January 26, 2025 • 51 mins
Kickstart your 2025 with a fresh perspective on achieving health goals as we unravel the secrets to maintaining resolutions and embracing change. Through personal anecdotes, I reveal my ambitions for the year, including expanding my dental practice, teaching at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and considering boarding school for my children. Discover the power of keeping your goals visible and how writing them down can fuel your determination and success throughout the year.
Join me on a journey to balance mental and physical wellness amidst life's chaos. Experience the calming effects of Qigong as a daily moving meditation, and learn why traditional meditation didn't quite work for me. I also discuss the energizing benefits of red light therapy and efficient strength training solutions like the Mirror subscription. As someone who loves natural beauty products, I share my favorite picks and tips for detoxifying our bodies using infrared saunas and activated charcoal to combat environmental toxins.
Our conversation with Dr. Rachaele Carver, a leading naturopathic and biologic dentist, sheds light on the staggering prevalence of gum disease and its broader health implications. Learn about practical, holistic methods to enhance your well-being, from ozone therapy and nutrient-dense foods to mastering sleep through circadian rhythm alignment. We're bringing you insights on optimizing health with wearable technology and simple yet effective oral health practices that could prevent serious diseases, leaving you empowered to be your own best health advocate.
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Dr. Carver (00:00):
Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode
of the Root of the Matter.
I am your host, dr RachelCarver.
I really want to thankeverybody who's been tuning in
to the podcast.
I actually recently just got anote from somebody all the way
out in Scotland, so that's justreally encouraging to me,
knowing that our message isgetting out there, that we're
creating awareness, that peopleare looking for ways to help
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themselves and their families,and that's what this is all
about.
This is not something I do tomake money, but rather something
that I do that I feel sopassionate about because I just
want everybody to be able to betheir own best doctor, and the
only way we can do that is if wehave the knowledge to learn and
to create the best lives forourselves.
(00:44):
So thank you again for all ofmy listeners.
I really appreciate all of youand thank you for supporting me.
You can also support us bygiving us a five-star review.
The more reviews we have, themore people who will see or
listen to our podcast and, again, the more we can spread the
wonderful message and wisdom.
So we're coming up on our thirdseason of the podcast already,
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which is crazy.
I can't believe how much timehas gone by and you know I get
people all the time asking me todo some more solo episodes.
You know they tell me they lovemy interviews but they want to
hear more from me.
So Ryan and I my wonderfulproducer and editor have decided
to kind of come up with adifferent plan for this year.
So, while I will continue to domy interviews, because I just
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love to learn and I have so muchfun listening and meeting new
people and learning new thingsand challenging my way of
thinking because you know thething about knowledge, the thing
about science, right, it's notstagnant.
The only way we ever reallymake progress is if we keep
questioning the status quo.
And that's what I think is soexciting about doing podcasts.
You know, I always thought thatI wanted to write a book, but
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then the more I thought about it, you know the book here, you
write it and you know, by thetime it's published, maybe some
of that knowledge is alreadypasse and it's not relevant
anymore.
So you know it's exciting to beable to do a podcast and keep
learning, and so I can keeptreating my patients better and
better, learning more things,just to improve all of our lives
.
So we decided that at leastonce a month, I'm going to do a
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solo podcast and you know wewill theme it for months of the
year.
And since it is January of 2025,I wanted to start out the year
with kind of you know myfavorite things, and people ask
me all the time you know, how doI have time to fit everything
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in?
And I think it really comesdown to priorities.
We always make time for thingsthat we love.
We always make time for thingsthat line up with our values.
So, you know, january, it'salways a time brand new year
we're thinking about what do wewant to accomplish this year?
What should our goals be?
You know, is it losing weight?
Is it getting healthier?
You know, there are really somecommon themes, but the other
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common theme is that usually bythe end of January, we've all
almost given up.
And so why is that?
What is the problem?
I think we often think in ourlogical brains.
You know, yes, I want to loseweight and I want to be in shape
by that, by summer vacation.
Right, I want to start eatinghealthier.
Right, we all know how to eathealthier, but it's complicated,
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you know.
We're so busy, we feel stressed, we don't plan ahead.
You know there's all of thesethings that kind of complicate.
You know our best interest too.
So what are some advice maybethat I can give all of you?
How do I get my goalsaccomplished?
And I think the most importantthing is to write it down.
So if we really want toaccomplish something, we need to
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actually physically write itdown and put it somewhere where
we see it every single day,multiple times during the day.
So, for instance, possibly,boarding school, which I never,
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ever thought I would want tosend my kids away to school.
You know, I just feel like Ihave so much wisdom and I want
to teach them everything.
But let's be honest, you knowthose of you who are parents of
teenagers it's really hard forthem to appreciate the wisdom
that we want to give them.
So, you know, I'm hoping thatmaybe they will be able to be
accepted into a boarding schooland then have the option.
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Whether or not that comes trueI don't know, but I wrote that
down.
I also wrote down that I wouldlike to be able to teach for the
Institute for IntegrativeNutrition.
I got my health coaching degreethere 10 years ago now, which
is crazy to think, and I thinkit's a wonderful platform, but
they don't have anythingspecifically related to oral
health, which, as you all know,is absolutely vital to our
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overall health.
And for all of these healthcoaches out there, I think it's
really, really important thatwe're training them to look for
those things.
I think the oral connection,oral disease it can be a missing
link in a lot of these chronicillnesses we have.
So that was my second goal, andmy third one is to bring in a
partner to my practice.
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You know I'm so busy and I lovewhat I do, but you know we're
booking out so far and I want tonot only be able to provide all
of my patients with the bestpossible care, but good access
to care so we can see everyonein a timely manner.
And I want to share all myknowledge, wisdom and skills
with somebody else who wants tobe able to practice whole body
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dentistry, who really caresabout treating the whole person.
So I wrote those three goalsdown and have them right next to
my computer and I see themevery single time I come up
between patients and I read them, you know, over and over and
over again.
So I think that is one supereasy, crucial step.
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So if it is to, I want to eathealthy.
You know, the more that we seethat, the more that our brain is
processing.
So it's not just a hope kind ofthing.
There's actually, you know,physiology and quantum energy
that goes into looking atsomething, thinking about
something, reading something.
It's that whole idea ofmanifestation, which is kind of
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a complex topic, but you know,but it's, it's real and I've
seen it, my kids have seen it,my kids know all about it, they
know how to manifest.
And again, it's just, we allhave the ability to choose the
life we want and it's a matterof putting in a little bit of
that work but envisioning thatlife you want, the future you
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want, whatever that goal is youwant.
Maybe this is the year that youhave perfect oral health, right,
and you know I'll put a littleplug in.
I have my brand new course, youknow, six weeks to help reverse
and stop gum disease.
You know it's a quick and easycourse, not expensive, and
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really when we get that oralhealth, they're really the
basics of how we create goodoral health, but a lot of it is
really fundamentally how wecreate overall health, because
if you've been listening to thispodcast.
You know they go hand in hand.
So, again, you know I didn'tpick a hundred different goals,
right, just three specific onesthat I want to focus on, you
know, and maybe in a few monthsI'm going to focus on other
goals, but for now that's whereI'm trying to put my energy.
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So I also want to talk aboutyou know where.
How do I have time and how do Ilearn all this?
You know, I do.
I love to read, I'm a very, verycurious person, but I do have
limited time.
So, you know, probably myfavorite way to get information
is through podcasts.
I have about a 25 minute rideto work to and from and so I
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love, I love listening to mypodcast.
So I'll tell you, you knowdifferent kinds of categories.
You know, my favorite one tolearn about new and upcoming
kind of like longevitystrategies is Dave Asprey's the
Human Upgrade.
It was formerly BulletproofRadio.
He's a really, you know,interesting guy.
He has a lot of reallyinteresting people who come on
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and, again, he wants to livetill he's 180.
So he's always talking aboutways to enhance the human
experience and recently he'sgotten more into the energy and
the quantum.
So it's exciting, he's reallyembodying kind of the holistic
view of health, so that's a funone that I always love to listen
to For personal growth.
My aunt actually introduced meto the Mel Robbins podcast.
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It's one of the top five, Ithink, in the world.
Mel Robbins is a reallyfabulous, down-to-earth woman
who actually just lived not thatfar away from me in Southern
Vermont, and she talks a lotabout mental health, emotional
health, gives great strategies,has lots of wonderful resources,
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and I often save a lot of herpodcasts and I want my kids to
listen to them because I'malways trying to teach them at
their young age how can we bethe best versions of ourselves?
And so that's a great one, andwhen I need a little pick-me-up,
I love what's in it.
To Mel Robbins, one of my otherfavorites is Integrative Radio
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with doctors Nick and Nicole,and they are really fabulous.
They call it a disruptivepodcast.
I met them through Cellcor andthey just have again a really
wonderful way of looking outsidethe box at different health
issues.
You know how is health relatedto mental, emotional things that
we talk about?
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I had Dr Nick on the podcasttoo, so I really love how they
incorporate all the differentaspects of health but related to
a specific condition.
So that's fabulous.
I'm really big into energymedicine those of you who you
know listen to me and so I lovemy friend and colleague, dr
Christine Schatzner, who wasjust on, also she has.
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I mean, she's a brilliant,brilliant doctor and she has a
wonderful podcast called theSpectrum of Health.
She also interviews all sortsof people about so many
different topics, but shedefinitely has a spin on the
energy side, the quantum world,so she's just really fascinating
.
And lastly, probably is myother good buddy, who is the one
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who encouraged me to do thepodcast in the first place,
kelly Kennedy, who is the LipQueen.
Hers is the Flow Podcast,f-l-o-w-e, and she really talks
a lot about the fascia, thelymph.
I think that's kind of themissing organ system in the body
, you know, other than kind oforal health we forget about.
Not a lot of people talk about.
You know, the fascia and howthat integrates every aspect of
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the body and the lymph Lymphoften gets so clogged up, you
know, supposed to be ourdrainage system.
So many of us have theinability to detox well because
our elimination organs don'twork really well.
So, understanding how to usesimple tools, you know, just
like your hands and doing simpletapping on the body.
She has a lot of greatresources also.
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So those are some of myfavorite podcasts that I listen
to all the time when I'm tryingto get more information and I
often you know, sometimes takesome of their guests.
They will interview somebody.
I'm like that's reallyfascinating.
I like to talk to them a littlebit and see how they put the
oral health spin on it.
So those are all great.
When I come also to think about,you know, my mental health and
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stress, you know I have a verybusy, busy schedule a big team
raising kids, all those thingsand it's really important for me
.
I can be definitely a type Aperson, definitely kind of live
in that sympathetic nervoussystem a lot of the time.
And what I've found reallyworks for me is not meditation,
unfortunately.
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Dr Nick taught me greatmeditation this summer and it
was absolutely amazing.
But I think maybe I can do itguided, but on my own I'm not
good.
I always feel like I wake up at530 in the morning and I have a
limited time to get in myexercise before the kids get up,
before I have to make breakfast.
So what I found works for me isQigong.
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I used to do yoga but I foundyoga kind of too slow and my
mind would be too busy and I,you know, and I'm very
inflexible, so I found yoga tobe very hard.
But Qigong is like a movingmeditation and I subscribe to
the channel Yuqi Y-O-Q-I.
It's a very inexpensive monthlysubscription.
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She has tons and tons of videos, anywhere from 15 minute
exercises to hour long exercises, and it's just a wonderful way
that I set my energy, and myteam members can tell you they
know the days that I don't get achance to do my Qigong, if I do
it first, I am setting myenergy in a very calm space and
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also putting almost like aprotective energy ball around me
, because, you know, I interactwith a lot of people all day
long and most people are notthat excited to see me, right,
and so by having that strongenergy field going into work, it
keeps me strong, it keeps mefocused, keeps me energized, and
I literally do 15 to 20 minutesevery day standing in front of
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my red light panels.
I love my red light panels,especially where I live in the
Northeast, where it's cold anddark this time of year, getting
in some of that red energy,because unfortunately I can't go
out early in the morning andstand in the sunshine.
One, it's too cold.
Two, a lot of days there is nosunshine, so I really rely a lot
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on my red light panels,especially in the wintertime, to
get me some of the good lightat work.
I have a full spectrum lightthat I have next to my computer
screen that will be on and againtrying to give me some of that
light that I may not be gettingas much in the winter Anything
to kind of ward off thosedepressive blues and you know
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the winter blues as we call them.
So I'm a big fan of Qigong andI also.
My husband bought the mirror,so we have that wonderful
subscription and one of my othergoals not written down, but
maybe I also my husband boughtthe mirror, so we have that
wonderful subscription and oneof my other goals not ring down,
but maybe I should because I'mnot being as good and strict
sticking to this one.
But I'm gonna be 47 next month,so it's really important that I
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start maintaining my muscle andbuilding that muscle.
So trying to do three days aweek of my strength training and
on the mirror.
I have so many differentoptions and that's feeling
really good.
And, again, I can do a 30minute workout.
You know, the more sciencewe're understanding is we don't
have to kill ourselves two hoursin the gym, right?
The high intensity intervaltraining is shown to be not only
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as effective, but maybe evenmore beneficial and healthier
than you know.
A two hour aerobic workout anda HIIT exercise, as it's called,
could be 15 minutes, and everyso often I will do this on my
elliptical machine in themorning, where I might warm up,
you know, low intensity, forabout five minutes, and then I
hit it as hard as I can for 30seconds.
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Then I give myself a fewminutes to calm down and I hit
another 30 seconds as fast as Ican go, another few minutes and
then one more 30 second highintensity, as fast, as hard as I
can go, and I'm done takesabout 15 minutes and I feel very
, very accomplished.
And you know, again, I have allthat other time to do
everything else I want to do.
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So that's a wonderful way thatI try and stay in shape.
So that's a wonderful way thatI try and stay in shape.
So how about my favorite beautyproducts?
Right, I don't I'm not onereally to wear much makeup.
You know, when I go to work I'mwearing scrubs, my hair is all
tied back, so, you know, notreally a beauty contest there,
but I do want to have healthy,clean skin.
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I obviously want to have niceoral hygiene, but I also want to
be careful of the products thatI use, because this is where
the average woman may put ahundred chemicals on or in her
body before she even goes towork, right Between the shampoo
and the hair and the toothpasteand the mouth rinse and on and
on, and on and on.
So one of my favorite brandsfor face wash is Purity Woods.
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They have great exfoliation andface wash, all sorts of
products, some moisturizers, allvery natural ingredients and
they feel really good on my skin.
So I feel good.
I love the Primal Life Organics.
They have a ton of products,both oral care, body care, face
care again, all very naturalproducts.
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My favorite toothpaste is forbiting.
I love this toothpaste and Ihave seen the proof in some of
my oral saliva tests that thisreally, because it's built on
vitamins, minerals, prebiotics,that it really builds the good
bacteria in the body.
And if you've been listening tomy podcast, you know I say all
the time that it's not aboutkilling the bad, it's about
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supporting the good.
So the more of the nutritionthat we provide for our body,
the better off we are, and Ithink Revitalant is very, very
good at supporting the good.
Now sometimes I feel like,because there's not much grit to
that, I feel like I needsomething a little grittier to
clean my teeth, and so then Imight switch to the Primal Life
Organics.
They're all clay-basedtoothbrush.
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So you know, the thing aboutproducts is I'm always switching
.
You know I don't use the samething every day for months and
months on end.
I don't think that'snecessarily healthy for us.
Same thing with supplements.
You know, our body will get tooused to something right, and so
he can kind of switch around.
There's lots of good brands outthere.
I'm just naming some of theones that I've been using
frequently, but I do rotate theproducts.
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I love the Akame Floss.
It's fulvic acid, it's black.
So not only can you see theplaque you're getting out
between your teeth, the fulvicand humic acids are supplying a
lot of electrolytes and aminoacids between the teeth, right
where the toothbrush can't reach.
So those are often where wefind cavities between the teeth.
A toothbrush bristle can't getthere.
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So having those, the extraminerals and electrolytes, the
nutrition between the teeth,will also prevent those between
the teeth cavities.
You know that's when if youhave to go over and have a
filling, you have to have thewedge and the band and all that
uncomfortable stuff.
So if we can avoid thosecavities between the teeth, all
the better.
Some of my favorite ways todetox right.
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So this is very, very importantIn today's day and age.
You know, you've heard me saywe've got about 80,000 chemicals
in our environment today.
Most of them have not beenstudied.
We don't know all the effects,but you cannot deny the amount
of chronic disease in ourcountry today have to be
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detoxing.
You know, our liver and ourkidneys and our bowels, they
just weren't designed for thisonslaught of chemicals that we
have today.
So how do we support ourkidneys, our liver, our bowels
right, our lymph?
Like we have to sweat.
You know, years and years agowhen I first had my eczema, I
never sweat.
I got in my sauna.
I could stay there for 30minutes and not break a sweat
Like that's not a good thing.
You know, as women we may thinkit's polite not to sweat very
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much, but that's not necessarilya healthy thing.
Right, sweat is the natural waythat we get rid of our toxins,
especially heavy metals.
So I'm a big fan of saunas.
I have a near infrared saunathat I've had in my house for
years and years and years.
We have a far infrared one atthe office, and there are many
iterations of saunas, you know,and there's a lot of, you know,
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conflicting.
What's better?
Near or far, do you want tohave?
You know.
So full spectrum may be yourbest bet.
But again, the point is thatyou're going to have little
different aspects, littledifferent bits of detoxification
, but as long as you're sweating, you are getting something out
right.
So it's really important.
Before you go in a sauna, maybeyou take some binders.
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So whether that's an activatedcharcoal, a pectin-based product
, bentonite clay obviouslyyou've all heard me talk about
Cellcor I always take aViradchem binder before I go in
the sauna, because that is alittle bit of the biotox, a
little bit of the heavy metal,and then also get some chemicals
as well.
So any kind of binder will behelpful before you go in the
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sauna.
And then I also take a verylarge glass or my you know 30
ounce water bottle full ofelectrolytes, right.
As we know, when we sweat isvery salty, right, so we're
losing all of our sodium, thechloride, all those electrolytes
are really important forabsorbing water.
So when we go in the sauna wesweat that out.
We need to replenish all ofthose electrolytes so that we
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don't become too dry Somebody.
For me who tends towardsconstipation and dryness, it's
really really important.
If I want to keep my bowelsmoving properly, they need to
stay moisturized.
So, again, it's not just purewater.
We need to have thoseelectrolytes in order to absorb
the water.
So if you're somebody who candrink and drink and drink and
you pee all day long, you knowyou may not be absorbing that
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much water.
So always think aboutelectrolytes.
Some of my favorites are theUltima brand, you know, but a
squeeze of a lemon or lime and apinch of sea salt, like real
salt Redmond's real salt isperfect.
You know you don't have to getthe fancy ones with the flavor,
because often they do havechemicals and stevia, and you
know they say natural sugars,but still it's better.
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You know, if you want it alittle sweeter, then put a
little cane sugar.
If you need to, you know, ifyou want it a little sweeter,
then put a little cane sugar ifyou need to, you know.
But the electrolytes are very,very important.
So sauna is one of my favorite.
The foot bath.
So we have the ionic foot baththat I use a few times a week.
And one thing people often getconfused because if you sit in
there the water gets very grimyand gross looking right, and
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that is not the toxins beingpulled out of your body.
What the foot bath is doing,it's literally putting
electricity right into the water.
It's just kind of like, ifyou've ever heard of grounding,
when we go outside in our barefeet, we are pulling electrons
from the earth up into our body.
You know, hugging a tree samekind of thing.
We're pulling the electrons outof that tree into our body.
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So in the wintertime, when, ifyou live up north, like I do,
and you can't really go outbarefoot, well you can, but I
prefer not to freeze my butt off.
So the ionic foot bath isanother way to pump electrons
into the body and for the nextthree days it has an effect of
changing those, those like iongated channels.
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You know, in our kidneys.
We, we, they talk a lot aboutthis.
We need to have charge inourselves in order for nutrients
to come in and for toxins tocome out.
If we don't have enough chargein our body, this is when we get
sick or really run down.
Right, we can't get thosetoxins out, we can't get the
nutrients in.
So the more charge we have, themore.
You can also think of it likeprana or chi, right, all of
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these things are different,cultures are life force, right,
and it all.
If you really get into thenitty gritty about how the heart
pumps, right, there are somepeople say heart isn't really a
pump.
It's really the electricity inthe body that's allowing the
blood to flow deep into theseitty bitty capillaries.
So foot bath is one really,really good way to get energy in
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there so that your kidneys canhelp to offload a lot of those
toxins, right?
So again, same thing I'm takingbinders when I do that.
I also really love coffee enemas.
People kind of poo-poo and getsqueamish about it.
But I'm telling you, once youdo it, once it feels amazing,
once you kind of understand theins and outs, how it works, how
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to position yourself, it is afantastic feeling.
I have so much energy after Ido a coffee enema.
You guys, I will give you alink to instructions on the type
of coffee enemas I like to do.
You can buy an enema kit righton Amazon, or very simple, you
don't need a lot of setup, easyto do.
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But another really good way toget the kidney.
So coffee enemas.
The idea is you try to lay onyour right side so that coffee
can go right into the portalvein up into the liver, right,
because we know the liver iswhere we're processing a lot of
those toxins.
So we kind of give that liver aboost, help it kind of flush
out all the toxins that havebeen sitting in there, and again
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just giving our liver a boost.
Now some people say you got tobe careful.
Too much coffee and caffeinecan be very taxing for the
kidney.
So I think that's true.
But you know if you were goingto go do some cancer treatment,
you know one that you go to aspecialized clinic.
They may have you doing twoenemas a day, you know, for a
week or two to really get theyou know the detox going.
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Now, if you're just trying itfor the first time, or
maintenance, you know youcertainly don't need to do that
often but definitely, you know,good idea to talk somebody about
it before you go right to that,because if you do have
sensitive kidneys you do need tobe really careful.
And there are other types ofenemas.
You can just do water.
I found a herbal company thathas a nice herbal one, you know
that just helps especially, likeI said, for me I need to keep
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everything moisturized, so Ihave one that's just full of
herbs.
That just helps keep the mucuslayer, you know, working
properly.
So a lot of different optionsthere.
I mentioned red light.
I do red light probably everysingle day.
Red light is known to stimulateyour mitochondria and anybody
who's interested in longevityand living longer and being
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healthier.
We need to keep ourmitochondria working efficiently
.
Mitochondria is what helps uscreate good immunity and it's
what gives us energy, and soreally, really important that
we're doing our best to supportthem, not only with our food but
with light.
People don't really understandhow much light is a nutrient and
we've done a bunch of podcaststo explain that, so check those
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out if you're interested inlearning a little more.
I also love Epsom salt.
Detox baths right, you justthrow a cup into a nice warm
bath or you can just put it inas a foot soap.
But magnesium is one of thoseminerals that is lacking for
most people, and this is mostlybecause our soils have become so
deficient.
Our food is much less nutrientdense than it used to be a
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generation ago, and magnesium isresponsible for over 300
different enzyme reactions inthe body and that's why it gets
depleted so quickly.
And the good thing is,magnesium is well absorbed
through the skin.
So I often tell my patients youknow, if I see a lot of
calculus building up on theirteeth, you know to me that's
showing some kind of calculusimbalance.
Could be from several things,but a lot of.
But what we do know ismagnesium helps keep calcium in
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solution.
So if you're seeing a lot ofcalculus or you build that a lot
on the back of your teeth, youknow that makes me concerned.
Does that mean you're buildingcalculus in your arteries also?
Right?
So let's get some moremagnesium on board so you can
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take supplements.
You can do a detox back.
They have magnesium lotions,sprays, you know all sorts of
great ways, but with Epsom saltbath that can cause a little bit
of detox too.
But again, you'll also get somegood magnesium.
I also really love castor oilpacks.
So this is again something youcan order a whole kit and
wonderful way to get circulation.
So, as I said, you know a lotof people have sluggish livers
and we've talked about it a lotbut people don't really realize.
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You know, diabetes, blood sugarissues.
That's often because the liveris overloaded, it's not doing
its job properly.
It can protect the pancreas andwe always think of diabetes is
all about just blood sugar inthe pancreas, but the liver is a
key factor in that too.
So the castor oil you rub alittle bit on, put the flannel
over your stomach, a nice hotwater bottle I don't really
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recommend a heating pad becausewe don't want that dirty
electricity but a nice, you know, warm, warm bottle.
That way you can sleep allnight with it if you choose to.
And the castor oil the acidthat's in the castor oil is
really, really good aboutdilating blood vessels, which is
really crucial.
If we want to be able tocleanse ourselves, get things
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moving, we have to have reallygood circulation, so it helps us
clear the lymph.
It's really good for anymenstrual issues that you have
and you can use castorolanywhere in your body.
Just caution that it can stain.
So you've got to be careful.
Don't wear your favoritepajamas because you might ruin
them.
So something black, you know,maybe a towel down, but you can
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use it on your thyroid.
You can use it on your eyes Anysore muscle, you know, is a
great, great way.
And Queen of Thrones havereally good packs and have
elastics and they have a smallone that fits perfectly on the
thyroid that you can use overyour eyes and other small areas
like a wrist.
But she has a couple ofdifferent sizes that make it
good to be able to utilize allover the body.
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I really like that Ozone.
You guys have heard me talkabout ozone An excellent way to
clear out infections.
So you can do it as an earinsufflation, a nasal
insufflation, you can use itrectally or vaginally.
We can do an IV of ozone.
So that's something I probablydo for myself once a month just
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to try to clear out my blood,make sure I don't have lots of
weird things, you know, comingon.
It allows more oxygen to bedelivered to the cells, which we
know is absolutely vital toprotect against cancer.
I have one of my best buddies,my dental rep.
We got him an ozone machineafter he'd had a couple of bouts
of cancer and you know, knockon wood, he's doing great since
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he has that and no recurrence.
So I love that for him.
And he was able to do it athome.
He got his own kit, was totallyaffordable for him and that's
exciting because he's so youngand you know that's a pressing
concern, always thinking aboutthat.
So I love that.
Flowpresso is another great toolthat we have for those of us
who might have clogged lymph.
Flowpresso is a whole body suitsuit basically, and there's
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also pulse, electromagneticfrequency in it.
So it warms you as it's kind ofmassaging all the lymph to help
us get rid of all those.
So and lastly, you know,sometimes I'll stand in front of
my red light and I take mytuning fork and I will hit that
and I will rub that all over mybody for about five minutes.
That's another good way to getthe blood flowing.
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It's every tuning fork has adifferent frequency, right, and
different frequencies are allowour body to do certain things,
whether it's detox or increasedenergy.
Again, there's so manydifferent, different areas of
the body like differentfrequencies, so it's very simple
, kind of easy way to get thatlymph flowing.
It's a great way to get rid ofcellulite, believe it or not.
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And you can buy biofield tuningfrom Eileen McKusick.
I mean, her sonic slider is alittle over a hundred dollars,
you know.
It's not a huge investment forabsolutely amazing outcomes in
five minutes a day.
Great, great way to get thatenergy flowing.
As I said, energy is life, sothe more energy we have, the
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more able we can conquereverything in our day.
So let's talk about supplements.
What are my favoritesupplements?
We already went into magnesium.
You know that's the number onething that I wrote down right.
So in today's world, as I said,because our food is so less
nutrient dense than it used tobe, so it's frustrating.
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But you know there's there's awhole movement coming with this
regenerative farming and youknow who knows what this new
administration is going to bring.
There's a lot of promisescoming out here, so let's just
hope for the best.
Let's hope that we canencourage everyone to start
farming better farming for thegood of humanity, that we can
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reduce the seed oils, reduce thehigh fructose corn syrup I
think those are two of the worstthings for our human health and
the glyphosate all of thepesticides and herbicides that
are used are basicallyantibiotics.
I think we don't realize thatand herbicides that are used are
basically antibiotics.
I think we don't realize that.
You know, everybody talks aboutbeing gluten sensitive, but
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while there may be, you knowpeople who are sensitive to the
wheat and the gluten, I thinkthe glyphosate named Stephanie
Senna from MIT has recently comeout stating that she believes a
lot of this sensitivity iscoming from the glyphosate,
which you know it's probably acombination of all these things
that all these things are toxic.
Our gut isn't used to that,right, and every time we know
now, right, that antibioticsit's becoming a problem.
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They're so overused.
We're getting an antibioticresistance, right.
We know it can kill our gutanywhere from three to 12 months
to recover right.
But if we're eating wheat everyday laden with antibiotics, you
know this is why we have suchimmune problems, right, because
we're killing off all of thegood immunity, all of the good
bugs that enable us to absorbour nutrients.
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They help us stay immune to themore dangerous things.
So it's a really, reallyimportant.
You know we can't all affordorganic all the time, but every
single year, you know, we comeout with the dirty dozen and the
clean 15.
So look that up.
You know, if you have to, canonly buy certain things organic,
then definitely go for thethings.
Think about things with thinskins, right, strawberries,
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grapes, but something like abanana which is a thicker skin,
you know, don't, don't wasteyour money on organic for that.
You thicker skin.
You know, don't waste yourmoney on organic for that.
You know it's not a problem.
Peppers, you know those oftenyou know it's so thin that the
pesticides really get in there.
So you know again, the morenutrient dense food we have, the
healthier we'll be.
So magnesium my second biggestthing is minerals, minerals,
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minerals, minerals, minerals.
You know people ask me aboutfluoride all the time.
Our teeth are made of minerals.
We need minerals If we want tohave healthy teeth and gums, we
need minerals and so minerals.
Whether it's in a supplementform, a liquid form, I don't
really care, as long as you getit in there.
If you tend to have digestiveissues, I say go for the liquid.
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Liquid doesn't, you know, don'thave to dissolve a capsule in
your stomach.
A lot of us have low stomachacid and we don't digest very
well, so go for the liquidminerals.
So there are a bunch ofcompanies out there.
I don't really care which onesyou buy, but go for some
minerals.
Binders, as I said, very, veryimportant because of the toxic
world we live in, especially ifyou know you're traveling.
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You're going to be eating out alot, you're going to be exposed
to all sorts of exhaust andfumes and other people's perfume
and all those kinds of things.
So Biner's is always good,especially when you travel.
Take that with you.
B vitamins that's somethingthat a lot of foods are
fortified with B vitamins, butyou know they may not be the
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most assimilable B vitamins, soa B complex is really important.
You can buy B pollen, is anexcellent food source, and
that's.
Those are little granules.
You can sprinkle them on anykind of food you want, so throw
them in a smoothie, it's great.
And my other big favorite way toget bee vitamins is liver
capsules.
I wish I could say that I eatliver every week, but I just
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can't do it.
I've tried, it's not bad, butit's a mental block.
So fortunately we have livercapsules.
You can buy grass-fed, really,really high quality.
We're getting our good mineralsand now we're getting our
copper and we're getting our Bvitamins.
We're getting our iron rightthe good form of iron that's
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really important that we don'treally get from plant foods.
And then the fat-solublevitamins.
So that's vitamin D, vitamin A,vitamin E and vitamin K.
Those four fat-soluble vitamins, along with the minerals, is
what creates strong, healthyteeth and gums, right.
So we need that combination andwe need to have healthy liver
and gallbladder right so that wecan absorb.
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If we have issues with ourliver maybe we don't have a
gallbladder anymore it's hard.
If we don't create quality bile, we might not be absorbing
those fat-soluble vitamins.
So, again, trying to get thatin our diet right.
And those are most commonlyfound in animal products.
So this is why I'm not a hugefan of veganism and for some
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people it may work, but for alot of us the quality of those
fat-solid ones has to come fromanimal foods.
But again, everyone is uniqueand people can have great
genetics and are able to takesupplemental form and be
perfectly healthy.
So those are, I find, very,very crucial.
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And if you know, maybe youdon't have a gallbladder, then
maybe you need support with abile.
Salt like Tudka is a reallygood one, or you take digestive
enzymes that have lipase in them.
But those are good ways to helpbe able to absorb the fat,
create good bile so that we canabsorb all those vitamins.
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The fat create good bile sothat we can absorb all those
vitamins.
Right, I always I drink teaevery morning.
I'm not a big coffee person,but I love teas and there are so
many great herbal teas and youcan get a lot of nutrients from
teas, right.
One of the big categories ofhealth foods is polyphenols,
right, and you get a lot ofthose from coffee.
We think about them in brightlycolored vegetables, right, all
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those colorful.
We say about them in brightlycolored vegetables.
Right, all the those colorfulwe say eat a rainbow.
Right, and that's because wewant those polyphenols.
They feed our good bacteria.
They're just full of a lot ofnutrients that help all of our
cellular processes just workbetter.
They support our mitochondriaand make sure that we have
really good, healthy lookingcells and we want to make sure
that we're getting proper,healthy fats.
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Every single cell in our body islined with fats, mainly
cholesterol.
So this is why I get on a tizzywhen so many people are on all
these stands that maybe don'tneed to be.
We need to have cholesterol.
It is absolutely vital forevery cell in our body.
So if we have high cholesterol,absolutely vital for every cell
in our body.
So if we have high cholesterol,we need to think beyond just
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looking at HDL and LDL andreally understanding what is the
makeup of the sats in our blood, because it's much more complex
than just those two molecules.
And if we do have highcholesterol, why?
But again, please understandthat the science shows the
healthier you are, the older youare, the higher your
cholesterol is.
So those individuals who are intheir 80s, they can may have
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cholesterols of 400.
And they're healthy as a horse.
So again, it's more than justthe numbers.
You have to look at the wholebody, right, and we get so
pigeonholed because there's somuch you know specialization in
medicine today and we just focuson one little thing instead of
looking at the whole picture.
So let's look at the wholepicture.
I think digestive enzymessometimes, and stomach acid
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support can be really, reallycrucial.
If you're somebody who suffersfrom a lot of gas and bloating,
there's definitely an overgrowthin bacteria where there
shouldn't be and that's mostlybecause not enough stomach acid.
So you have a lot of people whoare on the you know the PPIs
and shutting down because theyhave reflux.
But again, as we've talkedabout and I tell my patients all
the time, most of the time thereflux is from not enough
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stomach acid.
The other big aspect could besleep apnea.
Right, when we are notbreathing properly, when our
diaphragm isn't working properly, we can create reflux.
That pressure differential cancause us to push up stomach acid
into the mouth.
So, again, as I was just saying,when we're thinking about these
symptoms we're having, let'slook at the whole picture, right
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, not just about that specificsymptom, but let's ask the
question why, why do I have thissymptom?
Right, and we need to look atall the different aspects of
health.
So we have to have that oralexam as part of it, right,
because if you have erosion allover your teeth, right, that's a
big deal we can see.
Do you have sleep apnea?
Looking at the structure of themouth, but also the way that we
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breathe, are we hunched overall the time?
What is our posture like?
How can we improve breathingthat may improve the reflux
without having to be on?
These medications wouldactually shut down our digestion
, which lead to a lot of chronicdisease.
So my last big topic I want totalk about were sleep habits.
You know, if you ask anybody inthe longevity space, wellness
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space, you know sleep is one ofthose pillars of health.
You know, people say you got toget seven to eight hours of
sleep per night and I thinkthat's an average and most
people agree that's good.
But more specifically than that, we have to have a good balance
of the type of sleep.
So we may be in bed for 12hours, but if we're not getting
enough of the deep, restorativetype of sleep, then the rest is
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just kind of junk sleep.
So some people can thrive onfour and a half hours of sleep
because they're getting an hourand a half of deep sleep.
They're getting an hour and ahalf of the REM sleep.
And those are two importantaspects of sleep.
Where deep is when we drop intothe parasympathetic nervous
system.
It is when our entire body isdetoxing itself.
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It is refreshing, it isregenerating, it is getting rid
of all the junk and that's very,very important for our body to
reset itself.
And the REM, or the rapid eyemovement, that is when we're
kind of consolidating ourmemories and everything we've
learned for the day.
So for good cognitive health weneed to have quality REM and
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that is about the average thatwe want to try to attain about
an hour and a half of each ofthose.
Now there are so many amazingwearables I can't even name them
all but more and moretechnology.
It's really exciting.
We're in a really exciting agewhere there's coming out with so
many great wearables to reallytrack all these different
aspects of our health.
My husband just got me aproduct.
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We've been using it together.
It's called Voluminumen andit's a way to check your
metabolism.
How well are you metabolizingyour carbs and your fats?
By detecting your carbondioxide.
So you breathe into it.
Different aspects of the daywill tell you how your
metabolism is doing and then itwill give you recommendations
Eat this many carbs today, orthis many carbs, or decrease
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your fats.
Or, if you work out out howmany more carbs should you eat.
And for a woman, it tracksbased on my menstrual cycles,
telling me how many carbs Ishould have, which I think is
really exciting, because so manyof us get worried right about
eating carbs.
But as a cycling woman, carbsare very, very important, which
don't want to have too many, butwe also do need enough to
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create the hormones in order tocycle properly.
So that's a cool little gadgetwe've just been using since the
beginning of the year.
So let's finish our talk aboutsleep here.
So ideally we want to be kindof in bed by 9.30, asleep by 10
o'clock, and why we say that isbecause we have a circadian
clock right, and the way thatthe earth and the moon and
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everything works together isalways on this clock.
In Chinese medicine there aredifferent hours of the day that
relate to different organs ofthe body, right.
So if we're in bed by 10o'clock our melatonin should be
kicking in and that is how we'regoing to get the most
restorative sleep.
Interestingly, my deepest sleepis often in that first window
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between 10 and midnight.
So you know, if I'm out orwhatever I'm at a conference,
and then maybe it's a late night, I'm not getting that deep
sleep.
So really important to try tobe in bed by 10.
Other big important factor isstopping to eat three hours
before laying down, if at allpossible.
We want to make sure that ourstomach has emptied before
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laying down.
That's also it's going toreduce the you know incidence of
reflux.
We're going to finish digestingbecause when we're sleeping we
don't want to be digesting right.
We want to be getting rid ofall that toxins.
We want to be doing all thecleanup, we don't want to be
busy digesting, you'll get muchbetter sleep.
If you track your sleep, you'llknow when you have an earlier
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dinner, you sleep much moresoundly and you get much more of
those two quality types ofsleep Breathing exercises.
So another thing I always felt,you know I've had a couple
episodes of talking aboutbreathing, because I've started
to see that in my work when I'mthinking about apnea I think a
lot of it has to do with the waywe breathe.
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You know, I've noticed it's notjust about anatomy, there's
that physiology to it too.
And I notice oftentimes, youknow, the easiest way to get
into the parasympathetic or, youknow, resting nervous system is
by breathing slower, a littlebit deeper, a little bit slower.
And so I bought a special band.
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It goes around my waist orabove my waist, really right
under my rib cage, called OXAO-X-A, and it will track my
breathing.
So it tracks my sleep as well.
But ideally you want to haveabout six to 10 breaths a minute
.
That's ideal.
I know when I wear it at workI'm at like 17 breaths a minute,
which is crazy.
No wonder I can get tiredduring the day.
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I'm over breathing.
So along the ox it has allthese great resonance breathing
exercises and when I start to dothat, I may take five to 10
minutes before I go to sleep.
I set myself up for thatparasympathetic and I will slip
into deep sleep so much easier.
But you don't have to have thegadget right.
So if you simply tell yourselfor make yourself breathe, you go
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, breathe in for four, breatheout for six, breathe in for four
, breathe out for six.
You know anything like that.
It's simple doing that you know, for five to 10 minutes you can
listen to.
Also, my favorite thing to dois listen to an app I have
called Meditative Mind.
It's a monthly subscription butagain has all these different
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frequency and one of my favoriteones is called Deep Sleep.
Right, I want to get into thatdeep sleep, I want to recover
and restore, so I will listen tothat while I'm breathing.
So I've got now the sound andI've got the breathing to help
me take me into that propernervous system.
So I get really restorativedeep sleep so that the next day
I can charge ahead and doeverything I need to do.
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I also make sure I stretch alittle bit before I go to bed.
I might do a few like cat cowexercises and little yoga moves,
just a little bit of movementbefore I'm laying down and kind
of being stagnant for, you know,eight hours.
Mouth tape is my favorite.
I always love to put the tapeover my mouth because when your
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mouth is closed it's verydifficult to snore, right.
And so very, very important Ifyou mouth breathe you also put
yourself in sympathetic so youdon't detox, you don't sleep as
deeply before I know it, butsometimes you still can snore
with mouth tape.
If that tongue falls down offthe roof of your mouth, you can
still make a little snoring.
So before I go to bed, after Ibrush and floss my teeth, I
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always try to do a few tongueexercises.
You know I've had somemyofunctional therapists on the
podcast.
I always tell all my patientsabout this couple of YouTube
videos called six exercises forsnoring and sleep apnea.
Look them up.
There's a couple of people Ilike, um, and they're mainly the
same kind of things.
Right, where we'restrengthening the tongue.
The stronger the tongue is andthen it will stay in place
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instead of collapsing back intothe throat, the less likely
you'll snore, the less likelyyou will obstruct the airway and
wake yourself up, right, that'sgoing to distract from getting
all that deep sleep.
So those are simple exercises.
Adds five to 10 minutes to your, you know, hygiene routine
every night.
It's completely worth it.
And my patients who I've beentreating with laser for sleep
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apnea since I added that aspect,the results are profound, you
know.
10 times better than just laseralone Because, again, I think
there's more of the breathing,the physiology, the way the
tongue goes, than just having asmall airway.
So really, really powerful, youknow, try to avoid.
A lot of people hate the CPAP,you know.
So if we can train the body tobreathe properly, to do these
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exercises, keep the tonguestrong, then we can hopefully
avoid those kind of invasivetreatments.
And always when I travel, I'malways taking a mask with me
because, you know, inevitably ina hotel room there's lights
everywhere, you know, and wewant to sleep in a darkest room
as possible, right, because anykind of light is going to
disrupt that circadian rhythm.
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So as dark as possible.
My bedroom at home is very,very dark, but again, in a hotel
room or somewhere I'm not usedto always take a sleep mask with
me.
So that is all of my advice forhow we start the new year off
well.
And so I just want to kind ofrecap.
I think number one thing if youhave a goal and something you
really want to accomplish thisyear, write it down.
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And the other thing to thinkabout that's really important is
align those goals with yourvalues, right?
So maybe we say I want to loseweight or I want to eat
healthier, but if that's notreally one of your values, you
know, if you just want to do itbecause you think you should,
you're never going to accomplishit Right.
And how do we?
How do we know what our valuesare?
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One of the best things I didlast year was I went and visited
Dr Nick and Nicole and I knew aplace in Italy and went on an
amazing retreat that theycultivated.
That was one of the bestexperiences I've ever had and it
was five days of just being inthe now living.
We did meditation, which Ididn't think I knew how to
meditate, but Dr Nick, he showedme how to do it and it was
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fabulous and we were justexperiencing life and food.
It was just freshly grown food.
We were in the ocean every day,but every morning we started
out talking about what ourvalues were, and Dr Nick and
Nicole really learned this a lotfrom Joe Dispenza and John
Demartini, who has a reallygreat books and he has a good
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website and you can go run onhis website for free.
You can do a quick littlequestionnaire to learn what your
values are.
One of my highest values isteaching right and sharing which
is no surprise right toeverybody.
So when I think about my goals,right, one of my goals, I want
to teach at IIN.
That's aligned with my value,so I'm going to be more likely
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to achieve that goal becauseit's one of my values.
My other values is, you know,being a good mom, raising my
children well.
So, again, another one of myvalues.
My other values is, you know,being a good mom, raising my
children well.
So again, another one of mygoals is trying to give them the
best education I can, right andso and more likely to
accomplish this goal is becausethey are my values, not
something that I think I shoulddo right or that society's
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expecting of me.
It's what is deep in my soul.
So so figure out what yourvalues are and again, it may
take 10 minutes.
You can go online at DrDemartini's site, do a little
value quiz, very, very easy, andthen maybe redefine what your
goals are right, and I just wantto leave you with the thought
of just living for the moment.
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We don't know how much time wehave on this planet.
We're always rushing to go hereor there, thinking about the
future, thinking about the past.
If we really want to change ourlives and create our lives, we
need to be in the now.
We need to put the energy inthe now, not just wishing for
what we want, what we could haveor what we don't have right.
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It's putting that energy intothe here and now.
So again, I want to thankeverybody for being loyal
listeners to our podcast.
Please let me know anyquestions that you have.
I love it when people reach outto me and I love directing them
to wherever they need to be.
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It helps other people learnabout our podcast so they can
get other great guests on theshow.
So I hope everyone has awonderful rest of their day.
I wish everyone a happy,healthy 2025, and I'll see you
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Bye for now.
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to the podcast.
I actually recently just got anote from somebody all the way
out in Scotland, so that's justreally encouraging to me,
knowing that our message isgetting out there, that we're
creating awareness, that peopleare looking for ways to help
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themselves and their families,and that's what this is all
about.
This is not something I do tomake money, but rather something
that I do that I feel sopassionate about because I just
want everybody to be able to betheir own best doctor, and the
only way we can do that is if wehave the knowledge to learn and
to create the best lives forourselves.
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So thank you again for all ofmy listeners.
I really appreciate all of youand thank you for supporting me.
You can also support us bygiving us a five-star review.
The more reviews we have, themore people who will see or
listen to our podcast and, again, the more we can spread the
wonderful message and wisdom.
So we're coming up on our thirdseason of the podcast already,
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which is crazy.
I can't believe how much timehas gone by and you know I get
people all the time asking me todo some more solo episodes.
You know they tell me they lovemy interviews but they want to
hear more from me.
So Ryan and I my wonderfulproducer and editor have decided
to kind of come up with adifferent plan for this year.
So, while I will continue to domy interviews, because I just
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love to learn and I have so muchfun listening and meeting new
people and learning new thingsand challenging my way of
thinking because you know thething about knowledge, the thing
about science, right, it's notstagnant.
The only way we ever reallymake progress is if we keep
questioning the status quo.
And that's what I think is soexciting about doing podcasts.
You know, I always thought thatI wanted to write a book, but
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then the more I thought about it, you know the book here, you
write it and you know, by thetime it's published, maybe some
of that knowledge is alreadypasse and it's not relevant
anymore.
So you know it's exciting to beable to do a podcast and keep
learning, and so I can keeptreating my patients better and
better, learning more things,just to improve all of our lives
.
So we decided that at leastonce a month, I'm going to do a
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solo podcast and you know wewill theme it for months of the
year.
And since it is January of 2025,I wanted to start out the year
with kind of you know myfavorite things, and people ask
me all the time you know, how doI have time to fit everything
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in?
And I think it really comesdown to priorities.
We always make time for thingsthat we love.
We always make time for thingsthat line up with our values.
So, you know, january, it'salways a time brand new year
we're thinking about what do wewant to accomplish this year?
What should our goals be?
You know, is it losing weight?
Is it getting healthier?
You know, there are really somecommon themes, but the other
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common theme is that usually bythe end of January, we've all
almost given up.
And so why is that?
What is the problem?
I think we often think in ourlogical brains.
You know, yes, I want to loseweight and I want to be in shape
by that, by summer vacation.
Right, I want to start eatinghealthier.
Right, we all know how to eathealthier, but it's complicated,
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you know.
We're so busy, we feel stressed, we don't plan ahead.
You know there's all of thesethings that kind of complicate.
You know our best interest too.
So what are some advice maybethat I can give all of you?
How do I get my goalsaccomplished?
And I think the most importantthing is to write it down.
So if we really want toaccomplish something, we need to
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actually physically write itdown and put it somewhere where
we see it every single day,multiple times during the day.
So, for instance, possibly,boarding school, which I never,
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ever thought I would want tosend my kids away to school.
You know, I just feel like Ihave so much wisdom and I want
to teach them everything.
But let's be honest, you knowthose of you who are parents of
teenagers it's really hard forthem to appreciate the wisdom
that we want to give them.
So, you know, I'm hoping thatmaybe they will be able to be
accepted into a boarding schooland then have the option.
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Whether or not that comes trueI don't know, but I wrote that
down.
I also wrote down that I wouldlike to be able to teach for the
Institute for IntegrativeNutrition.
I got my health coaching degreethere 10 years ago now, which
is crazy to think, and I thinkit's a wonderful platform, but
they don't have anythingspecifically related to oral
health, which, as you all know,is absolutely vital to our
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overall health.
And for all of these healthcoaches out there, I think it's
really, really important thatwe're training them to look for
those things.
I think the oral connection,oral disease it can be a missing
link in a lot of these chronicillnesses we have.
So that was my second goal, andmy third one is to bring in a
partner to my practice.
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You know I'm so busy and I lovewhat I do, but you know we're
booking out so far and I want tonot only be able to provide all
of my patients with the bestpossible care, but good access
to care so we can see everyonein a timely manner.
And I want to share all myknowledge, wisdom and skills
with somebody else who wants tobe able to practice whole body
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dentistry, who really caresabout treating the whole person.
So I wrote those three goalsdown and have them right next to
my computer and I see themevery single time I come up
between patients and I read them, you know, over and over and
over again.
So I think that is one supereasy, crucial step.
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So if it is to, I want to eathealthy.
You know, the more that we seethat, the more that our brain is
processing.
So it's not just a hope kind ofthing.
There's actually, you know,physiology and quantum energy
that goes into looking atsomething, thinking about
something, reading something.
It's that whole idea ofmanifestation, which is kind of
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a complex topic, but you know,but it's, it's real and I've
seen it, my kids have seen it,my kids know all about it, they
know how to manifest.
And again, it's just, we allhave the ability to choose the
life we want and it's a matterof putting in a little bit of
that work but envisioning thatlife you want, the future you
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want, whatever that goal is youwant.
Maybe this is the year that youhave perfect oral health, right,
and you know I'll put a littleplug in.
I have my brand new course, youknow, six weeks to help reverse
and stop gum disease.
You know it's a quick and easycourse, not expensive, and
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really when we get that oralhealth, they're really the
basics of how we create goodoral health, but a lot of it is
really fundamentally how wecreate overall health, because
if you've been listening to thispodcast.
You know they go hand in hand.
So, again, you know I didn'tpick a hundred different goals,
right, just three specific onesthat I want to focus on, you
know, and maybe in a few monthsI'm going to focus on other
goals, but for now that's whereI'm trying to put my energy.
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So I also want to talk aboutyou know where.
How do I have time and how do Ilearn all this?
You know, I do.
I love to read, I'm a very, verycurious person, but I do have
limited time.
So, you know, probably myfavorite way to get information
is through podcasts.
I have about a 25 minute rideto work to and from and so I
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love, I love listening to mypodcast.
So I'll tell you, you knowdifferent kinds of categories.
You know, my favorite one tolearn about new and upcoming
kind of like longevitystrategies is Dave Asprey's the
Human Upgrade.
It was formerly BulletproofRadio.
He's a really, you know,interesting guy.
He has a lot of reallyinteresting people who come on
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and, again, he wants to livetill he's 180.
So he's always talking aboutways to enhance the human
experience and recently he'sgotten more into the energy and
the quantum.
So it's exciting, he's reallyembodying kind of the holistic
view of health, so that's a funone that I always love to listen
to For personal growth.
My aunt actually introduced meto the Mel Robbins podcast.
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It's one of the top five, Ithink, in the world.
Mel Robbins is a reallyfabulous, down-to-earth woman
who actually just lived not thatfar away from me in Southern
Vermont, and she talks a lotabout mental health, emotional
health, gives great strategies,has lots of wonderful resources,
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and I often save a lot of herpodcasts and I want my kids to
listen to them because I'malways trying to teach them at
their young age how can we bethe best versions of ourselves?
And so that's a great one, andwhen I need a little pick-me-up,
I love what's in it.
To Mel Robbins, one of my otherfavorites is Integrative Radio
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with doctors Nick and Nicole,and they are really fabulous.
They call it a disruptivepodcast.
I met them through Cellcor andthey just have again a really
wonderful way of looking outsidethe box at different health
issues.
You know how is health relatedto mental, emotional things that
we talk about?
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I had Dr Nick on the podcasttoo, so I really love how they
incorporate all the differentaspects of health but related to
a specific condition.
So that's fabulous.
I'm really big into energymedicine those of you who you
know listen to me and so I lovemy friend and colleague, dr
Christine Schatzner, who wasjust on, also she has.
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I mean, she's a brilliant,brilliant doctor and she has a
wonderful podcast called theSpectrum of Health.
She also interviews all sortsof people about so many
different topics, but shedefinitely has a spin on the
energy side, the quantum world,so she's just really fascinating
.
And lastly, probably is myother good buddy, who is the one
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who encouraged me to do thepodcast in the first place,
kelly Kennedy, who is the LipQueen.
Hers is the Flow Podcast,f-l-o-w-e, and she really talks
a lot about the fascia, thelymph.
I think that's kind of themissing organ system in the body
, you know, other than kind oforal health we forget about.
Not a lot of people talk about.
You know, the fascia and howthat integrates every aspect of
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the body and the lymph Lymphoften gets so clogged up, you
know, supposed to be ourdrainage system.
So many of us have theinability to detox well because
our elimination organs don'twork really well.
So, understanding how to usesimple tools, you know, just
like your hands and doing simpletapping on the body.
She has a lot of greatresources also.
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So those are some of myfavorite podcasts that I listen
to all the time when I'm tryingto get more information and I
often you know, sometimes takesome of their guests.
They will interview somebody.
I'm like that's reallyfascinating.
I like to talk to them a littlebit and see how they put the
oral health spin on it.
So those are all great.
When I come also to think about,you know, my mental health and
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stress, you know I have a verybusy, busy schedule a big team
raising kids, all those thingsand it's really important for me
.
I can be definitely a type Aperson, definitely kind of live
in that sympathetic nervoussystem a lot of the time.
And what I've found reallyworks for me is not meditation,
unfortunately.
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Dr Nick taught me greatmeditation this summer and it
was absolutely amazing.
But I think maybe I can do itguided, but on my own I'm not
good.
I always feel like I wake up at530 in the morning and I have a
limited time to get in myexercise before the kids get up,
before I have to make breakfast.
So what I found works for me isQigong.
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I used to do yoga but I foundyoga kind of too slow and my
mind would be too busy and I,you know, and I'm very
inflexible, so I found yoga tobe very hard.
But Qigong is like a movingmeditation and I subscribe to
the channel Yuqi Y-O-Q-I.
It's a very inexpensive monthlysubscription.
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She has tons and tons of videos, anywhere from 15 minute
exercises to hour long exercises, and it's just a wonderful way
that I set my energy, and myteam members can tell you they
know the days that I don't get achance to do my Qigong, if I do
it first, I am setting myenergy in a very calm space and
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also putting almost like aprotective energy ball around me
, because, you know, I interactwith a lot of people all day
long and most people are notthat excited to see me, right,
and so by having that strongenergy field going into work, it
keeps me strong, it keeps mefocused, keeps me energized, and
I literally do 15 to 20 minutesevery day standing in front of
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my red light panels.
I love my red light panels,especially where I live in the
Northeast, where it's cold anddark this time of year, getting
in some of that red energy,because unfortunately I can't go
out early in the morning andstand in the sunshine.
One, it's too cold.
Two, a lot of days there is nosunshine, so I really rely a lot
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on my red light panels,especially in the wintertime, to
get me some of the good lightat work.
I have a full spectrum lightthat I have next to my computer
screen that will be on and againtrying to give me some of that
light that I may not be gettingas much in the winter Anything
to kind of ward off thosedepressive blues and you know
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the winter blues as we call them.
So I'm a big fan of Qigong andI also.
My husband bought the mirror,so we have that wonderful
subscription and one of my othergoals not written down, but
maybe I also my husband boughtthe mirror, so we have that
wonderful subscription and oneof my other goals not ring down,
but maybe I should because I'mnot being as good and strict
sticking to this one.
But I'm gonna be 47 next month,so it's really important that I
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start maintaining my muscle andbuilding that muscle.
So trying to do three days aweek of my strength training and
on the mirror.
I have so many differentoptions and that's feeling
really good.
And, again, I can do a 30minute workout.
You know, the more sciencewe're understanding is we don't
have to kill ourselves two hoursin the gym, right?
The high intensity intervaltraining is shown to be not only
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as effective, but maybe evenmore beneficial and healthier
than you know.
A two hour aerobic workout anda HIIT exercise, as it's called,
could be 15 minutes, and everyso often I will do this on my
elliptical machine in themorning, where I might warm up,
you know, low intensity, forabout five minutes, and then I
hit it as hard as I can for 30seconds.
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Then I give myself a fewminutes to calm down and I hit
another 30 seconds as fast as Ican go, another few minutes and
then one more 30 second highintensity, as fast, as hard as I
can go, and I'm done takesabout 15 minutes and I feel very
, very accomplished.
And you know, again, I have allthat other time to do
everything else I want to do.
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So that's a wonderful way thatI try and stay in shape.
So that's a wonderful way thatI try and stay in shape.
So how about my favorite beautyproducts?
Right, I don't I'm not onereally to wear much makeup.
You know, when I go to work I'mwearing scrubs, my hair is all
tied back, so, you know, notreally a beauty contest there,
but I do want to have healthy,clean skin.
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I obviously want to have niceoral hygiene, but I also want to
be careful of the products thatI use, because this is where
the average woman may put ahundred chemicals on or in her
body before she even goes towork, right Between the shampoo
and the hair and the toothpasteand the mouth rinse and on and
on, and on and on.
So one of my favorite brandsfor face wash is Purity Woods.
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They have great exfoliation andface wash, all sorts of
products, some moisturizers, allvery natural ingredients and
they feel really good on my skin.
So I feel good.
I love the Primal Life Organics.
They have a ton of products,both oral care, body care, face
care again, all very naturalproducts.
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My favorite toothpaste is forbiting.
I love this toothpaste and Ihave seen the proof in some of
my oral saliva tests that thisreally, because it's built on
vitamins, minerals, prebiotics,that it really builds the good
bacteria in the body.
And if you've been listening tomy podcast, you know I say all
the time that it's not aboutkilling the bad, it's about
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supporting the good.
So the more of the nutritionthat we provide for our body,
the better off we are, and Ithink Revitalant is very, very
good at supporting the good.
Now sometimes I feel like,because there's not much grit to
that, I feel like I needsomething a little grittier to
clean my teeth, and so then Imight switch to the Primal Life
Organics.
They're all clay-basedtoothbrush.
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So you know, the thing aboutproducts is I'm always switching
.
You know I don't use the samething every day for months and
months on end.
I don't think that'snecessarily healthy for us.
Same thing with supplements.
You know, our body will get tooused to something right, and so
he can kind of switch around.
There's lots of good brands outthere.
I'm just naming some of theones that I've been using
frequently, but I do rotate theproducts.
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I love the Akame Floss.
It's fulvic acid, it's black.
So not only can you see theplaque you're getting out
between your teeth, the fulvicand humic acids are supplying a
lot of electrolytes and aminoacids between the teeth, right
where the toothbrush can't reach.
So those are often where wefind cavities between the teeth.
A toothbrush bristle can't getthere.
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So having those, the extraminerals and electrolytes, the
nutrition between the teeth,will also prevent those between
the teeth cavities.
You know that's when if youhave to go over and have a
filling, you have to have thewedge and the band and all that
uncomfortable stuff.
So if we can avoid thosecavities between the teeth, all
the better.
Some of my favorite ways todetox right.
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So this is very, very importantIn today's day and age.
You know, you've heard me saywe've got about 80,000 chemicals
in our environment today.
Most of them have not beenstudied.
We don't know all the effects,but you cannot deny the amount
of chronic disease in ourcountry today have to be
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detoxing.
You know, our liver and ourkidneys and our bowels, they
just weren't designed for thisonslaught of chemicals that we
have today.
So how do we support ourkidneys, our liver, our bowels
right, our lymph?
Like we have to sweat.
You know, years and years agowhen I first had my eczema, I
never sweat.
I got in my sauna.
I could stay there for 30minutes and not break a sweat
Like that's not a good thing.
You know, as women we may thinkit's polite not to sweat very
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much, but that's not necessarilya healthy thing.
Right, sweat is the natural waythat we get rid of our toxins,
especially heavy metals.
So I'm a big fan of saunas.
I have a near infrared saunathat I've had in my house for
years and years and years.
We have a far infrared one atthe office, and there are many
iterations of saunas, you know,and there's a lot of, you know,
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conflicting.
What's better?
Near or far, do you want tohave?
You know.
So full spectrum may be yourbest bet.
But again, the point is thatyou're going to have little
different aspects, littledifferent bits of detoxification
, but as long as you're sweating, you are getting something out
right.
So it's really important.
Before you go in a sauna, maybeyou take some binders.
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So whether that's an activatedcharcoal, a pectin-based product
, bentonite clay obviouslyyou've all heard me talk about
Cellcor I always take aViradchem binder before I go in
the sauna, because that is alittle bit of the biotox, a
little bit of the heavy metal,and then also get some chemicals
as well.
So any kind of binder will behelpful before you go in the
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sauna.
And then I also take a verylarge glass or my you know 30
ounce water bottle full ofelectrolytes, right.
As we know, when we sweat isvery salty, right, so we're
losing all of our sodium, thechloride, all those electrolytes
are really important forabsorbing water.
So when we go in the sauna wesweat that out.
We need to replenish all ofthose electrolytes so that we
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don't become too dry Somebody.
For me who tends towardsconstipation and dryness, it's
really really important.
If I want to keep my bowelsmoving properly, they need to
stay moisturized.
So, again, it's not just purewater.
We need to have thoseelectrolytes in order to absorb
the water.
So if you're somebody who candrink and drink and drink and
you pee all day long, you knowyou may not be absorbing that
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much water.
So always think aboutelectrolytes.
Some of my favorites are theUltima brand, you know, but a
squeeze of a lemon or lime and apinch of sea salt, like real
salt Redmond's real salt isperfect.
You know you don't have to getthe fancy ones with the flavor,
because often they do havechemicals and stevia, and you
know they say natural sugars,but still it's better.
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You know, if you want it alittle sweeter, then put a
little cane sugar.
If you need to, you know, ifyou want it a little sweeter,
then put a little cane sugar ifyou need to, you know.
But the electrolytes are very,very important.
So sauna is one of my favorite.
The foot bath.
So we have the ionic foot baththat I use a few times a week.
And one thing people often getconfused because if you sit in
there the water gets very grimyand gross looking right, and
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that is not the toxins beingpulled out of your body.
What the foot bath is doing,it's literally putting
electricity right into the water.
It's just kind of like, ifyou've ever heard of grounding,
when we go outside in our barefeet, we are pulling electrons
from the earth up into our body.
You know, hugging a tree samekind of thing.
We're pulling the electrons outof that tree into our body.
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So in the wintertime, when, ifyou live up north, like I do,
and you can't really go outbarefoot, well you can, but I
prefer not to freeze my butt off.
So the ionic foot bath isanother way to pump electrons
into the body and for the nextthree days it has an effect of
changing those, those like iongated channels.
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You know, in our kidneys.
We, we, they talk a lot aboutthis.
We need to have charge inourselves in order for nutrients
to come in and for toxins tocome out.
If we don't have enough chargein our body, this is when we get
sick or really run down.
Right, we can't get thosetoxins out, we can't get the
nutrients in.
So the more charge we have, themore.
You can also think of it likeprana or chi, right, all of
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these things are different,cultures are life force, right,
and it all.
If you really get into thenitty gritty about how the heart
pumps, right, there are somepeople say heart isn't really a
pump.
It's really the electricity inthe body that's allowing the
blood to flow deep into theseitty bitty capillaries.
So foot bath is one really,really good way to get energy in
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there so that your kidneys canhelp to offload a lot of those
toxins, right?
So again, same thing I'm takingbinders when I do that.
I also really love coffee enemas.
People kind of poo-poo and getsqueamish about it.
But I'm telling you, once youdo it, once it feels amazing,
once you kind of understand theins and outs, how it works, how
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to position yourself, it is afantastic feeling.
I have so much energy after Ido a coffee enema.
You guys, I will give you alink to instructions on the type
of coffee enemas I like to do.
You can buy an enema kit righton Amazon, or very simple, you
don't need a lot of setup, easyto do.
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But another really good way toget the kidney.
So coffee enemas.
The idea is you try to lay onyour right side so that coffee
can go right into the portalvein up into the liver, right,
because we know the liver iswhere we're processing a lot of
those toxins.
So we kind of give that liver aboost, help it kind of flush
out all the toxins that havebeen sitting in there, and again
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just giving our liver a boost.
Now some people say you got tobe careful.
Too much coffee and caffeinecan be very taxing for the
kidney.
So I think that's true.
But you know if you were goingto go do some cancer treatment,
you know one that you go to aspecialized clinic.
They may have you doing twoenemas a day, you know, for a
week or two to really get theyou know the detox going.
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Now, if you're just trying itfor the first time, or
maintenance, you know youcertainly don't need to do that
often but definitely, you know,good idea to talk somebody about
it before you go right to that,because if you do have
sensitive kidneys you do need tobe really careful.
And there are other types ofenemas.
You can just do water.
I found a herbal company thathas a nice herbal one, you know
that just helps especially, likeI said, for me I need to keep
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everything moisturized, so Ihave one that's just full of
herbs.
That just helps keep the mucuslayer, you know, working
properly.
So a lot of different optionsthere.
I mentioned red light.
I do red light probably everysingle day.
Red light is known to stimulateyour mitochondria and anybody
who's interested in longevityand living longer and being
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healthier.
We need to keep ourmitochondria working efficiently
.
Mitochondria is what helps uscreate good immunity and it's
what gives us energy, and soreally, really important that
we're doing our best to supportthem, not only with our food but
with light.
People don't really understandhow much light is a nutrient and
we've done a bunch of podcaststo explain that, so check those
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out if you're interested inlearning a little more.
I also love Epsom salt.
Detox baths right, you justthrow a cup into a nice warm
bath or you can just put it inas a foot soap.
But magnesium is one of thoseminerals that is lacking for
most people, and this is mostlybecause our soils have become so
deficient.
Our food is much less nutrientdense than it used to be a
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generation ago, and magnesium isresponsible for over 300
different enzyme reactions inthe body and that's why it gets
depleted so quickly.
And the good thing is,magnesium is well absorbed
through the skin.
So I often tell my patients youknow, if I see a lot of
calculus building up on theirteeth, you know to me that's
showing some kind of calculusimbalance.
Could be from several things,but a lot of.
But what we do know ismagnesium helps keep calcium in
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solution.
So if you're seeing a lot ofcalculus or you build that a lot
on the back of your teeth, youknow that makes me concerned.
Does that mean you're buildingcalculus in your arteries also?
Right?
So let's get some moremagnesium on board so you can
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take supplements.
You can do a detox back.
They have magnesium lotions,sprays, you know all sorts of
great ways, but with Epsom saltbath that can cause a little bit
of detox too.
But again, you'll also get somegood magnesium.
I also really love castor oilpacks.
So this is again something youcan order a whole kit and
wonderful way to get circulation.
So, as I said, you know a lotof people have sluggish livers
and we've talked about it a lotbut people don't really realize.
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You know, diabetes, blood sugarissues.
That's often because the liveris overloaded, it's not doing
its job properly.
It can protect the pancreas andwe always think of diabetes is
all about just blood sugar inthe pancreas, but the liver is a
key factor in that too.
So the castor oil you rub alittle bit on, put the flannel
over your stomach, a nice hotwater bottle I don't really
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recommend a heating pad becausewe don't want that dirty
electricity but a nice, you know, warm, warm bottle.
That way you can sleep allnight with it if you choose to.
And the castor oil the acidthat's in the castor oil is
really, really good aboutdilating blood vessels, which is
really crucial.
If we want to be able tocleanse ourselves, get things
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moving, we have to have reallygood circulation, so it helps us
clear the lymph.
It's really good for anymenstrual issues that you have
and you can use castorolanywhere in your body.
Just caution that it can stain.
So you've got to be careful.
Don't wear your favoritepajamas because you might ruin
them.
So something black, you know,maybe a towel down, but you can
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use it on your thyroid.
You can use it on your eyes Anysore muscle, you know, is a
great, great way.
And Queen of Thrones havereally good packs and have
elastics and they have a smallone that fits perfectly on the
thyroid that you can use overyour eyes and other small areas
like a wrist.
But she has a couple ofdifferent sizes that make it
good to be able to utilize allover the body.
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I really like that Ozone.
You guys have heard me talkabout ozone An excellent way to
clear out infections.
So you can do it as an earinsufflation, a nasal
insufflation, you can use itrectally or vaginally.
We can do an IV of ozone.
So that's something I probablydo for myself once a month just
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to try to clear out my blood,make sure I don't have lots of
weird things, you know, comingon.
It allows more oxygen to bedelivered to the cells, which we
know is absolutely vital toprotect against cancer.
I have one of my best buddies,my dental rep.
We got him an ozone machineafter he'd had a couple of bouts
of cancer and you know, knockon wood, he's doing great since
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he has that and no recurrence.
So I love that for him.
And he was able to do it athome.
He got his own kit, was totallyaffordable for him and that's
exciting because he's so youngand you know that's a pressing
concern, always thinking aboutthat.
So I love that.
Flowpresso is another great toolthat we have for those of us
who might have clogged lymph.
Flowpresso is a whole body suitsuit basically, and there's
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also pulse, electromagneticfrequency in it.
So it warms you as it's kind ofmassaging all the lymph to help
us get rid of all those.
So and lastly, you know,sometimes I'll stand in front of
my red light and I take mytuning fork and I will hit that
and I will rub that all over mybody for about five minutes.
That's another good way to getthe blood flowing.
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It's every tuning fork has adifferent frequency, right, and
different frequencies are allowour body to do certain things,
whether it's detox or increasedenergy.
Again, there's so manydifferent, different areas of
the body like differentfrequencies, so it's very simple
, kind of easy way to get thatlymph flowing.
It's a great way to get rid ofcellulite, believe it or not.
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And you can buy biofield tuningfrom Eileen McKusick.
I mean, her sonic slider is alittle over a hundred dollars,
you know.
It's not a huge investment forabsolutely amazing outcomes in
five minutes a day.
Great, great way to get thatenergy flowing.
As I said, energy is life, sothe more energy we have, the
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more able we can conquereverything in our day.
So let's talk about supplements.
What are my favoritesupplements?
We already went into magnesium.
You know that's the number onething that I wrote down right.
So in today's world, as I said,because our food is so less
nutrient dense than it used tobe, so it's frustrating.
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But you know there's there's awhole movement coming with this
regenerative farming and youknow who knows what this new
administration is going to bring.
There's a lot of promisescoming out here, so let's just
hope for the best.
Let's hope that we canencourage everyone to start
farming better farming for thegood of humanity, that we can
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reduce the seed oils, reduce thehigh fructose corn syrup I
think those are two of the worstthings for our human health and
the glyphosate all of thepesticides and herbicides that
are used are basicallyantibiotics.
I think we don't realize thatand herbicides that are used are
basically antibiotics.
I think we don't realize that.
You know, everybody talks aboutbeing gluten sensitive, but
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while there may be, you knowpeople who are sensitive to the
wheat and the gluten, I thinkthe glyphosate named Stephanie
Senna from MIT has recently comeout stating that she believes a
lot of this sensitivity iscoming from the glyphosate,
which you know it's probably acombination of all these things
that all these things are toxic.
Our gut isn't used to that,right, and every time we know
now, right, that antibioticsit's becoming a problem.
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They're so overused.
We're getting an antibioticresistance, right.
We know it can kill our gutanywhere from three to 12 months
to recover right.
But if we're eating wheat everyday laden with antibiotics, you
know this is why we have suchimmune problems, right, because
we're killing off all of thegood immunity, all of the good
bugs that enable us to absorbour nutrients.
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They help us stay immune to themore dangerous things.
So it's a really, reallyimportant.
You know we can't all affordorganic all the time, but every
single year, you know, we comeout with the dirty dozen and the
clean 15.
So look that up.
You know, if you have to, canonly buy certain things organic,
then definitely go for thethings.
Think about things with thinskins, right, strawberries,
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grapes, but something like abanana which is a thicker skin,
you know, don't, don't wasteyour money on organic for that.
You thicker skin.
You know, don't waste yourmoney on organic for that.
You know it's not a problem.
Peppers, you know those oftenyou know it's so thin that the
pesticides really get in there.
So you know again, the morenutrient dense food we have, the
healthier we'll be.
So magnesium my second biggestthing is minerals, minerals,
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minerals, minerals, minerals.
You know people ask me aboutfluoride all the time.
Our teeth are made of minerals.
We need minerals If we want tohave healthy teeth and gums, we
need minerals and so minerals.
Whether it's in a supplementform, a liquid form, I don't
really care, as long as you getit in there.
If you tend to have digestiveissues, I say go for the liquid.
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Liquid doesn't, you know, don'thave to dissolve a capsule in
your stomach.
A lot of us have low stomachacid and we don't digest very
well, so go for the liquidminerals.
So there are a bunch ofcompanies out there.
I don't really care which onesyou buy, but go for some
minerals.
Binders, as I said, very, veryimportant because of the toxic
world we live in, especially ifyou know you're traveling.
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You're going to be eating out alot, you're going to be exposed
to all sorts of exhaust andfumes and other people's perfume
and all those kinds of things.
So Biner's is always good,especially when you travel.
Take that with you.
B vitamins that's somethingthat a lot of foods are
fortified with B vitamins, butyou know they may not be the
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most assimilable B vitamins, soa B complex is really important.
You can buy B pollen, is anexcellent food source, and
that's.
Those are little granules.
You can sprinkle them on anykind of food you want, so throw
them in a smoothie, it's great.
And my other big favorite way toget bee vitamins is liver
capsules.
I wish I could say that I eatliver every week, but I just
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can't do it.
I've tried, it's not bad, butit's a mental block.
So fortunately we have livercapsules.
You can buy grass-fed, really,really high quality.
We're getting our good mineralsand now we're getting our
copper and we're getting our Bvitamins.
We're getting our iron rightthe good form of iron that's
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really important that we don'treally get from plant foods.
And then the fat-solublevitamins.
So that's vitamin D, vitamin A,vitamin E and vitamin K.
Those four fat-soluble vitamins, along with the minerals, is
what creates strong, healthyteeth and gums, right.
So we need that combination andwe need to have healthy liver
and gallbladder right so that wecan absorb.
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If we have issues with ourliver maybe we don't have a
gallbladder anymore it's hard.
If we don't create quality bile, we might not be absorbing
those fat-soluble vitamins.
So, again, trying to get thatin our diet right.
And those are most commonlyfound in animal products.
So this is why I'm not a hugefan of veganism and for some
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people it may work, but for alot of us the quality of those
fat-solid ones has to come fromanimal foods.
But again, everyone is uniqueand people can have great
genetics and are able to takesupplemental form and be
perfectly healthy.
So those are, I find, very,very crucial.
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And if you know, maybe youdon't have a gallbladder, then
maybe you need support with abile.
Salt like Tudka is a reallygood one, or you take digestive
enzymes that have lipase in them.
But those are good ways to helpbe able to absorb the fat,
create good bile so that we canabsorb all those vitamins.
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The fat create good bile sothat we can absorb all those
vitamins.
Right, I always I drink teaevery morning.
I'm not a big coffee person,but I love teas and there are so
many great herbal teas and youcan get a lot of nutrients from
teas, right.
One of the big categories ofhealth foods is polyphenols,
right, and you get a lot ofthose from coffee.
We think about them in brightlycolored vegetables, right, all
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those colorful.
We say about them in brightlycolored vegetables.
Right, all the those colorfulwe say eat a rainbow.
Right, and that's because wewant those polyphenols.
They feed our good bacteria.
They're just full of a lot ofnutrients that help all of our
cellular processes just workbetter.
They support our mitochondriaand make sure that we have
really good, healthy lookingcells and we want to make sure
that we're getting proper,healthy fats.
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Every single cell in our body islined with fats, mainly
cholesterol.
So this is why I get on a tizzywhen so many people are on all
these stands that maybe don'tneed to be.
We need to have cholesterol.
It is absolutely vital forevery cell in our body.
So if we have high cholesterol,absolutely vital for every cell
in our body.
So if we have high cholesterol,we need to think beyond just
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looking at HDL and LDL andreally understanding what is the
makeup of the sats in our blood, because it's much more complex
than just those two molecules.
And if we do have highcholesterol, why?
But again, please understandthat the science shows the
healthier you are, the older youare, the higher your
cholesterol is.
So those individuals who are intheir 80s, they can may have
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cholesterols of 400.
And they're healthy as a horse.
So again, it's more than justthe numbers.
You have to look at the wholebody, right, and we get so
pigeonholed because there's somuch you know specialization in
medicine today and we just focuson one little thing instead of
looking at the whole picture.
So let's look at the wholepicture.
I think digestive enzymessometimes, and stomach acid
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support can be really, reallycrucial.
If you're somebody who suffersfrom a lot of gas and bloating,
there's definitely an overgrowthin bacteria where there
shouldn't be and that's mostlybecause not enough stomach acid.
So you have a lot of people whoare on the you know the PPIs
and shutting down because theyhave reflux.
But again, as we've talkedabout and I tell my patients all
the time, most of the time thereflux is from not enough
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stomach acid.
The other big aspect could besleep apnea.
Right, when we are notbreathing properly, when our
diaphragm isn't working properly, we can create reflux.
That pressure differential cancause us to push up stomach acid
into the mouth.
So, again, as I was just saying,when we're thinking about these
symptoms we're having, let'slook at the whole picture, right
(38:53):
, not just about that specificsymptom, but let's ask the
question why, why do I have thissymptom?
Right, and we need to look atall the different aspects of
health.
So we have to have that oralexam as part of it, right,
because if you have erosion allover your teeth, right, that's a
big deal we can see.
Do you have sleep apnea?
Looking at the structure of themouth, but also the way that we
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breathe, are we hunched overall the time?
What is our posture like?
How can we improve breathingthat may improve the reflux
without having to be on?
These medications wouldactually shut down our digestion
, which lead to a lot of chronicdisease.
So my last big topic I want totalk about were sleep habits.
You know, if you ask anybody inthe longevity space, wellness
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space, you know sleep is one ofthose pillars of health.
You know, people say you got toget seven to eight hours of
sleep per night and I thinkthat's an average and most
people agree that's good.
But more specifically than that, we have to have a good balance
of the type of sleep.
So we may be in bed for 12hours, but if we're not getting
enough of the deep, restorativetype of sleep, then the rest is
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just kind of junk sleep.
So some people can thrive onfour and a half hours of sleep
because they're getting an hourand a half of deep sleep.
They're getting an hour and ahalf of the REM sleep.
And those are two importantaspects of sleep.
Where deep is when we drop intothe parasympathetic nervous
system.
It is when our entire body isdetoxing itself.
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It is refreshing, it isregenerating, it is getting rid
of all the junk and that's very,very important for our body to
reset itself.
And the REM, or the rapid eyemovement, that is when we're
kind of consolidating ourmemories and everything we've
learned for the day.
So for good cognitive health weneed to have quality REM and
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that is about the average thatwe want to try to attain about
an hour and a half of each ofthose.
Now there are so many amazingwearables I can't even name them
all but more and moretechnology.
It's really exciting.
We're in a really exciting agewhere there's coming out with so
many great wearables to reallytrack all these different
aspects of our health.
My husband just got me aproduct.
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We've been using it together.
It's called Voluminumen andit's a way to check your
metabolism.
How well are you metabolizingyour carbs and your fats?
By detecting your carbondioxide.
So you breathe into it.
Different aspects of the daywill tell you how your
metabolism is doing and then itwill give you recommendations
Eat this many carbs today, orthis many carbs, or decrease
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your fats.
Or, if you work out out howmany more carbs should you eat.
And for a woman, it tracksbased on my menstrual cycles,
telling me how many carbs Ishould have, which I think is
really exciting, because so manyof us get worried right about
eating carbs.
But as a cycling woman, carbsare very, very important, which
don't want to have too many, butwe also do need enough to
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create the hormones in order tocycle properly.
So that's a cool little gadgetwe've just been using since the
beginning of the year.
So let's finish our talk aboutsleep here.
So ideally we want to be kindof in bed by 9.30, asleep by 10
o'clock, and why we say that isbecause we have a circadian
clock right, and the way thatthe earth and the moon and
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everything works together isalways on this clock.
In Chinese medicine there aredifferent hours of the day that
relate to different organs ofthe body, right.
So if we're in bed by 10o'clock our melatonin should be
kicking in and that is how we'regoing to get the most
restorative sleep.
Interestingly, my deepest sleepis often in that first window
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between 10 and midnight.
So you know, if I'm out orwhatever I'm at a conference,
and then maybe it's a late night, I'm not getting that deep
sleep.
So really important to try tobe in bed by 10.
Other big important factor isstopping to eat three hours
before laying down, if at allpossible.
We want to make sure that ourstomach has emptied before
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laying down.
That's also it's going toreduce the you know incidence of
reflux.
We're going to finish digestingbecause when we're sleeping we
don't want to be digesting right.
We want to be getting rid ofall that toxins.
We want to be doing all thecleanup, we don't want to be
busy digesting, you'll get muchbetter sleep.
If you track your sleep, you'llknow when you have an earlier
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dinner, you sleep much moresoundly and you get much more of
those two quality types ofsleep Breathing exercises.
So another thing I always felt,you know I've had a couple
episodes of talking aboutbreathing, because I've started
to see that in my work when I'mthinking about apnea I think a
lot of it has to do with the waywe breathe.
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You know, I've noticed it's notjust about anatomy, there's
that physiology to it too.
And I notice oftentimes, youknow, the easiest way to get
into the parasympathetic or, youknow, resting nervous system is
by breathing slower, a littlebit deeper, a little bit slower.
And so I bought a special band.
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It goes around my waist orabove my waist, really right
under my rib cage, called OXAO-X-A, and it will track my
breathing.
So it tracks my sleep as well.
But ideally you want to haveabout six to 10 breaths a minute
.
That's ideal.
I know when I wear it at workI'm at like 17 breaths a minute,
which is crazy.
No wonder I can get tiredduring the day.
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I'm over breathing.
So along the ox it has allthese great resonance breathing
exercises and when I start to dothat, I may take five to 10
minutes before I go to sleep.
I set myself up for thatparasympathetic and I will slip
into deep sleep so much easier.
But you don't have to have thegadget right.
So if you simply tell yourselfor make yourself breathe, you go
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, breathe in for four, breatheout for six, breathe in for four
, breathe out for six.
You know anything like that.
It's simple doing that you know, for five to 10 minutes you can
listen to.
Also, my favorite thing to dois listen to an app I have
called Meditative Mind.
It's a monthly subscription butagain has all these different
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frequency and one of my favoriteones is called Deep Sleep.
Right, I want to get into thatdeep sleep, I want to recover
and restore, so I will listen tothat while I'm breathing.
So I've got now the sound andI've got the breathing to help
me take me into that propernervous system.
So I get really restorativedeep sleep so that the next day
I can charge ahead and doeverything I need to do.
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I also make sure I stretch alittle bit before I go to bed.
I might do a few like cat cowexercises and little yoga moves,
just a little bit of movementbefore I'm laying down and kind
of being stagnant for, you know,eight hours.
Mouth tape is my favorite.
I always love to put the tapeover my mouth because when your
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mouth is closed it's verydifficult to snore, right.
And so very, very important Ifyou mouth breathe you also put
yourself in sympathetic so youdon't detox, you don't sleep as
deeply before I know it, butsometimes you still can snore
with mouth tape.
If that tongue falls down offthe roof of your mouth, you can
still make a little snoring.
So before I go to bed, after Ibrush and floss my teeth, I
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always try to do a few tongueexercises.
You know I've had somemyofunctional therapists on the
podcast.
I always tell all my patientsabout this couple of YouTube
videos called six exercises forsnoring and sleep apnea.
Look them up.
There's a couple of people Ilike, um, and they're mainly the
same kind of things.
Right, where we'restrengthening the tongue.
The stronger the tongue is andthen it will stay in place
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instead of collapsing back intothe throat, the less likely
you'll snore, the less likelyyou will obstruct the airway and
wake yourself up, right, that'sgoing to distract from getting
all that deep sleep.
So those are simple exercises.
Adds five to 10 minutes to your, you know, hygiene routine
every night.
It's completely worth it.
And my patients who I've beentreating with laser for sleep
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apnea since I added that aspect,the results are profound, you
know.
10 times better than just laseralone Because, again, I think
there's more of the breathing,the physiology, the way the
tongue goes, than just having asmall airway.
So really, really powerful, youknow, try to avoid.
A lot of people hate the CPAP,you know.
So if we can train the body tobreathe properly, to do these
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exercises, keep the tonguestrong, then we can hopefully
avoid those kind of invasivetreatments.
And always when I travel, I'malways taking a mask with me
because, you know, inevitably ina hotel room there's lights
everywhere, you know, and wewant to sleep in a darkest room
as possible, right, because anykind of light is going to
disrupt that circadian rhythm.
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So as dark as possible.
My bedroom at home is very,very dark, but again, in a hotel
room or somewhere I'm not usedto always take a sleep mask with
me.
So that is all of my advice forhow we start the new year off
well.
And so I just want to kind ofrecap.
I think number one thing if youhave a goal and something you
really want to accomplish thisyear, write it down.
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And the other thing to thinkabout that's really important is
align those goals with yourvalues, right?
So maybe we say I want to loseweight or I want to eat
healthier, but if that's notreally one of your values, you
know, if you just want to do itbecause you think you should,
you're never going to accomplishit Right.
And how do we?
How do we know what our valuesare?
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One of the best things I didlast year was I went and visited
Dr Nick and Nicole and I knew aplace in Italy and went on an
amazing retreat that theycultivated.
That was one of the bestexperiences I've ever had and it
was five days of just being inthe now living.
We did meditation, which Ididn't think I knew how to
meditate, but Dr Nick, he showedme how to do it and it was
(48:32):
fabulous and we were justexperiencing life and food.
It was just freshly grown food.
We were in the ocean every day,but every morning we started
out talking about what ourvalues were, and Dr Nick and
Nicole really learned this a lotfrom Joe Dispenza and John
Demartini, who has a reallygreat books and he has a good
(48:54):
website and you can go run onhis website for free.
You can do a quick littlequestionnaire to learn what your
values are.
One of my highest values isteaching right and sharing which
is no surprise right toeverybody.
So when I think about my goals,right, one of my goals, I want
to teach at IIN.
That's aligned with my value,so I'm going to be more likely
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to achieve that goal becauseit's one of my values.
My other values is, you know,being a good mom, raising my
children well.
So, again, another one of myvalues.
My other values is, you know,being a good mom, raising my
children well.
So again, another one of mygoals is trying to give them the
best education I can, right andso and more likely to
accomplish this goal is becausethey are my values, not
something that I think I shoulddo right or that society's
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expecting of me.
It's what is deep in my soul.
So so figure out what yourvalues are and again, it may
take 10 minutes.
You can go online at DrDemartini's site, do a little
value quiz, very, very easy, andthen maybe redefine what your
goals are right, and I just wantto leave you with the thought
of just living for the moment.
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We don't know how much time wehave on this planet.
We're always rushing to go hereor there, thinking about the
future, thinking about the past.
If we really want to change ourlives and create our lives, we
need to be in the now.
We need to put the energy inthe now, not just wishing for
what we want, what we could haveor what we don't have right.
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It's putting that energy intothe here and now.
So again, I want to thankeverybody for being loyal
listeners to our podcast.
Please let me know anyquestions that you have.
I love it when people reach outto me and I love directing them
to wherever they need to be.
If you can, please leave us areview.
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That really helps get the wordout.
It helps other people learnabout our podcast so they can
get other great guests on theshow.
So I hope everyone has awonderful rest of their day.
I wish everyone a happy,healthy 2025, and I'll see you
on the next episode.
Bye for now.
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