December 9, 2025 • 58 mins
Heavy periods, PCOS, endometriosis, infertility—so many women are told to mask symptoms or remove organs without ever getting a clear why. We invited Dr. Vaughn, a traditional naturopath, to unpack a different path: find the root, relieve the burden, and let the body restore rhythm. From teen cycles and the birth control reflex to menopause and progesterone support, we connect the dots between food, light, toxins, and liver health in a way that’s practical and hopeful.
We get specific. Diet shifts do the heavy lifting: an 80 percent base of vegetables and fruit, seasonal eating, steady protein, and a firm break with refined sugar and seed oils can calm inflammation and reduce estrogen dominance. Morning sunlight in your eyes jump-starts hormone cascades, while blue light at night suppresses them. We talk testing that matters—Dutch for steroid hormones, urine and hair for BPA, glyphosate, mold, and metals—so you can stop guessing. Then we map a clear detox plan: far infrared sauna to mobilize, targeted binders to capture biotoxins and chemicals, and smart mineral support so you feel better, not worse.
We also dig into local care that’s often ignored. Vaginal ecology can be nourished with probiotic support, antimicrobial herbs, and for some, ozone therapy or yoni steaming to improve circulation and tissue health. Surgery may remove lesions, but it won’t remove causes. That’s why we highlight liver methylation with sulforaphane-rich broccoli extracts, methylated B vitamins, and sulfur sources like MSM, plus the overlooked role of iron—beef liver capsules are a potent ally for estrogen clearance. When needed, progesterone can be a lifesaver in early pregnancy or menopause; used wisely, it supports the body while deeper imbalances are corrected.
This conversation is equal parts story and strategy—real turnarounds from crippling cramps to quiet cycles, from long infertility to healthy pregnancies. If you’re ready to trade confusion for a map, tune in, take notes, and share with someone who needs hope. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: what’s the first change you’ll make this week?
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Rebecca Twomey (00:32):
Welcome to the Radiant Mission Podcast.
My name is Rebecca Toomey, andI am here with my awesome
co-host and sister, RachelSmith.
Hey guys.
We are on a mission toencourage and inspire you as
you're navigating through thislife and in your relationship
with Christ.
And today we are joined onceagain by the fantastic Dr.
(00:52):
Vaughn to continue our healthseries.
Welcome, Dr.
Vaughn.
Hello, thank you.
And a quick reminder (00:58):
if you are just joining for the first
time, you gotta listen backbecause he has been on here for
five episodes now.
So definitely go back andlisten to more about his story
and what's going on over here atSpirit of Health.
Dr.
Von Lawrence is a traditionalnaturopath and iridologist.
(01:21):
He's focused on helping peoplediscover the root cause of their
chronic illness.
So, with that said, if you wantto connect with him after this
podcast, because you're going towant to, you can find him at
spiritofhealthkc.com.
You can also visit his storefor a lot of the items that are
going to help you clear up yourproblems at
(01:41):
store.spiritofhealthkc.com.
You can find him on Facebook atfacebook.com forward slash
spirit of health and onInstagram and YouTube at
Spiritof Health KC.
So we are so excited to haveDr.
Vaughn back again.
And this time we are going tobe talking about women's health.
(02:02):
Since the majority of thelisteners now, because we've
scared all the men away bytalking about birth too much, we
figure let's talk about women'shealth.
It's a it's a big deal.
Rachel Smith (02:14):
Maybe we should do an episode of men's health one
day.
Rebecca Twomey (02:18):
Bring the men back.
Rachel Smith (02:19):
Yeah.
Rebecca and I we joke becauseoriginally our heart for this
podcast was for mothers.
And we started our podcasttalking about spiritual warfare.
And we have had a lot ofwonderful male listeners say,
like, you guys keep saying thatthis podcast is for women, but
(02:42):
I'm recommending it to all kindsof different men in my life.
And we're like, oh, that'sgreat.
And then once we startedtalking about birth stories and
breastfeeding, we lost a lot ofmen.
Rebecca Twomey (02:52):
They all ran away, including our own dad, Dr.
Vaughn.
He said that our episodes weregross and he stopped listening.
But uh he he's come back now.
He circled back around.
He actually texted me today,Rachel, that he really enjoyed
uh the Passover episode.
Okay.
And he said he enjoys us whenwe're not talking about quote
(03:14):
gross things, and that we are alot of fun when we're not doing
that.
So hopefully hopefully dad isback listening.
Rachel Smith (03:22):
Yeah, and and maybe we'll give you a men's
health episode one day.
Although he's probably notlistening to this episode
because it's titled Women'sHealth.
Rebecca Twomey (03:30):
So, anyway, yeah, in our circles, we hear
many stories.
I mean, Rachel and I aretalking to women every day about
the things that I'm going tomention now.
People that have really heavyperiods, women that have
endometriosis or PCOS or areexperiencing infertility.
(03:51):
It seems that women are in abattle sometimes when it comes
to our health.
And obviously, I can imaginethat some of this is stemming
from what we talked about lasttime with immune health, that
there could be issues with thegut.
There also could be issues withother chronic illnesses,
(04:14):
especially I know in Rachel'scase with secondary infertility,
she had other stuff going on.
But I'd like to start kind ofby bringing it back to the
earliest possible place.
And that's when we start ourperiods.
We're teenagers, obviouslyyoung or even pre-teenager.
And it comes before you're evergoing to have quote
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endometriosis or PCOS orinfertility because you're like
11 years old.
But I wish that I could go backin time to tell myself that
having that having a period isnormal, first of all.
I wish I could have read thatbook, Taking Charge of Your
Fertility when I was 12, so thatI understood what I was going
through was actually normal.
(04:58):
Because I think that oursociety has made it not normal
to bleed, which it is, to haveperiods.
And their solution to heavybleeding is often just put or
put them on birth control.
That's gonna fix the problem.
You know, that's gonna fixeverything, but really all it
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does is cause a slew of otherissues.
So just knowing that, you know,the period was new as a as a
young girl, it's it's hard toget through.
I also wish I could have toldmyself to take some evening prim
nose primrose oil.
That probably could have helpedtoo, but I'm not giving medical
advice.
Dr.
Vaughn, I really want to startwith you by asking, you know, is
(05:42):
this something that you runinto often with women?
I'm assuming, you know, grownwomen at this point, heavy
periods or reports ofendometriosis or anything like
that.
Is that something that you seeoften?
Dr. Vaughn (05:57):
Yeah, all the above, all the time.
I mean, I work mainly withwomen, kind of like you said,
uh, you know, men, men will comein if they're dying or if their
wife forces them to.
I sometimes jokingly ask thatquestion like, Did your wife
make you come here?
Yeah.
So I so I literally like this isjust funny that we're talking
(06:17):
about this right now.
I did a consultation with aman, our initial consultations
are an hour and a half.
He had a few questions, he gothis questions answered in 30
minutes.
He was done.
I was like, Do you want to talkabout anything else?
We have another hour.
He's like, No, I'm good.
Rebecca Twomey (06:34):
He's like, I don't even want the time.
Just I I gotta, I we're good.
Dr. Vaughn (06:38):
Bottom line, get to the point.
What do I do?
So anyway, yeah.
Uh I work with a lot of women.
So, you know, if you work witha lot of women, of course,
you're gonna deal with ummenstrual cycles.
It's just uh it's an importantpart of being a woman, it's part
of how God designed women.
It's actually a uh I've alwayssaid I love working with women,
(06:59):
and when they have irregularcycles or issues with their
menstrual cycle, it's actually agreat gauge, it's a great
indicator to see where women arein their health.
And I have lots of stories.
Uh, one story was a young galuh just you know horrifically
painful periods, and um and thenshe went a couple of months,
(07:25):
and I remember she telling methat her menstrual cycle started
and she didn't even know ituntil it started.
Which if if you're a womanthat's ever had menstrual cycle
issues, you know that's like alife-changing event because
usually you're debilitated,chronic pain, emotional mess for
days, you know, before you evenstart to bleed.
(07:47):
And I remember she said she shecalled her parents and told
her, and literally her parentswould not believe her because
she's just had like chronic painevery cycle for like her whole
life.
Rachel Smith (07:58):
Wow.
Dr. Vaughn (07:59):
So uh yeah, absolutely women can improve
their menstrual cycles, and it'simportant because that's again,
that's a sign of health,because God designed women for
this specific purpose, andespecially young women that are
having problems with theircycle, it's a big deal because
not only is it uh important toyour health, but it's like if
you're gonna have a future andyou're gonna have kids and a
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family, like you wanna get yourcycle right right now.
Like, cool story.
My wife so when we met, so wejust uh we're 10 years in May.
So this May, actually, nextmonth will be 11 years that
we've been married.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
And when we met, she had nothad a menstrual cycle in two
(08:43):
years.
Wow.
Didn't know if she'd ever havekids, uh, was diagnosed with
Hashimoto's and you know, wehave three kids that are 10, 8,
and 6.
She's had a regular menstrualcycle for 10 years.
Uh so yeah, I just love that.
I love seeing women regaintheir cycle when they haven't
(09:06):
had one, or if they're havingpain or irregular cycles to
improve it.
And it's just yeah, I Iactually find it a very
fulfilling.
Uh I don't know if that's theright word.
What's the word?
Anyway, I think it's afulfilling thing to see you know
women regulate in that areabecause of course, that's super
cool.
For like the future ofhumanity, right?
(09:28):
So yeah, yeah, I mean, that wasthe word, it's rewarding.
Rebecca Twomey (09:34):
Yeah, of course.
The Lord designed usspecifically this way, right?
Like this is part of the thisis part of how women were
designed to go through thiscycle, and I don't think that
we're supposed to experience itin excruciating pain all of the
time.
So, what are some of thesolutions or remedies or you
(09:59):
know, things that women can doto reduce these problems, or is
it just very different dependingon a woman's situation?
Dr. Vaughn (10:07):
Yeah, it depends because it it's definitely
there's a lot going on, there'sit's complicated oftentimes.
Um I love telling stories.
Testimonials are so powerful.
I gotta tell my story.
Sorry.
Gal came to work for us, andher name was Hannah.
Also her last name.
But Hannah was like, I reallywant to come work for you guys.
(10:30):
And she she'd been married fiveyears, never been pregnant once
in five years of marriage.
And I said, Hannah, because weknew her, she was a friend, but
like you can come work for us,but you're gonna get better,
you're gonna get pregnant,you're gonna have kids, and
you're gonna leave us.
And I think we I mean, I cansay this because it was true,
(10:52):
like we had more faith than shedid because she, you know, she
hadn't been pregnant in fiveyears.
So she comes to work for us,horrible menstrual cramps, like
she would miss work because hermenstrual cramps were so bad.
So worked on her health, didsome cleansing.
I specifically remember herduring our lymphatic system
cleanse because the lymphaticsystem is uh not often looked at
(11:14):
in health, but it's crucialbecause that is the main uh
sewer system of the body thatdumps all the toxins and poisons
out, and it's where stagnationoccurs.
So if you have stagnation inyour lymphatic system, you know,
you're gonna have problems.
So she was doing our lymphaticsystem cleanse.
It's a 21-day cleanse.
She's like, I just felt likethe Lord say I'm I wanted I
(11:37):
should do it longer because I'mdoing really good on it and I
feel really good and I'm nothaving any cramps.
And so she extended thelymphatic cleanse and then found
out during the cleanse that shewas pregnant.
Rachel Smith (11:49):
Wow.
Dr. Vaughn (11:50):
And so now her and her husband have two kids, a
third on the way, and you know,so that was like a few years
ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have so many of those kindsof stories.
Yeah.
So I think diet's huge.
Um, I really, really thinkdiet's huge.
Uh, I have seen so many womenregulate their menstrual cycles
(12:13):
with the change of diet.
You know, if you eat heavy dietand you eat lots of, you know,
fried foods, fatty foods, sugar,starches, carbs, like kind of
like the last episode we weretalking about fermentation of
the gut.
You know, if if you live thatkind of a lifestyle, eventually
that's going to causestagnation.
And when you have stagnation,that's when you start to have
(12:34):
irregular tissue growth,abnormal estrogen, um, stress is
a big one because it suppressesuh cortisol suppresses
progesterone.
So you kind of got this cascadeof things happening when you're
not eating well and you'restressed out, and that's gonna
cause hormonal problems.
So I usually it's just Iusually start with diet, and you
(12:55):
know, diet's a whole superconfusing thing, right?
Uh but the the the basics of itis that this is just my like
two minutes on diet because itit's it's it's a big topic,
right?
Um but I'm of the belief of 80%fruits and veggies.
(13:17):
So veggies number one, fruits aclose number two, but it also
depends on the season.
Like summer, you should beeating more fruit if you live in
a tropical place.
I believe in seasonal eating,but let's say 80% fruits and
veggies, and then 20% you know,fats and protein, and you should
be eating very minimal amountsof um sugars, starches, carbs,
(13:42):
obviously, no fatty oils, thetrans fats, the seed oils, all
that, all the bad stuff we knowof.
But um, if if a woman has anirregular cycle, a heavy cycle,
and she just starts eating lotsof salads and you know, keeps it
light, eat three meals a day,maybe and maybe kind of stop all
the snacking.
(14:03):
Um literally, that alone willtake stress and burden off of
the system, and they'll starthaving a regular cycle again.
It can't it can be that simple.
So I've seen that a lot.
I've seen it.
Rebecca Twomey (14:14):
Quit eating those sweet treats, huh?
Dr. Vaughn (14:16):
Yeah, yeah.
They're they're the theemotional comfort foods, you
know, they feel good in themoment, and I understand that
it's hard, but it just it itwill it will keep you from
reaching your goals.
Absolutely.
Rebecca Twomey (14:30):
Yeah, Rachel has this really fun story about
when she was experiencing herinfertility issues that and I'm
just gonna throw Rachel into thebus a little bit and say, I
told her to stop drinking wine.
But when her uh her friend,who's a dietitian, told her, or
(14:50):
was it I don't know if it wasPaula or your other doctor?
Rachel Smith (14:53):
It was Paula, yeah, because she was the first
one who started helping me, andshe's a functional nutritionist.
Rebecca Twomey (14:58):
And she said, Rachel, you know, the first
thing you need to do is she saidthe low-hanging fruit, the
low-hanging fruit, and the oneshe was drinking was called
low-hanging fruit.
Rachel Smith (15:06):
Yeah, yeah.
So she literally, it was likeit was like a it was like a one
of those cool God moments.
It was such a prophetic moment,wasn't it?
Yeah, it was the firstconversation we were having
about my hormonal issues thatwere you know revealed to me
because I couldn't get pregnantand I got pregnant easily in the
past.
Yeah, and so she's a wonderfuldietitian, and she was like, the
(15:32):
first thing that I would say,the low-hanging fruit, is to cut
out alcohol and wine, becauseshe knew that I like drinking
wine, right?
And when she said that, I'mlike, Paula, my favorite wine,
the brand is literally calledlow hanging fruit.
Like Lauren, yeah.
But I will say, like, whatyou're saying, like it just
(15:55):
resonates with me and mytestimony so much too, that it
was a long journey for me.
But what you're saying aboutdiet, I mean, it healed a lot of
my body.
And I I ended up doing um thepaleo autoimmune protocol, which
one thing I felt the Lordrevealed to me early in the
(16:19):
process, which the AIP diet issupposed to be limited time,
like it's not like for life,because it's very restrictive
initially until you introduceyou know, possible inflammatory,
you know, it's she means shecouldn't eat pepper.
Yeah, like it was literallytake everything down to the bare
(16:40):
bones that all I was eating wasvegetables, fruit, meat, and
the only oils were coconut oil,avocado oil, and olive oil.
Dr. Vaughn (16:50):
So it took all basically what I just described.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Rachel Smith (16:54):
What you just described, there were a little
bit more extremes, like nopepper and nightshades and
right, right, and and thingsthat were took a lot more
effort.
But one thing I really realizedthat the Lord revealed to me
early on is that this is the waythat God created our bodies to
(17:15):
function.
That if you think backthousands of years ago, we
didn't have all this junk, youknow, processed foods and seed
oils and refined sugar and allof these things that we do
today.
And they are what iscontributing to our body's uh
(17:39):
decay.
So to really get back to theyou know factory model settings
is to eat like we were that'sone of the reasons it's called
the paleo diet, I guess.
So it it and and just like thetestimony you shared of your
friend who came to work for youafter three months of me doing
(18:04):
this protocol, which alsoentailed a very, very intensive
I mentioned it last time, herbalsupplement protocol.
I got my blood work back frommy MP and she told me that my
estrogen was better, it wasn'tperfect, but it was better.
My Epstein bar was inremission, the Lyme disease was
(18:27):
completely gone.
I started hysterically cryingwhen she gave me this news
because it was just so revealingthat what I did worked, and we
got off the phone, and then Ifelt weird that I started crying
because that's not how I am,and I went and I took a
pregnancy test, and for thefirst time in two years and
(18:49):
hundreds of negative pregnancytests, I had my first positive,
and that was three months ofchanging my diet to what you're
describing.
Dr. Vaughn (18:58):
So amen.
That's awesome.
I love hearing that.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Yeah, a couple other uh youknow things.
Uh yeah, because I mentioneddiet's important, and and um
yeah, I think that's that's agood start, and that's huge.
Um, hormones are regulated bylight.
So sunlight in your eyes everymorning, walking, being outside,
(19:27):
that actually starts thecascade of hormone production.
You're gonna talk aboutlutinizing hormone and all these
important hormones you need,they're all stimulated by light.
So if sunlight stimulateshormone production and is
crucial for fertility, what doyou think has the opposite
damaging effect?
Rebecca Twomey (19:44):
Not having light, artificial light.
Dr. Vaughn (19:46):
Blue light.
There you go.
Cell phones, laptops, you know,lights in inside buildings,
those all do the opposite.
They suppress hormone function.
So light's a big one.
Rachel Smith (19:59):
Um
Dr. Vaughn (20:00):
There's a product I like that I've used for years,
very successful.
I don't know if you've heard ofit.
It's called Maca Harmony byNHI.
But it's a maca-based product.
They have uh they have one forwomen for normalizing their
cycle, or if they're not havinga cycle.
And then they have one calledMaca Life that's for women uh
(20:23):
going through menopause, andthen they have one called Maka
Pause, that's like forpost-menopause.
And they're they're amazing.
I had a friend of mine whocouldn't get pregnant, and she
changed her diet, got on themacha harmony, and you know, got
got pregnant pretty quickly.
So um there's good products outthere.
The one my wife took that Istill use from time to time,
it's called Restore, and um,it's by Herbally Grounded.
(20:47):
And you take four capsulesbefore bed.
And my wife, so my wife now atthat time we we weren't even
dating.
Like she was actually a patientof mine.
Um, I know big taboo, right?
But she uh she wasn't having amenstrual cycle.
So I said, Hey, take thisrestore fortnight before bed.
And she started having amenstrual cycle and had one ever
since.
Just taking one herbal formula.
Rachel Smith (21:08):
Wow, that's great.
Dr. Vaughn (21:09):
And she changed her diet too, because she was
diagnosed Hashimoto so we gotaway from the gluten and you
know, did some diet changes andstuff like that.
So yeah, I think there's herbalsupports huge.
Uh, those are a couple productsI really like.
Yeah, I want to mention thelight.
And then yeah, I'm verythankful, and I know you did
this too, uh, but the Dutchtest, I do think the Dutch test
is phenomenal for checkingsteroid hormones.
(21:31):
Is a woman estrogen dominant?
Is she uh deficient inprogesterone?
Because progesterone, justprogesterone deficiency is a big
reason women have irregularcycles, heavy periods,
infertility.
They their progesterone is lowfor a number of reasons.
Why diet?
Okay, because insulin willnegatively impact progesterone,
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stress, because cortisol willsuppress progesterone.
So there's a lot of thingshappening in our world today
with our diet and our stressthat is suppressing
progesterone.
And then obviously, we all kindof know about estrogen
dominance and all the thingsthat can cause that
xenoestrogens and that have thisestrogen mimicking effect.
(22:16):
Um, and I lab test for all thatstuff.
Like, but what I've had, Ithink I had two.
Well, yesterday I had one,today I had one where women are
hormone fertility kind of istheir focus, and they were both
really high in BPA.
And one of them was over threetimes the toxic level of BPA.
(22:36):
And you know, I can't know forsure, but I'm always looking for
causation.
So, you know, do you have uh axenoestrogen or some estrogen
mimicking compound in your bodythat can be causing two things?
One, estrogen dominance, butalso, you know, uh causing a
progesterone deficiency.
Bad combo.
Rebecca Twomey (22:54):
Interesting.
So do you cleanse that out?
I mean, obviously, changing thediet is going to be something
that you do and gettingsunlight.
Do you also recommend a cleansefor something like that when
someone has BPA in their system?
Can you cleanse out BPA?
Dr. Vaughn (23:08):
Yeah, BPA can be cleansed.
Uh, glyphosate, I'm seeing alot, that is a bad guy for
fertility.
Uh, mold is a big one becausethese are all um endocrine
disruptors.
So they they they negativelydamage the endocrine system.
It's well known in the farmingcommunity to check your animals
(23:29):
for mold if they're not havingbabies because it will uh
suppress fertility.
And so they they put things inthe feed to kill the mold and
then they'll start having babiesagain.
Interesting.
So, yeah, you mainly sweat themout.
I'm a huge, huge fan of uh farinfrared sauna.
(23:51):
Uh I think it should be farinfrared.
Um, the one we use is called atherasage.
Um, I don't know if you'veheard of Therasage, but there's
all these big box saunas and allthese different companies that
sell these big saunas.
The therasage one is Irecommend to all of my patients
because better technology, it'sway cheaper.
(24:13):
It's like 1100 bucks.
You have it in your home, youzip it up, your head's out.
So, like I start every morningwith the sauna and uh hot cold
therapy.
So, like I'll do sauna in themorning, sweat, and then hop in
a cold bath.
So that kind of therapy isreally powerful.
But for detoxing any kind ofchemical, we'll call them an
(24:34):
environmental toxin theherbicides, the pesticides, the
BPA, the plasticizers, theglyphosate, all that stuff.
Um, sweating them out is thebest.
So if you can sweat and takethe right binder, it's really
that simple.
You can detox this stuff out ofyour body, and then that'll
start to correct your natural,you know, hormone function,
(24:57):
estrogen function, and all that.
Rebecca Twomey (24:59):
We talked about binders a little bit last
episode.
So you're referring tosomething like clay, using clay
as a binder, or no, somethingnope.
Dr. Vaughn (25:08):
Yeah, I don't use I don't use clay or charcoal.
Uh those are the traditionalbinders, and I use those for
years.
Rebecca Twomey (25:16):
Um, I'm sure those are more for stomach, like
we talked about.
Dr. Vaughn (25:19):
So for heavy metals, you would use a different
binder.
Use for allergies, they can befor different things, but yeah,
I don't really use them for forother things.
Rebecca Twomey (25:28):
Okay.
Dr. Vaughn (25:28):
Um, I'm guessing, have you run across Cellcore?
Cellcore biosciences?
Rebecca Twomey (25:33):
Mm-mm.
Dr. Vaughn (25:34):
Okay.
They're pretty big deal innatural health, uh, but they
have the absolute best binderson the market, period, hands
down.
Um, biotoxin binder binds moldand parasite toxins.
H and t binder, heavy metalenvironmental toxins binds
glyphosate proven.
Had a gal whose glyphosate was12 and six months sauna and take
(25:59):
an HMET binder.
Next time I tested her, it was1.9.
Rebecca Twomey (26:02):
Wow.
Interesting.
Dr. Vaughn (26:04):
Yeah, you can detox these things out of the body.
Uh, Virad Kim binder works forviruses, um, radiation.
So I use that one for uranium.
So different, so a binder is acarbon.
So activated charcoal is acarbon, but it's a spent carbon.
And so you can take uh youprobably maybe heard of humic
(26:25):
and fulvic minerals.
Okay, these are carbons andthey're binders, uh, but they're
specific.
They they specifically bindspecific toxins, okay, and they
don't interfere with your uhyour good you know, minerals and
vitamins.
They don't bind the things thatyou're supposed to have.
(26:47):
You can actually take them withfood, and it doesn't interfere
with anything.
Okay.
And so, yeah, I love taking theright binder.
So sweating and taking theright binder, and then I'll
mention one more thing, justbecause I'm a huge fan, is the
ion detox foot baths really,really work.
And we just got in a new onebecause I'm always researching,
always looking for the bestthing.
(27:08):
Got one mind-blowing, that theyhave a patent on it because
toxins, it was believed, are allpositively charged.
So you need negative ions.
If you've heard of negativeionization, you need negative
ions to grab the positivelycharged molecules and pull them
out.
Well, it turns out that manytoxins are negatively charged,
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and there's even a term calledgram-negative bacteria.
And so, because some toxins arenegatively charged, you
actually need to ionize themwith positive ions.
And so I can actually adjust myfoot bath to detox out exactly
what a person has in their body.
So if they have glyphosate,which is negatively charged, I
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can pull it out with positiveions.
Endotoxins, which are the Lymetoxins, are actually also all
gram negative and they needpositive ionization.
So, anyway, there's all kindsof like really cool tools out
there.
Um, I guess my point is thatfind out what toxins you have in
your body causing uh hormonedisruption and help them come
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out with foot baths, sweattherapy with a it's gotta be far
infrared, not just like a steamsauna, and then the right
binder.
That would be kind of thegeneral overview.
Rebecca Twomey (28:31):
What kind of tests would you perform to find
out what kind of issues?
You know, it we talked aboutthe Dutch test, but Dutch
doesn't tell you your youprobably have different kinds of
tests for this.
Dr. Vaughn (28:45):
Yeah, Dutch is just steroid hormones.
Um, so yeah, we do blood, we dourine, we do hair.
It depends on what it is, andit'll tell you all the tests.
I think hair is the mostaccurate for metals and
radioactive elements, but wealso check urine metals too, and
I compare.
Um, but urine will check yourmold, all your molds.
Urine will check all yourenvironmental toxins.
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Uh there's a test we do thatchecks over 170 environmental
toxins.
One urine sample.
Actually, one urine sample, youcan check all your molds, all
your environmental toxins, yourheavy metals, your radioactive
elements, whole bunch of stuff.
It's really cool.
Rebecca Twomey (29:21):
Very interesting.
I have three questions that arestemming from this.
One of them is a silly one.
Okay.
Have you seen how people willtake a slice of a potato and put
it on the bottom of their feetand then put socks on before
they go to bed to pull outtoxins?
Have you heard of this?
Dr. Vaughn (29:40):
Heard of it.
I don't know much about it.
Rebecca Twomey (29:42):
I haven't really doing anything.
Dr. Vaughn (29:47):
I honestly don't know.
Rebecca Twomey (29:49):
Okay, okay.
Dr. Vaughn (29:50):
Sorry.
Rachel Smith (29:51):
I thought that was just a fun like old, like
hundred-year-old old wives'tale.
If you're I don't know, maybeit works.
Rebecca Twomey (30:00):
It's more of if you have a cold or something,
they'll say, take the potatoes,put it on the bottom of your
kid's feet, put socks, put sockson them.
I don't know.
Yeah, look up the potato thing.
It's it's a it's a whole thing.
Let me know what you come upwith.
Um, my other question is how doyou feel about TRS spray?
I know that's a pretty commonone that people would love for
heavy metals.
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Do you use that too?
Dr. Vaughn (30:21):
Don't use TRS.
Rebecca Twomey (30:23):
Uh or whatever that's called.
Um I guess TRS is a a brand,isn't it?
Dr. Vaughn (30:29):
It's a zeolite.
Rebecca Twomey (30:30):
Yes.
There you go.
A Zeolite spray.
Dr. Vaughn (30:33):
Zeolite spray.
Rachel Smith (30:34):
So it's not just fancy water.
Dr. Vaughn (30:36):
No, no, it's not really large.
Um, and I'm not, you know, I'mnever gonna, I'm just gonna be
honest.
I'm never gonna bash anothercompany.
I think there's a lot of peopledoing a lot of great things out
there.
I have heard nothing butpositive things from TRS.
I work with a lot of moms andI've seen it help a lot of
children.
So I'm all about it.
I'm like, great, rock the TRS.
That's awesome.
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Now, if your kid has a lot ofserious, serious metal or
radioactive element issues, theycan have, you know, a negative
response or you might have to goreally slow.
Uh, but it it works.
It's a zeolite.
I use a different one.
It's called Vitality DetoxDrops, and it's it's very
similar.
It's a it's a zeolite becauseit's a zealite.
Rebecca Twomey (31:17):
Well, I am going, I'm adding all this stuff
to the show to the show notes.
I will be emailing you if Ihave questions about if I didn't
type it correctly.
So if you're listening, checkthe show notes.
Well, I'll have some links toDr.
Vaughn's store and some of theother resources that he
mentioned here.
Now, I did want to circle backto PCOS.
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Now it is a diagnosis of sortsthat people receive, whether,
you know, that is what theactual I we we don't have to get
into the actual details of ofwhat it is necessarily, you
know, all the the ins and outsof it, unless you want to.
But it's something that Ipersonally have many friends who
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are have trouble conceiving andhave issues.
And they say, My doctor told meI have PCOS, that's why I'm not
getting my periods.
The protocol that you justshared to me sounded like it
would solve this issue for manyof these women.
I know diet is a big thing.
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Um, I have a good friend whotold me, like, I I got my period
back by I stopped eating sugar.
You know, I stopped eating alot of processed foods and being
healthier about my foodchoices, and I was able to
regulate my periods again.
But I'm just curious if you runinto this specific, you know,
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the specific thing with women.
Dr. Vaughn (32:45):
Yeah.
Yep, super common,unfortunately.
Uh so yeah, uh a lot a lot withthat, that the whole estrogen
thing.
You know, you definitely goodto get checked out, see if
you're estrogen dominant, see ifthat plays a role.
If you look at PCOS, there'sall kinds of different reasons.
There's different actuallytypes of PCOS.
Rebecca Twomey (33:06):
Okay, interesting.
Dr. Vaughn (33:07):
Depending on the cause, it's not all the same
thing.
Uh, I did a whole class on myYouTube channel called cis,
ovaries, and tumor cis, ovariesand tumors, cis, tumors, and
fibroids, I think it's called.
And and it was more of anexplanation of why these things
occur.
Because a cyst or a tumor or afibroid is an abnormal growth.
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So, why does the body get anabnormal growth?
So the body gets an abnormalgrowth because there's a
toxicity, because there's aproblem.
Uh, a lot of research showsparasites are a common cause.
Um any kind of toxin, metals,mold, all these things can cause
uh an abnormal growth in thebody, but that's what a cyst is,
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it's an abnormal growth.
So uh I would definitely say100% get off of any birth
control.
Um, people think IUDs arebetter.
I have heard IUD nightmares formany of my patients.
Um, copper toxicity willdestroy a woman's hormones.
Um, so I I've seen super, supercopper toxic women from taking
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IUDs.
They are devastating.
Um, I don't care what anydoctor says, it's not safe.
It's it's complete medical.
Rebecca Twomey (34:21):
I agree with you and can relate.
I had a copper IUD anddeveloped copper toxicity
myself.
Dr. Vaughn (34:27):
There you go.
I didn't even know that.
So uh so I just wanted to beclear on that, that I think
that's important to get off ofthose things.
Uh so yeah, so with ovariancysts, um, so I mentioned, yeah,
the estrogen, doing a Dutchtest, uh, getting rid of birth
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control and IUDs.
I want to touch on somethingthat I think we talked about
diet, but I want to touch onsomething that I think is really
cool.
Uh, you can look at this withPCOS or endometriosis, um, but I
think this is not talked abouta lot.
And I want to talk about itjust because I want to see
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people get better.
And, you know, that's kind ofmy heart.
Actually, my my heart and youknow, target market in the
business world, but like myheart is moms love the Lord, any
mom, you know, even if theydon't love the Lord, of course.
But it's like I want moms to bewell because I believe they're
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so crucial to the foundationalfamily support network of our
world.
And they they often get youknow overlooked, and you know,
they're doing all these thingsand they're not seeing, and
they're trying to raise theirkids, and they're trying to
raise their husbands.
And no, that was a joke.
Um, just it's true, though.
Rachel Smith (35:47):
It's true.
Dr. Vaughn (35:48):
They're so exhausted, and like who's
watching out for them?
Who's taking care of the moms?
Because the husband's oftenworking, he's making a living,
and mom is just getting whooped.
So I really have a heart to seemoms get well.
That's really my passion.
So I think it's important totalk about the importance of
cleansing the vaginal area.
And uh, I've had women do somany different things over the
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years that you can insertprobiotics into the vagina
before bed.
Uh, there's these little pearlsthat you can use.
Uh, women will do garliccloves.
Um, there's different thingsyou can use as a douche.
Um a couple of things thatreally, really work that I just
really want to highlight.
Crazy story of a girl in her20s having horrific
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endometriosis, multiplesurgeries, didn't get better,
completely healed it with ozonetherapy, doing ozone vaginally.
So you can do yeah, right.
Um, you need uh equipment.
So uh yeah, so ozone, very,very powerful because oxygen
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heals everything.
So breath of life, if you wantto get back to the foundational,
like Genesis 2:7, the Lordformed man out of the dust of
the earth and breathed in himthe breath of life.
So oxygen is the most importantelement in our world, and so
you can heal a lot of thingswith oxygen.
So ozone therapy vaginally canremove like it can heal ovarian
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cysts, it can reverseendometriosis.
Um, so that's something you canlook into.
We have ozone machines andozone bubblers, and um, I could
tell all kinds of fun ozonestories.
I injected my wife's tonsilswith ozone one time, and she
spit up tonsil stones.
Oh so yeah, cool stuff.
Umzone therapy.
Rebecca Twomey (37:42):
That sounds like that must have been felt very
relieving for her.
Dr. Vaughn (37:45):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She's yeah, she's got a lot oflymph stuff going on.
Okay, so here's something thatanyone can do that's super easy,
that's super common in Asianculture.
Oh, are you gonna talk aboutsteaming?
Yes, Yoni Steam, come on.
Rebecca Twomey (38:03):
I was wondering if you're gonna go to the Yoni
Steam.
Dr. Vaughn (38:06):
It works, it works.
Rebecca Twomey (38:08):
So, what is that?
Dr. Vaughn (38:10):
Uh, so basically, you sit on um, you can buy
something like on Amazon orwhatever that it's basically
like sitting on a toilet seatwithout the toilet.
So, like you're sitting on atoilet seat, and underneath you
have just a pot of boilingwater, or better, you would add
herbs into it.
So we have two formulas, andI'll tell you what those are.
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And we even have a document wecan send people on how to do a
yoni steam bath.
Um, but we have a tea called ahealing sits bath.
And if you research like yonisteam and what women are using
to help with cysts and thesekind of different issues, or
just any kind of vaginalinfection, anything like that,
it's all in that healing sitsbath tea.
And then we have another onecalled healing tea.
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And the healing tea is veryheavy in microbial herbs, so
antimicrobial herbs, um, likeblack walnut and different
things.
So I would look into doing ayoni steam, and it's just
basically a pot of boilingwater, you add the herbs into
it, you sit on the thing, andyou just let the steam and the
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herbs basically cleanse thatwhole area, and it's phenomenal.
I mean, you can uh shockinglyreverse so many conditions that
seem so scary and seem socomplicated with heat and cold,
with steam therapy, hot therapy,sauna therapy, cold therapy,
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cold plunges, cold baths.
There's whole books written onthis stuff, but it's like it's
kind of like it's been lost.
So I really want to highlightthe Yoni steam because uh any
woman can do that andsuccessfully cleanse and heal
anything going on in that area.
You know, you think of doctorsdoing these uh pap smears and
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scaring the bejebis out ofwomen's like you have HPV and
All this fear-based stuff, andthey have want them to do a DNC
and all these like horrificprocedures that are completely
unnecessary.
And just really what we need todo is just some basic like
health care maintenance of thevaginal area because it's
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important.
Rebecca Twomey (40:18):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's fascinating.
Yeah, Rachel, I'll have to sendyou some videos because I have
I've come across this often inthe more crunchy communities.
And there are people that rentout devices for you to do it in
a specific way.
So anyway, we could we couldtalk more about that.
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I have a question for you.
This is kind of a a big one,but since we're talking about
endometriosis, if a woman hasher uterus, her tubes, her whole
system removed, whatever itmight be, parts or pieces of it
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removed, is it going to solvethe problem?
Or it could there potentiallystill be another underlying
problem that may manifest in adifferent way now that those
parts are not there?
Dr. Vaughn (41:18):
It just depends on where it grew.
Because the definition ofendometriosis is endometrial
tissue that's growing outside ofthe uterine cavity.
Rebecca Twomey (41:28):
Okay.
Dr. Vaughn (41:29):
So that abnormal tissue that's growing outside of
the uterus can grow in multipledifferent areas.
For some reason, it's for somewomen, it's in a lot of
different places.
So uh it's kind of like doesgallbladder surgery solve the
problem?
No, if you talk to peoplewho've had gallbladder surgery,
they'll all tell you that like90% of them still have gut
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issues, digestive issues, liverissues, bile flow issues,
diarrhea, constipation.
So uh medical system, ofcourse, you know, they're trying
to, you know, do their best tosolve a crisis.
Um, and it certainly is goingto help.
It is unfortunate that the onlysolution they offer is surgery.
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And even to find out if a womanhas endometriosis, right, they
have to do exploratory surgery,like just to even see if they
have endometriosis.
Rachel Smith (42:21):
Yeah.
Dr. Vaughn (42:22):
And so, yeah, you can go in there and you can cut
away a lot of the endometrialtissue, but you know, you and I
both well know that there's anunderlying cause.
What's the root cause?
Just removing the abnormaltissue growth does not discover
or help solve the root problemof why it's even growing
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abnormally in the first place.
So, yes, it'll provide relief,it will buy you some time, but
it doesn't solve the underlyingproblem.
Rebecca Twomey (42:55):
That's good to know.
Very, very, very good to know.
I'm sorry, Rachel.
I think I cut you off.
You had a question as well.
Rachel Smith (43:01):
Oh, no, I didn't.
Okay.
Good.
I was just absorbing that all.
Rebecca Twomey (43:08):
Yeah, definitely.
It's a big one.
I mean, it's it we talk aboutthis again all the time in our
communities.
Women have, you know,endometriosis issues.
Rachel mentioned Paula before,who is her dietitian.
She was on the podcast a whileback, and that was what led her
to become a dietitian.
She was told she hadendometriosis, and the only way
to fix it was to have her uterusremoved, was to have a
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hysterectomy, basically.
Yeah, in her 30s or 20s.
And she said there's got to bea better way.
And that was when she went downthe route of learning about how
to eat right and how to takecare of our bodies, and she
healed her own, uh, her ownendometriosis with food and
supplements, herbs.
So yep.
Dr. Vaughn (43:52):
So yeah, endometriosis.
Um, you know, I think one thingI just wanted to mention that
we didn't talk about, but isimportant is is liver.
Okay.
And, you know, it is the job ofthe liver.
So estrogen is is use it orlose it.
So um you use estrogen and thenit's done, and then it has to
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be recycled, broken down,eliminated.
That's the job of the liver.
If you've heard of this wholeprocess of methylation, which is
pretty commonly talked aboutthese days, you have to be
methylating, and that's liver isa big, big part in the process
of methylation.
And so when women have theseconditions, you definitely want
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to look at the liver because youneed to help the liver get
stuff out.
And so this is like B vitamins,methylated B vitamins, SAME, uh
glutathione is the probably themain one I use.
No, actually, sulfur is themain one I use.
So sulfur is very cruciallyimportant.
Every cell of the human body,crucial for liver function,
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liver detoxification, overallhuman health.
I think sulfur is veryoverlooked.
Um, MSM is a cheap way to doit, methyl sulfonyl methane,
which is a sulfur.
I use a broccoli extract.
Um, there's one I use calledBroccelite.
That's what I normallyrecommend to women is the
Broccelite because it's aconcentrated sulforophane and
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it's gonna help withmethylation.
It's gonna help with the liverdetoxification to help get that
bad estrogen out, or just helpthe liver to detox, you know,
properly.
So it's just it's anotherimportant element.
Rachel Smith (45:31):
Is that one similar to dim?
Dr. Vaughn (45:34):
Yeah, well, dim is yeah, cruciferous vegetables,
you know, like broccoli andcauliflower and and stuff like
that.
So yeah, it'd be a similarconcept, it's just a different
compound.
Okay, it's the sulforophaneversus the whatever dim stands
for.
Yeah, I don't remember any ofthis it's a long crazy word.
Rebecca Twomey (45:53):
Isn't sulfur what you use to topically cure
ringworm?
Or am I thinking of somethingelse?
That's iodine.
Dr. Vaughn (46:01):
No, lots of things.
Ozone, iodine, you could usesulfur or garlic, uh oregano,
all kinds of things.
Ringworm's a fungus, so you canuse all kinds of things.
I use um, I have pure O3, hasthese the best, you have to know
what the best ozonated oils areon the market.
It's pure O3.
And um, anytime somebody hasringworm, cold sore, I mean, you
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name it.
So my daughter, this is cool,she's eight years old, and she
had skin tags.
My wife has really bad skintags in moles, right?
So my daughter's getting theselittle skin tags, and they're
not in good places, they're onher eyebrow, they're in on her
top of her eyelid.
Like if you look at her now,perfect skin and face, zero skin
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tags.
Rebecca Twomey (46:50):
Interesting.
And this is a liquid, this pureO3.
Dr. Vaughn (46:54):
Every morning when she got up, I had her do the
hemp.
So Pure3, we they have alldifferent ones, but we have
three.
We have olive oil, ozonatedolive oil, ozonated hemp oil,
and ozonated coconut oil.
The ozonated hemp oil is thestrongest concentration because
hemp can contain, can house thehighest concentration of ozone.
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So we had her put the ozonatedhemp oil on those spots every
day.
And after a few days, they justfell off.
I had a skin tag under myarmpit and I put it on there
every day.
It turned black, it fell off.
Rebecca Twomey (47:25):
Wow.
Oh, that's fascinating.
Dr. Vaughn (47:27):
Super cool.
I don't know how we went fromwomen's hormone to talking about
skin tag.
Rebecca Twomey (47:33):
Well, let me circle back.
I want I want to circle back toum progesterone for a second
because this is another one thatcomes up a lot, especially in
pregnancy.
A lot of women will takeartificial progesterone or use
progesterone cream or whatever,whatever it might be.
Is there a way to naturallyincrease your progesterone
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levels if you have lowprogesterone?
Dr. Vaughn (48:00):
I'm gonna use uh, I use progesterone cream.
Uh there's natural ones, wildyam-based, and I use
progesterone creams fordifferent reasons.
So let's say a woman isprogesterone deficient and she
gets pregnant.
She should take progesteronebecause if you don't have
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progesterone, you can't buildthe uterine lining and you can't
have a, you know, you mighthave a complication in the
pregnancy.
Rachel Smith (48:26):
That's what actually happened to me.
This pregnancy I'm in, is thatbecause I went into it still
slightly estrogen dominant, myprogesterone dropped down, and
my midwife she gave me a fewweeks to try just wild yam root,
but it was continuing to drop,and she's like, Yep, prescribed
me progesterone for that samereason.
Dr. Vaughn (48:46):
Good, good for her.
So she knows what she's doing,that's important.
So yeah, I'll I'll recommendprogesterone uh for that case.
Um, I'll recommend progesteronefor postmenopausal women
because all of theirpostmenopausal symptoms are
related to estrogen dominance,and they need to help their
liver to get it out.
But in the meantime, you givethem progesterone and all their
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symptoms stop overnight.
Wow, it's crazy.
I've seen that happen so manytimes.
Um, so progesterone, um, bloodsugar imbalances, uh nutrient
deficiencies.
So there's certain nutrients weneed to have uh proper
progesterone.
And so get enough protein isactually important for
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progesterone production.
Rebecca Twomey (49:32):
Um Rachel's favorite thing to do.
Rachel Smith (49:38):
Oh my gosh, I've had to eat so much protein this
pregnancy.
Dr. Vaughn (49:42):
So I'm just kind of giving you the main things for
progesterone (49:44):
blood sugar balance, um, having estrogen
dominance, that's gonna affectit, stress because of the
cortisol, um, nutrientdeficiencies because you're not
eating enough to keep up withyou know the metabolism, and
then thyroid, poor thyroidfunction.
So those are all the thingsthat can negatively impact uh
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progesterone.
Rebecca Twomey (50:08):
Great.
That's very helpful.
Good, very good to know.
So get your protein in.
Now, do you have anything elsethat you we missed?
Did we miss anything on women'swomen's health that we needed
to address?
Dr. Vaughn (50:23):
I had a note here about iron.
A lot of women are anemic.
You actually cannot detoxestrogen out of your body
without iron.
So you do not want to beanemic.
That's a big deal for a lot ofdifferent reasons.
So I'm like beef liver capsulesall day long.
If you're ever even thinkingabout getting pregnant, like you
should be on beef livercapsules like long term, through
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your pregnancy, after yourpregnancy.
So I'm a big fan of that.
Rachel Smith (50:49):
Okay.
Dr. Vaughn (50:49):
So I think I wanted to mention that.
I just had a couple of notes.
I just wanted to see if there'sany, but I don't know.
What is what do vegetarians do?
Rebecca Twomey (50:56):
If what would a vegetarian do to get enough iron
to not be herbal iron?
Dr. Vaughn (51:01):
Uh Wish Garden has a tincture that's all just it's
probably.
I mean, if you think of iron,you're thinking like yellow
dock, um dandelion, uh, whateverthe highest like herbal iron
okay.
Uh you know, whatever thehighest herbal iron sources are,
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there's a there's a there'splant-based iron that you can do
as well.
But beef liver capsules, Ithink, is is the best.
Rebecca Twomey (51:28):
Amen.
I took beef, started takingbeef liver my last pregnancy,
and I have taken ever since.
I'm a huge fan.
It uh yeah, I know easier thaneating liver.
Rachel Smith (51:39):
Way easier than eating it.
It really is.
And for me, uh, this pregnancywith the nausea, just choking
down the beef liver capsulepills.
Oh, it would make me gag, but Iwould get it.
Imagine if you had to eat it.
Dr. Vaughn (51:55):
Hey, quick story.
Do we have one minute?
Rachel Smith (51:57):
Yeah.
Dr. Vaughn (51:59):
So I I I think it's interesting.
I've actually heard doctorstell women that if you don't
have nausea during pregnancy,there's something wrong.
So, quick story.
My wife, first pregnancy, a lotof nausea, actually had full
body itching, which somecholiostasis.
She just had some liver stuffgoing on.
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So I actually boiled her down adecoction of yellow doc.
And I was giving her likeyellow doc decoctions, and we we
did a couple enemas to justkind of clear her liver while
she was pregnant, just to helphelp with her liver.
But after she gave birth, wejust honed in on her liver, and
um, we did liver detox and justliver, liver liver.
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And she got pregnant againabout a year later, and that
pregnancy, oh my goodness, likeshe had zero symptoms of
pregnancy.
She felt amazing, never oncegot nauseous.
I'll never forget she was fiveand a half months pregnant, and
she came to me and she's like,Vaughn, I know that's not sound
crazy, but do you think likepossibly something's like wrong
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or wrong with the baby?
Like, she didn't even feel likeshe was pregnant.
Rachel Smith (53:07):
Wow.
Dr. Vaughn (53:08):
Five and a half months in.
And uh, and that was like weactually called that child our
miracle baby because it was ourmiddle child, and she was like
the healthiest child, the bestsleeper, on and on and on down
the list.
So I really think like that'dbe a cool another episode to do.
Like what women can do toactually like heal their body
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and help their body beforegetting pregnant, yes, it can
make a monumental difference inthe health of the child.
And if we actually knew that,if we actually believed that, we
actually were educated in it,how much we could impact like
our future children from birth.
Rachel Smith (53:46):
I would love to do an episode on that because I'm
at the end of my pregnancy now,but I worked so hard for my
health going into thispregnancy.
And like I had, you know,mentioned that I found out I was
pregnant the day that I gotpositive blood work results, but
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my body wasn't done healingyet.
It was very quick off of this.
It was healed enough to getpregnant, but the nausea I had
at the beginning of thispregnancy was debilitating.
Like I could not get out of bedfor pretty much two months, and
it was so much worse than myprevious pregnancies.
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And I like taking all theminerals, doing like I felt like
I'm like so much healthier.
But what you're saying, I thinkthat I would love to do an
episode on this because that'sso important for people
planning.
If there is anything we can dogoing into a pregnancy to have
optimal health, because it's notonly rough on us to be that
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sick, but like you said, to toimprove the health of our child
long term in their life.
I definitely after thispregnancy will be calling you
myself for this liver cleanse.
Cause I I think that's kind ofthe the haunting me is my liver
is not quite right.
(55:14):
Um, and if I do have anotherpregnancy again one day, I can't
go through that nausea again.
Can't do it.
Rebecca Twomey (55:22):
I I totally resonate with your story too,
with your your you and yourwife's story, because I was I
had nausea with both my firsttwo.
And then with my second waswhen I really learned about I
was going to a great umchiropractic office that had a
very natural-minded uh familydoctor.
And well, I guess technicallyhe's like functional medicine,
(55:44):
whatever.
And he said, Let's get you getyou on beef liver and B6, and
that was everything was fromanimals, so all of it was, you
know, animal-based products.
And I was taking that, and it Iwent from throwing up every 20
seconds to my nausea, literallywent away, except for first
(56:04):
thing in the morning.
If my stomach was empty orwhatever, I would, you know,
feel a little nauseous.
But then I continued to takebeef liver after that pregnancy
because of the benefits of it,and then preparing because I
knew we were we wanted, youknow, we didn't have um a plan.
We we were following God's planfor children after our last
(56:27):
child.
We said, whatever happens,happens.
And so I wanted to make surethat I was prepared.
So I was continuing to takebeef liver and B6.
And when I got pregnant thistime, I started to get a little
bit of nausea, but I just uppedmy my stuff and I was great.
And I have to tell you, this isI felt the best this pregnancy,
my third in all of them.
I'm the oldest, I'm geriatric,but I feel great in all my
(56:53):
pregnancies, and I kind of likeyour wife.
Sometimes I don't feel like I'mpregnant when I'm sitting or
whatever.
Like, I'll stand up and I'll belike, oh man, I my stomach's
kind of heavy, but I don'talways feel like I'm pregnant.
I haven't been fatigued ortired, um, been able to just you
know live life.
So I think there there issomething to be said for
(57:16):
something about that liver.
But I I I still need to detoxmine though.
Dr. Vaughn (57:22):
Detox is key.
Rebecca Twomey (57:24):
Absolutely, absolutely.
Well, thank you for sharingthat story and thank you for
being go ahead.
You have another one and youhave another point.
Dr. Vaughn (57:31):
I just said you're welcome.
Rebecca Twomey (57:32):
Oh thank you for being here with us.
As always, we really appreciateit.
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And today we are joined onceagain by the fantastic Dr.
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Hello, thank you.
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So we are so excited to haveDr.
Vaughn back again.
And this time we are going tobe talking about women's health.
(02:02):
Since the majority of thelisteners now, because we've
scared all the men away bytalking about birth too much, we
figure let's talk about women'shealth.
It's a it's a big deal.
Rachel Smith (02:14):
Maybe we should do an episode of men's health one
day.
Rebecca Twomey (02:18):
Bring the men back.
Rachel Smith (02:19):
Yeah.
Rebecca and I we joke becauseoriginally our heart for this
podcast was for mothers.
And we started our podcasttalking about spiritual warfare.
And we have had a lot ofwonderful male listeners say,
like, you guys keep saying thatthis podcast is for women, but
(02:42):
I'm recommending it to all kindsof different men in my life.
And we're like, oh, that'sgreat.
And then once we startedtalking about birth stories and
breastfeeding, we lost a lot ofmen.
Rebecca Twomey (02:52):
They all ran away, including our own dad, Dr.
Vaughn.
He said that our episodes weregross and he stopped listening.
But uh he he's come back now.
He circled back around.
He actually texted me today,Rachel, that he really enjoyed
uh the Passover episode.
Okay.
And he said he enjoys us whenwe're not talking about quote
(03:14):
gross things, and that we are alot of fun when we're not doing
that.
So hopefully hopefully dad isback listening.
Rachel Smith (03:22):
Yeah, and and maybe we'll give you a men's
health episode one day.
Although he's probably notlistening to this episode
because it's titled Women'sHealth.
Rebecca Twomey (03:30):
So, anyway, yeah, in our circles, we hear
many stories.
I mean, Rachel and I aretalking to women every day about
the things that I'm going tomention now.
People that have really heavyperiods, women that have
endometriosis or PCOS or areexperiencing infertility.
(03:51):
It seems that women are in abattle sometimes when it comes
to our health.
And obviously, I can imaginethat some of this is stemming
from what we talked about lasttime with immune health, that
there could be issues with thegut.
There also could be issues withother chronic illnesses,
(04:14):
especially I know in Rachel'scase with secondary infertility,
she had other stuff going on.
But I'd like to start kind ofby bringing it back to the
earliest possible place.
And that's when we start ourperiods.
We're teenagers, obviouslyyoung or even pre-teenager.
And it comes before you're evergoing to have quote
(04:37):
endometriosis or PCOS orinfertility because you're like
11 years old.
But I wish that I could go backin time to tell myself that
having that having a period isnormal, first of all.
I wish I could have read thatbook, Taking Charge of Your
Fertility when I was 12, so thatI understood what I was going
through was actually normal.
(04:58):
Because I think that oursociety has made it not normal
to bleed, which it is, to haveperiods.
And their solution to heavybleeding is often just put or
put them on birth control.
That's gonna fix the problem.
You know, that's gonna fixeverything, but really all it
(05:21):
does is cause a slew of otherissues.
So just knowing that, you know,the period was new as a as a
young girl, it's it's hard toget through.
I also wish I could have toldmyself to take some evening prim
nose primrose oil.
That probably could have helpedtoo, but I'm not giving medical
advice.
Dr.
Vaughn, I really want to startwith you by asking, you know, is
(05:42):
this something that you runinto often with women?
I'm assuming, you know, grownwomen at this point, heavy
periods or reports ofendometriosis or anything like
that.
Is that something that you seeoften?
Dr. Vaughn (05:57):
Yeah, all the above, all the time.
I mean, I work mainly withwomen, kind of like you said,
uh, you know, men, men will comein if they're dying or if their
wife forces them to.
I sometimes jokingly ask thatquestion like, Did your wife
make you come here?
Yeah.
So I so I literally like this isjust funny that we're talking
(06:17):
about this right now.
I did a consultation with aman, our initial consultations
are an hour and a half.
He had a few questions, he gothis questions answered in 30
minutes.
He was done.
I was like, Do you want to talkabout anything else?
We have another hour.
He's like, No, I'm good.
Rebecca Twomey (06:34):
He's like, I don't even want the time.
Just I I gotta, I we're good.
Dr. Vaughn (06:38):
Bottom line, get to the point.
What do I do?
So anyway, yeah.
Uh I work with a lot of women.
So, you know, if you work witha lot of women, of course,
you're gonna deal with ummenstrual cycles.
It's just uh it's an importantpart of being a woman, it's part
of how God designed women.
It's actually a uh I've alwayssaid I love working with women,
(06:59):
and when they have irregularcycles or issues with their
menstrual cycle, it's actually agreat gauge, it's a great
indicator to see where women arein their health.
And I have lots of stories.
Uh, one story was a young galuh just you know horrifically
painful periods, and um and thenshe went a couple of months,
(07:25):
and I remember she telling methat her menstrual cycle started
and she didn't even know ituntil it started.
Which if if you're a womanthat's ever had menstrual cycle
issues, you know that's like alife-changing event because
usually you're debilitated,chronic pain, emotional mess for
days, you know, before you evenstart to bleed.
(07:47):
And I remember she said she shecalled her parents and told
her, and literally her parentswould not believe her because
she's just had like chronic painevery cycle for like her whole
life.
Rachel Smith (07:58):
Wow.
Dr. Vaughn (07:59):
So uh yeah, absolutely women can improve
their menstrual cycles, and it'simportant because that's again,
that's a sign of health,because God designed women for
this specific purpose, andespecially young women that are
having problems with theircycle, it's a big deal because
not only is it uh important toyour health, but it's like if
you're gonna have a future andyou're gonna have kids and a
(08:21):
family, like you wanna get yourcycle right right now.
Like, cool story.
My wife so when we met, so wejust uh we're 10 years in May.
So this May, actually, nextmonth will be 11 years that
we've been married.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
And when we met, she had nothad a menstrual cycle in two
(08:43):
years.
Wow.
Didn't know if she'd ever havekids, uh, was diagnosed with
Hashimoto's and you know, wehave three kids that are 10, 8,
and 6.
She's had a regular menstrualcycle for 10 years.
Uh so yeah, I just love that.
I love seeing women regaintheir cycle when they haven't
(09:06):
had one, or if they're havingpain or irregular cycles to
improve it.
And it's just yeah, I Iactually find it a very
fulfilling.
Uh I don't know if that's theright word.
What's the word?
Anyway, I think it's afulfilling thing to see you know
women regulate in that areabecause of course, that's super
cool.
For like the future ofhumanity, right?
(09:28):
So yeah, yeah, I mean, that wasthe word, it's rewarding.
Rebecca Twomey (09:34):
Yeah, of course.
The Lord designed usspecifically this way, right?
Like this is part of the thisis part of how women were
designed to go through thiscycle, and I don't think that
we're supposed to experience itin excruciating pain all of the
time.
So, what are some of thesolutions or remedies or you
(09:59):
know, things that women can doto reduce these problems, or is
it just very different dependingon a woman's situation?
Dr. Vaughn (10:07):
Yeah, it depends because it it's definitely
there's a lot going on, there'sit's complicated oftentimes.
Um I love telling stories.
Testimonials are so powerful.
I gotta tell my story.
Sorry.
Gal came to work for us, andher name was Hannah.
Also her last name.
But Hannah was like, I reallywant to come work for you guys.
(10:30):
And she she'd been married fiveyears, never been pregnant once
in five years of marriage.
And I said, Hannah, because weknew her, she was a friend, but
like you can come work for us,but you're gonna get better,
you're gonna get pregnant,you're gonna have kids, and
you're gonna leave us.
And I think we I mean, I cansay this because it was true,
(10:52):
like we had more faith than shedid because she, you know, she
hadn't been pregnant in fiveyears.
So she comes to work for us,horrible menstrual cramps, like
she would miss work because hermenstrual cramps were so bad.
So worked on her health, didsome cleansing.
I specifically remember herduring our lymphatic system
cleanse because the lymphaticsystem is uh not often looked at
(11:14):
in health, but it's crucialbecause that is the main uh
sewer system of the body thatdumps all the toxins and poisons
out, and it's where stagnationoccurs.
So if you have stagnation inyour lymphatic system, you know,
you're gonna have problems.
So she was doing our lymphaticsystem cleanse.
It's a 21-day cleanse.
She's like, I just felt likethe Lord say I'm I wanted I
(11:37):
should do it longer because I'mdoing really good on it and I
feel really good and I'm nothaving any cramps.
And so she extended thelymphatic cleanse and then found
out during the cleanse that shewas pregnant.
Rachel Smith (11:49):
Wow.
Dr. Vaughn (11:50):
And so now her and her husband have two kids, a
third on the way, and you know,so that was like a few years
ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I have so many of those kindsof stories.
Yeah.
So I think diet's huge.
Um, I really, really thinkdiet's huge.
Uh, I have seen so many womenregulate their menstrual cycles
(12:13):
with the change of diet.
You know, if you eat heavy dietand you eat lots of, you know,
fried foods, fatty foods, sugar,starches, carbs, like kind of
like the last episode we weretalking about fermentation of
the gut.
You know, if if you live thatkind of a lifestyle, eventually
that's going to causestagnation.
And when you have stagnation,that's when you start to have
(12:34):
irregular tissue growth,abnormal estrogen, um, stress is
a big one because it suppressesuh cortisol suppresses
progesterone.
So you kind of got this cascadeof things happening when you're
not eating well and you'restressed out, and that's gonna
cause hormonal problems.
So I usually it's just Iusually start with diet, and you
(12:55):
know, diet's a whole superconfusing thing, right?
Uh but the the the basics of itis that this is just my like
two minutes on diet because itit's it's it's a big topic,
right?
Um but I'm of the belief of 80%fruits and veggies.
(13:17):
So veggies number one, fruits aclose number two, but it also
depends on the season.
Like summer, you should beeating more fruit if you live in
a tropical place.
I believe in seasonal eating,but let's say 80% fruits and
veggies, and then 20% you know,fats and protein, and you should
be eating very minimal amountsof um sugars, starches, carbs,
(13:42):
obviously, no fatty oils, thetrans fats, the seed oils, all
that, all the bad stuff we knowof.
But um, if if a woman has anirregular cycle, a heavy cycle,
and she just starts eating lotsof salads and you know, keeps it
light, eat three meals a day,maybe and maybe kind of stop all
the snacking.
(14:03):
Um literally, that alone willtake stress and burden off of
the system, and they'll starthaving a regular cycle again.
It can't it can be that simple.
So I've seen that a lot.
I've seen it.
Rebecca Twomey (14:14):
Quit eating those sweet treats, huh?
Dr. Vaughn (14:16):
Yeah, yeah.
They're they're the theemotional comfort foods, you
know, they feel good in themoment, and I understand that
it's hard, but it just it itwill it will keep you from
reaching your goals.
Absolutely.
Rebecca Twomey (14:30):
Yeah, Rachel has this really fun story about
when she was experiencing herinfertility issues that and I'm
just gonna throw Rachel into thebus a little bit and say, I
told her to stop drinking wine.
But when her uh her friend,who's a dietitian, told her, or
(14:50):
was it I don't know if it wasPaula or your other doctor?
Rachel Smith (14:53):
It was Paula, yeah, because she was the first
one who started helping me, andshe's a functional nutritionist.
Rebecca Twomey (14:58):
And she said, Rachel, you know, the first
thing you need to do is she saidthe low-hanging fruit, the
low-hanging fruit, and the oneshe was drinking was called
low-hanging fruit.
Rachel Smith (15:06):
Yeah, yeah.
So she literally, it was likeit was like a it was like a one
of those cool God moments.
It was such a prophetic moment,wasn't it?
Yeah, it was the firstconversation we were having
about my hormonal issues thatwere you know revealed to me
because I couldn't get pregnantand I got pregnant easily in the
past.
Yeah, and so she's a wonderfuldietitian, and she was like, the
(15:32):
first thing that I would say,the low-hanging fruit, is to cut
out alcohol and wine, becauseshe knew that I like drinking
wine, right?
And when she said that, I'mlike, Paula, my favorite wine,
the brand is literally calledlow hanging fruit.
Like Lauren, yeah.
But I will say, like, whatyou're saying, like it just
(15:55):
resonates with me and mytestimony so much too, that it
was a long journey for me.
But what you're saying aboutdiet, I mean, it healed a lot of
my body.
And I I ended up doing um thepaleo autoimmune protocol, which
one thing I felt the Lordrevealed to me early in the
(16:19):
process, which the AIP diet issupposed to be limited time,
like it's not like for life,because it's very restrictive
initially until you introduceyou know, possible inflammatory,
you know, it's she means shecouldn't eat pepper.
Yeah, like it was literallytake everything down to the bare
(16:40):
bones that all I was eating wasvegetables, fruit, meat, and
the only oils were coconut oil,avocado oil, and olive oil.
Dr. Vaughn (16:50):
So it took all basically what I just described.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Rachel Smith (16:54):
What you just described, there were a little
bit more extremes, like nopepper and nightshades and
right, right, and and thingsthat were took a lot more
effort.
But one thing I really realizedthat the Lord revealed to me
early on is that this is the waythat God created our bodies to
(17:15):
function.
That if you think backthousands of years ago, we
didn't have all this junk, youknow, processed foods and seed
oils and refined sugar and allof these things that we do
today.
And they are what iscontributing to our body's uh
(17:39):
decay.
So to really get back to theyou know factory model settings
is to eat like we were that'sone of the reasons it's called
the paleo diet, I guess.
So it it and and just like thetestimony you shared of your
friend who came to work for youafter three months of me doing
(18:04):
this protocol, which alsoentailed a very, very intensive
I mentioned it last time, herbalsupplement protocol.
I got my blood work back frommy MP and she told me that my
estrogen was better, it wasn'tperfect, but it was better.
My Epstein bar was inremission, the Lyme disease was
(18:27):
completely gone.
I started hysterically cryingwhen she gave me this news
because it was just so revealingthat what I did worked, and we
got off the phone, and then Ifelt weird that I started crying
because that's not how I am,and I went and I took a
pregnancy test, and for thefirst time in two years and
(18:49):
hundreds of negative pregnancytests, I had my first positive,
and that was three months ofchanging my diet to what you're
describing.
Dr. Vaughn (18:58):
So amen.
That's awesome.
I love hearing that.
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Yeah, a couple other uh youknow things.
Uh yeah, because I mentioneddiet's important, and and um
yeah, I think that's that's agood start, and that's huge.
Um, hormones are regulated bylight.
So sunlight in your eyes everymorning, walking, being outside,
(19:27):
that actually starts thecascade of hormone production.
You're gonna talk aboutlutinizing hormone and all these
important hormones you need,they're all stimulated by light.
So if sunlight stimulateshormone production and is
crucial for fertility, what doyou think has the opposite
damaging effect?
Rebecca Twomey (19:44):
Not having light, artificial light.
Dr. Vaughn (19:46):
Blue light.
There you go.
Cell phones, laptops, you know,lights in inside buildings,
those all do the opposite.
They suppress hormone function.
So light's a big one.
Rachel Smith (19:59):
Um
Dr. Vaughn (20:00):
There's a product I like that I've used for years,
very successful.
I don't know if you've heard ofit.
It's called Maca Harmony byNHI.
But it's a maca-based product.
They have uh they have one forwomen for normalizing their
cycle, or if they're not havinga cycle.
And then they have one calledMaca Life that's for women uh
(20:23):
going through menopause, andthen they have one called Maka
Pause, that's like forpost-menopause.
And they're they're amazing.
I had a friend of mine whocouldn't get pregnant, and she
changed her diet, got on themacha harmony, and you know, got
got pregnant pretty quickly.
So um there's good products outthere.
The one my wife took that Istill use from time to time,
it's called Restore, and um,it's by Herbally Grounded.
(20:47):
And you take four capsulesbefore bed.
And my wife, so my wife now atthat time we we weren't even
dating.
Like she was actually a patientof mine.
Um, I know big taboo, right?
But she uh she wasn't having amenstrual cycle.
So I said, Hey, take thisrestore fortnight before bed.
And she started having amenstrual cycle and had one ever
since.
Just taking one herbal formula.
Rachel Smith (21:08):
Wow, that's great.
Dr. Vaughn (21:09):
And she changed her diet too, because she was
diagnosed Hashimoto so we gotaway from the gluten and you
know, did some diet changes andstuff like that.
So yeah, I think there's herbalsupports huge.
Uh, those are a couple productsI really like.
Yeah, I want to mention thelight.
And then yeah, I'm verythankful, and I know you did
this too, uh, but the Dutchtest, I do think the Dutch test
is phenomenal for checkingsteroid hormones.
(21:31):
Is a woman estrogen dominant?
Is she uh deficient inprogesterone?
Because progesterone, justprogesterone deficiency is a big
reason women have irregularcycles, heavy periods,
infertility.
They their progesterone is lowfor a number of reasons.
Why diet?
Okay, because insulin willnegatively impact progesterone,
(21:53):
stress, because cortisol willsuppress progesterone.
So there's a lot of thingshappening in our world today
with our diet and our stressthat is suppressing
progesterone.
And then obviously, we all kindof know about estrogen
dominance and all the thingsthat can cause that
xenoestrogens and that have thisestrogen mimicking effect.
(22:16):
Um, and I lab test for all thatstuff.
Like, but what I've had, Ithink I had two.
Well, yesterday I had one,today I had one where women are
hormone fertility kind of istheir focus, and they were both
really high in BPA.
And one of them was over threetimes the toxic level of BPA.
(22:36):
And you know, I can't know forsure, but I'm always looking for
causation.
So, you know, do you have uh axenoestrogen or some estrogen
mimicking compound in your bodythat can be causing two things?
One, estrogen dominance, butalso, you know, uh causing a
progesterone deficiency.
Bad combo.
Rebecca Twomey (22:54):
Interesting.
So do you cleanse that out?
I mean, obviously, changing thediet is going to be something
that you do and gettingsunlight.
Do you also recommend a cleansefor something like that when
someone has BPA in their system?
Can you cleanse out BPA?
Dr. Vaughn (23:08):
Yeah, BPA can be cleansed.
Uh, glyphosate, I'm seeing alot, that is a bad guy for
fertility.
Uh, mold is a big one becausethese are all um endocrine
disruptors.
So they they they negativelydamage the endocrine system.
It's well known in the farmingcommunity to check your animals
(23:29):
for mold if they're not havingbabies because it will uh
suppress fertility.
And so they they put things inthe feed to kill the mold and
then they'll start having babiesagain.
Interesting.
So, yeah, you mainly sweat themout.
I'm a huge, huge fan of uh farinfrared sauna.
(23:51):
Uh I think it should be farinfrared.
Um, the one we use is called atherasage.
Um, I don't know if you'veheard of Therasage, but there's
all these big box saunas and allthese different companies that
sell these big saunas.
The therasage one is Irecommend to all of my patients
because better technology, it'sway cheaper.
(24:13):
It's like 1100 bucks.
You have it in your home, youzip it up, your head's out.
So, like I start every morningwith the sauna and uh hot cold
therapy.
So, like I'll do sauna in themorning, sweat, and then hop in
a cold bath.
So that kind of therapy isreally powerful.
But for detoxing any kind ofchemical, we'll call them an
(24:34):
environmental toxin theherbicides, the pesticides, the
BPA, the plasticizers, theglyphosate, all that stuff.
Um, sweating them out is thebest.
So if you can sweat and takethe right binder, it's really
that simple.
You can detox this stuff out ofyour body, and then that'll
start to correct your natural,you know, hormone function,
(24:57):
estrogen function, and all that.
Rebecca Twomey (24:59):
We talked about binders a little bit last
episode.
So you're referring tosomething like clay, using clay
as a binder, or no, somethingnope.
Dr. Vaughn (25:08):
Yeah, I don't use I don't use clay or charcoal.
Uh those are the traditionalbinders, and I use those for
years.
Rebecca Twomey (25:16):
Um, I'm sure those are more for stomach, like
we talked about.
Dr. Vaughn (25:19):
So for heavy metals, you would use a different
binder.
Use for allergies, they can befor different things, but yeah,
I don't really use them for forother things.
Rebecca Twomey (25:28):
Okay.
Dr. Vaughn (25:28):
Um, I'm guessing, have you run across Cellcore?
Cellcore biosciences?
Rebecca Twomey (25:33):
Mm-mm.
Dr. Vaughn (25:34):
Okay.
They're pretty big deal innatural health, uh, but they
have the absolute best binderson the market, period, hands
down.
Um, biotoxin binder binds moldand parasite toxins.
H and t binder, heavy metalenvironmental toxins binds
glyphosate proven.
Had a gal whose glyphosate was12 and six months sauna and take
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an HMET binder.
Next time I tested her, it was1.9.
Rebecca Twomey (26:02):
Wow.
Interesting.
Dr. Vaughn (26:04):
Yeah, you can detox these things out of the body.
Uh, Virad Kim binder works forviruses, um, radiation.
So I use that one for uranium.
So different, so a binder is acarbon.
So activated charcoal is acarbon, but it's a spent carbon.
And so you can take uh youprobably maybe heard of humic
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and fulvic minerals.
Okay, these are carbons andthey're binders, uh, but they're
specific.
They they specifically bindspecific toxins, okay, and they
don't interfere with your uhyour good you know, minerals and
vitamins.
They don't bind the things thatyou're supposed to have.
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You can actually take them withfood, and it doesn't interfere
with anything.
Okay.
And so, yeah, I love taking theright binder.
So sweating and taking theright binder, and then I'll
mention one more thing, justbecause I'm a huge fan, is the
ion detox foot baths really,really work.
And we just got in a new onebecause I'm always researching,
always looking for the bestthing.
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Got one mind-blowing, that theyhave a patent on it because
toxins, it was believed, are allpositively charged.
So you need negative ions.
If you've heard of negativeionization, you need negative
ions to grab the positivelycharged molecules and pull them
out.
Well, it turns out that manytoxins are negatively charged,
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and there's even a term calledgram-negative bacteria.
And so, because some toxins arenegatively charged, you
actually need to ionize themwith positive ions.
And so I can actually adjust myfoot bath to detox out exactly
what a person has in their body.
So if they have glyphosate,which is negatively charged, I
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can pull it out with positiveions.
Endotoxins, which are the Lymetoxins, are actually also all
gram negative and they needpositive ionization.
So, anyway, there's all kindsof like really cool tools out
there.
Um, I guess my point is thatfind out what toxins you have in
your body causing uh hormonedisruption and help them come
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out with foot baths, sweattherapy with a it's gotta be far
infrared, not just like a steamsauna, and then the right
binder.
That would be kind of thegeneral overview.
Rebecca Twomey (28:31):
What kind of tests would you perform to find
out what kind of issues?
You know, it we talked aboutthe Dutch test, but Dutch
doesn't tell you your youprobably have different kinds of
tests for this.
Dr. Vaughn (28:45):
Yeah, Dutch is just steroid hormones.
Um, so yeah, we do blood, we dourine, we do hair.
It depends on what it is, andit'll tell you all the tests.
I think hair is the mostaccurate for metals and
radioactive elements, but wealso check urine metals too, and
I compare.
Um, but urine will check yourmold, all your molds.
Urine will check all yourenvironmental toxins.
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Uh there's a test we do thatchecks over 170 environmental
toxins.
One urine sample.
Actually, one urine sample, youcan check all your molds, all
your environmental toxins, yourheavy metals, your radioactive
elements, whole bunch of stuff.
It's really cool.
Rebecca Twomey (29:21):
Very interesting.
I have three questions that arestemming from this.
One of them is a silly one.
Okay.
Have you seen how people willtake a slice of a potato and put
it on the bottom of their feetand then put socks on before
they go to bed to pull outtoxins?
Have you heard of this?
Dr. Vaughn (29:40):
Heard of it.
I don't know much about it.
Rebecca Twomey (29:42):
I haven't really doing anything.
Dr. Vaughn (29:47):
I honestly don't know.
Rebecca Twomey (29:49):
Okay, okay.
Dr. Vaughn (29:50):
Sorry.
Rachel Smith (29:51):
I thought that was just a fun like old, like
hundred-year-old old wives'tale.
If you're I don't know, maybeit works.
Rebecca Twomey (30:00):
It's more of if you have a cold or something,
they'll say, take the potatoes,put it on the bottom of your
kid's feet, put socks, put sockson them.
I don't know.
Yeah, look up the potato thing.
It's it's a it's a whole thing.
Let me know what you come upwith.
Um, my other question is how doyou feel about TRS spray?
I know that's a pretty commonone that people would love for
heavy metals.
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Do you use that too?
Dr. Vaughn (30:21):
Don't use TRS.
Rebecca Twomey (30:23):
Uh or whatever that's called.
Um I guess TRS is a a brand,isn't it?
Dr. Vaughn (30:29):
It's a zeolite.
Rebecca Twomey (30:30):
Yes.
There you go.
A Zeolite spray.
Dr. Vaughn (30:33):
Zeolite spray.
Rachel Smith (30:34):
So it's not just fancy water.
Dr. Vaughn (30:36):
No, no, it's not really large.
Um, and I'm not, you know, I'mnever gonna, I'm just gonna be
honest.
I'm never gonna bash anothercompany.
I think there's a lot of peopledoing a lot of great things out
there.
I have heard nothing butpositive things from TRS.
I work with a lot of moms andI've seen it help a lot of
children.
So I'm all about it.
I'm like, great, rock the TRS.
That's awesome.
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Now, if your kid has a lot ofserious, serious metal or
radioactive element issues, theycan have, you know, a negative
response or you might have to goreally slow.
Uh, but it it works.
It's a zeolite.
I use a different one.
It's called Vitality DetoxDrops, and it's it's very
similar.
It's a it's a zeolite becauseit's a zealite.
Rebecca Twomey (31:17):
Well, I am going, I'm adding all this stuff
to the show to the show notes.
I will be emailing you if Ihave questions about if I didn't
type it correctly.
So if you're listening, checkthe show notes.
Well, I'll have some links toDr.
Vaughn's store and some of theother resources that he
mentioned here.
Now, I did want to circle backto PCOS.
(31:38):
Now it is a diagnosis of sortsthat people receive, whether,
you know, that is what theactual I we we don't have to get
into the actual details of ofwhat it is necessarily, you
know, all the the ins and outsof it, unless you want to.
But it's something that Ipersonally have many friends who
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are have trouble conceiving andhave issues.
And they say, My doctor told meI have PCOS, that's why I'm not
getting my periods.
The protocol that you justshared to me sounded like it
would solve this issue for manyof these women.
I know diet is a big thing.
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Um, I have a good friend whotold me, like, I I got my period
back by I stopped eating sugar.
You know, I stopped eating alot of processed foods and being
healthier about my foodchoices, and I was able to
regulate my periods again.
But I'm just curious if you runinto this specific, you know,
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the specific thing with women.
Dr. Vaughn (32:45):
Yeah.
Yep, super common,unfortunately.
Uh so yeah, uh a lot a lot withthat, that the whole estrogen
thing.
You know, you definitely goodto get checked out, see if
you're estrogen dominant, see ifthat plays a role.
If you look at PCOS, there'sall kinds of different reasons.
There's different actuallytypes of PCOS.
Rebecca Twomey (33:06):
Okay, interesting.
Dr. Vaughn (33:07):
Depending on the cause, it's not all the same
thing.
Uh, I did a whole class on myYouTube channel called cis,
ovaries, and tumor cis, ovariesand tumors, cis, tumors, and
fibroids, I think it's called.
And and it was more of anexplanation of why these things
occur.
Because a cyst or a tumor or afibroid is an abnormal growth.
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So, why does the body get anabnormal growth?
So the body gets an abnormalgrowth because there's a
toxicity, because there's aproblem.
Uh, a lot of research showsparasites are a common cause.
Um any kind of toxin, metals,mold, all these things can cause
uh an abnormal growth in thebody, but that's what a cyst is,
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it's an abnormal growth.
So uh I would definitely say100% get off of any birth
control.
Um, people think IUDs arebetter.
I have heard IUD nightmares formany of my patients.
Um, copper toxicity willdestroy a woman's hormones.
Um, so I I've seen super, supercopper toxic women from taking
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IUDs.
They are devastating.
Um, I don't care what anydoctor says, it's not safe.
It's it's complete medical.
Rebecca Twomey (34:21):
I agree with you and can relate.
I had a copper IUD anddeveloped copper toxicity
myself.
Dr. Vaughn (34:27):
There you go.
I didn't even know that.
So uh so I just wanted to beclear on that, that I think
that's important to get off ofthose things.
Uh so yeah, so with ovariancysts, um, so I mentioned, yeah,
the estrogen, doing a Dutchtest, uh, getting rid of birth
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control and IUDs.
I want to touch on somethingthat I think we talked about
diet, but I want to touch onsomething that I think is really
cool.
Uh, you can look at this withPCOS or endometriosis, um, but I
think this is not talked abouta lot.
And I want to talk about itjust because I want to see
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people get better.
And, you know, that's kind ofmy heart.
Actually, my my heart and youknow, target market in the
business world, but like myheart is moms love the Lord, any
mom, you know, even if theydon't love the Lord, of course.
But it's like I want moms to bewell because I believe they're
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so crucial to the foundationalfamily support network of our
world.
And they they often get youknow overlooked, and you know,
they're doing all these thingsand they're not seeing, and
they're trying to raise theirkids, and they're trying to
raise their husbands.
And no, that was a joke.
Um, just it's true, though.
Rachel Smith (35:47):
It's true.
Dr. Vaughn (35:48):
They're so exhausted, and like who's
watching out for them?
Who's taking care of the moms?
Because the husband's oftenworking, he's making a living,
and mom is just getting whooped.
So I really have a heart to seemoms get well.
That's really my passion.
So I think it's important totalk about the importance of
cleansing the vaginal area.
And uh, I've had women do somany different things over the
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years that you can insertprobiotics into the vagina
before bed.
Uh, there's these little pearlsthat you can use.
Uh, women will do garliccloves.
Um, there's different thingsyou can use as a douche.
Um a couple of things thatreally, really work that I just
really want to highlight.
Crazy story of a girl in her20s having horrific
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endometriosis, multiplesurgeries, didn't get better,
completely healed it with ozonetherapy, doing ozone vaginally.
So you can do yeah, right.
Um, you need uh equipment.
So uh yeah, so ozone, very,very powerful because oxygen
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heals everything.
So breath of life, if you wantto get back to the foundational,
like Genesis 2:7, the Lordformed man out of the dust of
the earth and breathed in himthe breath of life.
So oxygen is the most importantelement in our world, and so
you can heal a lot of thingswith oxygen.
So ozone therapy vaginally canremove like it can heal ovarian
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cysts, it can reverseendometriosis.
Um, so that's something you canlook into.
We have ozone machines andozone bubblers, and um, I could
tell all kinds of fun ozonestories.
I injected my wife's tonsilswith ozone one time, and she
spit up tonsil stones.
Oh so yeah, cool stuff.
Umzone therapy.
Rebecca Twomey (37:42):
That sounds like that must have been felt very
relieving for her.
Dr. Vaughn (37:45):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
She's yeah, she's got a lot oflymph stuff going on.
Okay, so here's something thatanyone can do that's super easy,
that's super common in Asianculture.
Oh, are you gonna talk aboutsteaming?
Yes, Yoni Steam, come on.
Rebecca Twomey (38:03):
I was wondering if you're gonna go to the Yoni
Steam.
Dr. Vaughn (38:06):
It works, it works.
Rebecca Twomey (38:08):
So, what is that?
Dr. Vaughn (38:10):
Uh, so basically, you sit on um, you can buy
something like on Amazon orwhatever that it's basically
like sitting on a toilet seatwithout the toilet.
So, like you're sitting on atoilet seat, and underneath you
have just a pot of boilingwater, or better, you would add
herbs into it.
So we have two formulas, andI'll tell you what those are.
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And we even have a document wecan send people on how to do a
yoni steam bath.
Um, but we have a tea called ahealing sits bath.
And if you research like yonisteam and what women are using
to help with cysts and thesekind of different issues, or
just any kind of vaginalinfection, anything like that,
it's all in that healing sitsbath tea.
And then we have another onecalled healing tea.
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And the healing tea is veryheavy in microbial herbs, so
antimicrobial herbs, um, likeblack walnut and different
things.
So I would look into doing ayoni steam, and it's just
basically a pot of boilingwater, you add the herbs into
it, you sit on the thing, andyou just let the steam and the
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herbs basically cleanse thatwhole area, and it's phenomenal.
I mean, you can uh shockinglyreverse so many conditions that
seem so scary and seem socomplicated with heat and cold,
with steam therapy, hot therapy,sauna therapy, cold therapy,
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cold plunges, cold baths.
There's whole books written onthis stuff, but it's like it's
kind of like it's been lost.
So I really want to highlightthe Yoni steam because uh any
woman can do that andsuccessfully cleanse and heal
anything going on in that area.
You know, you think of doctorsdoing these uh pap smears and
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scaring the bejebis out ofwomen's like you have HPV and
All this fear-based stuff, andthey have want them to do a DNC
and all these like horrificprocedures that are completely
unnecessary.
And just really what we need todo is just some basic like
health care maintenance of thevaginal area because it's
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important.
Rebecca Twomey (40:18):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's fascinating.
Yeah, Rachel, I'll have to sendyou some videos because I have
I've come across this often inthe more crunchy communities.
And there are people that rentout devices for you to do it in
a specific way.
So anyway, we could we couldtalk more about that.
(40:40):
I have a question for you.
This is kind of a a big one,but since we're talking about
endometriosis, if a woman hasher uterus, her tubes, her whole
system removed, whatever itmight be, parts or pieces of it
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removed, is it going to solvethe problem?
Or it could there potentiallystill be another underlying
problem that may manifest in adifferent way now that those
parts are not there?
Dr. Vaughn (41:18):
It just depends on where it grew.
Because the definition ofendometriosis is endometrial
tissue that's growing outside ofthe uterine cavity.
Rebecca Twomey (41:28):
Okay.
Dr. Vaughn (41:29):
So that abnormal tissue that's growing outside of
the uterus can grow in multipledifferent areas.
For some reason, it's for somewomen, it's in a lot of
different places.
So uh it's kind of like doesgallbladder surgery solve the
problem?
No, if you talk to peoplewho've had gallbladder surgery,
they'll all tell you that like90% of them still have gut
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issues, digestive issues, liverissues, bile flow issues,
diarrhea, constipation.
So uh medical system, ofcourse, you know, they're trying
to, you know, do their best tosolve a crisis.
Um, and it certainly is goingto help.
It is unfortunate that the onlysolution they offer is surgery.
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And even to find out if a womanhas endometriosis, right, they
have to do exploratory surgery,like just to even see if they
have endometriosis.
Rachel Smith (42:21):
Yeah.
Dr. Vaughn (42:22):
And so, yeah, you can go in there and you can cut
away a lot of the endometrialtissue, but you know, you and I
both well know that there's anunderlying cause.
What's the root cause?
Just removing the abnormaltissue growth does not discover
or help solve the root problemof why it's even growing
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abnormally in the first place.
So, yes, it'll provide relief,it will buy you some time, but
it doesn't solve the underlyingproblem.
Rebecca Twomey (42:55):
That's good to know.
Very, very, very good to know.
I'm sorry, Rachel.
I think I cut you off.
You had a question as well.
Rachel Smith (43:01):
Oh, no, I didn't.
Okay.
Good.
I was just absorbing that all.
Rebecca Twomey (43:08):
Yeah, definitely.
It's a big one.
I mean, it's it we talk aboutthis again all the time in our
communities.
Women have, you know,endometriosis issues.
Rachel mentioned Paula before,who is her dietitian.
She was on the podcast a whileback, and that was what led her
to become a dietitian.
She was told she hadendometriosis, and the only way
to fix it was to have her uterusremoved, was to have a
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hysterectomy, basically.
Yeah, in her 30s or 20s.
And she said there's got to bea better way.
And that was when she went downthe route of learning about how
to eat right and how to takecare of our bodies, and she
healed her own, uh, her ownendometriosis with food and
supplements, herbs.
So yep.
Dr. Vaughn (43:52):
So yeah, endometriosis.
Um, you know, I think one thingI just wanted to mention that
we didn't talk about, but isimportant is is liver.
Okay.
And, you know, it is the job ofthe liver.
So estrogen is is use it orlose it.
So um you use estrogen and thenit's done, and then it has to
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be recycled, broken down,eliminated.
That's the job of the liver.
If you've heard of this wholeprocess of methylation, which is
pretty commonly talked aboutthese days, you have to be
methylating, and that's liver isa big, big part in the process
of methylation.
And so when women have theseconditions, you definitely want
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to look at the liver because youneed to help the liver get
stuff out.
And so this is like B vitamins,methylated B vitamins, SAME, uh
glutathione is the probably themain one I use.
No, actually, sulfur is themain one I use.
So sulfur is very cruciallyimportant.
Every cell of the human body,crucial for liver function,
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liver detoxification, overallhuman health.
I think sulfur is veryoverlooked.
Um, MSM is a cheap way to doit, methyl sulfonyl methane,
which is a sulfur.
I use a broccoli extract.
Um, there's one I use calledBroccelite.
That's what I normallyrecommend to women is the
Broccelite because it's aconcentrated sulforophane and
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it's gonna help withmethylation.
It's gonna help with the liverdetoxification to help get that
bad estrogen out, or just helpthe liver to detox, you know,
properly.
So it's just it's anotherimportant element.
Rachel Smith (45:31):
Is that one similar to dim?
Dr. Vaughn (45:34):
Yeah, well, dim is yeah, cruciferous vegetables,
you know, like broccoli andcauliflower and and stuff like
that.
So yeah, it'd be a similarconcept, it's just a different
compound.
Okay, it's the sulforophaneversus the whatever dim stands
for.
Yeah, I don't remember any ofthis it's a long crazy word.
Rebecca Twomey (45:53):
Isn't sulfur what you use to topically cure
ringworm?
Or am I thinking of somethingelse?
That's iodine.
Dr. Vaughn (46:01):
No, lots of things.
Ozone, iodine, you could usesulfur or garlic, uh oregano,
all kinds of things.
Ringworm's a fungus, so you canuse all kinds of things.
I use um, I have pure O3, hasthese the best, you have to know
what the best ozonated oils areon the market.
It's pure O3.
And um, anytime somebody hasringworm, cold sore, I mean, you
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name it.
So my daughter, this is cool,she's eight years old, and she
had skin tags.
My wife has really bad skintags in moles, right?
So my daughter's getting theselittle skin tags, and they're
not in good places, they're onher eyebrow, they're in on her
top of her eyelid.
Like if you look at her now,perfect skin and face, zero skin
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tags.
Rebecca Twomey (46:50):
Interesting.
And this is a liquid, this pureO3.
Dr. Vaughn (46:54):
Every morning when she got up, I had her do the
hemp.
So Pure3, we they have alldifferent ones, but we have
three.
We have olive oil, ozonatedolive oil, ozonated hemp oil,
and ozonated coconut oil.
The ozonated hemp oil is thestrongest concentration because
hemp can contain, can house thehighest concentration of ozone.
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So we had her put the ozonatedhemp oil on those spots every
day.
And after a few days, they justfell off.
I had a skin tag under myarmpit and I put it on there
every day.
It turned black, it fell off.
Rebecca Twomey (47:25):
Wow.
Oh, that's fascinating.
Dr. Vaughn (47:27):
Super cool.
I don't know how we went fromwomen's hormone to talking about
skin tag.
Rebecca Twomey (47:33):
Well, let me circle back.
I want I want to circle back toum progesterone for a second
because this is another one thatcomes up a lot, especially in
pregnancy.
A lot of women will takeartificial progesterone or use
progesterone cream or whatever,whatever it might be.
Is there a way to naturallyincrease your progesterone
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levels if you have lowprogesterone?
Dr. Vaughn (48:00):
I'm gonna use uh, I use progesterone cream.
Uh there's natural ones, wildyam-based, and I use
progesterone creams fordifferent reasons.
So let's say a woman isprogesterone deficient and she
gets pregnant.
She should take progesteronebecause if you don't have
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progesterone, you can't buildthe uterine lining and you can't
have a, you know, you mighthave a complication in the
pregnancy.
Rachel Smith (48:26):
That's what actually happened to me.
This pregnancy I'm in, is thatbecause I went into it still
slightly estrogen dominant, myprogesterone dropped down, and
my midwife she gave me a fewweeks to try just wild yam root,
but it was continuing to drop,and she's like, Yep, prescribed
me progesterone for that samereason.
Dr. Vaughn (48:46):
Good, good for her.
So she knows what she's doing,that's important.
So yeah, I'll I'll recommendprogesterone uh for that case.
Um, I'll recommend progesteronefor postmenopausal women
because all of theirpostmenopausal symptoms are
related to estrogen dominance,and they need to help their
liver to get it out.
But in the meantime, you givethem progesterone and all their
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symptoms stop overnight.
Wow, it's crazy.
I've seen that happen so manytimes.
Um, so progesterone, um, bloodsugar imbalances, uh nutrient
deficiencies.
So there's certain nutrients weneed to have uh proper
progesterone.
And so get enough protein isactually important for
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progesterone production.
Rebecca Twomey (49:32):
Um Rachel's favorite thing to do.
Rachel Smith (49:38):
Oh my gosh, I've had to eat so much protein this
pregnancy.
Dr. Vaughn (49:42):
So I'm just kind of giving you the main things for
progesterone (49:44):
blood sugar balance, um, having estrogen
dominance, that's gonna affectit, stress because of the
cortisol, um, nutrientdeficiencies because you're not
eating enough to keep up withyou know the metabolism, and
then thyroid, poor thyroidfunction.
So those are all the thingsthat can negatively impact uh
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progesterone.
Rebecca Twomey (50:08):
Great.
That's very helpful.
Good, very good to know.
So get your protein in.
Now, do you have anything elsethat you we missed?
Did we miss anything on women'swomen's health that we needed
to address?
Dr. Vaughn (50:23):
I had a note here about iron.
A lot of women are anemic.
You actually cannot detoxestrogen out of your body
without iron.
So you do not want to beanemic.
That's a big deal for a lot ofdifferent reasons.
So I'm like beef liver capsulesall day long.
If you're ever even thinkingabout getting pregnant, like you
should be on beef livercapsules like long term, through
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your pregnancy, after yourpregnancy.
So I'm a big fan of that.
Rachel Smith (50:49):
Okay.
Dr. Vaughn (50:49):
So I think I wanted to mention that.
I just had a couple of notes.
I just wanted to see if there'sany, but I don't know.
What is what do vegetarians do?
Rebecca Twomey (50:56):
If what would a vegetarian do to get enough iron
to not be herbal iron?
Dr. Vaughn (51:01):
Uh Wish Garden has a tincture that's all just it's
probably.
I mean, if you think of iron,you're thinking like yellow
dock, um dandelion, uh, whateverthe highest like herbal iron
okay.
Uh you know, whatever thehighest herbal iron sources are,
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there's a there's a there'splant-based iron that you can do
as well.
But beef liver capsules, Ithink, is is the best.
Rebecca Twomey (51:28):
Amen.
I took beef, started takingbeef liver my last pregnancy,
and I have taken ever since.
I'm a huge fan.
It uh yeah, I know easier thaneating liver.
Rachel Smith (51:39):
Way easier than eating it.
It really is.
And for me, uh, this pregnancywith the nausea, just choking
down the beef liver capsulepills.
Oh, it would make me gag, but Iwould get it.
Imagine if you had to eat it.
Dr. Vaughn (51:55):
Hey, quick story.
Do we have one minute?
Rachel Smith (51:57):
Yeah.
Dr. Vaughn (51:59):
So I I I think it's interesting.
I've actually heard doctorstell women that if you don't
have nausea during pregnancy,there's something wrong.
So, quick story.
My wife, first pregnancy, a lotof nausea, actually had full
body itching, which somecholiostasis.
She just had some liver stuffgoing on.
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So I actually boiled her down adecoction of yellow doc.
And I was giving her likeyellow doc decoctions, and we we
did a couple enemas to justkind of clear her liver while
she was pregnant, just to helphelp with her liver.
But after she gave birth, wejust honed in on her liver, and
um, we did liver detox and justliver, liver liver.
(52:41):
And she got pregnant againabout a year later, and that
pregnancy, oh my goodness, likeshe had zero symptoms of
pregnancy.
She felt amazing, never oncegot nauseous.
I'll never forget she was fiveand a half months pregnant, and
she came to me and she's like,Vaughn, I know that's not sound
crazy, but do you think likepossibly something's like wrong
(53:03):
or wrong with the baby?
Like, she didn't even feel likeshe was pregnant.
Rachel Smith (53:07):
Wow.
Dr. Vaughn (53:08):
Five and a half months in.
And uh, and that was like weactually called that child our
miracle baby because it was ourmiddle child, and she was like
the healthiest child, the bestsleeper, on and on and on down
the list.
So I really think like that'dbe a cool another episode to do.
Like what women can do toactually like heal their body
(53:31):
and help their body beforegetting pregnant, yes, it can
make a monumental difference inthe health of the child.
And if we actually knew that,if we actually believed that, we
actually were educated in it,how much we could impact like
our future children from birth.
Rachel Smith (53:46):
I would love to do an episode on that because I'm
at the end of my pregnancy now,but I worked so hard for my
health going into thispregnancy.
And like I had, you know,mentioned that I found out I was
pregnant the day that I gotpositive blood work results, but
(54:08):
my body wasn't done healingyet.
It was very quick off of this.
It was healed enough to getpregnant, but the nausea I had
at the beginning of thispregnancy was debilitating.
Like I could not get out of bedfor pretty much two months, and
it was so much worse than myprevious pregnancies.
(54:29):
And I like taking all theminerals, doing like I felt like
I'm like so much healthier.
But what you're saying, I thinkthat I would love to do an
episode on this because that'sso important for people
planning.
If there is anything we can dogoing into a pregnancy to have
optimal health, because it's notonly rough on us to be that
(54:54):
sick, but like you said, to toimprove the health of our child
long term in their life.
I definitely after thispregnancy will be calling you
myself for this liver cleanse.
Cause I I think that's kind ofthe the haunting me is my liver
is not quite right.
(55:14):
Um, and if I do have anotherpregnancy again one day, I can't
go through that nausea again.
Can't do it.
Rebecca Twomey (55:22):
I I totally resonate with your story too,
with your your you and yourwife's story, because I was I
had nausea with both my firsttwo.
And then with my second waswhen I really learned about I
was going to a great umchiropractic office that had a
very natural-minded uh familydoctor.
And well, I guess technicallyhe's like functional medicine,
(55:44):
whatever.
And he said, Let's get you getyou on beef liver and B6, and
that was everything was fromanimals, so all of it was, you
know, animal-based products.
And I was taking that, and it Iwent from throwing up every 20
seconds to my nausea, literallywent away, except for first
(56:04):
thing in the morning.
If my stomach was empty orwhatever, I would, you know,
feel a little nauseous.
But then I continued to takebeef liver after that pregnancy
because of the benefits of it,and then preparing because I
knew we were we wanted, youknow, we didn't have um a plan.
We we were following God's planfor children after our last
(56:27):
child.
We said, whatever happens,happens.
And so I wanted to make surethat I was prepared.
So I was continuing to takebeef liver and B6.
And when I got pregnant thistime, I started to get a little
bit of nausea, but I just uppedmy my stuff and I was great.
And I have to tell you, this isI felt the best this pregnancy,
my third in all of them.
I'm the oldest, I'm geriatric,but I feel great in all my
(56:53):
pregnancies, and I kind of likeyour wife.
Sometimes I don't feel like I'mpregnant when I'm sitting or
whatever.
Like, I'll stand up and I'll belike, oh man, I my stomach's
kind of heavy, but I don'talways feel like I'm pregnant.
I haven't been fatigued ortired, um, been able to just you
know live life.
So I think there there issomething to be said for
(57:16):
something about that liver.
But I I I still need to detoxmine though.
Dr. Vaughn (57:22):
Detox is key.
Rebecca Twomey (57:24):
Absolutely, absolutely.
Well, thank you for sharingthat story and thank you for
being go ahead.
You have another one and youhave another point.
Dr. Vaughn (57:31):
I just said you're welcome.
Rebecca Twomey (57:32):
Oh thank you for being here with us.
As always, we really appreciateit.
If you're listening and youwant to connect with Dr.
Vaughn, be sure to visit hiswebsite, spiritofhealthkc.com,
visit the show notes becausewe'll have links to all this,
and you can get to his storefrom there, his Facebook, his
Instagram, and YouTube.
And we thank you so much fortuning in and for being on this
(57:55):
journey with us.
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And today we are going to closewith 1 Corinthians 15, 10.
I am what I am by God's grace,and God's grace hasn't been for
nothing.
In fact, I have worked harderthan all the others.
(58:19):
That is, it wasn't me, but thegrace of God that is with me.
We're wishing you a radiantweek, and we will see you next
time.
Bye, everyone.
Bye.
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