September 19, 2024 • 53 mins
In this special Q&A edition of The K6 Wellness Revolution, we turned to you—our incredible listeners—and you delivered! We received a flood of thought-provoking questions and tackled the topics you care about most.
We took a deep dive into water quality, discussing the best filtration methods to ensure your water is clean and safe. Plus, we explored hydration in a whole new way—because staying hydrated isn’t just about drinking more water.
Many of you asked about the role of regular blood work in monitoring health trends, like glucose and insulin levels, and we broke down how these tests can be a powerful tool in your wellness journey. We also shared practical insights into homeopathic remedies, children's health, nutrition, sleep, and even managing screen time to encourage more physical activity.
This episode is filled with valuable insights on the wellness topics that matter to you. Join us for a packed session of answers and actionable advice, because your health is always worth fighting for!
RESOURCES FROM PODCAST DISCUSSION:
Chemical Free Cleaning Guide - www.k6wellness.com
Salt Sole Instructions - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y0aFT8Qaidf8Aev2jpwR7JEHsTNQEtuQ/view?usp=sharing
Dr. Nirola Jacobi: Releasing Your Ileocecal Valve at Home - https://youtu.be/ATmSVdeSo_U?si=cQCks6PmL4Z864MV
Water Filtration Options: AquaTru, Reverse Osmosis, Berkey/Boroux, Greenfield, Water Distiller, etc.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to K6 Wellness Revolution, where we
believe health is worth fightingfor.
This podcast focuses on allthings related to natural health
, wellness and vibrant living.
We know your time is valuableand I'm honored that you're
spending some of it here.
So get ready, because thewellness revolution starts right
now.
Because the wellness revolutionstarts right now.
(00:26):
Welcome to the K6 WellnessRevolution podcast.
My name is Sharon.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm the owner of K6 Wellness Center in Dallas, texas
, and I'm going to be your hosttoday, along with Elena here,
one of the other practitionershere at K6 Wellness, thrilled to
be here and just getting tochat about the questions that
you, our clients, have.
It's fun to bring youinformation we love, but we love
hearing from you knowing whatyou want to hear about.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, and so we self-anointed ourselves as
experts this month and we put anote out to everybody in our
email list.
If you want to be on our emaillist, then absolutely click on
the link in our bio and we'llget you added.
But we gave out everybody theopportunity to just ask us hey,
what are you know?
(01:15):
Questions about natural health,healthy living, integrative
medicine, functional wellness,what are the burning questions
on your mind?
And I was astounded.
I had no idea we would get somany questions.
Were you shocked?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was.
I was.
I thought we're going to haveto really pull these out of
people, but y'all came forwardwith so much.
Y'all really came through.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, and so we're going to preface this by saying
some of these questions were sogood we're going to do a whole
podcast episode on the topics.
But there were a number ofreally good questions that we
felt like this was anappropriate way to respond to.
So we're going to startaddressing questions and we're
going to try to give you a list,our sources or resources, and
(02:07):
then sometimes it's strictlyopinion.
So there you go, there's yourdisclaimer up front.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So with that, let's jump right in.
Sharon, let's hit our firstquestion.
Our question is aboutdehydration and tips on how to
hydrate beyond drinking waterand test a monitor, so why don't
you go ahead and weigh in onthis one for us?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay.
So I think this is something Iknow, for me and I'm sure for
you too, this is something thatwe hit with every new client.
We always ask.
It's on our intake form howmuch water do you drink, how
much other things do you drink?
And it's really importantbecause, you know, just because
something is fluid doesn't meanthat it's helpful, and that's
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something that always gets mewhen you go to the movie theater
.
Have you ever seen thecommercials for soda?
I'm not going to name thecompany, but they talk about
these huge amounts of soda andyou know how you go buy a gallon
of soda at the con, at theconcession stand, but they say
this counts towards your dailyintake of fluid.
And they make it sound likeyou've done something healthy by
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drinking this sugar syrup withbubbles.
And I'm like that's reallymisleading because people do
think, oh, everything I drinkcounts, but that's not true.
So for hydration and thisquestion was specifically
hydration water's the big partof that, right.
(03:33):
And we tell people look,baseline is half your body
weight in ounces of water.
Is that perfect?
No, but it's a good startingpoint because the fact of the
matter is a lot of people do notrecognize the signal in their
brain for thirst.
A lot of times it getsmisinterpreted as hunger, so we
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find ourselves eating instead ofdrinking and that's a problem.
But we have people who come inhere and when we do the EAV
testing, it's a conductivitytest and if they're dehydrated
they're not very conductive.
We can tell when people aredehydrated.
But, yes, half your body weightin ounces of water.
(04:17):
If you exercise or do sauna orsomething that causes you to
sweat, you need more andestimates vary on that.
Some people will say half anounce per minute, um, or
sometimes more.
I generally will work outsweaty workout for 45 minutes
(04:38):
and I try to drink a quart ofwater just in that time.
But it's important to replacethe fluids that you're losing
Now.
Sweat is important to producebecause it's a big elimination
practice of your body.
But how do we replace all ofthat?
One of the things that we reallylike to promote is, yes, drink
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your water, but get theelectrolytes in.
What are electrolytes?
Those are trace minerals.
Okay, there are a lot of traceminerals.
Now the big ones.
If you go to the big box storesor Amazon, you're going to see
it's magnesium and sodiumchloride and potassium and maybe
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a few more thrown in there andthat's fine.
You know, if you're cramping atnight and you're a big sweater,
you're probably low onelectrolytes and dehydrated.
But you can make.
This is something I wanteverybody to have.
An action item you can makeyour own electrolyte solution at
home for pennies.
Literally it's called a saltsoleil and it's basically taking
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a salt, not table salt, andyou're dissolving it in water.
You're either putting a crystalof Celtic sea salt or some sort
of Himalayan salt on yourtongue to let it dissolve and,
of course, in your buccalmembranes inside your mouth.
That's a really fast way to getstuff into your system fast and
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follow that with water.
Or you can make a supersaturated salt solution using
rocks Again, celtic sea salt,himalayan salt, redmond real
salt is another good one, andthe reason we like these better
than just the table salt thatyou buy at the grocery store is
because you've got a lot moremineral in there.
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Like with Celtic sea salt,there's over 80 minerals, and
with Himalayan salt, sameRedmond real salt.
I looked it up and it hasaround 60 minerals in it and all
of these come from bettersources.
When you buy iodized table salt, you're basically getting
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sodium and chloride and dextrose, and if you do a taste test
side to side, you'll tell thedifference.
Elena is a big salt connoisseur.
I mean, if there was a way tobe yeah, if there was a way to
be a sommelier of salts, elenawould be that.
Why don't you talk about this?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, you know, it started with the knowledge that
some of these salts are betterthan others and then, as I
started eating different ones inthis I know this goes for you
and anyone else Once you starteating the real wholesome salt,
you notice that, yes, the tablesalt is going to taste like
chemicals and it actuallydoesn't enhance the flavor of
your food.
When, when you've been reallystrict off salt period because
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sometimes there's a time to fastfrom certain things, you know,
I know when I've done fasts andI come back to salt and if I eat
out and have salt, I'm likethis is horrible.
How are we used to this?
But you know, some of myfavorite salts, though, aren't
always the cheapest salt, butyou get what you pay for.
You could get the cheapesttable salt and it's going to
have all those chemicals in it,but I'd rather get the full
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flavor.
And you know, with that, you canfind some good ones at
HomeGoods a lot of the time, orTJ Maxx.
I love that you can find thesegourmet, high quality salts in
an affordable price range.
So I'm not going to name anyparticular brands or names,
because then someone's going tosay you didn't mention this one
or that one.
There's a lot of brands outthere, but being a salt snob is
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not the worst thing in the world.
I mean it can survive if I haveto, but I'd rather not.
I want my food to taste goodand I want my salt to taste good
, and there's a lot to salt aswell.
Some people need more thanothers.
That's an important thing toknow about yourself with your
hydration levels, to know whenyou've had too much salt and
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when you need it, when you needto go get that little pinch of
salt, because the thing aboutsalt is you're going to feel
awful with too much or toolittle.
You want that little sweet spotright in between.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Right and a good way to know if you've had too much
salt, which is what we tend toworry about more in America,
because your medical doctor isusually the one telling you you
need to reduce your salt if youhave high blood pressure.
But sometimes you actually needa little more salt, and when we
say salt, we really mean notjust sodium, right, but all of
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these trace minerals and it'sit's okay to salt your food.
If you look salt, you knowthroughout history salt is used
to preserve food.
Salt is used for many things toflavor food.
It's not the enemy.
Using salt does not make you anunhealthy person.
It can add flavor.
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It can also enhance your brainactivity and help more neurons
fire.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, and it's important to note too.
I mean, if any of our listenershave listened to us for even
one episode, y'all know that Ilove to reference the 3x4
genetic test because on thenutrients that it measures, salt
is one of them and it's reallyhelpful to know when you're
trying to figure out what do Ineed to cut back on or add into
(10:00):
my diet.
Salt's a big question and it'sjust nice to know where you fall
on that scale.
Should you have more, Shouldyou have less?
And that will impact yourhydration levels.
I mean, for me, I need all thesalt I can get and I always knew
that because I could drink onmy water and still be dehydrated
.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, and yeah, salt is really important for a lot of
functions at the cellular level.
We have a recipe for makingyour own electrolyte solution at
home, called Salt Soleil, andif you click in the show notes
you can get the PDF of our SaltSoleil instructions.
(10:40):
But it's super easy.
It's very basic.
It takes salt and water.
It's super easy.
It's very basic.
It takes salt and water.
It's real hard.
So it's, it's a great thing tojust look at.
You know how much water are youdrinking?
Number one make sure you'regetting enough water in.
And then, number two are youdrinking, you know, are you
getting enough electrolyte?
And then we're going to go intoquality of water later, but yes
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, so that's your, your hydrationtidbit.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Our next question is a big one, especially this time
of year Not our next question,though in reference to children
and wellness.
Going back to school and tryingto stay healthy on a budget.
I know that's a big questionfor a lot of our mamas out there
.
You're just working so hard tokeep your families healthy, and
everything is getting more andmore expensive, but a lot of the
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basic things don't have to costthe whole bank.
So, sharon, why don't you starton that for us?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, so this time of year, yeah, I think everyone's
been back in school.
What about a month now?
Or three, four weeks?
And now everybody's got a cold.
Everybody's got an upperrespiratory infection happens
every year.
And here in Texas we've gotragweed and elm trees and grass
all firing up and our pollencounts are super high because
it's September.
(11:54):
Um, but the free and easy,that's what we want to hit first
, right.
So nutrition.
Now, nutrition is not free andsometimes it's not easy, but it
is simple and, in a nutshell,quit eating crap and don't feed
your children crap.
What is crap?
Crap is processed food.
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If it's something that doesn'tlook like it's in its natural
state, then it's not wortheating fruit leathers or fruit
roll-ups or whatever you callthem.
It's not the same as eating anapple or a banana or a slice of
watermelon.
You need to eat real food.
That's where wellness begins.
(12:36):
Hydration, like we just talkedabout, making sure your kids are
drinking water.
Juice is not water.
Juice actually has as muchsugar, almost as soda, maybe a
little more, I can't remember.
It's close.
But if you think about how manylike take oranges.
How many oranges does it taketo juice to make a cup of orange
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juice, it's so many more thanyour kid would ever sit down and
eat at one time.
So don't give them that muchjuice because it's just too much
sugar.
And then definitely it goeswithout saying things with food
coloring and high fructose, cornsyrup, gator or electrolyte
drinks I don't say any brandnames but things like that that
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have all these extra ingredients.
That's not really ideal for yourkids.
They need water.
Water is the most importantthing.
They need sleep, and this goesfor high schoolers as well.
I'm always telling my highschool clients how much sleep do
you get?
And they're doing good if theyget seven hours.
But you know, there are studiesthat show that teenagers like
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16, 17, 18 need as much sleep asa toddler, and I just think
that kids don't sleep enough andif they're not sleeping at the
right time of night, if you'reletting your kids stay up late,
it's not good for them, it's notgood for our circadian rhythm.
So that is a free and easy thingto do Institute a bedtime and
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stick with it.
It takes a long time to build ahabit, but stick with it and it
becomes easier.
And then exercise, gettingphysical activity, using your
muscles, stretching your limbs,having a lot of active outside
time also gives your body theopportunity to ground.
And what is grounding?
(14:25):
Well, grounding is when we'reputting our body on the earth to
help take in some of thosereally good electromagnetic
frequencies that come from theearth.
Those are all important things.
And then, of course, there'slike the do not.
Um, those are all importantthings.
And then, of course, there'slike the do nots, right, like
screen time.
No kid needs a bunch of screentime.
And I just saw a thing, elena,the other day there are some
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congressmen now asking forwarnings to be put on electronic
devices with screens for kids,it's like, well, that is late,
but better late than never, Iguess.
But yeah, we need to be limitingthe external stimulation that's
artificial and involves bluelights and Bluetooth and EMF and
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all of that, and all of thesethings are way more important
than any supplement period.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I sell supplements.
So do with that what you want.
Well, that's where it'simportant to remember all the
basic things before you thinkyou have to go spend all this
time, money and energy on thingswhen you've got so much more at
your fingertips.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you're just monitoring what is going in the
body and what you're beingexposed to via food and
environment, yeah, and if you'regoing to give your kids
supplements with childrenespecially, we love homeopathics
because homeopathics are firstof all, let me just clear it up
they're not herbs, right.
(15:53):
It's not herbal medicine Likeyou may give your kid elderberry
syrup or garlic or mullein orsomething like.
That's not what homeopathicsare.
Homeopathics are very diluted.
It's almost an energetic typeremedy.
But there are really wellproven um homeopathic remedies,
like Bella Donna, which is apain reliever I always tell
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people it's homeopathicacetaminophen or ibuprofen for
fevers and pain.
Pulsatilla is when there's afever or pain with snot, so a
wet fever.
But then there's the one youcan find almost in every grocery
store now for flu.
It's oselococcinum.
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That's a hard, it's a mouthful.
You know what I'm talking about.
If you've ever seen it, youwould probably looked at it and
said I don't even know how tosay that Um.
For sinus congestion you've gotCali by K A L I, and then the
second word is by chromicum, butB I is just what it goes for.
But then if you've got stomachbugs, you can give arsenicum
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album or homeopathic Ipecac, andwe know Ipecac to be something
in full form.
It will make you vomit, right.
That's what you do if, like akid has swallowed something they
shouldn't swallow, you givethem Ipecac so they vomit.
Well, homeopathic does theopposite it helps stop vomiting.
So there's no actual Ipecac init anymore, or Nuxvomica.
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So there are all thesedifferent remedies and there are
great websites that you can goto to kind of help determine
what homeopathic remedy should Ibuy.
Or you can come see apractitioner you know, ask your.
If you have a functionalmedicine provider or a
naturopath or a health coach,you definitely want to ask them
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about having homeopathics.
So those are really big things.
That's just scratching thesurface.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Then you could also do things.
You know, if you're local, comein to see us or we can do
virtual appointments where wecan test through what are going
to be the right remedies for youwhen you're sick and your
children.
But we do clearings as well andthat's where we're just testing
through what your body'sreacting to and we do a
desensitization to that toxin orpathogen and it's just a great,
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simple and affordable way tohelp reset the way the body's
reacting to these things.
And you know, I think peopleforget about it.
It's such a simple little partof what we do here, because
there's so many things that wedo that I just want to remind
people get a clearing.
You know, if it's not us, ifyou've got other practitioners
who do this, it's such a helpfultool and there's things you can
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do to clear at home as well,and we've talked about that
maybe in the past or maybe it'ssome other conversations, but
that's something that sometimesit's necessary.
If you can't get to apractitioner, there's things
that can just help you get bywith the clearings.
But then there's also Rifetechnology, which you have to be
local here to come in theoffice and do that.
But I know a lot of ourlisteners are local and for
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those that are, remember thatRife is another simple thing you
can do.
You could bring the wholefamily in and just be exposed to
those good frequencies that aregoing to help stimulate the
immune system and just help yourbody clear it out.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, that's a great reminder.
It's not just take this pill.
There are so many things we cando, even sinus rinsing, right,
cause so much of what we seethis time of year is upper
respiratory sinus rinsing ispretty much free, it doesn't
cost a lot.
So there's so many things youcan do to help your kids but
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build that healthy lifestyle.
I think that's where it allbegins, right?
Okay, so we're going to go tothe next one.
What do you do when theileocecal valve goes wonky and
won't open and close properly?
And I love this questionbecause it's like oh, this is a
good one and I'm impressed thisperson knew what that is.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yes, you know the ileocecal valve.
For those who don't know, thatis where the large and small
intestine meet and that littlevalve there can really get an
attitude a lot of the time andit's so fun to see.
On a thermography we can seewhen that's a problem.
But sometimes you just knowbased on how you feel, because a
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lot of you listening may notknow what the ileocecal valve is
.
But it's located in your lowerright quadrant, kind of by the
appendix, and there's a lot youcan do at home to just simply
reset that or make sure it hasgood tone, kind of like a little
workout for that valve, andthere's a lot of videos online.
But essentially what you do isyou just find your belly button
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and the top of your hip bone andhalfway in between there that
should be somewhere around theappendix, around the valve, and
you can just while laying down.
That's an important part.
While you're laying down youcan press down and up towards
your heart and you often canfeel the pain in that area.
That is releasing and the bestpart is when you get that little
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gurgle of it, resetting.
That's always so satisfying andif you need help with that, you
know that's something that Ican walk people through on video
appointments or when they comein person.
But it is important to makesure that that valve is opening
and closing properly.
Otherwise you could be stuck ina state of diarrhea or
constipation, depending on ifit's stuck open or stuck closed.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Absolutely, and that's the first thing when
people say, oh, I have chronicconstipation.
If we lay them down on thetable and start poking around,
you can usually feel it's like apee or it feels like a little
almond if it's real bad.
But they usually go oh, thathurts in a in one spot and and
that valve, if it gets, if it'snot closing and opening properly
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, it can become problematic.
But there's definitely help forthat and there's, um, there are
some good YouTube videos on ittoo.
So I mean, you know you canalmost get a degree on YouTube,
so why not?
But we'll link to one of ourfavorites, dr Nerola Jacoby.
She does a lot of work withgotten immune and she has a
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great at home technique, and sowe'll put that down in the show
notes as well.
So, yeah, and then the nextquestion is I would like it.
It's not a question, it's astatement, but we took it anyway
.
I would like advice forpre-diabetics.
That's a big one.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That is because diabetes is a very preventable
disease and we just see so muchof it in the US and in just our
modern way of living.
But there's a lot of factorsthat can influence it and you
know whether it's influenceactual diabetes or pre-diabetic
symptoms and patterns.
And I mean the basicrecommendation is eat low carb,
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high fiber, high protein diets.
Those are going to supporthealthy regulation in insulin.
But it's essential to trackyour blood work as well and know
where you're trending.
Too often, whether it'sdiabetes or any other disease,
people are waiting until there'ssuch a big problem they can't
ignore it.
That's where routine blood workis so helpful For us.
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If you order blood work throughus, we're always going to check
your glucose, your hemoglobinA1C and your insulin because we
want to know where are youtrending.
Once we know where you'retrending, then we can kind of
nip it in the bud before it canbe a problem.
And you know there's anotherthing too.
Let's talk about the genetictest again, because it's my
favorite.
But it's helpful to know howprone are you to diabetes or are
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you just experiencing some ofthese pre-diabetic symptoms due
to lifestyle or poordetoxification?
You know what factors areworking with you or against you
for that, because you don't justwake up one day and suddenly
you're diabetic.
I mean, you don't just wake upwith most diseases and suddenly
that's what you got.
No, there was a slow and steadyyou know avalanche.
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If you will that just one dayyou realize, okay, this is where
I'm at.
But if you are being vigilantand smart with what you're
eating, starting at your nextmeal, just look at your plate
and see okay, am I eating morecarbs and processed sugars?
Let's change that and get moreprotein.
And then don't forget exercise.
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That is so important fordiabetes, but also for so many
inflammatory and degenerativediseases.
So just remember to be activeand to move and know that you
can turn it around.
Your body made it.
It can get rid of it if youmake the right choices.
Your body made it.
It can get rid of it if youmake the right choices.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's for sure.
When I see somebody with type 2diabetes or pre-diabetes, that
is when I automatically go okay,whoa, let's step back a minute
and let's consider this person'swhole endocrine system.
And your endocrine system isthe parts of your body that make
hormones.
So it's your thyroid, it's youradrenals, it's your pancreas,
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it's your sex organs, right?
So there's a lot involved thereand it all matters.
For instance, did you know thatif you have hypothyroid, you
have a greater chance of havinginsulin resistance or high blood
sugar?
So that would be problematic.
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And another thing that you knowhaving a high blood sugar or
prediabetes, you tend to havehigher lipid levels.
Okay, now, there's a lot ofcontroversy out there and we're
not getting into the cholesterolconversation today, but let's
at least talk abouttriglycerides.
You know, triglycerides are tome a truer commentary about the
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quality of the food that you'reeating.
And, like Elena said it, yeah,generally we want to see not
just how many carbs are youeating, but what kind of carbs
are you eating.
But the same thing goes for fat, and it's not just are you
eating saturated fat, which getsa bad rap, right, but are you
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eating seed oils?
Are you eating trans fats?
How much are you eating and,genetically, what are you wired
to actually metabolize?
Because not all diabetics dowell.
With a high fat diet and ketois this real big thing for
people who are insulin resistantor diabetic, but it's not
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really good for everybody,especially women.
Women, you need carbohydrates,period, full stop.
You know different levels fordifferent people, but we have a
lot more going on in the hormonedepartment and it's important
to cycle those carbohydratesthrough.
So it's not just follow thediabetic diet right.
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Macros do matter, and whenyou're pre-diabetic, it's a good
indication that your metabolismis not very flexible, and what
that means is you don'tfluctuate well from carb burning
to fat burning.
You're probably not building awhole lot of muscle.
What we want to do isreinstitute that.
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We've got to find what isneeded.
So does this sound like maybeworkouts are involved?
Yeah, exercise, moving yourbody, that's all super important
, but so is what you put on yourplate.
You cannot, um, was it?
Somebody says you can't outruna bad diet.
There's no way you can just eattrash and go to the gym more
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and be okay, because it may notshow up on the scale, but it can
show up in your blood.
Work, like Elena is saying andwe want to see that hemoglobin
A1C down in the low fives.
You know, 5.7 to 6.4 isconsidered pre-diabetic and I,
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according to functional wellnessprinciples, we're really
looking more for 5.1, 5.2, and afasting insulin below 4.
That shows really goodmetabolic sensitivity or
flexibility.
It's good insulin sensitivity,meaning your body is very
sensitive when sugar comes onboard.
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There's insulin there to helpwith it.
We want your diet optimized.
We want your diet optimized, wewant your lifestyle optimized.
And if you're stressed out,strung out fast, fooded out,
it's not going to happen.
So when I see you knowpre-diabetes, it's not just a
number on the scale and it's notjust about the A1C and getting
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that number down, it's about thewhole person, just like if we
get anybody else in.
And the beautiful thing is whenyou are diagnosed with
prediabetes, it's your wake upcall.
This is when you can say, allright, now we've got to fix
things, now we're going to geton board so that we have the
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rest of our life to do thingscorrectly.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay.
So now, now that we understandwhat to do for pre-diabetes and
diabetes and a healthy lifestyle, let's talk about some
exposures.
Our next question is we have acurrent contract with an
eco-friendly pest controlservice.
Is that okay?
If not, what do you do aboutwasps, spiders, ants, et cetera?
I'll let you go there.
(29:29):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I always think of a friend of ours who did this and
her front yard smelled likepizza for a week after they have
the yard sprayed because of thegarlic I guess that was being
used.
But there's a lot.
This is complicated.
It's complex.
I'm not going to sit here andbash on the pest control
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industry, but I am going to tellyou, kind of you know, how we
roll with it, how we roll withit.
I think understanding the rolethat insects play in the
environment is important.
I think that it's important toconsider where do you live and
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in what climate and what kind ofinsect is it?
You know, to me I'm just goingto be real the only good
scorpion is a dead scorpion inmy book and that's what we have
at the ranch and they scare thebejesus out of me.
But that being said, thespiders I discriminate.
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I'm like oh, is that a goodspider?
What does it eat?
And do we want to move it tothe garden?
You know there's a purpose forthese things.
Even you know stinging insects.
They often have a purpose, butthere are a lot of good things
as far as like, is youreco-friendly pest control really
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eco-friendly?
That?
You know there's a lot of grayarea there.
There's a lot of unknowns.
If you ask the entomologist orthe technician, oftentimes what
we hear them say is oh, I spraythis at my house.
Well, that doesn't meananything to me, because you
probably use scented laundrydetergent and dryer sheets too
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and I don't do those things.
So you can't just say, oh well,they do it, so I'll do it.
You have to know for you.
Many pesticides are actuallyvery toxic.
They can be carcinogenic,neurotoxic.
But that being said, there aregreen ones, like essential oils
are natural pesticides Tea tree,lemongrass, peppermint, um, I
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think even rosemary and lavender.
In fact you can put theseplants around your home if you,
if you feel like you have a lotof insects coming in, look at
what you have planted aroundyour house.
Have you done anythingnaturally to possibly reduce the
number of insects coming in?
And that could be like plantingrosemary bushes and lavender
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bushes and lemongrass andwhatever else, and then maybe
spraying garlic I mean, you know, that's an iffy one.
Cedar is very anti-insect aswell.
But there are all kinds of UVtraps, like UV lights to attract
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moths and mosquitoes, and thereare other types of traps.
I know we so one time we got bedbugs and it was horrible.
We brought them home with usand I was apparently allergic to
them and we didn't know this atthe time and we decided I was
(32:47):
crazy temporarily, because myhusband had nothing on him and I
would wake up with just biteseverywhere.
Finally we figured out he foundone bed bug on a pillowcase,
just happened to see it and Iwas like, well, we can't spray
anything.
I mean, I'm just not doingchemicals.
So he read up on it and weended up sealing off our room,
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borrowing every space heater wecould from people we knew, and
we heated our room up to like Idon't know, some ungodly 140
degrees or something for eighthours.
We never had another bed bug,so we used heat.
So there are a lot of thingsout there that you can do
besides chemicals, even ifthey're self-proclaimed
eco-friendly.
(33:29):
I think, looking at theenvironmental working group,
does Yuka do?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I think so.
I think they review all kindsof products that have chemicals.
So it's worth trying.
Just don't quote us yet.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, but uh, I would just look that up.
And then, when you can avoidchemicals obviously we recommend
avoiding them Try to findanother solution.
Diffusers are great.
This is where I think essentialoils really rock.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Well, and then it's important to remember too what
preys on what I know trying todo my garden organic and the
grasshoppers are like a plaguefrom biblical days and I don't
want to go out there and spraybecause one those grasshoppers
are so gnarly and resilient theyjust morph into super bugs.
These sprays don't really work.
So I go out there, I do thegarlic on everything.
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My yard smells delicious.
But then I started looking at,okay, what eats these?
Because there's not a greatsolution.
So I started with every pestand bug.
The grasshopper started it, butI started putting up birdhouses
and bat houses for flies andmosquitoes.
I went and got hundreds ofpraying mantis, little cocoons,
because they'll eat grasshopperswhen they're little.
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I mean it's of praying mantis,little cocoons, because they'll
eat grasshoppers when they'relittle.
I mean it's not the mosteffective, but it is effective.
And I just have tried to becomefriends with the good bugs and
even lizards.
I mean I get geckos and lizardseverywhere in my house and I
don't love it, but I rememberthey eat bugs.
So I've just decided to try andbecome friends with them.
(35:02):
I mean sometimes I'll callsomeone else to come get it out
of my bed or my bathroom, butthey've become my friends
because when they're aroundthere's fewer other bugs that I
really don't want around.
So that's one option.
But then also just doing theessential oil things, like you
mentioned, sharon, that's myfavorite because you can use
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those inside and outside and gothat step further.
Once again, like you mentioned,plant the plants in your
landscaping.
We get landscaping wrong allthe time.
We're just planting things thatlook pretty but they don't
serve a purpose.
I mean, I went scorched earthon my landscaping.
It's rosemary and lavendereverywhere and every time it
rains it smells amazing.
(35:43):
So that's helping from theoutside.
And then I'll go spray thosenatural things all the time that
I've made myself that.
I know what's in them.
Yes, there's brands you can buy, but it is also easy to make
your own and your home willsmell like a spa inside and out.
What's not to love?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
That's true and I think, too, we should point out,
like you live semi-country-ish,you're on acreage right, and
yes, I live in town and I don'treally have big bug problems and
we don't really use a bug sprayservice.
But out on the ranch we haveeverything, but we keep chickens
around and, yeah, they eatcrickets and, like you said,
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grasshoppers around and, yeah,they eat crickets and, like you
said, grasshoppers.
They're biblical out there andlike robo cop type.
Yeah, things are reallysomething, but I think there's a
lot that nature's provided tohelp keep balance.
It's because we're so out ofbalance that our environment
becomes out of balance.
And to your point about yards,what are we doing being grass
(36:42):
farmers?
My uncle always called it.
Look, I'm a grass farmer.
He was just growing that frontlawn.
It serves no purpose.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, that's a whole other conversation isn't it.
With the bugs, though you know.
We got another question aboutcleaning products, because once
again, it's chemicals, chemicals, chemicals, chemicals, and we
do have a non-toxic cleaningguide that we'd love to share
with you all.
We're going to put it in ourshow notes, where you could get
some of those recipes, and someof the main ingredients cross
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over from your pest control tocleaning products.
Most of the cleaning productingredients are simple things I
bet a lot of you already have.
You know, castile, soap andvinegar and essential oils.
Those are basics, and it's justreally helpful to be able to
use these multi-purposedingredients.
I love it when I clean my housebecause, like I said, when I
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spray, it smells like a spa.
When I clean, it smells like aspa.
So that just simplifies whatyou have to spend money on,
because there's a lot of moneyto be made out there, a lot of
money to be paid on all theseclean products, and sometimes
for convenience, that's what youwant to do, but you don't
always have to For sure, but youknow, hey.
(37:55):
Next question, though, sharon,this is a big one, okay,
speaking of chemicals andpollutants and exposures.
Okay, speaking of chemicals andpollutants and exposures, the
Berkey water filter question.
You know what do we do.
Do we need to filter fluoride?
Should we be adding anything toit?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Can we still get the filters?
Yeah, oh, this is a big one.
So for those listeners outthere who filter water, I think
everybody in the water filterworld knows about Berkey filters
.
They've been around for a longtime and they were kind of.
When I learned about them, itwas kind of more of like a
survivalist type thing, like oh,you can take this camping and
put any kind of water in it andit filters it and makes it
drinkable, but our tap water isso gross, right, there's so many
(38:45):
pharmaceuticals andcontaminants in it that the
Berkey filters have been veryuseful.
But they got in trouble.
And they got in trouble withthe EPA because they were saying
that it kills microorganismsand so when you do that, then
the EPA actually requires you toregister as a pesticide or
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insecticide, and this is myversion of what happened.
So you know, fact check me.
And so, anyway, berkey got introuble and I think they had to
pull all their filters.
Now Berkey was really reallygood at at reducing a lot of
heavy metals, a lot ofpesticides, herbicides,
(39:28):
pharmaceuticals, things that wewe find in the water.
Now you can I don't think youcan find Berkey anymore, but
they rebranded and it's acompany called Borough and it's
a company called BoroughB-O-R-O-U-X, and Borough filters
fit the Berkey water filtersystems.
(39:49):
These are gravity systems,right.
There's another company calledGreenfield and they make filters
that feed these gravity filtersum filtration systems.
But that's, it's complicated.
And so in doing our researchthere's it appears that while,
(40:15):
yes, the basic filters likeborough, berkey I'll just say
Berkey, cause I don't reallyknow borough Um, they do filter
out a lot.
But there are these additionalfilters that remove chlorine and
fluoride that you could add to,and they are lower filters.
The problem is when, when theydid the testing, they found that
(40:36):
it was actually dropping a lotof aluminum in the filtered
water.
So you're trading a littlefluoride for a lot of aluminum.
To me I'm not comfortable withthat, and now that I have that
knowledge, it's kind of like,yeah, I can't really do that
anymore.
Fluoride is not great for you.
That's again another podcast.
(40:57):
The fluoride in our watersystem is not going to prevent
cavities.
I'm sorry to break it to you,but it's just not.
I sorry to break it to you, butit's just not.
And there are other options.
If you have Berkey, fine.
I my, my personalrecommendation, based on my
(41:17):
experience and my opinion is tojust use the black filters, to
use the, the basic filters thatdo most.
That don't that do everythingexcept the chlorine and the
fluoride.
That's my recommendation.
That's what I'm doing myself,and I have one other one that
uses the green field, and it'sfine too.
Out at the ranch we distill ourwater.
We have well water and we'vegot a countertop distiller.
(41:43):
Now why would we distill waterinstead of just using a Berkey?
Well distillation is the onlyway to remove radioactive
elements from the water.
Berkey won't do it.
Reverse osmosis does not do it.
What else is there?
Just these other multi-mineralor charcoal filters.
(42:04):
They don't remove theradioactive elements.
And with all the toxin testingthat we do on our clients and
we've done it on ourselves andwe both came back with a lot of
radioactive elements and we bothdrink a lot of Berkey water.
And it's not Berkey puttingradioactive elements in there,
it's in the groundwater, it'severywhere.
(42:24):
So countertop waterdistillation I've had really
good success with it does removeall the minerals.
We do add electrolytes to thewater after it's been distilled,
so that we are getting minerals.
That may seem like a lot oftrouble to some people.
To me it's worth it.
(42:44):
I want to drink clean water andit's scary to think about
what's in our water.
I know like in the early 2000sI think it was the early 2000s
they were wanting to put statindrugs in all the water just as a
prevention, and what a terribleidea.
And the thing is we can't trustour governmental authorities or
(43:08):
the people making thesedecisions.
They don't have foresight likethat to know.
Oh, we know everything we needto know about this drug and we
know that it's safe and we'regoing to give it to everybody,
regardless of their genetics andthe way.
However much CoQ10 their bodyhas, I mean it's a terrible idea
.
However much CoQ10 their bodyhas, I mean it is a terrible
(43:29):
idea.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
It was horrible, um so, yeah, I like water
distillation.
What do you think I go with thedistilled water as well.
I mean, I recommend that toclients more than anything these
days because, as much as we'veloved the Berkey for years and
even reverse osmosis, there aretoo many other toxins that
aren't being removed.
And when you spend so much time, money and energy on your
health, trying to feel better,you want to make sure that
(43:51):
you're drinking the cleanestwater that you possibly can, and
I like also being in control ofwhat minerals or electrolytes
I'm adding back in.
I'm not getting water that hassome poor quality minerals or
electrolytes.
That's important and remember,now you all know how to make
your own salt soleil and how toeat the right salts, so that's
(44:12):
helpful to have that and justknow, okay, I can drink my clean
water and I can monitor whatI'm being exposed to in the
matter of minerals.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
And I think I agree with you.
And if you're going to go allthe way for health, why would
you ignore your water?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Which you should be drinking a lot of, exactly.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
As we discussed earlier.
But you can do.
If you don't have a Berkey,it's OK.
Berkey's great Waterdistillation is great.
Reverse osmosis is terrific too.
There's is Aqua True is ratedvery highly.
It's a countertop.
Reverse osmosis, now, the thingwith reverse osmosis is the
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waste ratio, and I believe theyhave like a four to one ratio.
So for four gallons of waterthat you filter, you're going to
lose a gallon of water in waste.
So there is that, but it is.
It does produce very cleanwater.
There is no perfect watersystem.
If you listen to this and youhave a Berkey system, I don't
(45:14):
think you should get rid of it.
I think you just you go look atGreenfield, look at Borough
maybe there's another one Idon't know of and do the best
you can.
Our bodies are resilient.
I think that's important toremember too.
There's no perfect water andlet's just get past that.
Let's put the very best in thatwe can.
(45:37):
In the meantime, anything isbetter than nothing, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Absolutely Don't go crazy thinking you got to have
the best one.
Guess what?
I still have and love my Berkey.
That's on the countertop foreveryone else.
It's just my drinking water isthe distilled water.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
So let's do one more question.
Um, I see more and morediscussion about the toxicity of
clothes.
Can fabrics really be that badfor us?
If so, what should we stay awayfrom, and what do you think
about cooling sheets and pillows?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
That is a good question, because we are
surrounded by synthetic thingseverywhere.
So, as much as we are workinghard a lot of us are right we're
working hard to make sure we'renot exposed to chemicals we
don't think about the ones we'rewearing, because if your
clothes aren't made from cottonor linen or silk, there's other
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natural ones, but those are thebiggest ones.
If you're not wearing those,you are literally wearing
clothes made out of chemicalsand it does leach and you're
wearing that every day.
You're getting this microdoseexposure day after day after day
.
Right, and the biggest thingtoo is it's going to change the
way your body regulatestemperature.
It's a lot cooler out in theTexas heat here If you're in a
(46:58):
linen or silk shirt versus apolyester tank top.
Even you know if you've gotnatural fibers and it's breezy,
it's so much better.
And then the cooling sheets andpillows.
I mean just.
I say just adjust yourthermostat.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
I like that idea.
But it's also the weave right.
Whether it's your sheets oryour clothes, you're always
going to be better in a naturalfiber right, Because we're
trying to be as natural aspossible and there's no
dangerous chemicals.
Now they do sometimes likethese combed cottons or whatever
I think they.
They coat them with something.
I know my husband noticed hiswork shirts.
(47:35):
I always buy him a hundredpercent cotton, but there are
some of them that just don'tbreathe and I think there's some
sort of coating on some of them, or the weave is so tight they
just don't breathe.
So, whether it's linen or silkor cotton, that's just something
to consider.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
And once again we have to do the best we can
because there's a lot ofchemicals that are sprayed onto
cotton, like the cotton crops,that can be in your fabric still
.
But you can't win on everything.
Just don't make yourself gocrazy on that.
You do the best you can.
You pick the lesser of evilsand just be grateful you have
clothes.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
That's so true and I will say this if you order
clothes or you go buy clothesand they smell, jeans are real
bad about this.
They smell like rubber or theysmell like chemicals or like, I
think, of burning tires.
Don't put that on.
There's something real bad inthere.
You probably shouldn't bewearing it.
Look for something else, keepshopping.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
And I think a bigger toxic problem is the sprays and
finishes they put on them.
You buy them Like you shouldalways wash your new clothes
before you wear them.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
And what should you wash them in?
Elena Bonus question.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
An unscented detergent, as free and clear as
can be?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yes, it's funny because you know we have a
policy here at the office thatis, there's no fragrances
allowed, and people don'tunderstand how much they smell,
have learned to associate this,the idea of clean with a smell
whether it's pine cleaner foryour floors or it smells like a
(49:11):
dryer sheet or a laundrydetergent.
But clean is not a smell.
There's no smell with clean.
And I think that once you getaway from those fragrances, you
don't realize how offensive theyare until you come into contact
with them.
And I have to tell clients.
I will tell the truth, in love.
(49:33):
I have to tell clientsregularly.
I could smell you before I sawyou because of your fragrance,
and it's not cologne, it's notperfume, you can tell it's
laundry and they have no idea.
But all of those chemicals inthose fragrances there, they
disrupt our hormones.
(49:53):
So, yeah, what you wear isimportant, and then how you care
for it is also very important,okay.
Last question, elena, thisone's for you.
Okay, how many times do youreuse the same castor oil pack
and how do you clean it?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Ah, all right, Good question.
I, from what I understand,three months is kind of the
common rule for replacing it,but that's going to differ on
how many times you're using it.
Some people are castor packingevery day, some people are doing
it once a week and really myrule is I just I kind of treat
it like I treat my bath towel Itry to replace it before it gets
(50:36):
smelly and noticeable, likejust pay attention to it, and
I'll take mine.
Honestly, after a month or so,if I've used it a lot, I'll
rinse it in the sink withCastile soap.
I mean, castile soap is amazingfor getting that castor oil
residue off your skin as well asyour fabric.
So I'll just give it a littlerinse and let it dry.
I don't worry about getting allthe oil out because I'm just
(50:58):
putting oil back on it, but itat least gets that initial layer
off and then you can just throwit in the washer.
I mean, I don't think everyonewould agree with that, but if
I'm washing something on hotwith a load of towels, it washes
the rag and then you can justkeep using it.
I don't think you need tooverthink it.
More importantly, just keepcaster packing if that's what
(51:20):
you need to be doing for yourhealth right now.
But, once again, three months,that's kind of the common common
timeframe, yeah, so, yeah,that's my little go-to on castor
packing, just do it yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
And if you don't want to castor pack, just rub it all
over your belly and then get inthe sauna.
Yes, I love that.
That's the Elena cheat.
It is Very good.
Okay, we had.
I mean, we could go for threemore hours and we're not going
to do that, but there are somany good questions here and
(51:53):
we've looked at these and if wedidn't get to your question this
time, hang tight, because wehave our community gatherings,
where we gather in person thefourth Wednesday of every month
here at K6 Wellness.
We're going to answer some moreof these.
We're going to do actually someof these as a full podcast
episode.
They were that good.
Yeah, the questions were sogood.
Thank you so much to everybodywho contributed.
(52:14):
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My name is Sharon.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm the owner of K6 Wellness Center in Dallas, texas
, and I'm going to be your hosttoday, along with Elena here,
one of the other practitionershere at K6 Wellness, thrilled to
be here and just getting tochat about the questions that
you, our clients, have.
It's fun to bring youinformation we love, but we love
hearing from you knowing whatyou want to hear about.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yes, and so we self-anointed ourselves as
experts this month and we put anote out to everybody in our
email list.
If you want to be on our emaillist, then absolutely click on
the link in our bio and we'llget you added.
But we gave out everybody theopportunity to just ask us hey,
what are you know?
(01:15):
Questions about natural health,healthy living, integrative
medicine, functional wellness,what are the burning questions
on your mind?
And I was astounded.
I had no idea we would get somany questions.
Were you shocked?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
I was.
I was.
I thought we're going to haveto really pull these out of
people, but y'all came forwardwith so much.
Y'all really came through.
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, and so we're going to preface this by saying
some of these questions were sogood we're going to do a whole
podcast episode on the topics.
But there were a number ofreally good questions that we
felt like this was anappropriate way to respond to.
So we're going to startaddressing questions and we're
going to try to give you a list,our sources or resources, and
(02:07):
then sometimes it's strictlyopinion.
So there you go, there's yourdisclaimer up front.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So with that, let's jump right in.
Sharon, let's hit our firstquestion.
Our question is aboutdehydration and tips on how to
hydrate beyond drinking waterand test a monitor, so why don't
you go ahead and weigh in onthis one for us?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Okay.
So I think this is something Iknow, for me and I'm sure for
you too, this is something thatwe hit with every new client.
We always ask.
It's on our intake form howmuch water do you drink, how
much other things do you drink?
And it's really importantbecause, you know, just because
something is fluid doesn't meanthat it's helpful, and that's
(02:51):
something that always gets mewhen you go to the movie theater
.
Have you ever seen thecommercials for soda?
I'm not going to name thecompany, but they talk about
these huge amounts of soda andyou know how you go buy a gallon
of soda at the con, at theconcession stand, but they say
this counts towards your dailyintake of fluid.
And they make it sound likeyou've done something healthy by
(03:11):
drinking this sugar syrup withbubbles.
And I'm like that's reallymisleading because people do
think, oh, everything I drinkcounts, but that's not true.
So for hydration and thisquestion was specifically
hydration water's the big partof that, right.
(03:33):
And we tell people look,baseline is half your body
weight in ounces of water.
Is that perfect?
No, but it's a good startingpoint because the fact of the
matter is a lot of people do notrecognize the signal in their
brain for thirst.
A lot of times it getsmisinterpreted as hunger, so we
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find ourselves eating instead ofdrinking and that's a problem.
But we have people who come inhere and when we do the EAV
testing, it's a conductivitytest and if they're dehydrated
they're not very conductive.
We can tell when people aredehydrated.
But, yes, half your body weightin ounces of water.
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If you exercise or do sauna orsomething that causes you to
sweat, you need more andestimates vary on that.
Some people will say half anounce per minute, um, or
sometimes more.
I generally will work outsweaty workout for 45 minutes
(04:38):
and I try to drink a quart ofwater just in that time.
But it's important to replacethe fluids that you're losing
Now.
Sweat is important to producebecause it's a big elimination
practice of your body.
But how do we replace all ofthat?
One of the things that we reallylike to promote is, yes, drink
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your water, but get theelectrolytes in.
What are electrolytes?
Those are trace minerals.
Okay, there are a lot of traceminerals.
Now the big ones.
If you go to the big box storesor Amazon, you're going to see
it's magnesium and sodiumchloride and potassium and maybe
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a few more thrown in there andthat's fine.
You know, if you're cramping atnight and you're a big sweater,
you're probably low onelectrolytes and dehydrated.
But you can make.
This is something I wanteverybody to have.
An action item you can makeyour own electrolyte solution at
home for pennies.
Literally it's called a saltsoleil and it's basically taking
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a salt, not table salt, andyou're dissolving it in water.
You're either putting a crystalof Celtic sea salt or some sort
of Himalayan salt on yourtongue to let it dissolve and,
of course, in your buccalmembranes inside your mouth.
That's a really fast way to getstuff into your system fast and
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follow that with water.
Or you can make a supersaturated salt solution using
rocks Again, celtic sea salt,himalayan salt, redmond real
salt is another good one, andthe reason we like these better
than just the table salt thatyou buy at the grocery store is
because you've got a lot moremineral in there.
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Like with Celtic sea salt,there's over 80 minerals, and
with Himalayan salt, sameRedmond real salt.
I looked it up and it hasaround 60 minerals in it and all
of these come from bettersources.
When you buy iodized table salt, you're basically getting
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sodium and chloride and dextrose, and if you do a taste test
side to side, you'll tell thedifference.
Elena is a big salt connoisseur.
I mean, if there was a way tobe yeah, if there was a way to
be a sommelier of salts, elenawould be that.
Why don't you talk about this?
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, you know, it started with the knowledge that
some of these salts are betterthan others and then, as I
started eating different ones inthis I know this goes for you
and anyone else Once you starteating the real wholesome salt,
you notice that, yes, the tablesalt is going to taste like
chemicals and it actuallydoesn't enhance the flavor of
your food.
When, when you've been reallystrict off salt period because
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sometimes there's a time to fastfrom certain things, you know,
I know when I've done fasts andI come back to salt and if I eat
out and have salt, I'm likethis is horrible.
How are we used to this?
But you know, some of myfavorite salts, though, aren't
always the cheapest salt, butyou get what you pay for.
You could get the cheapesttable salt and it's going to
have all those chemicals in it,but I'd rather get the full
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flavor.
And you know, with that, you canfind some good ones at
HomeGoods a lot of the time, orTJ Maxx.
I love that you can find thesegourmet, high quality salts in
an affordable price range.
So I'm not going to name anyparticular brands or names,
because then someone's going tosay you didn't mention this one
or that one.
There's a lot of brands outthere, but being a salt snob is
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not the worst thing in the world.
I mean it can survive if I haveto, but I'd rather not.
I want my food to taste goodand I want my salt to taste good
, and there's a lot to salt aswell.
Some people need more thanothers.
That's an important thing toknow about yourself with your
hydration levels, to know whenyou've had too much salt and
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when you need it, when you needto go get that little pinch of
salt, because the thing aboutsalt is you're going to feel
awful with too much or toolittle.
You want that little sweet spotright in between.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Right and a good way to know if you've had too much
salt, which is what we tend toworry about more in America,
because your medical doctor isusually the one telling you you
need to reduce your salt if youhave high blood pressure.
But sometimes you actually needa little more salt, and when we
say salt, we really mean notjust sodium, right, but all of
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these trace minerals and it'sit's okay to salt your food.
If you look salt, you knowthroughout history salt is used
to preserve food.
Salt is used for many things toflavor food.
It's not the enemy.
Using salt does not make you anunhealthy person.
It can add flavor.
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It can also enhance your brainactivity and help more neurons
fire.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Well, and it's important to note too.
I mean, if any of our listenershave listened to us for even
one episode, y'all know that Ilove to reference the 3x4
genetic test because on thenutrients that it measures, salt
is one of them and it's reallyhelpful to know when you're
trying to figure out what do Ineed to cut back on or add into
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my diet.
Salt's a big question and it'sjust nice to know where you fall
on that scale.
Should you have more, Shouldyou have less?
And that will impact yourhydration levels.
I mean, for me, I need all thesalt I can get and I always knew
that because I could drink onmy water and still be dehydrated
.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yeah, and yeah, salt is really important for a lot of
functions at the cellular level.
We have a recipe for makingyour own electrolyte solution at
home, called Salt Soleil, andif you click in the show notes
you can get the PDF of our SaltSoleil instructions.
(10:40):
But it's super easy.
It's very basic.
It takes salt and water.
It's super easy.
It's very basic.
It takes salt and water.
It's real hard.
So it's, it's a great thing tojust look at.
You know how much water are youdrinking?
Number one make sure you'regetting enough water in.
And then, number two are youdrinking, you know, are you
getting enough electrolyte?
And then we're going to go intoquality of water later, but yes
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, so that's your, your hydrationtidbit.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Our next question is a big one, especially this time
of year Not our next question,though in reference to children
and wellness.
Going back to school and tryingto stay healthy on a budget.
I know that's a big questionfor a lot of our mamas out there
.
You're just working so hard tokeep your families healthy, and
everything is getting more andmore expensive, but a lot of the
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basic things don't have to costthe whole bank.
So, sharon, why don't you starton that for us?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Yeah, so this time of year, yeah, I think everyone's
been back in school.
What about a month now?
Or three, four weeks?
And now everybody's got a cold.
Everybody's got an upperrespiratory infection happens
every year.
And here in Texas we've gotragweed and elm trees and grass
all firing up and our pollencounts are super high because
it's September.
(11:54):
Um, but the free and easy,that's what we want to hit first
, right.
So nutrition.
Now, nutrition is not free andsometimes it's not easy, but it
is simple and, in a nutshell,quit eating crap and don't feed
your children crap.
What is crap?
Crap is processed food.
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If it's something that doesn'tlook like it's in its natural
state, then it's not wortheating fruit leathers or fruit
roll-ups or whatever you callthem.
It's not the same as eating anapple or a banana or a slice of
watermelon.
You need to eat real food.
That's where wellness begins.
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Hydration, like we just talkedabout, making sure your kids are
drinking water.
Juice is not water.
Juice actually has as muchsugar, almost as soda, maybe a
little more, I can't remember.
It's close.
But if you think about how manylike take oranges.
How many oranges does it taketo juice to make a cup of orange
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juice, it's so many more thanyour kid would ever sit down and
eat at one time.
So don't give them that muchjuice because it's just too much
sugar.
And then definitely it goeswithout saying things with food
coloring and high fructose, cornsyrup, gator or electrolyte
drinks I don't say any brandnames but things like that that
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have all these extra ingredients.
That's not really ideal for yourkids.
They need water.
Water is the most importantthing.
They need sleep, and this goesfor high schoolers as well.
I'm always telling my highschool clients how much sleep do
you get?
And they're doing good if theyget seven hours.
But you know, there are studiesthat show that teenagers like
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16, 17, 18 need as much sleep asa toddler, and I just think
that kids don't sleep enough andif they're not sleeping at the
right time of night, if you'reletting your kids stay up late,
it's not good for them, it's notgood for our circadian rhythm.
So that is a free and easy thingto do Institute a bedtime and
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stick with it.
It takes a long time to build ahabit, but stick with it and it
becomes easier.
And then exercise, gettingphysical activity, using your
muscles, stretching your limbs,having a lot of active outside
time also gives your body theopportunity to ground.
And what is grounding?
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Well, grounding is when we'reputting our body on the earth to
help take in some of thosereally good electromagnetic
frequencies that come from theearth.
Those are all important things.
And then, of course, there'slike the do not.
Um, those are all importantthings.
And then, of course, there'slike the do nots, right, like
screen time.
No kid needs a bunch of screentime.
And I just saw a thing, elena,the other day there are some
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congressmen now asking forwarnings to be put on electronic
devices with screens for kids,it's like, well, that is late,
but better late than never, Iguess.
But yeah, we need to be limitingthe external stimulation that's
artificial and involves bluelights and Bluetooth and EMF and
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all of that, and all of thesethings are way more important
than any supplement period.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I sell supplements.
So do with that what you want.
Well, that's where it'simportant to remember all the
basic things before you thinkyou have to go spend all this
time, money and energy on thingswhen you've got so much more at
your fingertips.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
If you're just monitoring what is going in the
body and what you're beingexposed to via food and
environment, yeah, and if you'regoing to give your kids
supplements with childrenespecially, we love homeopathics
because homeopathics are firstof all, let me just clear it up
they're not herbs, right.
(15:53):
It's not herbal medicine Likeyou may give your kid elderberry
syrup or garlic or mullein orsomething like.
That's not what homeopathicsare.
Homeopathics are very diluted.
It's almost an energetic typeremedy.
But there are really wellproven um homeopathic remedies,
like Bella Donna, which is apain reliever I always tell
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people it's homeopathicacetaminophen or ibuprofen for
fevers and pain.
Pulsatilla is when there's afever or pain with snot, so a
wet fever.
But then there's the one youcan find almost in every grocery
store now for flu.
It's oselococcinum.
(16:38):
That's a hard, it's a mouthful.
You know what I'm talking about.
If you've ever seen it, youwould probably looked at it and
said I don't even know how tosay that Um.
For sinus congestion you've gotCali by K A L I, and then the
second word is by chromicum, butB I is just what it goes for.
But then if you've got stomachbugs, you can give arsenicum
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album or homeopathic Ipecac, andwe know Ipecac to be something
in full form.
It will make you vomit, right.
That's what you do if, like akid has swallowed something they
shouldn't swallow, you givethem Ipecac so they vomit.
Well, homeopathic does theopposite it helps stop vomiting.
So there's no actual Ipecac init anymore, or Nuxvomica.
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So there are all thesedifferent remedies and there are
great websites that you can goto to kind of help determine
what homeopathic remedy should Ibuy.
Or you can come see apractitioner you know, ask your.
If you have a functionalmedicine provider or a
naturopath or a health coach,you definitely want to ask them
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about having homeopathics.
So those are really big things.
That's just scratching thesurface.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Then you could also do things.
You know, if you're local, comein to see us or we can do
virtual appointments where wecan test through what are going
to be the right remedies for youwhen you're sick and your
children.
But we do clearings as well andthat's where we're just testing
through what your body'sreacting to and we do a
desensitization to that toxin orpathogen and it's just a great,
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simple and affordable way tohelp reset the way the body's
reacting to these things.
And you know, I think peopleforget about it.
It's such a simple little partof what we do here, because
there's so many things that wedo that I just want to remind
people get a clearing.
You know, if it's not us, ifyou've got other practitioners
who do this, it's such a helpfultool and there's things you can
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do to clear at home as well,and we've talked about that
maybe in the past or maybe it'ssome other conversations, but
that's something that sometimesit's necessary.
If you can't get to apractitioner, there's things
that can just help you get bywith the clearings.
But then there's also Rifetechnology, which you have to be
local here to come in theoffice and do that.
But I know a lot of ourlisteners are local and for
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those that are, remember thatRife is another simple thing you
can do.
You could bring the wholefamily in and just be exposed to
those good frequencies that aregoing to help stimulate the
immune system and just help yourbody clear it out.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Yeah, that's a great reminder.
It's not just take this pill.
There are so many things we cando, even sinus rinsing, right,
cause so much of what we seethis time of year is upper
respiratory sinus rinsing ispretty much free, it doesn't
cost a lot.
So there's so many things youcan do to help your kids but
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build that healthy lifestyle.
I think that's where it allbegins, right?
Okay, so we're going to go tothe next one.
What do you do when theileocecal valve goes wonky and
won't open and close properly?
And I love this questionbecause it's like oh, this is a
good one and I'm impressed thisperson knew what that is.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yes, you know the ileocecal valve.
For those who don't know, thatis where the large and small
intestine meet and that littlevalve there can really get an
attitude a lot of the time andit's so fun to see.
On a thermography we can seewhen that's a problem.
But sometimes you just knowbased on how you feel, because a
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lot of you listening may notknow what the ileocecal valve is
.
But it's located in your lowerright quadrant, kind of by the
appendix, and there's a lot youcan do at home to just simply
reset that or make sure it hasgood tone, kind of like a little
workout for that valve, andthere's a lot of videos online.
But essentially what you do isyou just find your belly button
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and the top of your hip bone andhalfway in between there that
should be somewhere around theappendix, around the valve, and
you can just while laying down.
That's an important part.
While you're laying down youcan press down and up towards
your heart and you often canfeel the pain in that area.
That is releasing and the bestpart is when you get that little
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gurgle of it, resetting.
That's always so satisfying andif you need help with that, you
know that's something that Ican walk people through on video
appointments or when they comein person.
But it is important to makesure that that valve is opening
and closing properly.
Otherwise you could be stuck ina state of diarrhea or
constipation, depending on ifit's stuck open or stuck closed.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Absolutely, and that's the first thing when
people say, oh, I have chronicconstipation.
If we lay them down on thetable and start poking around,
you can usually feel it's like apee or it feels like a little
almond if it's real bad.
But they usually go oh, thathurts in a in one spot and and
that valve, if it gets, if it'snot closing and opening properly
(21:47):
, it can become problematic.
But there's definitely help forthat and there's, um, there are
some good YouTube videos on ittoo.
So I mean, you know you canalmost get a degree on YouTube,
so why not?
But we'll link to one of ourfavorites, dr Nerola Jacoby.
She does a lot of work withgotten immune and she has a
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great at home technique, and sowe'll put that down in the show
notes as well.
So, yeah, and then the nextquestion is I would like it.
It's not a question, it's astatement, but we took it anyway
.
I would like advice forpre-diabetics.
That's a big one.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
That is because diabetes is a very preventable
disease and we just see so muchof it in the US and in just our
modern way of living.
But there's a lot of factorsthat can influence it and you
know whether it's influenceactual diabetes or pre-diabetic
symptoms and patterns.
And I mean the basicrecommendation is eat low carb,
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high fiber, high protein diets.
Those are going to supporthealthy regulation in insulin.
But it's essential to trackyour blood work as well and know
where you're trending.
Too often, whether it'sdiabetes or any other disease,
people are waiting until there'ssuch a big problem they can't
ignore it.
That's where routine blood workis so helpful For us.
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If you order blood work throughus, we're always going to check
your glucose, your hemoglobinA1C and your insulin because we
want to know where are youtrending.
Once we know where you'retrending, then we can kind of
nip it in the bud before it canbe a problem.
And you know there's anotherthing too.
Let's talk about the genetictest again, because it's my
favorite.
But it's helpful to know howprone are you to diabetes or are
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you just experiencing some ofthese pre-diabetic symptoms due
to lifestyle or poordetoxification?
You know what factors areworking with you or against you
for that, because you don't justwake up one day and suddenly
you're diabetic.
I mean, you don't just wake upwith most diseases and suddenly
that's what you got.
No, there was a slow and steadyyou know avalanche.
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If you will that just one dayyou realize, okay, this is where
I'm at.
But if you are being vigilantand smart with what you're
eating, starting at your nextmeal, just look at your plate
and see okay, am I eating morecarbs and processed sugars?
Let's change that and get moreprotein.
And then don't forget exercise.
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That is so important fordiabetes, but also for so many
inflammatory and degenerativediseases.
So just remember to be activeand to move and know that you
can turn it around.
Your body made it.
It can get rid of it if youmake the right choices.
Your body made it.
It can get rid of it if youmake the right choices.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
That's for sure.
When I see somebody with type 2diabetes or pre-diabetes, that
is when I automatically go okay,whoa, let's step back a minute
and let's consider this person'swhole endocrine system.
And your endocrine system isthe parts of your body that make
hormones.
So it's your thyroid, it's youradrenals, it's your pancreas,
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it's your sex organs, right?
So there's a lot involved thereand it all matters.
For instance, did you know thatif you have hypothyroid, you
have a greater chance of havinginsulin resistance or high blood
sugar?
So that would be problematic.
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And another thing that you knowhaving a high blood sugar or
prediabetes, you tend to havehigher lipid levels.
Okay, now, there's a lot ofcontroversy out there and we're
not getting into the cholesterolconversation today, but let's
at least talk abouttriglycerides.
You know, triglycerides are tome a truer commentary about the
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quality of the food that you'reeating.
And, like Elena said it, yeah,generally we want to see not
just how many carbs are youeating, but what kind of carbs
are you eating.
But the same thing goes for fat, and it's not just are you
eating saturated fat, which getsa bad rap, right, but are you
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eating seed oils?
Are you eating trans fats?
How much are you eating and,genetically, what are you wired
to actually metabolize?
Because not all diabetics dowell.
With a high fat diet and ketois this real big thing for
people who are insulin resistantor diabetic, but it's not
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really good for everybody,especially women.
Women, you need carbohydrates,period, full stop.
You know different levels fordifferent people, but we have a
lot more going on in the hormonedepartment and it's important
to cycle those carbohydratesthrough.
So it's not just follow thediabetic diet right.
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Macros do matter, and whenyou're pre-diabetic, it's a good
indication that your metabolismis not very flexible, and what
that means is you don'tfluctuate well from carb burning
to fat burning.
You're probably not building awhole lot of muscle.
What we want to do isreinstitute that.
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We've got to find what isneeded.
So does this sound like maybeworkouts are involved?
Yeah, exercise, moving yourbody, that's all super important
, but so is what you put on yourplate.
You cannot, um, was it?
Somebody says you can't outruna bad diet.
There's no way you can just eattrash and go to the gym more
(27:38):
and be okay, because it may notshow up on the scale, but it can
show up in your blood.
Work, like Elena is saying andwe want to see that hemoglobin
A1C down in the low fives.
You know, 5.7 to 6.4 isconsidered pre-diabetic and I,
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according to functional wellnessprinciples, we're really
looking more for 5.1, 5.2, and afasting insulin below 4.
That shows really goodmetabolic sensitivity or
flexibility.
It's good insulin sensitivity,meaning your body is very
sensitive when sugar comes onboard.
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There's insulin there to helpwith it.
We want your diet optimized.
We want your diet optimized, wewant your lifestyle optimized.
And if you're stressed out,strung out fast, fooded out,
it's not going to happen.
So when I see you knowpre-diabetes, it's not just a
number on the scale and it's notjust about the A1C and getting
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that number down, it's about thewhole person, just like if we
get anybody else in.
And the beautiful thing is whenyou are diagnosed with
prediabetes, it's your wake upcall.
This is when you can say, allright, now we've got to fix
things, now we're going to geton board so that we have the
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rest of our life to do thingscorrectly.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
Okay.
So now, now that we understandwhat to do for pre-diabetes and
diabetes and a healthy lifestyle, let's talk about some
exposures.
Our next question is we have acurrent contract with an
eco-friendly pest controlservice.
Is that okay?
If not, what do you do aboutwasps, spiders, ants, et cetera?
I'll let you go there.
(29:29):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I always think of a friend of ours who did this and
her front yard smelled likepizza for a week after they have
the yard sprayed because of thegarlic I guess that was being
used.
But there's a lot.
This is complicated.
It's complex.
I'm not going to sit here andbash on the pest control
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industry, but I am going to tellyou, kind of you know, how we
roll with it, how we roll withit.
I think understanding the rolethat insects play in the
environment is important.
I think that it's important toconsider where do you live and
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in what climate and what kind ofinsect is it?
You know, to me I'm just goingto be real the only good
scorpion is a dead scorpion inmy book and that's what we have
at the ranch and they scare thebejesus out of me.
But that being said, thespiders I discriminate.
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I'm like oh, is that a goodspider?
What does it eat?
And do we want to move it tothe garden?
You know there's a purpose forthese things.
Even you know stinging insects.
They often have a purpose, butthere are a lot of good things
as far as like, is youreco-friendly pest control really
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eco-friendly?
That?
You know there's a lot of grayarea there.
There's a lot of unknowns.
If you ask the entomologist orthe technician, oftentimes what
we hear them say is oh, I spraythis at my house.
Well, that doesn't meananything to me, because you
probably use scented laundrydetergent and dryer sheets too
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and I don't do those things.
So you can't just say, oh well,they do it, so I'll do it.
You have to know for you.
Many pesticides are actuallyvery toxic.
They can be carcinogenic,neurotoxic.
But that being said, there aregreen ones, like essential oils
are natural pesticides Tea tree,lemongrass, peppermint, um, I
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think even rosemary and lavender.
In fact you can put theseplants around your home if you,
if you feel like you have a lotof insects coming in, look at
what you have planted aroundyour house.
Have you done anythingnaturally to possibly reduce the
number of insects coming in?
And that could be like plantingrosemary bushes and lavender
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bushes and lemongrass andwhatever else, and then maybe
spraying garlic I mean, you know, that's an iffy one.
Cedar is very anti-insect aswell.
But there are all kinds of UVtraps, like UV lights to attract
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moths and mosquitoes, and thereare other types of traps.
I know we so one time we got bedbugs and it was horrible.
We brought them home with usand I was apparently allergic to
them and we didn't know this atthe time and we decided I was
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crazy temporarily, because myhusband had nothing on him and I
would wake up with just biteseverywhere.
Finally we figured out he foundone bed bug on a pillowcase,
just happened to see it and Iwas like, well, we can't spray
anything.
I mean, I'm just not doingchemicals.
So he read up on it and weended up sealing off our room,
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borrowing every space heater wecould from people we knew, and
we heated our room up to like Idon't know, some ungodly 140
degrees or something for eighthours.
We never had another bed bug,so we used heat.
So there are a lot of thingsout there that you can do
besides chemicals, even ifthey're self-proclaimed
eco-friendly.
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I think, looking at theenvironmental working group,
does Yuka do?
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I think so.
I think they review all kindsof products that have chemicals.
So it's worth trying.
Just don't quote us yet.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Yeah, but uh, I would just look that up.
And then, when you can avoidchemicals obviously we recommend
avoiding them Try to findanother solution.
Diffusers are great.
This is where I think essentialoils really rock.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Well, and then it's important to remember too what
preys on what I know trying todo my garden organic and the
grasshoppers are like a plaguefrom biblical days and I don't
want to go out there and spraybecause one those grasshoppers
are so gnarly and resilient theyjust morph into super bugs.
These sprays don't really work.
So I go out there, I do thegarlic on everything.
(34:20):
My yard smells delicious.
But then I started looking at,okay, what eats these?
Because there's not a greatsolution.
So I started with every pestand bug.
The grasshopper started it, butI started putting up birdhouses
and bat houses for flies andmosquitoes.
I went and got hundreds ofpraying mantis, little cocoons,
because they'll eat grasshopperswhen they're little.
(34:41):
I mean it's of praying mantis,little cocoons, because they'll
eat grasshoppers when they'relittle.
I mean it's not the mosteffective, but it is effective.
And I just have tried to becomefriends with the good bugs and
even lizards.
I mean I get geckos and lizardseverywhere in my house and I
don't love it, but I rememberthey eat bugs.
So I've just decided to try andbecome friends with them.
(35:02):
I mean sometimes I'll callsomeone else to come get it out
of my bed or my bathroom, butthey've become my friends
because when they're aroundthere's fewer other bugs that I
really don't want around.
So that's one option.
But then also just doing theessential oil things, like you
mentioned, sharon, that's myfavorite because you can use
(35:22):
those inside and outside and gothat step further.
Once again, like you mentioned,plant the plants in your
landscaping.
We get landscaping wrong allthe time.
We're just planting things thatlook pretty but they don't
serve a purpose.
I mean, I went scorched earthon my landscaping.
It's rosemary and lavendereverywhere and every time it
rains it smells amazing.
(35:43):
So that's helping from theoutside.
And then I'll go spray thosenatural things all the time that
I've made myself that.
I know what's in them.
Yes, there's brands you can buy, but it is also easy to make
your own and your home willsmell like a spa inside and out.
What's not to love?
Speaker 1 (36:00):
That's true and I think, too, we should point out,
like you live semi-country-ish,you're on acreage right, and
yes, I live in town and I don'treally have big bug problems and
we don't really use a bug sprayservice.
But out on the ranch we haveeverything, but we keep chickens
around and, yeah, they eatcrickets and, like you said,
(36:22):
grasshoppers around and, yeah,they eat crickets and, like you
said, grasshoppers.
They're biblical out there andlike robo cop type.
Yeah, things are reallysomething, but I think there's a
lot that nature's provided tohelp keep balance.
It's because we're so out ofbalance that our environment
becomes out of balance.
And to your point about yards,what are we doing being grass
(36:42):
farmers?
My uncle always called it.
Look, I'm a grass farmer.
He was just growing that frontlawn.
It serves no purpose.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, that's a whole other conversation isn't it.
With the bugs, though you know.
We got another question aboutcleaning products, because once
again, it's chemicals, chemicals, chemicals, chemicals, and we
do have a non-toxic cleaningguide that we'd love to share
with you all.
We're going to put it in ourshow notes, where you could get
some of those recipes, and someof the main ingredients cross
(37:13):
over from your pest control tocleaning products.
Most of the cleaning productingredients are simple things I
bet a lot of you already have.
You know, castile, soap andvinegar and essential oils.
Those are basics, and it's justreally helpful to be able to
use these multi-purposedingredients.
I love it when I clean my housebecause, like I said, when I
(37:34):
spray, it smells like a spa.
When I clean, it smells like aspa.
So that just simplifies whatyou have to spend money on,
because there's a lot of moneyto be made out there, a lot of
money to be paid on all theseclean products, and sometimes
for convenience, that's what youwant to do, but you don't
always have to For sure, but youknow, hey.
(37:55):
Next question, though, sharon,this is a big one, okay,
speaking of chemicals andpollutants and exposures.
Okay, speaking of chemicals andpollutants and exposures, the
Berkey water filter question.
You know what do we do.
Do we need to filter fluoride?
Should we be adding anything toit?
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Can we still get the filters?
Yeah, oh, this is a big one.
So for those listeners outthere who filter water, I think
everybody in the water filterworld knows about Berkey filters
.
They've been around for a longtime and they were kind of.
When I learned about them, itwas kind of more of like a
survivalist type thing, like oh,you can take this camping and
put any kind of water in it andit filters it and makes it
drinkable, but our tap water isso gross, right, there's so many
(38:45):
pharmaceuticals andcontaminants in it that the
Berkey filters have been veryuseful.
But they got in trouble.
And they got in trouble withthe EPA because they were saying
that it kills microorganismsand so when you do that, then
the EPA actually requires you toregister as a pesticide or
(39:07):
insecticide, and this is myversion of what happened.
So you know, fact check me.
And so, anyway, berkey got introuble and I think they had to
pull all their filters.
Now Berkey was really reallygood at at reducing a lot of
heavy metals, a lot ofpesticides, herbicides,
(39:28):
pharmaceuticals, things that wewe find in the water.
Now you can I don't think youcan find Berkey anymore, but
they rebranded and it's acompany called Borough and it's
a company called BoroughB-O-R-O-U-X, and Borough filters
fit the Berkey water filtersystems.
(39:49):
These are gravity systems,right.
There's another company calledGreenfield and they make filters
that feed these gravity filtersum filtration systems.
But that's, it's complicated.
And so in doing our researchthere's it appears that while,
(40:15):
yes, the basic filters likeborough, berkey I'll just say
Berkey, cause I don't reallyknow borough Um, they do filter
out a lot.
But there are these additionalfilters that remove chlorine and
fluoride that you could add to,and they are lower filters.
The problem is when, when theydid the testing, they found that
(40:36):
it was actually dropping a lotof aluminum in the filtered
water.
So you're trading a littlefluoride for a lot of aluminum.
To me I'm not comfortable withthat, and now that I have that
knowledge, it's kind of like,yeah, I can't really do that
anymore.
Fluoride is not great for you.
That's again another podcast.
(40:57):
The fluoride in our watersystem is not going to prevent
cavities.
I'm sorry to break it to you,but it's just not.
I sorry to break it to you, butit's just not.
And there are other options.
If you have Berkey, fine.
I my, my personalrecommendation, based on my
(41:17):
experience and my opinion is tojust use the black filters, to
use the, the basic filters thatdo most.
That don't that do everythingexcept the chlorine and the
fluoride.
That's my recommendation.
That's what I'm doing myself,and I have one other one that
uses the green field, and it'sfine too.
Out at the ranch we distill ourwater.
We have well water and we'vegot a countertop distiller.
(41:43):
Now why would we distill waterinstead of just using a Berkey?
Well distillation is the onlyway to remove radioactive
elements from the water.
Berkey won't do it.
Reverse osmosis does not do it.
What else is there?
Just these other multi-mineralor charcoal filters.
(42:04):
They don't remove theradioactive elements.
And with all the toxin testingthat we do on our clients and
we've done it on ourselves andwe both came back with a lot of
radioactive elements and we bothdrink a lot of Berkey water.
And it's not Berkey puttingradioactive elements in there,
it's in the groundwater, it'severywhere.
(42:24):
So countertop waterdistillation I've had really
good success with it does removeall the minerals.
We do add electrolytes to thewater after it's been distilled,
so that we are getting minerals.
That may seem like a lot oftrouble to some people.
To me it's worth it.
(42:44):
I want to drink clean water andit's scary to think about
what's in our water.
I know like in the early 2000sI think it was the early 2000s
they were wanting to put statindrugs in all the water just as a
prevention, and what a terribleidea.
And the thing is we can't trustour governmental authorities or
(43:08):
the people making thesedecisions.
They don't have foresight likethat to know.
Oh, we know everything we needto know about this drug and we
know that it's safe and we'regoing to give it to everybody,
regardless of their genetics andthe way.
However much CoQ10 their bodyhas, I mean it's a terrible idea
.
However much CoQ10 their bodyhas, I mean it is a terrible
(43:29):
idea.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
It was horrible, um so, yeah, I like water
distillation.
What do you think I go with thedistilled water as well.
I mean, I recommend that toclients more than anything these
days because, as much as we'veloved the Berkey for years and
even reverse osmosis, there aretoo many other toxins that
aren't being removed.
And when you spend so much time, money and energy on your
health, trying to feel better,you want to make sure that
(43:51):
you're drinking the cleanestwater that you possibly can, and
I like also being in control ofwhat minerals or electrolytes
I'm adding back in.
I'm not getting water that hassome poor quality minerals or
electrolytes.
That's important and remember,now you all know how to make
your own salt soleil and how toeat the right salts, so that's
(44:12):
helpful to have that and justknow, okay, I can drink my clean
water and I can monitor whatI'm being exposed to in the
matter of minerals.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
And I think I agree with you.
And if you're going to go allthe way for health, why would
you ignore your water?
Speaker 2 (44:28):
Which you should be drinking a lot of, exactly.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
As we discussed earlier.
But you can do.
If you don't have a Berkey,it's OK.
Berkey's great Waterdistillation is great.
Reverse osmosis is terrific too.
There's is Aqua True is ratedvery highly.
It's a countertop.
Reverse osmosis, now, the thingwith reverse osmosis is the
(44:52):
waste ratio, and I believe theyhave like a four to one ratio.
So for four gallons of waterthat you filter, you're going to
lose a gallon of water in waste.
So there is that, but it is.
It does produce very cleanwater.
There is no perfect watersystem.
If you listen to this and youhave a Berkey system, I don't
(45:14):
think you should get rid of it.
I think you just you go look atGreenfield, look at Borough
maybe there's another one Idon't know of and do the best
you can.
Our bodies are resilient.
I think that's important toremember too.
There's no perfect water andlet's just get past that.
Let's put the very best in thatwe can.
(45:37):
In the meantime, anything isbetter than nothing, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Absolutely Don't go crazy thinking you got to have
the best one.
Guess what?
I still have and love my Berkey.
That's on the countertop foreveryone else.
It's just my drinking water isthe distilled water.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Yeah, for sure, for sure.
So let's do one more question.
Um, I see more and morediscussion about the toxicity of
clothes.
Can fabrics really be that badfor us?
If so, what should we stay awayfrom, and what do you think
about cooling sheets and pillows?
Speaker 2 (46:13):
That is a good question, because we are
surrounded by synthetic thingseverywhere.
So, as much as we are workinghard a lot of us are right we're
working hard to make sure we'renot exposed to chemicals we
don't think about the ones we'rewearing, because if your
clothes aren't made from cottonor linen or silk, there's other
(46:35):
natural ones, but those are thebiggest ones.
If you're not wearing those,you are literally wearing
clothes made out of chemicalsand it does leach and you're
wearing that every day.
You're getting this microdoseexposure day after day after day
.
Right, and the biggest thingtoo is it's going to change the
way your body regulatestemperature.
It's a lot cooler out in theTexas heat here If you're in a
(46:58):
linen or silk shirt versus apolyester tank top.
Even you know if you've gotnatural fibers and it's breezy,
it's so much better.
And then the cooling sheets andpillows.
I mean just.
I say just adjust yourthermostat.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
I like that idea.
But it's also the weave right.
Whether it's your sheets oryour clothes, you're always
going to be better in a naturalfiber right, Because we're
trying to be as natural aspossible and there's no
dangerous chemicals.
Now they do sometimes likethese combed cottons or whatever
I think they.
They coat them with something.
I know my husband noticed hiswork shirts.
(47:35):
I always buy him a hundredpercent cotton, but there are
some of them that just don'tbreathe and I think there's some
sort of coating on some of them, or the weave is so tight they
just don't breathe.
So, whether it's linen or silkor cotton, that's just something
to consider.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
And once again we have to do the best we can
because there's a lot ofchemicals that are sprayed onto
cotton, like the cotton crops,that can be in your fabric still
.
But you can't win on everything.
Just don't make yourself gocrazy on that.
You do the best you can.
You pick the lesser of evilsand just be grateful you have
clothes.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
That's so true and I will say this if you order
clothes or you go buy clothesand they smell, jeans are real
bad about this.
They smell like rubber or theysmell like chemicals or like, I
think, of burning tires.
Don't put that on.
There's something real bad inthere.
You probably shouldn't bewearing it.
Look for something else, keepshopping.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
And I think a bigger toxic problem is the sprays and
finishes they put on them.
You buy them Like you shouldalways wash your new clothes
before you wear them.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
And what should you wash them in?
Elena Bonus question.
Speaker 2 (48:45):
An unscented detergent, as free and clear as
can be?
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yes, it's funny because you know we have a
policy here at the office thatis, there's no fragrances
allowed, and people don'tunderstand how much they smell,
have learned to associate this,the idea of clean with a smell
whether it's pine cleaner foryour floors or it smells like a
(49:11):
dryer sheet or a laundrydetergent.
But clean is not a smell.
There's no smell with clean.
And I think that once you getaway from those fragrances, you
don't realize how offensive theyare until you come into contact
with them.
And I have to tell clients.
I will tell the truth, in love.
(49:33):
I have to tell clientsregularly.
I could smell you before I sawyou because of your fragrance,
and it's not cologne, it's notperfume, you can tell it's
laundry and they have no idea.
But all of those chemicals inthose fragrances there, they
disrupt our hormones.
(49:53):
So, yeah, what you wear isimportant, and then how you care
for it is also very important,okay.
Last question, elena, thisone's for you.
Okay, how many times do youreuse the same castor oil pack
and how do you clean it?
Speaker 2 (50:13):
Ah, all right, Good question.
I, from what I understand,three months is kind of the
common rule for replacing it,but that's going to differ on
how many times you're using it.
Some people are castor packingevery day, some people are doing
it once a week and really myrule is I just I kind of treat
it like I treat my bath towel Itry to replace it before it gets
(50:36):
smelly and noticeable, likejust pay attention to it, and
I'll take mine.
Honestly, after a month or so,if I've used it a lot, I'll
rinse it in the sink withCastile soap.
I mean, castile soap is amazingfor getting that castor oil
residue off your skin as well asyour fabric.
So I'll just give it a littlerinse and let it dry.
I don't worry about getting allthe oil out because I'm just
(50:58):
putting oil back on it, but itat least gets that initial layer
off and then you can just throwit in the washer.
I mean, I don't think everyonewould agree with that, but if
I'm washing something on hotwith a load of towels, it washes
the rag and then you can justkeep using it.
I don't think you need tooverthink it.
More importantly, just keepcaster packing if that's what
(51:20):
you need to be doing for yourhealth right now.
But, once again, three months,that's kind of the common common
timeframe, yeah, so, yeah,that's my little go-to on castor
packing, just do it yeah.
Speaker 1 (51:32):
And if you don't want to castor pack, just rub it all
over your belly and then get inthe sauna.
Yes, I love that.
That's the Elena cheat.
It is Very good.
Okay, we had.
I mean, we could go for threemore hours and we're not going
to do that, but there are somany good questions here and
(51:53):
we've looked at these and if wedidn't get to your question this
time, hang tight, because wehave our community gatherings,
where we gather in person thefourth Wednesday of every month
here at K6 Wellness.
We're going to answer some moreof these.
We're going to do actually someof these as a full podcast
episode.
They were that good.
Yeah, the questions were sogood.
Thank you so much to everybodywho contributed.
(52:14):
If you didn't hear yoursanswered, we're going to be
contacting you either with ananswer or a hang on.
We're going to dive into this,but this seems to be the perfect
place to just wrap up thisconversation for today, and we
do hope that you found thisinformation valuable.
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(52:59):
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