November 17, 2025 • 31 mins
Feeling stuck between wellness hype and real results? We sat down with Eddie Stone, founder and CEO of Touchstone Essentials, to cut through the noise and focus on what actually moves the needle: reducing daily toxic load and fueling the body with clean, verifiable nutrition. Eddie shares the wake-up calls that shaped his approach, from early labs that didn’t make sense to a family health crisis that spotlighted how hidden exposures can quietly chip away at our resilience.
We dig into practical detox and daily nutrition—why consistency beats extremes, how a well-crafted greens powder can deliver phytonutrients without the cleanup barrier, and where a zeolite-based detox fits in a simple routine. Eddie breaks down the sourcing and testing that separate trustworthy supplements from slick labels: farm visits, recognized organic certifications, identity checks on raw materials, and third-party labs for potency and purity. If you’ve wondered whether that “clean” product is actually clean, you’ll get a clear checklist to evaluate it.
We also explore targeted support for modern needs: fiber that helps with blood sugar and gut health, and botanical blends aimed at stimulating telomerase for telomere maintenance as part of a broader longevity plan. Throughout, we return to the pillars that matter—sleep, movement, stress management, and whole-food nutrition—and how supplements can fill gaps without pretending to be the foundation. The takeaway is empowering and doable: pick your main concern, start small, and judge progress by how you feel over weeks, not hours.
Ready to turn intention into action? Listen now, then grab the special first-time discount link in the show notes to try the products discussed. If this conversation helped you rethink your routine, subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review to tell us what you’ll start with first.
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SPEAKER_00 (00:12):
Well, hello, and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
I'm your host, Joe Grumbine, andwe've got a very special guest
today.
His name's Eddie Stone, and heis the founder and CEO of
Touchstone Essentials, alifelong entrepreneur and
advocate of healthy living.
Eddie is uh leading ane-commerce detox and wellness
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brand with the vision oftouching lives with goodness,
looking for clean supplements.
And it looks like Eddie's got alot of information about this.
And you know, the audience isalways looking for good sources
of good products.
And there's so much garbage outthere and so much bad marketing
(00:54):
and so much uh misinformation.
I'm looking forward to hearingum about what you do and how you
do it.
But first, I'd really like tosay, welcome to the show, Eddie.
And how did you come to thisplace?
Like, you know, this isn't likeuh I don't have a hundred people
reaching out to me from yourpoint of view.
(01:15):
So, you know, what caused you tocome into this space?
SPEAKER_01 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah.
And number one, Joe, thank youfor having me.
Appreciate this opportunity.
And we always love to uh talkwith audiences and kind of just
establish a dialogue.
I've got, I mean, it's there's abusiness here, but I've got a
lot of passion for the subjectmatter.
So I'm I'll give you the thequick overview.
Um I'm 62 years old and reallyhave been involved in health and
(01:43):
nutrition since my mid-20s.
So for me, it's a it's a longcareer.
And I'll say right up front,things that I thought I had
figured out in my mid-20s, justlike a lot of people, my
perspective is far a differenttoday.
Um, I think when I when I firstgot to nutrition, I was, you
know, involved in sometriathlons and things like that
(02:04):
when I was in school.
Nothing at too high a level.
I was not some ultra athlete,just somebody trying to stay
modestly fit.
Sure.
But I really found out when Igot out of school, right?
Which is somewhat of a coddledenvironment.
You get into that real world,those early jobs that are
60-hour week grind.
You're you're not a lot of timeto work out or I mean, frankly,
(02:26):
even being thoughtful with food.
But I, you know, when you'rethat age, I don't know that you
think much about it, right?
You're getting something todrive through window.
So big.
SPEAKER_00 (02:35):
Hey, whatever came by, quickest thing I could grab,
I ate it.
If it was in the fridge, I ateit.
If I drove by it, I'd eat it.
I I'd eat it, I'd eateverything.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (02:44):
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm with you.
I made a lot of Taco Bell in mylife.
SPEAKER_00 (02:47):
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (02:48):
Um, but I I had a couple little wake-up calls.
I mean, one may be more biggerthan another, but I I was doing
an insurance for work thing,blood work, and my blood work
came back really terrible.
You know, I'm in my mid-20s, andthe blood and risk factors for
insurance of like a a heavysmoker, I didn't smoke.
(03:09):
I mean, I you know, it's like,what that's what's going on?
And so my cholesterol andtriglycerides, just basically
all the lipid profiles andthings are kind of terrible.
And the guy said, Hey, you'reyou're too young for this to be
a thing.
Right.
This isn't right.
Yeah, he I said, You think it'syour lifestyle?
And I was just thinking aboutthe backseat of my car and all
the fast food bags.
I thought, yeah, it's it's it'sa choice.
(03:31):
And so I, you know, I began tothink about this stuff and took
a career pivot and startedworking in nutrition, basically
in in sales.
I was kind of intrigued with thesubject.
Um, and then my mom, about ayear or two later, she had a
situation where she got sick andit's kind of unidentified,
right?
We we we took to a lot of localdoctors.
I live in North Carolina, wetook her to the local university
(03:53):
hospitals, and this was draggingon for a couple of years where
they couldn't figure out whatwas going on.
And ultimately we found outthrough a referral to a doctor
in Georgia that she wasfundamentally toxic.
She had had breast implants whenshe was younger.
She's having this autoimmuneresponse, and nothing that
conventional medicine had sortof even pointed towards, right?
(04:14):
Just took these extra steps.
And so she went on an IVchelation.
And I didn't even know what thatwas.
But ultimately it's it'sdesigned to detox pretty
aggressive, maybe a little tooaggressive, but it worked out
for her.
And so it just kind of opened upmy mind to the fact that, hey,
it's not just what you put inyour body, it's important,
right?
(04:34):
The inputs were important, butit's what you're exposed to.
It's it's how do you manage thetoxicity?
I tell people all the time thatyou know, one of the dirty
little secrets of modern livingis just how sort of toxic the
world is from a perspective ofthere's probably a hundred
thousand plus man-made toxinsthat are involved in the
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production of, I don't know,consumer goods, uh, fertilizers,
fungicides, pesticides.
SPEAKER_00 (05:01):
I mean, all this stuff that just sort of not even
talking about the foreverchemicals in your water and
microplastics.
And you know, it just seems likeit's getting more and more
toxic, not less and less.
SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
Yeah, I I I just read something.
I think I said I'm 62.
By the age of 60, most men havebetween three and five grams of
microplastics in their body.
Yeah, prostate and braincollection points, particularly.
So, yeah, I mean, there's somethings to think about.
Look, the truth, though, is thatthe human body is really
adaptable and we can overcome alot of stuff.
(05:35):
But for some people, they reallyhave acute problems, skin
issues, headaches, I mean, justall kinds of stuff.
And for the general population,it's just like your car.
If you don't pay attention, younever tune it up, you never
change the filters, whatever,things don't run as well as they
used to.
And that's true with people.
So as my career developed innutrition, I paid as much
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attention to the fact that yougot to support how your body
naturally detoxes, as well asreally considering, you know,
the clean or uh the quality ofthe supplement you're putting
in.
And that's that's really theevolution of really why I'm
here.
And it, I mean, it's turned outit's it's a big subject matter.
(06:16):
We operate in 50 plus countries.
Yeah.
We really deal with millions ofpeople, and and so we've
recognized it's a it's it's abig deal and sometimes really
give careful consideration to.
SPEAKER_00 (06:29):
Well, as you can imagine, um, this podcast deals
a lot with diet and umbiohacking and longevity and uh
just wellness in general.
So we have a lot of discussionabout ingredients, products, um,
you know, sources of things.
(06:49):
And I think that it's a worthyconversation.
There's so much um, you know,it's it's become a fashionable
thing.
Um, and it kind of has always,there's always been uh snake oil
salesmen riding into town withtheir magic elixir, and and you
(07:11):
know, nine out of ten times it'seither some brandy or or you
know, some piss water, some somesort.
And you know, people will listento a story, and and you know,
the guy with the Pied Piper justkind of reels in his little crew
and has his shells out there,you know, talking about how
great everything is, and youknow, they sell products, and
(07:33):
there's probably some element ofplacebo effect that will cause
even uh a person that's beingduped to find some benefit in a
in a nothing or worse product,but we can't rely on that.
And I think that there are goodproducts and there are good
companies out there, there aregood farms out there, there um
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there's good information to behad.
And I think to sort of lay out aclearinghouse or a platform,
which is kind of what thispodcast is about, that says,
Well, let's have a conversation.
And if you get through, youknow, the questions I have, I
would probably say you're worthlistening to.
(08:18):
Um, if you start stuttering andstammering, I'll go, well, here
goes another one.
SPEAKER_01 (08:24):
No, listen, I'm on board.
And I mean, the the good news isover the last really couple of
decades, the number of peoplepaying attention to these
issues, right?
Which is when I talk about theseissues, I'm not just talking
about sort of managing yourhealth from a crisis standpoint,
right?
It's great that we have Westernmedicine and you break your leg
(08:45):
or you need surgery, there's alot of medications that can be
important at mitigating riskfactors for disease.
But if you want to go beyondthat, so that we're not just
thinking about how long we live,but the quality of that life,
right?
What it means.
Because you you, if you're notcareful, you can get to your
late 60s, early 70s and wind upbeing a bit of a prisoner to
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your body, right?
Because of just thedeterioration and and and things
that occur.
Sure, you you can stay alivewith dozen or so medications,
other things like that, but Idon't know that anybody wants
that to be the design, right?
There's a there's sort ofanother more thought.
SPEAKER_00 (09:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Uh uh hooked up to an IV or oryou know, having to be on this
cocktail of drugs, you know, youlike you talked about a lot of
people over 65, you know, yousay, Well, what are your meds?
And they pull out a littlecontainer with, you know, your
daily stuff.
And I'm like, whoa, like whowants that?
(09:44):
I mean, how do you even keeptrack of it?
And, you know, with modernmedicine, I think one of the
biggest problems is it'ssymptomatic in its treatment,
it's about treatment, notcuring.
And your body can cure itself ifyou give it what it needs and
and remove what it doesn't need.
And I think that's kind of whatthis conversation's all about.
SPEAKER_01 (10:06):
Yeah, I I I agree with you.
It's and and you to me, I try tothink about the incentives, like
kind of follow the money.
And the reality is whetheryou're talking about big food or
big pharma or some of thesedynamics, and and that is not to
say that everything going onwith big food and pharma is bad.
I'm not that person.
SPEAKER_00 (10:23):
Things come, yeah.
Yeah, but many, many lives havebeen saved by drugs that maybe I
wish I wouldn't have to take.
But if I was in a situationwhere that was the thing that
was gonna change my life, hey, Iwould think differently for
sure.
SPEAKER_01 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah.
But if you look at theirincentives, prevention, keeping
you from showing up, right,filling the script, whatever.
That's it's not a priority.
It's not that they're againstit, right?
But it's not their focus.
And so we really have to be asself-reliant as possible.
I don't, I don't think peoplealways realize that.
They're just kind of kind offollowing this general plan.
(10:59):
But the truth is, if you dig ineven a little bit, there's just
even a few tweaks.
People do not have to, you know,live off the land and graze for
their food.
There's there's mediums, happymediums there between just
paying attention and you know,embracing the world we live in
without all eating every mealultra-processed.
SPEAKER_00 (11:17):
You have to be your own advocate.
And in doing that, you have todo your own research and find
out which truths affect you.
And really, that's it's yourresponsibility.
You know, I'm I'm all aboutownership, you know.
Like I'm dealing with uh uhovercoming a really aggressive
cancer, and I've had to learn alot and be an advocate, and I've
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done many episodes on that wholejourney.
But the point is, I had to ownit.
I brought this thing to myself,nobody did this to me, and
nobody was gonna fix me.
I had to go and find my answers,and I think that applies to
everybody in every situation,whether you're just getting old,
whether you have an injury, anailment, or you're reasonably
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healthy and want to stay thatway.
SPEAKER_01 (12:05):
Yeah, that I I couldn't agree more about you're
saying, right?
It's being your own uh bestadvocate, right?
Is really what this comes downto.
SPEAKER_00 (12:14):
100%.
So, in doing that, you know,like I said, I spent the last
year and like a crash course offinding truths.
And when you start to becomeaware of certain things, whether
it's about your diet, about youryour your own health, or or
pathways to the answers you'relooking for, you come to find
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out there's huge amounts ofinformation.
Like today, we live in thiscrazy world of information.
You know, when I startedstudying herbs, there was no
computers, and I had to go toold bookstores and get old
herbal books, and I I I justtaught myself the old-fashioned
way, and I did it and I triedand I failed and I tried and I
(12:58):
succeeded, and I I learned fromthose things today.
You know, with AI and Google, Imean, you just type in a couple
of keywords and things juststart rolling in faster and you
can process it, but there's goodintermixed with the bad, and a
lot of the good has maybe a badedge to it, and a lot of the bad
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might have a good edge to it.
How do you find your way throughall this?
SPEAKER_01 (13:23):
You know, for us, we we do a few things, right?
There's sort of a portfolio ofthings that we're looking at
when we're trying to makedecisions.
And number one, we we try tolook at hey, what what's really
something where people need helpwith?
Okay, what can we help themwith?
And so I'll give you a primeexample.
We've we've got a greensproduct, right?
It's popular, it's verysuccessful.
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Greens support the body'snatural abilities to detox, both
with their chemical makeups asas well as the fiber and other
things found in greens.
The challenge is that mostpeople on the go-go life pattern
that really is the modern world,right?
With generally two adultsworking, whatever that happens
to be, access and time.
(14:08):
You know, it's a it's a greatidea if you say one of juice,
right?
People think that's oh, that'san interesting notion.
You go, you go buy the juicerand it spend all that money.
You start stocking up thegrocery store, you start trying
to create a tasty juice, noteasy to do necessarily.
Lots of these things are bitter.
You get involved in the cleanup.
Next thing you know, you juicetwo times, but you just set that
(14:30):
$500 product aside on thecounter because it just doesn't
fit, right?
And so we're advocates of peopletrying to do as much as they
can, but when they can't, right?
Something that mixes easy.
We our products 44 differentorganic fruits and vegetables.
It tastes nice, it's good, it'scold processed, teeming with all
those native uh enzymes andnutrients that you find in in uh
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delicate uh phytochemicals in infruits and vegetables.
And so we try to meet thatconsumer where they are and just
give them something becausehere's I'll tell the audience,
right?
I believe in supplements in thiscontext.
They're designed to supplementwhere you're at, where you want
to be.
What are the shortfalls justbased upon knowledge, lifestyle,
and availability?
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And the same thing goes with ourdetox.
We've got a natural mineral,it's called a zeolite.
We harvest it in the U.S., it'sclean out of the ground, it's a
proprietary process to prep itso it's effective.
It's a it's odorless andtasteless.
You spray it in your mouth, andso it's designed to be stuff
that people can do day in andday out.
And that's the context of we'vebeen in business now for close
(15:38):
to 14 years.
We're selling our products in 50countries.
We have really millions ofcustomers, but we don't have
really about 16, 17 productsbecause we're not trying to be
everything.
We're just trying to fill inthose gaps that can make a
meaningful impact in somebody'sschedule in their day and just
help them with a little bit ofsort of mental comfort.
(16:00):
Okay, it's not perfect today,but I did pretty decent.
I gave my body something to workwith.
That's uh it's it's a habit Itry to get people to buy into.
End of the day, did you giveyour body something to work
with?
Did you do a little movement, alittle exercise?
Did you a little breathing, alittle management of stress, a
little decent food, right?
Maybe every meal wasn't perfect.
Did you get one?
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And so just, you know, try tofinish with some good things to
say to yourself about what youdid do.
And I think that's really wherethis journey starts for most
people.
You know, how far they take it,how committed they become,
that'll be based upon how theyfeel.
They're using they got a new setof habits for six months, all of
a sudden, oh, I feel prettygood.
My clothes fit a little looser,I'm a little more inject,
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sleeping better.
You know what?
They're likely to return tothose same habits.
Because I just think it's hardfor people to make these like
dynamic wholesale changesbecause it just doesn't fit in
life.
And that's really what we'restriving for, is to find a sort
of an on-ramp into somebody'shabits so they can see this
difference as they go down theroad.
SPEAKER_00 (17:03):
So when you talk about supplements, you know,
there are all kinds of companiesthat have all kinds of products,
and some of them have what theywould call like a nutrition
system or something that wouldalmost be like an
all-encompassing, we're gonnagive you everything you need.
But when you think about asupplement, the idea is that
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your job is to take care of mostof it, and the supplement sort
of like you're saying, fills inthe fills in the holes or or or
maybe augments some of thethings.
Like, you know, you can gothrough and have a pretty
healthy diet and still findyourself um deficient in one
thing or another.
Like I'm on a very rigid dietwith my cancer, and it's um
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particularly uh when it involvesproteins, and and um I restrict
my proteins pretty uh intensely.
But what that's done is it'scaused a little imbalance, and I
have to I have to manage thatand be aware of it that you know
my zinc intake's gonna be umhard to get to.
(18:15):
Um I'm little iron problems, youknow, I'm prone to below red
blood cells, so I've got tobalance and figure out, you
know, the the food or thesupplements or the combination
that will cause that.
But I go through regular bloodwork, so I'm I'm on top of it.
I don't think most people dothat.
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And so I think it's importantthat um when you're looking at
something, whether it's anutritional system where you
know you take a five scoops ofdifferent powders or whatever,
there's all kinds of differentapproaches to this, but as a
supplement, it seems to me,based on what I'm hearing, is
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that you've got these nutritionor these um pillars of health, I
call them.
You know, you sleep, you gotdiet, you've got exercise, you
got stress, and it goes on.
And and and there's thesedifferent sort of pillars that
if you don't have one, you know,you end up being like a
three-legged table and you don'tstand up so well.
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And um have them all, you canstill have a weakness, and um
you find a way to balance thatout with, like you say, with
these different supplements.
So you got TouchstoneEssentials, a company that uh
manufactures or distributesdifferent products.
(20:26):
You said 16, 17 differentproducts.
What is the focus of theseproducts, or do you have, or is
it sort of broadly spectrum?
SPEAKER_01 (20:35):
No, we it is there's a focus here, and and and that's
in part to try to make decisionmaking easier for consumers.
You know, what we found is thatif you give them a table full of
stuff, they don't even knowreally how to approach it,
right?
They'll start sitting aroundnow.
Now your your cancers caused ahyper focus from you in
education, right?
So you're really dialed in onwhat I need from a dietary
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standpoint, proteins andotherwise.
But that's not most people'scircumstances.
And so where most people'sconcerns are, they're sort of
broad.
I'm I'm sort of sick and tiredof being sick and tired.
I don't sleep well.
I got some kind of undescribedbrain fog every day.
Why am I needing a monsterenergy drink twice in the
afternoon?
You know, whatever thesedynamics are.
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It's more based upon you knowwhat's their their concern.
So our approach is this one,let's give you a tool to get the
bad stuff out, knowing thatthere's nobody we're gonna check
that doesn't have any lingeringchemicals in their body from
nonstick carpet, cookware,whatever.
If you've ever been on anairplane, you you now have
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flammantary material embedded inyour body.
Is it causing an immediateproblem?
No, but it always accumulativelycreates an ongoing inflammatory
response.
That's right.
Yeah, none of that's healthy.
And so we've got a naturalmineral, we've got greens, we've
got things that will supportthis idea of how your body
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detoxes itself.
So kind of number one.
Number two, put some good stuffin.
You got enough fiber in yourdiet.
We've got a great fiber productthat tastes great.
It's not your grandfather'sfiber, right?
It's not about just making youregular.
This has got other dynamics,blood sugar measurements and
stuff like that.
And then we've got specialtyitems, blood sugar control
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products, natural enzymes tobasically bind with excess
glucose in the gut, turn it intoa resistant starch so it doesn't
cause your glucose to rise.
Or, and this is really one ofthe most dynamic things we work
with.
We have a product calledtelovital.
Um, telovital is a series ofplant materials and herbs.
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Through decades of research andmillions and millions of
dollars, this recipe's beenidentified to stimulate the
production of something calledtelomerase, a natural enzyme in
your body when you take thisthat repairs, and here's what's
critical the telomere on the endof your DNA strand.
And I know the show's notdesigned for this whole thing.
SPEAKER_00 (23:04):
Oh, we've actually had um a couple of guests that
have gone deep into telomererestoration.
So it's it's a topic that I'mvery familiar with and it's
important.
SPEAKER_01 (23:15):
Yeah.
So if you what we know from aclinical standpoint, the only
way to sort of in a provenfashion help to repair and
restore a link to a telomere isthrough telomere.
It's the body's natural enzymes.
You just got to stimulate it,and that's what that product
does.
So that's for that category ofperson that's really thinking
about what am I what am I doingabout my longevity, you know,
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the quality of getting older,not just getting older.
Do I need to control my bloodsugar?
So we try to give people reallyidentifiable categories.
Say, hey, this is this is aconcern for me, right?
I'd like to try something.
So here's a set of products thatare USD organic, you know,
certified products withunconditional money-back
guarantees.
So things that give the consumera chance to find a place they
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want to enter and give somethinga go.
Maybe they're trying a couple ofthings, maybe they're trying
five, maybe they're trying one.
We're just trying to meet thatconsumer exactly where they are.
SPEAKER_00 (24:07):
So uh in in your bio and some of the information I've
done looking you up, um one ofthe things that kind of got my
attention was, you know, yourfocus on um ingredients and you
know the quality of theseingredients.
Um you know, I I manufacturenatural skincare products and
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and remedies and things likethat.
And so I'm always sourcingingredients and it's it's
difficult in a lot of ways, in alot of cases, because you know,
there's certification andthird-party um lab testing, but
all of that is only as good asits source.
(24:53):
And when somebody hands you acredential and you don't know
anything about how they got it,it you know, might be legit.
It might just be, you know, theSnake Oil guy would printed it
up on his on his color printer.
Um so tell me about sort of thethe rigors that you use in
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sourcing um the components oreven even the products that
you're dealing with.
SPEAKER_01 (25:25):
Yeah, so number one, everything we do, it's our own
recipes.
Um, so we're not working withanybody's white labels or
anything like that.
So, and and really does startwith sourcing.
It's good that you have thatbackground because you're a
smart consumer, kind ofunderstand what's going on here.
So we work with farms or co-opsthat initially, right?
(25:45):
The first thing is are theycertified?
Is there a history?
Can can we go see them?
Can we put our boots in thosefields and kind of see what's
going on in that respect, right?
So it's not just a series ofpaperworks.
Then, because our expertise isonly our presence, right?
We use third-party verificationssuch as QAI or Oregon TILF
(26:07):
that's going behind us on all ofthose certification paperworks,
right?
Just making sure that things arelined up how they're supposed to
be.
You then do uh DAID on that rawmaterial when you're looking at
it, when you're buying it, andthen when it arrives in your
warehouse, you make sure thatmatches.
Right.
So that nothing happens alongthe way.
And then we do third-partytesting, not only for potency
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and consistency, but to makesure it's clean in the way that
we're looking for.
And so it's an elaborateprocess.
Now, we've been in business along time and we do a lot of
business, so it's one that we'reexperienced with and we know how
to do this, but you have to stayon your toes.
Otherwise, you might thinkyou're buying from a farm in Des
(26:52):
Moines, but it's actually just ashield for something coming from
Southeast Asia that's not theleast bit certified or anything
we want.
In fact, one of the things I'vecome to recognize, and most
consumers would probably shock,98 plus percent, maybe 99% of
what you see from a supplementstandpoint in the United States,
(27:12):
it was assembled in the UnitedStates, but that raw material
was coming from places that werenot as clearly regulated and or
monitored in the way we mightappreciate.
In fact, you might see uhpictures of fruit on the label
and there's no fruit in theproduct.
Right.
So it's it's the the summitindustry is is regulated, not
regulated, right?
(27:32):
There's this real mix thatallows for bad actors to
participate.
And so people are proper andright to be skeptical.
SPEAKER_00 (27:41):
100%.
Well, listen, um, as it alwayshappens in a good conversation,
we run out of time prettyquickly, but I always like to uh
give our guests an opportunityto consolidate their thoughts
and and wrap it into a sort ofan elevator pitcher, a parting
shot for our listeners.
SPEAKER_01 (27:59):
Yeah, and and and listen, thank you for the time.
Appreciate the chance to connectwith your your group.
Uh touchstoneessentials.com,that's the website.
However, we always try to dosomething for audiences we speak
to.
So I'm gonna send you a link toput in the show notes that if
people want to try our products,buy our products, we'll give
them a first timers discount.
(28:21):
I think it's as much as$50.
So it's a chance to save.
And again, that does notdiminish the the guarantee
that's out there for people.
We I think we got 60 somethousand five-star reviews, and
and that came because we workhard for our customers.
The thing that I would tellpeople is what's your main
concern from a lifestylestandpoint?
(28:43):
Do you feel like toxicity,toxins, exposures is that a
concern?
We've got a great product calledPure Body Extra that's just
simple and easy to use, and weknow is effective.
Millions of people have used itaround the globe successfully.
Are you more concerned aboutnutrition?
Because you you're just notgetting there for a fruit and
vegetable standpoint orwhatever.
(29:03):
We've got some we've got agreen's powder that's fantastic,
we've got a vegan protein, it'seasy to mix, great product
tastes good, got a great fiberpowder product.
So where your concerns are iswhere I'd focus.
I mean, you you could get itall, that'd be great, but I
don't know if that's a greatplace to start.
But I think people should startkind of hyper-focused on
(29:23):
something and see if they canmake a difference in a few
months with what they're using,and you know, and and ultimately
what what habits might grow fromthere.
So we love to just kind ofestablish a relationship with
folks and grow with them overtime.
That's the nature of what we do.
And so I hope we get thatopportunity and appreciate the
chance to share with you.
SPEAKER_00 (29:40):
Fantastic.
And how do people find yourproducts?
SPEAKER_01 (29:44):
The primary website for the products is the
goodinside.com.
But we'll give you a version ofthat for your show notes that
give them an auto discount sothat they've got that, um, save
some money, right?
Um, we live in an economy wheresaving money is a good idea.
And so we'll give them adiscount link.
And and so that's uh that's agood, and then our online
(30:06):
support system is very robust.
There's an online chat, email,phone number to call, and so
whatever people need to gettheir needs taken care of.
SPEAKER_00 (30:13):
Excellent.
Well, Eddie, it's been apleasure having this
conversation.
I I I definitely want to learnmore about your company and test
out some of your products.
And I want to just thank you forjoining the show today.
SPEAKER_01 (30:25):
Thank you, Joe.
Good luck with your uh treatmentand everything as you go
forward.
SPEAKER_00 (30:30):
Oh, absolutely.
We're well on our way.
Well, this has been anotherepisode of the Healthy Living
Podcast.
I'm your host, Joe Grumban.
I want to thank all of ourlisteners for making the show
possible, and we will see younext time.
Well, hello, and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
I'm your host, Joe Grumbine, andwe've got a very special guest
today.
His name's Eddie Stone, and heis the founder and CEO of
Touchstone Essentials, alifelong entrepreneur and
advocate of healthy living.
Eddie is uh leading ane-commerce detox and wellness
(00:34):
brand with the vision oftouching lives with goodness,
looking for clean supplements.
And it looks like Eddie's got alot of information about this.
And you know, the audience isalways looking for good sources
of good products.
And there's so much garbage outthere and so much bad marketing
(00:54):
and so much uh misinformation.
I'm looking forward to hearingum about what you do and how you
do it.
But first, I'd really like tosay, welcome to the show, Eddie.
And how did you come to thisplace?
Like, you know, this isn't likeuh I don't have a hundred people
reaching out to me from yourpoint of view.
(01:15):
So, you know, what caused you tocome into this space?
SPEAKER_01 (01:20):
Yeah, yeah.
And number one, Joe, thank youfor having me.
Appreciate this opportunity.
And we always love to uh talkwith audiences and kind of just
establish a dialogue.
I've got, I mean, it's there's abusiness here, but I've got a
lot of passion for the subjectmatter.
So I'm I'll give you the thequick overview.
Um I'm 62 years old and reallyhave been involved in health and
(01:43):
nutrition since my mid-20s.
So for me, it's a it's a longcareer.
And I'll say right up front,things that I thought I had
figured out in my mid-20s, justlike a lot of people, my
perspective is far a differenttoday.
Um, I think when I when I firstgot to nutrition, I was, you
know, involved in sometriathlons and things like that
(02:04):
when I was in school.
Nothing at too high a level.
I was not some ultra athlete,just somebody trying to stay
modestly fit.
Sure.
But I really found out when Igot out of school, right?
Which is somewhat of a coddledenvironment.
You get into that real world,those early jobs that are
60-hour week grind.
You're you're not a lot of timeto work out or I mean, frankly,
(02:26):
even being thoughtful with food.
But I, you know, when you'rethat age, I don't know that you
think much about it, right?
You're getting something todrive through window.
So big.
SPEAKER_00 (02:35):
Hey, whatever came by, quickest thing I could grab,
I ate it.
If it was in the fridge, I ateit.
If I drove by it, I'd eat it.
I I'd eat it, I'd eateverything.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (02:44):
Yeah, I'm I'm I'm with you.
I made a lot of Taco Bell in mylife.
SPEAKER_00 (02:47):
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01 (02:48):
Um, but I I had a couple little wake-up calls.
I mean, one may be more biggerthan another, but I I was doing
an insurance for work thing,blood work, and my blood work
came back really terrible.
You know, I'm in my mid-20s, andthe blood and risk factors for
insurance of like a a heavysmoker, I didn't smoke.
(03:09):
I mean, I you know, it's like,what that's what's going on?
And so my cholesterol andtriglycerides, just basically
all the lipid profiles andthings are kind of terrible.
And the guy said, Hey, you'reyou're too young for this to be
a thing.
Right.
This isn't right.
Yeah, he I said, You think it'syour lifestyle?
And I was just thinking aboutthe backseat of my car and all
the fast food bags.
I thought, yeah, it's it's it'sa choice.
(03:31):
And so I, you know, I began tothink about this stuff and took
a career pivot and startedworking in nutrition, basically
in in sales.
I was kind of intrigued with thesubject.
Um, and then my mom, about ayear or two later, she had a
situation where she got sick andit's kind of unidentified,
right?
We we we took to a lot of localdoctors.
I live in North Carolina, wetook her to the local university
(03:53):
hospitals, and this was draggingon for a couple of years where
they couldn't figure out whatwas going on.
And ultimately we found outthrough a referral to a doctor
in Georgia that she wasfundamentally toxic.
She had had breast implants whenshe was younger.
She's having this autoimmuneresponse, and nothing that
conventional medicine had sortof even pointed towards, right?
(04:14):
Just took these extra steps.
And so she went on an IVchelation.
And I didn't even know what thatwas.
But ultimately it's it'sdesigned to detox pretty
aggressive, maybe a little tooaggressive, but it worked out
for her.
And so it just kind of opened upmy mind to the fact that, hey,
it's not just what you put inyour body, it's important,
right?
(04:34):
The inputs were important, butit's what you're exposed to.
It's it's how do you manage thetoxicity?
I tell people all the time thatyou know, one of the dirty
little secrets of modern livingis just how sort of toxic the
world is from a perspective ofthere's probably a hundred
thousand plus man-made toxinsthat are involved in the
(04:54):
production of, I don't know,consumer goods, uh, fertilizers,
fungicides, pesticides.
SPEAKER_00 (05:01):
I mean, all this stuff that just sort of not even
talking about the foreverchemicals in your water and
microplastics.
And you know, it just seems likeit's getting more and more
toxic, not less and less.
SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
Yeah, I I I just read something.
I think I said I'm 62.
By the age of 60, most men havebetween three and five grams of
microplastics in their body.
Yeah, prostate and braincollection points, particularly.
So, yeah, I mean, there's somethings to think about.
Look, the truth, though, is thatthe human body is really
adaptable and we can overcome alot of stuff.
(05:35):
But for some people, they reallyhave acute problems, skin
issues, headaches, I mean, justall kinds of stuff.
And for the general population,it's just like your car.
If you don't pay attention, younever tune it up, you never
change the filters, whatever,things don't run as well as they
used to.
And that's true with people.
So as my career developed innutrition, I paid as much
(05:56):
attention to the fact that yougot to support how your body
naturally detoxes, as well asreally considering, you know,
the clean or uh the quality ofthe supplement you're putting
in.
And that's that's really theevolution of really why I'm
here.
And it, I mean, it's turned outit's it's a big subject matter.
(06:16):
We operate in 50 plus countries.
Yeah.
We really deal with millions ofpeople, and and so we've
recognized it's a it's it's abig deal and sometimes really
give careful consideration to.
SPEAKER_00 (06:29):
Well, as you can imagine, um, this podcast deals
a lot with diet and umbiohacking and longevity and uh
just wellness in general.
So we have a lot of discussionabout ingredients, products, um,
you know, sources of things.
(06:49):
And I think that it's a worthyconversation.
There's so much um, you know,it's it's become a fashionable
thing.
Um, and it kind of has always,there's always been uh snake oil
salesmen riding into town withtheir magic elixir, and and you
(07:11):
know, nine out of ten times it'seither some brandy or or you
know, some piss water, some somesort.
And you know, people will listento a story, and and you know,
the guy with the Pied Piper justkind of reels in his little crew
and has his shells out there,you know, talking about how
great everything is, and youknow, they sell products, and
(07:33):
there's probably some element ofplacebo effect that will cause
even uh a person that's beingduped to find some benefit in a
in a nothing or worse product,but we can't rely on that.
And I think that there are goodproducts and there are good
companies out there, there aregood farms out there, there um
(07:57):
there's good information to behad.
And I think to sort of lay out aclearinghouse or a platform,
which is kind of what thispodcast is about, that says,
Well, let's have a conversation.
And if you get through, youknow, the questions I have, I
would probably say you're worthlistening to.
(08:18):
Um, if you start stuttering andstammering, I'll go, well, here
goes another one.
SPEAKER_01 (08:24):
No, listen, I'm on board.
And I mean, the the good news isover the last really couple of
decades, the number of peoplepaying attention to these
issues, right?
Which is when I talk about theseissues, I'm not just talking
about sort of managing yourhealth from a crisis standpoint,
right?
It's great that we have Westernmedicine and you break your leg
(08:45):
or you need surgery, there's alot of medications that can be
important at mitigating riskfactors for disease.
But if you want to go beyondthat, so that we're not just
thinking about how long we live,but the quality of that life,
right?
What it means.
Because you you, if you're notcareful, you can get to your
late 60s, early 70s and wind upbeing a bit of a prisoner to
(09:08):
your body, right?
Because of just thedeterioration and and and things
that occur.
Sure, you you can stay alivewith dozen or so medications,
other things like that, but Idon't know that anybody wants
that to be the design, right?
There's a there's sort ofanother more thought.
SPEAKER_00 (09:23):
Yeah, yeah.
Uh uh hooked up to an IV or oryou know, having to be on this
cocktail of drugs, you know, youlike you talked about a lot of
people over 65, you know, yousay, Well, what are your meds?
And they pull out a littlecontainer with, you know, your
daily stuff.
And I'm like, whoa, like whowants that?
(09:44):
I mean, how do you even keeptrack of it?
And, you know, with modernmedicine, I think one of the
biggest problems is it'ssymptomatic in its treatment,
it's about treatment, notcuring.
And your body can cure itself ifyou give it what it needs and
and remove what it doesn't need.
And I think that's kind of whatthis conversation's all about.
SPEAKER_01 (10:06):
Yeah, I I I agree with you.
It's and and you to me, I try tothink about the incentives, like
kind of follow the money.
And the reality is whetheryou're talking about big food or
big pharma or some of thesedynamics, and and that is not to
say that everything going onwith big food and pharma is bad.
I'm not that person.
SPEAKER_00 (10:23):
Things come, yeah.
Yeah, but many, many lives havebeen saved by drugs that maybe I
wish I wouldn't have to take.
But if I was in a situationwhere that was the thing that
was gonna change my life, hey, Iwould think differently for
sure.
SPEAKER_01 (10:38):
Yeah, yeah.
But if you look at theirincentives, prevention, keeping
you from showing up, right,filling the script, whatever.
That's it's not a priority.
It's not that they're againstit, right?
But it's not their focus.
And so we really have to be asself-reliant as possible.
I don't, I don't think peoplealways realize that.
They're just kind of kind offollowing this general plan.
(10:59):
But the truth is, if you dig ineven a little bit, there's just
even a few tweaks.
People do not have to, you know,live off the land and graze for
their food.
There's there's mediums, happymediums there between just
paying attention and you know,embracing the world we live in
without all eating every mealultra-processed.
SPEAKER_00 (11:17):
You have to be your own advocate.
And in doing that, you have todo your own research and find
out which truths affect you.
And really, that's it's yourresponsibility.
You know, I'm I'm all aboutownership, you know.
Like I'm dealing with uh uhovercoming a really aggressive
cancer, and I've had to learn alot and be an advocate, and I've
(11:41):
done many episodes on that wholejourney.
But the point is, I had to ownit.
I brought this thing to myself,nobody did this to me, and
nobody was gonna fix me.
I had to go and find my answers,and I think that applies to
everybody in every situation,whether you're just getting old,
whether you have an injury, anailment, or you're reasonably
(12:03):
healthy and want to stay thatway.
SPEAKER_01 (12:05):
Yeah, that I I couldn't agree more about you're
saying, right?
It's being your own uh bestadvocate, right?
Is really what this comes downto.
SPEAKER_00 (12:14):
100%.
So, in doing that, you know,like I said, I spent the last
year and like a crash course offinding truths.
And when you start to becomeaware of certain things, whether
it's about your diet, about youryour your own health, or or
pathways to the answers you'relooking for, you come to find
(12:37):
out there's huge amounts ofinformation.
Like today, we live in thiscrazy world of information.
You know, when I startedstudying herbs, there was no
computers, and I had to go toold bookstores and get old
herbal books, and I I I justtaught myself the old-fashioned
way, and I did it and I triedand I failed and I tried and I
(12:58):
succeeded, and I I learned fromthose things today.
You know, with AI and Google, Imean, you just type in a couple
of keywords and things juststart rolling in faster and you
can process it, but there's goodintermixed with the bad, and a
lot of the good has maybe a badedge to it, and a lot of the bad
(13:18):
might have a good edge to it.
How do you find your way throughall this?
SPEAKER_01 (13:23):
You know, for us, we we do a few things, right?
There's sort of a portfolio ofthings that we're looking at
when we're trying to makedecisions.
And number one, we we try tolook at hey, what what's really
something where people need helpwith?
Okay, what can we help themwith?
And so I'll give you a primeexample.
We've we've got a greensproduct, right?
It's popular, it's verysuccessful.
(13:45):
Greens support the body'snatural abilities to detox, both
with their chemical makeups asas well as the fiber and other
things found in greens.
The challenge is that mostpeople on the go-go life pattern
that really is the modern world,right?
With generally two adultsworking, whatever that happens
to be, access and time.
(14:08):
You know, it's a it's a greatidea if you say one of juice,
right?
People think that's oh, that'san interesting notion.
You go, you go buy the juicerand it spend all that money.
You start stocking up thegrocery store, you start trying
to create a tasty juice, noteasy to do necessarily.
Lots of these things are bitter.
You get involved in the cleanup.
Next thing you know, you juicetwo times, but you just set that
(14:30):
$500 product aside on thecounter because it just doesn't
fit, right?
And so we're advocates of peopletrying to do as much as they
can, but when they can't, right?
Something that mixes easy.
We our products 44 differentorganic fruits and vegetables.
It tastes nice, it's good, it'scold processed, teeming with all
those native uh enzymes andnutrients that you find in in uh
(14:53):
delicate uh phytochemicals in infruits and vegetables.
And so we try to meet thatconsumer where they are and just
give them something becausehere's I'll tell the audience,
right?
I believe in supplements in thiscontext.
They're designed to supplementwhere you're at, where you want
to be.
What are the shortfalls justbased upon knowledge, lifestyle,
and availability?
(15:14):
And the same thing goes with ourdetox.
We've got a natural mineral,it's called a zeolite.
We harvest it in the U.S., it'sclean out of the ground, it's a
proprietary process to prep itso it's effective.
It's a it's odorless andtasteless.
You spray it in your mouth, andso it's designed to be stuff
that people can do day in andday out.
And that's the context of we'vebeen in business now for close
(15:38):
to 14 years.
We're selling our products in 50countries.
We have really millions ofcustomers, but we don't have
really about 16, 17 productsbecause we're not trying to be
everything.
We're just trying to fill inthose gaps that can make a
meaningful impact in somebody'sschedule in their day and just
help them with a little bit ofsort of mental comfort.
(16:00):
Okay, it's not perfect today,but I did pretty decent.
I gave my body something to workwith.
That's uh it's it's a habit Itry to get people to buy into.
End of the day, did you giveyour body something to work
with?
Did you do a little movement, alittle exercise?
Did you a little breathing, alittle management of stress, a
little decent food, right?
Maybe every meal wasn't perfect.
Did you get one?
(16:21):
And so just, you know, try tofinish with some good things to
say to yourself about what youdid do.
And I think that's really wherethis journey starts for most
people.
You know, how far they take it,how committed they become,
that'll be based upon how theyfeel.
They're using they got a new setof habits for six months, all of
a sudden, oh, I feel prettygood.
My clothes fit a little looser,I'm a little more inject,
(16:42):
sleeping better.
You know what?
They're likely to return tothose same habits.
Because I just think it's hardfor people to make these like
dynamic wholesale changesbecause it just doesn't fit in
life.
And that's really what we'restriving for, is to find a sort
of an on-ramp into somebody'shabits so they can see this
difference as they go down theroad.
SPEAKER_00 (17:03):
So when you talk about supplements, you know,
there are all kinds of companiesthat have all kinds of products,
and some of them have what theywould call like a nutrition
system or something that wouldalmost be like an
all-encompassing, we're gonnagive you everything you need.
But when you think about asupplement, the idea is that
(17:26):
your job is to take care of mostof it, and the supplement sort
of like you're saying, fills inthe fills in the holes or or or
maybe augments some of thethings.
Like, you know, you can gothrough and have a pretty
healthy diet and still findyourself um deficient in one
thing or another.
Like I'm on a very rigid dietwith my cancer, and it's um
(17:53):
particularly uh when it involvesproteins, and and um I restrict
my proteins pretty uh intensely.
But what that's done is it'scaused a little imbalance, and I
have to I have to manage thatand be aware of it that you know
my zinc intake's gonna be umhard to get to.
(18:15):
Um I'm little iron problems, youknow, I'm prone to below red
blood cells, so I've got tobalance and figure out, you
know, the the food or thesupplements or the combination
that will cause that.
But I go through regular bloodwork, so I'm I'm on top of it.
I don't think most people dothat.
(18:36):
And so I think it's importantthat um when you're looking at
something, whether it's anutritional system where you
know you take a five scoops ofdifferent powders or whatever,
there's all kinds of differentapproaches to this, but as a
supplement, it seems to me,based on what I'm hearing, is
(18:57):
that you've got these nutritionor these um pillars of health, I
call them.
You know, you sleep, you gotdiet, you've got exercise, you
got stress, and it goes on.
And and and there's thesedifferent sort of pillars that
if you don't have one, you know,you end up being like a
three-legged table and you don'tstand up so well.
(19:18):
And um have them all, you canstill have a weakness, and um
you find a way to balance thatout with, like you say, with
these different supplements.
So you got TouchstoneEssentials, a company that uh
manufactures or distributesdifferent products.
(20:26):
You said 16, 17 differentproducts.
What is the focus of theseproducts, or do you have, or is
it sort of broadly spectrum?
SPEAKER_01 (20:35):
No, we it is there's a focus here, and and and that's
in part to try to make decisionmaking easier for consumers.
You know, what we found is thatif you give them a table full of
stuff, they don't even knowreally how to approach it,
right?
They'll start sitting aroundnow.
Now your your cancers caused ahyper focus from you in
education, right?
So you're really dialed in onwhat I need from a dietary
(20:57):
standpoint, proteins andotherwise.
But that's not most people'scircumstances.
And so where most people'sconcerns are, they're sort of
broad.
I'm I'm sort of sick and tiredof being sick and tired.
I don't sleep well.
I got some kind of undescribedbrain fog every day.
Why am I needing a monsterenergy drink twice in the
afternoon?
You know, whatever thesedynamics are.
(21:18):
It's more based upon you knowwhat's their their concern.
So our approach is this one,let's give you a tool to get the
bad stuff out, knowing thatthere's nobody we're gonna check
that doesn't have any lingeringchemicals in their body from
nonstick carpet, cookware,whatever.
If you've ever been on anairplane, you you now have
(21:40):
flammantary material embedded inyour body.
Is it causing an immediateproblem?
No, but it always accumulativelycreates an ongoing inflammatory
response.
That's right.
Yeah, none of that's healthy.
And so we've got a naturalmineral, we've got greens, we've
got things that will supportthis idea of how your body
(22:02):
detoxes itself.
So kind of number one.
Number two, put some good stuffin.
You got enough fiber in yourdiet.
We've got a great fiber productthat tastes great.
It's not your grandfather'sfiber, right?
It's not about just making youregular.
This has got other dynamics,blood sugar measurements and
stuff like that.
And then we've got specialtyitems, blood sugar control
(22:22):
products, natural enzymes tobasically bind with excess
glucose in the gut, turn it intoa resistant starch so it doesn't
cause your glucose to rise.
Or, and this is really one ofthe most dynamic things we work
with.
We have a product calledtelovital.
Um, telovital is a series ofplant materials and herbs.
(22:45):
Through decades of research andmillions and millions of
dollars, this recipe's beenidentified to stimulate the
production of something calledtelomerase, a natural enzyme in
your body when you take thisthat repairs, and here's what's
critical the telomere on the endof your DNA strand.
And I know the show's notdesigned for this whole thing.
SPEAKER_00 (23:04):
Oh, we've actually had um a couple of guests that
have gone deep into telomererestoration.
So it's it's a topic that I'mvery familiar with and it's
important.
SPEAKER_01 (23:15):
Yeah.
So if you what we know from aclinical standpoint, the only
way to sort of in a provenfashion help to repair and
restore a link to a telomere isthrough telomere.
It's the body's natural enzymes.
You just got to stimulate it,and that's what that product
does.
So that's for that category ofperson that's really thinking
about what am I what am I doingabout my longevity, you know,
(23:35):
the quality of getting older,not just getting older.
Do I need to control my bloodsugar?
So we try to give people reallyidentifiable categories.
Say, hey, this is this is aconcern for me, right?
I'd like to try something.
So here's a set of products thatare USD organic, you know,
certified products withunconditional money-back
guarantees.
So things that give the consumera chance to find a place they
(23:58):
want to enter and give somethinga go.
Maybe they're trying a couple ofthings, maybe they're trying
five, maybe they're trying one.
We're just trying to meet thatconsumer exactly where they are.
SPEAKER_00 (24:07):
So uh in in your bio and some of the information I've
done looking you up, um one ofthe things that kind of got my
attention was, you know, yourfocus on um ingredients and you
know the quality of theseingredients.
Um you know, I I manufacturenatural skincare products and
(24:30):
and remedies and things likethat.
And so I'm always sourcingingredients and it's it's
difficult in a lot of ways, in alot of cases, because you know,
there's certification andthird-party um lab testing, but
all of that is only as good asits source.
(24:53):
And when somebody hands you acredential and you don't know
anything about how they got it,it you know, might be legit.
It might just be, you know, theSnake Oil guy would printed it
up on his on his color printer.
Um so tell me about sort of thethe rigors that you use in
(25:17):
sourcing um the components oreven even the products that
you're dealing with.
SPEAKER_01 (25:25):
Yeah, so number one, everything we do, it's our own
recipes.
Um, so we're not working withanybody's white labels or
anything like that.
So, and and really does startwith sourcing.
It's good that you have thatbackground because you're a
smart consumer, kind ofunderstand what's going on here.
So we work with farms or co-opsthat initially, right?
(25:45):
The first thing is are theycertified?
Is there a history?
Can can we go see them?
Can we put our boots in thosefields and kind of see what's
going on in that respect, right?
So it's not just a series ofpaperworks.
Then, because our expertise isonly our presence, right?
We use third-party verificationssuch as QAI or Oregon TILF
(26:07):
that's going behind us on all ofthose certification paperworks,
right?
Just making sure that things arelined up how they're supposed to
be.
You then do uh DAID on that rawmaterial when you're looking at
it, when you're buying it, andthen when it arrives in your
warehouse, you make sure thatmatches.
Right.
So that nothing happens alongthe way.
And then we do third-partytesting, not only for potency
(26:31):
and consistency, but to makesure it's clean in the way that
we're looking for.
And so it's an elaborateprocess.
Now, we've been in business along time and we do a lot of
business, so it's one that we'reexperienced with and we know how
to do this, but you have to stayon your toes.
Otherwise, you might thinkyou're buying from a farm in Des
(26:52):
Moines, but it's actually just ashield for something coming from
Southeast Asia that's not theleast bit certified or anything
we want.
In fact, one of the things I'vecome to recognize, and most
consumers would probably shock,98 plus percent, maybe 99% of
what you see from a supplementstandpoint in the United States,
(27:12):
it was assembled in the UnitedStates, but that raw material
was coming from places that werenot as clearly regulated and or
monitored in the way we mightappreciate.
In fact, you might see uhpictures of fruit on the label
and there's no fruit in theproduct.
Right.
So it's it's the the summitindustry is is regulated, not
regulated, right?
(27:32):
There's this real mix thatallows for bad actors to
participate.
And so people are proper andright to be skeptical.
SPEAKER_00 (27:41):
100%.
Well, listen, um, as it alwayshappens in a good conversation,
we run out of time prettyquickly, but I always like to uh
give our guests an opportunityto consolidate their thoughts
and and wrap it into a sort ofan elevator pitcher, a parting
shot for our listeners.
SPEAKER_01 (27:59):
Yeah, and and and listen, thank you for the time.
Appreciate the chance to connectwith your your group.
Uh touchstoneessentials.com,that's the website.
However, we always try to dosomething for audiences we speak
to.
So I'm gonna send you a link toput in the show notes that if
people want to try our products,buy our products, we'll give
them a first timers discount.
(28:21):
I think it's as much as$50.
So it's a chance to save.
And again, that does notdiminish the the guarantee
that's out there for people.
We I think we got 60 somethousand five-star reviews, and
and that came because we workhard for our customers.
The thing that I would tellpeople is what's your main
concern from a lifestylestandpoint?
(28:43):
Do you feel like toxicity,toxins, exposures is that a
concern?
We've got a great product calledPure Body Extra that's just
simple and easy to use, and weknow is effective.
Millions of people have used itaround the globe successfully.
Are you more concerned aboutnutrition?
Because you you're just notgetting there for a fruit and
vegetable standpoint orwhatever.
(29:03):
We've got some we've got agreen's powder that's fantastic,
we've got a vegan protein, it'seasy to mix, great product
tastes good, got a great fiberpowder product.
So where your concerns are iswhere I'd focus.
I mean, you you could get itall, that'd be great, but I
don't know if that's a greatplace to start.
But I think people should startkind of hyper-focused on
(29:23):
something and see if they canmake a difference in a few
months with what they're using,and you know, and and ultimately
what what habits might grow fromthere.
So we love to just kind ofestablish a relationship with
folks and grow with them overtime.
That's the nature of what we do.
And so I hope we get thatopportunity and appreciate the
chance to share with you.
SPEAKER_00 (29:40):
Fantastic.
And how do people find yourproducts?
SPEAKER_01 (29:44):
The primary website for the products is the
goodinside.com.
But we'll give you a version ofthat for your show notes that
give them an auto discount sothat they've got that, um, save
some money, right?
Um, we live in an economy wheresaving money is a good idea.
And so we'll give them adiscount link.
And and so that's uh that's agood, and then our online
(30:06):
support system is very robust.
There's an online chat, email,phone number to call, and so
whatever people need to gettheir needs taken care of.
SPEAKER_00 (30:13):
Excellent.
Well, Eddie, it's been apleasure having this
conversation.
I I I definitely want to learnmore about your company and test
out some of your products.
And I want to just thank you forjoining the show today.
SPEAKER_01 (30:25):
Thank you, Joe.
Good luck with your uh treatmentand everything as you go
forward.
SPEAKER_00 (30:30):
Oh, absolutely.
We're well on our way.
Well, this has been anotherepisode of the Healthy Living
Podcast.
I'm your host, Joe Grumban.
I want to thank all of ourlisteners for making the show
possible, and we will see younext time.
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