What to Eat, What to Skip: Seed Oils, Sugar, and the Fiber You’re Missing with Elissa Goodman

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had cancer at thirty two, and then my husband
eleven and a half years later had cancer. So I
needed the world to know what we did right and wrong.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
This week we have Alissa Goodman.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
She is an integrative holistic nutritionist and she has struggled
with her own health issues over the years, from cancer
to autoimmune issues and Hashi motors. After overcoming cancer, her
mission was to educate and encourage healthy, mindful living.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
I think that's why I got the cancer was because
low white bloods out count, low immune system, constantly sick,
and also when you are stressed all the time, I
think it down regulated to your immune systems defintely. I
just kind of had this instinct and this gut feeling
that chema was just going to do a number on me.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Your body was telling you, Yeah, when.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
We listen to our intuition, as you know, we're always right,
but we just don't listen.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
I'm radi WKA and on my podcast A Really Good Cry,
we embrace the real, the messy, and the beautiful, providing
a space for raw, unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and
allow you to tune in to learn, connect and find comfort.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Together.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Hey, everyone, Welcome back to this week's episode of A
Really Good Cry. This week we have Alisa Goodman. She
is an integrative holistic nutritionist and she has struggled with
her own health issues over the years, from cancer to
autoimmune issues and hashi motos after overcoming cancer. Her mission
was to educate and encourage healthy, mindful living and help
others embrace the concept that we are a product of

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what we eat and how we treat ourselves. Fast forward
several years and she has helped thousands of clients manage
their health issues. And she has created her own clans
that is delivered all over LA, which I have tried
and it is absolutely phenomenal. Like you don't even feel
like you're on a cleanse. You feel like you're just
eating great food that tastes incredible. So, Elissa, thank you
so much for being here.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I am so excited to have here. You know, I
read your book, and I know you released that a
fair few years ago. Yes, but what's beautiful about it
is I feel like the wisdom is it wasn't a
trending book. It was something that will be relevant and
is relevant for years and years. Like the Wisdom that
you've put in there is something that I think people
need to hear at all ages, at all times of

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their life.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I agree.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
I know when I was doing it, it was interesting
because I it was just a personal journey a story
because it was really, you know, my story. I had
cancer at thirty two, and then my husband eleven and
a half years later had cancer.

Speaker 4 (02:14):
So it just was you know, I.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Needed the world to know what we did right and
wrong because we did different paths.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, so you really feel the personal aspect of the book.
And I think there's one thing about writing a book
when you aren't education on it, but then writing a
book not only as an educator, but as someone who
has personally experienced it. It's a completely different story and
a different way that people can even.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Relate to it. Right, could you tell me?

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I know you just mentioned that you had cancer and
then your husband had cancer. Tell me a little bit
more about that journey and how it was for you,
and then how it was watching someone that you loved
go through something like that.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Both were pretty traumatic, I have to say, But you know,
growing up, I had a lot of trauma growing up
because I was always sick as a kid, like I
was born with this low white blood cell count, which
then nobody knew what to do with, so constantly getting sick,
just constantly tired, constantly behind the eight ball. And then
I had these two parents that were dynamos and ran
circles around me, so I always kind of physically felt tired,

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and mentally I was like, how could I keep up?
And I should be keeping up because I'm in my teens,
in my twenties and they're older. So I was always
very hard on myself and that was I think stress
was huge, and always trying to like, you know, catch
up to things.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
And I think that's why I got.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
The cancer, was because I low white blood cell count,
low immune system, constantly sick, and also when you are
stressed all the time, I think it down regulates your
immune system, right, So I just was constantly in that
rat race. And then at thirty two, I got diagnosed
with an early stage of hodges Li boma. And I

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knew enough because my mom had asthma growing up. So
we would go to these health branches and I learned
a lot about nutrition and health as a kid, though
I didn't want to be at these places at all,
with these older women. But I learned what about meditation
and yoga and healthy food, and we would go to
Randela Puerta, which was down into Coati, Mexico, and they

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grew all their own food and it was plant based,
so they were way ahead of their time.

Speaker 4 (04:18):
And we hiked every day.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
There was no TV, no telephone, and you're off the
grid for seven days, which is such a beautiful thing
these days. More people need to do that as we go, right,
But I kind of saw how these women transformed themselves
in seven days, and so I had this at the
base of me.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
When I got the cancer, I.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Knew what I needed to do, and I knew stress
was a huge problem. I knew I needed to deal
with my mindfulness in my head in terms of just
not feeling good enough and not feeling like I could
keep up. And I was strong enough. So I went
into therapy. I started doing yoga, che scene, I became
a vegan, not the healthiest one, but it was that

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I healed from all of it.

Speaker 4 (05:03):
I did all of those things I'm not you know.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
I really read every self help book I could get
my hands on. I did energy healing like LA was great.
I had just moved to La from New York. So
it had all these.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
Different totally what was your what stage concept? Did you he?

Speaker 1 (05:18):
It was one A, so it was an early but
they wanted me to do chemo radiation, not to do chemo.
I did radiation and half of the radiation, and my
acologists let me go because he's like, I can't treat
you if you're not going to do what I have
to say.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
You know what I want. So I found a.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Radiologist that would do half the radiation, and I thank
god I did, because I ended up getting other health
issues from the radiation. I got hypothism and hashimotos and
celiac and all these crazy things, and I got anxiety
and I'm insomnia.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
I was nuts.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
So then I went on to have the two girls,
Jordan and Sam, and my husband. Eleven and a half
years later was diagnosed with stage three non Hatch's lymphoma.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
So he was farther along.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
And what was scary was he found a lymph node
on his neck in October and the doctors kept saying
it's just a viral thing, a bacteria thing. They gave
a antibiotics and he didn't get diagnosed till March, and
so he had like then three lymph nodes on his neck.
By the time he got diagnosed, he was farther along. Yeah,
of course, which is something I totally learned not to do.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And how was it for you?

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Because obviously, when you have professionals who are telling you
one route and then kind of going against it, what
was going through your mind and what gave you the
strength or the determination to do it in a different way,
Because I think that's really hard for some people. Because
you know, I was watching that show up the Side
of Vinegar seen that I do. Yeah, and you know,

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I haven't finished watching it, but there was that girl
on it who was told that she had cut off
her limb and she makes that choice of I'm not
going to cut off my limb. I'm going to do
it any other way. And they were like, you're going
to die, You're going to do this, this is what's
going to happen to you. You're going to lose an arm,
and she was like, no, I want to do it
this way, right, Well, encourage you to actually make take
that step.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
It really was having some basis of seeing what healthy food,
healthy lifestyle, healthy mindset could do for you. I think
I was really lucky in some ways that I got
to experience that in an early age, because if I hadn't,
I would have gone down the Western route. But I
knew because my immune system was already compromised. Ye I

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already was dealing. I was like behind the eight ball
a little bit. I just thought this was really going
to set me back. And I was thirty two and
I wanted to have kids, you know, I was just
starting my life and my marriage and all of that,
and I just kind of had this instinct and this
gut feeling that that was going to destroy me, that
chemo was just going to do.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
A number on me.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Your body was telling you, yeah, And.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
When we listened to our intuition, as you know, we're
always right, but we just don't listen.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I've made those choices so many times, and at the
time you're always you're always torn. But then as soon
as you end up following through with it three months later,
four months later, six months later.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
I never have regretted it. How long did that process
take you?

Speaker 4 (08:13):
It was like about six months, six.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Months amazing And from everything that you've learned, obviously cancer
is on the rise. It has been for a while now.
I think it's is it one in two now one
in three women.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
One in three or is it one in two and
one and three men? I mean it's it's and younger.
It's going it's younger.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
It is. Okay, let's start with this best foods to
eat for an anti cancer diet.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
Right, So there was there's a bunch of foods that
were analyzed in terms of these tumor markers, like nine
two more markers across the board. Oh wow, and this
is fascinating. And the first one was I think it
was ridiculous. Second one was spinach, and then it was
all the cruciferous vegetables, and then it was all the onions, garlic.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Leak vegetables.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
So all of those foods actually lowered all nine of
those tumor markers across the board. They did like a
ten year study on this, Okay, so that's a pretty
easy one. And then of course we know that you know,
antioxidant foods and spices and you know green tea and
just like berries and really good whole foods. You know,

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that is kind of why I designed the cleanses. I
want people to go back to the basics of eating
real food because I was eating sugar free, fat free cookies.
That was what was hot in those days, with a
lot of chemicals, and we still do a lot of that.
We still have bad seed oils, and so I just
you know, it's really not rocket science.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Go back to basics.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah, I needing more vegetables, plant ford like how you
eat in that regard. I mean, I do know. I
have a lot of clients who love animal protein, but
they don't eat enough vegetables, they don't need enough fiber.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Nobody focuses on the vegetables and the fiber. They focus
on the carves and the percee.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Yes, that's so true. I feel like it's a miss
it's a hidden, missed category. Yeah, that people overlook often.
What would you say, are some of the foods that
you're seeing in the world today that are actually contributing
the most to a you know, a cancer diet that's
causing Conso in this world.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
The bad seed oils is number one, Yes, all because
we eat out so much and the restaurants aren't paying
the price to get a good olive oil or avocado
oil or coconut oil, or they just can't afford to.
So we are eating these bad seed oils consistently.

Speaker 4 (10:31):
I think that is in sugar.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
We know is really the hottest one.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
And then there's hormones in all the animal proteins. You know,
just there's just so much bad stuff out there. It's crazy.
So I'm hoping, you know, with jfk or is going
to change the system a bit and clean up this
bad dyes and food dyes and fillers. I mean there's

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even I recommend a lot of supplements because I see
clients and do their blood work, but even those supplements
have fillers and additives. So I'm almost like nervous to
recommend something because I'm worried it might do disservice.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
You know, I really think the labeling system, well, what's
allowed and not allowed into products, it's pretty much it's
ridiculous compared to the UK. Even if I think about
what's allowed here of us is what's allowed there. It's
almost like you can put anything into a food product too.
When you look at food labels, you're like, this is
an absolute no, I'm not buying a product with these
three or four ingredients in there.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
Yeah, I would say would be the you know, the
bad seed oils also like the like soy less thin
and sunflower, less ethin and some of those things, and
then dies really are so bad. And there's a list,
as you know, on the back of things that nobody
even knows what they are and their care pronounce and

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they have no idea where they came from. They're all manufactured.
So the product is so manufactured. And that's why it
just drives me crazy because I'm a I do eat
real food most of the time, and I think that's
what healed me.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I reallytely agree.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
I always say, like's if there's more things on the
label that you don't know versus that you do know,
it's probably a sign that you shouldn't be having it.
And especially there's any kind of numbers that are happening
in the ingredients, that's a sign that it's not really food.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, And there's also like there's a lot of added
sugar in things that people don't know, and we're really
only supposed to have twenty five grams of added sugar
per day. And I always tell this on podcasts because
people are kind of blown away. But let's say you
go get a juice at Ariwana and it's a green
juice with apple in it, and it's eighteen grams of
added sugar because of that apple, and even though the

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apple is good for you, And then you get a
protein bar and there's ten or twelve grams right there
in one meal, You've overdone your allotment for the day.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
And I think the problem is they're disguise that so
many different ways, like tapio ca serus, high fructose corn
syrup and all these things were well, you know, sometimes
even sounds like a vegetable or a fruit and you
don't even realize that it's that it has the same
effect as if you were eating a chocolate or exactly,
you know, anything else or sweet or something.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, And I think it's not good to have things
shoot into your bloodstream really fast, like we know the juices.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
I mean, I'm a huge juicer since I had cancer.
I never juice fruit in my juice.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
I never juice carrot or beets because it's so much
sugar and it just shoots into your bloodstream and raises
your blood sugar.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
And then also the smoothies that you know we have.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
They're kind of breaking away all the fiber, right, yes,
as soon as you're blending them up.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
And then you've got that sugar.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
You have all the berries, banana, you know, just a
ton of sugar.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
They're like a sugar bomb. So people really need to
be aware of that.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
I mean, they're trying to do healthy things with the smoothie,
but they really need to like be aware to limit
their intake of fruit in this.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I know there's I don't want to name the brand,
but there's a famous smoothie place that my husband was
getting his smoothies from and every time we would get
I would take a sip and I'm like, Jade, this
is so sweet, Like.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
What is this smoothie?

Speaker 3 (14:12):
And then I told him, at least just call and
ask how many bananas are going into this smoothie.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Just call and ask, just have interest.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
I found out there's like two large bananas going into
this one smoothie that he's having every single day.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
And I was like, no, wonder.

Speaker 3 (14:24):
You're feeling really bad afterwards because you're getting such a
sugar high in the morning, and then you're feeling terrible
by the time afternoon comes because all you've had is
a sugar spike. But it's known as like such a
healthy brand that that you can get really healthy smoothies
from me.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
You Peel like twenty dollars for them, and so.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
It's just it's I think it's really confusing for people.
But I think the only way that it can be
not confusing is by just educating yourself, like learning, Yes,
it's a smoothie, but what is in my smoothie?

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Like what are the ingredients?

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Were there any lifestyle things that you had to change
or any lifestyle issues that you see people doing that
you think are leader to these health conditions?

Speaker 4 (15:02):
Yes? Many.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
I mean number one is stress, as you know, right.
I mean I think that people are just so stressed
out these days. And I know I was brought up
in a really stressful environment because it was all about
you know, just not getting a lot of sleep.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
It was a badge of honor not just sleep, you know,
eight hours.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
And it was also just getting a lot of things
done and so and rising the corporate ladder, so to speak,
and making a lot of money. That was sort of
my life. And I think that is a lot of
people's lives.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's like they feel like they can't sit home and
meditate or enjoy themselves and just relax.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
I mean, people just don't know how to relax.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
And there's a favorite book of mine called Radical Remission,
one of my favorite cancer books. She's done radical remission
and Radical Hope. And she did a PhD on cancer
and stage four. These stage four cancers healed holistically. And
I'm not recommending this, you know, at all, but because
I love both Western and holistic, but these people did heal.

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And seven of her modalities out of ten were stress
related and sleep and basically just getting rid of trauma
and just dealing with their emotional well being. And then
the eighth one was food, night was supplements, and the
tenth one was exercise.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Wow, I need to beat that.

Speaker 4 (16:19):
What did you say, radical remission, radical radical mission, radical
hope to my favorite books.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Oh, I'm going to read that.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I'm also dying to be me. Do you know her?
She has a fabulous book. And she had cancer.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
She had tumors all over her body and basically went
into a coma and saw that her loved ones were
there at the hospital and decided, you know, there's all
these weird things that happened, Like I think when you're
kind of maybe leaving this earth, they're in between. And
she said, oh my god, I don't want to go Yet,
and Anita Moore, Jamie's her name, She's amazing, and she

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ended up healing and the tumors went away and she
did not do Western meds also, But again, you know,
it takes really hardcore. Some of these people went away
for years to go out of their environment, to go
meditate for a year, to like figure out, you know,
how to really de stress and get their lives together.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
So it's hard to do.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
It is world, it is, and I think it takes
like a lot of dedication and a lot of willpower
and sometimes it all money as well, and be able
to heal yourself in that way. But I also think
it's useful reading books like that because you know, I
always think even if I haven't gone through it, at
some point, if someone in my life goes through it,
I will have the tools to be able to help
them or to know how to advise them or cope

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with it or suggest suggest something to them. So I
think it's always useful having books like that.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yet, and the other thing that I was saying on
Jay's podcast was the love of yourself. You know, just
because a lot of people aren't brought up to love themselves,
I think they think it's selfish to love themselves, and
I think it's self preservation to love yourself. And when
you do say I love myself, you're just your whole
nervous system relaxes you kind of. You want to go

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into the pair of sympathetic nervous system as you know,
not the sympathetic. So in order to get there, it
means you have to be okay with you. Yes, you
have to love all the flaws of you, and you
just have to be okay with not being okay.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
And I think when you love yourself, you just also
treat yourself better in the way that you eat, the
way that you live, the lifestyle that you have. You know,
I think I did a big shift in my mindset
when I started realizing that this body is a gift
and not something that's just given like it's not mine.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
It's a gift.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Yeah, And so I realized that actually self love is
a way that you are just sharing your gratitude to
God or the universe for giving you this body. And
so looking after this body is an act of self love.
It is an act of service back to God forgiving
you this body, and to be able to be of
service in the world. You have to look after your body, right,

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and so actually self love is not selfish if you're
thinking about it in that capacity.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
So I think that's a.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Beautiful That was beautiful the way you just said that.
It's so true.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, it really is.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
That needs to get out there more.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
I have a question.

Speaker 3 (19:08):
I feel like I hear about I stopped using a microwave.
I think about, well, how long have we been living
in the US. I haven't in a microwave since for
ten years, Okay. I've had lots of things back and
forth about it. Is that something that you heard about
while you're on your cancer journey?

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Yes, okay, tell.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Me, well, yes, I try to not use the microwave too.
We do have one, and if I'm in a pinch,
I will, yes, but most of the time I do not.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
I don't like the magnetic waves that come from the microwave.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yes, I don't think it's healthy, Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
I don't think cooking your food in a microwave is
healthy at all, and I don't think it's good for cancer.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah, I always wonder whether I've heard that it kind
of takes away the nutrients but also has been linked
to cancer. So I was intrigued of whether there's been
actual evidence or research done on it.

Speaker 4 (19:56):
And most of the time in those in the days
when I had it, people were standing in front in
the marketway. Yes, so nowadays I'm watching that. I think
nowadays people know not to do that. But that was
really bad. Okay, yeah, but I'm not a fan.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
No.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
It definitely takes a lot more effort though, like putting
out all the pans to reheat your food. But I
always think it's just worth it if there's one little
thing that you could change. You already have something with
radiation in your hand all day, right to then have
your food cooked with it. It's it can be. It's just
that I always think, try and take out all the
things that you can live without, yeah, and then the
things that you can't live without. At least you know
you've reduced the amount of damage that you're doing to

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your body.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Do you really need to buy organic? What's your view
on that?

Speaker 4 (20:36):
I do?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean the cleanse is all organic. So
I that was twelve years ago. When I started it.
I wanted just people to really have five days of clean,
real organic food that was nutrient dense. I just feel
it's so lacking, and it's not that hard either, and
I just wanted to be able to deliver this kind

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of food to people so they could taste the difference
and because it tastes better. A lot of times we
make sure we get really high quality organic, because some
of their organic can be not so great these days.
But I just wanted them to be able to just
treat themselves for five days of this organic food that
they know how to metabolize, and by the end it's

(21:21):
so fascinating. Roddy, at the end of five days, I
get these testimonials and they're like, holy cow, I can't
even believe how good I feel, and I ate more
food than I usually eat, and just it was it's
really not again rocket science.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
It's just real clean food.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
And now we are giving some animal protein that's hormone
free and clean for the people who exercise a lot
because they weren't getting enough protein they felt. But yeah,
I just feel like it's really important to go organic
as much as you can. Sometimes you can't get it.
And also I think the farmer's markets tend to have
better they do.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
They do show I do love those you to be
in la with farmers markets. Right, what are some of
the main ingredients if people were, you know, weren't able
to spend as much on organic ingredients for everything, and
they're like your top five things that people should buy organic.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Yes, I would say lettuces are really crucial. I think
that vegetables also are. I mean, but you also can
get frozen coliflower or broccoli, right, and they're organic and
that's not as expensive as you know, buying it from
the store the farmer's market. But yeah, tomatoes and you know,
just really the fruits and vegetables are really important. And

(22:32):
then absolutely if you eat animal protein, it has to
be clean and hormone free and that's I think crucial.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Okay, that's great. You said that you had hashimoto or still.
Is it something that you just.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Have forever forever? Yes?

Speaker 3 (22:48):
Okay, so sadly no, I mean I hear so many
of my friends people that I know have had hashimoto,
have got hashimoto. What's the difference between hyperthyroidism, hyperthiroidism, and hashimoto.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Yeah, so hypothidism and hashimotos go hand in hand. So
so hashimotos is an immune response, so it's again another
immune system issue. And then when your.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Immune system isn't fighting off. I really think of it
as a viral infection that you've gotten, so it lays
dormant in your system.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
I years ago was healed by the medical medium Wow interestingly,
so I had sessions with him before he became really popular,
and I did his protocol and my hashimotives for the
first time went into remission. That was five years ago.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's amazing.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
I know, it was amazing.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
So I still kind of go back and forth with
his protocol, but he does believe it's a viral issue.
And growing up I had mono and strap and tonsilitis
and shingles and they're all They're all epstein bar and
I had chicken box. So when you have those viral issues,
they do not go away. They just lay dormant and
you can live with them for the rest of your life.

Speaker 4 (24:00):
Or bacterial or fungal issues, but when your immune system
is compromised or you're not you're tired, and you're stressed
and all those things, they can raise their ugly head.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I know.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
My grandma went through cancer two years ago and she
went into remission from She actually did the same thing
as you. Shen't did half of her chema. I'm all
not the same, but she only diok half of the
chemo she was supposed to, and she's always lived such
an incredible life in terms of what she eats and
how she lives and her meditation practices. She did half
of it and her cancer went back into remission while

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she was doing all of obviously her other holistic health
practices on the side, and she's ninety years old. But
then six months later, seven months later, she got shingles,
and it was one of the most painful things I've
ever experienced her go through. When I learned about it,
it was just, I guess it's whenever your body, once
you've already been through an immuni suppressed situation, your body

(24:52):
just constantly goes into it. And someone else in my
family is going through shingles right now, and he's really
struggling with it because he also has an auto mune disorder.
He has room short authritis, and I guess his immune
system was a little bit low and then he got shingles,
and it's I feel like it was the first time
I'd had about it, but now two people in my
family have had it, and it's something that's so common.

Speaker 4 (25:12):
It's so common. It's crazy how common it is. I
know you're right.

Speaker 1 (25:15):
I mean even with the COVID like COVID shot, you know,
I like, my antibodies came back.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Yes, I got COVID. The antibodies came back.

Speaker 1 (25:24):
So it's a constant back and forth and trying to
get those antibodies down. And really it's also not that hard,
so it's really good sleep. Your vitamin D needs to
be at a really high level when you have an
immune suppressed system, like it needs to be sixty mL
on their blood works, sixty to eighty higher than what
most doctors needs to be an optimal level. You need

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to be really taking things that will build your immune
system and keep your immune system strong. And sometimes you
just need to take antivirals too. And we all know
there's beautiful anti virals out there, like a regular oil
you know is one, or bioax of silver, or there's
a whole array of beautiful anti viral so I think
that you just kind of or even zinc and liposomals

(26:08):
C is an anti viral. So I'm constantly on and
off those things when I'm not feeling good and making
sure but hypoth so the hashimotives that you know that
antibodies attack your thyroid and so then that gives you
hashy and then hyper is more is Graves. So that's
the autimmune for So hyper is when you're you have

(26:31):
more bulging eyes and you are super skinny and that,
so it's just a different autoimmune consistency. But hypo is
when you're losing your hair and you can't lose weight,
and you know your brain fog and tired all the
time and constipated, and it's so rampant hashimotives and hypo.

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And I see clients they don't the doctors don't test
their antibodies. They test the thyroid, they do not test
the antibodies. And I can't tell you how many times
when I test them they have hashimotos.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
So what do you recommend people test foid? They have
to ask for antibody test.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Just test for a Hashi motors antibody test or a
full thyroid panel.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Okay, Yeah, And when you had you know, the bits
in between when you were saying you got shingles and
we'll be above the things that you mentioned, is that
what really helped you? So now do you find there
are shorter pairers between when you get these other.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Yeah, so I know when I'm going into a social period,
I will start to like go on my regular oil
or my bioactive silver and take some more zinc it,
take some more zah and make sure my D even
maybe double my D for a few weeks and it
always helps. And I also like really take care of
my gut. So I am a big fan of omra

(27:46):
that cholester powder or just a really high quality cholesterome Okay,
that has helped my antibodies as well.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Oh that's interesting that before.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, it's really lowered antibodies and help digestion and what
it does, and it helps protect the lining of your
gut so you don't get viral or bacterial fungal issues
in the lining. So they're already in the system, but
you could get more.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
It's I feel like we focus so much on the
conditions that you hear about, like cancer, heart disease, diabetes,
but rarely do we think about viral fungal infections, which
are actually probably sometimes the underlying root to then get
a lot of these autoimmune disorders when you end up
triggering it in some way through a virus that you've got.
I've had so many correlations between people getting a virus

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and then it triggering the autoimmune disorder that then starts
and they then have to work through that afterwards.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
You're absolutely right, one hundred percent, like we just no
one is talking about it. I mean, the medical medium
talked about it years ago and he continued to I
don't know what's happening with him now. I think he's
still around, right.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Gratitude, we both had little bit.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
Same same But I just there people aren't talking about
it still enough, and those issues are all kinds of problems.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
I don't know whether you know much about UTIs. I
feel like I always say, lots of women getting UTI's
very regularly. Do you know any recommendations for women to prevent, like,
what's the best way to prevent getting a UTI?

Speaker 1 (29:15):
So it's really there's a supplement is it called it's
the cranberry supplement that I.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Can't remember it.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
It's not it's something else that there is one supplement.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
That is fabulous for utl okay, but also it's again
that bacteria that's in the system and keeping you know,
like stain hydrated and making sure you're going the bathroom
enough as well as like, I love nutribiotic grayfruit seed extract.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
Do you know about that?

Speaker 1 (29:46):
I so it tastes kind of crappy, but whatever. I
felt like I was getting a UTI because I used
to get a lot of them. This liquid was really strong.
It's a natural antibiotic, and you would put of like
thirty drops a little glass, little shot of water and
down it like maybe one to three times a day,
depending on how you're feeling, and the ut.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
I would go away.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Wait what was it called again?

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Oh, it's called grapefruit seed extract. Right, Flutibiotic is the
name of the brand. Okay, And there is one other
I can't remember the inverse.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
We'll look out.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
We'll look out.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
We'll send out to everyone.

Speaker 4 (30:19):
Yeah, when do d manos?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
D manos?

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Have you ever heard of it?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Oh? I have that.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
The other one I don't get UTI is very often,
but honestly, right now, like three of my friends have
it and they keep messaging me what should I take.
I'm like cranberry juice, pomegranate juice.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's all I really know.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
Because they're being able to go on antibiotics and they
don't necessarily want to go on to it.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
So let's talk about detoxing and cleansing, because that is
your expertise. For those who are new to detoxing, where
should they start. Let's say they don't have the money
to go on a cleanse or buy a cleanse. Where
can they start in their own home, in the in
their own kitchen.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Good question.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I feel like hydration is crucial because I don't think
people are hydrated enough. So, you know, the first line
of defense for detoxing is really going the bathroom in
fully eliminating, not.

Speaker 4 (31:06):
Just peen, but you know, just really being regular.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
And that is interesting because they're really supposed to go
three times a day, but people barely go once.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
So hydration is crucial for that.

Speaker 1 (31:16):
Right, So women need ninety six ounces, I feel that
could be really hydrating soups or smoothies or juices. You
know that it doesn't have to be just strictly water.
And men need like almost a hundred and twenty but
people don't get that. They get about sixty if they're lucky.
Always drink water when you wake up, before you have
tea or coffee that's caffeinated, and if you take any

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over the countermeds, you really need to be hydrated because
they dehydrate you. Also, animal protein dehydrates used, sugar dehydrates use.
So it's fascinating how many foods can do that too.
But I think hydration is crucial. I think fiber is
also mass Those are like no brainers that don't cost
any money. We need to get thirty minimum thirty grads

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of fiber.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
A day, up to fifty.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
So give us an example of what.

Speaker 1 (32:04):
Yeah, yeah, so my favorite archia seeds, like two tablespoons
is ten grams of fiber. I know, half of avocado
is like nine point five grams of fiber, a half
like a quarter couple of white beans is nine grams
of fiber. A cup of raspberries is eight point four
grams of fiber. So like right there, we're probably at thirty.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Right.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
There's definitely like you know, the vegetables.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
The legumes and beans, but again that's kind of a
somewhat of a forgotten thing, the legumes and beans as well.
But there are beautiful sources of fiber out there, so
I think that that's crucial. And then I feel like
the best detoxinge is juicing. And also what I do
now roddy is I throw the greens into a blender.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah, I keep that of a juice then, so you
get the fiber in.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah right, yeah, So I like have a sixty ounce
juice with all these greens with all these nutrients because
that's my multi and then I have all this fire.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
That's so good.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
When when you're here talking about all the different types
of fiber, I was like, I definitely have an overloade
of fiber in my day.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
I definitely get.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Most of my meals have like four or five different
veggies in there, so I know I'm getting the right
amount of fiber in. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
Oh my Goshen, you were talking about vitamin D.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
Actually, I recently did my blood tests and everything was
actually great, except for my vitamin D was so long low.
It was the lowest it's ever been. I think I
have it at like an eight or something, which is
so low. So I'm really working on that and I've
started like doubling up on my vitamins. Do you see
a difference between taking liquids and capsules.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
I do. I do want to love liquids.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
I love liquids period because they absorb better, So do
I I think we're lucky if we absorb half of
the capsule, because our gut has to be healthy to
break it down. We have to break down the outside
of the capsule and then absorb what's exactly.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
So if your gut's not strong, you may not be
getting into it right.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
So liquids are so easy, and I love liquid d
I love quicksilver like it's a leposomal where you don't
have to take it with fatter food because it's a
fat absorbable vitamin and same like curcumin or curcumin's I
do the liposomal one of those you know, leposomal cee.
Those are all really highly absorbable.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
That's so good.

Speaker 3 (34:15):
I think people don't know the difference sometimes, So liposamol
helps with the absorption sys itways better to.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Get it in those forms. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Are there any common myths about detox saying that you've
had to dig debunk with your clients.

Speaker 4 (34:26):
Yes, a lot. It's about starvation and deprivation.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I mean I think people think that, you know, I mean,
going on waterfast isn't horrible if you're doing it right. Okay,
so that's kind of a deprivation starvation thing, But that
is for a certain amount of time. Also, I think
supervised is really important. Yes, but you don't have to
deprive yourself or starve yourself. You just again going back

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to what we talked about at the beginning, of just
eating real food. Your body knows what to do with
this real food, you know, and did it getting high
fiber and getting hydration and also sleep. Your body detox
is while you're sleeping.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
So true.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
Yeah, so you've got to get enough sleep.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Your cleans in your book is so easy, and I
feel like that's kind of what you mimic in the
cleans that you share with people. You know, whether it's
a juice, a soup, a salad, you know, there's there's
so many different varieties of what you can eat, but
essentially it's all just based around whole foods, right, And
I think that's that's really as simple as the detox
is most people need to get to because most of

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us are on eighty percent package foods twenty percent whole foods,
and you're really trying to switch that around being eighty
percent whole foods and twenty percent maybe package foods. Right, Exactly,
what's a good duration of a cleanse for people to
go on that is yours is a five days that
the minimum that you would recommend.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
I really I don't know why you. I love the
five day.

Speaker 1 (35:47):
You can reset your body in five days, Yes, a
lot of people do three. I don't think it's long enough,
but five days is really a scientifically proven resetting. You
can lower your sugar cravings, you can you know, sleep better,
your skin can be better, like in five days.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
I think that is so crazy because it's a short
amount of time.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Yeah, it feels like a really manageable number. Yeah, rather
than like a thirty day detox. Five days feels really manageable.
And I imagine then you continue those practices because your
body's got a feeling of what it feels like to
feel good and to have those toxins out of your body.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
You just feel more energized.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
And also I feel like it's really crucial to get
back in your body. I feel I don't know about you,
but I feel like I see clients in their heads
here and their bodies here.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Yes, they are not connected ways. So I think food
helps you connect.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
You know, lifestyle and meditation and sleep and all those things,
but I think food, if you're not eating the right
foods you're going to be disconnected.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
We've been talking about a lot about sleep. You've mentioned it.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Are there many sleep supplements that you think actually help
without ruining your body's process of sleep? Because I think
you know, there are lots of products out there that
can help you to sleep, but it doesn't necessarily enhance
the sport or support your natural sleep system.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Yeah, I mean magnesium is the first one.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
I just have a brand that I love called Bioptimizer,
has seven different kinds of magnesium in it.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
I just love that one. I give it to all
my clients.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
They also have a sleep supplement that's beautiful, but it
doesn't have melatonin.

Speaker 4 (37:15):
So I'm not a huge melatonin fan.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I'm not. I right.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
I love it if you travel and you need it
and when you're going across time zones, right, But I
think here on a day to day basis taking melatonin daily,
I'm not a big fan of. So this one has
glycine and elthenine and GABBA and B six and it's
a beautiful array of stuff. So I think you know
those two are my favorite.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
Do you have used the spray?

Speaker 4 (37:40):
No?

Speaker 3 (37:41):
Oh, I've been using a magnesium spray at night apparently
because when you put on your skin and then absorbs
straight into your blood right in that way. I've been
using that at night, but I need to put up
probably do both sides. Takes some supplements and get magnesium
in three.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Do you like you?

Speaker 4 (37:57):
Do you have?

Speaker 2 (37:57):
I really like it?

Speaker 3 (37:58):
No, I don't have a se seeping but I've just
had I've recently had another health expet on and she
was saying how magnesium is the one supplement that she'd
really recommend to women, especially to tap with the hormones
and everything. So I've just started to prioritize using it
and I've been using a spray and so far it's great.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
No, I spray is great again, It's like absorption and easy. Yeah,
and a liquid magnesium or you know. I love this
hydrating powder. It does have few fillers.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
In it, but I dilute it like crazy, and it
does have magnesium, potassium and magnaniue ultima.

Speaker 4 (38:31):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
It doesn't have a ton of salt because I don't
love high salt things. Yeah, but it has all the
other things and has sea and zinc and amazing.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
So many great supplements out there. Actually, what do you
go to recommendations? To stay energized throughout the day.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:46):
Well, the first one I would say is when I
wake up in the morning, I do. I'm lucky because
I have this balcony outside my bedroom and I go
out and I sit in the sun for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
And I don't that gives me energy?

Speaker 1 (38:58):
Yeah, I think it resets my circait in rhythms, and
I just think it's it's such a beautiful thing to
get sunlight into your eyes and to you know, get
that first morning sun.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Definitely, and I think that.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
That for me gives me energy.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
And as well as I do yoga in the morning
and I meditate a little bit, I don't go on
my phone right away. That's huge because when I do,
I'm in trouble.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
That I feel like my energy is always zac.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes, Yeah, before you even get a moment to get
out of bed, you're already depleting energy from your body
and your mind.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
Then water and juice, And then I have to say,
there is a supplement I can't live without, but I
do injections of it. It's NAD, which I'm sure.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
Yes, I'm so intrigued by NAD. I feel like it's
suddenly come in to the light. But it's obviously been
around for a while. Tell me what NAD does and
what are the best forms that people should take them
in and should everyone be taking.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, like a lot of people we deplete our NAD
really like I think around in our twenties, like by
fifty percent. So I think a lot of people you know,
could easily take it a lot.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
There are precursors out there. There's NMM and there's an
R and they're a precursor to help with the NAD.
I just buy a whole real NAD and do an
injection of it every day or by like six days
a week, which I feel a difference.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
So it's cellular metabolism. It actually gives the cells energy.
It also does boost your metabolism.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah, so it's just.

Speaker 1 (40:32):
Great for energy, grain for brain fog, and I feel
like it's great for weight overall and.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Great for your skin and all of it.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Okay, it's really the kind of the right now anti
aging supplement.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
So I've eve been taking it for a while.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
I have, I've like probably three or four years. Oh,
I know I'm going to get I do.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
Feel like, Yeah, you look amazing. Diet Coke or regular coke.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
Oh god, regular, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
I know I read that in your book. Tell me
why diet coke.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Is filled with again billers and like really crappy stuff.
And yes, regular coke is sugar, which is not great,
but I would rather have you know, the regular full
on sugar.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
You're gonna do it, do it.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
I think the problem is sometimes with these diet joints
and diet everything you think you're doing, you think it's
something that's healthy, so you'll end up having it every day.

Speaker 2 (41:23):
But at least with a coke, you know that it's.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Gonna be your one off weekly or your treat that
you're having, whereas people don't see diet coke or coke
zero as being a treat. They see as, oh, I'm
actually being healthy so I can have every single day.
You speak about artificial sweetness in the book, Yeah, I
would love to touch on this. What are some of
the artificial sweetness to look out for?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
The other Well, it's splendor and even like what else
sweet low And you know, also truvia that's a little
bit of a miss like misconception because they think truvia
is a lot of people think it's clean, but it
has some artificial sweetness in it with stevia, so you

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want it. I feel like you want to do pure
stevia as often it or honey even or not you know,
molasses or you know, maybe not overdo those things. But
I am a huge stevia fan. I've been using cvia
for years and it's always one hundred percent pure.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
Okay, I'm so happy you said that because obviously in
JUNI we have stevia and even the cevia that we
we've been using, we tried, We've picked like the highest
grade right cevia. But I think people really get confused
between natural sweetness and artificial sweetness. But the artificial sweetenes
is like even a sparta we say, ita ska. The
amount of things that that's been linked to and the

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fact that it's even in children's products, it makes me
so angry because I think that a lot of these things, yes,
and it's plugged in things that are meant to be
a healthy a version, right, and so I think it's
so misleading for people. So you would recommend natural sweetness
like stevia molasses over artificial sweetness.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
At one hundred percent?

Speaker 3 (43:01):
Okay, people, let's get rid of all the artificial sweetness,
what's one thing that we talked about gut health to
one thing that we can do for better gut health, Like,
if you had to pick one thing you recommend people do.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
So it's a hard question.

Speaker 2 (43:11):
You could do a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (43:13):
One thing is always tricky, I would say. I mean,
stress is just a big one, you know. I mean
there's a lot of great products out there, but when
we're stressed, our gut just completely shuts down. So we're
not going to digest our food, We're not going to
listen to our gut instincts.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
You know. I just think that stress kills your gut.

Speaker 3 (43:34):
Isn't that so interesting that stress, which people see as
a mental issue, yeah, is actually what can impact majority
of our bodily health conditions, gut breaks and more so
even than sometimes the food.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
And then I think people should be on probiotics or
eat probiotic foods. I would love for them to eat
probiotic foods more so they take probatic supplements like you know,
kimchi and sauer kraut and keefers, you know. And look
and there's so many full products out there on the market,
like coconut kaffirs.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
And actually delicious.

Speaker 4 (44:04):
Yeah, they are. You only need a little bit.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Yeah, we actually have in our In Indian culture, there's
always a fermented pickle that is given traditionally with Indian meals,
and I guess it's so beautiful to see that. In
most traditions, especially in Eastern traditions, there's kimchi. Like you said,
there's kaffir. We have the pickle that we have, but
you're meant to have it with every meal. Like I

(44:28):
think that's gotten lost over time, but having something fermented
with each meal has been part of pretty much every
single culture, So I think, yeah, we usually just have
a little bit of it with our meals and it's
such a small amount, but it makes such a difference
to the way that foods digest.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
I mean on the cleanse, there's the detox tonic in
the morning and it has you know, coconut caffeir in there.
It's a liquid and apple side vinegar and it's just
a beautiful drink. People love that drink. And then there's
sauer kraut or there's fermented veggies in the afternoon. So
that's so fun because starting a twelve years ago, people
weren't doing enough of that.

Speaker 3 (45:04):
Yes, yeah, definitely, Oh yeah, I've been speaking to you,
but I'm definitely getting one of your cleanses. Digestive enzymes.
Could you tell us a bit more about that, because
I think people don't know much about digestive enzymes and
how they can help.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Yeah, I feel like, again the gut thing.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
I feel like as we get older, you know, our
gut doesn't break down the food enough and well enough,
and that is one it depletes by what age of
thirty it's pleased by fifty percent. So and then when
you're stressed, your enzymes get depleted. And when you take
over the counter meds, your enzymes get depleted.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
So there's so many things.

Speaker 1 (45:38):
You know, we're on birth control at early years, or
acutaine or all these things, I mean, and our enzymes
and our hydrochloric acid is depleted, and hydrochloric acid is
so needed to break down our food and the enzymes.
So I think, you know, if you're having digestive issues,
definitely try an enzyme.

Speaker 4 (45:56):
And we give enzymes to everybody on the cleanse.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I feel like, so they really are amino acids that
help with breaking down your food. So there are enzymes
that you know, you should already have in your body
that you're giving your body.

Speaker 4 (46:12):
To help bring down the food.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
That's useful.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Yes, it's so useful.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
The thing that a lot of people don't know is
a lot of people think they have to take them
before the meal, but actually if you feel kind of
funky after you've eaten, you could take them after and
they will help break down your food as well.

Speaker 4 (46:27):
And like things like ridiculo.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
And bitter greens and arugula and kale, those help also
with breaking down your food and enzymes.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
You also talk about natural supplements for your gut health
in your book. I would love you to just share
it so other people can also hear it. What are
some of the natural supplements that you recommend?

Speaker 4 (46:44):
So, I mean.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Nowadays I would say I love Omrah, but it's you know,
for the gut because that's a newer one. Probiotics I
think are phenomenal. I also think if you have a
gut issue going on, and we talked about this a
little earlier, with viral issues or bacteria, there are anti
bacterial like the grave receeed extract or the regular oil
or those are really amazing for the gut.

Speaker 4 (47:08):
I was like activated charcoal. There's another great one if
you're having gut issues.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Oregona oil is so phenomenal for so many things, Like
it's so beautiful that one single herb can do so much,
not just for your body internally, but also externally, Like
you can apply it topically when you've got exima or psoriasis.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
And it's sparently meant to be so.

Speaker 3 (47:27):
Beautiful because it's antibacterial and anti viral, so it helps
so much with those.

Speaker 4 (47:31):
Right, it helps with parasites. I mean, it is crazy,
it is.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
What is your take on, Okay, the new protein craze.
I know it's not new, but it feels new because
it just seems like the amount of protein that people
are recommended is going higher and higher and higher.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I would have to get your take on it.

Speaker 4 (47:49):
Oh, your opinion is controversial.

Speaker 2 (47:51):
This controversial topic that is protein.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
It's just like I don't quite understand how you know
when you when a man weighs like two hundred pounds
plus or whatever and people are telling him to get
two hundred grams of protein. I just don't know how
the body is able to break down two hundred grams
of protein. I'm having a really hard time just mentally
processing that.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
So I mean, I'm not a fan of like over protein. Yes.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
I just think that you know, when you get enough
protein that saytiates you throughout the day and you feel
good and you feel strong, and your muscles are being built,
and you know just and you can still exercise and
you have the energy and all of that. I just
think that it noticing how your body deals with all
of it is the most important thing rather than the number.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
Yes, because I do find that when you end up
pushing a lot of the time, when you're trying to
get too much protein in, you're pushing against your body's
satiation limits. So your body's telling you I'm done, but
your mind's telling you, oh, but I still have to
eat another protein bar. I still have to get this
much protein into my diet. So you're almost pushing away
the cues that your body's giving you. I think that's

(49:04):
quite dangerous because not only are you stretching your stomach,
you're and stretching your limits of hunger, so your body
actually doesn't then know when.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
It's feeling hungry and when it's not.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
You're also telling your body, but when you're full, I'm
still going to feed you exactly, and so I wonder
what that does to the connection between the mind and
the gut, where it's telling you something and you're choosing
not to listen.

Speaker 4 (49:24):
I don't love that.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
I don't love it either.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
We do know, like there are plenty of athletes out there, right,
like Olympian athletes that eat a plant based vegan diet,
or bodybuilders or weightlifters or you know, football players. We
all know a ton of those that do are super healthy.
So I'm you know, it's just it depends on like

(49:47):
what you're craving and how you're feeling, and I hope
people listen to their bodies more regardless you agree.

Speaker 3 (49:53):
I want to tell I want to talk about water
because you know, my friends always laughed at me once
I became a war snob, and I always say, I'm
not a snob in any other place in my life
except for in water.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
I am officially a water snob, and I will.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
Say that very proudly, because I think people don't realize
what a difference it makes when you are specific about
the type of water you drink. Yes, they went to
a restaurant and I was so thirsty. My friends would like,
just get a bottle of water, and I was like,
to the way, so, could you tell me what water
you have and what it's like packaged in And he's like, oh,

(50:26):
it's a plastic water bottle.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I was like, it's okay.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
And then my friends were like, you'd rather dehydrate then
drink water from plastic botle? And I said, yeah, I
actually would rather dehydrate then put microplastics into my body.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
So what is really in tapwater? Please tell the world.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Oh my god, it's terrible, especially La.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
You know, there's arsenic and lead and cadmium and there's
just all these heavy metals. Yeah, and like could be pesticized,
and you know, I mean nowadays with what's going on
in La, you know, with the fires and stuff. I mean,
and it's really scary what's happening with the west side
of our city and how people aren't able to you know,

(51:06):
drink their water.

Speaker 4 (51:06):
So I'm a complete water stop as well.

Speaker 1 (51:10):
And I was just going to ask you, do you
have a specific water that you love here in the house,
So we'll bring in a water because I.

Speaker 3 (51:17):
Do for the team, because obviously our team works on
the back we have I've constantly had Mountain valley, so
you can you get the big glass bottles dispense it dispense.
But for my home, I use kanngen okay kung in
the water. But I was actually get to ask you
what water photos you recommend for people.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
Well, I have to just tell you that we have
this water at our house. It's called High Hallstein. Oh,
and it comes from Austria, and it's a family. It's
a woman who is a scientist and her whole family
took about ten years to find the best water in
the world. It is not pumped up. It comes up
naturally from the Austrian Alps.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
It never sees the light of day.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
And when people come to our house, they're like, I
have to have that water. You would die And how
good it tastes. I can't believe you've never tried it.

Speaker 3 (52:07):
Oh, I need to.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Get to some bottles.

Speaker 1 (52:09):
Well, it's it comes from Austria, Like they can only
service like twelve thousand people in the world.

Speaker 4 (52:14):
And I just got lucky. Years ago.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
I met the couple who started it and I can't
live without it, and none of our family can live
without it.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
It's really crazy.

Speaker 1 (52:23):
It has it's auctionated, still has its minerals intact because
it never sees the light of day. It does not pumped,
you know, it comes out naturally. The taste is so
clean and clear, and it's a little bit alkaline.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
So a lot of these things.

Speaker 4 (52:38):
I mean, it's just like I actually ended up having some.
Like it was interesting.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Last I said to my friend at dinner, we were
at Marvin and you've probably not been there.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
It's no, I haven't.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
So they we asked for mineral water. They brought a
glass bottled mineral water. I drank the whole thing and
she was like, oh my god, you didn't even give
me some of that water. I'm like, it tastes so good,
Like it's very hard to find good water. Yes, and
I will not drink water out of plastic bottle.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
So what is a view about filter?

Speaker 1 (53:06):
Yeah, filters that are on. I mean, I feel like
I love reverse osmosis. We have a filter system on
the house. We also have reverse osmosis on our like
water in the sink as well, so it goes through
the filter in the house and the reverse osmosis.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
But it's really weird, righty.

Speaker 1 (53:22):
Last fall, I was diagnosed with a little high arsenic
and I tested my reverse osmosis in the kitchen sink
and it was very high in narsic no, so I
had to replace it and I don't know where it's
at now, but I think sometimes it's really hard to
get these chemicals out of the water system.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
I know, I'm going to test my water off to this.
It's so sad though, every time I have conversations about this.
Obviously I make a joke saying I'm a water snob,
but at the same time, it's so sad that something
that's so basic has to be paid for and if
you don't have the means you then can't filter water
that's providing a body with the basic nourishment that it needs.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
So I wish.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
So, yeah, I need to do more research on a
basic the cheapest yet most effective method for people to
get clean water.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Like so there is awkwatrue okay, which is really decent.

Speaker 4 (54:13):
A lot of doctors recommend that.

Speaker 1 (54:15):
So it's just a you know it is, it's a
plastic system on your you know counter. There's pure p
u R, which is a filter that filters out heavy metals.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
But yeah, it's better than nothing.

Speaker 1 (54:27):
So those two things I know are good if you're
not getting and most people aren't getting good water.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
Two lisas is the recommended amount of water is two
lisas the right amount for people to be drinking.

Speaker 1 (54:38):
I would say is that, like announces, do we know
three leaders? I think I think maybe more three leaders?

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Okay, the more. To be honest, your buddy's gonna get
rid of the water that you don't need.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
Right right exactly.

Speaker 1 (54:51):
And if you're even if you put a pinch of
sea salt like high end Himalayan or you know, Celtic
salt to get the minerals, you're not going to running
to the bathroom all the time in Peen.

Speaker 4 (55:01):
You will absorb the water. So that's also another great
thing to do for energy or to get minerals in
your water if you don't have good water.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Yeah, because those people take electrolytes.

Speaker 3 (55:11):
But I've heard that, is it true that you can
just take the Celtic salt instead of taking through electrolytes
and it does the same thing.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Well, they can you tell me the story about pretzels
and water?

Speaker 4 (55:23):
Pretzels and water.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
I think you're a story book about pretzels and water.

Speaker 4 (55:28):
I do love pretzels. It might be the salt. I
wonder if it's the salt.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
It might have been the salt.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
It might be the like I'm definitely a salt girl.
I crave salt. I love the Quicksilver is a great
brand that I love. It's a very small brand, but
they have these quintessential salt sashets so swift.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
I can't get enough salt for reasons.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Okay, no, maybe that's it. Well, it might have been
to do with the salt, the Celtic salt. I don't
know what the story actually was.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
I definitely I know my girls we used to have
I used to like have with like lick the pretzels.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
Actually, Jordan really likes pretzels. The last topic I wanted
to cover was oral health because you talk about how
oral health tells us so much about our body, and
especially root canals. I would love to hear why root
canals can be actually really terrible for your health.

Speaker 1 (56:21):
Another controversial, So that controversial is because like it's almost
like people what are they going to.

Speaker 4 (56:27):
Do if they have to get a root canal?

Speaker 1 (56:29):
You know, do they pull their tooth and like not
have a tooth implanted, or they get an implant?

Speaker 2 (56:36):
So is there a way to heal from a root canals.

Speaker 1 (56:38):
It's really hard. It's really hard. I mean, yes, you
can have root canals and be totally fine. By the way, again,
another one of those things where you can eat sugar
and be fine or you know, it's like you just
need to have a strong immune system because I think
bacteria gets it. We have millions of canals that are
coming from that tooth, and I think bacteria gets in

(57:00):
the canals.

Speaker 4 (57:01):
And years and years ago, I heard.

Speaker 1 (57:03):
A doctor talk that actually was from a holistic health
center in Mexico, and he basically talked about breast cancer.
And this woman had breast cancer and she came down
to the clinic. She ended up having quite a few
root canals done, and they ended up pulling all of
her teeth and implanting with implants and they basically were
able to get rid of the bacteria like in those canals,

(57:28):
and she got better and they felt like it was
from the root canals. So it was really impactful me
when I heard this, and it makes sense. You still
can get a root canal, and as long as your
immune system is strong and you can fight off, you know,
the bacteria or anything that's happening for you, that's not
a problem.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
Can you heal a root canal without removing the taathe?

Speaker 4 (57:48):
I don't think you can. That's the bummer. I don't
think it's possible.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Really, we need to eat sugar.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
We have, we have, and we really need to keep
our teeth clean, you know, we need to use water
picks and things like that or oil pulling even you
know is really helpful as I know.

Speaker 2 (58:06):
You probably do, right, yes, yes, yes, yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
And like scraping your tongue and just there's a lot
of things that we need to do to make sure and.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Like just prevention rather than cure.

Speaker 3 (58:17):
Like I was saying that stop preventing it now so
you don't have to get to that situation. Do you
have any opinion on whether you should be using toothpaste
with or without fluoride?

Speaker 4 (58:26):
I don't love the fluoride.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
Okay, yes, I got told that, And then I go
to the dentist in the UK and they're like, you
have to have fluoride in your toothpaste, and I'm like,
but I got told I should not have floorid in
my toothpaste.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Yeah, so I don't.

Speaker 4 (58:38):
I don't believe in it. I don't love fluoride.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
Why why is it just it's a chemical, so I
don't think, Yeah, I know, I just don't think it's.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
Good because it put in because I say it strengthens
your teeth, right, mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
I think there's so many things that strengthen your teeth.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Yeah, yes, so true. Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
This was fluorad.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
I know, I feel like I just just blasted you
with so many in depth questions, but I think that
we're good. We need these answers. Yeah, thank you so much.
Where can people find you? And there's anything you're working
on at the moment that you're excited?

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Yeah, a lot of things I'm working on. Like I
told you, I'm working on a book called pro Aging Hacks. Yes,
because at this age of my life, at sixty four,
I feel like better than I've ever felt my life,
more energy, just like you know, brain clarity.

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Just knock on wood.

Speaker 1 (59:24):
That just I don't have any ailments at the moment,
so I just feel really strong and good and happy
and all of that. So I'm working on a book
just about really my personal story of how I'm able
to do that and how people can do that in
an easy way, just like the cancer hack story.

Speaker 4 (59:41):
So I'm really excited about that.

Speaker 1 (59:43):
And I hoped like we're working on like how extending
the clans to other cities, oh EXTI, so that will
be really exciting. There's just like a lot of things
I love doing. I love doing the blood work on clients.
I'd just been doing that for like a year and
a half and so I do thorough blood work and
it costs maybe three hundred dollars to do that with
me and we get to the root.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Of people's health issues. So I absolutely love that.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
And I am on Instagram and it's under Alyssa Goodman
and also my website is Alyssa Goodman.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
So thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Thank you,

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