September 30, 2025 • 13 mins
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Kevin Tejada:
All right, I'm going to talk about detoxes, cleanses, all that shit. (00:28):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the concept of a detox is to detoxify. And if you're toxic, then that's cool. (00:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Same for cleanses. They're meant to clean. That's cool. (00:39):
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Speaker1: But not the way people use them. (00:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Typically, what people mean by detox or cleanse is by restricting the hell out (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: of their diet, consuming only water, juice, tea, whatever it is. (00:51):
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Kevin Tejada: It's almost like a ghetto chemotherapy it's (00:56):
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Kevin Tejada: like you you you harm your body in (00:59):
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Kevin Tejada: the hopes of getting rid of something but you're you're (01:03):
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Kevin Tejada: going to suffer in the process anyway i think chemotherapy can (01:07):
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Kevin Tejada: can count as a detox hannah in (01:10):
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Kevin Tejada: a way maybe i don't anyway oftentimes it's (01:13):
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Kevin Tejada: it's like what i'm saying like a juice cleanse or something some (01:16):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of detox whatever apparently the detox industry (01:18):
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Kevin Tejada: is a multi-billion dollar global business that's fucking (01:22):
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Kevin Tejada: wild to me but it can kind of make sense because (01:24):
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Kevin Tejada: in terms of advertising toxins are pretty vague (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: so you can just kind of (01:30):
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Kevin Tejada: make up a bunch of shit and then (01:33):
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Kevin Tejada: have a bunch of products that target basically the same vague toxin (01:36):
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Kevin Tejada: different ways or maybe the same product that targets different (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: things in different ways whatever so i don't know if many (01:43):
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Kevin Tejada: people know this but your liver is your detox (01:45):
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Kevin Tejada: machine in your body so if you really want (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: a decent detox stop fucking drinking so much let (01:52):
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Kevin Tejada: your let your liver be healthy and (01:55):
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Kevin Tejada: strong and then they can detoxify a bunch of stuff because if you're constantly fucking (01:58):
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Kevin Tejada: drunk your liver is working overtime detoxifying your (02:01):
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Kevin Tejada: body of that shit before it gets to other stuff not to (02:04):
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Kevin Tejada: mention all the other stuff your liver has to do so that's one (02:07):
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Kevin Tejada: Thing also your kidneys and other parts of your (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: body they also help remove waste too your liver (02:13):
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Kevin Tejada: does a lot though some people use detoxes to (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Lose weight as well and that can work same way (02:18):
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Kevin Tejada: not eating a bunch of fucking food will (02:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Help you lose weight and i actually have experience (02:25):
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Kevin Tejada: with that i don't remember why the fuck this was the case i think my girlfriend (02:29):
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Kevin Tejada: was doing a a detox i think there was a legit thing she had to do for something (02:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Medical i forgot she was doing this this cleanse whatever it is where she could only drink like (02:40):
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Kevin Tejada: water turmeric and some other thing it's gonna be like three days of it i'm (02:47):
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Kevin Tejada: like that sounds really hard (02:51):
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Kevin Tejada: let me help. I mean, let me join in with you for solidarity. (02:54):
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Kevin Tejada: It was three days. I got through, I think a day and a half or two. (02:58):
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Kevin Tejada: At the end of the second day, I felt like I had no soul and I was absurdly tired. (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Because the difference between my girlfriend and myself at the time was about, I think 70 pounds. (03:09):
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Kevin Tejada: And that was during my days where I was thicker. I was playing with barbells all day. (03:15):
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Kevin Tejada: So I needed more. I needed way more food than she did. So I was suffering, (03:21):
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Kevin Tejada: but I lost a lot of weight doing it. (03:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I lost a couple of pounds because, hey, I wasn't fucking eating anything. (03:29):
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Kevin Tejada: That was horrible. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone unless your doctor says you got to do this. (03:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And that unfortunately happened to me before when I was even younger than before (03:37):
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Kevin Tejada: I met my girlfriend, years before that, I was worried that I might have coli cancer (03:43):
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Kevin Tejada: because there was some blood in the stool. So I was just wondering, (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, wow, do I have cancer? (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: So I went to get a colonoscopy at age, like, I don't know, 20, early 20s, maybe. (03:52):
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Kevin Tejada: I forget when, maybe 2020 and 23, maybe. (03:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, normally men don't get normal or routine colonoscopies until, (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: what is it, after 40, after 50, I forget. (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not there yet. So this was really early for me. (04:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, before they could stick that camera up my ass, What they had to do was (04:13):
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Kevin Tejada: have everything be clean So I think it was a day beforehand, maybe two (04:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I could pretty much only drink Gatorade They said water, electrolytes to help (04:23):
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Kevin Tejada: out, whatever I think it was maybe one day Because I think I would have remembered (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: two But I was basically drinking just gallons of Gatorade (04:31):
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Speaker1: For a day. (04:35):
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Kevin Tejada: And that sucked because you just, you still got to pee, still got to poop, (04:37):
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Kevin Tejada: but all that's coming out is just, just more liquid. And I realized this is probably nasty. (04:41):
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Kevin Tejada: I should have put a TMI warning at the beginning of this, but that's how it is. (04:48):
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Kevin Tejada: That's how I know just consuming liquid and only liquid for one, (04:52):
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Kevin Tejada: two, not quite three days is not cool, not fun, not super helpful. (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: But in that in that second case or the i guess chronologically the first one (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: with the colonoscopy that was needed because that's i was gonna say that shit (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: needs to be clean but i'm not trying to do puns here it was a medical necessity is what (05:10):
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Speaker1: I'm saying if it's not. (05:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't fucking do it that's my that's my recommendation because the human body (05:17):
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Kevin Tejada: is pretty decent and cleaning itself out as i mentioned with the the liver and (05:22):
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Kevin Tejada: kidney and all that stuff a (05:25):
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Speaker1: Lot of these. (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Detox and cleanse products too are just similar to supplementation and other (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: things they're not super regulated so they just might have other weird chemicals (05:32):
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Kevin Tejada: to i don't know what they would do if i were a detox person to sell my product (05:36):
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Kevin Tejada: i don't know maybe i'd put some weird chemical in it that makes you feel (05:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Chill or full or something can you do that can you can you inject satiety into this shit (05:47):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe it's something like the those weight loss drugs these days (05:54):
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Kevin Tejada: where it's an aneretic where it doesn't it makes you not that hungry (05:57):
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Kevin Tejada: or something maybe that exists in some form i wouldn't (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: i wouldn't doubt it because if the detox process sucks (06:02):
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Kevin Tejada: ass people don't want to do it and buy it so maybe their products (06:05):
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Kevin Tejada: are fucked up in a way that's not as horrible (06:09):
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Kevin Tejada: as what i experienced but also not not very (06:12):
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Kevin Tejada: helpful either most people who fall for this are (06:15):
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Kevin Tejada: women that's because of again advertising marketing (06:18):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of women not wanting to get into the the (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: gym life so they don't really understand fitness nutrition as (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: much so the supplement that can promise (06:27):
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Kevin Tejada: certain things sounds cool rather than by (06:30):
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Kevin Tejada: supplement i mean you know detox products cleanse products (06:34):
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Kevin Tejada: it's actually the opposite of supplements uh remove pulmonter whatever the fuck (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: it's called but yeah i mean they fall for they see maybe a celebrity advertising (06:41):
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Kevin Tejada: it they look fit whatever get the fucking detox whatever i would imagine a worse (06:45):
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Kevin Tejada: worst case there's like a these detoxes are just juices or something, (06:51):
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Kevin Tejada: which, you know, probably low calorie juice or something. (06:56):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know. I haven't done it. I only, I've only done real miserable detoxes. (07:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Thank you very much. Not these weird products. I would not recommend either. (07:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Honestly, most people who do these detoxes and advertise them, (07:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I think I haven't seen that many of them in recent years. I hope it's going (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: away, but it's also possible. (07:17):
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Kevin Tejada: I just don't hang out in a digital world where I can see that a lot. So I don't know. But. (07:18):
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Speaker1: I'm sure they're around. (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: I've heard of them at times, not as often, thankfully, but I still hear about them. (07:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Most of the people who peddle this shit don't actually partake in it because (07:32):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not fucking sustainable to live like that. (07:38):
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Speaker1: Now, I don't think. (07:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Any detox or cleanse claims to be sustainable, but if we're talking stuff that (07:41):
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Kevin Tejada: you have to put in your body or not put in your body and talking about benefits, (07:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I would always err on (07:51):
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Kevin Tejada: the side of doing that in a way that is sustainable so instead (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: of doing a detox every now and then or whatever it is (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe you can just change your habits in a (08:01):
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Kevin Tejada: way that you can just keep on doing what you're doing like maybe drinking less (08:03):
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Kevin Tejada: i think that'll be helpful in this case and obviously people who are you know (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: like anorexic or something they're like cleanse for sure i i hate eating let (08:12):
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Kevin Tejada: me do this i guess i guess they suffer more let's (08:18):
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Speaker1: Play devil's advocate. (08:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Detox diets are natural, so they must be safe and healthy. (08:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Poisoned mushrooms are natural and they are not safe and healthy. (08:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't need to say anymore. (08:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Cleanses help you lose weight, boost energy, and start over after unhealthy habits. (08:34):
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Kevin Tejada: I really doubt they boost energy. You will lose weight for obvious reasons. (08:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Start over after unhealthy habits. You could also just start doing healthier habits immediately. (08:43):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not sure what the point of the cleanse would be. We're surrounded by (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: environmental chemicals. Detoxes are necessary for modern life. (08:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Gotta tell you, since these detox and cleanse products are not really regulated, (08:58):
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Speaker1: They probably have some kind of chemicals in them too. (09:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Detoxes are necessary for modern life. That's why your liver works so damn hard. (09:06):
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Kevin Tejada: If I feel better during a cleanse, it's proof that it's removing toxins and making me healthier. (09:12):
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Kevin Tejada: If you feel better during a cleanse, it's probably the case that whatever you (09:17):
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Kevin Tejada: were doing before was really fucking bad for your body. (09:21):
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Kevin Tejada: That's like saying, I eat nothing but Twinkies all day, but then I switched (09:25):
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Kevin Tejada: to just drinking water for a day and felt way better. (09:29):
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Kevin Tejada: It's probably not, or I mean water's great, but pretend I said juice. (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: It's probably not the juice. It's probably not eating Twinkies all day. (09:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So no, this logic doesn't quite hold up. (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Give you some numbers here. The global detox and cleanse industry is valued (09:45):
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Kevin Tejada: at more than $3 billion annually with rapid growth every year. Holy fuck. (09:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I guess it is still booming. A 2015 expert review concluded there's no compelling (09:56):
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Kevin Tejada: clinical evidence supporting detox diets for toxin elimination or sustained weight loss. (10:03):
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Kevin Tejada: You can do maybe parts of those in the short term, especially weight loss, (10:08):
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Kevin Tejada: because, yeah, you don't fucking eat. (10:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You're gonna lose weight but honestly your (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: body does a lot of the toxin elimination itself and (10:16):
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Kevin Tejada: most of the weight loss most of the weight lost (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: during these detoxes is like 90 percent water weight and other things that you (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: you need to replenish with food so once you get back to normal you're gonna (10:30):
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Kevin Tejada: probably gain the weight back pretty quickly because you're probably just gonna (10:34):
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Kevin Tejada: need that because it just lost a bunch of stuff side effects (10:37):
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Speaker1: For detox and. (10:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Cleanses can include dehydration. I can attest to that. Electrol imbalances. (10:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah. Malnutrition. No shit. Fatigue. I can attest to that. (10:47):
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Speaker1: Headaches. (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I think that was the case. Digestive distress. (10:51):
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Speaker1: Yeah, I assume so. (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: And weakened immunity. Your body's getting no nutrients, so it can't do shit. (10:56):
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Kevin Tejada: In some reports, up to 50% of detox and cleanse products fail to list all or (11:02):
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Kevin Tejada: contain all ingredients found in independent testing. That's wild. (11:08):
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Kevin Tejada: So you might be consuming, I mean, you're not consuming all those toxins and (11:14):
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Kevin Tejada: we're killing you, but you're eating a bunch of other, consuming a bunch of (11:17):
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Kevin Tejada: other shit that you can't know about. (11:21):
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Kevin Tejada: So that's cool. Oh boy. So what can you do to (11:24):
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Kevin Tejada: avoid detoxes. Well, just don't do them. Your body is fairly decent at cleaning things out. (11:29):
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Kevin Tejada: The best thing you can do is eat better and be healthier. (11:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Eat better foods, more whole foods, less ultra processed food. (11:41):
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Kevin Tejada: So your body gets good nutrients. (11:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Exercise. So your body uses nutrients in an even more effective way. (11:49):
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Kevin Tejada: And yeah, your body will do the rest. Pretty (11:54):
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Kevin Tejada: much it's that simple anything where you're just (11:57):
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Kevin Tejada: not eating for a while or just drinking a juice or (12:00):
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Kevin Tejada: tea for a day it is like yeah you might be restricting the toxins in a way but (12:03):
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Kevin Tejada: what that should tell you is that you're consuming a lot of fucking toxins that (12:10):
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Kevin Tejada: should be the thing that you go for it's like saying i keep lighting my notebook (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: on fire i need to get a bigger bucket (12:19):
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Kevin Tejada: stop lighting your fucking notebook on fire that's (12:22):
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Speaker1: The that's the. (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: The bigger the bigger thing don't do cleanup of your bullshit by doing this (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: weird restrictive thing. Just chill with the bullshit to begin with. (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you won't need to feel like you got to do this stuff. (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you want a cleanse or detox for a reset, (12:37):
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Speaker1: You don't need that. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Start right now. To write this second is your reset. (12:42):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to help your body that much if you dehydrate and starve it and (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: then start to do good stuff. (12:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Start to do good stuff now and skip the extra harm. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: Your body needs good stuff so stop giving it shit stuff give it the good stuff (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: and it'll clean everything up for you let (13:00):
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Speaker1: Me know have you. (13:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Ever been on a detox or cleanse I have and it sucked ass I wouldn't recommend (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: it let me know if you've gone through that what (13:09):
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Speaker1: Was it called. (13:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm curious to look into some of these popular detox prop uh products if anyone (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: brings them up I'm curious kind of shit I can find on the website or whatever (13:17):
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Kevin Tejada: anyway let me know in the comments, and I'll see (13:22):
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Speaker1: You next time. (13:24):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, the concept of a detox is to detoxify. And if you're toxic, then that's cool. (00:32):
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Kevin Tejada: Same for cleanses. They're meant to clean. That's cool. (00:39):
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Speaker1: But not the way people use them. (00:44):
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Kevin Tejada: Typically, what people mean by detox or cleanse is by restricting the hell out (00:46):
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Kevin Tejada: of their diet, consuming only water, juice, tea, whatever it is. (00:51):
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Kevin Tejada: It's almost like a ghetto chemotherapy it's (00:56):
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Kevin Tejada: like you you you harm your body in (00:59):
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Kevin Tejada: the hopes of getting rid of something but you're you're (01:03):
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Kevin Tejada: going to suffer in the process anyway i think chemotherapy can (01:07):
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Kevin Tejada: can count as a detox hannah in (01:10):
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Kevin Tejada: a way maybe i don't anyway oftentimes it's (01:13):
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Kevin Tejada: it's like what i'm saying like a juice cleanse or something some (01:16):
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Kevin Tejada: kind of detox whatever apparently the detox industry (01:18):
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Kevin Tejada: is a multi-billion dollar global business that's fucking (01:22):
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Kevin Tejada: wild to me but it can kind of make sense because (01:24):
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Kevin Tejada: in terms of advertising toxins are pretty vague (01:27):
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Kevin Tejada: so you can just kind of (01:30):
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Kevin Tejada: make up a bunch of shit and then (01:33):
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Kevin Tejada: have a bunch of products that target basically the same vague toxin (01:36):
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Kevin Tejada: different ways or maybe the same product that targets different (01:40):
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Kevin Tejada: things in different ways whatever so i don't know if many (01:43):
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Kevin Tejada: people know this but your liver is your detox (01:45):
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Kevin Tejada: machine in your body so if you really want (01:49):
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Kevin Tejada: a decent detox stop fucking drinking so much let (01:52):
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Kevin Tejada: your let your liver be healthy and (01:55):
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Kevin Tejada: strong and then they can detoxify a bunch of stuff because if you're constantly fucking (01:58):
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Kevin Tejada: drunk your liver is working overtime detoxifying your (02:01):
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Kevin Tejada: body of that shit before it gets to other stuff not to (02:04):
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Kevin Tejada: mention all the other stuff your liver has to do so that's one (02:07):
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Kevin Tejada: Thing also your kidneys and other parts of your (02:10):
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Kevin Tejada: body they also help remove waste too your liver (02:13):
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Kevin Tejada: does a lot though some people use detoxes to (02:15):
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Kevin Tejada: Lose weight as well and that can work same way (02:18):
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Kevin Tejada: not eating a bunch of fucking food will (02:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Help you lose weight and i actually have experience (02:25):
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Kevin Tejada: with that i don't remember why the fuck this was the case i think my girlfriend (02:29):
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Kevin Tejada: was doing a a detox i think there was a legit thing she had to do for something (02:33):
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Kevin Tejada: Medical i forgot she was doing this this cleanse whatever it is where she could only drink like (02:40):
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Kevin Tejada: water turmeric and some other thing it's gonna be like three days of it i'm (02:47):
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Kevin Tejada: like that sounds really hard (02:51):
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Kevin Tejada: let me help. I mean, let me join in with you for solidarity. (02:54):
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Kevin Tejada: It was three days. I got through, I think a day and a half or two. (02:58):
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Kevin Tejada: At the end of the second day, I felt like I had no soul and I was absurdly tired. (03:01):
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Kevin Tejada: Because the difference between my girlfriend and myself at the time was about, I think 70 pounds. (03:09):
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Kevin Tejada: And that was during my days where I was thicker. I was playing with barbells all day. (03:15):
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Kevin Tejada: So I needed more. I needed way more food than she did. So I was suffering, (03:21):
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Kevin Tejada: but I lost a lot of weight doing it. (03:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I lost a couple of pounds because, hey, I wasn't fucking eating anything. (03:29):
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Kevin Tejada: That was horrible. I wouldn't recommend that to anyone unless your doctor says you got to do this. (03:32):
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Kevin Tejada: And that unfortunately happened to me before when I was even younger than before (03:37):
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Kevin Tejada: I met my girlfriend, years before that, I was worried that I might have coli cancer (03:43):
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Kevin Tejada: because there was some blood in the stool. So I was just wondering, (03:49):
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Kevin Tejada: oh, wow, do I have cancer? (03:51):
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Kevin Tejada: So I went to get a colonoscopy at age, like, I don't know, 20, early 20s, maybe. (03:52):
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Kevin Tejada: I forget when, maybe 2020 and 23, maybe. (03:59):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, normally men don't get normal or routine colonoscopies until, (04:02):
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Kevin Tejada: what is it, after 40, after 50, I forget. (04:07):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm not there yet. So this was really early for me. (04:10):
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Kevin Tejada: Now, before they could stick that camera up my ass, What they had to do was (04:13):
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Kevin Tejada: have everything be clean So I think it was a day beforehand, maybe two (04:18):
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Kevin Tejada: I could pretty much only drink Gatorade They said water, electrolytes to help (04:23):
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Kevin Tejada: out, whatever I think it was maybe one day Because I think I would have remembered (04:27):
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Kevin Tejada: two But I was basically drinking just gallons of Gatorade (04:31):
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Speaker1: For a day. (04:35):
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Kevin Tejada: And that sucked because you just, you still got to pee, still got to poop, (04:37):
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Kevin Tejada: but all that's coming out is just, just more liquid. And I realized this is probably nasty. (04:41):
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Kevin Tejada: I should have put a TMI warning at the beginning of this, but that's how it is. (04:48):
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Kevin Tejada: That's how I know just consuming liquid and only liquid for one, (04:52):
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Kevin Tejada: two, not quite three days is not cool, not fun, not super helpful. (04:56):
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Kevin Tejada: But in that in that second case or the i guess chronologically the first one (05:02):
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Kevin Tejada: with the colonoscopy that was needed because that's i was gonna say that shit (05:06):
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Kevin Tejada: needs to be clean but i'm not trying to do puns here it was a medical necessity is what (05:10):
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Speaker1: I'm saying if it's not. (05:16):
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Kevin Tejada: Don't fucking do it that's my that's my recommendation because the human body (05:17):
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Kevin Tejada: is pretty decent and cleaning itself out as i mentioned with the the liver and (05:22):
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Kevin Tejada: kidney and all that stuff a (05:25):
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Speaker1: Lot of these. (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: Detox and cleanse products too are just similar to supplementation and other (05:27):
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Kevin Tejada: things they're not super regulated so they just might have other weird chemicals (05:32):
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Kevin Tejada: to i don't know what they would do if i were a detox person to sell my product (05:36):
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Kevin Tejada: i don't know maybe i'd put some weird chemical in it that makes you feel (05:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Chill or full or something can you do that can you can you inject satiety into this shit (05:47):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe it's something like the those weight loss drugs these days (05:54):
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Kevin Tejada: where it's an aneretic where it doesn't it makes you not that hungry (05:57):
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Kevin Tejada: or something maybe that exists in some form i wouldn't (06:00):
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Kevin Tejada: i wouldn't doubt it because if the detox process sucks (06:02):
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Kevin Tejada: ass people don't want to do it and buy it so maybe their products (06:05):
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Kevin Tejada: are fucked up in a way that's not as horrible (06:09):
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Kevin Tejada: as what i experienced but also not not very (06:12):
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Kevin Tejada: helpful either most people who fall for this are (06:15):
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Kevin Tejada: women that's because of again advertising marketing (06:18):
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Kevin Tejada: a lot of women not wanting to get into the the (06:21):
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Kevin Tejada: gym life so they don't really understand fitness nutrition as (06:24):
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Kevin Tejada: much so the supplement that can promise (06:27):
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Kevin Tejada: certain things sounds cool rather than by (06:30):
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Kevin Tejada: supplement i mean you know detox products cleanse products (06:34):
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Kevin Tejada: it's actually the opposite of supplements uh remove pulmonter whatever the fuck (06:37):
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Kevin Tejada: it's called but yeah i mean they fall for they see maybe a celebrity advertising (06:41):
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Kevin Tejada: it they look fit whatever get the fucking detox whatever i would imagine a worse (06:45):
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Kevin Tejada: worst case there's like a these detoxes are just juices or something, (06:51):
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Kevin Tejada: which, you know, probably low calorie juice or something. (06:56):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't know. I haven't done it. I only, I've only done real miserable detoxes. (07:00):
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Kevin Tejada: Thank you very much. Not these weird products. I would not recommend either. (07:06):
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Kevin Tejada: Honestly, most people who do these detoxes and advertise them, (07:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I think I haven't seen that many of them in recent years. I hope it's going (07:14):
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Kevin Tejada: away, but it's also possible. (07:17):
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Kevin Tejada: I just don't hang out in a digital world where I can see that a lot. So I don't know. But. (07:18):
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Speaker1: I'm sure they're around. (07:24):
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Kevin Tejada: I've heard of them at times, not as often, thankfully, but I still hear about them. (07:26):
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Kevin Tejada: Most of the people who peddle this shit don't actually partake in it because (07:32):
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Kevin Tejada: it's not fucking sustainable to live like that. (07:38):
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Speaker1: Now, I don't think. (07:40):
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Kevin Tejada: Any detox or cleanse claims to be sustainable, but if we're talking stuff that (07:41):
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Kevin Tejada: you have to put in your body or not put in your body and talking about benefits, (07:47):
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Kevin Tejada: I would always err on (07:51):
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Kevin Tejada: the side of doing that in a way that is sustainable so instead (07:54):
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Kevin Tejada: of doing a detox every now and then or whatever it is (07:58):
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Kevin Tejada: maybe you can just change your habits in a (08:01):
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Kevin Tejada: way that you can just keep on doing what you're doing like maybe drinking less (08:03):
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Kevin Tejada: i think that'll be helpful in this case and obviously people who are you know (08:08):
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Kevin Tejada: like anorexic or something they're like cleanse for sure i i hate eating let (08:12):
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Kevin Tejada: me do this i guess i guess they suffer more let's (08:18):
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Speaker1: Play devil's advocate. (08:22):
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Kevin Tejada: Detox diets are natural, so they must be safe and healthy. (08:23):
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Kevin Tejada: Poisoned mushrooms are natural and they are not safe and healthy. (08:27):
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Kevin Tejada: I don't need to say anymore. (08:31):
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Kevin Tejada: Cleanses help you lose weight, boost energy, and start over after unhealthy habits. (08:34):
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Kevin Tejada: I really doubt they boost energy. You will lose weight for obvious reasons. (08:38):
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Kevin Tejada: Start over after unhealthy habits. You could also just start doing healthier habits immediately. (08:43):
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Kevin Tejada: So I'm not sure what the point of the cleanse would be. We're surrounded by (08:50):
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Kevin Tejada: environmental chemicals. Detoxes are necessary for modern life. (08:54):
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Kevin Tejada: Gotta tell you, since these detox and cleanse products are not really regulated, (08:58):
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Speaker1: They probably have some kind of chemicals in them too. (09:02):
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Kevin Tejada: Detoxes are necessary for modern life. That's why your liver works so damn hard. (09:06):
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Kevin Tejada: If I feel better during a cleanse, it's proof that it's removing toxins and making me healthier. (09:12):
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Kevin Tejada: If you feel better during a cleanse, it's probably the case that whatever you (09:17):
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Kevin Tejada: were doing before was really fucking bad for your body. (09:21):
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Kevin Tejada: That's like saying, I eat nothing but Twinkies all day, but then I switched (09:25):
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Kevin Tejada: to just drinking water for a day and felt way better. (09:29):
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Kevin Tejada: It's probably not, or I mean water's great, but pretend I said juice. (09:32):
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Kevin Tejada: It's probably not the juice. It's probably not eating Twinkies all day. (09:37):
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Kevin Tejada: So no, this logic doesn't quite hold up. (09:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Give you some numbers here. The global detox and cleanse industry is valued (09:45):
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Kevin Tejada: at more than $3 billion annually with rapid growth every year. Holy fuck. (09:49):
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Kevin Tejada: I guess it is still booming. A 2015 expert review concluded there's no compelling (09:56):
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Kevin Tejada: clinical evidence supporting detox diets for toxin elimination or sustained weight loss. (10:03):
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Kevin Tejada: You can do maybe parts of those in the short term, especially weight loss, (10:08):
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Kevin Tejada: because, yeah, you don't fucking eat. (10:12):
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Kevin Tejada: You're gonna lose weight but honestly your (10:14):
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Kevin Tejada: body does a lot of the toxin elimination itself and (10:16):
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Kevin Tejada: most of the weight loss most of the weight lost (10:20):
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Kevin Tejada: during these detoxes is like 90 percent water weight and other things that you (10:24):
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Kevin Tejada: you need to replenish with food so once you get back to normal you're gonna (10:30):
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Kevin Tejada: probably gain the weight back pretty quickly because you're probably just gonna (10:34):
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Kevin Tejada: need that because it just lost a bunch of stuff side effects (10:37):
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Speaker1: For detox and. (10:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Cleanses can include dehydration. I can attest to that. Electrol imbalances. (10:42):
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Kevin Tejada: Yeah. Malnutrition. No shit. Fatigue. I can attest to that. (10:47):
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Speaker1: Headaches. (10:50):
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Kevin Tejada: I think that was the case. Digestive distress. (10:51):
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Speaker1: Yeah, I assume so. (10:54):
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Kevin Tejada: And weakened immunity. Your body's getting no nutrients, so it can't do shit. (10:56):
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Kevin Tejada: In some reports, up to 50% of detox and cleanse products fail to list all or (11:02):
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Kevin Tejada: contain all ingredients found in independent testing. That's wild. (11:08):
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Kevin Tejada: So you might be consuming, I mean, you're not consuming all those toxins and (11:14):
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Kevin Tejada: we're killing you, but you're eating a bunch of other, consuming a bunch of (11:17):
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Kevin Tejada: other shit that you can't know about. (11:21):
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Kevin Tejada: So that's cool. Oh boy. So what can you do to (11:24):
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Kevin Tejada: avoid detoxes. Well, just don't do them. Your body is fairly decent at cleaning things out. (11:29):
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Kevin Tejada: The best thing you can do is eat better and be healthier. (11:36):
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Kevin Tejada: Eat better foods, more whole foods, less ultra processed food. (11:41):
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Kevin Tejada: So your body gets good nutrients. (11:46):
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Kevin Tejada: Exercise. So your body uses nutrients in an even more effective way. (11:49):
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Kevin Tejada: And yeah, your body will do the rest. Pretty (11:54):
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Kevin Tejada: much it's that simple anything where you're just (11:57):
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Kevin Tejada: not eating for a while or just drinking a juice or (12:00):
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Kevin Tejada: tea for a day it is like yeah you might be restricting the toxins in a way but (12:03):
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Kevin Tejada: what that should tell you is that you're consuming a lot of fucking toxins that (12:10):
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Kevin Tejada: should be the thing that you go for it's like saying i keep lighting my notebook (12:14):
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Kevin Tejada: on fire i need to get a bigger bucket (12:19):
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Kevin Tejada: stop lighting your fucking notebook on fire that's (12:22):
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Speaker1: The that's the. (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: The bigger the bigger thing don't do cleanup of your bullshit by doing this (12:25):
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Kevin Tejada: weird restrictive thing. Just chill with the bullshit to begin with. (12:30):
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Kevin Tejada: And then you won't need to feel like you got to do this stuff. (12:34):
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Kevin Tejada: And if you want a cleanse or detox for a reset, (12:37):
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Speaker1: You don't need that. (12:41):
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Kevin Tejada: Start right now. To write this second is your reset. (12:42):
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Kevin Tejada: It's not going to help your body that much if you dehydrate and starve it and (12:46):
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Kevin Tejada: then start to do good stuff. (12:52):
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Kevin Tejada: Start to do good stuff now and skip the extra harm. (12:53):
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Kevin Tejada: Your body needs good stuff so stop giving it shit stuff give it the good stuff (12:56):
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Kevin Tejada: and it'll clean everything up for you let (13:00):
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Speaker1: Me know have you. (13:03):
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Kevin Tejada: Ever been on a detox or cleanse I have and it sucked ass I wouldn't recommend (13:04):
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Kevin Tejada: it let me know if you've gone through that what (13:09):
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Speaker1: Was it called. (13:11):
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Kevin Tejada: I'm curious to look into some of these popular detox prop uh products if anyone (13:12):
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Kevin Tejada: brings them up I'm curious kind of shit I can find on the website or whatever (13:17):
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Kevin Tejada: anyway let me know in the comments, and I'll see (13:22):
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Speaker1: You next time. (13:24):
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