April 29, 2025 • 46 mins
Leading health specialist/radio show host, and award-winning author Nancy Addison talks about diabetes and diet.
She addresses ways to eat more nutrient dense healthy foods, as well as various superfoods and supplements that help. Nancy expands on lifestyle and quality, and why those matter for our health. Nancy talks about various holistic remedies to help improve your health and help you stay well. Nancy’s website: www.organichealthylife.com
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She addresses ways to eat more nutrient dense healthy foods, as well as various superfoods and supplements that help. Nancy expands on lifestyle and quality, and why those matter for our health. Nancy talks about various holistic remedies to help improve your health and help you stay well. Nancy’s website: www.organichealthylife.com
Organic Healthy Lifestyle is broadcast live Tuesdays at 3PM ET Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com Organic Healthy Lifestyle is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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information only. Content presented on any show by any host
or guest should not be substituted for a doctor's advice.
Always consult your physician before beginning any new diet, exercise,
or treatment program.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Welcome beautiful people to organic healthy Lifestyle And I'm Nancy Addison,
your host, and I love to start off my show
with a prayer, so if you please join me in
whichever way you would like, I feel like it kind
of frames my show in a really nice energy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So I ask our divine.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Creator to please bless all the creatures of the earth,
and the lush gardens of our farmers and us, and
the fields full of crops. Bless this planting season so
that every seed and sapling is coded in your touch.
Allow there to be enough growth for all people to
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eat and enjoy Your goodness. Help us to appreciate what
you provide for us, and encourage us to be generous
with our supply. And we thank you for the loveliness
that springtime brings, and ask that you take us forward
in this season and lead us with your mighty hands
into a world full of peace and love and light
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and abundance for all, and we ask this in the
highest good of all concerned, for everyone listening now and
everyone listening in the future, and thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And so it is.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I thought I would address diabetes today because more
than over one hundred million people today have diabetes or
pre diabetes, and it's become a real problem, and it's
on the rise with juvenile children, and so this is
something that I really feel is important to address. And
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I've been researching health and nutrition now for over thirty
eight years. Oh my goodness, it's just time flies, doesn't it.
And what I've noticed in all of this time with
my research is that there is an increasing addition of
harmful substances in our foods like high fruit, toast, corn syrup,
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artificial sweeteners, trans fats, food dyes, mona sodium glutenate which
is MSG, which is a flavor and hence are commonly
added to fast and processed foods, canned vegetables, soups, processed meats,
and especially in Asian types of food. And then also
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other chemicals are added to our food it's and many
of them the FDA alliles if they're under a certain amount,
and they don't even have to disclose it, and so
it's a it's a real problem, and then the labeling
is very misleading and they keep changing it on us,
so it's harder and harder to see what has GMOs
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in it, or if it has aspar tame or artificial
sweeteners or any kind of substance like that. So you know,
this is this is a real problem. And then people
are getting low lower exposure of vitamin D and I
don't know if it's because they've been trying to like
block out the sun or do all this weather manipulation
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in the in the ruse that there's you know, global warming,
which is just you know, well they're calling it climate.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Change now because everybody was proving.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Them false on that one and they just couldn't get
away with it anymore. But you know, people are putting
on still putting on sunscreen s, which prevent your body
from taking in vitamin D and healing. And that's that's
a really bad problem. And we actually need vitamin D
through our eyes, so even wearing sunglasses can actually be
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harmful to your health. And I know I've had a
couple of guests on in the last few months, and
it's really hard to interrupt them and disagree with them
when they're saying certain things. But I've had a couple
of them say that you need to wear sunglasses, and
just for the record, I totally disagree with that. I
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think we need the sunlight through our eyes in order
for our body to be well and healing. And also
the vitamin D when the sun hits our skin, it's
only on the exposed skin that's not covered in sunscreen
that you're going to be able to make this beautiful vitamin,
and it is so necessary for being healthy. And then
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I'll so people just aren't getting the exercise in fresh
air that they need, and we've just become a more
sedentary society. And then many people, and especially people you
know of older age, they just watch more television and
they sit and work in front of computers and that's
just a real problem. And then the growth in the
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genetically modified food industry is quite alarming, and this results
in food being deficient in nutrients that are necessary for
our health and well being, but also they have toxic
poisons in them. Like doctor Artists on my show in
the last six months shared with us that in the
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last year alone, there have been over a thousand patents
made for putting poisonous snake venom into seeds of vegetables
and fruits. And I find this critically alarming, and I
can't imagine what that's going to do to our health
or even the environment's health. But this increased number of
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variety of unhealthy GMO and hybrid crops, and you know,
really beware that corn, soy and wheat are some of
the worst. And they have these cancer causing poisons built
right into them or applied to them in the field
as well, and they're aided by government subsidies. So this
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is you know, their tax incentives for adding poisons to
our food, and then they hybridize them, and then you know,
they underwrite a lot of these crops that are so
unhealthy so that they are cheaper and so it makes
it more affordable. And it's just, you know, terribly alarming
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in my opinion. And then, of course, people are still
using microwave ovens, which are just you know, it's hard
to believe people are still using those. But when my
former husband was doing environmental impact studies on microwave ovens,
he was so alarmed. He said these should never be
made lawful and he would never allow them in our home,
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and so I have really never used one. And as
I've learned about how this frequency really affects our body
and our health and our food, these microwave ovens bombard
the food with a chaotic energy and they destroyed the
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molecular structure of whatever's in there. And I know a
lot of people pelt water in those to warm up
their coffee or make tea or coffee or something with
and that is actually one of the ones that destroys
the most. And with about ninety nine percent of every
single molecule in our.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Body being water, and that water being.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So critical for our health, that I find this to
be one of one of the most troubling things that
people do. So I encourage you if you have been
using a microwave oven, and if you want to research this,
you can go to the west and a Price Foundation
website and you can put in microwave ovens and they
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have some excellent information there that backs up what I
just said, but also really expands on why these are
so harmful to your health and why they should really
really should not ever have been made lawful. So I
would throw that out. I wouldn't even give it to anyone.
So just I thought when I lived in Costa Rica
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and I had one in the kitchen that the lady's
house was that I was staying, you know, I kept
food in it so the ants wouldn't get in it
because it's like a little vault in Costa Rica. If
you leave out anywhere, ants just come right in. So
it made for a you know, a place to store
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my food. And of course I couldn't get rid of
someone else's at microwave oven because I was staying in
her house taking care of her.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Dog while she was going.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
But I really truly believe food is our medicine. I mean,
it is what becomes ourselves, are tissue and our blood.
So you know, I think this is really one of
the reasons they don't teach nutrition in medical school is
because if the doctors were healing people with their diet
and lifestyle, then they wouldn't you know, it, will be
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sick all the time and need pharmaceutical medications that they
are taught to prescribe, so you know, they would lose
their stream of income if everybody was healthy. So anyway,
you know, the research has shown that type two diabetes
is preventable and almost one hundred percent reversible simply implementing
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dietarian lifestyle changes, which I think are very easy and inexpensive.
And in my book, and I wrote a book called
Diabetes in Your Diet and you can find that on
my website organichealthylife dot com, and it has recipes in
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it and it has a lot of good helpful information
to help you really help your body become healthier and
hopefully you can reverse this. And so you know we're
going to talk about that. So how would you know
that you were diabetic? What would be some of the signs,
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because most people that are diabetic actually don't even know it,
They aren't ever even diagnosed. But if you're getting frequent
infections of your skin or your urinary track, that's a
definite warning sign. Or numbness and tingling in your hands
or feet. Hunger after eating, so if you're still hungry
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when you finish eating, that is a sign that you
might be dived, excuse me, diabetic. If you have slow
wound healing, So if you have an accident and you
cut yourself or have a wound and it just won't heal,
that can definitely be a warning sign. Or if you're
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excessively thirsty, you're always thirsty, that is another sign.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Or blurred vision.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
If your vision is getting blurred or you can't see
as well, you may be struggling with this situation. Or
if you're just irritable, you're kind of crabby at people, that.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Is another sign. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But really, a diabetic can no longer produce sufficient to
process the glucose or the sugar in the blood. So
to lower the glucose levels, diabetics need to increase their
insulin and this is either by taking medication that increases
their own insulin production or actually, you know, some of
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people actually inject insulin directly into their body. And in
diabetic can be four or five it can be on
literally four or five medications to control their blood glucose.
But some of these treatments actually don't address the root
cause of the problem, and some of these medications can
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actually have serious side effects like a Vandia was used
was used in a two year study published in the
New England Journal of Medicine. In this study linked avandia
to a forty three percent increase risk of heart attack.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That's four.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Along with a sixty four percent higher risk of cardiovascular death,
not disease death. Sixty four percent. I mean that is very,
very high. And this is compared to diabetics that were
treated with different different types of things to help them
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with this. So even with those devastating results, the FDA
voted to allow it to remain on the market. And
I took some classes from doctor Bruce Lipton, and he
was he is a very brilliant medical researcher, and he
actually walked away from tenure at the at Stamford University
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because he disagreed with their policies on pushing pharmaceutical drugs
over natural remedies that actually worked better and without all
the side effects. But he looked at me one day
and he said, there are no side effects. The are
direct effects. Do not kid yourself. So if you're taking,
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for instance, a drug like a Bondia, then you know
that sixty four percent higher risk of cardiovascular death. He
would say, that is a direct effect. So you know,
keep that in mind. And one of the things I
always recommend for people if they are on any kind
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of pharmaceutical medication, I would go to that website of
that company that you're taking the drug from. And find
the side effects and print those out in really large
font and I would read that every single time you
take one of those medications. And so we're having a
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question from a listener and they're asking, is there a
way to naturally reverse this? And yes, and that is
what I'm going to talk about on this show today.
I'm going to talk to you about some of that
and one of them, for instance, this is this is
really a great study. Doctor James Anderson studied twenty five
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type one and twenty five type two diabetics and in
this study, this was back in the nineteen nineties. In
this study, it involved placing the patients on a high fiber,
high carbohydrate, low fat diet in a hospital setting. And
doctor Anderson initially put the patients on the American Diabetes
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Association recommended diet plan for one week. And this was
just kind of to get them all on the same page, right,
put them all in the same diet to to kind
of have them start from the same place when they
started this test. And then after they'd been on that
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diet for a week, and they switched them over to
a vegetarian plant based diet for three weeks. And that's
not that long, so.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
This was a month long study.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
The first week they're on the diabetic plan, and then
the next three weeks they're on this vegetarian, plant based
diet for three weeks. None of these patients were overweight
when they started the study, but they were on insulin
shots to control their blood sugar levels, and all through
this study, doctor Anderson measured their blood sugar levels, their
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cholesterol levels, their medications, and their weight. And the type
one diabetics cannot produce insulin, and it was thought that
these dietary changes would not affect their situation, but the
results showed that after three weeks on a vegetarian diet,
a whole food, high fiber diet, the type one diabetics
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were able to lower their insulin medica by forty percent
that is almost half, I mean that is huge, and
their blood sugar profiles improved dramatically. And these results were
even more impressive with the type two diabetics who had
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not incurred as much damaged their pancreas as the type
one people had. And after three weeks on the high
fiber vegetarian diet, twenty four of the twenty five people
could discontinue their insulin medication completely. I mean, that's a
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stunning result. And that's just three weeks on a high
fiber vegetarian, plant based diet and the type two diabetic
who wasn't able to get off of his medication. He
had been on a twenty five year diet. He had
been a twenty five year diabetic, and he had been
taking thirty five units a day of insulin, and after
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three weeks of the vegetarian food, his requirement dropped down
to only eight units a day. And as he continued
on the vegetarian eating plant at home, he was able
to cut out all insulin shots after another eight weeks.
I find that study absolutely stunning. This is one of
the studies that is in the China Study, which was
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written by doctor T.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Colin Campbell.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So the studies have shown that eating a more plant
based whole food diet and increasing your dietary fiber intake
which is in plants, right, this can be extremely important
for protecting yourself from all kinds of things like heart disease, cancer,
gastro intestinal disorders, hypertension, obesity, non insolent dependent diseases. And
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it's just I think it's just so important and Besides
adopting a plant based diet. Diet diabetics can also take
six supplements that I think are really important. And I
think it's mainly because with all the herbicides they use
on our foods and the genetically modified plants, I think
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a lot of these destroy a lot of the nutrition
that is in the plant based foods alone. So you know,
our food today probably has you know, I think some
studies had shown dinner fifteen years ago that it only
has forty percent of the nutrition that maybe our grandparents'
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food had. But you know, as I look at this,
I think it's might even be lower. So I have
another question from a listener, and they're asking if people
find it hard to adjust to a different way of eating,
and you know, I suppose it depends on the person,
and you know, some people find it harder to change than others.
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But you know, this is something that you can set.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Your mind to.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I was pre diabetic in high school and I was
doing everything the doctors were telling me to do, and
in fact, my doctor actually told me to drink sugar
free sodas because he said it would be healthier for me.
And of course my research over the years is found
that that is absolutely untrue and terrible information. And I
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just kept getting sicker and sicker doing everything that they
were telling me to do. And it was when I
just I went off of the sodas and all the
sugars and all the processed foods. I just kind of
went cold Turkey for it was at least three months,
and I just kind of reset my body, and we said,
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this is really important to know. We we make our
taste buds about every two weeks, so we regenerate those
taste buds about every two weeks. And so if you're
eating processed foods that don't have much nutrition in them,
or heine sugar, you know, artificial sweetener or whatever it is,
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that's what your tastebuds are adjusted too. And so if
you eat something healthy like a real apple or you know,
some carrots or something like that, and that it doesn't
taste good, it's because your taste beds haven't adjusted to
healthy food yet. So you know, part of it is
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just setting your mind to doing this and just sticking
with it. I've had clients over the years that really
struggled with eating healthier food and eating real food. I mean,
so many people tell me, they literally grew up on
fast food or microwave food or fast microwave food, and
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it's it can be, you know, a lifestyle change, because
when you go to the grocery store, you know you
aren't going to be looking for the same foods you
want to go and you want to look for the
certified organic foods in the fresh produce area. Or I
would encourage you to go to farmers' markets. Here in
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North America, we're in barking on our springtime in our summer,
and there is usually a whole lot more local fresh,
vine ripe and tree ripened food in the farmer's markets,
but also in the grocery stores. But I would highly
recommend really trying to find some farmers' markets near You
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get to meet your farmers, get to know your neighbors,
plant your own garden, even if you just have a
few things you're growing in a pot on your in
your windowsill or on a balcony, but you know, start
connecting with your food. And as I worked with some
of these people who grew up on fast food, I
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will tell you I'll get these phone calls from them
and they will just be so excited. They're like Oh,
my goodness, Nancy, I had no idea well apple tasted
so great because they had actually never eaten a real apple.
It's hard to believe. I mean, when I was growing up,
you know you, we had a little saying, an apple
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a day keeps the doctor away. I wonder what happened
to that little saying. I don't think I hear it much.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Anymore, but.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I actually do keep apples and oranges and fresh fruit
and fresh vegetables in my kitchen in my pantry all
the time, and this is my main way to eat.
So if I'm hungry, Like a while ago, I was hungry,
I went and I peeled myself an orange and I
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ate an orange. And this vitamin C helps escort tucsin's
out of your cells. And I think it's really important to,
you know, just eat this real food. But some of
the dietary and nutrients that I think are so critically
important for people with diabetes is one of them is chromium.
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And so these herbicides that they use so pervasively on
these crops like round up ready as one of them
they use a lot of and the main ingredient chemical
ingredient in that is glyphysate and the glyphosate was originally
patented as antibiotic, which means it destroys all life. So
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it's destroyed the life in the soil. It you know,
there aren't worms in the soil, they aren't all the
microbes that make this oil rich and healthy. You know,
it's like this, it's destroyed the probiotics of the earth.
And then the poison is actually built into the plant
because it's pulling it into the plant through its roots.
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And so this is this makes your food actually just
like poison toxic. So you're you're eating like an antibiotic
with every bite because it is like an antibiotic. I
had a doctor tell me. He goes, you know, if
you're not eating certified organic food, then you might as
well be taking a It's like taking an antibiotic with
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every single bite you take. And I think that is,
you know, a really sad thing, but that is what
it looks like. But it destroys a lot of the
nutrition in the soil. And it also is a mineral
key lator, which means it destroys and strips all the
minerals from it. Well, we can't live without these minerals.
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Are enzymes, can't even function. So you know, try to
buy organic food, even if it's a little more expensive,
because you are supporting a farmer that's not poisoning the
earth and poisoning your health either, and so so you know,
I think our money is very very powerful, and so
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vote when you buy things for the right people that
you want to support. Right, But chromium is a very
very necessary nutrient because it helps transport glucose from the
blood to the muscles, and so you know, chromium is
known to enhance the action of insulin, and it's a
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hormone critical to metabolism and the storage of carbohydrates patent
protein in the body. So you know, make sure you're
getting some chromium. And I would look for chromium GTF
and avoid the synthetic supplements And the GTF means glucose
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tolerance fector, and so I like to get organic ones
that list food as the as the ingredient. And then cinnamon.
Cinnamon is amazing, it's merging as a true wonder food
and it's actually a tree bark and it's a spice
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and it grows on a few different tree species, and
cinnamon can actually help lower blood sugar and triglyceride levels.
In people, and the cinnamon contains antioxidants that create healthier
arteries and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. And it
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can also benefit us an increased alertness, and it energizes
our symptoms. And just a tea spoon of cinnamon a
day can help tame your blood sugar. And so, you know,
I like to have like a mushroom coffee in the morning,
and I sprinkle cinnamon on it in the morning and
it just adds that little bit of spice and it's
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just as delicious. And I probably eat very differently than
many people because I have been and improving my taste
buds to healthier, healthier food on an ongoing basis now
for what thirty nine years, and so so I eat
a lot of I think some people would say pretty
hardcore healthy food, but you know, for me, it tastes delicious.
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So as you switch over to a healthier diet, you
will find that your body adjusts to it and it
will start craving those healthier foods because they make you
feel so much better and you won't be you won't
be hungry. You know, I have friends that come and
stay with me and they're you know, just amazed. They're like, Nancy,
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you know, you don't eat that much, but what I
eat is so nutrient dense and usually raw fresh food
that you know, it satisfies my body, and so my
body just you know, you know, really thrives on that.
I think it helps me stay well, and I really,
you know, I love feeling great, right, And I think
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also a lot of people avoid fats thinking that they
will make them fat. But omega three fatty acids, I
think are actually very critical for our bodies and our health.
And the study show that adding omega threes to your
diet it promotes healthy blood sugar levels. And so what
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I would recommend is trying to add organic flax or
hempseed oil. I like the coal pressed ones that you
get in the refrigerated section at the grocery store. There's
usually in the healthier grocery stores a refrigerated section that
has like probiotics and things in it, and you will
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find the coal press omega threes fatty acids there, and
so I would recommend getting some of those. And what
I do with that is I add it to my breakfast.
So I have a raw organic diary down the road
from me and so I like to get their yogurt
that they make and I put that in my yogurt
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every morning, and I'll have that with like some fresh
blueberries or blackberries or raspberries, and I just feel like
it's a really great way to start my morning. And
I add a drop of iodine to that, sometimes two
or three drops actually, But iodine is necessary for supporting
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your thyroid. And I love doctor David Brownstein's information on
the thyroid and on iodine. He wrote a book called Iodine,
You Can't Live Without It, And really our foods have
been depleted of iodine for over one hundred years, and
it's really important to add that to your diet. If
you're eating white refined salt with iodine in it, the
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iodine will actually dissipate when it hits oxygen, so it's
not a reliable way to get your iodine. In fact,
the white says salt that has the iodine added to it,
it's been stripped of all the minerals, and it's had
high fruit coast corn syrup added to it, which actually
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causes diabetes, and it's all scott chemicals in it, and
quite literally, your body I believe reads that like a poison.
So you know, so many people are on a no
salt diet because of this white refined just I just
would consider it garbage salt because I would throw it
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in the garbage if it was my house. You know,
you shouldn't need that, but you really do need mineral
rich salt. So there's a difference between white refined salt
and salt that has color and has minerals in it.
So you know, here in the United States, I like
to buy the Redman's brand of salt that's called real salt,
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and I use that liberally in my day throughout the day,
I even my purse. But doctor David Brownstein also wrote
another book called Salt Your Way to Health, and he
truly believes that most people are so mineral deficient. And
I think part of it is because of the extensive
use of the glyphosate, which destroys all the minerals in
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the soil. So people don't have minerals in their body.
And you will quite literally not be able to hydrate
without these without these minerals, and so you'll be dehydrated.
And most chronic disease is actually a result of chronic
innercellular dehydration.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
And so.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We have a question right here, and it's so the
pink is the pink salt better to use? And I
would say yes to that question because the minerals have color,
and if it doesn't have color, you know, it's probably
been bleached. And another question on what minerals do we
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need to replenish in how it's these these you know,
basic ones in the salt, the magnesium, the potassium, the sodium.
I mean, if you went in the emergency room, they're
going to give you what they call fluids, but it
is really super high concentrated mineral liquid and you cannot
absorb water without these minerals.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And the minerals.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Would make the salt colorful, like the iodine in the salt.
There's usually a little bit of iodine in the salt
that would make it pink as well. And so you know,
I think this is really important to do. So I
add those to my yogurt in the morning. And also,
you need vitamin D. It is so critical for your health.
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It's actually a pro hormone and it's a fat soluble vitamin.
And that would include D one, T D two, and
D three. I know a lot of the supplements on
the market today are only D three. But you want
a whole You want to get sunshine.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
On your body, really, and you.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Want to not have toxic sunscreen on your body. And
I know some of these sunscreen companies say they have
healthy sunscreen, and you know, I just don't believe that.
Doctor Elizabeth Plord, who who wrote these wonderful books about
how toxic sunscreen is, and she believes it should be
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labeled hazardous waste. She really thinks that it's because it
cuts the vitamin die from being made in your body,
and that all of these sunscreens are incredibly toxic. And
she has taught me that you know they're making because
people wear them in the ocean, they're making the fish
impotent and it's destroying the coral reefs. And so you know,
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if you put stuff on your skin, it goes straight
to your blood stream and doesn't you know, have to
go through your organs or anything. So it's, you know,
just like putting poison on your body. But I would,
you know, get sunshine. And you know these D vitamins
they can affect two thousand genes in your body. I mean,
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think about that. That is really quite remarkable. And John
Hopkins University School of Medicine studied the medical information of
one hundred and twenty four subjects between the age of
thirty six and eighty nine with type two diabetes, and
those with the lowest levels of vitamin D had the
highest levels of blood sugar only six percent of the subjects.
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We're taking a vitamin D supplement, and you may need
to address this problem. So you know, I would get
a whole vitamin D supplement. If you're going to get one,
make sure it has, you know, a whole real food base.
And I do a newsletter once or twice a month,
sometimes three times, so a free newsletter. You can sign
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up on my website or gaining healthylife dot com and
you know, join me on my newsletter and I try
to send out really helpful information every month and also
a recipe and my Diabetes in your Diet book does
have recipes in it. Because you know, knowing this information
and not knowing how to implement it for your food
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and your family, you know, that's you know, that's an
important thing to be able to do. And I've had
people tell me that there are family members that had diabetes.
They would all take turns picking your recipe or a
chapter to read. And every day they would read a
you know, a page or a chapter and someone would
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make you know our meal. And I've quite literally been
told that, you know, they all reverse their diabetes and
became so much healthier. And so, you know, I encourage
you to really address this because you know, I think
it is an easy way to you know, restore your health.
And another nutrient I think is critically important is zinc.
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And it's one of the most important minerals used by
the body, and it helps the production of approximately one
hundred enzymes, and it contributes to building up your immune system.
And it's actually required for protein and DNA synthesis, insulin activity,
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and your liver function. So zinc is not really stored
in the body, and so we need a regular supply.
And men need about one third more zinc than women
because the prostate, gland and the semen are highly concentrated
with zinc, and a zinc defficiency may appear as skin
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problems or impairment of taste. So if you lose your
sense of taste, you know you're low in zinc. You know,
they when they had the COVID fakedemic and people were
losing their sense of taste, and doctor Artists was saying that,
you know, we were being poisoned with you know, poisonous
snake venom that was being put in like our water
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supply or in the air or both. You know that
actually destroys the zinc in your body. And so when
you can supplement with zinc, and you know, there's some
really zinc rich foods that you could do. But if
you are zinc deficient, you might have hair loss or diarrhea,
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or you might be really tired all the time, and
your wounds wouldn't heal properly, and very poor slow growth
for children. So some of these are just signs of that.
And so some of the foods that you might want
to eat are like or getic sprouted pumpkin seeds and
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it's really, you know, a delicious way to get zinc
into your body. And there's a company called go Raw
and I get there spouted organic pumpkin seeds or seed mix,
and you know, I'll sprinkle with those on my salad
or I'll have it as a snack. I even grind
it up and put it on my animal food like
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my cat food and dog food, because it's good for
them as well, and as it's funny, but pumpkin seeds
have a really interesting attribute. But they can paralyze parasites
in your body, and your animals will just poop out these,
you know, like tapeworms and parasites, and you know, the
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pumpkin seeds are actually good for them, and so's the
zinc in them. But you know, the parasites are not
good for them. And if your animal is insatiably hungry
all the time, I would say they might have a tapeworm. So,
you know, I even do this for wild animals. I'm
rehabing because y'all know I'm a certified international wildlife rehaber
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and I you know, I love to help animals, and
I volunteer with some of these animal rescue groups and
wild Animals SKI groups. And so we have a question
here from a listener. Oh, actually we have two so
many answer. Both of them is do the seeds taste
like pumpkin? You know, I don't know if they really
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taste like cooked pumpkin. I don't think they do. They
taste more like a sunflower seed. If you've ever eaten
a sunflower seed or a cache, you it's.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
More like that.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
And also another question from a listener is what minerals
do we need to already read that one, Sorry about that. Yes,
we need to replenish minerals because we actually these are
water soluble minerals that are in salt, so you urinate
them out about every six hours. So you really need
to replenish your salt mineral intake every six hours at
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the very least. And if you have a mineral rich
water or your own well water with a lot of
minerals in it, that can be a way to do that.
And so you know, just addressing the unrefined salt and
switching to a healthy salt. I think most of these
processed foods probably have the unhealthy salt in it, So
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another reason to get off of these process foods. And
you know, just another thing about these, you know, processed foods,
is a lot of them actually have you know, like
fruit toasted in them. And it's really interesting. But doctor
Friedman and doctor Coleman were researchers and they discovered a
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leptin hormone in nineteen ninety four, and they found that
obese people had very high levels of the leptin in
their blood, and so they started looking at this and
what they found out it was obesity actually causes resistance
to leptin. In other words, the signaling pathway to leptin
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becomes skewed by these by the obesity, and it causes
the body to overproduce leptin, just as it does glucose
when you are insulin resistant. And so what they started
looking into was, you know, elevated insulin levels are not
only symptoms of diabetes, but also heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, stroke,
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high blood pressure, cancer, obesity, and so you know, you
want to make sure that you're not eating processed foods
that have a lot of fructose in them that they've
done some studies where they put people on different diets
where it didn't have fructose in it. Fructose, you know,
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you would say, well, it's naturally in fruits, but you know,
they add a lot of that to processed foods to
make it sweeter or make it more inviting to you.
And so be aware of that that they may not
even put on the label.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
But you want to avoid that.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Because that can cause you to not be satisfied after
you eat, and it can cause a whole lot of
health problems. In this way, and oh my goodness, this
show has just been going so fast, and I just
really think that switching to a plant days diet is
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a really great way to go. You do not have
to be one hundred percent plant based, but I eat
pretty much all plant based for the last thirty nine years,
and I feel great, and I'm seventy now, and I
really don't ever get sick. I haven't been sick for decades.
And you know, I just think that, you know, it
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feeds your body on a deep cellular level. So you know,
I challenge a lot of you to just start, you know,
when you start reaching for a processed food of any type,
you know, just think to yourself, you know, wait a minute,
I'm going to eat some real, whole food in its
real form. And you know, something that you should avoid,
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just on a side note with the fruit toast is
avoid drinking fruit juices because that just goes straight in
your bloodstream just like pure sugar, and you want the
fiber from that food. So if you like to drink
orange juice, switch over to eating real oranges, you know,
or real tangerines, or you know something that is you know,
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like a grapefruit or something like that that has the
fiber in it as well as the nutrition in the
vitamin C content. And you know, just being on a
plant based diet, it can lower your risk of heart disease, colorectal,
avarian breast cancers, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. So it's good
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for your blood pressure as well. So you know, this
is you know, really important for all of.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Us to know.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
And as I come to the end of our show,
I just want to tell you how much I appreciate
you sharing your valuable time with me and I really
love connecting with y'all. Please email me. You can contact
me through my website organicalthilife dot com. And I just
want to close with the thought that as you go
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through your life and you connect with those around you,
just remember to add that main ingredient, and that main
ingredient is always love. How
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Welcome beautiful people to organic healthy Lifestyle And I'm Nancy Addison,
your host, and I love to start off my show
with a prayer, so if you please join me in
whichever way you would like, I feel like it kind
of frames my show in a really nice energy.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
So I ask our divine.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Creator to please bless all the creatures of the earth,
and the lush gardens of our farmers and us, and
the fields full of crops. Bless this planting season so
that every seed and sapling is coded in your touch.
Allow there to be enough growth for all people to
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eat and enjoy Your goodness. Help us to appreciate what
you provide for us, and encourage us to be generous
with our supply. And we thank you for the loveliness
that springtime brings, and ask that you take us forward
in this season and lead us with your mighty hands
into a world full of peace and love and light
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and abundance for all, and we ask this in the
highest good of all concerned, for everyone listening now and
everyone listening in the future, and thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
And so it is.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
And I thought I would address diabetes today because more
than over one hundred million people today have diabetes or
pre diabetes, and it's become a real problem, and it's
on the rise with juvenile children, and so this is
something that I really feel is important to address. And
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I've been researching health and nutrition now for over thirty
eight years. Oh my goodness, it's just time flies, doesn't it.
And what I've noticed in all of this time with
my research is that there is an increasing addition of
harmful substances in our foods like high fruit, toast, corn syrup,
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artificial sweeteners, trans fats, food dyes, mona sodium glutenate which
is MSG, which is a flavor and hence are commonly
added to fast and processed foods, canned vegetables, soups, processed meats,
and especially in Asian types of food. And then also
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other chemicals are added to our food it's and many
of them the FDA alliles if they're under a certain amount,
and they don't even have to disclose it, and so
it's a it's a real problem, and then the labeling
is very misleading and they keep changing it on us,
so it's harder and harder to see what has GMOs
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in it, or if it has aspar tame or artificial
sweeteners or any kind of substance like that. So you know,
this is this is a real problem. And then people
are getting low lower exposure of vitamin D and I
don't know if it's because they've been trying to like
block out the sun or do all this weather manipulation
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in the in the ruse that there's you know, global warming,
which is just you know, well they're calling it climate.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Change now because everybody was proving.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Them false on that one and they just couldn't get
away with it anymore. But you know, people are putting
on still putting on sunscreen s, which prevent your body
from taking in vitamin D and healing. And that's that's
a really bad problem. And we actually need vitamin D
through our eyes, so even wearing sunglasses can actually be
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harmful to your health. And I know I've had a
couple of guests on in the last few months, and
it's really hard to interrupt them and disagree with them
when they're saying certain things. But I've had a couple
of them say that you need to wear sunglasses, and
just for the record, I totally disagree with that. I
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think we need the sunlight through our eyes in order
for our body to be well and healing. And also
the vitamin D when the sun hits our skin, it's
only on the exposed skin that's not covered in sunscreen
that you're going to be able to make this beautiful vitamin,
and it is so necessary for being healthy. And then
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I'll so people just aren't getting the exercise in fresh
air that they need, and we've just become a more
sedentary society. And then many people, and especially people you
know of older age, they just watch more television and
they sit and work in front of computers and that's
just a real problem. And then the growth in the
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genetically modified food industry is quite alarming, and this results
in food being deficient in nutrients that are necessary for
our health and well being, but also they have toxic
poisons in them. Like doctor Artists on my show in
the last six months shared with us that in the
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last year alone, there have been over a thousand patents
made for putting poisonous snake venom into seeds of vegetables
and fruits. And I find this critically alarming, and I
can't imagine what that's going to do to our health
or even the environment's health. But this increased number of
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variety of unhealthy GMO and hybrid crops, and you know,
really beware that corn, soy and wheat are some of
the worst. And they have these cancer causing poisons built
right into them or applied to them in the field
as well, and they're aided by government subsidies. So this
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is you know, their tax incentives for adding poisons to
our food, and then they hybridize them, and then you know,
they underwrite a lot of these crops that are so
unhealthy so that they are cheaper and so it makes
it more affordable. And it's just, you know, terribly alarming
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in my opinion. And then, of course, people are still
using microwave ovens, which are just you know, it's hard
to believe people are still using those. But when my
former husband was doing environmental impact studies on microwave ovens,
he was so alarmed. He said these should never be
made lawful and he would never allow them in our home,
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and so I have really never used one. And as
I've learned about how this frequency really affects our body
and our health and our food, these microwave ovens bombard
the food with a chaotic energy and they destroyed the
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molecular structure of whatever's in there. And I know a
lot of people pelt water in those to warm up
their coffee or make tea or coffee or something with
and that is actually one of the ones that destroys
the most. And with about ninety nine percent of every
single molecule in our.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Body being water, and that water being.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So critical for our health, that I find this to
be one of one of the most troubling things that
people do. So I encourage you if you have been
using a microwave oven, and if you want to research this,
you can go to the west and a Price Foundation
website and you can put in microwave ovens and they
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have some excellent information there that backs up what I
just said, but also really expands on why these are
so harmful to your health and why they should really
really should not ever have been made lawful. So I
would throw that out. I wouldn't even give it to anyone.
So just I thought when I lived in Costa Rica
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and I had one in the kitchen that the lady's
house was that I was staying, you know, I kept
food in it so the ants wouldn't get in it
because it's like a little vault in Costa Rica. If
you leave out anywhere, ants just come right in. So
it made for a you know, a place to store
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my food. And of course I couldn't get rid of
someone else's at microwave oven because I was staying in
her house taking care of her.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Dog while she was going.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
But I really truly believe food is our medicine. I mean,
it is what becomes ourselves, are tissue and our blood.
So you know, I think this is really one of
the reasons they don't teach nutrition in medical school is
because if the doctors were healing people with their diet
and lifestyle, then they wouldn't you know, it, will be
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sick all the time and need pharmaceutical medications that they
are taught to prescribe, so you know, they would lose
their stream of income if everybody was healthy. So anyway,
you know, the research has shown that type two diabetes
is preventable and almost one hundred percent reversible simply implementing
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dietarian lifestyle changes, which I think are very easy and inexpensive.
And in my book, and I wrote a book called
Diabetes in Your Diet and you can find that on
my website organichealthylife dot com, and it has recipes in
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it and it has a lot of good helpful information
to help you really help your body become healthier and
hopefully you can reverse this. And so you know we're
going to talk about that. So how would you know
that you were diabetic? What would be some of the signs,
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because most people that are diabetic actually don't even know it,
They aren't ever even diagnosed. But if you're getting frequent
infections of your skin or your urinary track, that's a
definite warning sign. Or numbness and tingling in your hands
or feet. Hunger after eating, so if you're still hungry
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when you finish eating, that is a sign that you
might be dived, excuse me, diabetic. If you have slow
wound healing, So if you have an accident and you
cut yourself or have a wound and it just won't heal,
that can definitely be a warning sign. Or if you're
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excessively thirsty, you're always thirsty, that is another sign.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Or blurred vision.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
If your vision is getting blurred or you can't see
as well, you may be struggling with this situation. Or
if you're just irritable, you're kind of crabby at people, that.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Is another sign. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 2 (11:54):
But really, a diabetic can no longer produce sufficient to
process the glucose or the sugar in the blood. So
to lower the glucose levels, diabetics need to increase their
insulin and this is either by taking medication that increases
their own insulin production or actually, you know, some of
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people actually inject insulin directly into their body. And in
diabetic can be four or five it can be on
literally four or five medications to control their blood glucose.
But some of these treatments actually don't address the root
cause of the problem, and some of these medications can
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actually have serious side effects like a Vandia was used
was used in a two year study published in the
New England Journal of Medicine. In this study linked avandia
to a forty three percent increase risk of heart attack.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
That's four.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Along with a sixty four percent higher risk of cardiovascular death,
not disease death. Sixty four percent. I mean that is very,
very high. And this is compared to diabetics that were
treated with different different types of things to help them
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with this. So even with those devastating results, the FDA
voted to allow it to remain on the market. And
I took some classes from doctor Bruce Lipton, and he
was he is a very brilliant medical researcher, and he
actually walked away from tenure at the at Stamford University
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because he disagreed with their policies on pushing pharmaceutical drugs
over natural remedies that actually worked better and without all
the side effects. But he looked at me one day
and he said, there are no side effects. The are
direct effects. Do not kid yourself. So if you're taking,
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for instance, a drug like a Bondia, then you know
that sixty four percent higher risk of cardiovascular death. He
would say, that is a direct effect. So you know,
keep that in mind. And one of the things I
always recommend for people if they are on any kind
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of pharmaceutical medication, I would go to that website of
that company that you're taking the drug from. And find
the side effects and print those out in really large
font and I would read that every single time you
take one of those medications. And so we're having a
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question from a listener and they're asking, is there a
way to naturally reverse this? And yes, and that is
what I'm going to talk about on this show today.
I'm going to talk to you about some of that
and one of them, for instance, this is this is
really a great study. Doctor James Anderson studied twenty five
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type one and twenty five type two diabetics and in
this study, this was back in the nineteen nineties. In
this study, it involved placing the patients on a high fiber,
high carbohydrate, low fat diet in a hospital setting. And
doctor Anderson initially put the patients on the American Diabetes
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Association recommended diet plan for one week. And this was
just kind of to get them all on the same page, right,
put them all in the same diet to to kind
of have them start from the same place when they
started this test. And then after they'd been on that
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diet for a week, and they switched them over to
a vegetarian plant based diet for three weeks. And that's
not that long, so.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
This was a month long study.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
The first week they're on the diabetic plan, and then
the next three weeks they're on this vegetarian, plant based
diet for three weeks. None of these patients were overweight
when they started the study, but they were on insulin
shots to control their blood sugar levels, and all through
this study, doctor Anderson measured their blood sugar levels, their
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cholesterol levels, their medications, and their weight. And the type
one diabetics cannot produce insulin, and it was thought that
these dietary changes would not affect their situation, but the
results showed that after three weeks on a vegetarian diet,
a whole food, high fiber diet, the type one diabetics
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were able to lower their insulin medica by forty percent
that is almost half, I mean that is huge, and
their blood sugar profiles improved dramatically. And these results were
even more impressive with the type two diabetics who had
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not incurred as much damaged their pancreas as the type
one people had. And after three weeks on the high
fiber vegetarian diet, twenty four of the twenty five people
could discontinue their insulin medication completely. I mean, that's a
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stunning result. And that's just three weeks on a high
fiber vegetarian, plant based diet and the type two diabetic
who wasn't able to get off of his medication. He
had been on a twenty five year diet. He had
been a twenty five year diabetic, and he had been
taking thirty five units a day of insulin, and after
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three weeks of the vegetarian food, his requirement dropped down
to only eight units a day. And as he continued
on the vegetarian eating plant at home, he was able
to cut out all insulin shots after another eight weeks.
I find that study absolutely stunning. This is one of
the studies that is in the China Study, which was
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written by doctor T.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Colin Campbell.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
So the studies have shown that eating a more plant
based whole food diet and increasing your dietary fiber intake
which is in plants, right, this can be extremely important
for protecting yourself from all kinds of things like heart disease, cancer,
gastro intestinal disorders, hypertension, obesity, non insolent dependent diseases. And
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it's just I think it's just so important and Besides
adopting a plant based diet. Diet diabetics can also take
six supplements that I think are really important. And I
think it's mainly because with all the herbicides they use
on our foods and the genetically modified plants, I think
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a lot of these destroy a lot of the nutrition
that is in the plant based foods alone. So you know,
our food today probably has you know, I think some
studies had shown dinner fifteen years ago that it only
has forty percent of the nutrition that maybe our grandparents'
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food had. But you know, as I look at this,
I think it's might even be lower. So I have
another question from a listener, and they're asking if people
find it hard to adjust to a different way of eating,
and you know, I suppose it depends on the person,
and you know, some people find it harder to change than others.
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But you know, this is something that you can set.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Your mind to.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
I was pre diabetic in high school and I was
doing everything the doctors were telling me to do, and
in fact, my doctor actually told me to drink sugar
free sodas because he said it would be healthier for me.
And of course my research over the years is found
that that is absolutely untrue and terrible information. And I
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just kept getting sicker and sicker doing everything that they
were telling me to do. And it was when I
just I went off of the sodas and all the
sugars and all the processed foods. I just kind of
went cold Turkey for it was at least three months,
and I just kind of reset my body, and we said,
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this is really important to know. We we make our
taste buds about every two weeks, so we regenerate those
taste buds about every two weeks. And so if you're
eating processed foods that don't have much nutrition in them,
or heine sugar, you know, artificial sweetener or whatever it is,
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that's what your tastebuds are adjusted too. And so if
you eat something healthy like a real apple or you know,
some carrots or something like that, and that it doesn't
taste good, it's because your taste beds haven't adjusted to
healthy food yet. So you know, part of it is
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just setting your mind to doing this and just sticking
with it. I've had clients over the years that really
struggled with eating healthier food and eating real food. I mean,
so many people tell me, they literally grew up on
fast food or microwave food or fast microwave food, and
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it's it can be, you know, a lifestyle change, because
when you go to the grocery store, you know you
aren't going to be looking for the same foods you
want to go and you want to look for the
certified organic foods in the fresh produce area. Or I
would encourage you to go to farmers' markets. Here in
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North America, we're in barking on our springtime in our summer,
and there is usually a whole lot more local fresh,
vine ripe and tree ripened food in the farmer's markets,
but also in the grocery stores. But I would highly
recommend really trying to find some farmers' markets near You
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get to meet your farmers, get to know your neighbors,
plant your own garden, even if you just have a
few things you're growing in a pot on your in
your windowsill or on a balcony, but you know, start
connecting with your food. And as I worked with some
of these people who grew up on fast food, I
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will tell you I'll get these phone calls from them
and they will just be so excited. They're like Oh,
my goodness, Nancy, I had no idea well apple tasted
so great because they had actually never eaten a real apple.
It's hard to believe. I mean, when I was growing up,
you know you, we had a little saying, an apple
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a day keeps the doctor away. I wonder what happened
to that little saying. I don't think I hear it much.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Anymore, but.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I actually do keep apples and oranges and fresh fruit
and fresh vegetables in my kitchen in my pantry all
the time, and this is my main way to eat.
So if I'm hungry, Like a while ago, I was hungry,
I went and I peeled myself an orange and I
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ate an orange. And this vitamin C helps escort tucsin's
out of your cells. And I think it's really important to,
you know, just eat this real food. But some of
the dietary and nutrients that I think are so critically
important for people with diabetes is one of them is chromium.
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And so these herbicides that they use so pervasively on
these crops like round up ready as one of them
they use a lot of and the main ingredient chemical
ingredient in that is glyphysate and the glyphosate was originally
patented as antibiotic, which means it destroys all life. So
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it's destroyed the life in the soil. It you know,
there aren't worms in the soil, they aren't all the
microbes that make this oil rich and healthy. You know,
it's like this, it's destroyed the probiotics of the earth.
And then the poison is actually built into the plant
because it's pulling it into the plant through its roots.
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And so this is this makes your food actually just
like poison toxic. So you're you're eating like an antibiotic
with every bite because it is like an antibiotic. I
had a doctor tell me. He goes, you know, if
you're not eating certified organic food, then you might as
well be taking a It's like taking an antibiotic with
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every single bite you take. And I think that is,
you know, a really sad thing, but that is what
it looks like. But it destroys a lot of the
nutrition in the soil. And it also is a mineral
key lator, which means it destroys and strips all the
minerals from it. Well, we can't live without these minerals.
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Are enzymes, can't even function. So you know, try to
buy organic food, even if it's a little more expensive,
because you are supporting a farmer that's not poisoning the
earth and poisoning your health either, and so so you know,
I think our money is very very powerful, and so
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vote when you buy things for the right people that
you want to support. Right, But chromium is a very
very necessary nutrient because it helps transport glucose from the
blood to the muscles, and so you know, chromium is
known to enhance the action of insulin, and it's a
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hormone critical to metabolism and the storage of carbohydrates patent
protein in the body. So you know, make sure you're
getting some chromium. And I would look for chromium GTF
and avoid the synthetic supplements And the GTF means glucose
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tolerance fector, and so I like to get organic ones
that list food as the as the ingredient. And then cinnamon.
Cinnamon is amazing, it's merging as a true wonder food
and it's actually a tree bark and it's a spice
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and it grows on a few different tree species, and
cinnamon can actually help lower blood sugar and triglyceride levels.
In people, and the cinnamon contains antioxidants that create healthier
arteries and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. And it
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can also benefit us an increased alertness, and it energizes
our symptoms. And just a tea spoon of cinnamon a
day can help tame your blood sugar. And so, you know,
I like to have like a mushroom coffee in the morning,
and I sprinkle cinnamon on it in the morning and
it just adds that little bit of spice and it's
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just as delicious. And I probably eat very differently than
many people because I have been and improving my taste
buds to healthier, healthier food on an ongoing basis now
for what thirty nine years, and so so I eat
a lot of I think some people would say pretty
hardcore healthy food, but you know, for me, it tastes delicious.
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So as you switch over to a healthier diet, you
will find that your body adjusts to it and it
will start craving those healthier foods because they make you
feel so much better and you won't be you won't
be hungry. You know, I have friends that come and
stay with me and they're you know, just amazed. They're like, Nancy,
(28:38):
you know, you don't eat that much, but what I
eat is so nutrient dense and usually raw fresh food
that you know, it satisfies my body, and so my
body just you know, you know, really thrives on that.
I think it helps me stay well, and I really,
you know, I love feeling great, right, And I think
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also a lot of people avoid fats thinking that they
will make them fat. But omega three fatty acids, I
think are actually very critical for our bodies and our health.
And the study show that adding omega threes to your
diet it promotes healthy blood sugar levels. And so what
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I would recommend is trying to add organic flax or
hempseed oil. I like the coal pressed ones that you
get in the refrigerated section at the grocery store. There's
usually in the healthier grocery stores a refrigerated section that
has like probiotics and things in it, and you will
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find the coal press omega threes fatty acids there, and
so I would recommend getting some of those. And what
I do with that is I add it to my breakfast.
So I have a raw organic diary down the road
from me and so I like to get their yogurt
that they make and I put that in my yogurt
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every morning, and I'll have that with like some fresh
blueberries or blackberries or raspberries, and I just feel like
it's a really great way to start my morning. And
I add a drop of iodine to that, sometimes two
or three drops actually, But iodine is necessary for supporting
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your thyroid. And I love doctor David Brownstein's information on
the thyroid and on iodine. He wrote a book called Iodine,
You Can't Live Without It, And really our foods have
been depleted of iodine for over one hundred years, and
it's really important to add that to your diet. If
you're eating white refined salt with iodine in it, the
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iodine will actually dissipate when it hits oxygen, so it's
not a reliable way to get your iodine. In fact,
the white says salt that has the iodine added to it,
it's been stripped of all the minerals, and it's had
high fruit coast corn syrup added to it, which actually
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causes diabetes, and it's all scott chemicals in it, and
quite literally, your body I believe reads that like a poison.
So you know, so many people are on a no
salt diet because of this white refined just I just
would consider it garbage salt because I would throw it
(31:31):
in the garbage if it was my house. You know,
you shouldn't need that, but you really do need mineral
rich salt. So there's a difference between white refined salt
and salt that has color and has minerals in it.
So you know, here in the United States, I like
to buy the Redman's brand of salt that's called real salt,
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and I use that liberally in my day throughout the day,
I even my purse. But doctor David Brownstein also wrote
another book called Salt Your Way to Health, and he
truly believes that most people are so mineral deficient. And
I think part of it is because of the extensive
use of the glyphosate, which destroys all the minerals in
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the soil. So people don't have minerals in their body.
And you will quite literally not be able to hydrate
without these without these minerals, and so you'll be dehydrated.
And most chronic disease is actually a result of chronic
innercellular dehydration.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
And so.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
We have a question right here, and it's so the
pink is the pink salt better to use? And I
would say yes to that question because the minerals have color,
and if it doesn't have color, you know, it's probably
been bleached. And another question on what minerals do we
(32:58):
need to replenish in how it's these these you know,
basic ones in the salt, the magnesium, the potassium, the sodium.
I mean, if you went in the emergency room, they're
going to give you what they call fluids, but it
is really super high concentrated mineral liquid and you cannot
absorb water without these minerals.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
And the minerals.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Would make the salt colorful, like the iodine in the salt.
There's usually a little bit of iodine in the salt
that would make it pink as well. And so you know,
I think this is really important to do. So I
add those to my yogurt in the morning. And also,
you need vitamin D. It is so critical for your health.
(33:46):
It's actually a pro hormone and it's a fat soluble vitamin.
And that would include D one, T D two, and
D three. I know a lot of the supplements on
the market today are only D three. But you want
a whole You want to get sunshine.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
On your body, really, and you.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Want to not have toxic sunscreen on your body. And
I know some of these sunscreen companies say they have
healthy sunscreen, and you know, I just don't believe that.
Doctor Elizabeth Plord, who who wrote these wonderful books about
how toxic sunscreen is, and she believes it should be
(34:26):
labeled hazardous waste. She really thinks that it's because it
cuts the vitamin die from being made in your body,
and that all of these sunscreens are incredibly toxic. And
she has taught me that you know they're making because
people wear them in the ocean, they're making the fish
impotent and it's destroying the coral reefs. And so you know,
(34:49):
if you put stuff on your skin, it goes straight
to your blood stream and doesn't you know, have to
go through your organs or anything. So it's, you know,
just like putting poison on your body. But I would,
you know, get sunshine. And you know these D vitamins
they can affect two thousand genes in your body. I mean,
(35:09):
think about that. That is really quite remarkable. And John
Hopkins University School of Medicine studied the medical information of
one hundred and twenty four subjects between the age of
thirty six and eighty nine with type two diabetes, and
those with the lowest levels of vitamin D had the
highest levels of blood sugar only six percent of the subjects.
(35:33):
We're taking a vitamin D supplement, and you may need
to address this problem. So you know, I would get
a whole vitamin D supplement. If you're going to get one,
make sure it has, you know, a whole real food base.
And I do a newsletter once or twice a month,
sometimes three times, so a free newsletter. You can sign
(35:56):
up on my website or gaining healthylife dot com and
you know, join me on my newsletter and I try
to send out really helpful information every month and also
a recipe and my Diabetes in your Diet book does
have recipes in it. Because you know, knowing this information
and not knowing how to implement it for your food
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and your family, you know, that's you know, that's an
important thing to be able to do. And I've had
people tell me that there are family members that had diabetes.
They would all take turns picking your recipe or a
chapter to read. And every day they would read a
you know, a page or a chapter and someone would
(36:39):
make you know our meal. And I've quite literally been
told that, you know, they all reverse their diabetes and
became so much healthier. And so, you know, I encourage
you to really address this because you know, I think
it is an easy way to you know, restore your health.
And another nutrient I think is critically important is zinc.
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And it's one of the most important minerals used by
the body, and it helps the production of approximately one
hundred enzymes, and it contributes to building up your immune system.
And it's actually required for protein and DNA synthesis, insulin activity,
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and your liver function. So zinc is not really stored
in the body, and so we need a regular supply.
And men need about one third more zinc than women
because the prostate, gland and the semen are highly concentrated
with zinc, and a zinc defficiency may appear as skin
(37:42):
problems or impairment of taste. So if you lose your
sense of taste, you know you're low in zinc. You know,
they when they had the COVID fakedemic and people were
losing their sense of taste, and doctor Artists was saying that,
you know, we were being poisoned with you know, poisonous
snake venom that was being put in like our water
(38:03):
supply or in the air or both. You know that
actually destroys the zinc in your body. And so when
you can supplement with zinc, and you know, there's some
really zinc rich foods that you could do. But if
you are zinc deficient, you might have hair loss or diarrhea,
(38:24):
or you might be really tired all the time, and
your wounds wouldn't heal properly, and very poor slow growth
for children. So some of these are just signs of that.
And so some of the foods that you might want
to eat are like or getic sprouted pumpkin seeds and
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it's really, you know, a delicious way to get zinc
into your body. And there's a company called go Raw
and I get there spouted organic pumpkin seeds or seed mix,
and you know, I'll sprinkle with those on my salad
or I'll have it as a snack. I even grind
it up and put it on my animal food like
(39:06):
my cat food and dog food, because it's good for
them as well, and as it's funny, but pumpkin seeds
have a really interesting attribute. But they can paralyze parasites
in your body, and your animals will just poop out these,
you know, like tapeworms and parasites, and you know, the
(39:28):
pumpkin seeds are actually good for them, and so's the
zinc in them. But you know, the parasites are not
good for them. And if your animal is insatiably hungry
all the time, I would say they might have a tapeworm. So,
you know, I even do this for wild animals. I'm
rehabing because y'all know I'm a certified international wildlife rehaber
(39:53):
and I you know, I love to help animals, and
I volunteer with some of these animal rescue groups and
wild Animals SKI groups. And so we have a question
here from a listener. Oh, actually we have two so
many answer. Both of them is do the seeds taste
like pumpkin? You know, I don't know if they really
(40:14):
taste like cooked pumpkin. I don't think they do. They
taste more like a sunflower seed. If you've ever eaten
a sunflower seed or a cache, you it's.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
More like that.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
And also another question from a listener is what minerals
do we need to already read that one, Sorry about that. Yes,
we need to replenish minerals because we actually these are
water soluble minerals that are in salt, so you urinate
them out about every six hours. So you really need
to replenish your salt mineral intake every six hours at
(40:51):
the very least. And if you have a mineral rich
water or your own well water with a lot of
minerals in it, that can be a way to do that.
And so you know, just addressing the unrefined salt and
switching to a healthy salt. I think most of these
processed foods probably have the unhealthy salt in it, So
(41:13):
another reason to get off of these process foods. And
you know, just another thing about these, you know, processed foods,
is a lot of them actually have you know, like
fruit toasted in them. And it's really interesting. But doctor
Friedman and doctor Coleman were researchers and they discovered a
(41:36):
leptin hormone in nineteen ninety four, and they found that
obese people had very high levels of the leptin in
their blood, and so they started looking at this and
what they found out it was obesity actually causes resistance
to leptin. In other words, the signaling pathway to leptin
(41:57):
becomes skewed by these by the obesity, and it causes
the body to overproduce leptin, just as it does glucose
when you are insulin resistant. And so what they started
looking into was, you know, elevated insulin levels are not
only symptoms of diabetes, but also heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, stroke,
(42:24):
high blood pressure, cancer, obesity, and so you know, you
want to make sure that you're not eating processed foods
that have a lot of fructose in them that they've
done some studies where they put people on different diets
where it didn't have fructose in it. Fructose, you know,
(42:46):
you would say, well, it's naturally in fruits, but you know,
they add a lot of that to processed foods to
make it sweeter or make it more inviting to you.
And so be aware of that that they may not
even put on the label.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
But you want to avoid that.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Because that can cause you to not be satisfied after
you eat, and it can cause a whole lot of
health problems. In this way, and oh my goodness, this
show has just been going so fast, and I just
really think that switching to a plant days diet is
(43:26):
a really great way to go. You do not have
to be one hundred percent plant based, but I eat
pretty much all plant based for the last thirty nine years,
and I feel great, and I'm seventy now, and I
really don't ever get sick. I haven't been sick for decades.
And you know, I just think that, you know, it
(43:49):
feeds your body on a deep cellular level. So you know,
I challenge a lot of you to just start, you know,
when you start reaching for a processed food of any type,
you know, just think to yourself, you know, wait a minute,
I'm going to eat some real, whole food in its
real form. And you know, something that you should avoid,
(44:10):
just on a side note with the fruit toast is
avoid drinking fruit juices because that just goes straight in
your bloodstream just like pure sugar, and you want the
fiber from that food. So if you like to drink
orange juice, switch over to eating real oranges, you know,
or real tangerines, or you know something that is you know,
(44:33):
like a grapefruit or something like that that has the
fiber in it as well as the nutrition in the
vitamin C content. And you know, just being on a
plant based diet, it can lower your risk of heart disease, colorectal,
avarian breast cancers, diabetes, obesity, and hypertension. So it's good
(44:57):
for your blood pressure as well. So you know, this
is you know, really important for all of.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Us to know.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
And as I come to the end of our show,
I just want to tell you how much I appreciate
you sharing your valuable time with me and I really
love connecting with y'all. Please email me. You can contact
me through my website organicalthilife dot com. And I just
want to close with the thought that as you go
(45:25):
through your life and you connect with those around you,
just remember to add that main ingredient, and that main
ingredient is always love. How
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