June 5, 2023 • 26 mins
This week on Living Undoctored, Rachel and Melissa answer listener questions about nutrition and nutrients. Tune in to hear Melissa’s expert insights: What ingredients should be avoided? What role do supplements play as part of a healthy regimen when diet alone can’t deliver all the nutrients we need? What nutrients and routines can help aging bodies recover more quickly from soreness that results from exercise? What vitamins and minerals are essential for everyone? Why is it important to choose a supplement brand that uses only natural ingredients from natural sources?
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Welcome to Living on Doctor sponsored byPure Essentials. I am Rachel Ash,
your hosts. We are here onw R seven ten am every Sunday from
five to five thirty pm. Formore information, I'm Pure Essentials. You
can go on their website www dotpure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p
U r E hyphen e ss entils dot com, or on Facebook or
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Instagram at shop Pure Essentials. I'myour host, Rachel Lash, wellness consultant
and healthy living expert. I'm joinedby my co host, Melissa Chris Bell
was trained as a natural path andnutrition specialist. She has a whole host
of other wellness certifications to include uricularacupuncture for detoxification and relaxation, yoga and
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natural healing. Melissa's spent the betterpart of the last thirteen years teaching doctors
all around the world how to lookat both traditional lab testing with a functional
medicine lens, use specialty LAP testinglike nutritional genetic tests, food sensitivity tests,
and micronutrient tests, along with professionalgrade nutraceutical supplements such as Pure Essentials
to create their own signature programs.A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa
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is on a mission to teach youhow to reclaim your health and live your
best life. Undoctored a little bitof a different format today. We've got
a lot of questions the past coupleof weeks from listeners from clients of Melissa's
in terms of how do we workwith supplements, what are some good rules
of thumb in terms of nutrition andoverall health questions that have come up out
of just even doing our first twoepisodes of the show on nutrition on nutrients
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thum Melissa first question, what isa good rule of thumb to know what
ingredients to avoid when doing food shopping. That was a great question and it
has a few different answers. Iwould say, if we're talking rule of
thumb for something that would apply toany human being, shop the perimeter.
That's nothing new. Steer clear ofthe processed in the middle. I mean,
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you're going to have to go tothe middle for a few things.
If you eat rice or oats,that's in the middle. But for the
most part, if you are eatingin a way that will actually fuel your
body, you're looking at meat,fruit, vegetables, right, You're reducing
the dairy intake, you're reducing thegrains you're reducing the processed foods, so
you want to make sure that you'reeating the perimeter. Eat the perimeter,
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eat the rainbow. Even though we'renot having skittles, you know, we
still want to eat the rainbow.We'll say, eat the organic rainbow.
There you go, organic, nongmo whole foods. That's my stick for
clients. Sounds good, and Iknow in terms of chemicals, we see
things in not just in foods interms of colored and processing foods, but
also in a lot of medications.There are certain dyes. We had a
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client who was in the center oncewho was allergic to the red dye on
the Thailand all capsule and they hadbeen taking Thailand al pm every night before
they're going to bed, and somethingthat minuscule was causing a reaction in their
body. So less as specifically whyshould I avoid red dyes, and if
you want to talk a little bitabout other dyes and food colorings too and
why they can pose real problems.Most of those diyes, whether it's FD
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and C red number five or yellowsix, Blue Lake, they're petroleum based.
Think about what petroleum is. Isthat something you really want in your
system? It's probably not red specificallythe question mark. Very honestly, it
might be new information to some people. It's been happening for a hundred years,
but it's made from a specific bug, Carmine corneal. It's a white
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bug that oozes red stuff, andthat's where it comes from. Some people
might be familiar with. One ofour favorite coffee places actually had to take
a specific drink off of their menulast year. There was a big expose
about using bugs to flavor people's drinks. You know, I think they were
just kind of going with its naturalbecause it happens in nature, not really
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thinking what the sumer was going toappreciate or not appreciate about it. Those
colorings. The petroleum base is thebigger issue than the bug is, right.
I have a friend and a colleague. He's a chiropractor in Indiana.
He was doing food and chemical sensitivitytesting on patients and this it was the
mom of a little girl. Shehadn't done her food and chemical sensitivity tests
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yet, but this practitioner had startedthe child on vitamin C flushes with our
famous vitamin C. And for thoseof you that aren't aware, you can
calibrate your body's need for vitamin Cby taking it in a very specific ratio.
So you know, someone in generallygood health that just wants to do
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better for themselves would take one teaspoonin six to eight ounces of water,
stir it up, let it dissolve, litical clear, all of those fun
things, drink that vitamin C water, and then repeat that process every twenty
minutes until the body flushes. Andwhat you flush is what's been hanging out
causing issues. But more importantly,the process is used to calibrate what war
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bodies daily need is you want tomake sure that you're taking enough vitamin C
but not taking too much that youend up with a bout tolerance issue.
There's more information on pure dash essentialsdot com about our vitamin C calibration.
You can also call into the office. You can also purchase the sea buffered,
which is the vitamin C that we'retalking about right now. It's a
powdered vitamin C. And I knowsome people do that in place of a
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colonic They do it as a detox. They do it after they travel,
if they've spent a week somewhere andeating bad food, enjoying themselves thoroughly.
But it's a great reset. Andthat phone number Melissa was talking about is
the number for our office. It'sopen Mondays through Fridays nine to five and
it's two one two seven five eightthirty two hundreds. That's two and two
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seven five eight three two zero zero. Anyway, this particular practitioner was addressing
some food and chemical sensitivity issues withhis patient and the mother was reporting back
after doing these Vitamin C flushes thatit smelled like band aid and plastic in
the bathroom. They couldn't figure outwhat was going on with this little one.
Did the food and chemical sensitivity test, it comes back she's reactive to
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petroleums, so her body was holdingonto those to try and protect her.
And it was the result of petroleumsin the air and taking in vitamins and
supplements that had those dyes. Someof those kids in Europe they're called goomies.
In America they call them gummies,taking some of those over the counter
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children's squishy gummy type supplements that haddifferent petroleum based dyes in them. And
once they cut those out and gother on a good path of cleaning the
air and doing the regular vitamin SEAflushes, she was able to recover from
that. You actually make a reallyinteresting point because so many of the kids
supplements are gummy. They're sugar,they're colored, they look like candy,
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they taste like candy. Effectively,you're getting as much chemicals or toxicity as
you are the good stuff, andit cancels each other. Adam, sure,
it's wacky in that way, justonce you're on the manufacturing side of
it and you understand what those areactually made of. I just can't seem
to get behind it. The amountof sugar in those little things, it's
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pretty insane. I wouldn't say thatit's as much as drinking a cocoda.
I'd have to look at you know, the actual milligrams. Again, I
don't know them off the top ofmy head by memory, but they're little
sugar bombs, those little gummies are, and they make them for kids with
melatonin. So you're going to givea kid that sugar bomb with some melatonin
before they go to bed, andit's just not what I did for my
children. I can tell you thatmelatonin is one of those things. I
know a lot of people take itfrequently, but it'll start to wear off,
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it won't have that same effect onyou, because melatonin is part of
an actual neurotransmitter process in our system. If you were to add that regularly,
it's going to lose its effect.It's great, you know, if
you're going across the globe and youneed some assistance sleeping on one of those
long, long flights, melatonin itcan benefit you. But on the regular
probably not the thing to do.And I know too, Melyssa. There's
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different sleep products that you recommend arewonderful. On the Pure Essentials line,
there's also a children's supplement, allnatural, non GMO, no fillers,
none of the bad stuff added.And you brought up something lash So that's
interesting to talking about sugars and sugarsand supplements, But don't they fight for
the same receptors as a vitamin C. They can, Yeah, And so
if you load up a vitamin Cproduct with sugar, you're really canceling each
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other out. Ultimately, that's whyPure Essentials Sea buffered has no sugar,
has no flavor in it. It'sjust all natural. It's food derived.
And speaking of nutrients, mol So, we had somebody write in that you
had previously mentioned some nutrients or vitaminswould require eating a quote ton of right
foods, even though we were designedso uniquely. You know, our bodies
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have all of these internal microcosms ofthings that happen, you know, in
our mouth and our stomach, youknow, on our skin. We have
so much that happens naturally without ustelling our body what to do. We
just weren't designed to take the loadof stress or the amount of stress loads
that we are handed and our bodyneeds extra help. If you couple that
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with the stress that we have,and I'm not talking about anything traumatic,
I'm talking about just day to daystuff, right. If you couple that
with the lack of nutrients in thesoil that our food is grown in,
it's just a recipe for not gettingit over the finish line. Our bodies
need a little help. We haveto have the right nutrients in there.
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If someone wanted something specific, Ican tell you. For me, it's
fish, it's omega threes. It'sgetting enough omega threes in that they reduce
inflammation. They help with my jointaches and pains, They help with mental
clarity and such. Getting enough inis difficult for me, mostly because of
the area that I live in andgetting the type of fish that I would
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eat and getting it so that itmeets all of my criteria because I don't
want farm raised, I don't wantcolors added. I don't want it from
areas of the world that have knowntalks in their water, because what that
fish swims in is what's going tobe in the flesh, and I just
don't eat that much of it.So supplementing with omega's, which is the
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pure essential ultra omegas plus supplementing whatthat Omega three is very very important for
me. I did a test.It was an Omega three index plus test.
Pure essentials is going to be carryingan Omega three index plus test.
It's just a little landset it justa little fingerstick, drop the blood down
on the little car, send itoff, and the lab sends them the
results just like I did, andtells me how much omega three was actually
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in my blood, how much omegasix, which we all get you from
oils and seeds and those kinds ofthings. We probably get too much of
that, And then what's the ratio, what's the healthy spot for me?
Melissa Crespell And that test will beavailable soon and interesting to Melissa. I
know we've spoken before. But forour listeners, not all omegas are created
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equally, and in fact, becauseit's so unregulated, a lot of them
are created dangerously. Can you talkabout the difference of the Pure Essentials omegas
and why it's a lot safer thanmost of their step out there? Yeah,
definitely. So the omegas that createthe Pure Essentials old omegas plus product,
the first third and the last thirdof the fish are discarded because that's
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where a lot of the toxic chemicalscan hide out in the fish, the
body of the fish. So onlythat center portion is used. Nothing farmed
ever, nothing, nothing, nothing. We don't want anything farmed. We
want that deep fresh cold water fish. We also want to extract it under
a nitrogen blanket, which has becomeindustry gold standard. We want to do
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that because that reduces the possibility ofrancidity. And we don't put any type
of natural here's my air quotes,natural flavorings in there, no chemical additives,
organic, non GMO lemon oil iswhat Pure Essentials uses and that's just
to have a little bit of flavorin it. Because little kids can take
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this, they can bite onto it, you can puncture the gel, put
it on a spoon and give itto the little one and it's going to
taste like a lemon oil and nottaste like tuna fish with lemon oil flavoring.
Or you know who knows what elsesome of those other companies are doing.
And for more information and where tofind those omegas again online at Pure
hyphen Essentials dot com. That's pU r E hyphen e ss E nti
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als dot com, or you cancall the office which is open Monday through
Friday nine to five two one twoseven five eight thirty two hundred that's two
one two seven five eight three twozero zero for more information or if you'd
like to place in order. I'myour host Rachel Lash, wellness consultant and
healthy living expert. I'm joined bymy co host, Melissa Chris bellb was
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trained as a natural path and nutritionspecialist. She has a full host of
other wellness certifications to include auricular acupuncturefor detoxification and relaxation, yoga and natural
healing. Melissa's spent the better partof a last thirteen years teaching doctors all
around the world how to look atboth traditional lab testing with a functional medicine
lens use specialty lab testing like nutritionalgenetic tests, food sensitivity tests, and
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micronutrient tests, along with professional gradenutraceutical supplements such as Pure Essentials to create
their own signature programs. A selfproclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa is on
a mission to teach you how toreclaim your health and live your best life.
Undoctored Melissa, We're going to changeit up a little bit. Next
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question, I'm in my mid fiftiesand even a moderate workout leaves me uncomfortable
for days. Are there vitamins orminerals that can help my body recover more
quickly? Oh? Yeah, definitely, Pure Essentials. Pure Essentials has a
pill for that. That's what Ilike to say. You know what,
Yes, I'm going to answer thatquestion with vitamins and minerals. I'm also
going to add this regular stretching,regular movement will help to reduce it.
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You know, any chiropractor across thiscountry will tell you that the weekend war
is the one that gets hurt andthe one that they see on Mondays,
probably from spring to summertime. Sostaying active on the regular Tai chee cheek
gong, yoga, just stretching thebody can be a benefit. So it's
not all about what pill can Itake to make this better? It's what
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can I change in my routine tosupport what I want to do in life.
So, you know, maybe changingup the way that we view that
just a little bit. But asfar as vitamins and minerals go, if
we get to a certain age andwe're feeling some joint situations, those omegas
that I was just talking about canbe good for that. Pure Essentials has
a joint product that has glucose amineand condroiton in it that could help with
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some of those joint issues. VitaminC. I know, you know everyone's
gonna say, Melissa, you say, vitamin is see for everything, and
I'm probably going to Vitamin C.It's like nature's vacuum cleaner, and it
just goes around and it just sucksall the issues from the tissues and it
helps you to mobilize them, getrid of them. It helps to increase
your bodies own natural collagen production,so you don't have to take yet another
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product which you probably couldn't absorb anduse anyway. So if you use the
vitamin C for that, it's goingto help strengthen those tissues and those areas
that are feeling sore. For ourfriend in their mid fifties, that vitamin
C can help to relieve some ofthat as well as can magnesium. When
we're feeling sore like that, youcan take magnesium internally, but you can
also soak in it using epsom saltsand baking soda. Put one cup of
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each in your bathwater doesn't have tobe super hot, but no as warm
as you like it. Hang outin that tub for twenty minutes. Let
your skin get nice and pink.Baking soda will help too. It's kind
of a dual purpose. The bakingsoda is going to help to pull some
of the toxins from the skin,so the magnesium then it relaxes the skin,
opens the pores. The baking sodais kind of the tag team there
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and then helps to pull some ofthose toxins. So that can help reduce
some of that soreness as well.And you can even throw a little vitamin
C in that bath too. Forken, Vitamin C, corse it in
and magnesium are my go to thepure essentials and it's phenomenal. I just
take the vitaminc out of the fridge, order a teaspoon. You know,
five personin and ta magnesium and Iknow I'll be feeling so much better the
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next morning. They're fantastic products.Next question, Melissa, I know we
see a lot of products on themarket with collagen and you mentioned something in
that last response about vitamin C.I don't know if it's versus collagen,
but can you talk about that alittle bit. Yeah, So it's really
difficult for our bodies to absorb collagenwhen we ingest it in a food or
you know, when I say food, I mean like like a protein shake
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or a powdered additive or something alongthose lines. So for me, that's
kind of a waste. I wouldrather take the vitamin C because it has
multi use to it and it helpsmy body to produce the collagen that I
should be producing. Anyway, aswe age, there are things that just
don't happen like they used to,and that's okay. There are supplements,
there are vitamins, There are mineralrules that our body needs in order to
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keep doing those things, and maybewe need to take a little bit more,
and vitamin C is one of them. And speaking of taking supplements for
recovery, taking things on a regularbasis. We had somebody right in which
nutrient and supplements should be taken regularlyby most people. I would say everyone
could benefit from a quality multi vitamin. And when I say quality, I
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mean the added junk. Look formagnesium, steer eight, look for silicon
dioxide, look for titanium dioxide.Look at the other's category underneath the supplement
fact panel and see if you haveall natural ingredients in there, or if
you have those big giant chemical words. Those are the words that we want
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to steer clear of. If theydon't come to you automatically, or they're
very difficult to pronounce, chances arethey are not very good for your body.
So a good quality multivitamin the fishoil, I can't get away from
it. It just does so muchfor us. A good quality Omega three
magnesium is always a good one.It's alkalinizing inside our body. Our body
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needs those buffering minerals just because ofthe acid that gets produced in our system
for many reasons. For the foodthat we eat, the amount of water
that we might not be drinking,or the amount of coke, sodas or
other sugary soft drink type drinks.Those create acidic effects in our body.
I would say that magnesium is superimportant for those reasons. Specifically, our
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bones are where the minerals are stored. If we don't have magnesium to buffer
in our system, our body's goingto go looking for it, and it's
going to go to where it's storedand it's going to rob the bones from
that, which then creates another situationsomewhere else down the line. So I
would say the magnesium vitamin C becausewe can't produce it ourselves. Our body
does not make vitamin C. It'snot possible. So getting enough vitamin C
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in for your body is going tobe different than from my body. So
getting that vitamin C in there isalso important. Figure out the vitamin C
calibration would be important as well.And I know our practice in the city,
we used to see a lot ofwomen coming in seeing they need calcium,
are taking calcium, and it waslike they could never take enough,
and really it was a magnesium deficiencybecause you need the magnesium in order to
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absorb the calcium. So to yourpointless, everything is a system to look
at your body from that perspective.Magnesium is so critically important, definitely,
and you know Honestly, people don'twant to take I don't even want to
take tons of vitamins and minerals inthe supplement form, you know, So
finding the supplements that work for yourbody, that meet your criteria of organic,
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non gmo, enzyme rich, wholefood derived, you know, finding
that core that gives you the energyand the vitality that you're looking for.
That's your core, that's your foundationpack, and Pure Essentials can help with
that. With the Pure Essential EssentialStarter pack, there will be other supplements
that you're going to need for certainperiods of time to address whatever situation you
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might have going on. Someone mightnaturally just decrease in their vitamin D throughout
the winter. Maybe they live inan area where there's not a lot of
sun, so they might need totake vitamin D for that period of time.
Other people might have a gene thatprevents them from converting vitamin D from
the sun, so they'll always haveto supplement. I'm one of those people,
you know, It's the way thatI was made, So the vitamin
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D is part of my core supplementregimen as well. So taking a look
at specifics blood tests that can berun all but five states in our country
allow you to order your own bloodwork, so you can walk into a
lab and you can say I wouldlike to check my vitamin D please,
and they'll do it for you,checking your blood work. Instead of just
taking supplements that you read about somewhere, you know, do what's right for
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your body. That's such an importantpoint that everybody's a unique biochemistry. Everybody
is different. What's healthy for oneperson may not be healthy for someone else,
so they get properly evaluated. Tofigure out what's great for you is
so important. It's just to optimizeour health. And we are here on
this show because of Pure Sounds.That's something I've taken for years. Melissa
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has worked with it for years aswell, recommends it to clients, which
leads us to our last question.We had somebody right in asking us our
pure essentials vitamins from a natural source, nature, identical, synthetic, strictly
synthetic, food based or by aculture of fermentation process. Well, listen,
you want to answer that. Iwant to answer that, and the
answer is yes, except for thepart that says strictly synthetic. Here essentials
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supplements are all natural. They arefrom natural sources. Meaning some of its
herbs. There's two different answers forthe food based. So there's food based
and there's food derived. So thereis a supplement company out there that does
food based supplements, which means thatthat food is dehydrated. It's then you
know, processed, it's crushed,it's pulverized, and that becomes the capsule
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or it's put in the capsule,or it becomes the tablet. Or supplements
can be food derived, meaning youget this from this food, or from
this herb, or from this berry. You can look at the Pure Essentials
labels and I can tell you thatwhat's on that label is actually in that
bottle. The newly formulated products thatare coming out that have the mushrooms in
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it, So we'll have a biglaunch for those products when they come out.
But they say fruiting body, orthey say powder, or they say
mycelium. We put on our labelexactly where the food comes from, so
you can trust what's in the bottleis actually written on the bottle. And
we do have one product that'll becoming out later this summer that is from
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a fermentation process, which is ourprobiotic. Also looking forward to that,
we're using because they are non toxic. It's a low risk, high gain
approach. It's more of a holisticlook at lifestyle, at solutions of keeping
our bodies lively of healthy at anyage. So, Melissa, thank you
for answering these questions. It's agreat show. If you are eating in
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a way that we'll actually fuel yourbody. You're looking at meat, fruit,
vegetables, right, you're reducing thedairy intake, you're reducing the grains,
you're reducing the cessed foods. Eatthe rainbow, We'll say, eat
the organic rainbow. There you goorganic, non gmo whole foods. And
I know in terms of chemicals,we see things in not just in foods
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in terms of colored and processing foods, but also there are certain dyes.
Most of those dyes, whether it'sFD and C red number five or yellow
six, Blue Lake, they're petroleumbased. Think about what petroleum is.
Is that something you really want inyour system? It's probably not red specifically
the question mark. Very honestly,it might be new information to some people.
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It's been happening for a hundred years, but it's made from a specific
bug, Carmine corneal. It's awhite bug that oozes red stuff and that's
where it comes from. Some peoplemight be familiar with. One of our
favorite coffee places actually had to takea specific drink off of their menu.
Last year there was a big exposeabout using bugs to flavor people's drinks.
(23:53):
You know, I think they werejust kind of going with its natural because
it happens in nature, not reallythinking what the consumer was going to appreciate
or not appreciate about it. Thosecolorings, the petroleum base is the bigger
issue than the bug is, right. I have a friend and a colleague.
He's a chiropractor in Indiana. Hewas doing food and chemical sensitivity testing
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on patients and this it was themom of a little girl. She hadn't
done her food and chemical sensitivity testsyet, but this practitioner had started the
child on vitamin C flushes with ourfamous vitamin C. And for those of
you that aren't aware, you cancalibrate your body's need for vitamin C by
taking it in a very specific ratio. So you know, someone in generally
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good health that just wants to dobetter for themselves would take one teaspoon in
six to eight ounces of water,stir it up, let it dissolve litical
clear all of those fun things,drink that vitamin C water, and then
repeat that process every twenty minutes untilthe body flushes. And what you flush
is what's been hanging out causing issues. But more importantly, the processes use
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to calibrate what your body's daily needis. You want to make sure that
you're taking enough vitamin C but nottaking too much that you end up with
a bowetolerance issue. There's more informationon pure dash essentials dot com. We
are here every Sunday from five tofive thirty on wo R seven ten am.
You can also listen to us LivingUndoctored with Melissa, Chris Bell and
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Rachel Aash on our podcast on iHeartdot com. If you're interested in any
of the products we talked about,or for more information in general, you
can get all of those on thewebsite at pure essentials dot com. That's
pure hyphen Essentials dot com. Youcan call us Monday through Friday. We
are in the office from nine tofive at two one, two seven,
five eight thirty two hundred. That'stwo on two seven, five eight three
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two zero zero. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, joined by my co
host Melissa Chrispell, living on Doctor, and we will see you next Sunday
at five pm here on WR
Welcome to Living on Doctor sponsored byPure Essentials. I am Rachel Ash,
your hosts. We are here onw R seven ten am every Sunday from
five to five thirty pm. Formore information, I'm Pure Essentials. You
can go on their website www dotpure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p
U r E hyphen e ss entils dot com, or on Facebook or
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Instagram at shop Pure Essentials. I'myour host, Rachel Lash, wellness consultant
and healthy living expert. I'm joinedby my co host, Melissa Chris Bell
was trained as a natural path andnutrition specialist. She has a whole host
of other wellness certifications to include uricularacupuncture for detoxification and relaxation, yoga and
(00:51):
natural healing. Melissa's spent the betterpart of the last thirteen years teaching doctors
all around the world how to lookat both traditional lab testing with a functional
medicine lens, use specialty LAP testinglike nutritional genetic tests, food sensitivity tests,
and micronutrient tests, along with professionalgrade nutraceutical supplements such as Pure Essentials
to create their own signature programs.A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa
(01:17):
is on a mission to teach youhow to reclaim your health and live your
best life. Undoctored a little bitof a different format today. We've got
a lot of questions the past coupleof weeks from listeners from clients of Melissa's
in terms of how do we workwith supplements, what are some good rules
of thumb in terms of nutrition andoverall health questions that have come up out
of just even doing our first twoepisodes of the show on nutrition on nutrients
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thum Melissa first question, what isa good rule of thumb to know what
ingredients to avoid when doing food shopping. That was a great question and it
has a few different answers. Iwould say, if we're talking rule of
thumb for something that would apply toany human being, shop the perimeter.
That's nothing new. Steer clear ofthe processed in the middle. I mean,
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you're going to have to go tothe middle for a few things.
If you eat rice or oats,that's in the middle. But for the
most part, if you are eatingin a way that will actually fuel your
body, you're looking at meat,fruit, vegetables, right, You're reducing
the dairy intake, you're reducing thegrains you're reducing the processed foods, so
you want to make sure that you'reeating the perimeter. Eat the perimeter,
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eat the rainbow. Even though we'renot having skittles, you know, we
still want to eat the rainbow.We'll say, eat the organic rainbow.
There you go, organic, nongmo whole foods. That's my stick for
clients. Sounds good, and Iknow in terms of chemicals, we see
things in not just in foods interms of colored and processing foods, but
also in a lot of medications.There are certain dyes. We had a
(02:52):
client who was in the center oncewho was allergic to the red dye on
the Thailand all capsule and they hadbeen taking Thailand al pm every night before
they're going to bed, and somethingthat minuscule was causing a reaction in their
body. So less as specifically whyshould I avoid red dyes, and if
you want to talk a little bitabout other dyes and food colorings too and
why they can pose real problems.Most of those diyes, whether it's FD
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and C red number five or yellowsix, Blue Lake, they're petroleum based.
Think about what petroleum is. Isthat something you really want in your
system? It's probably not red specificallythe question mark. Very honestly, it
might be new information to some people. It's been happening for a hundred years,
but it's made from a specific bug, Carmine corneal. It's a white
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bug that oozes red stuff, andthat's where it comes from. Some people
might be familiar with. One ofour favorite coffee places actually had to take
a specific drink off of their menulast year. There was a big expose
about using bugs to flavor people's drinks. You know, I think they were
just kind of going with its naturalbecause it happens in nature, not really
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thinking what the sumer was going toappreciate or not appreciate about it. Those
colorings. The petroleum base is thebigger issue than the bug is, right.
I have a friend and a colleague. He's a chiropractor in Indiana.
He was doing food and chemical sensitivitytesting on patients and this it was the
mom of a little girl. Shehadn't done her food and chemical sensitivity tests
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yet, but this practitioner had startedthe child on vitamin C flushes with our
famous vitamin C. And for thoseof you that aren't aware, you can
calibrate your body's need for vitamin Cby taking it in a very specific ratio.
So you know, someone in generallygood health that just wants to do
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better for themselves would take one teaspoonin six to eight ounces of water,
stir it up, let it dissolve, litical clear, all of those fun
things, drink that vitamin C water, and then repeat that process every twenty
minutes until the body flushes. Andwhat you flush is what's been hanging out
causing issues. But more importantly,the process is used to calibrate what war
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bodies daily need is you want tomake sure that you're taking enough vitamin C
but not taking too much that youend up with a bout tolerance issue.
There's more information on pure dash essentialsdot com about our vitamin C calibration.
You can also call into the office. You can also purchase the sea buffered,
which is the vitamin C that we'retalking about right now. It's a
powdered vitamin C. And I knowsome people do that in place of a
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colonic They do it as a detox. They do it after they travel,
if they've spent a week somewhere andeating bad food, enjoying themselves thoroughly.
But it's a great reset. Andthat phone number Melissa was talking about is
the number for our office. It'sopen Mondays through Fridays nine to five and
it's two one two seven five eightthirty two hundreds. That's two and two
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seven five eight three two zero zero. Anyway, this particular practitioner was addressing
some food and chemical sensitivity issues withhis patient and the mother was reporting back
after doing these Vitamin C flushes thatit smelled like band aid and plastic in
the bathroom. They couldn't figure outwhat was going on with this little one.
Did the food and chemical sensitivity test, it comes back she's reactive to
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petroleums, so her body was holdingonto those to try and protect her.
And it was the result of petroleumsin the air and taking in vitamins and
supplements that had those dyes. Someof those kids in Europe they're called goomies.
In America they call them gummies,taking some of those over the counter
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children's squishy gummy type supplements that haddifferent petroleum based dyes in them. And
once they cut those out and gother on a good path of cleaning the
air and doing the regular vitamin SEAflushes, she was able to recover from
that. You actually make a reallyinteresting point because so many of the kids
supplements are gummy. They're sugar,they're colored, they look like candy,
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they taste like candy. Effectively,you're getting as much chemicals or toxicity as
you are the good stuff, andit cancels each other. Adam, sure,
it's wacky in that way, justonce you're on the manufacturing side of
it and you understand what those areactually made of. I just can't seem
to get behind it. The amountof sugar in those little things, it's
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pretty insane. I wouldn't say thatit's as much as drinking a cocoda.
I'd have to look at you know, the actual milligrams. Again, I
don't know them off the top ofmy head by memory, but they're little
sugar bombs, those little gummies are, and they make them for kids with
melatonin. So you're going to givea kid that sugar bomb with some melatonin
before they go to bed, andit's just not what I did for my
children. I can tell you thatmelatonin is one of those things. I
know a lot of people take itfrequently, but it'll start to wear off,
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it won't have that same effect onyou, because melatonin is part of
an actual neurotransmitter process in our system. If you were to add that regularly,
it's going to lose its effect.It's great, you know, if
you're going across the globe and youneed some assistance sleeping on one of those
long, long flights, melatonin itcan benefit you. But on the regular
probably not the thing to do.And I know too, Melyssa. There's
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different sleep products that you recommend arewonderful. On the Pure Essentials line,
there's also a children's supplement, allnatural, non GMO, no fillers,
none of the bad stuff added.And you brought up something lash So that's
interesting to talking about sugars and sugarsand supplements, But don't they fight for
the same receptors as a vitamin C. They can, Yeah, And so
if you load up a vitamin Cproduct with sugar, you're really canceling each
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other out. Ultimately, that's whyPure Essentials Sea buffered has no sugar,
has no flavor in it. It'sjust all natural. It's food derived.
And speaking of nutrients, mol So, we had somebody write in that you
had previously mentioned some nutrients or vitaminswould require eating a quote ton of right
foods, even though we were designedso uniquely. You know, our bodies
(08:43):
have all of these internal microcosms ofthings that happen, you know, in
our mouth and our stomach, youknow, on our skin. We have
so much that happens naturally without ustelling our body what to do. We
just weren't designed to take the loadof stress or the amount of stress loads
that we are handed and our bodyneeds extra help. If you couple that
(09:05):
with the stress that we have,and I'm not talking about anything traumatic,
I'm talking about just day to daystuff, right. If you couple that
with the lack of nutrients in thesoil that our food is grown in,
it's just a recipe for not gettingit over the finish line. Our bodies
need a little help. We haveto have the right nutrients in there.
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If someone wanted something specific, Ican tell you. For me, it's
fish, it's omega threes. It'sgetting enough omega threes in that they reduce
inflammation. They help with my jointaches and pains, They help with mental
clarity and such. Getting enough inis difficult for me, mostly because of
the area that I live in andgetting the type of fish that I would
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eat and getting it so that itmeets all of my criteria because I don't
want farm raised, I don't wantcolors added. I don't want it from
areas of the world that have knowntalks in their water, because what that
fish swims in is what's going tobe in the flesh, and I just
don't eat that much of it.So supplementing with omega's, which is the
(10:09):
pure essential ultra omegas plus supplementing whatthat Omega three is very very important for
me. I did a test.It was an Omega three index plus test.
Pure essentials is going to be carryingan Omega three index plus test.
It's just a little landset it justa little fingerstick, drop the blood down
on the little car, send itoff, and the lab sends them the
results just like I did, andtells me how much omega three was actually
(10:33):
in my blood, how much omegasix, which we all get you from
oils and seeds and those kinds ofthings. We probably get too much of
that, And then what's the ratio, what's the healthy spot for me?
Melissa Crespell And that test will beavailable soon and interesting to Melissa. I
know we've spoken before. But forour listeners, not all omegas are created
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equally, and in fact, becauseit's so unregulated, a lot of them
are created dangerously. Can you talkabout the difference of the Pure Essentials omegas
and why it's a lot safer thanmost of their step out there? Yeah,
definitely. So the omegas that createthe Pure Essentials old omegas plus product,
the first third and the last thirdof the fish are discarded because that's
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where a lot of the toxic chemicalscan hide out in the fish, the
body of the fish. So onlythat center portion is used. Nothing farmed
ever, nothing, nothing, nothing. We don't want anything farmed. We
want that deep fresh cold water fish. We also want to extract it under
a nitrogen blanket, which has becomeindustry gold standard. We want to do
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that because that reduces the possibility ofrancidity. And we don't put any type
of natural here's my air quotes,natural flavorings in there, no chemical additives,
organic, non GMO lemon oil iswhat Pure Essentials uses and that's just
to have a little bit of flavorin it. Because little kids can take
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this, they can bite onto it, you can puncture the gel, put
it on a spoon and give itto the little one and it's going to
taste like a lemon oil and nottaste like tuna fish with lemon oil flavoring.
Or you know who knows what elsesome of those other companies are doing.
And for more information and where tofind those omegas again online at Pure
hyphen Essentials dot com. That's pU r E hyphen e ss E nti
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als dot com, or you cancall the office which is open Monday through
Friday nine to five two one twoseven five eight thirty two hundred that's two
one two seven five eight three twozero zero for more information or if you'd
like to place in order. I'myour host Rachel Lash, wellness consultant and
healthy living expert. I'm joined bymy co host, Melissa Chris bellb was
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trained as a natural path and nutritionspecialist. She has a full host of
other wellness certifications to include auricular acupuncturefor detoxification and relaxation, yoga and natural
healing. Melissa's spent the better partof a last thirteen years teaching doctors all
around the world how to look atboth traditional lab testing with a functional medicine
lens use specialty lab testing like nutritionalgenetic tests, food sensitivity tests, and
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micronutrient tests, along with professional gradenutraceutical supplements such as Pure Essentials to create
their own signature programs. A selfproclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa is on
a mission to teach you how toreclaim your health and live your best life.
Undoctored Melissa, We're going to changeit up a little bit. Next
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question, I'm in my mid fiftiesand even a moderate workout leaves me uncomfortable
for days. Are there vitamins orminerals that can help my body recover more
quickly? Oh? Yeah, definitely, Pure Essentials. Pure Essentials has a
pill for that. That's what Ilike to say. You know what,
Yes, I'm going to answer thatquestion with vitamins and minerals. I'm also
going to add this regular stretching,regular movement will help to reduce it.
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You know, any chiropractor across thiscountry will tell you that the weekend war
is the one that gets hurt andthe one that they see on Mondays,
probably from spring to summertime. Sostaying active on the regular Tai chee cheek
gong, yoga, just stretching thebody can be a benefit. So it's
not all about what pill can Itake to make this better? It's what
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can I change in my routine tosupport what I want to do in life.
So, you know, maybe changingup the way that we view that
just a little bit. But asfar as vitamins and minerals go, if
we get to a certain age andwe're feeling some joint situations, those omegas
that I was just talking about canbe good for that. Pure Essentials has
a joint product that has glucose amineand condroiton in it that could help with
(14:39):
some of those joint issues. VitaminC. I know, you know everyone's
gonna say, Melissa, you say, vitamin is see for everything, and
I'm probably going to Vitamin C.It's like nature's vacuum cleaner, and it
just goes around and it just sucksall the issues from the tissues and it
helps you to mobilize them, getrid of them. It helps to increase
your bodies own natural collagen production,so you don't have to take yet another
(15:05):
product which you probably couldn't absorb anduse anyway. So if you use the
vitamin C for that, it's goingto help strengthen those tissues and those areas
that are feeling sore. For ourfriend in their mid fifties, that vitamin
C can help to relieve some ofthat as well as can magnesium. When
we're feeling sore like that, youcan take magnesium internally, but you can
also soak in it using epsom saltsand baking soda. Put one cup of
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each in your bathwater doesn't have tobe super hot, but no as warm
as you like it. Hang outin that tub for twenty minutes. Let
your skin get nice and pink.Baking soda will help too. It's kind
of a dual purpose. The bakingsoda is going to help to pull some
of the toxins from the skin,so the magnesium then it relaxes the skin,
opens the pores. The baking sodais kind of the tag team there
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and then helps to pull some ofthose toxins. So that can help reduce
some of that soreness as well.And you can even throw a little vitamin
C in that bath too. Forken, Vitamin C, corse it in
and magnesium are my go to thepure essentials and it's phenomenal. I just
take the vitaminc out of the fridge, order a teaspoon. You know,
five personin and ta magnesium and Iknow I'll be feeling so much better the
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next morning. They're fantastic products.Next question, Melissa, I know we
see a lot of products on themarket with collagen and you mentioned something in
that last response about vitamin C.I don't know if it's versus collagen,
but can you talk about that alittle bit. Yeah, So it's really
difficult for our bodies to absorb collagenwhen we ingest it in a food or
you know, when I say food, I mean like like a protein shake
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or a powdered additive or something alongthose lines. So for me, that's
kind of a waste. I wouldrather take the vitamin C because it has
multi use to it and it helpsmy body to produce the collagen that I
should be producing. Anyway, aswe age, there are things that just
don't happen like they used to,and that's okay. There are supplements,
there are vitamins, There are mineralrules that our body needs in order to
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keep doing those things, and maybewe need to take a little bit more,
and vitamin C is one of them. And speaking of taking supplements for
recovery, taking things on a regularbasis. We had somebody right in which
nutrient and supplements should be taken regularlyby most people. I would say everyone
could benefit from a quality multi vitamin. And when I say quality, I
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mean the added junk. Look formagnesium, steer eight, look for silicon
dioxide, look for titanium dioxide.Look at the other's category underneath the supplement
fact panel and see if you haveall natural ingredients in there, or if
you have those big giant chemical words. Those are the words that we want
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to steer clear of. If theydon't come to you automatically, or they're
very difficult to pronounce, chances arethey are not very good for your body.
So a good quality multivitamin the fishoil, I can't get away from
it. It just does so muchfor us. A good quality Omega three
magnesium is always a good one.It's alkalinizing inside our body. Our body
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needs those buffering minerals just because ofthe acid that gets produced in our system
for many reasons. For the foodthat we eat, the amount of water
that we might not be drinking,or the amount of coke, sodas or
other sugary soft drink type drinks.Those create acidic effects in our body.
I would say that magnesium is superimportant for those reasons. Specifically, our
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bones are where the minerals are stored. If we don't have magnesium to buffer
in our system, our body's goingto go looking for it, and it's
going to go to where it's storedand it's going to rob the bones from
that, which then creates another situationsomewhere else down the line. So I
would say the magnesium vitamin C becausewe can't produce it ourselves. Our body
does not make vitamin C. It'snot possible. So getting enough vitamin C
(18:48):
in for your body is going tobe different than from my body. So
getting that vitamin C in there isalso important. Figure out the vitamin C
calibration would be important as well.And I know our practice in the city,
we used to see a lot ofwomen coming in seeing they need calcium,
are taking calcium, and it waslike they could never take enough,
and really it was a magnesium deficiencybecause you need the magnesium in order to
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absorb the calcium. So to yourpointless, everything is a system to look
at your body from that perspective.Magnesium is so critically important, definitely,
and you know Honestly, people don'twant to take I don't even want to
take tons of vitamins and minerals inthe supplement form, you know, So
finding the supplements that work for yourbody, that meet your criteria of organic,
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non gmo, enzyme rich, wholefood derived, you know, finding
that core that gives you the energyand the vitality that you're looking for.
That's your core, that's your foundationpack, and Pure Essentials can help with
that. With the Pure Essential EssentialStarter pack, there will be other supplements
that you're going to need for certainperiods of time to address whatever situation you
(19:55):
might have going on. Someone mightnaturally just decrease in their vitamin D throughout
the winter. Maybe they live inan area where there's not a lot of
sun, so they might need totake vitamin D for that period of time.
Other people might have a gene thatprevents them from converting vitamin D from
the sun, so they'll always haveto supplement. I'm one of those people,
you know, It's the way thatI was made, So the vitamin
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D is part of my core supplementregimen as well. So taking a look
at specifics blood tests that can berun all but five states in our country
allow you to order your own bloodwork, so you can walk into a
lab and you can say I wouldlike to check my vitamin D please,
and they'll do it for you,checking your blood work. Instead of just
taking supplements that you read about somewhere, you know, do what's right for
(20:38):
your body. That's such an importantpoint that everybody's a unique biochemistry. Everybody
is different. What's healthy for oneperson may not be healthy for someone else,
so they get properly evaluated. Tofigure out what's great for you is
so important. It's just to optimizeour health. And we are here on
this show because of Pure Sounds.That's something I've taken for years. Melissa
(20:59):
has worked with it for years aswell, recommends it to clients, which
leads us to our last question.We had somebody right in asking us our
pure essentials vitamins from a natural source, nature, identical, synthetic, strictly
synthetic, food based or by aculture of fermentation process. Well, listen,
you want to answer that. Iwant to answer that, and the
answer is yes, except for thepart that says strictly synthetic. Here essentials
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supplements are all natural. They arefrom natural sources. Meaning some of its
herbs. There's two different answers forthe food based. So there's food based
and there's food derived. So thereis a supplement company out there that does
food based supplements, which means thatthat food is dehydrated. It's then you
know, processed, it's crushed,it's pulverized, and that becomes the capsule
(21:45):
or it's put in the capsule,or it becomes the tablet. Or supplements
can be food derived, meaning youget this from this food, or from
this herb, or from this berry. You can look at the Pure Essentials
labels and I can tell you thatwhat's on that label is actually in that
bottle. The newly formulated products thatare coming out that have the mushrooms in
(22:07):
it, So we'll have a biglaunch for those products when they come out.
But they say fruiting body, orthey say powder, or they say
mycelium. We put on our labelexactly where the food comes from, so
you can trust what's in the bottleis actually written on the bottle. And
we do have one product that'll becoming out later this summer that is from
(22:27):
a fermentation process, which is ourprobiotic. Also looking forward to that,
we're using because they are non toxic. It's a low risk, high gain
approach. It's more of a holisticlook at lifestyle, at solutions of keeping
our bodies lively of healthy at anyage. So, Melissa, thank you
for answering these questions. It's agreat show. If you are eating in
(22:48):
a way that we'll actually fuel yourbody. You're looking at meat, fruit,
vegetables, right, you're reducing thedairy intake, you're reducing the grains,
you're reducing the cessed foods. Eatthe rainbow, We'll say, eat
the organic rainbow. There you goorganic, non gmo whole foods. And
I know in terms of chemicals,we see things in not just in foods
(23:10):
in terms of colored and processing foods, but also there are certain dyes.
Most of those dyes, whether it'sFD and C red number five or yellow
six, Blue Lake, they're petroleumbased. Think about what petroleum is.
Is that something you really want inyour system? It's probably not red specifically
the question mark. Very honestly,it might be new information to some people.
(23:32):
It's been happening for a hundred years, but it's made from a specific
bug, Carmine corneal. It's awhite bug that oozes red stuff and that's
where it comes from. Some peoplemight be familiar with. One of our
favorite coffee places actually had to takea specific drink off of their menu.
Last year there was a big exposeabout using bugs to flavor people's drinks.
(23:53):
You know, I think they werejust kind of going with its natural because
it happens in nature, not reallythinking what the consumer was going to appreciate
or not appreciate about it. Thosecolorings, the petroleum base is the bigger
issue than the bug is, right. I have a friend and a colleague.
He's a chiropractor in Indiana. Hewas doing food and chemical sensitivity testing
(24:14):
on patients and this it was themom of a little girl. She hadn't
done her food and chemical sensitivity testsyet, but this practitioner had started the
child on vitamin C flushes with ourfamous vitamin C. And for those of
you that aren't aware, you cancalibrate your body's need for vitamin C by
taking it in a very specific ratio. So you know, someone in generally
(24:37):
good health that just wants to dobetter for themselves would take one teaspoon in
six to eight ounces of water,stir it up, let it dissolve litical
clear all of those fun things,drink that vitamin C water, and then
repeat that process every twenty minutes untilthe body flushes. And what you flush
is what's been hanging out causing issues. But more importantly, the processes use
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to calibrate what your body's daily needis. You want to make sure that
you're taking enough vitamin C but nottaking too much that you end up with
a bowetolerance issue. There's more informationon pure dash essentials dot com. We
are here every Sunday from five tofive thirty on wo R seven ten am.
You can also listen to us LivingUndoctored with Melissa, Chris Bell and
(25:22):
Rachel Aash on our podcast on iHeartdot com. If you're interested in any
of the products we talked about,or for more information in general, you
can get all of those on thewebsite at pure essentials dot com. That's
pure hyphen Essentials dot com. Youcan call us Monday through Friday. We
are in the office from nine tofive at two one, two seven,
five eight thirty two hundred. That'stwo on two seven, five eight three
(25:47):
two zero zero. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, joined by my co
host Melissa Chrispell, living on Doctor, and we will see you next Sunday
at five pm here on WR
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