March 19, 2025 • 42 mins
Master herbalist and functional medical practitioner Amy Elohim joins me today to talk about the recent Red Dye #3 ban and what that means.
Plus... the power of herbs. What are the best herbs for women? Did you know nutmeg can make you hullucinate?
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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) What's up, guys?
Welcome to a brand new episode of the
Fit Women's Weekly Podcast.
I hope that you're having a great week.
I know that I am.
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to walk away from an episode going, wow,
I'm walking away just a little bit smarter
and a little bit more educated.
And I think that's what we're going to
find today.
I love listening to different people's stories and
coming from different backgrounds even when they're completely
different from mine.
One thing that I have learned is when
I open my mind up to other people,
whether it's something that I might not 100
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% agree with, I still walk away going,
wow, that was a really interesting take and
I can still pull from their stories.
And today is absolutely no different.
I am joined by Master Herbalist and Functional
Medicine Practitioner Amy Elohim, who is the owner
of Restored Identity.
And we're going to sit down.
We're going to talk about this whole red
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dye ban and what that means for our
food, what it means for different products and
moving forward with the food industry here in
America.
But once I found out that she was
also a Master Herbalist, I just think that
that is the coolest thing.
And again, that's one of those things where
I'm like, what is this?
And so I wanted to pick her brain
a little bit more about that as well.
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So we definitely talk about herbs and the
power of herbs.
I find it super interesting.
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that you can check her out.
All right.
Let's get into the show.
I was so excited when you guys or
your team reached out to me because with
the red dye 40 ban just being passed
here in the States, it's something that I've
been reaching out to nutritionists about and functional
health experts because I do think that's such
an important topic where people are kind of
like, what's really going on?
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And I also want to know what are
your guesses for what's going to be coming
from this?
You know, what else can we expect in
the nutrition space?
So come to the show.
Thanks for hanging in with me.
And before we jump into that, I need
to know what is a master herbalist because
that sounds like the coolest thing ever.
Honestly, it's just a title that you get
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for learning herbs and understanding how they work
and how you can use them and all
the different things that you can make from
herbs, whether it's a tea, a tincture, an
extract, an oxymal.
There's all, you know, just learning how to
take herbs and turn them into medicine.
Yeah.
I feel like people, I mean, we all
know that herbs have power, but to the
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extent, I don't think it's really known.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, herbs were the original medicine, you
know, more than 50% of pharmaceuticals are
derived from plants.
So, but you can't patent a plant.
So what they do is, you know, take
out the essentials of the herb and then
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add some synthetic so they can patent it.
And then boom, now you have a pharmaceutical.
So yeah, when you just use the herbs
itself, it's just time and time again, we're
seeing, especially in our company, how well the
body just restores and receives from those herbs.
So it's been pretty cool.
That's really cool.
What's your favorite herb?
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Not necessarily how it makes you feel, but
just in general, when you read it and
you're like, this is really cool.
I mean, there's so many, but over the
last year, I've discovered that andrographis is probably
the most powerful herb there is.
So over the last year, golden seal kind
of went mega viral.
So just one pound of that powder was
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over $300 for an organic.
So I had a few blends that had
that in it.
And I was like, you know what?
We're going to have to find an alternative
to this because, or else I'd have to
hike the prices up because we're old school.
We do everything by hand pressing, small batching.
And so I decided to put andrographis in
one of our top selling products, which was
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herbicillin.
And I went this entire flu season, not
so much as a sniffle.
Wow.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, my whole, you know, my whole family's
in the hospital and I just, I was
around all of it and I didn't catch
it.
Anytime I felt my body that kind of
getting off, I'd just start taking that and
I was like, Oh my gosh, this is
my new herb.
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What did you say that it replaced that
you said was so expensive?
Golden seal.
What is, what is that?
I had never heard of, I've never heard
of that.
Golden seal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just a plant and it's very, you
can get it in leaf form and root
form.
The root is obviously stronger of any plant
and sometimes has a different medicinal purpose, but
yeah, it's just a plant, but it's kind
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of sparse.
So, you know, we got to be really
careful about how much we're trying to use
that plant because there's not much of it.
I definitely want to start diving into a
little bit more of the nutrition stuff that
we want to talk about, but I'm curious,
what got you fascinated into herbs and functional
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medicine in general?
Yeah.
So herbs were just kind of something because
I'm a Bible girl.
I've, I learned about herbs, you know, over
the last 25 years just reading about them
biblically.
And then you just kind of stop and
ask yourself like, wait a second, if they
were using them back then to purify blood
and to cleanse, why are we not doing
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that now?
So that was just kind of how I
got into herbs.
And what was the other question you asked
me?
Sorry.
But no, I thought your call into functional
medicine.
Oh, functional medicine.
Yeah.
So I spent a lifetime of being sick,
you know, I was sick as a child
as far as I can remember, you know,
sick several times a year with the flu
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and the stomach bug.
And, and as I got older, I went
into the military and I got vaccine injured.
And from there, it really just catapulted my
health into a negative paradigm.
And I was a walking medical record, you
know, by the age of 34, I had
a slew of diseases.
I was walking with a cane.
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Yeah.
So I just got to a point where
I was like, there's no way I'm going
to make it to 80 years old.
Feeling like this feeling already.
Yeah.
And a friend of mine sent me a
video and she was like, Hey, we can
heal ourselves.
I'm like, shut up.
Give me all of it.
So I just went down that rabbit hole
because I had been, you know, I had
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started out on the Western side of medicine.
I got a degree in psychology, and then
I went to nursing school a couple of
times.
And every time I went into nursing school,
something would happen that would pull me back
out.
And I now realize, you know, God was
calling me to the other side of medicine,
but I found myself learning all of these
Western things.
And I had all of this herbal knowledge,
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but I couldn't figure out how to mesh
the two together.
And then I just finally got to a
point when my friend sent me that video
where it just all came full circle.
And I'm like, okay, we all know what
we should be doing.
We should be eating fresh fruits, veggies, lean
meats, clean foods.
And anytime that you don't, your body is
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going to be sent into, you know, the
reverse of that, which is just a whole
bunch of toxic chemicals building up in our
body.
Right.
And yeah, so that just when I got
into the whole functional side and started just
restoring my body, I was like, oh my
gosh, this is so much easier than people
are making it out to be.
But it's so hard, right?
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Because people just get into a habit of
life.
And I always talk about on the podcast
and with clients that you don't realize that
you don't feel good until all of a
sudden you start feeling good.
So it's really hard to realize that you
need to change your habits when you're just
like, this is how I'm supposed to feel,
you know, I'm 35 with a cane.
You're probably like, guess this is just how
it's going to be.
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I guess I just have bad joints.
I guess I just, my knees are bad.
I'm going to have to get a knee
replacement or whatever the case is.
Right.
Yeah.
I've had five knee surgeries by the age
of 24 because I blew my knee out
in the military.
But yeah, you're right.
You just get to this point where you
just, and you want to believe that your
doctors have your best interests at heart and
that they really know what they're talking about.
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But, you know, five, four years into this
company and, and kind of bringing a new
way, you know, the ancient way back, I'm
realizing that doctors really only know how to
prescribe medications.
They don't want to fix symptoms.
They know how to fix symptoms, but they
don't know how to get to the root
cause.
And that's the most frustrating part of this.
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Really.
It's because people want to go and they
just want their doctor to give them a
pill and be like, Oh, here, take this.
You'll feel better.
But then with that pill, you get a
slew of other side effects and then you're
taking pills to combat those side effects.
And it's just, why don't we just get
to the root of it?
Right.
And fix it once and for all.
Yeah.
I would love to pick your brain.
I might even like, see if you would
like to come on again.
Cause I'd love to pick your brain more
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about the herbal side of things.
Sure.
Parsley oregano, but I do have one other
question cause I know that people are very
interested.
We see ads popping up all the time
and I know that you have your own
herbal store too.
At the end of the day, these herbs,
yes, they're all natural, but a lot of
drugs are all natural too, right?
Cocaine, for example, it's an all natural thing.
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It doesn't mean it's good for us.
So I do think it's important to stress
that just because you're taking something like turmeric
doesn't mean that you are free of worrying
about dosage, right?
Like these things have addressed to them as
well.
Yes, there are.
I mean, you can overdose on ashwagandha.
It's all about balance.
And it's all about finding.
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I mean, most of the time, if you
buy like an herbal powder on the back
of the bag, it's going to tell you
the maximum dosage that you should have a
day.
So it's really good to adhere to that
because you can overdose on turmeric and then,
you know, you can build up in your
kidneys or your liver and it just, it'll
do the opposite.
So everything in small doses, we're all about
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slow and steady when in the race around
here.
Is it nutmeg?
Yes.
It's really easy to take too much of.
Is it nutmeg?
Yeah, it's too much.
Yes.
And it has like a psychedelic effect.
Right.
Too much of it.
I remember studying that and being like, okay,
I need to make sure.
I'm not making too much apple pie nutmeg.
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Exactly.
Exactly.
I always thought that was so interesting.
Do you think that speaking kind of moving
towards the FDA, that the FDA needs to
have better regulations on homeopathic drugs as well?
I think the FDA should stay out of
herbal medicine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Personally.
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I believe that they don't really know much,
you know, a lot.
I'm, I'm in a realm of, you know,
health and wellness now where people, if it
says it's FDA approved, they won't touch it.
And I'm kind of in that boat too,
because I mean, look at where we're at.
In 1990, they banned red three, which is
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what they just finally banned in food and
medicine.
But it's like in 1990, they knew that
it was a carcinogenic.
And for our skin.
So they banned it in cosmetics, but our
skin's our largest organ.
So why did it take all of this
time to finally get to a point like,
okay, well now we'll just, now we're going
to ban it in food and medicine.
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Like it just, it just doesn't make sense.
Their reasoning.
That's crazy.
So then let's please explain to me because
I am someone to, and I know people
listening.
What's the big issue?
What exactly are artificial dye specifically red 40?
Cause I know that's the one that we're
talking about now.
That is so worrisome for our consumption.
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And why are we still far behind like
every other first world country?
Well, I have my own theories about that,
but I believe America's kind of like Babylon
at this point where, you know, anything goes.
And I don't still that you keep saying
red 40, but it's red three that they've
been sorry.
That's okay.
I just want to make sure.
Yeah.
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So, you know, they had a study in
2007 in the Lancet, which is one of
the most well-known medical journals.
And it was a deep scientific study that
showed that all of these guys have an
adverse effect in the human body, whether they
cause cancer, hormone, disruption neurological issues, ADHD and
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children.
And they've still allowed it to go through.
And we're all just like, okay, for 20
years now, we've all been saying like, hello,
hello.
And we're just now getting to that point.
So I'm anxious to see what goes from
here because, you know, companies have two options
that they can do.
They can get rid of the synthetics completely
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like the yellow number three or whatever they
are, the blue number one, and they can
move to an or more natural like using
turmeric beetroot, spirulina.
But they also have the option to create
other synthetics and use that.
Yeah.
And just give us something else.
So I'm curious to see how deep this,
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you know, banning of food colorings will go,
because unfortunately companies are, you know, they can
be stinkers and, you know, come up with
whatever synthetic colors they want.
You would think though, because there are so
many other countries that have already banned a
lot of food dyes.
So a lot of companies that are selling
here in America and selling to like Europe,
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for example, are making two separate products.
So wouldn't it just be easier for the
company to make for us, what you're already
making for the other country, or is it
because it's America's their biggest consumer and it's
probably cheaper to make the fake dye.
So maybe that's all comes down to consumerism,
I guess.
Yes.
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Um, I'm not sure, honestly, because at the
end of the day, like I say this
all the time too, a two pound bag
of organic beetroot powder is $20.
And like a little, the time, like an
16th of a teaspoon would be enough coloring.
So it's like, I can't believe at this
point that it would cost more to use
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all natural products.
I would say that it would probably cost
more to make a synthetic because of all
of the machinery that you need, all the
chemicals, all the, you know, um, so I'm
not sure the reasoning behind wanting to use
synthetic when natural is much easier.
Right.
So what are some of the science and
the research that shows, or at least not
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necessarily 100%.
Cause I know that it has kind of,
there's some things that say yes, some things
that say no.
What are some of the side effects and
symptoms from using dyes in our food?
Yeah.
So hormone disruption is one of the greatest,
especially if they're putting dyes in perfumes, body
washes, shampoos, that's the number one endocrine disruptor.
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So we want to make sure that all
of the body products that we're using, it
doesn't have any of that in it because
if it does, you know, like I've said,
our skins are the largest organ.
It's going to go in and our body
is not going to be able, everything has
to go through the liver.
So eventually our liver gets so backed up.
It just starts causing disease in the body
because how do you get all of this
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out?
You know, and we're not taught how to
properly detox our body from our doctors or,
you know, they just want to give us
a pill.
So, you know, same thing with food, uh,
in our storefront, I have a, oh, it's
called a candy corner and it's all organic
natural dyes.
So that seems to be the number one
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area where families struggle the most, especially when
you're trying to get kids on board.
And they want the bright colors.
Yeah.
And, but they do make all natural.
We have a whole shelf full of all
natural food coloring, you know, and they use
turmeric and beetroot and spirulina, things like that.
Um, so that, that's another thing too, but
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the candies that are all natural are significantly
higher than, you know, like a bag of
Skittles, right?
So there's that whole cost effects too.
And there's this idea too, which me and
my girlfriends talk about a lot and my
husband and I were talking not too long
about it is that I feel like in
some older generations, I think it is getting
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better now, but we have this idea that
healthy doesn't taste as good.
Right.
I can remember growing up and like my
mom using turkey burger instead of beef and
my dad not even trying it being like,
this is going to taste like crap, right?
Just an idea of like, when we're trying
to eat a little healthier around the house.
And so how do you, how do we
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get past that?
Or do you think that that's just something
that's going to come with time?
I think it will come with time, but
I also think like, don't say anything.
Like if you're the mom and you're cooking,
like one time, um, I was cooking for
my ex-husband and I was like, I'm
going to make a meatloaf out of turkey
burger.
And I'm going to see if he says
anything afterwards.
He was like, this is like the best
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meatloaf I've ever had.
And so after I was like, oh, I
made it out of turkey.
And he's like, I don't feel good.
I can totally tell.
So if you're the mom and you're doing
the cooking, or if you're the dad and
you mainly cook, like just start making these
little shifts and don't tell your family.
Just see how they respond.
Yeah, for sure.
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I can absolutely agree with that.
I sneak stuff into my husband.
Also you guys to say, remember, this is
like the nineties when I was a kid,
there's nothing wrong with using beef.
And then if you want to do that
with turkey, but back in the day there
was this idea that like brown turkey is
so much of better alternatives than beef, which
nowadays we know it's a great source of
protein, your beef.
Um, so with the band that has been
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into effect, how long, what is the process?
Is it like tomorrow, all of a sudden
all these companies have to take it out
of food?
I wish.
Um, they have two years to make this
shift.
So they have two years to figure out
new formulas or whatever they've got to do
to get these dies or the red number
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three, at least that's where we're at now.
It's the only one they've banned, which is
silly.
Like all of them need to go.
There'd been so many studies that prove that
they cause, you know, like we've said the
hormone disruption cancer and neurological issues.
Is there any proof that actually shows that
it's also associated with ADHD?
Yes.
I believe there are some studies in the
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Lancet that are specifically linked to behavioral issues
and you see it.
I see it every day with customers who
are like, okay, I'm getting rid of the
dyes in my children who have ADHD and
autism and their behaviors change drastically when they
remove these synthetic dyes.
They're more calm in school.
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They're not fidgeting around in their seats.
Um, they're able to focus better.
They're, they're more just cognitively aware.
So, I mean, the proof's kind of in
the pudding.
It has been really cool.
And I feel like it's only been the
last really five years that I feel like
we're starting to lean towards healthier must haves
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for FDA and food as far as like,
you know, our labels just changed where it
used to be able to like kind of
hide things here and there, you know, you'd
be like, okay, this, you know, I remember
picking up a cookie one time and it
was like 400 calories, but really small.
It said, oh, this is two servings.
Yes.
Right.
And it's like, like the protein cookie.
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Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, oh wow, this is great.
But then you're like 800 calories or the
whole cookie.
Exactly.
And so now that that's changed and now
we're starting to become a little bit more
aware with dyes.
What are there any other chemicals that you
know of that you think might be changing
here shortly?
For us in America, at least like to
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see change.
A lot of them like the brominated vegetable
oils.
So that's me.
That's a fire retardant and they put it
in sodas.
I don't think that's Mountain Dew, right?
Mountain Dew and sundrop.
Yeah.
And it's like, where did we get?
How did we get to a point in
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our food that we've allowed these things?
And these are FDA regulated.
So it's like, how can you trust somebody
that's allowing all of this into our food
sources?
It just, it doesn't make sense.
You think part of the awareness too is,
you know, as much as we like to
bash on social media, I kind of feel
like it's, we are no longer ignorant.
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You know, like we're able to see what
other countries are doing ourselves.
So as a society, we're able to say
like, okay, other countries are doing it this
way.
Why are we not?
And we're learning more about what's in our
food because of social media in a way.
Yes.
I mean, social media has just really taken
off with providing truth to people.
I know so I don't know many people
anymore who buy store bread.
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They were all making our own because why
buy something that has 50 ingredients when you
can just make one that tastes better and
has five ingredients.
So yeah, I think social media has really
blown the lid off and it's kind of
put the power back into our own hands.
We're we've, we're teaching each other.
Like that was how when I got on
tick tock and I just started teaching everybody
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everything I knew about herbalism.
It's like, it's not complicated.
You can make your own medicine.
There's no sense in like putting all of
these chemicals into your body that in turn,
it might give you relief temporarily, but in
the long term it's building up this toxic
waste in your body in turn causing more
disease.
So yeah, social media has been really awesome.
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Yeah.
Like as much as we like to poopoo
on it and it does have so many
negatives.
I always also do like to highlight the
fact of it brings people together, right?
It does.
You get to learn so much about other
places and other things and people are just
becoming so much more aware of options around
them, which I think is amazing.
Yes.
Yeah.
And it's fun because you find your own
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little like communities.
You're like, oh, so-and-so teaches bread.
So-and-so does medicine.
So-and-so, you know, teaches us how
to make cheese.
I remember someone taught a recipe on how
to make cheese-its and I made it
at home and I was like, these are
way better than store-bought cheese-its.
Right.
So, you know, the options are out there
if you're not lazy and you're willing to
put in a little legwork.
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Right.
For sure.
And if you guys just, if you're listening,
you're like, yeah, that's awesome.
I literally don't have time, which I absolutely
get.
Even so, just going to the bakery of
your grocery store nowadays, they have much higher
quality options available to you.
Right.
Yes.
Yep.
And the organic sections really seem to be
expanding too, which I think is so silly.
We have to put organic.
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Yeah.
On things like that just should be it.
We should be putting like genetically modified meat,
you know, things like that.
But when I was a kid, I remember
when whole foods first opened up, there was
just this idea that organic meant healthy.
So like my dad would go to the
store and bring home a cake and be
like, but it's from whole foods.
It's organic.
It's healthy.
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Right.
Yeah.
It's still loaded with sugar dad.
So that just comes with some of the
awareness.
You had mentioned different dye options, like all
natural dye options, like beet, for example, what
I would love to have here, your specific
examples and what color they can help with.
So people are at home and be like,
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Oh, I'm making a cake this weekend and
I want to make it blue.
What can I do?
But also like getting rid of that fear
of, okay, I want to make a red
velvet cake.
I'm going to use beet powder instead.
A lot of people are like, um, beets
taste like earth.
So I don't want my cupcakes to taste
like dirt.
Right.
some of those, some of those skeptical minds.
(24:30):
Yeah.
So when you're using all natural, it really
takes a very small amount when you're, when
you're using them.
So if you're making a red velvet cake
and you're using beetroot, you're not going to
need an astronomical amount of powder.
You probably only need like a tablespoon.
Um, maybe two, I don't know.
I've never made red velvet cake.
Um, but yeah, it's not as much as
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you think, you know, same thing with turmeric
or carrot powder.
You just need a tiny little bit and
a little bit goes a really long way.
So I've never heard of carrot powder before.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
They got it.
Yeah.
Huh.
And it doesn't add flavor or anything.
No, no, not to my experience.
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Yeah.
And then what are some of the Bennett,
like, cause not only are you getting the
color, but beaten up of itself is such
a healthy food.
There's a lot of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and
that's the other side of this is we're
taking out all of these synthetic waste and
adding in nutrients back into our body that
things that we're made of and things that
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we need.
So it's just a bonus all the way
around.
What is your favorite?
Like food coloring product.
Is there something that are you manufactured or
do you buy just pure or would you
recommend people just getting pure beetroot?
Yes.
Um, there is a company and I have
it over in the store.
I wish I could remember their name, but
(25:56):
it looks just like food coloring.
And there's no preservatives or anything artificial.
It's just a mixture.
I believe of like vegetable glycerin and then
the different powders.
Um, so like for red, I think it's
beetroot for green and blue.
They use spirulina for yellow, turmeric.
I'll make sure I'll do some research.
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You guys listening and make sure to plug
in some links down below.
And obviously I'll of course link up to
your store as well, which, yes, let's dig
into that.
So you own restored identity.
Share a little bit about that.
Sure.
So, um, after I, you know, when I
was 34 and I figured out, I was
taking everything from the left and the right
and the front and the back and just,
(26:37):
and then my friend sent me that video
about restoring my body.
I was like, okay.
I was watching video after video of people
who were older than me, restoring their body
of like herpes cancer, um, IBS Hashimoto's hypothyroid.
And I'm like, okay, if these people can
do this, there's no reason why I can't
do it.
So that's when I just started experimenting and
(27:00):
creating blends to, and then I would be
like, Hey, you know, you have hormone issues.
Try this with my friends.
And they take it like, Oh my gosh,
my hot flashes.
I haven't had hot flashes.
And I only three days in.
Um, so after I experimented on myself for
over a year, I just sat there and
I was like, you know what?
I'm going to start an herbal supplement company
and I'm just going to bring restoration to
(27:23):
the world.
And, and that's what kind of happened one
by one is I came out with products
and after I tested them on people, I
just started putting them on the website and
releasing them.
And we're kind of known for our custom
cleansing kits.
We have, I figured out that there's a
very simple, systematic way to restore the body
of any type of disease.
(27:44):
Um, you know, first you have to open
the pathways in the body and that just
means going in and we have a kit
for that.
It's called the open pathways kit.
But once we start taking in all of
these toxins over time, what it does is
it just closes up our lymphatic, our colon,
our liver, our kidneys, our heart.
And then it just starts building all of
this disease starts building.
(28:04):
So I discovered that if you just reverse
it out of the body in backwards, you
can restore the body from anything.
We have heavy metal kits.
I have a kit for people who receive
the jab called the jab rehab kit, herpes,
um, mold.
We have parasites, all of that.
And we, we have a 36 page custom
booklet that comes with every kit that walks
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you through the whole cleansing process, everything you
know, other things that you can do while
you're cleansing.
Um, and it's been, it's been pretty awesome.
We've had so many success stories at this
point, four years in, you know, people who
had cancer, no longer have cancer.
People who had fatty liver, no longer have
fatty liver cirrhosis of the liver, all of
that being reversed.
(28:47):
Wow.
Good for you.
What a good feeling too, to be able
to like help people.
It's truly an honor.
It's a heavy weight sometimes, um, but it's
truly an honor to get to do what
I do.
Yeah.
And this is not on the level of
cancer or cirrhosis of the liver, but I
am a 40 year old woman go getting
ready to be 41 in less than a
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month and para menopause, right?
And I know a lot of my listeners
are the same way.
And actually one of my best friends is
starting like the more menopausal state of the
hot flashes and everything like that.
What are some of the most important herbs
that people could possibly be putting into their
bodies to help where you're like, oh my
(29:28):
God, you should be taking, I don't know,
parsley.
Right.
Yeah.
So we have one blend called happy, happy
hormones.
And the main ingredient in that is Ashwagandha,
but there's also Moringa leaf and Talsy holy
basil and a little black pepper to help
activate it all.
But those three together make such an amazing
combo to help restore the body.
(29:51):
We've had ladies who were going to, you
know, they wanted to just end it all
because their hormones were so out of whack
in their doll.
(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) What's up, guys?
Welcome to a brand new episode of the
Fit Women's Weekly Podcast.
I hope that you're having a great week.
I know that I am.
The sun is finally out.
Spring is here.
It makes my heart so happy.
What also makes my heart happy is when
I get to sit down with some pretty
freaking cool women and talk about their passions
and then I get to learn stuff and
you get to learn stuff and we get
(00:21):
to walk away from an episode going, wow,
I'm walking away just a little bit smarter
and a little bit more educated.
And I think that's what we're going to
find today.
I love listening to different people's stories and
coming from different backgrounds even when they're completely
different from mine.
One thing that I have learned is when
I open my mind up to other people,
whether it's something that I might not 100
(00:42):
% agree with, I still walk away going,
wow, that was a really interesting take and
I can still pull from their stories.
And today is absolutely no different.
I am joined by Master Herbalist and Functional
Medicine Practitioner Amy Elohim, who is the owner
of Restored Identity.
And we're going to sit down.
We're going to talk about this whole red
(01:02):
dye ban and what that means for our
food, what it means for different products and
moving forward with the food industry here in
America.
But once I found out that she was
also a Master Herbalist, I just think that
that is the coolest thing.
And again, that's one of those things where
I'm like, what is this?
And so I wanted to pick her brain
a little bit more about that as well.
(01:23):
So we definitely talk about herbs and the
power of herbs.
I find it super interesting.
I hope that you guys do too.
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Go back and listen to some of those
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(01:44):
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So yeah, past events are in the past,
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So definitely go check out some past episodes.
I'll make sure to put all the links
down for Amy for Restored Identity and all
of her products and services down below so
(02:05):
that you can check her out.
All right.
Let's get into the show.
I was so excited when you guys or
your team reached out to me because with
the red dye 40 ban just being passed
here in the States, it's something that I've
been reaching out to nutritionists about and functional
health experts because I do think that's such
an important topic where people are kind of
like, what's really going on?
(02:27):
And I also want to know what are
your guesses for what's going to be coming
from this?
You know, what else can we expect in
the nutrition space?
So come to the show.
Thanks for hanging in with me.
And before we jump into that, I need
to know what is a master herbalist because
that sounds like the coolest thing ever.
Honestly, it's just a title that you get
(02:47):
for learning herbs and understanding how they work
and how you can use them and all
the different things that you can make from
herbs, whether it's a tea, a tincture, an
extract, an oxymal.
There's all, you know, just learning how to
take herbs and turn them into medicine.
Yeah.
I feel like people, I mean, we all
know that herbs have power, but to the
(03:09):
extent, I don't think it's really known.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, herbs were the original medicine, you
know, more than 50% of pharmaceuticals are
derived from plants.
So, but you can't patent a plant.
So what they do is, you know, take
out the essentials of the herb and then
(03:29):
add some synthetic so they can patent it.
And then boom, now you have a pharmaceutical.
So yeah, when you just use the herbs
itself, it's just time and time again, we're
seeing, especially in our company, how well the
body just restores and receives from those herbs.
So it's been pretty cool.
That's really cool.
What's your favorite herb?
(03:51):
Not necessarily how it makes you feel, but
just in general, when you read it and
you're like, this is really cool.
I mean, there's so many, but over the
last year, I've discovered that andrographis is probably
the most powerful herb there is.
So over the last year, golden seal kind
of went mega viral.
So just one pound of that powder was
(04:13):
over $300 for an organic.
So I had a few blends that had
that in it.
And I was like, you know what?
We're going to have to find an alternative
to this because, or else I'd have to
hike the prices up because we're old school.
We do everything by hand pressing, small batching.
And so I decided to put andrographis in
one of our top selling products, which was
(04:34):
herbicillin.
And I went this entire flu season, not
so much as a sniffle.
Wow.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, my whole, you know, my whole family's
in the hospital and I just, I was
around all of it and I didn't catch
it.
Anytime I felt my body that kind of
getting off, I'd just start taking that and
I was like, Oh my gosh, this is
my new herb.
(04:54):
What did you say that it replaced that
you said was so expensive?
Golden seal.
What is, what is that?
I had never heard of, I've never heard
of that.
Golden seal.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's just a plant and it's very, you
can get it in leaf form and root
form.
The root is obviously stronger of any plant
and sometimes has a different medicinal purpose, but
yeah, it's just a plant, but it's kind
(05:17):
of sparse.
So, you know, we got to be really
careful about how much we're trying to use
that plant because there's not much of it.
I definitely want to start diving into a
little bit more of the nutrition stuff that
we want to talk about, but I'm curious,
what got you fascinated into herbs and functional
(05:37):
medicine in general?
Yeah.
So herbs were just kind of something because
I'm a Bible girl.
I've, I learned about herbs, you know, over
the last 25 years just reading about them
biblically.
And then you just kind of stop and
ask yourself like, wait a second, if they
were using them back then to purify blood
and to cleanse, why are we not doing
(05:58):
that now?
So that was just kind of how I
got into herbs.
And what was the other question you asked
me?
Sorry.
But no, I thought your call into functional
medicine.
Oh, functional medicine.
Yeah.
So I spent a lifetime of being sick,
you know, I was sick as a child
as far as I can remember, you know,
sick several times a year with the flu
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and the stomach bug.
And, and as I got older, I went
into the military and I got vaccine injured.
And from there, it really just catapulted my
health into a negative paradigm.
And I was a walking medical record, you
know, by the age of 34, I had
a slew of diseases.
I was walking with a cane.
(06:40):
Yeah.
So I just got to a point where
I was like, there's no way I'm going
to make it to 80 years old.
Feeling like this feeling already.
Yeah.
And a friend of mine sent me a
video and she was like, Hey, we can
heal ourselves.
I'm like, shut up.
Give me all of it.
So I just went down that rabbit hole
because I had been, you know, I had
(07:00):
started out on the Western side of medicine.
I got a degree in psychology, and then
I went to nursing school a couple of
times.
And every time I went into nursing school,
something would happen that would pull me back
out.
And I now realize, you know, God was
calling me to the other side of medicine,
but I found myself learning all of these
Western things.
And I had all of this herbal knowledge,
(07:22):
but I couldn't figure out how to mesh
the two together.
And then I just finally got to a
point when my friend sent me that video
where it just all came full circle.
And I'm like, okay, we all know what
we should be doing.
We should be eating fresh fruits, veggies, lean
meats, clean foods.
And anytime that you don't, your body is
(07:43):
going to be sent into, you know, the
reverse of that, which is just a whole
bunch of toxic chemicals building up in our
body.
Right.
And yeah, so that just when I got
into the whole functional side and started just
restoring my body, I was like, oh my
gosh, this is so much easier than people
are making it out to be.
But it's so hard, right?
(08:04):
Because people just get into a habit of
life.
And I always talk about on the podcast
and with clients that you don't realize that
you don't feel good until all of a
sudden you start feeling good.
So it's really hard to realize that you
need to change your habits when you're just
like, this is how I'm supposed to feel,
you know, I'm 35 with a cane.
You're probably like, guess this is just how
it's going to be.
(08:24):
I guess I just have bad joints.
I guess I just, my knees are bad.
I'm going to have to get a knee
replacement or whatever the case is.
Right.
Yeah.
I've had five knee surgeries by the age
of 24 because I blew my knee out
in the military.
But yeah, you're right.
You just get to this point where you
just, and you want to believe that your
doctors have your best interests at heart and
that they really know what they're talking about.
(08:45):
But, you know, five, four years into this
company and, and kind of bringing a new
way, you know, the ancient way back, I'm
realizing that doctors really only know how to
prescribe medications.
They don't want to fix symptoms.
They know how to fix symptoms, but they
don't know how to get to the root
cause.
And that's the most frustrating part of this.
(09:06):
Really.
It's because people want to go and they
just want their doctor to give them a
pill and be like, Oh, here, take this.
You'll feel better.
But then with that pill, you get a
slew of other side effects and then you're
taking pills to combat those side effects.
And it's just, why don't we just get
to the root of it?
Right.
And fix it once and for all.
Yeah.
I would love to pick your brain.
I might even like, see if you would
like to come on again.
Cause I'd love to pick your brain more
(09:27):
about the herbal side of things.
Sure.
Parsley oregano, but I do have one other
question cause I know that people are very
interested.
We see ads popping up all the time
and I know that you have your own
herbal store too.
At the end of the day, these herbs,
yes, they're all natural, but a lot of
drugs are all natural too, right?
Cocaine, for example, it's an all natural thing.
(09:49):
It doesn't mean it's good for us.
So I do think it's important to stress
that just because you're taking something like turmeric
doesn't mean that you are free of worrying
about dosage, right?
Like these things have addressed to them as
well.
Yes, there are.
I mean, you can overdose on ashwagandha.
It's all about balance.
And it's all about finding.
(10:09):
I mean, most of the time, if you
buy like an herbal powder on the back
of the bag, it's going to tell you
the maximum dosage that you should have a
day.
So it's really good to adhere to that
because you can overdose on turmeric and then,
you know, you can build up in your
kidneys or your liver and it just, it'll
do the opposite.
So everything in small doses, we're all about
(10:30):
slow and steady when in the race around
here.
Is it nutmeg?
Yes.
It's really easy to take too much of.
Is it nutmeg?
Yeah, it's too much.
Yes.
And it has like a psychedelic effect.
Right.
Too much of it.
I remember studying that and being like, okay,
I need to make sure.
I'm not making too much apple pie nutmeg.
(10:51):
Exactly.
Exactly.
I always thought that was so interesting.
Do you think that speaking kind of moving
towards the FDA, that the FDA needs to
have better regulations on homeopathic drugs as well?
I think the FDA should stay out of
herbal medicine.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Personally.
(11:12):
I believe that they don't really know much,
you know, a lot.
I'm, I'm in a realm of, you know,
health and wellness now where people, if it
says it's FDA approved, they won't touch it.
And I'm kind of in that boat too,
because I mean, look at where we're at.
In 1990, they banned red three, which is
(11:33):
what they just finally banned in food and
medicine.
But it's like in 1990, they knew that
it was a carcinogenic.
And for our skin.
So they banned it in cosmetics, but our
skin's our largest organ.
So why did it take all of this
time to finally get to a point like,
okay, well now we'll just, now we're going
to ban it in food and medicine.
(11:54):
Like it just, it just doesn't make sense.
Their reasoning.
That's crazy.
So then let's please explain to me because
I am someone to, and I know people
listening.
What's the big issue?
What exactly are artificial dye specifically red 40?
Cause I know that's the one that we're
talking about now.
That is so worrisome for our consumption.
(12:15):
And why are we still far behind like
every other first world country?
Well, I have my own theories about that,
but I believe America's kind of like Babylon
at this point where, you know, anything goes.
And I don't still that you keep saying
red 40, but it's red three that they've
been sorry.
That's okay.
I just want to make sure.
Yeah.
(12:36):
So, you know, they had a study in
2007 in the Lancet, which is one of
the most well-known medical journals.
And it was a deep scientific study that
showed that all of these guys have an
adverse effect in the human body, whether they
cause cancer, hormone, disruption neurological issues, ADHD and
(13:00):
children.
And they've still allowed it to go through.
And we're all just like, okay, for 20
years now, we've all been saying like, hello,
hello.
And we're just now getting to that point.
So I'm anxious to see what goes from
here because, you know, companies have two options
that they can do.
They can get rid of the synthetics completely
(13:22):
like the yellow number three or whatever they
are, the blue number one, and they can
move to an or more natural like using
turmeric beetroot, spirulina.
But they also have the option to create
other synthetics and use that.
Yeah.
And just give us something else.
So I'm curious to see how deep this,
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you know, banning of food colorings will go,
because unfortunately companies are, you know, they can
be stinkers and, you know, come up with
whatever synthetic colors they want.
You would think though, because there are so
many other countries that have already banned a
lot of food dyes.
So a lot of companies that are selling
here in America and selling to like Europe,
(14:08):
for example, are making two separate products.
So wouldn't it just be easier for the
company to make for us, what you're already
making for the other country, or is it
because it's America's their biggest consumer and it's
probably cheaper to make the fake dye.
So maybe that's all comes down to consumerism,
I guess.
Yes.
(14:28):
Um, I'm not sure, honestly, because at the
end of the day, like I say this
all the time too, a two pound bag
of organic beetroot powder is $20.
And like a little, the time, like an
16th of a teaspoon would be enough coloring.
So it's like, I can't believe at this
point that it would cost more to use
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all natural products.
I would say that it would probably cost
more to make a synthetic because of all
of the machinery that you need, all the
chemicals, all the, you know, um, so I'm
not sure the reasoning behind wanting to use
synthetic when natural is much easier.
Right.
So what are some of the science and
the research that shows, or at least not
(15:13):
necessarily 100%.
Cause I know that it has kind of,
there's some things that say yes, some things
that say no.
What are some of the side effects and
symptoms from using dyes in our food?
Yeah.
So hormone disruption is one of the greatest,
especially if they're putting dyes in perfumes, body
washes, shampoos, that's the number one endocrine disruptor.
(15:36):
So we want to make sure that all
of the body products that we're using, it
doesn't have any of that in it because
if it does, you know, like I've said,
our skins are the largest organ.
It's going to go in and our body
is not going to be able, everything has
to go through the liver.
So eventually our liver gets so backed up.
It just starts causing disease in the body
because how do you get all of this
(15:57):
out?
You know, and we're not taught how to
properly detox our body from our doctors or,
you know, they just want to give us
a pill.
So, you know, same thing with food, uh,
in our storefront, I have a, oh, it's
called a candy corner and it's all organic
natural dyes.
So that seems to be the number one
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area where families struggle the most, especially when
you're trying to get kids on board.
And they want the bright colors.
Yeah.
And, but they do make all natural.
We have a whole shelf full of all
natural food coloring, you know, and they use
turmeric and beetroot and spirulina, things like that.
Um, so that, that's another thing too, but
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the candies that are all natural are significantly
higher than, you know, like a bag of
Skittles, right?
So there's that whole cost effects too.
And there's this idea too, which me and
my girlfriends talk about a lot and my
husband and I were talking not too long
about it is that I feel like in
some older generations, I think it is getting
(17:01):
better now, but we have this idea that
healthy doesn't taste as good.
Right.
I can remember growing up and like my
mom using turkey burger instead of beef and
my dad not even trying it being like,
this is going to taste like crap, right?
Just an idea of like, when we're trying
to eat a little healthier around the house.
And so how do you, how do we
(17:22):
get past that?
Or do you think that that's just something
that's going to come with time?
I think it will come with time, but
I also think like, don't say anything.
Like if you're the mom and you're cooking,
like one time, um, I was cooking for
my ex-husband and I was like, I'm
going to make a meatloaf out of turkey
burger.
And I'm going to see if he says
anything afterwards.
He was like, this is like the best
(17:43):
meatloaf I've ever had.
And so after I was like, oh, I
made it out of turkey.
And he's like, I don't feel good.
I can totally tell.
So if you're the mom and you're doing
the cooking, or if you're the dad and
you mainly cook, like just start making these
little shifts and don't tell your family.
Just see how they respond.
Yeah, for sure.
(18:03):
I can absolutely agree with that.
I sneak stuff into my husband.
Also you guys to say, remember, this is
like the nineties when I was a kid,
there's nothing wrong with using beef.
And then if you want to do that
with turkey, but back in the day there
was this idea that like brown turkey is
so much of better alternatives than beef, which
nowadays we know it's a great source of
protein, your beef.
Um, so with the band that has been
(18:25):
into effect, how long, what is the process?
Is it like tomorrow, all of a sudden
all these companies have to take it out
of food?
I wish.
Um, they have two years to make this
shift.
So they have two years to figure out
new formulas or whatever they've got to do
to get these dies or the red number
(18:47):
three, at least that's where we're at now.
It's the only one they've banned, which is
silly.
Like all of them need to go.
There'd been so many studies that prove that
they cause, you know, like we've said the
hormone disruption cancer and neurological issues.
Is there any proof that actually shows that
it's also associated with ADHD?
Yes.
I believe there are some studies in the
(19:08):
Lancet that are specifically linked to behavioral issues
and you see it.
I see it every day with customers who
are like, okay, I'm getting rid of the
dyes in my children who have ADHD and
autism and their behaviors change drastically when they
remove these synthetic dyes.
They're more calm in school.
(19:29):
They're not fidgeting around in their seats.
Um, they're able to focus better.
They're, they're more just cognitively aware.
So, I mean, the proof's kind of in
the pudding.
It has been really cool.
And I feel like it's only been the
last really five years that I feel like
we're starting to lean towards healthier must haves
(19:50):
for FDA and food as far as like,
you know, our labels just changed where it
used to be able to like kind of
hide things here and there, you know, you'd
be like, okay, this, you know, I remember
picking up a cookie one time and it
was like 400 calories, but really small.
It said, oh, this is two servings.
Yes.
Right.
And it's like, like the protein cookie.
(20:12):
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm like, oh wow, this is great.
But then you're like 800 calories or the
whole cookie.
Exactly.
And so now that that's changed and now
we're starting to become a little bit more
aware with dyes.
What are there any other chemicals that you
know of that you think might be changing
here shortly?
For us in America, at least like to
(20:33):
see change.
A lot of them like the brominated vegetable
oils.
So that's me.
That's a fire retardant and they put it
in sodas.
I don't think that's Mountain Dew, right?
Mountain Dew and sundrop.
Yeah.
And it's like, where did we get?
How did we get to a point in
(20:54):
our food that we've allowed these things?
And these are FDA regulated.
So it's like, how can you trust somebody
that's allowing all of this into our food
sources?
It just, it doesn't make sense.
You think part of the awareness too is,
you know, as much as we like to
bash on social media, I kind of feel
like it's, we are no longer ignorant.
(21:18):
You know, like we're able to see what
other countries are doing ourselves.
So as a society, we're able to say
like, okay, other countries are doing it this
way.
Why are we not?
And we're learning more about what's in our
food because of social media in a way.
Yes.
I mean, social media has just really taken
off with providing truth to people.
I know so I don't know many people
anymore who buy store bread.
(21:40):
They were all making our own because why
buy something that has 50 ingredients when you
can just make one that tastes better and
has five ingredients.
So yeah, I think social media has really
blown the lid off and it's kind of
put the power back into our own hands.
We're we've, we're teaching each other.
Like that was how when I got on
tick tock and I just started teaching everybody
(22:01):
everything I knew about herbalism.
It's like, it's not complicated.
You can make your own medicine.
There's no sense in like putting all of
these chemicals into your body that in turn,
it might give you relief temporarily, but in
the long term it's building up this toxic
waste in your body in turn causing more
disease.
So yeah, social media has been really awesome.
(22:23):
Yeah.
Like as much as we like to poopoo
on it and it does have so many
negatives.
I always also do like to highlight the
fact of it brings people together, right?
It does.
You get to learn so much about other
places and other things and people are just
becoming so much more aware of options around
them, which I think is amazing.
Yes.
Yeah.
And it's fun because you find your own
(22:44):
little like communities.
You're like, oh, so-and-so teaches bread.
So-and-so does medicine.
So-and-so, you know, teaches us how
to make cheese.
I remember someone taught a recipe on how
to make cheese-its and I made it
at home and I was like, these are
way better than store-bought cheese-its.
Right.
So, you know, the options are out there
if you're not lazy and you're willing to
put in a little legwork.
(23:05):
Right.
For sure.
And if you guys just, if you're listening,
you're like, yeah, that's awesome.
I literally don't have time, which I absolutely
get.
Even so, just going to the bakery of
your grocery store nowadays, they have much higher
quality options available to you.
Right.
Yes.
Yep.
And the organic sections really seem to be
expanding too, which I think is so silly.
We have to put organic.
(23:25):
Yeah.
On things like that just should be it.
We should be putting like genetically modified meat,
you know, things like that.
But when I was a kid, I remember
when whole foods first opened up, there was
just this idea that organic meant healthy.
So like my dad would go to the
store and bring home a cake and be
like, but it's from whole foods.
It's organic.
It's healthy.
(23:47):
Right.
Yeah.
It's still loaded with sugar dad.
So that just comes with some of the
awareness.
You had mentioned different dye options, like all
natural dye options, like beet, for example, what
I would love to have here, your specific
examples and what color they can help with.
So people are at home and be like,
(24:07):
Oh, I'm making a cake this weekend and
I want to make it blue.
What can I do?
But also like getting rid of that fear
of, okay, I want to make a red
velvet cake.
I'm going to use beet powder instead.
A lot of people are like, um, beets
taste like earth.
So I don't want my cupcakes to taste
like dirt.
Right.
some of those, some of those skeptical minds.
(24:30):
Yeah.
So when you're using all natural, it really
takes a very small amount when you're, when
you're using them.
So if you're making a red velvet cake
and you're using beetroot, you're not going to
need an astronomical amount of powder.
You probably only need like a tablespoon.
Um, maybe two, I don't know.
I've never made red velvet cake.
Um, but yeah, it's not as much as
(24:52):
you think, you know, same thing with turmeric
or carrot powder.
You just need a tiny little bit and
a little bit goes a really long way.
So I've never heard of carrot powder before.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
They got it.
Yeah.
Huh.
And it doesn't add flavor or anything.
No, no, not to my experience.
(25:15):
Yeah.
And then what are some of the Bennett,
like, cause not only are you getting the
color, but beaten up of itself is such
a healthy food.
There's a lot of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and
that's the other side of this is we're
taking out all of these synthetic waste and
adding in nutrients back into our body that
things that we're made of and things that
(25:35):
we need.
So it's just a bonus all the way
around.
What is your favorite?
Like food coloring product.
Is there something that are you manufactured or
do you buy just pure or would you
recommend people just getting pure beetroot?
Yes.
Um, there is a company and I have
it over in the store.
I wish I could remember their name, but
(25:56):
it looks just like food coloring.
And there's no preservatives or anything artificial.
It's just a mixture.
I believe of like vegetable glycerin and then
the different powders.
Um, so like for red, I think it's
beetroot for green and blue.
They use spirulina for yellow, turmeric.
I'll make sure I'll do some research.
(26:17):
You guys listening and make sure to plug
in some links down below.
And obviously I'll of course link up to
your store as well, which, yes, let's dig
into that.
So you own restored identity.
Share a little bit about that.
Sure.
So, um, after I, you know, when I
was 34 and I figured out, I was
taking everything from the left and the right
and the front and the back and just,
(26:37):
and then my friend sent me that video
about restoring my body.
I was like, okay.
I was watching video after video of people
who were older than me, restoring their body
of like herpes cancer, um, IBS Hashimoto's hypothyroid.
And I'm like, okay, if these people can
do this, there's no reason why I can't
do it.
So that's when I just started experimenting and
(27:00):
creating blends to, and then I would be
like, Hey, you know, you have hormone issues.
Try this with my friends.
And they take it like, Oh my gosh,
my hot flashes.
I haven't had hot flashes.
And I only three days in.
Um, so after I experimented on myself for
over a year, I just sat there and
I was like, you know what?
I'm going to start an herbal supplement company
and I'm just going to bring restoration to
(27:23):
the world.
And, and that's what kind of happened one
by one is I came out with products
and after I tested them on people, I
just started putting them on the website and
releasing them.
And we're kind of known for our custom
cleansing kits.
We have, I figured out that there's a
very simple, systematic way to restore the body
of any type of disease.
(27:44):
Um, you know, first you have to open
the pathways in the body and that just
means going in and we have a kit
for that.
It's called the open pathways kit.
But once we start taking in all of
these toxins over time, what it does is
it just closes up our lymphatic, our colon,
our liver, our kidneys, our heart.
And then it just starts building all of
this disease starts building.
(28:04):
So I discovered that if you just reverse
it out of the body in backwards, you
can restore the body from anything.
We have heavy metal kits.
I have a kit for people who receive
the jab called the jab rehab kit, herpes,
um, mold.
We have parasites, all of that.
And we, we have a 36 page custom
booklet that comes with every kit that walks
(28:26):
you through the whole cleansing process, everything you
know, other things that you can do while
you're cleansing.
Um, and it's been, it's been pretty awesome.
We've had so many success stories at this
point, four years in, you know, people who
had cancer, no longer have cancer.
People who had fatty liver, no longer have
fatty liver cirrhosis of the liver, all of
that being reversed.
(28:47):
Wow.
Good for you.
What a good feeling too, to be able
to like help people.
It's truly an honor.
It's a heavy weight sometimes, um, but it's
truly an honor to get to do what
I do.
Yeah.
And this is not on the level of
cancer or cirrhosis of the liver, but I
am a 40 year old woman go getting
ready to be 41 in less than a
(29:07):
month and para menopause, right?
And I know a lot of my listeners
are the same way.
And actually one of my best friends is
starting like the more menopausal state of the
hot flashes and everything like that.
What are some of the most important herbs
that people could possibly be putting into their
bodies to help where you're like, oh my
(29:28):
God, you should be taking, I don't know,
parsley.
Right.
Yeah.
So we have one blend called happy, happy
hormones.
And the main ingredient in that is Ashwagandha,
but there's also Moringa leaf and Talsy holy
basil and a little black pepper to help
activate it all.
But those three together make such an amazing
combo to help restore the body.
(29:51):
We've had ladies who were going to, you
know, they wanted to just end it all
because their hormones were so out of whack
in their doll.
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