know that so can we talk a little bit about
the whole great question. We're talking about two different animals here, So, yes,
acid in your stomach is important. Um, it's something as
we age we produce less and less of it. For
males over age thirty, it's when the decline starts. For
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females it's over forty. And what happened. That's why I
recommend people at that age take a digestive enzyme because
we are producing less acid in our stomach as we age,
So what's digesting our food? And that, by the way,
is the true cause of acid reflux. A lot of
people think acid reflux is coming from too much acid,
but it's not. Contrary to what we would think, it's
from too little acid. And that's why people as they
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get older, we have too little acid in the stomach. Yes,
we're not doing as good a job digesting our food.
Asset is coming back up yep. And that's supported by
sixteen thousand research articles. So um, So back to your question, Lisa,
it's it's actually not a theory, it's a science. You know.
If you look at Guttance Medical Physiology, which is the
book that we all read, not just chiropractic college but
medical college, it says, look to the hydrogen ion concentration,
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which is the acid. It is the most important thing
to determine balance of the blood. So the purpose of
of alkalizing, of putting healthy vegetables into the body, it's
not to raise your pH. That's what everybody thinks. You
can't do that. The blood pH is regulated by its
own You have this amazing buffering system in place. And
I talked about this from your kidneys two year lungs.
I mean end of the toxins in your body. The
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acids are regulated by your breathing, your adrenal glands, your
blood proteins, your mineral So when you're the whole purpose
of alkalizing and putting these things into your body is
not to raise your pH. It's to take stress off
the body's buffering system, so your body doesn't have to
work so hard regulating the pH on its own. That's
the most important thing I'm gonna say today. It's like
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if I go outside it's freezing cold, my body has
to maintain its temperature of point six, So I'm gonna
start to shiver, right. My body uses his own energy
to keep that stable at nine eight point six Eventually,
if I don't get to have the cold, my body
will shun the blood from my fingers and my feet
to my organs. Why to keep me alive. But I
gotta get to have the cold. The blood pH works
exactly the same way. It's a thermostatic. So if I'm
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putting in healthy foods, the body doesn't need to incorporate
all these buffers. But if I'm dumping sugar and all
these acidic chemicals, plus the environmental chemicals and all the
things that we breathe, then what happens. That gets into
the blood via something called leaky gut and it's something
I see with every client that I look at their
blood with LIE blood cell testing. So these toxins get
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into the blood, Then what happens The body has to
recruit those buffering systems to get those toxins out, and
it's range your body of its resources, and people become depleted.
And that is the cause of all disease. It's the
deficiency and toxicity. So and your books seem to emphasize
that exhaustion was one of the main symptoms. Absolutely first
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stage of acidosis is fatigue. It's energy loss. Why because
your body is working so hard to detoxify. So that's
why detoxification needs to be a lifestyle factor. When we
come back, we're going to talk more about specifically how
we detoxify. Before the break, we were really diving into
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the whole acid alkaline balance with doctor Darryl Jeoffrey, the
author of Get Off Your Acid, and I want you
to walk us through a couple of the steps that
we can I mean, you talked about adding more leafy
greens and food with minerals, but there are other things
we can do to to modify that acid outland balance. Yeah.
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The first step is oxygenation, is breathing, you know, and
the best part about it is is free. Anybody could
do this anywhere, anytime. Um. And we're talking about helping
the body, you know, regulate the pH The lungs is
one of your primary buffers. In fact, the total toxic
load in your body is actually removed by your breathing.
So I'm breathing right now. Yes, you're breathing the kind
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of breathing you're talking. You're breathing to be alive. But
are you breathing to be alive? Right? So the average
person takes about fourteen breasts per minute. All right, we
want to get to the stage where we're breathing five
to six breasts per minute. And now when you look
at someone who has cancer, they're breathing over twenty five
times a minute. Why is that Because the blood and
the body is toxic, so they're breathing more rapidly to
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try get that carbon diox I guess out of the body. Remember,
it's always regulating itself. So it's something that we have
to be more conscious about. And there's a breathing exercise
we talk about in the book. It's called the three
six five Power Breath. And here's how you remember that
three and sixty five days a year. You want to
do this every single morning when you get up. So
when I get up out of bed, I first always
have that attitude of gratitude. I always give thanks for
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something that you know, I'm truly thankful for in my life.
And then I get up and I do this breathing
exercise and we do it with our family. It's actually
a really cool thing. Even my son does it. Um.
So how it goes is you're going to breathe in
for three seconds in your nose. You're gonna hold that
breath for six seconds, and you're gonna exhale that for
five out of the mouth, so three six, five, and
then you want to do that ten times. It takes
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less than three minutes, so it doesn't require a lot
of time. You're gonna feel energized. It's gonna oxygenate your cells,
it's gonna oxygenate your body, and it's the greatest way
to start your day. This I can do. Yeah, before
I form myself a large cup of coffee, which is fine. Um.
And the second thing we go into is hydration. Again,
these are simple concepts, so we've got to get back
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to simplicity, you know, keep it simple, right. So the
about the American population is actually chronically dehydrated. So think
about a plant. If you start to see a plant,
will what comes to your mind? Drugs and surgery right,
drugery a right, Give it hydration, give it sunlight, give
it nutrition. Maybe there's some toxins in the soil. Remember
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what I said before, deficiency and toxicity. So give the
plant what it needs, take out what it doesn't need,
and if it's not too far gone, plant will heal itself.
So ideally we want to go for three to four
leaders of water a day, The average person loses about
two point five leaders. So anything less than that we're dehydrated.
And the more we drink obviously the better because it's
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just fueling our body. Now, if you're drinking two glasses
of water, I don't want you to go to three leaders.
That's too big of a step. Remember, think progress, not perfection.
So just start to add and a little bit, and
then as your time goes on, you'll get to that point.
And hydration is such important one for so many factors.
Now you went in your book, you talk about different
types of water, not just drinking regular tap water obviously,
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but neither bottled water. You actually do believe in alkalinized
water and something that I've never seen before, which was
hydrogen drops or or powder And what can you explain
that a little bit? So I'll find them both, Like
where do I get this al al canalized water? Well,
I kind of shocked people when I actually tell them,
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I'm not so you know, hype jumpy about alkaline water
because it's it's listen, it's fine. Um, what that means
is that it's got a higher pH but it's not
a buffer of acid. So I don't need to go
buy one of those machines, right, No, you don't need
to do that. Um. And again that's a difference. There's
a difference between alkaline water and alkalinity in pH, so
it's it's not about the pH it's about alkalinity. So
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adding minerals to water is something that neutralizes water. But
I am a huge fan of hydrogen water, something called
molecular hydrogen. So in my office we have a hydrogen machine.
I have it at home as well. But you can
also get little tablets that you put in water that
dissolves the hydrogen. And here's why I love hydrogen. There's
three major factors. Number one, it's a powerful anti inflammatory
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your body. Your gut should produce ten liters of hydrogen
every day. But the problem is our guts are so inflamed,
so acidic, so toxic are microbiomes. You're not producing that hydrogen.
So we have to give the body of the hydrogen
that it's not creative. Isn't there hydrogen in water? Isn't
that what it is? That's H two right, So and
there is, But that's one molecule we're talking about. H
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two is molecular hydrogen. So it's a diatomic molecule UM,
so it's a little bit of a different UM. It's
a different species. So it's two hydrogen's right, UM. So
what it does is it's anti inflammatory, but it's also
the most powerful antioxidant in the body. It's more powerful
than glutath ione, more powerful than vitamin C, vitamin E.
Because it's a selective antioxidant, all right, it goes after
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something called free radical. So free radicals are things that
obviously make us age. They rust us from the inside out.
It's like if you cut open a banana or an apple,
it turns brown, right, that happens to the fruit, that
happens inside, so we need to to remove that oxidation.
Hydrogen is what's called the selective antioxidant because it goes
after the most damaging free radical, which is called the
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hydroxyl free radical UM. And it can actually one molecule
of molecular hydrogen can actually take out two hydroxyl free radicals,
giving you two molecules of water. So again I want
to get to scientific with everybody, But the point is
it's a powerful antioxidant and what it also does it
stimulates something in your gut called gastric grillin, and when
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you stimulate the grillin, it actually goes up to the
brain and stimulates what's called the hippocampus, the hypothalamus, and
the prefrontal cortex. So in thirty minutes you're reducing inflammation
of the brain. And there's actually over seven hundred studies
on molecular hydrogen. Two hundred of them are actually done
on human disease models, and they've actually given this to
patients with Parkinson's and then when within thirty seconds their
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tremors have stopped. Why because it's decreasing inflammation of the brain.
So it's something that I drink all the time in
my wellness center. I drink it on on the road.
With the tablets, is something everybody should incorporate into the lifestyle.
Very powerful. Yeah, all right, tablets, Yeah, tablets or or
the machine. The machine can so yeah, I mean ideally
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you want to, you know, if you can invest in
the machine for at home, because now you're gonna get
the hydrogen every time you drink the water. The tablets,
you know, they'll get expensive over time. In the short run, yes,
they'll be more cost effective, but you're not gonna put
if I'm drinking a glasses a day. I'm not gonna
put a tablet in every glass of water. They'll do
it once or twice a day. On Amazon, they have
these little like water bottles that can hydrogen eate. Yes,
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I've never tested it, so I don't know after two
or three weeks how it does work. So there are
things that you can test, and and here's the other
things that there are hydrogen machines out there. After a
couple of weeks, the cathodes can get blocked with minerals,
so they will stop producing hydrogen. You really need to
know your source and I can always make recommendations if
you guys need So you talked about sort of long term,
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these things can get expensive. It's I think hard. It
can prove hard for people to stick to stuff long term,
to stick to big changes long term. So what about
doing just like a short term blast cleans to try
and see what's working for you? Is that an effective
way to go? I think it's a brilliant strategy because
it's it's a way to reset your body. You know,
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it's a way to kind of restart and kickstart the engine,
so to speak. Um, it's a way to reset patterns
that we want to break in our lifestyle. In fact, UM,
I just got through taking a few thousand people through
a two day detox It was amazing. You know, two
days anybody can do. You know, after day one, everyone's excited.
Day two is there. If it's like a twenty one
day cleans like, oh boy, here we go. But now
you're on day two. This is over tonight. So um,
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it's a very powerful strategy for people that want to
actually start to make those lifestyle changes. We'll see a
change in just two days. Absolutely. I mean at the
person can lose between three and five pounds. You know,
some people it's not water rate. Because when you're doing
it the right way with healthy, live, raw plant based foods,
you're detoxifying. You have to remember that, UM, toxins are
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what we call fat soluble. So when the when the
toxins leave the blood and go into the body, into
the tissues, which I call the acid magnets or the
acid catchers, they're protected by fat. So when your body
detoxifies a right what happens is, though it's toxins leave,
the body will take a guess what's attached to that
toxin the fat cell. So the fat leaves the body
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as a byproduct. And the coolest thing about it is people,
assuming they keep on going with a seventy thirty eight
twenty lifestyle, they're not gonna they're not gonna gain the
weight back. Um. So it is a great way to
kind of get that body into a healthier state and
start to make better choices. You recommend other detoxing methods
to like dry rushing and saunas and colon X. Can
you walk us through a bunch of those? Yeah, I
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mean the body loves Farrietay. If I go to a trainer,
he does the same thing or she does the same
thing over and over and over, like, the body will
get attic. So you gotta change it up. You gotta
do different things with your diet, You've gotta do different
things with detoxification. So my wife Chelsea, her favorite thing
is the dry skin brush. You know, every morning before
she goes into the showers, she's using that brush. Um.
Why because it's great for a lymphatic drainage. So the
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lymphatic system is like the garbage collectors of the body.
It literally goes into your tissues and it pulls out
those toxins like a vacuum, and what does it want
to do. It wants to get them out of the
body through the four ways that we detoxify, which is urination, defecation, perspiration,
and respiration. So by doing the dry skin brush, your
skin is what we call the third kidney. It's the
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largest detox organ of the body. So you're literally popping
open the corks of the skin, allowing that skin to breathe.
So if you see any skin conditions like acne, soriasis, dermotitus, ezema,
all right, it's an inflammatory, toxic issue. You start to
use these things like infrared sauna, like dry skin brush,
like the rebounder, which is the mini trampoline my favorite exercise.
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All Right, the body is gonna help get the toxins out.
You'll lose weight and energy will increase. Alright. So I
feel like I'm the confessional one in this conversation with
my coffee and to be honest, my cocktails. Um. But
also I felt a little overwhelmed reading your book. I
gotta say I live a pretty healthy lifestyle and vegetable fanatic,
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but there we was. There was so much coming at me,
much of an unfamiliar I do have a brain switch
that turns off when we get into the science. Although
I'm curious about it. What do you do if this
is all so new to you and you feel completely overwhelmed?
Is there just one change, one little tiny thing that
you can or to change. We can maybe handled too,
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but like, what do you do for the person whose
brain is shutting down right now? It's it's a phenomenal question.
I'm so glad you brought up because this is something
that can happen to a lot of people. Happen to
me when I first started, and you know, I didn't
have mentors back then, it was different. You know, we
didn't have social media, we didn't have all this information.
So the overwhelmed is something we have to definitely address. Um,
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My advice for everybody is just to start easy, start simple.
Just pick one thing, all right. You know there's so
much information like what vibed with you, what resonated with you,
whatever that one thing was, Just start with that and
just master that, you know, commit to over the next
seven to fourteen days. I'm gonna wake up. Whether it's
the breathing exercise or whether it's drinking a little bit
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more water, and make sure that you're gonna do that
every day, and that's it. And after a couple of weeks,
if you feel comfortable with that, and it's becoming a habit.
And it actually does take about twenty one days to
make a habit, so maybe you want to make that
a twenty one day thing. Then you can go on
to the next thing, all right, and you're already doing
that first one, so it doesn't have to be overwhelming.
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You just need to make this fit into your lifestyle. Well,
I feel healthier already just from talking to you. Thank
you so much for joining us today. It was an
absolute pleasure. I love you guys. Thank you great to
have you. To get more information on how to get
healthy and alkalin balanced, go to Get Off your Asset
dot com or get the book Get Off your Acid
Seven Steps in seventies. Thanks everybody for joining us today.
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Thanks as always to Alicia Haywood, our producer. We will
see you all next time. M
You need to develop your why. Your psychology is critical
when you want to make a health change. I always say,
if the hy is big enough, the how, we'll find
a way. So you need to have a purpose behind
what you do. It's not just I want to lose weight.
Why do you want to lose weight? How is that
going to impact your life? So, if you're wise, big enough,
and you have a strategy, and that could just be
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starting with one thing, nothing is going to stop you
from getting to your goals. Hello, and welcome to the
podcast where we talk about all things change on this
magnificent journey of life. I'm Lisa Oz and I am
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Jill Herzig, and I'm gonna start off today with a
very depressing statistic, sorry, which is that eighty million Americans
are pre diabetic. And Lisa, you know, and I've actually
talked about it on the podcast that I was pretty
diabetic as well and have kind of known thought that
fought back that sugar level that a one C test
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that scares the pants off me um, but it definitely
got me. I wasn't exactly a sugar addict, but it
definitely got me um set straight about sugar and added sugar.
But It is a very very depressing statistic and something
that we can't blame entirely on genetics. A lot of
this is lifestyle factors, Um, and I don't know when
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we talk about change. Increasingly, we've had some guests on
who talk about changing your physical self. It's so it's
such a catalyst to all kinds of change in your life.
So we're doing well. We are our guest today. Um.
Actually it's not just physical, because he talks about how
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a little bit about how the emotions are emotions create
physical change in our body as well, So we gotta
fix it all. We are joined today by the author
of Get Off Your Acids. Seven Steps in seven Days
to lose weight, fight inflammation, and reclaim your health and energy.
Dr Darryl Jeoffrey. Thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you so much, guys. Absolute pleasure to be here
with you guys today. Well, your thing is acid. I
actually want to tell people, get off. I'm reading this
great book, Get off Yours. It's awesome. Well, I'm in
the arker and I talked sometimes a little fast, so
that word acid sounds like something else, which is what
it's meant to. It's kind of the play in the word.
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But it's interesting what you say, Jill, is that, um,
you know, by the year one in three people will
actually be diabetic. And that's the scary thing, you know,
when you look at acidity. Yes, it comes from stress,
which is a big thing, but it also comes from
the food. You know, if you look at the actual
sale of sugar over the last you know, twenty to
thirty years, has actually gone down. But if you look
at the actual consumption of sugar, it's skyrocketed, and and
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everything and everything. It's the hidden sugars and that's what's
getting people. Yeah, so okay, tell us a little bit
about your person story, because you're you're self confessed trugger
addict or were absolutely In fact, it consumed a good
portion of my life. You know, I was fifty pounds overweight.
I was massively addicted to sugar. You know, you take
the person you know who's addicted to sugar, and I
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say this in the book Times that by a thousand
that was me. I was drinking three cokes a day,
a box of Lucky Charms. I'd be adjusting a patient,
telling them don't eat sugar. I read in your book
that you put a lot of sugar on your lucky charms.
I put sugar on my lucky charms, like spoonfuls and spoonfuls.
It was so bad that for every spoonful of cheerios,
a spoonful of sugar will go on to that. It
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was out of control. And I tried for years when
I was young, you know, it was it was obviously
all I knew, right, um, But as I got older,
you know, I tried by deprivation, but sugar is so powerful.
I mean, there's reached your study showing it's nine times
more addicted than cocaine. It actually stimulates the dope amine
receptors in your brain, so when you try to stop,
it's become so hard. And again it's in everything. So um,
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I really literally had to become a health investigator. And
as I all the evidence, the evidence lead me to minerals,
and I started adding a green juice. Literally, it was
that simple. One green juice a day. I started bouncing
out a rebounder for twelve minutes. Then I added another
green juice a day, and I'm serious, In three weeks,
my addition of sugar was gone by adding, not taking away,
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So you were still eating sugar, but you were also
you just added these simple healthy behavior or to it. Yeah,
I mean I I didn't change my lifestyle. For so
many times I would stop. I was trying to say, Okay,
I'm gonna take this away. And again, deprivation is very hard.
There are some people that can do it by willpower.
But the problem is is that it's willpower, you know.
I remember a few months ago and if you guys
remember j L was talking about the ten day sugar
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detox and she kind of like, um, got all these
people on board, you know, throughout the country to do this,
and after day two, remember a Rod posting on Instagram like,
oh I'm dying. This is so hard, you know. So
the in theory, the concept was right, let's get the
sugar out of our diets because it is the most
acidic chemical you can put into your body. It does
fuel cancer cells. But the problem with all these people
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that try this is that they didn't go about it
the right way. The reason why we're addicted to sugars
because your body is deficient in minerals. So as I
started adding minerals into my diet and healthy fats, the
good outweigh the bad. So explain the connection. I know
this goes to a very basic level, but I explain
the connection between sugar and acid because when you say ascid,
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I think vinegar, lemon, juice. You know, I don't. I
don't think of sugar cereals or adding sugar to coffee
or something like that. Right, So, great questions. So we're
not so we don't really care about what that food
does outside of the body. What we are concerned about
is what that food does once your body consumes it,
once your body metabolizes it. So, for instance, lemons. Lemons
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has a peach of two point four, which is highly
acid forming. So if I put that on a cut,
that's gonna sting like crazy, right, But when your body
consumes that lemon, because it's high in minerals, high end fiber,
high in water, and low in sugar, that becomes alkaline
forming to the body. Same thing with spinach. Spinach has
a peach six point four. It's actually acidic. But we
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all know spinaches great for you, right, popeye? Right, Um,
So we don't really care what that food does outside.
It's what happens once you metabolize it, and it's what
it does inside the body. Why why is acidosis or
being acidic bad? Acidosis is something that literally fuels inflammation.
And when you look at every chronic degenertive disease from
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heart disease cancer, which by the way, is about to
overtake heart disease as as a number one killer, these
are all chronic inflammatory diseases. So when we're literally pumping
our bodies up with these acid forming foods, it turns
to lactic acid in the body. It creates inflammation in
our blood. And the biggest problem is is that your
body is always trying to maintain a tightly regulated blood
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pH So what happens is is that as these things
are going into the blood, the body has to neutralize
these acids. So it does what I call robbing Peter
to pay Paul. If you're not getting enough minerals from
your diet, from eating things like dark green, leafy vegetables
and healthy foods like that, the body is going to
find a way to get it. So what does it do.
Where is your biggest mineral bank in the body? Your bones?
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So the body starts to literally rob calcium from the bones,
magnesium from the muscles, by carbon it from the mouth
to throw that into the blood all in effort to
maintain a healthy pH. That's how important that number is.
Because if that number deviates by more than one point,
guess what happens? You die. So the body will do
whatever it can. It will actually let the bones fall apart,
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which is osteoporosis, or you get muscle pain, fatigue, um, cramping,
all in effort to maintain a healthy pH. That's how
important than that number is. But how many people are
talking about it? Not a lot, No, that's definitely true. Now,
how how does it? You know? When I realized that
I was pretty diabetic, one of the strangest thing to
things to me and honestly to my doctor, was that
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I felt fine and I looked fine. There was nothing.
There was nothing. You wouldn't look at me and say
that that woman's at risk for diabetes. And you know,
I walked right up to the line where where they
were ready to send me to a specialist and get
me a medication because I was you know, I hit
six on my one C, which is the sort of
crossover anything over that line, you're actually diabetic. But how
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do you feel when you're acidic? Are there symptoms? Are there?
Is there a way to know. So that's why diabetes
is called the silent killer. I mean, there's so many
people walking around with diabetes that that have it, but
they don't know they have it. It's like you can
have a cavity, but that hasn't turned into a tooth
day yet, all right, So are we going to wait
for the toothday to go to the dentist. No, It's
like we got to do self care. It's so important.
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The more self care, which is the things that we
do for ourselves, like brushing our teeth, flossing our teeth.
Healthcare is something that someone else does for you, so
that's the hygienas. So the more self care and health
care you do, we can avoid avoid the crisis care,
which is obviously the dreaded root canal. So the problem
is that so many people do judge their health by
how they feel, and by that time it's already too
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late because the symptom is usually the last thing that comes.
So we have to be proactive about our health. We
have to put you know, these healthy things into our
body least. So we have to manage our stress. And
I say this all the time, like a lot of
people in the health world talk about the foods that
you eat and the things that you ingest. But I'm
gonna tell you stress outweighs anything you can put into
your body a million times to one in terms of
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the acid and the inflammation and even the sugar that
it creates into your body. Because when you're stressed, your
body creates sugar. How does that happen, Well, the body
secretes something called cortisol through your adrenal glance, and cortisol
is your stress hormone. All right, It's like when we're
in fight or flight, and the problem is that most
people are living in fight or flight seven. And you know,
if you go back to Caban days, fight or flight
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happened when you saw a saber two tiger. So you
kind of either stayed in your fight or you ran
and got away out of danger. Then you were kind
of okay. But right now, because we're so chronically stressed
because of our fast paced lifestyles, because of all the
different types of smartphones and all the stimulation that we have,
especially here in New York to nine things you have
to check every nine minutes. Yeah nine, that's being conservative. Um,
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So what happens is the body secreases cortisol. When coralsol
goes up, your body doesn't know the difference between a
saber two tiger or just stress. So what happens. Your
digestive system shuts down, your immune system shuts down, and
your body needs to get out of danger, so it
finds its sources of fuel. And that's what sugar is.
Sugar is quick energy. It's a dirty energy, and that's
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why we have to avoid that. We need to go
more towards these healthy fats that help our body use
fat as this primary source of fuel. That's the energy
we need. So when we come back, we're gonna start
talking about how we live this alkalin lifestyle. Excellent. Before
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the week, we were chatting with Dr Darryl Jeffrey UM,
who is the founder of the Jeffrey Chiropractric Wellness Center,
about the whole acid alkhan balance and how acidity causes
most of our diseases and how adopting animal alkal and
lifestyle will keep us healthy. M can you walk us
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through some of those steps, like what we need to
do so everyone listening can to start today. Sure. Absolutely,
it's about action stuffs right, Um. There's a saying that
knowledge is not power, it's potential power. So action is power.
So these things are very important. Uh, the most important
thing about the things we're gonna talk about, it's not
about deprivation, everybody. It's about moderation, right, It's not about
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doing something drastic. It's not about you know, going on
this crazy juice fast. It's it's about putting healthy, live,
plant based foods into your diet um. And I like
to live what I call the eight twent lifestyle. And
what I mean by that is eight of the foods
you want to be putting into your body are these
healthy alkaline foods, things like dark green leafy vegetables and
your kale, your spina is, your watercress, your romaine, cruciferous vegetables, broccoli, cauliflower,
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sulfur based vegetables which are great for defeating cancer, things
like radishes, cabbage, onions. So those those vegetables are great
because they're high in chlorophyll. Chlorophyll is a great blood cleanser.
And then you also want to increase your healthy fats.
Now you gotta remember there's fats that hell, and there's
fats that kill. So I'm talking about the healthy, clean
fats things like avocados, which we call God's butter. It's
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like the most perfect food in the world. I mean,
you could put avocado in so many different forms of
so versatile um raw nuts and seeds, so things like
hemp seeds, cheese seeds, flax seeds, not their oils because
their oils do become inflammatory. So I tell people please
avoid flax oil. Alright, flax oil if you buy it
in a store, by the time you open it up,
it becomes oxidized. If you're making flax oil at home,
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totally fine, right, But the seeds, we're not throwing me
off because I actually never even knew that flax oil existed.
You're starting with the real series dummy over here. All right,
It's all good, and it's about progress, you know. It's
just these things we're gonna be talking about. Just start
to add, you know, one at a time, see what
you like, what you don't like, and make it fit
into your lifestyle. UM healthy oils, things like extra vision
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olive oil, coconut oil. Cocon oil is amazing, m C
T oil, avocado oil, black human seed oil one of
the most powerful foods um three times more anti inflammatory
than tumoric. Right, it's amazing. There's a component in it
called thimo quinon, and thimo quinnon is one of the
most powerful anti inflammatories you can put into your body,
and it's a thousand times more active and antioxidant in
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vitamin E. So this is something you find at a
health food store, but you can find it in a
healthful store. We're actually launching a phenomenal product in two weeks, um,
because I'm so passionate about this. It's actually my mom
unfortunately lost my father to cancer about a year and
a half ago, and you were all dealing with this,
you know, in our our own ways, which is very hard,
and my mom, thank you so much. And it's the
opening story of the book. It's it's a pretty insane,
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powerful story. When you read it, you won't even believe
that how he was diagnosed. Um. But anyway, my mom's
blood pressure just shot up. It was about one seventy
over one oh five, and of course, you know, they
wanted to put her on medications for it, and she
knew that once she went on a medication was gonna
be pretty hard to come off that. So I put
my mom on you know, high levels of Omega three
fatty acids because that helps inflammation. And then I combine
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that with the black human seed oil because when you
take those two together there is a huge norgic effect. Um,
they kind of compound each other and within forty five
days her blood pressure is actually the normal range right now.
So it's just so amazing that, Um, we can avoid drugs.
You know, obviously drugs there therefore we need it. It's
for crisis care. But the question is what are we
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doing in between? And we have these powerful plant based
foods that you can use to decrease the inflammation, and
it's amazing how it just changes everything in the body.
And it's not just about again to what you're saying before, Jill,
it's not just about how you feel. It's about function.
It's about what you don't know, what is going on
the body, What are you preventing? Your body always has
all these a million things going on. Because there's also
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something really exciting when you can control a downslide with
your lifestyle behaviors. I mean that kind of change, being
able to say no, I'm going to turn this around
and I'm going to do it, and I'm not going
to take a pill that can make you feel pretty
strong and strong enough to stop drinking your coffee. Well,
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there is fashion a large mug of freshly brewed coffee
in front of me. Coffee is I've read the book
really acidic, super bad. Yeah, I mean and and again,
there are some health benefits to coffee. I'm not going
to deny that. But why is coffee bad? It drained
your minerals. So anything that drains your minerals is bad.
Anything that gives you minerals is good. But to your
point about lifestyle, Yes, it's so cool that we can
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actually take control of our health. We could get it
back in our own hands as opposed to being controlled
by a medication. Why not just take supplements? Why not
just take mineral supplements? Well, I do believe that there
are a few things that supplement wise we all need
to take. Um. You know, a hundred years ago we
could get the nutrients that we want from our food.
But are our modern toxic age. I mean, the average
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person is exposed to eighty thousand toxic chemicals in a
given year, so supplementations become necessary. There's a study on spinach.
We talked about that last week, and what the studies
showed this is a two fifteen study that it takes
sixty servants of spinach right now to give you the
same mineral, specifically iron content that one servant gave you
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a nineteen forty eight That was two thousand fifteen. Now
it's seventy five servings. So here's the challenge. Even when
we try to be healthy, it's become hard. Hope I
would look like a little bit of a weak wing.
And right now exactly so, we do have to supplement
um every morning. You know, I take a green supplement,
the greens powder. My wife does it, my five year
old does it, my two year old does it. And
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I'm so proud to say that at their age, they've
never been on a medication once in their life. And
you know it's it's I'm not saying that to impress,
but more to impress upon you that you know, we
can change our kid's life. You know, Um, if our
kids are at school, you know we're not going to
deny them the cupcake. We let them live their lives.
But when we're home, we control what we can control.
And you know, if we look at our children's health,
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what's going on, it's staggering. You know, for the first
time in human history. Our children's lifespan is less than ours,
and that scares me as a parent. Yeah, tell us
what the diet is that you recommend. So um, talking
about those alkaline foods. That's so, those are the things
that you really want to promote. You want to start
to add. Add those now if you're not twenty. When
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I started, when I was at dated to sugar, I
was twenty eight the other way, so there's no way
I was going to eight twenty. Maybe that worked for
two weeks, but it was only gonna take me so
far before I went back to my old ways. So
wherever you're at, just start to add. If you're twenty
eight in terms of healthy acid, then go to thirty seventy,
then fifty fifty again, go with that ad not take
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away approach. But the twenty percent once you get to
eighty twenty are the acid forming foods that you don't
want to put more of in your body, things like sugar,
especially the hidden sugar. Grains. Okay, grains is a big
one because grains will pump up your insulin, and insulin
is your aging hormone. Alright, Artificial sweeteners, dairy, I mean,
when you think about dairy. We are the only mammals
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that consume another mammal's breast milk after weaning. Cattle mill
cows don't even drink cow's milk, right, so we got
to avoid the dairy um. You know, things like soda.
Carbonated beverages is a big one. You know, carbonated beverages
CEO two, highly acid form into the body. Even if
you're into Seltzer, not good. Seltzer has a pH of
six point oh, and it is absolutely going to sidify
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your blood. And think about it from a common sense standpoint.
When we drink, when we breathe in oxygen, we were
talking about breathing before oxygen is the fuel for the body.
What are we exhaling carbon dioxide gas? That's the waste product.
So when you put carbon dioxide gas into a beverage,
you're infusing the waste product. So it absolutely sidifies the body.
And Kelly Ripples, she wrote the forward of my book,
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She actually talks about this in there, that she was
drinking carbonated water every single day and she was seeing
specials for twelve months. No one could figure it out.
After three days of being on the program, she was
symptom free. She took carbonar water away. Her symptom was
what she was having. Nothing crazy, she was having a
usual I mean, she looks like the glowious, she's happy,
she's amazing, and she defines balance. It's about balance, you know,
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the funny part where she's like, I'm still drinking my coffee.
So it's okay to have your coffee, you know, because
if you're doing of these good, healthy foods, then the
coffee is not an issue. You just have to pick
the thing, yeah, that you absolutely absolutely cannot give up,
and then figure out how to sort of nudge all
the other bad stuff out of your diet by adding
lots of good stuff. Okay, so I just walk us through.
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Here are my my very rudimentary understanding of the um
digestive system is you've got ascid in your stomach that
digests things. And so a lot of people, because I
have to say, the most of the medical establishment that
I interact with don't really buy into the whole ascid
alkalin theory as much as they should, and a lot
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of them have said, well, you know, everything just gets digestive.
Your your your digestive systems all ascid. Anyway, what you
know that so can we talk a little bit about
the whole great question. We're talking about two different animals here, So, yes,
acid in your stomach is important. Um, it's something as
we age we produce less and less of it. For
males over age thirty, it's when the decline starts. For
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females it's over forty. And what happened. That's why I
recommend people at that age take a digestive enzyme because
we are producing less acid in our stomach as we age,
So what's digesting our food? And that, by the way,
is the true cause of acid reflux. A lot of
people think acid reflux is coming from too much acid,
but it's not. Contrary to what we would think, it's
from too little acid. And that's why people as they
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get older, we have too little acid in the stomach. Yes,
we're not doing as good a job digesting our food.
Asset is coming back up yep. And that's supported by
sixteen thousand research articles. So um, So back to your question, Lisa,
it's it's actually not a theory, it's a science. You know.
If you look at Guttance Medical Physiology, which is the
book that we all read, not just chiropractic college but
medical college, it says, look to the hydrogen ion concentration,
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which is the acid. It is the most important thing
to determine balance of the blood. So the purpose of
of alkalizing, of putting healthy vegetables into the body, it's
not to raise your pH. That's what everybody thinks. You
can't do that. The blood pH is regulated by its
own You have this amazing buffering system in place. And
I talked about this from your kidneys two year lungs.
I mean end of the toxins in your body. The
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acids are regulated by your breathing, your adrenal glands, your
blood proteins, your mineral So when you're the whole purpose
of alkalizing and putting these things into your body is
not to raise your pH. It's to take stress off
the body's buffering system, so your body doesn't have to
work so hard regulating the pH on its own. That's
the most important thing I'm gonna say today. It's like
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if I go outside it's freezing cold, my body has
to maintain its temperature of point six, So I'm gonna
start to shiver, right. My body uses his own energy
to keep that stable at nine eight point six Eventually,
if I don't get to have the cold, my body
will shun the blood from my fingers and my feet
to my organs. Why to keep me alive. But I
gotta get to have the cold. The blood pH works
exactly the same way. It's a thermostatic. So if I'm
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putting in healthy foods, the body doesn't need to incorporate
all these buffers. But if I'm dumping sugar and all
these acidic chemicals, plus the environmental chemicals and all the
things that we breathe, then what happens. That gets into
the blood via something called leaky gut and it's something
I see with every client that I look at their
blood with LIE blood cell testing. So these toxins get
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into the blood, Then what happens The body has to
recruit those buffering systems to get those toxins out, and
it's range your body of its resources, and people become depleted.
And that is the cause of all disease. It's the
deficiency and toxicity. So and your books seem to emphasize
that exhaustion was one of the main symptoms. Absolutely first
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stage of acidosis is fatigue. It's energy loss. Why because
your body is working so hard to detoxify. So that's
why detoxification needs to be a lifestyle factor. When we
come back, we're going to talk more about specifically how
we detoxify. Before the break, we were really diving into
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the whole acid alkaline balance with doctor Darryl Jeoffrey, the
author of Get Off Your Acid, and I want you
to walk us through a couple of the steps that
we can I mean, you talked about adding more leafy
greens and food with minerals, but there are other things
we can do to to modify that acid outland balance. Yeah.
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The first step is oxygenation, is breathing, you know, and
the best part about it is is free. Anybody could
do this anywhere, anytime. Um. And we're talking about helping
the body, you know, regulate the pH The lungs is
one of your primary buffers. In fact, the total toxic
load in your body is actually removed by your breathing.
So I'm breathing right now. Yes, you're breathing the kind
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of breathing you're talking. You're breathing to be alive. But
are you breathing to be alive? Right? So the average
person takes about fourteen breasts per minute. All right, we
want to get to the stage where we're breathing five
to six breasts per minute. And now when you look
at someone who has cancer, they're breathing over twenty five
times a minute. Why is that Because the blood and
the body is toxic, so they're breathing more rapidly to
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try get that carbon diox I guess out of the body. Remember,
it's always regulating itself. So it's something that we have
to be more conscious about. And there's a breathing exercise
we talk about in the book. It's called the three
six five Power Breath. And here's how you remember that
three and sixty five days a year. You want to
do this every single morning when you get up. So
when I get up out of bed, I first always
have that attitude of gratitude. I always give thanks for
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something that you know, I'm truly thankful for in my life.
And then I get up and I do this breathing
exercise and we do it with our family. It's actually
a really cool thing. Even my son does it. Um.
So how it goes is you're going to breathe in
for three seconds in your nose. You're gonna hold that
breath for six seconds, and you're gonna exhale that for
five out of the mouth, so three six, five, and
then you want to do that ten times. It takes
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less than three minutes, so it doesn't require a lot
of time. You're gonna feel energized. It's gonna oxygenate your cells,
it's gonna oxygenate your body, and it's the greatest way
to start your day. This I can do. Yeah, before
I form myself a large cup of coffee, which is fine. Um.
And the second thing we go into is hydration. Again,
these are simple concepts, so we've got to get back
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to simplicity, you know, keep it simple, right. So the
about the American population is actually chronically dehydrated. So think
about a plant. If you start to see a plant,
will what comes to your mind? Drugs and surgery right,
drugery a right, Give it hydration, give it sunlight, give
it nutrition. Maybe there's some toxins in the soil. Remember
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what I said before, deficiency and toxicity. So give the
plant what it needs, take out what it doesn't need,
and if it's not too far gone, plant will heal itself.
So ideally we want to go for three to four
leaders of water a day, The average person loses about
two point five leaders. So anything less than that we're dehydrated.
And the more we drink obviously the better because it's
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just fueling our body. Now, if you're drinking two glasses
of water, I don't want you to go to three leaders.
That's too big of a step. Remember, think progress, not perfection.
So just start to add and a little bit, and
then as your time goes on, you'll get to that point.
And hydration is such important one for so many factors.
Now you went in your book, you talk about different
types of water, not just drinking regular tap water obviously,
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but neither bottled water. You actually do believe in alkalinized
water and something that I've never seen before, which was
hydrogen drops or or powder And what can you explain
that a little bit? So I'll find them both, Like
where do I get this al al canalized water? Well,
I kind of shocked people when I actually tell them,
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I'm not so you know, hype jumpy about alkaline water
because it's it's listen, it's fine. Um, what that means
is that it's got a higher pH but it's not
a buffer of acid. So I don't need to go
buy one of those machines, right, No, you don't need
to do that. Um. And again that's a difference. There's
a difference between alkaline water and alkalinity in pH, so
it's it's not about the pH it's about alkalinity. So
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adding minerals to water is something that neutralizes water. But
I am a huge fan of hydrogen water, something called
molecular hydrogen. So in my office we have a hydrogen machine.
I have it at home as well. But you can
also get little tablets that you put in water that
dissolves the hydrogen. And here's why I love hydrogen. There's
three major factors. Number one, it's a powerful anti inflammatory
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your body. Your gut should produce ten liters of hydrogen
every day. But the problem is our guts are so inflamed,
so acidic, so toxic are microbiomes. You're not producing that hydrogen.
So we have to give the body of the hydrogen
that it's not creative. Isn't there hydrogen in water? Isn't
that what it is? That's H two right, So and
there is, But that's one molecule we're talking about. H
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two is molecular hydrogen. So it's a diatomic molecule UM,
so it's a little bit of a different UM. It's
a different species. So it's two hydrogen's right, UM. So
what it does is it's anti inflammatory, but it's also
the most powerful antioxidant in the body. It's more powerful
than glutath ione, more powerful than vitamin C, vitamin E.
Because it's a selective antioxidant, all right, it goes after
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something called free radical. So free radicals are things that
obviously make us age. They rust us from the inside out.
It's like if you cut open a banana or an apple,
it turns brown, right, that happens to the fruit, that
happens inside, so we need to to remove that oxidation.
Hydrogen is what's called the selective antioxidant because it goes
after the most damaging free radical, which is called the
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hydroxyl free radical UM. And it can actually one molecule
of molecular hydrogen can actually take out two hydroxyl free radicals,
giving you two molecules of water. So again I want
to get to scientific with everybody, But the point is
it's a powerful antioxidant and what it also does it
stimulates something in your gut called gastric grillin, and when
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you stimulate the grillin, it actually goes up to the
brain and stimulates what's called the hippocampus, the hypothalamus, and
the prefrontal cortex. So in thirty minutes you're reducing inflammation
of the brain. And there's actually over seven hundred studies
on molecular hydrogen. Two hundred of them are actually done
on human disease models, and they've actually given this to
patients with Parkinson's and then when within thirty seconds their
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tremors have stopped. Why because it's decreasing inflammation of the brain.
So it's something that I drink all the time in
my wellness center. I drink it on on the road.
With the tablets, is something everybody should incorporate into the lifestyle.
Very powerful. Yeah, all right, tablets, Yeah, tablets or or
the machine. The machine can so yeah, I mean ideally
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you want to, you know, if you can invest in
the machine for at home, because now you're gonna get
the hydrogen every time you drink the water. The tablets,
you know, they'll get expensive over time. In the short run, yes,
they'll be more cost effective, but you're not gonna put
if I'm drinking a glasses a day. I'm not gonna
put a tablet in every glass of water. They'll do
it once or twice a day. On Amazon, they have
these little like water bottles that can hydrogen eate. Yes,
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I've never tested it, so I don't know after two
or three weeks how it does work. So there are
things that you can test, and and here's the other
things that there are hydrogen machines out there. After a
couple of weeks, the cathodes can get blocked with minerals,
so they will stop producing hydrogen. You really need to
know your source and I can always make recommendations if
you guys need So you talked about sort of long term,
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these things can get expensive. It's I think hard. It
can prove hard for people to stick to stuff long term,
to stick to big changes long term. So what about
doing just like a short term blast cleans to try
and see what's working for you? Is that an effective
way to go? I think it's a brilliant strategy because
it's it's a way to reset your body. You know,
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it's a way to kind of restart and kickstart the engine,
so to speak. Um, it's a way to reset patterns
that we want to break in our lifestyle. In fact, UM,
I just got through taking a few thousand people through
a two day detox It was amazing. You know, two
days anybody can do. You know, after day one, everyone's excited.
Day two is there. If it's like a twenty one
day cleans like, oh boy, here we go. But now
you're on day two. This is over tonight. So um,
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it's a very powerful strategy for people that want to
actually start to make those lifestyle changes. We'll see a
change in just two days. Absolutely. I mean at the
person can lose between three and five pounds. You know,
some people it's not water rate. Because when you're doing
it the right way with healthy, live, raw plant based foods,
you're detoxifying. You have to remember that, UM, toxins are
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what we call fat soluble. So when the when the
toxins leave the blood and go into the body, into
the tissues, which I call the acid magnets or the
acid catchers, they're protected by fat. So when your body
detoxifies a right what happens is, though it's toxins leave,
the body will take a guess what's attached to that
toxin the fat cell. So the fat leaves the body
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as a byproduct. And the coolest thing about it is people,
assuming they keep on going with a seventy thirty eight
twenty lifestyle, they're not gonna they're not gonna gain the
weight back. Um. So it is a great way to
kind of get that body into a healthier state and
start to make better choices. You recommend other detoxing methods
to like dry rushing and saunas and colon X. Can
you walk us through a bunch of those? Yeah, I
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mean the body loves Farrietay. If I go to a trainer,
he does the same thing or she does the same
thing over and over and over, like, the body will
get attic. So you gotta change it up. You gotta
do different things with your diet, You've gotta do different
things with detoxification. So my wife Chelsea, her favorite thing
is the dry skin brush. You know, every morning before
she goes into the showers, she's using that brush. Um.
Why because it's great for a lymphatic drainage. So the
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lymphatic system is like the garbage collectors of the body.
It literally goes into your tissues and it pulls out
those toxins like a vacuum, and what does it want
to do. It wants to get them out of the
body through the four ways that we detoxify, which is urination, defecation, perspiration,
and respiration. So by doing the dry skin brush, your
skin is what we call the third kidney. It's the
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largest detox organ of the body. So you're literally popping
open the corks of the skin, allowing that skin to breathe.
So if you see any skin conditions like acne, soriasis, dermotitus, ezema,
all right, it's an inflammatory, toxic issue. You start to
use these things like infrared sauna, like dry skin brush,
like the rebounder, which is the mini trampoline my favorite exercise.
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All Right, the body is gonna help get the toxins out.
You'll lose weight and energy will increase. Alright. So I
feel like I'm the confessional one in this conversation with
my coffee and to be honest, my cocktails. Um. But
also I felt a little overwhelmed reading your book. I
gotta say I live a pretty healthy lifestyle and vegetable fanatic,
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but there we was. There was so much coming at me,
much of an unfamiliar I do have a brain switch
that turns off when we get into the science. Although
I'm curious about it. What do you do if this
is all so new to you and you feel completely overwhelmed?
Is there just one change, one little tiny thing that
you can or to change. We can maybe handled too,
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but like, what do you do for the person whose
brain is shutting down right now? It's it's a phenomenal question.
I'm so glad you brought up because this is something
that can happen to a lot of people. Happen to
me when I first started, and you know, I didn't
have mentors back then, it was different. You know, we
didn't have social media, we didn't have all this information.
So the overwhelmed is something we have to definitely address. Um,
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My advice for everybody is just to start easy, start simple.
Just pick one thing, all right. You know there's so
much information like what vibed with you, what resonated with you,
whatever that one thing was, Just start with that and
just master that, you know, commit to over the next
seven to fourteen days. I'm gonna wake up. Whether it's
the breathing exercise or whether it's drinking a little bit
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more water, and make sure that you're gonna do that
every day, and that's it. And after a couple of weeks,
if you feel comfortable with that, and it's becoming a habit.
And it actually does take about twenty one days to
make a habit, so maybe you want to make that
a twenty one day thing. Then you can go on
to the next thing, all right, and you're already doing
that first one, so it doesn't have to be overwhelming.
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You just need to make this fit into your lifestyle. Well,
I feel healthier already just from talking to you. Thank
you so much for joining us today. It was an
absolute pleasure. I love you guys. Thank you great to
have you. To get more information on how to get
healthy and alkalin balanced, go to Get Off your Asset
dot com or get the book Get Off your Acid
Seven Steps in seventies. Thanks everybody for joining us today.
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Thanks as always to Alicia Haywood, our producer. We will
see you all next time. M
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