July 17, 2024 • 55 mins
In this episode of the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast, we explore how health has evolved and the significance of toxins in our well-being. Our conversation uncovers the hidden impact of environmental toxins, particularly plastics, and their growing influence on health concerns over the past decade. By sharing our clients' personal stories, we highlight often-overlooked threats and emphasize the need to address these exposures.
While focusing on toxins, we also discuss overall health strategies, including the importance of balancing activity and rest, especially for those with autoimmune conditions. We stress the need to listen to your body and avoid the pitfalls of over-exercising. Additionally, we examine personalized nutrition and the advancements in holistic and functional medicine.
We provide practical detox strategies to counteract harmful toxins like glyphosate, offering actionable tips such as choosing organic foods and drinking clean water. We also explain how personalized genetic testing can help you understand your unique detox capabilities.
By adopting an integrative approach and committing to continuous learning, we aim to empower our clients and listeners to make informed health decisions in today's complex world.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast.
My name is Sharon, owner of theK6 Wellness Center in Dallas,
texas, and I'm joined as alwaysby my sidekick, elena, to host
this month's episode.
Today, we're going to belooking at two really important
questions in the health andwellness world, and that is how
has health changed and do toxinsreally matter in that realm
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changed and do toxins reallymatter in that realm?
Toxins are everywhere, inalmost everything, and at this
day and age, they're almostimpossible to avoid.
Here at K6 Wellness, we alwaysencourage our clients to live a
non-toxic lifestyle as much asthey can, because the
accumulated effect of toxins onour health just grows more and
more by the day.
So today we're going to startwith the basics of what we have
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seen change in health, and we'regoing to share our expertise
and opinions on how to identifyand detox from toxins around you
.
So, hey, hey, elena, hello,okay.
So how would you define healthin today's world compared to
like 10, 20 years ago?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I think it's gotten a little more complicated.
I mean, I feel like it's harderin some ways, because there's
just so many more toxins thatpeople are being exposed to.
Because you think back to whatit looked like, say, a decade
ago we saw, you know, sometoxicity levels and we would do
the test and you'd see some.
But now it's not seeing some,it's seeing a ton on most
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individuals, and so it takes alot more effort.
We have to be a lot moreintentional, just as individuals
, to protect ourselves from ourexposures, and we have to be
aware of it.
And I think there has been alot of increased awareness.
People are beginning to knowthat we live in a toxic soup.
People just know more than theydid 10 years ago because they
(01:54):
have to.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah.
I think, that's true, and Ithink that convenience plays
into a lot of our toxicexposures, because everything,
in order for something to bemarketable, it has to be
convenient.
And convenience usuallyinvolves plastics, and while
plastics are a big part of ourworld and I'm not here to just
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dump all over it, you know carteblanche, but I think that we
have to weigh the like I saidearlier, the accumulated effect.
What are the sources of toxinsthat we're getting?
And I think too, for me, like20 years ago when I got into
this, everything was aboutviruses.
It's all about the viruses,right?
(02:41):
Epstein-barr virus and chronicfatigue and autoimmune was
really tied very heavily toviruses.
And then, as the years havegone on, there's this bigger
realization that, oh, yeah, well, okay, you have these
infections, you have these viralantibodies in your blood,
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you've got all these exposures,but you have all of these other
exposures like toxins.
And one of the first places Iever saw that was in breast
implant illness.
And I waded into that Like Idid not know what I was getting
into.
I was doing my EAV testing on aclient and I just kept getting
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silicone over and over and overand over what I was getting into
.
I was doing my EAV testing on aclient and I just kept getting
silicone over and over and overand over and I was like I don't
have a clue why this is comingup.
She's like, well, I have breastimplants and I have an
encapsulated injections in mylips and my cheeks and my butt.
And she had gone to one of thosehome parties and had gotten
this done.
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And that was my like, oh mygosh, and I thought, okay, well,
you know, like we checkantibodies for all kinds of
autoimmune diseases.
And this girl was real sick andI was like I wonder if you make
antibodies to silicone.
I wonder if we can do that.
And I started looking aroundand I didn't see anywhere where
you could.
But now it turns out you can.
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For women out there who mayhave breast implants and be
struggling with it, it is still,you know, in the newer stages.
But I think that, yeah, toxinshave come around and I think
that we are beginning torecognize how much more the
things in our environment playinto the greater health picture.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, and wouldn't you say too, you know, chemicals
aren't new, toxins like we'respeaking of aren't new.
The amount is increasing.
But I feel like kind of to yourpoint where it was all about
viruses.
There was so much more focus adecade or two ago about the more
natural toxins that our bodieswere designed to fight.
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Now our bodies are designed tobe able to detox all the stuff
we're exposed to, but it wasn'texactly designed to handle the
amount and the load and the type, because now we're fighting
unnatural, man-made chemicalsand toxicities, so it's just a
different ball game.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I think that's that's very true.
And and again, a lot of it's inour consumer products but a lot
of it's in our air and I thinkwith and we're going to get into
it a little more but some, likethe total toxin tests that we
use, because we realize, youknow, when I first started 20
years ago, I would do a moldmycotoxin testing where, you
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know, mycotoxins are thepoisonous gases that are created
from molds, and some of thosecome from foods, but then some
of them can come from water,damaged buildings, and so I
would test people for that andit was really expensive.
I would test people for that,and it was really expensive.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, it was real.
It's still not cheap, but Iremember people coming back and
theirs were clean and we weredoing good, like there were six
mycotoxins we could test for andthat was it, I know.
And so you were really hesitantas a provider to go.
Okay, yeah, I want you to spend$800 on this test and hopefully
we're going to get some usefulinformation.
(06:06):
The total toxin test we docheck for the mold mycotoxins,
but there's so many more, thereare dozens of them and then we
check for the heavy metals andthen the environmental toxins
and I think that that has reallythat kind of testing has really
served the greater good becauseit has brought to light in a
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very affordable manner forpatients Look, your body is
dealing with an undue burden ofyou know, name it, whatever it
is.
And so, yes, you may havechronic fatigue and you may have
you know, name your diagnosis.
But at the end of the day, whenyour liver, your kidneys, your
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skin and your lymph, your gut,what everything's so overwhelmed
by toxins, how in the world isyour body supposed to be able to
do its day-to-day stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Right, right.
Well, what would you say aresome of the significant changes
in health practices that we'venoticed over the years, like?
What would you say?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh man, so many things.
We can just do a podcast onthis.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So exercise for sure, and I think, yeah, in for me,
like in 20 years, you know it'sgone from cardio to the HIIT
workouts and and I think we'vekind of gotten away in general
from this.
You know you got to like die onthe treadmill idea, but I think
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the pendulum always swings andyou do see people go to other
extremes.
But I think balance is key andI I feel like if we just keep in
mind that our bodies were madeto move, our bodies were made to
work, and it is truer, theolder you get, that if you don't
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use it, you will lose it.
And there's.
So there's the whole thing.
Sitting is the new smoking.
Sure it is.
It's terrible for you, it'sterrible for men's prostates,
it's terrible for posture, it'sterrible for cognition.
There are just so many thingsthat are benefited from moving
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our bodies.
So any kind of exercise thatfloats your boat in my book, go
for it If you're not gonnainjure yourself.
I think that's amazing.
But yeah, there's so many crazy.
I love the evolution ofexercise.
I love seeing people do yogaand Pilates and even like the
camp gladiator or you know theseearly morning boot camps, which
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is so much fun.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, there's just such a variety now that people
can choose from and and I I lovethe change I've noticed that
it's not one size fits all, evenwith the exercise and fitness,
because for some people in we'vetalked about this in previous
podcasts and conversations likesome people need more than
others.
But it's just moving and it'sunderstanding what type of
movement your body can handle,what it can recover from and
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what is going to get you moving.
Like, what do you enjoy enoughthat is going to make you move?
And for a lot of people, justhaving a pet, like walking a dog
, it's going to move them.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's true, and I think what you say is key there.
That's something that I know wetell people is if you hate your
workout, you're never going tostick with it.
You need to find something youlove to do.
If you love to dance, thenplease center your fitness
around dancing, you know.
If you love um, pushing andpulling, then please go row,
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whatever it is.
Um, yeah, there's no right orwrong, but I think keeping
everything in balance and doingsomething you enjoy Me myself, I
get bored pretty easily, so Ilike to switch things around,
and now I think I have found, Iknow through the years, like I
work out better when I havesomebody with me, and I will
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tend to be the one who keeps usgoing, like not the pace setter
necessarily, but I'm more theconsistent.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Accountability.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm the accountability, yeah, and having
somebody with me.
Whether I'm running, walking,biking, lifting, doesn't matter.
So yeah, that to me is a bigdeal.
So what is your key to successwith exercise?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It is less is more, and you know it took me a long
time to learn that and justunderstand that less really was
more for me, even though I feltlike I had to work out all the
time, had to move all the time.
Because exercise is good, right.
So more is better, right?
Wrong, it's the American way,right?
And I just kept wondering whyam I struggling to recover and
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why am I struggling to pushmyself when I love exercise, I
love movement, I don't sit stillvery well, but doing less and
learning to listen to my bodywhen it says to rest, that's a
big thing, oh for sure, and onceagain, we all need different
levels of it.
But understanding that Iactually get more gains out of
my exercise and then I have lesscrashes in my health, you know,
(11:10):
coming from an autoimmunebackground, personally I do have
to juggle that and manage that,just so.
I know you do as well, butthere's just different levels of
tolerance there.
So, and you know not being asextreme, and and that that ties
into even you know anotheranother significant change, I
think, is how we look atnutrition and how there's been
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so many fad diets over the years.
You know keto, carnivore, paleo,vegan, vegetarian.
You know so many different onesand there is a time and a place
for almost all of those, andyou have to know what your body
can handle.
You see people going into ketowho don't have a gallbladder you
got to be really careful, right, it's not a great idea.
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Or people who are vegan butthey are so deficient in iron
and B vitamins.
Yeah, and I just love thatthere is more awareness around
some of the dangers of doingthese restrictive diets for so
long.
And I have fun and I think youdo too just kind of on ourselves
(12:14):
, we're like I'm going to trythis diet this month and just
see what happens to my body,because it's time to change it
up, when you know you don't wantthe body to get used to the
same thing all the time, solet's keep changing it up.
And sometimes you get through acouple of weeks or a month and
it's like nope, not doing thatone again.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, and for me, I've always, I've always owned
up to this Like I will tryanything on myself before I
recommend it to somebody.
Absolutely that is not a goodoutcome.
At least I want to know, like,what does this do?
And and yeah, it's been fun andinteresting, and nutrition is
(13:12):
who knew right, so, but I thinkthat's why I tend to be more
consistent and accountable isbecause I do recover faster,
doesn't?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
mean.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I perform better, just recover faster.
And then with then, withnutrition.
You know, everybody has adifferent demand and I don't I
don't think that that'ssomething.
You know.
Some bad diet and ladies,please hear me when I say this
if you're taking nutritionaladvice from a 30 year old man
with a, with a ripped abs, Imean good for him, but I promise
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you what works for him mostlikely will not work for you in
the long run.
I think we can all get resultsfrom any kind of diet for any
given time, but eventually yourbody's going to demand what it
needs.
And for women especially, Ithink to the keto, the carnivore
things like.
We got to be careful becauseour hormone cycles are so
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intricate.
We just we need carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates are not our enemyall the time, so, but different
people need different amounts.
So what about providers?
I think this is interesting and, though I'm older than you, you
grew up in this and I did not.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, because for me, I always just looked for
alternative practitioners and Ihad a little experience with
regular doctors.
But I grew up in a family wherewe didn't go to the doctors, so
I didn't have much experiencewith even a regular Western
medicine doctor until I was incollege and my health was
crashing and I went for someanswers and quickly realized I
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wasn't going to get them there.
And then, as I continued on thejourney, you know you find
functional practitioners and Ithink they're doing great work.
We're MDs who are trying tolook outside the box.
And then you can continue totake that further and further.
And I say we're the deep end inwhat we do and you know you're
bringing it together nicely asyou're bringing your nurse
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practitioner uh, degreecertification, I'm losing the
words there but as you'rebringing that on board with us,
just bringing some Westernmedicine when we need that with
the holistic world.
But there's just so manydifferent types of providers to
choose from now and and I thinkthere's just it's it's wonderful
to have that variety and morepeople who are trying to find
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answers because they're seeingin their clients hey, this isn't
working, I need to look deeper.
I mean, I do this every weekwith clients.
I see something every week.
I think, okay, I need to know alittle bit more about that so I
can help this person even morethan I did last time I saw them.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, and I think that's such an important quality
for any type of person whowants to be in the space of
functional wellness, functionalmedicine, integrative care,
holistic care, call it whateveryou want.
It means different things todifferent people, but I think
that that desire to learn, tocontinue learning, that's really
important for outcomes forpatients and clients and for the
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continued pursuit of excellenceon the part of providers.
Because our world is changing,so, of course, health is
changing, and I think that youknow part of the thing driving
changes in health perceptions onthe part of the public is how
information gets disseminatedright.
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I love it.
I love it when I hear doctorsgo.
You know what I learned onTikTok?
It's about medicine, it's funny, but it's so true.
And I've said you want to learn, you can.
And we always tell our clientshey, you need to advocate for
yourself.
Never apologize for standing upfor yourself, because nobody
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knows you like you do and nobodywill advocate for you like you
will.
So it's not necessarily a badthing.
I think there was a study doneit's been a long, long time ago,
but they had this, somelong-term clinical study and
they showed that people whoargued with their doctor had
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better long-term outcomes, and Ithought that is just so
interesting.
I mean it's irritating, youknow, on the part of the
provider for a while, but that'sgreat If you have somebody
willing to question the norm,because we're not a formula,
we're not algorithms, we're allunique individuals with
individual needs.
So that's really cool.
Social media is good in thatregard.
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So I think that everythingbeing accessible is amazing
being accessible is amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, it's.
It's great to have all theoptions and have more options
because you need them whenyou're dealing with a lot of uh,
unknown health problems thatthat we can trace back to toxins
almost every time.
And you know, when you look atchanges that we've noticed in in
the clients that are coming toK-6, people are coming in with
more and more chronic healthproblems and it's, you know, we
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used to just see what likeasthma or food sensitivities or
I don't know, like I can't yeah,I can't eat dairy, all right,
great and that's causing theseleaky gut symptoms.
You know, leaky gut was the bigone and that's still a huge
thing that we have to address.
But there's just so much moredepth to what people are
bringing in the door and myheart goes out to so many of
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these people and I tell newclients all the time.
You know, unfortunately yoursymptoms are common.
They're not normal, they'recommon.
But fortunately, because we seea lot of this, I think we can
find you some answers and that'sby asking the right questions,
doing the right tests andinvestigating, but just seeing
there's there's, there's a lotmore depth to what people are
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bringing in.
I mean, wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, absolutely.
I think 20 years ago it was,you know people would come in
like I would get a kid and theywould have eczema.
And so I go, oh good, Eczema,it's going to be dairy and eggs.
And you know, like you had thislittle list, like you knew what
was coming, and then five yearsin it was like eczema can be
really easy, it can be reallyterrible because toxins had
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entered the scene and I wasstill trying to address it from
not an old paradigm, but justfrom the singular paradigm of
the body's reacting to thisthing, and this thing is benign,
and so we need to just resetthe body's response to it.
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That's allergy desensitization,which I love.
It's so powerful.
But when you have a kid who'soverrun with heavy metals or has
been vaccine injured or has, um, just unhealed, like maybe
they've had three or fourexposures to antibiotics and
their gut is a mess, I'm sorrybut it's going to take more work
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.
And so I started noticingthings getting more and more
complicated over time.
And now anytime, anytime, wesee eczema, I mean we would
never just think, oh, dairy.
It's like, oh, what was it?
What did this person get into?
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
What have you been exposed to?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We've got to dig deeper, and so that has
definitely changed.
I think that's a big change, abig shift.
It's not just simple stuffanymore.
I think it starts that way andwe just take stuff for granted
and we're so good at coveringthings up.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And then just living with them and suffering and
thinking it's normal.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And the way it was described to me when I was first
learning, like allergydesensitization, is that you
know your skin is your largestorgan, it's what's most visible.
We feel it, we feel it, we seeit, and so when something goes
wrong, skin's a great way foryour body to get your attention,
and if you ignore it orsuppress it, it does not fix it.
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Your body will go huh, okay,well, the skin didn't work.
How about the lungs?
How about some asthma?
And if you look at theprogression of some of these
allergic type disorders, you dofrequently see eczema turning
into asthma and then progressingto gut issues, adhd, things
like that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I think it's just the body.
It's going deeper, deeper,deeper because you're not fixing
the underlying problem.
And I think that's why rootcause became such a buzzword,
right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I mean, it's a buzzword for a reason we have to
investigate to understand theroot cause.
But as we're talking of toxins,you know, sharon, why don't you
break it down for us?
What exactly are toxins?
I feel like most of ourlisteners know, but let's just
break it down.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, I think we hear toxins and we just
automatically like see thehazmat stuff.
But it's so much more than that, because bacteria, while they
can be good, can also be toxic,right?
So you've got microbes,parasites, molds and fungus
viruses, bacteria.
You've got stress.
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Stress can be toxic.
People can be toxic.
Chemicals whether it's chemicalswe're breathing in from the air
or chemicals that we'reingesting because it's labeled
as food that can be toxic andthen that makes food toxic.
Our food is toxic much of thetime because of the poor quality
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of the ground, the soil, thewater, the air.
And then heavy metals that'sanother thing.
That is a big toxin and we'veknown about it for a long time,
whether it's contributing tocognitive decline or mental
retardation or developmentalchallenges or immune system
issues.
Metals are also.
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Hormones can be toxic as well.
We take in a lot of exogenoushormones, meaning they're not
from in our body, they're fromanother source, and so and
that's just the beginning of it,those are just the big things,
right?
So anything can be toxic in thewrong amount, in the wrong
place and at the wrong time.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, and some things just are toxic in any amount.
You know.
You look at some of the commonthings that we see glyphosate,
for example.
That's an herbicide that's usedon the majority of mass
produced crops and and they useit because it speeds up harvest
time and we love to use thathere in America.
There's a lot of countriesaround the world that won't use
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it like Europe.
It's so fun to go there and beable to eat all the food and not
get sick, but here we've usedit so much that it's in our
water supply and our soil.
Even non-organic veggies thathave, or just crops that have
never actually been sprayed,will test for trace amounts of
glyphosate, because it's justthe ground is so saturated and
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you talk about the ground beingdepleted.
I mean glyphosate completelyremoves all the good nutrients,
it kills everything, and youknow how many years does it take
to replace the soil afterglyphosate has been sprayed?
I'm forgetting how many yearsbut, it's, but I mean it's, it's
years and years.
Yeah, and it depletes all themagnesium out of the soil, which
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you know is such an essentialnutrient for us to be able to
detox in the first place.
But another, another big toxinthat we see is BPA, and I feel
like a lot of people are awareof that one, because now you see
BPA free, it just means it'smade with worse stuff or
something that equally as bad.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, and they.
They test these BPA freematerials and they find BPA in
there.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Right, and it's not really BPA free.
It's just it's below a certainthreshold.
But you know you get BPA almostevery day.
You buy something and take areceipt and handle that, you're
getting BPA.
And you talk about estrogenmimickers.
Bpa is a huge one and what thatcan do to your hormones, and we
just don't get away from thateither, cause, no matter how
strict you try to be, you knowif you go buy a container of
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organic baby greens at the store, what does it come in Plastic?
Yeah, you know, anything youbuy just about as in plastic.
You can find some things inglass bottles, containers, but
that's just not as common, andand so we have to be very
mindful of what other exposureswe're getting in regards to
plastics.
But you know other big onesmycotoxins.
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I feel like for me that's oneof the biggest toxins I see on
these toxicity tests, and it'snot water damage building
mycotoxins.
This is from foods, from grains, from stored grains and that's.
It could be nuts and seeds aswell and from dairy products,
from animals that were fed thesecontaminated grains, and it's
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just sad to me how prevalentthis is, because you can't get
away from a lot of these, but wecan learn how to help the body
detox, give it better defensesand just learn to limit the
exposures.
Because another big one is theheavy metals.
You know those are justeverywhere as well.
You know you get it.
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If you've ever had a vaccineyou've gotten a dose of heavy
metals.
But there's so many ones thatwe're exposed to, like lead and
aluminum.
But then how about theradioactive ones that are in the
water and the soil, like bariumand cesium, uranium, cadmium,
beryllium?
I mean it's just common nowcommon to see those in people.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, I know, when we started doing the total toxin
test I was shocked so muchradioactive stuff Cause I used
to see that in people here andthere.
I was like why do you haveuranium and you could trace it
back most of the time.
Yeah, but it is in thegroundwater and even if you're
drinking filtered water, there'sa good, great chance that
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you're not actually getting theradioactive elements out.
The only way to remove theradioactive elements from your
water is through waterdistillation through water
distillation.
So that's.
You know that's, that's notconvenient, but it is doable and
I will say you can.
You can buy decent little waterdistillers for under a hundred
bucks on Amazon and we distillour water at our ranch and we do
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some here.
But reverse osmosis is greatfor removing a lot of things.
Berkey water filters are good,I think, and I always tell
people look, you can't beperfect with everything, but do
something.
And if all you can do is aBrita filter, well okay, start
with that.
But prioritize when you're ableto do something more than a
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Brita filter and do yourresearch.
There's so many good companiesout there now doing water
filtration.
There's no reason we have to beexposed to heavy metals in our
water.
But also yeah, the arsenic inthe groundwater, right.
So if you're with rice anddomestic wines and there's so
many places that people getarsenic and it's just crazy to
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think about.
But I wanted to touch onsomething with the glyphosate,
because you made a really goodpoint about glyphosate.
It's huge and we are horrifiedat the levels of glyphosate
people have in their bodies.
People who are eating organic.
Right, and when you're eatingorganic it doesn't mean you're
not getting herbicides orpesticides, just means you're
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getting less Roughly.
You're getting two thirds less,but you're not getting no
herbicides and pesticides.
But if you think aboutglyphosate as a molecule, like
what it is, it's a glycinemolecule and glycine is part of
what makes up our soft tissuesin our body connective tissue,
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soft tissue and so if you havelittle little places, little
keyholes, and the only thingthat can fill that is a glycine
molecule and you're just dumpingglyphosate in the body right
and left, guess what's going totake up all those little
keyholes?
Glyphosate.
So there's a really simple waythat you can reduce the amount
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of glyphosate absorption yourbody goes through and that's
through taking glycine as asupplement, especially right
before you eat, because you areproviding glycine to the body to
then fill up those receptorsites or those little keyholes,
so that when you do ingest theinevitable glyphosate, it passes
on through without beingabsorbed.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
So there are some simple hacks and when you know
what toxins you're trying totarget, it's really useful to
know these things Right, causeyou can't do everything and and
I never want people to hear ustalking about toxins and just
feel despair because it doesseem like you can't win there
are toxins everywhere, at everyturn but it's learning to to see
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how your body handles this,because, while glyphosate is a
very common one, we see I did atoxin test review today with a
client and she tested withhardly any glyphosate.
Now she was really high onother things, but that was a win
for her.
It's like her body does notreact as poorly to this
substance as other people's, sofor her, glyphosate isn't the
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main concern and glycine couldstill be helpful, but we could
focus resources of time, moneyand energy on the substances
that were her big issues.
So it's just helpful to knowwhat are you chasing?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, because different toxins have different
impacts on the body, and whenyou know what toxin you're
dealing with, then you know theimpact that it's having on your
health and then you know whatyou can do to address the toxins
that you, specifically, arebeing burdened with.
And the thing to remember, too,is you know if you're
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overwhelmed with toxins of anysort, your body has to work
harder to get rid of it.
Your liver is your main filterand it has to create a pathway
for everything you ingest, soyour body.
If your body's overwhelmed withlike, oh my gosh, what is this
chemical?
It's got to go over here.
Oh, good Lord, here's anotherone.
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Now what?
Then?
There's less time for yourliver to give, or less resources
available to cellular repairand really good detoxification
and digestion.
And and you're going to agefaster you age your organs
faster as well.
So that's that's just, you know, just food for thought.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Right, because if you are, if you're constantly being
exposed and these prolongedexposures lead to effects on
your health that people don'tthink about having a toxin at
the root of.
Let's talk about Alzheimer's ordementia, cognitive decline,
parkinson's, right All thesethese cognitive diseases develop
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because your body was exposedto something once upon a time
that that began to lead to poordetox, poor DNA repair,
increased oxidation, increasedinflammation, and it's going to
settle differently for eachperson.
But it's helpful when you knowwhat your predisposition is.
It's helpful to know what yourexposures have been, so then you
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can work towards preventing orslowing down disease patterns.
But you look at people who comein with different organ
failures or cardiovasculardisease, high cholesterol.
You know it doesn't matter whatit is.
The approach to investigate ispretty similar, because you
could get one toxin that createsall these disease patterns and
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all these symptoms.
But you don't know, because Icould guess and say, well, I'm
looking at this right here andit could be a heavy metal, it
could be mycotoxins, it could beglyphosate.
You know what is causing yourbody to behave this way.
So, whatever it is, we need toknow.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Whatever it is we need to know.
I love Dr Dale Bredesen hasdone just some amazing work with
Alzheimer's, cognitive declineand, just for our listeners,
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he's written a book called theEnd for Alzheimer's.
As far as it being like a drug,right, because the drugs we
have for Alzheimer's suck.
They don't add anything tocognitive development or
recovery.
Development or recovery, theyjust, I think when I was in
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nursing school I think welearned in pharmacology that,
like Aricept, the main drugprolonged your life by like four
days, I mean, and it's not gooddays.
So that's really terrible.
But he has, dr Bredesen, to hiscredit, has really brought to
light.
Look, you've got all of thesepotential contributors to
cognitive decline and I think hecalls them like leaks in your
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roof.
And you've got to fix all theseleaks in your roof, be it
hormonal imbalances, you knowthe food that you eat, you know
all of it's the toxic equation,right, and so it's identifying
all of these different thingsthat have to be addressed.
And he has done a lot of goodfor reversing cognitive decline
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and stopping the progression.
And I think when you look atParkinson's too, I mean, okay,
we've got the destruction ofdopaminergic neurons, but why?
Why was it just in your genes?
Or is there a chance that maybeyou yeah, you were born with
some pre you know predisposition, but were your exposures in
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life such that that's what endedup happening and what can be
done to unwind some of that andto reverse some of that?
Because you never see peoplewith cognitive decline who don't
have high levels of toxins?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Ever, ever, ever, or people who have managed their
blood sugar perfectly, because Ihardly ever see that.
That's a big one, don't?
They call Alzheimer's um typethree diabetes, and it's from,
yeah, it's unchecked, uh, bloodsugar, which gives unchecked
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metabolic health for years andyears.
And cancer.
Let's talk about that.
That's a metabolic disease, butwhy?
Why?
Why?
Why?
It's choices you've made, butthen it's things that you didn't
make a choice of and it justhappened upon you.
It's for us to point you out.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
And so that's where, once again, identifying the
culprit, understanding what itis for you.
Understand what your risks areas far as your health goes, but
understand your risks as far aswhat you are choosing to eat and
consume and use and breathe andchoose.
You know, use wisdom whenyou're choosing your foods, when
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you're choosing your cleaningproducts, when you're choosing
how you're going to live yourlife and what kind of
environment what matters to you.
Is it important to you that youdon't live by a 5G tower?
You know it's just using theknowledge we have to make the
best choice you can.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Because this isn't a perfect world and you can't do
perfect.
You pick the things that aremost important to you and most
impactful to your health and youpursue those things and you do
them well, right, yeah?
So, yeah, yeah, and I thinkthat that you know, as far as
figuring that out, we do wantpeople to feel empowered to make
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changes and, first of all, youdo want to identify the culprit.
Use wisdom, yes, but then let'stalk about what specific things
.
What is something thateverybody could do, elena, that
would reduce toxin exposure?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Eat more fresh, organic foods.
Yes, move, like we said,exercise, practice deep
breathing.
Breathing is a form of detoxand we forget about that one.
Drink clean water.
I mean, these are simple, basicthings, but we often have to be
stopped and reminded aboutthese.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
You know which one I think of more now than ever is
sweating.
Oh yeah, do not want to sweat,I love sweating.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
It feels so good.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Sweating is so good for you and I think we get so
put.
We put ourselves aside in alittle bubble and then we forget
what it's like to really livein nature and we don't enjoy it
anymore.
And it is so important to sweat.
That's one of the best ways toget rid of toxins.
(38:30):
Whether you're doing it outside, because it's hotter than you
know what in July in Texas orwherever you live, or getting in
a sauna that's really good tooor exercising, whatever it is,
sweat is good and it's a reallyimportant detoxification
practice and sweating is moreaccessible than ever.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Even if you don't have the heat in Texas in July,
you know.
Getting your own personal sauna, infrared saunas they don't
cost exorbitant amounts.
You can get little personalones online for about $150.
Sure, it's not the nice box spaversion, but you can still get
a sweat.
You can take hot baths andshowers.
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I mean, there's just so manyways.
But I love that saunas arepopping up everywhere, that
sauna gyms are popping upeverywhere.
There's not an excuse to notsweat.
You probably know someone orhave seen a gym somewhere where
you could go get a sweat on.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Sweating is free.
If there is a free thing youcan do for detox, it is to sweat
.
And if you are one of thosepeople who says, but I can't
sweat, I just turn red andoverheat, that's a problem.
All of it is a signal.
That is a signal for sure yourlymphatic system, which is your
(39:44):
kind of like the pipes underyour house we got some problems
there and you need to startworking on your lymphatic system
to and start challenging yourbody's ability because you can
sweat.
Most people can sweat.
Yes, eventually, maybe not thefirst time you try, but yeah
(40:04):
sweating so good and lymphaticdrainage plays into that.
And then, um, I thinksupplements too, like to me
that's important and it's notthat we want people to take 20
supplements, because I thinkpolypharmacy it's a thing in
medicine and it's also a thingin health, and so we have to be
(40:26):
really cognizant of that.
I want people to get as muchnutrition as they can from their
food period, and I know you andI are very aligned like that,
because there is no pill bottlein the world that is going to
replace eating good food.
Even if it has a little yucketyyuck on it herbicide and
(40:47):
pesticide you still need to eatvegetables and fruits.
And when you can't get that,supplements are really important
.
But I'm not a big fan of buyingsupplements just anywhere.
I will say maybe I'm a littlesnobby about it, but I want a
professional line, I wantsomething that's well-tested and
tracked as far as quality,because I don't want heavy
metals and toxins in mysupplements.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Which is a big risk.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
It is a big risk and I think it's an aggravation for
people If you're using highquality supplements and then all
of a sudden you can't getsomething because nothing's
passing quality control.
It's irritating.
It's irritating from mystandpoint, but it's also
reassuring to know that theproducers care enough to not put
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a toxic product out on themarket.
But using supplements of highquality are really important.
Homeopathic remedies areanother thing that are
time-tested and so useful in somany ways for detoxing the body.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Well, and that's where, like you said, you want
to have high quality ones andyou want to know what you need.
Because I say to clients too hey, we don't want to put you on 20
supplements, but when we'redealing with a lot of these
toxins, it is necessary to dosome supplemental detox.
You know, you have to implementthe lifestyle practices of
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removing the sources and thetriggers.
You have to implement thelifestyle practices of removing
the sources and the triggers.
You have to do the sweating andlymphatic work and maybe some
cast oil packing anemones.
But you do still have to dosome supplements sometimes and
it can get costly, which is whywe both you know I know that we
both try to use as few aspossible.
But just know, if you, if youcome to us and want to work on
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detox, we're probably going torecommend a couple at least some
good binders, and there's a lotof different options out there,
but I think Cellcor just takesthe cake on their binders and
how gentle but effective theyare and you know they don't
deplete everything out of you.
And, that being said, I know alot of people love their clays
and charcoals and all that, butI just really love what we've
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been able to do with the cellcore protocols and their detox.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and they call it.
They practice quality controland quality assurance, and
that's important too, but all ofthe lines that we carry do, and
so that that helps as well.
But I think to you know, to theidea of detoxing and eating
good food and using the rightsupplements and being directed.
Please don't just read anarticle and decide, oh, I need
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this supplement.
Because we get people who comein here with suitcases literally
suitcases of supplements, andthey want us to tell them what
they should take and it's like,oh, my goodness, this is maybe
two of those.
Yeah, let's start with, yeah, acouple of these, less than five,
and let's go from there.
But supplements are notsomething that you start and
(43:41):
then never get off.
There should always be an exitstrategy, unless it is something
that your body does not make orstore well, and then maybe
there is a nutrient or somethingthat you need to be on
permanently or semi-permanently,on a more consistent basis.
But that's something to bedecided between you and your
provider.
But using a practitioner whocan really guide you with that
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is important, and I think thisis where that is important and I
think this is where K6 WellnessCenter does a really good job.
Elena and I man do we spend thetime on products?
It's so important to knowwhat's happening, what's new,
what's not working, because wedo see trends in health and,
(44:27):
just like you know, the summercold viruses they're going
around.
You start to notice it and it'slike, oh yeah, no wonder all
these people tested for zincthis week.
Everybody needed a little zincor everybody's needing a little
immune support.
But to have a practitionerwhose finger is on the pulse of
the health in the community, notjust for viruses and you know
(44:49):
whatever bug is floating around,but to have a clue when it
comes to detox, what's happening, you know what to expect, what
is common versus what is normal,and we use tools like testing,
like the total toxin test andthen the 3x4 genetic test, just
to see what is yourpredisposition.
That's a really important thing, like for me.
(45:13):
One of the best things I foundout is that I'm a fast
metabolizer of caffeine.
That means I can have eveningcoffee and Elena can't.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
That's just a simple example.
It's very helpful to understandwhat is your body doing with
some of these substances likecoffee or caffeine that a lot of
us love.
We know it's not good for us inexcess amounts, but that's just
one example.
But what if your body struggleswith folate and B12?
And those, I think, are themost commonly talked about ones
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because of methylation and MTHFR?
But there's so many othernutrients that play into how
your body's going to detox, andthat's where I love the 3x4
genetic test.
I think it has become myfavorite test that we do, next
to the total toxin and wholebody thermography, because it's
really good with it too.
I have.
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I I'm just having so much funwith it because everyone is so
different and yet you see somesimilarities and it's very
helpful to understand how yourbody does or doesn't detox,
because you can go through yourlife and just think, oh man, I
can't handle any detox, I getsick every time.
Well, why?
Why does your body not handledetox?
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Or why is your body overloadedwith X, y, z toxins?
When someone else isn't, itliterally can come down to a
genetic snip or geneticpredisposition.
So when you work with us, wealways are going to ask all the
questions and, all right, whatare the toxins and how does your
body handle this?
Because, just like youmentioned too when we were
(46:50):
talking about what differenttoxins are, hormones can be, and
a lot of the time people don'tknow that until they get a
hormone based cancer orsomething very severe and
extreme.
But what if we knew ahead oftime?
What if we knew ahead of timewhat your predisposition was to
blood sugar and insulinsensitivity, so we could prevent
metabolic dysfunction?
(47:12):
And you know, lifestyle choiceswill play into that.
That always trumps what yourgenes say.
But if you knew?
For most people, knowledge ispower.
So if you knew, you could dosomething different to prevent
it, wouldn't you want to?
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, for sure.
So give us an example ofsomebody who successfully um D
and I'm going to say in quotes,detox, because we're never done
detoxing.
It's an ongoing process.
But give us, give us atestimonial there.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
There's a tons.
I think you could think of alot too, but a very close
example to me was my littlesister who was experiencing all
kinds of cognitive issues brainfog, fatigue.
She started getting these weltsall over her neck like knots
and she started thinking oh mygosh, I've got cancer or
something.
And she went to a practitionerin our hometown and they didn't
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really know what to do but triedto help and guide and I just
kept saying we've got to do atoxin test.
I don't I don't consider myselfa specialist in a lot of things,
but I I think we could bothsafely say we're pretty good at
discovering what your toxins areand helping you detox.
So when she finally listenedand did the total toxin test,
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what do you know?
She came back super high inmycotoxins and it was from water
damage in the house that theythought had been dealt with and
it had not been properly dealtwith.
So they had to investigate alittle bit more.
And in the meantime she starteddoing the supplemental detox
protocol that we recommended andI was coaching her on some
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lifestyle detox habits and shestarted doing all these things,
started taking the supplements,removed the main source and it
took several months.
There's no instant fix for anyof these things.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
But within a few months she went from thinking
I'm dying and I think I havecancer to fully functioning and
now she's thriving in law school.
So that's a great example.
Have maybe you've done thistest or something like it.
Don't be overwhelmed by it anddon't develop paralysis of
analysis.
Get with somebody who knowswhat order to go in.
Get with somebody whounderstands your case and start
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working on it.
It's really important and thebeautiful thing about the total
toxin test is it gets mailed toyour house, so I don't care
where you live, you can do thetotal toxin test and then we can
help you with theinterpretation and then the
strategy to address your toxins.
I think that that's reallyimportant.
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But, practically speaking, Iwant our listeners to understand
that to start protectingyourself from toxins, you need
to first be aware Be aware ofyour exposures.
Where do you live, where do youwork?
What's in those spaces?
Who is in those spaces?
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And get tested for toxins orthe exposures.
If you are thinking you knowthere's a 5G tower like right
above my thing and I end everyday with this headache Maybe you
need to get a trifield meterand go check out your spaces and
find out what the frequency, orlike magnetic, electric and
(50:43):
radio frequency outputs are inthose areas, because I can tell
you a lot of what's going onwith your brain or maybe it's
your food, but get tested sothat you can understand what
you're being exposed to.
And then you want to considergetting with somebody to work
with who understands how yourbody detoxes.
(51:03):
Maybe you're somebody whodoesn't sweat, maybe you don't
drink water and that's why youdon't sweat, or maybe your lymph
is so backed up you don't sweat.
But this is where having a goodpractitioner really makes a
difference.
And then I would say, beyondall of that, be proactive about
what you do and how you liveyour life.
Be intentional, make goodchoices.
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I tell people all the time youknow every bite counts.
You're either feeding sicknessor you're feeding health.
There's really not any neutralterritory, unfortunately.
So try to do more good thanharm, but help your body to
detox naturally through thethings that you put in and on
your body, and I think that'sthose are the big things for me
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your body, and I think that'sthose are the big things for me,
and I would say, just to leavepeople with an action plan or
hope is to know, yes, be aware,be proactive.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
But if you decide, hey, I want to investigate this,
there's a reason why you do itwith practitioners.
Because we spend so much timedealing with these sorts of
tests be it the toxin test orgenetic test and what we do for
you is simplify it.
We bring it all together tomake it doable so you don't feel
hopeless and feel helpless.
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There's always something youcan do.
I don't care what the toxin is,there's always something you
can do within any budget.
Yes, there's different waysthat might be faster, might cost
a little more, but there'salways a way to do it, and we
both Sharon, I know we both tryreally hard to make all of our
recommendations achievable.
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We want you to be successful,even more than we want to be
successful in what we'rerecommending.
We want you to have health,good health, optimal health.
In the end, that's right.
So with that I mean that seemslike a perfect place to wrap up.
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Until next time, take care ofyourself, because your health is
worth fighting for.
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast.
My name is Sharon, owner of theK6 Wellness Center in Dallas,
texas, and I'm joined as alwaysby my sidekick, elena, to host
this month's episode.
Today, we're going to belooking at two really important
questions in the health andwellness world, and that is how
has health changed and do toxinsreally matter in that realm
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changed and do toxins reallymatter in that realm?
Toxins are everywhere, inalmost everything, and at this
day and age, they're almostimpossible to avoid.
Here at K6 Wellness, we alwaysencourage our clients to live a
non-toxic lifestyle as much asthey can, because the
accumulated effect of toxins onour health just grows more and
more by the day.
So today we're going to startwith the basics of what we have
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seen change in health, and we'regoing to share our expertise
and opinions on how to identifyand detox from toxins around you
.
So, hey, hey, elena, hello,okay.
So how would you define healthin today's world compared to
like 10, 20 years ago?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
I think it's gotten a little more complicated.
I mean, I feel like it's harderin some ways, because there's
just so many more toxins thatpeople are being exposed to.
Because you think back to whatit looked like, say, a decade
ago we saw, you know, sometoxicity levels and we would do
the test and you'd see some.
But now it's not seeing some,it's seeing a ton on most
(01:33):
individuals, and so it takes alot more effort.
We have to be a lot moreintentional, just as individuals
, to protect ourselves from ourexposures, and we have to be
aware of it.
And I think there has been alot of increased awareness.
People are beginning to knowthat we live in a toxic soup.
People just know more than theydid 10 years ago because they
(01:54):
have to.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Yeah.
I think, that's true, and Ithink that convenience plays
into a lot of our toxicexposures, because everything,
in order for something to bemarketable, it has to be
convenient.
And convenience usuallyinvolves plastics, and while
plastics are a big part of ourworld and I'm not here to just
(02:19):
dump all over it, you know carteblanche, but I think that we
have to weigh the like I saidearlier, the accumulated effect.
What are the sources of toxinsthat we're getting?
And I think too, for me, like20 years ago when I got into
this, everything was aboutviruses.
It's all about the viruses,right?
(02:41):
Epstein-barr virus and chronicfatigue and autoimmune was
really tied very heavily toviruses.
And then, as the years havegone on, there's this bigger
realization that, oh, yeah, well, okay, you have these
infections, you have these viralantibodies in your blood,
(03:04):
you've got all these exposures,but you have all of these other
exposures like toxins.
And one of the first places Iever saw that was in breast
implant illness.
And I waded into that Like Idid not know what I was getting
into.
I was doing my EAV testing on aclient and I just kept getting
(03:25):
silicone over and over and overand over what I was getting into
.
I was doing my EAV testing on aclient and I just kept getting
silicone over and over and overand over and I was like I don't
have a clue why this is comingup.
She's like, well, I have breastimplants and I have an
encapsulated injections in mylips and my cheeks and my butt.
And she had gone to one of thosehome parties and had gotten
this done.
(03:45):
And that was my like, oh mygosh, and I thought, okay, well,
you know, like we checkantibodies for all kinds of
autoimmune diseases.
And this girl was real sick andI was like I wonder if you make
antibodies to silicone.
I wonder if we can do that.
And I started looking aroundand I didn't see anywhere where
you could.
But now it turns out you can.
(04:06):
For women out there who mayhave breast implants and be
struggling with it, it is still,you know, in the newer stages.
But I think that, yeah, toxinshave come around and I think
that we are beginning torecognize how much more the
things in our environment playinto the greater health picture.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, and wouldn't you say too, you know, chemicals
aren't new, toxins like we'respeaking of aren't new.
The amount is increasing.
But I feel like kind of to yourpoint where it was all about
viruses.
There was so much more focus adecade or two ago about the more
natural toxins that our bodieswere designed to fight.
(04:49):
Now our bodies are designed tobe able to detox all the stuff
we're exposed to, but it wasn'texactly designed to handle the
amount and the load and the type, because now we're fighting
unnatural, man-made chemicalsand toxicities, so it's just a
different ball game.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah, I think that's that's very true.
And and again, a lot of it's inour consumer products but a lot
of it's in our air and I thinkwith and we're going to get into
it a little more but some, likethe total toxin tests that we
use, because we realize, youknow, when I first started 20
years ago, I would do a moldmycotoxin testing where, you
(05:30):
know, mycotoxins are thepoisonous gases that are created
from molds, and some of thosecome from foods, but then some
of them can come from water,damaged buildings, and so I
would test people for that andit was really expensive.
I would test people for that,and it was really expensive.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So expensive.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, it was real.
It's still not cheap, but Iremember people coming back and
theirs were clean and we weredoing good, like there were six
mycotoxins we could test for andthat was it, I know.
And so you were really hesitantas a provider to go.
Okay, yeah, I want you to spend$800 on this test and hopefully
we're going to get some usefulinformation.
(06:06):
The total toxin test we docheck for the mold mycotoxins,
but there's so many more, thereare dozens of them and then we
check for the heavy metals andthen the environmental toxins
and I think that that has reallythat kind of testing has really
served the greater good becauseit has brought to light in a
(06:26):
very affordable manner forpatients Look, your body is
dealing with an undue burden ofyou know, name it, whatever it
is.
And so, yes, you may havechronic fatigue and you may have
you know, name your diagnosis.
But at the end of the day, whenyour liver, your kidneys, your
(06:50):
skin and your lymph, your gut,what everything's so overwhelmed
by toxins, how in the world isyour body supposed to be able to
do its day-to-day stuff?
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Right, right.
Well, what would you say aresome of the significant changes
in health practices that we'venoticed over the years, like?
What would you say?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Oh man, so many things.
We can just do a podcast onthis.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
So exercise for sure, and I think, yeah, in for me,
like in 20 years, you know it'sgone from cardio to the HIIT
workouts and and I think we'vekind of gotten away in general
from this.
You know you got to like die onthe treadmill idea, but I think
(07:36):
the pendulum always swings andyou do see people go to other
extremes.
But I think balance is key andI I feel like if we just keep in
mind that our bodies were madeto move, our bodies were made to
work, and it is truer, theolder you get, that if you don't
(07:58):
use it, you will lose it.
And there's.
So there's the whole thing.
Sitting is the new smoking.
Sure it is.
It's terrible for you, it'sterrible for men's prostates,
it's terrible for posture, it'sterrible for cognition.
There are just so many thingsthat are benefited from moving
(08:18):
our bodies.
So any kind of exercise thatfloats your boat in my book, go
for it If you're not gonnainjure yourself.
I think that's amazing.
But yeah, there's so many crazy.
I love the evolution ofexercise.
I love seeing people do yogaand Pilates and even like the
camp gladiator or you know theseearly morning boot camps, which
(08:40):
is so much fun.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, there's just such a variety now that people
can choose from and and I I lovethe change I've noticed that
it's not one size fits all, evenwith the exercise and fitness,
because for some people in we'vetalked about this in previous
podcasts and conversations likesome people need more than
others.
But it's just moving and it'sunderstanding what type of
movement your body can handle,what it can recover from and
(09:05):
what is going to get you moving.
Like, what do you enjoy enoughthat is going to make you move?
And for a lot of people, justhaving a pet, like walking a dog
, it's going to move them.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
That's true, and I think what you say is key there.
That's something that I know wetell people is if you hate your
workout, you're never going tostick with it.
You need to find something youlove to do.
If you love to dance, thenplease center your fitness
around dancing, you know.
If you love um, pushing andpulling, then please go row,
(09:38):
whatever it is.
Um, yeah, there's no right orwrong, but I think keeping
everything in balance and doingsomething you enjoy Me myself, I
get bored pretty easily, so Ilike to switch things around,
and now I think I have found, Iknow through the years, like I
work out better when I havesomebody with me, and I will
(09:59):
tend to be the one who keeps usgoing, like not the pace setter
necessarily, but I'm more theconsistent.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Accountability.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm the accountability, yeah, and having
somebody with me.
Whether I'm running, walking,biking, lifting, doesn't matter.
So yeah, that to me is a bigdeal.
So what is your key to successwith exercise?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It is less is more, and you know it took me a long
time to learn that and justunderstand that less really was
more for me, even though I feltlike I had to work out all the
time, had to move all the time.
Because exercise is good, right.
So more is better, right?
Wrong, it's the American way,right?
And I just kept wondering whyam I struggling to recover and
(10:47):
why am I struggling to pushmyself when I love exercise, I
love movement, I don't sit stillvery well, but doing less and
learning to listen to my bodywhen it says to rest, that's a
big thing, oh for sure, and onceagain, we all need different
levels of it.
But understanding that Iactually get more gains out of
my exercise and then I have lesscrashes in my health, you know,
(11:10):
coming from an autoimmunebackground, personally I do have
to juggle that and manage that,just so.
I know you do as well, butthere's just different levels of
tolerance there.
So, and you know not being asextreme, and and that that ties
into even you know anotheranother significant change, I
think, is how we look atnutrition and how there's been
(11:32):
so many fad diets over the years.
You know keto, carnivore, paleo,vegan, vegetarian.
You know so many different onesand there is a time and a place
for almost all of those, andyou have to know what your body
can handle.
You see people going into ketowho don't have a gallbladder you
got to be really careful, right, it's not a great idea.
(11:54):
Or people who are vegan butthey are so deficient in iron
and B vitamins.
Yeah, and I just love thatthere is more awareness around
some of the dangers of doingthese restrictive diets for so
long.
And I have fun and I think youdo too just kind of on ourselves
(12:14):
, we're like I'm going to trythis diet this month and just
see what happens to my body,because it's time to change it
up, when you know you don't wantthe body to get used to the
same thing all the time, solet's keep changing it up.
And sometimes you get through acouple of weeks or a month and
it's like nope, not doing thatone again.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Well, and for me, I've always, I've always owned
up to this Like I will tryanything on myself before I
recommend it to somebody.
Absolutely that is not a goodoutcome.
At least I want to know, like,what does this do?
And and yeah, it's been fun andinteresting, and nutrition is
(13:12):
who knew right, so, but I thinkthat's why I tend to be more
consistent and accountable isbecause I do recover faster,
doesn't?
Speaker 2 (13:20):
mean.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I perform better, just recover faster.
And then with then, withnutrition.
You know, everybody has adifferent demand and I don't I
don't think that that'ssomething.
You know.
Some bad diet and ladies,please hear me when I say this
if you're taking nutritionaladvice from a 30 year old man
with a, with a ripped abs, Imean good for him, but I promise
(13:45):
you what works for him mostlikely will not work for you in
the long run.
I think we can all get resultsfrom any kind of diet for any
given time, but eventually yourbody's going to demand what it
needs.
And for women especially, Ithink to the keto, the carnivore
things like.
We got to be careful becauseour hormone cycles are so
(14:09):
intricate.
We just we need carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates are not our enemyall the time, so, but different
people need different amounts.
So what about providers?
I think this is interesting and, though I'm older than you, you
grew up in this and I did not.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, because for me, I always just looked for
alternative practitioners and Ihad a little experience with
regular doctors.
But I grew up in a family wherewe didn't go to the doctors, so
I didn't have much experiencewith even a regular Western
medicine doctor until I was incollege and my health was
crashing and I went for someanswers and quickly realized I
(14:49):
wasn't going to get them there.
And then, as I continued on thejourney, you know you find
functional practitioners and Ithink they're doing great work.
We're MDs who are trying tolook outside the box.
And then you can continue totake that further and further.
And I say we're the deep end inwhat we do and you know you're
bringing it together nicely asyou're bringing your nurse
(15:10):
practitioner uh, degreecertification, I'm losing the
words there but as you'rebringing that on board with us,
just bringing some Westernmedicine when we need that with
the holistic world.
But there's just so manydifferent types of providers to
choose from now and and I thinkthere's just it's it's wonderful
to have that variety and morepeople who are trying to find
(15:32):
answers because they're seeingin their clients hey, this isn't
working, I need to look deeper.
I mean, I do this every weekwith clients.
I see something every week.
I think, okay, I need to know alittle bit more about that so I
can help this person even morethan I did last time I saw them.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Yeah, and I think that's such an important quality
for any type of person whowants to be in the space of
functional wellness, functionalmedicine, integrative care,
holistic care, call it whateveryou want.
It means different things todifferent people, but I think
that that desire to learn, tocontinue learning, that's really
important for outcomes forpatients and clients and for the
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continued pursuit of excellenceon the part of providers.
Because our world is changing,so, of course, health is
changing, and I think that youknow part of the thing driving
changes in health perceptions onthe part of the public is how
information gets disseminatedright.
(16:54):
I love it.
I love it when I hear doctorsgo.
You know what I learned onTikTok?
It's about medicine, it's funny, but it's so true.
And I've said you want to learn, you can.
And we always tell our clientshey, you need to advocate for
yourself.
Never apologize for standing upfor yourself, because nobody
(17:15):
knows you like you do and nobodywill advocate for you like you
will.
So it's not necessarily a badthing.
I think there was a study doneit's been a long, long time ago,
but they had this, somelong-term clinical study and
they showed that people whoargued with their doctor had
(17:35):
better long-term outcomes, and Ithought that is just so
interesting.
I mean it's irritating, youknow, on the part of the
provider for a while, but that'sgreat If you have somebody
willing to question the norm,because we're not a formula,
we're not algorithms, we're allunique individuals with
individual needs.
So that's really cool.
Social media is good in thatregard.
(17:57):
So I think that everythingbeing accessible is amazing
being accessible is amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
No, it's.
It's great to have all theoptions and have more options
because you need them whenyou're dealing with a lot of uh,
unknown health problems thatthat we can trace back to toxins
almost every time.
And you know, when you look atchanges that we've noticed in in
the clients that are coming toK-6, people are coming in with
more and more chronic healthproblems and it's, you know, we
(18:28):
used to just see what likeasthma or food sensitivities or
I don't know, like I can't yeah,I can't eat dairy, all right,
great and that's causing theseleaky gut symptoms.
You know, leaky gut was the bigone and that's still a huge
thing that we have to address.
But there's just so much moredepth to what people are
bringing in the door and myheart goes out to so many of
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these people and I tell newclients all the time.
You know, unfortunately yoursymptoms are common.
They're not normal, they'recommon.
But fortunately, because we seea lot of this, I think we can
find you some answers and that'sby asking the right questions,
doing the right tests andinvestigating, but just seeing
there's there's, there's a lotmore depth to what people are
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bringing in.
I mean, wouldn't you agree?
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yeah, absolutely.
I think 20 years ago it was,you know people would come in
like I would get a kid and theywould have eczema.
And so I go, oh good, Eczema,it's going to be dairy and eggs.
And you know, like you had thislittle list, like you knew what
was coming, and then five yearsin it was like eczema can be
really easy, it can be reallyterrible because toxins had
(19:37):
entered the scene and I wasstill trying to address it from
not an old paradigm, but justfrom the singular paradigm of
the body's reacting to thisthing, and this thing is benign,
and so we need to just resetthe body's response to it.
(19:57):
That's allergy desensitization,which I love.
It's so powerful.
But when you have a kid who'soverrun with heavy metals or has
been vaccine injured or has, um, just unhealed, like maybe
they've had three or fourexposures to antibiotics and
their gut is a mess, I'm sorrybut it's going to take more work
(20:19):
.
And so I started noticingthings getting more and more
complicated over time.
And now anytime, anytime, wesee eczema, I mean we would
never just think, oh, dairy.
It's like, oh, what was it?
What did this person get into?
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
What have you been exposed to?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
We've got to dig deeper, and so that has
definitely changed.
I think that's a big change, abig shift.
It's not just simple stuffanymore.
I think it starts that way andwe just take stuff for granted
and we're so good at coveringthings up.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
And then just living with them and suffering and
thinking it's normal.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
And the way it was described to me when I was first
learning, like allergydesensitization, is that you
know your skin is your largestorgan, it's what's most visible.
We feel it, we feel it, we seeit, and so when something goes
wrong, skin's a great way foryour body to get your attention,
and if you ignore it orsuppress it, it does not fix it.
(21:17):
Your body will go huh, okay,well, the skin didn't work.
How about the lungs?
How about some asthma?
And if you look at theprogression of some of these
allergic type disorders, you dofrequently see eczema turning
into asthma and then progressingto gut issues, adhd, things
like that.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
And.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
I think it's just the body.
It's going deeper, deeper,deeper because you're not fixing
the underlying problem.
And I think that's why rootcause became such a buzzword,
right, right, right.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I mean, it's a buzzword for a reason we have to
investigate to understand theroot cause.
But as we're talking of toxins,you know, sharon, why don't you
break it down for us?
What exactly are toxins?
I feel like most of ourlisteners know, but let's just
break it down.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Well, I think we hear toxins and we just
automatically like see thehazmat stuff.
But it's so much more than that, because bacteria, while they
can be good, can also be toxic,right?
So you've got microbes,parasites, molds and fungus
viruses, bacteria.
You've got stress.
(22:27):
Stress can be toxic.
People can be toxic.
Chemicals whether it's chemicalswe're breathing in from the air
or chemicals that we'reingesting because it's labeled
as food that can be toxic andthen that makes food toxic.
Our food is toxic much of thetime because of the poor quality
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of the ground, the soil, thewater, the air.
And then heavy metals that'sanother thing.
That is a big toxin and we'veknown about it for a long time,
whether it's contributing tocognitive decline or mental
retardation or developmentalchallenges or immune system
issues.
Metals are also.
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Hormones can be toxic as well.
We take in a lot of exogenoushormones, meaning they're not
from in our body, they're fromanother source, and so and
that's just the beginning of it,those are just the big things,
right?
So anything can be toxic in thewrong amount, in the wrong
place and at the wrong time.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Well, and some things just are toxic in any amount.
You know.
You look at some of the commonthings that we see glyphosate,
for example.
That's an herbicide that's usedon the majority of mass
produced crops and and they useit because it speeds up harvest
time and we love to use thathere in America.
There's a lot of countriesaround the world that won't use
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it like Europe.
It's so fun to go there and beable to eat all the food and not
get sick, but here we've usedit so much that it's in our
water supply and our soil.
Even non-organic veggies thathave, or just crops that have
never actually been sprayed,will test for trace amounts of
glyphosate, because it's justthe ground is so saturated and
(24:18):
you talk about the ground beingdepleted.
I mean glyphosate completelyremoves all the good nutrients,
it kills everything, and youknow how many years does it take
to replace the soil afterglyphosate has been sprayed?
I'm forgetting how many yearsbut, it's, but I mean it's, it's
years and years.
Yeah, and it depletes all themagnesium out of the soil, which
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you know is such an essentialnutrient for us to be able to
detox in the first place.
But another, another big toxinthat we see is BPA, and I feel
like a lot of people are awareof that one, because now you see
BPA free, it just means it'smade with worse stuff or
something that equally as bad.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yeah, and they.
They test these BPA freematerials and they find BPA in
there.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Right, and it's not really BPA free.
It's just it's below a certainthreshold.
But you know you get BPA almostevery day.
You buy something and take areceipt and handle that, you're
getting BPA.
And you talk about estrogenmimickers.
Bpa is a huge one and what thatcan do to your hormones, and we
just don't get away from thateither, cause, no matter how
strict you try to be, you knowif you go buy a container of
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organic baby greens at the store, what does it come in Plastic?
Yeah, you know, anything youbuy just about as in plastic.
You can find some things inglass bottles, containers, but
that's just not as common, andand so we have to be very
mindful of what other exposureswe're getting in regards to
plastics.
But you know other big onesmycotoxins.
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I feel like for me that's oneof the biggest toxins I see on
these toxicity tests, and it'snot water damage building
mycotoxins.
This is from foods, from grains, from stored grains and that's.
It could be nuts and seeds aswell and from dairy products,
from animals that were fed thesecontaminated grains, and it's
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just sad to me how prevalentthis is, because you can't get
away from a lot of these, but wecan learn how to help the body
detox, give it better defensesand just learn to limit the
exposures.
Because another big one is theheavy metals.
You know those are justeverywhere as well.
You know you get it.
(26:30):
If you've ever had a vaccineyou've gotten a dose of heavy
metals.
But there's so many ones thatwe're exposed to, like lead and
aluminum.
But then how about theradioactive ones that are in the
water and the soil, like bariumand cesium, uranium, cadmium,
beryllium?
I mean it's just common nowcommon to see those in people.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Yeah, I know, when we started doing the total toxin
test I was shocked so muchradioactive stuff Cause I used
to see that in people here andthere.
I was like why do you haveuranium and you could trace it
back most of the time.
Yeah, but it is in thegroundwater and even if you're
drinking filtered water, there'sa good, great chance that
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you're not actually getting theradioactive elements out.
The only way to remove theradioactive elements from your
water is through waterdistillation through water
distillation.
So that's.
You know that's, that's notconvenient, but it is doable and
I will say you can.
You can buy decent little waterdistillers for under a hundred
bucks on Amazon and we distillour water at our ranch and we do
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some here.
But reverse osmosis is greatfor removing a lot of things.
Berkey water filters are good,I think, and I always tell
people look, you can't beperfect with everything, but do
something.
And if all you can do is aBrita filter, well okay, start
with that.
But prioritize when you're ableto do something more than a
(28:03):
Brita filter and do yourresearch.
There's so many good companiesout there now doing water
filtration.
There's no reason we have to beexposed to heavy metals in our
water.
But also yeah, the arsenic inthe groundwater, right.
So if you're with rice anddomestic wines and there's so
many places that people getarsenic and it's just crazy to
(28:26):
think about.
But I wanted to touch onsomething with the glyphosate,
because you made a really goodpoint about glyphosate.
It's huge and we are horrifiedat the levels of glyphosate
people have in their bodies.
People who are eating organic.
Right, and when you're eatingorganic it doesn't mean you're
not getting herbicides orpesticides, just means you're
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getting less Roughly.
You're getting two thirds less,but you're not getting no
herbicides and pesticides.
But if you think aboutglyphosate as a molecule, like
what it is, it's a glycinemolecule and glycine is part of
what makes up our soft tissuesin our body connective tissue,
(29:08):
soft tissue and so if you havelittle little places, little
keyholes, and the only thingthat can fill that is a glycine
molecule and you're just dumpingglyphosate in the body right
and left, guess what's going totake up all those little
keyholes?
Glyphosate.
So there's a really simple waythat you can reduce the amount
(29:30):
of glyphosate absorption yourbody goes through and that's
through taking glycine as asupplement, especially right
before you eat, because you areproviding glycine to the body to
then fill up those receptorsites or those little keyholes,
so that when you do ingest theinevitable glyphosate, it passes
on through without beingabsorbed.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
So there are some simple hacks and when you know
what toxins you're trying totarget, it's really useful to
know these things Right, causeyou can't do everything and and
I never want people to hear ustalking about toxins and just
feel despair because it doesseem like you can't win there
are toxins everywhere, at everyturn but it's learning to to see
(30:16):
how your body handles this,because, while glyphosate is a
very common one, we see I did atoxin test review today with a
client and she tested withhardly any glyphosate.
Now she was really high onother things, but that was a win
for her.
It's like her body does notreact as poorly to this
substance as other people's, sofor her, glyphosate isn't the
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main concern and glycine couldstill be helpful, but we could
focus resources of time, moneyand energy on the substances
that were her big issues.
So it's just helpful to knowwhat are you chasing?
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, because different toxins have different
impacts on the body, and whenyou know what toxin you're
dealing with, then you know theimpact that it's having on your
health and then you know whatyou can do to address the toxins
that you, specifically, arebeing burdened with.
And the thing to remember, too,is you know if you're
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overwhelmed with toxins of anysort, your body has to work
harder to get rid of it.
Your liver is your main filterand it has to create a pathway
for everything you ingest, soyour body.
If your body's overwhelmed withlike, oh my gosh, what is this
chemical?
It's got to go over here.
Oh, good Lord, here's anotherone.
(31:36):
Now what?
Then?
There's less time for yourliver to give, or less resources
available to cellular repairand really good detoxification
and digestion.
And and you're going to agefaster you age your organs
faster as well.
So that's that's just, you know, just food for thought.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Right, because if you are, if you're constantly being
exposed and these prolongedexposures lead to effects on
your health that people don'tthink about having a toxin at
the root of.
Let's talk about Alzheimer's ordementia, cognitive decline,
parkinson's, right All thesethese cognitive diseases develop
(32:26):
because your body was exposedto something once upon a time
that that began to lead to poordetox, poor DNA repair,
increased oxidation, increasedinflammation, and it's going to
settle differently for eachperson.
But it's helpful when you knowwhat your predisposition is.
It's helpful to know what yourexposures have been, so then you
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can work towards preventing orslowing down disease patterns.
But you look at people who comein with different organ
failures or cardiovasculardisease, high cholesterol.
You know it doesn't matter whatit is.
The approach to investigate ispretty similar, because you
could get one toxin that createsall these disease patterns and
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all these symptoms.
But you don't know, because Icould guess and say, well, I'm
looking at this right here andit could be a heavy metal, it
could be mycotoxins, it could beglyphosate.
You know what is causing yourbody to behave this way.
So, whatever it is, we need toknow.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Whatever it is we need to know.
I love Dr Dale Bredesen hasdone just some amazing work with
Alzheimer's, cognitive declineand, just for our listeners,
(33:50):
he's written a book called theEnd for Alzheimer's.
As far as it being like a drug,right, because the drugs we
have for Alzheimer's suck.
They don't add anything tocognitive development or
recovery.
Development or recovery, theyjust, I think when I was in
(34:15):
nursing school I think welearned in pharmacology that,
like Aricept, the main drugprolonged your life by like four
days, I mean, and it's not gooddays.
So that's really terrible.
But he has, dr Bredesen, to hiscredit, has really brought to
light.
Look, you've got all of thesepotential contributors to
cognitive decline and I think hecalls them like leaks in your
(34:37):
roof.
And you've got to fix all theseleaks in your roof, be it
hormonal imbalances, you knowthe food that you eat, you know
all of it's the toxic equation,right, and so it's identifying
all of these different thingsthat have to be addressed.
And he has done a lot of goodfor reversing cognitive decline
(35:01):
and stopping the progression.
And I think when you look atParkinson's too, I mean, okay,
we've got the destruction ofdopaminergic neurons, but why?
Why was it just in your genes?
Or is there a chance that maybeyou yeah, you were born with
some pre you know predisposition, but were your exposures in
(35:24):
life such that that's what endedup happening and what can be
done to unwind some of that andto reverse some of that?
Because you never see peoplewith cognitive decline who don't
have high levels of toxins?
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Ever, ever, ever, or people who have managed their
blood sugar perfectly, because Ihardly ever see that.
That's a big one, don't?
They call Alzheimer's um typethree diabetes, and it's from,
yeah, it's unchecked, uh, bloodsugar, which gives unchecked
(36:00):
metabolic health for years andyears.
And cancer.
Let's talk about that.
That's a metabolic disease, butwhy?
Why?
Why?
Why?
It's choices you've made, butthen it's things that you didn't
make a choice of and it justhappened upon you.
It's for us to point you out.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
And so that's where, once again, identifying the
culprit, understanding what itis for you.
Understand what your risks areas far as your health goes, but
understand your risks as far aswhat you are choosing to eat and
consume and use and breathe andchoose.
You know, use wisdom whenyou're choosing your foods, when
(36:38):
you're choosing your cleaningproducts, when you're choosing
how you're going to live yourlife and what kind of
environment what matters to you.
Is it important to you that youdon't live by a 5G tower?
You know it's just using theknowledge we have to make the
best choice you can.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
Because this isn't a perfect world and you can't do
perfect.
You pick the things that aremost important to you and most
impactful to your health and youpursue those things and you do
them well, right, yeah?
So, yeah, yeah, and I thinkthat that you know, as far as
figuring that out, we do wantpeople to feel empowered to make
(37:21):
changes and, first of all, youdo want to identify the culprit.
Use wisdom, yes, but then let'stalk about what specific things
.
What is something thateverybody could do, elena, that
would reduce toxin exposure?
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Eat more fresh, organic foods.
Yes, move, like we said,exercise, practice deep
breathing.
Breathing is a form of detoxand we forget about that one.
Drink clean water.
I mean, these are simple, basicthings, but we often have to be
stopped and reminded aboutthese.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
You know which one I think of more now than ever is
sweating.
Oh yeah, do not want to sweat,I love sweating.
Speaker 2 (38:07):
It feels so good.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Sweating is so good for you and I think we get so
put.
We put ourselves aside in alittle bubble and then we forget
what it's like to really livein nature and we don't enjoy it
anymore.
And it is so important to sweat.
That's one of the best ways toget rid of toxins.
(38:30):
Whether you're doing it outside, because it's hotter than you
know what in July in Texas orwherever you live, or getting in
a sauna that's really good tooor exercising, whatever it is,
sweat is good and it's a reallyimportant detoxification
practice and sweating is moreaccessible than ever.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Even if you don't have the heat in Texas in July,
you know.
Getting your own personal sauna, infrared saunas they don't
cost exorbitant amounts.
You can get little personalones online for about $150.
Sure, it's not the nice box spaversion, but you can still get
a sweat.
You can take hot baths andshowers.
(39:10):
I mean, there's just so manyways.
But I love that saunas arepopping up everywhere, that
sauna gyms are popping upeverywhere.
There's not an excuse to notsweat.
You probably know someone orhave seen a gym somewhere where
you could go get a sweat on.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Sweating is free.
If there is a free thing youcan do for detox, it is to sweat
.
And if you are one of thosepeople who says, but I can't
sweat, I just turn red andoverheat, that's a problem.
All of it is a signal.
That is a signal for sure yourlymphatic system, which is your
(39:44):
kind of like the pipes underyour house we got some problems
there and you need to startworking on your lymphatic system
to and start challenging yourbody's ability because you can
sweat.
Most people can sweat.
Yes, eventually, maybe not thefirst time you try, but yeah
(40:04):
sweating so good and lymphaticdrainage plays into that.
And then, um, I thinksupplements too, like to me
that's important and it's notthat we want people to take 20
supplements, because I thinkpolypharmacy it's a thing in
medicine and it's also a thingin health, and so we have to be
(40:26):
really cognizant of that.
I want people to get as muchnutrition as they can from their
food period, and I know you andI are very aligned like that,
because there is no pill bottlein the world that is going to
replace eating good food.
Even if it has a little yucketyyuck on it herbicide and
(40:47):
pesticide you still need to eatvegetables and fruits.
And when you can't get that,supplements are really important
.
But I'm not a big fan of buyingsupplements just anywhere.
I will say maybe I'm a littlesnobby about it, but I want a
professional line, I wantsomething that's well-tested and
tracked as far as quality,because I don't want heavy
metals and toxins in mysupplements.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Which is a big risk.
Speaker 1 (41:11):
It is a big risk and I think it's an aggravation for
people If you're using highquality supplements and then all
of a sudden you can't getsomething because nothing's
passing quality control.
It's irritating.
It's irritating from mystandpoint, but it's also
reassuring to know that theproducers care enough to not put
(41:33):
a toxic product out on themarket.
But using supplements of highquality are really important.
Homeopathic remedies areanother thing that are
time-tested and so useful in somany ways for detoxing the body.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Well, and that's where, like you said, you want
to have high quality ones andyou want to know what you need.
Because I say to clients too hey, we don't want to put you on 20
supplements, but when we'redealing with a lot of these
toxins, it is necessary to dosome supplemental detox.
You know, you have to implementthe lifestyle practices of
(42:10):
removing the sources and thetriggers.
You have to implement thelifestyle practices of removing
the sources and the triggers.
You have to do the sweating andlymphatic work and maybe some
cast oil packing anemones.
But you do still have to dosome supplements sometimes and
it can get costly, which is whywe both you know I know that we
both try to use as few aspossible.
But just know, if you, if youcome to us and want to work on
(42:31):
detox, we're probably going torecommend a couple at least some
good binders, and there's a lotof different options out there,
but I think Cellcor just takesthe cake on their binders and
how gentle but effective theyare and you know they don't
deplete everything out of you.
And, that being said, I know alot of people love their clays
and charcoals and all that, butI just really love what we've
(42:53):
been able to do with the cellcore protocols and their detox.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and they call it.
They practice quality controland quality assurance, and
that's important too, but all ofthe lines that we carry do, and
so that that helps as well.
But I think to you know, to theidea of detoxing and eating
good food and using the rightsupplements and being directed.
Please don't just read anarticle and decide, oh, I need
(43:19):
this supplement.
Because we get people who comein here with suitcases literally
suitcases of supplements, andthey want us to tell them what
they should take and it's like,oh, my goodness, this is maybe
two of those.
Yeah, let's start with, yeah, acouple of these, less than five,
and let's go from there.
But supplements are notsomething that you start and
(43:41):
then never get off.
There should always be an exitstrategy, unless it is something
that your body does not make orstore well, and then maybe
there is a nutrient or somethingthat you need to be on
permanently or semi-permanently,on a more consistent basis.
But that's something to bedecided between you and your
provider.
But using a practitioner whocan really guide you with that
(44:06):
is important, and I think thisis where that is important and I
think this is where K6 WellnessCenter does a really good job.
Elena and I man do we spend thetime on products?
It's so important to knowwhat's happening, what's new,
what's not working, because wedo see trends in health and,
(44:27):
just like you know, the summercold viruses they're going
around.
You start to notice it and it'slike, oh yeah, no wonder all
these people tested for zincthis week.
Everybody needed a little zincor everybody's needing a little
immune support.
But to have a practitionerwhose finger is on the pulse of
the health in the community, notjust for viruses and you know
(44:49):
whatever bug is floating around,but to have a clue when it
comes to detox, what's happening, you know what to expect, what
is common versus what is normal,and we use tools like testing,
like the total toxin test andthen the 3x4 genetic test, just
to see what is yourpredisposition.
That's a really important thing, like for me.
(45:13):
One of the best things I foundout is that I'm a fast
metabolizer of caffeine.
That means I can have eveningcoffee and Elena can't.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
That's just a simple example.
It's very helpful to understandwhat is your body doing with
some of these substances likecoffee or caffeine that a lot of
us love.
We know it's not good for us inexcess amounts, but that's just
one example.
But what if your body struggleswith folate and B12?
And those, I think, are themost commonly talked about ones
(45:47):
because of methylation and MTHFR?
But there's so many othernutrients that play into how
your body's going to detox, andthat's where I love the 3x4
genetic test.
I think it has become myfavorite test that we do, next
to the total toxin and wholebody thermography, because it's
really good with it too.
I have.
(46:07):
I I'm just having so much funwith it because everyone is so
different and yet you see somesimilarities and it's very
helpful to understand how yourbody does or doesn't detox,
because you can go through yourlife and just think, oh man, I
can't handle any detox, I getsick every time.
Well, why?
Why does your body not handledetox?
(46:30):
Or why is your body overloadedwith X, y, z toxins?
When someone else isn't, itliterally can come down to a
genetic snip or geneticpredisposition.
So when you work with us, wealways are going to ask all the
questions and, all right, whatare the toxins and how does your
body handle this?
Because, just like youmentioned too when we were
(46:50):
talking about what differenttoxins are, hormones can be, and
a lot of the time people don'tknow that until they get a
hormone based cancer orsomething very severe and
extreme.
But what if we knew ahead oftime?
What if we knew ahead of timewhat your predisposition was to
blood sugar and insulinsensitivity, so we could prevent
metabolic dysfunction?
(47:12):
And you know, lifestyle choiceswill play into that.
That always trumps what yourgenes say.
But if you knew?
For most people, knowledge ispower.
So if you knew, you could dosomething different to prevent
it, wouldn't you want to?
Speaker 1 (47:27):
Yeah, for sure.
So give us an example ofsomebody who successfully um D
and I'm going to say in quotes,detox, because we're never done
detoxing.
It's an ongoing process.
But give us, give us atestimonial there.
Speaker 2 (47:44):
There's a tons.
I think you could think of alot too, but a very close
example to me was my littlesister who was experiencing all
kinds of cognitive issues brainfog, fatigue.
She started getting these weltsall over her neck like knots
and she started thinking oh mygosh, I've got cancer or
something.
And she went to a practitionerin our hometown and they didn't
(48:07):
really know what to do but triedto help and guide and I just
kept saying we've got to do atoxin test.
I don't I don't consider myselfa specialist in a lot of things,
but I I think we could bothsafely say we're pretty good at
discovering what your toxins areand helping you detox.
So when she finally listenedand did the total toxin test,
(48:29):
what do you know?
She came back super high inmycotoxins and it was from water
damage in the house that theythought had been dealt with and
it had not been properly dealtwith.
So they had to investigate alittle bit more.
And in the meantime she starteddoing the supplemental detox
protocol that we recommended andI was coaching her on some
(48:53):
lifestyle detox habits and shestarted doing all these things,
started taking the supplements,removed the main source and it
took several months.
There's no instant fix for anyof these things.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
But within a few months she went from thinking
I'm dying and I think I havecancer to fully functioning and
now she's thriving in law school.
So that's a great example.
Have maybe you've done thistest or something like it.
Don't be overwhelmed by it anddon't develop paralysis of
analysis.
Get with somebody who knowswhat order to go in.
Get with somebody whounderstands your case and start
(49:38):
working on it.
It's really important and thebeautiful thing about the total
toxin test is it gets mailed toyour house, so I don't care
where you live, you can do thetotal toxin test and then we can
help you with theinterpretation and then the
strategy to address your toxins.
I think that that's reallyimportant.
(49:59):
But, practically speaking, Iwant our listeners to understand
that to start protectingyourself from toxins, you need
to first be aware Be aware ofyour exposures.
Where do you live, where do youwork?
What's in those spaces?
Who is in those spaces?
(50:21):
And get tested for toxins orthe exposures.
If you are thinking you knowthere's a 5G tower like right
above my thing and I end everyday with this headache Maybe you
need to get a trifield meterand go check out your spaces and
find out what the frequency, orlike magnetic, electric and
(50:43):
radio frequency outputs are inthose areas, because I can tell
you a lot of what's going onwith your brain or maybe it's
your food, but get tested sothat you can understand what
you're being exposed to.
And then you want to considergetting with somebody to work
with who understands how yourbody detoxes.
(51:03):
Maybe you're somebody whodoesn't sweat, maybe you don't
drink water and that's why youdon't sweat, or maybe your lymph
is so backed up you don't sweat.
But this is where having a goodpractitioner really makes a
difference.
And then I would say, beyondall of that, be proactive about
what you do and how you liveyour life.
Be intentional, make goodchoices.
(51:26):
I tell people all the time youknow every bite counts.
You're either feeding sicknessor you're feeding health.
There's really not any neutralterritory, unfortunately.
So try to do more good thanharm, but help your body to
detox naturally through thethings that you put in and on
your body, and I think that'sthose are the big things for me
(51:51):
your body, and I think that'sthose are the big things for me,
and I would say, just to leavepeople with an action plan or
hope is to know, yes, be aware,be proactive.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
But if you decide, hey, I want to investigate this,
there's a reason why you do itwith practitioners.
Because we spend so much timedealing with these sorts of
tests be it the toxin test orgenetic test and what we do for
you is simplify it.
We bring it all together tomake it doable so you don't feel
hopeless and feel helpless.
(52:19):
There's always something youcan do.
I don't care what the toxin is,there's always something you
can do within any budget.
Yes, there's different waysthat might be faster, might cost
a little more, but there'salways a way to do it, and we
both Sharon, I know we both tryreally hard to make all of our
recommendations achievable.
(52:39):
We want you to be successful,even more than we want to be
successful in what we'rerecommending.
We want you to have health,good health, optimal health.
In the end, that's right.
So with that I mean that seemslike a perfect place to wrap up.
We hope you found thisinformation valuable and we'd
love to hear from you If youwatched the episode on YouTube.
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discover your toxic burden,visit k6wellnesscom to schedule
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Until next time, take care ofyourself, because your health is
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