November 23, 2023 • 36 mins
Ever wondered how the seemingly harmless products you use daily could be affecting your health? That's what we're tackling in this eye-opening episode. Strap in as we unveil the hidden toxins lurking in our environment, food, and everyday products. We'll pinpoint common culprits like pesticides in our foods, chemicals in beauty products, fluoride in water, and even emotional toxins that are impacting our overall well-being. But fear not, we're not here to frighten you but enlighten you and arm you with practical solutions to reduce these toxic loads. Hear our personal experiences and preferences for non-toxic products, and see how easy it can be to make the switch.
An essential part of our discussion focuses on the importance of clean ingredients. We shed light on why it's imperative to scrutinize ingredient labels and choose chemical-free products not just for ourselves, but also for the safety of our pets. We share alternatives like essential oils, and unscented options, and give tips on how to spot toxic seed oils. Remember, your choices can significantly impact your health, so let's choose wisely. And if you've ever been confused about the organic versus non-organic debate, we've got you covered! We delve into this controversy, highlighting the benefits of choosing organic options whenever possible.
As we approach the holiday season, we realize sticking to a healthy diet can be a real challenge. So we've put together some tips to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle without missing out on the festivities. We stress the importance of choosing clean, healthy foods, and discuss convenient ways to stick to your diet. After all, a healthy outside starts from the inside. But we believe that detoxification isn't just about physical health; it's also about mental well-being. We emphasize the energetic aspect of detoxification, urging listeners to maintain a positive mindset. After all, your health is an investment, not an expense. We'll see you in our next episode before Thanksgiving week. Until then, take care and stay healthy!
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Renee (00:07):
And we're live.
Janine is here with us.
She looks great, doesn't she?
She's having camera issuestoday, but she's still here with
us.
So welcome everybody to theTummy Whisper podcast.
We are on episode number 10already.
I can't believe it.
It's so exciting and when I wasthinking about what I'd be
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talking about today, there'sjust so many topics and so many
things to talk about when we'retalking about whispering the
tummy.
But I thought I would branchout a little bit and talk about
toxins environmental.
What's in the air, what's inour environment, what's in our
food?
How can we start to lower thetoxic load in our body?
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And there's many ways to do it.
So, janine, you and I havetalked about this before.
Feel free to jump in anytime.
I feel like I don't, since Ican't see you.
You're not really here, but youare.
Janine (01:00):
I'm here.
I'm here.
Renee (01:01):
I swear I'm here.
I know you're here, but Ithought we would just dive into,
maybe starting with some foodtoxins and then spilling out
over into the environment, butjust a quick idea about what
toxins are, where they're found,how we can start to lower the
toxic burden in our environmentby what we eat, by what we
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breathe, the air that we breathe, by what we surround ourselves
with.
And then, don't forget, there'semotional toxins too, and
that's a whole other podcast.
But starting with the air,starting with our water,
starting with our food our foodtoday is just not grown on very
clean soil.
There's a lot of pesticide,there's a lot of genetic
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modification, there's a lot ofenvironmental toxins.
There's just dirt in the airand dirt everywhere.
So we have to do extrafiltering and cleaning to get
cleaner products in our body.
And I will say Facebook.
I'm a target on Facebookbecause of what I do for a
living, but I'm always gettinginundated with all these
different snacks and oils andproducts, isn't it fine?
(02:07):
You're like this sucks, this isgood, this sucks, this is good,
and I do my due diligence and Iactually I'm going to talk about
the cooking oils a little bitlater on but I got a paid
advertisement from a companycalled Zero Acres and this guy
was talking about cooking oilsand I'm always searching for
something that's clean, that hasa high smoke point and is, and
this guy really did his duediligence and created a really
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awesome product.
So I'll get into oils in alittle bit, but I want to start
with just let's start with someenvironmental toxins, then we'll
go over into the foods.
We've talked about pluginsbefore.
Perfumes, deodorants, cruise.
There's so many toxicingredients in our beauty
products.
It is daunting and some of thestuff you can't even pronounce
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and they use it as preservative,as a way to make things like
more sudsy.
Even in toothpaste there'sfluoride and there'll be
dentists on here going how dareyou bash fluoride?
But fluoride's a toxin and itdoesn't help harden the enamel
of your teeth.
It may do that, but it's alsoan estrogen mimicker.
It's also a toxin.
It's also.
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The body doesn't have a way toreally get rid of that stuff.
So fluoride toothpaste is.
I believe it's a marketingthing.
People should probably gettoothpaste without fluoride.
Now again, I'm not a dentist soI certainly can't make
recommendations for youpersonally, but I personally do
not use toothpaste with fluoridein it, and I haven't for years.
Janine (03:32):
Don't they keep putting fluoride in our water?
Oh, it's in there.
Renee (03:37):
It is in there.
I'll just send another thingand we can do a whole show on
water, but I'll give it just aquick minute excerpt on water.
If you are not filtering yourwater and I don't care where you
live, you are the water filter.
You're filtering all the toxinsout through your own body.
So I always love you when yousay you've heard me say it
before either buy a water filteror become a water filter.
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You need to clean the water.
You can't afford a big fancysystem.
You can get a Brita or a zeropitcher.
That's 46 bucks from Amazon andthat will at least clean a lot
of the garbage out.
We use a Berkey filter here athome, which is great.
It takes out the fluoride, thechlorine, viruses, parasites,
mold.
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It takes out so much stuff.
I'm on water here where I liveout in Fox Lake Illinois, so
there's a lot of parasites and alot of bacteria and a lot of
stuff you don't want to bedrinking.
So we filter all that out.
The Berkey filter keeps theminerals intact, so it's a nice
system.
My system costs about 350 bucksand it's a lifetime system.
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I have to replace the filtersonce a year.
They're like 46 bucks for thefluoride filters and then for
the big black filters.
Those are every five years andthey're under $100.
So it is definitely a moneysaver.
And if you're drinking water outof plastic for females, for
males too, it's estrogenmimicking.
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If you're over 30, you'redrinking out of plastic, you
definitely don't.
There's phthalates in thereestrogen mimickers.
The body doesn't clear all thatstuff out.
It was funny.
I even took Rook, my dog.
I have an environmentalholistic vet for him and they
did a little swab on his gums tosee where he was having any
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kind of sensitivities toenvironment or foods or anything
I was feeding him or anything.
And he was in great shape, thislittle guy.
It made me so happy.
The only thing that showed upon his little cheek swab was he
had a sensitivity to plastics.
So he does love to steal theplastic bags and chew them and
shred them and all that stuff.
And it was a very low level.
Plastics showed up for himbecause plastic is everywhere.
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It's probably in our water andI'm not sure if my Berkey is
filtering out all the plasticsand if the plastics are filtered
out of all the food that we eat.
His little frozen pucks are inplastic in the freezer.
So it's funny.
I found an amazing littlerestaurant about half an hour
for me in Lake Bluff, illinois.
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So if anybody is near LakeBluff, there's a restaurant
called Forest Greens and shemakes organic, clean,
environmentally friendly soupsand this is plastic that's made
from, not plastic, excuse me,she used.
The cartons are not plastic orStyrofoam, they are paper and
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the liner is all plant-based.
So you have to really open upthe soup and let's start to
defrost.
You have to get it in the potand eat it within one to two
days because the packaging willstart to get soft and the water
doesn't leak through it, butthere's no crap going into your
soup that the food is sitting in.
So looking at packaging isanother thing.
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Plastic is.
You can't go to the grocerystore without finding stuff in
plastic.
So getting rid of the plastics,or getting rid of as much as
you can, is definitely a bighelp.
Back to the water real quick.
Fill up the water, get somekind of water filtration system
for yourself.
It's only going to help yourhealth long term.
When we were talking aboutshampoos and we're talking about
so I use for bar soap, I useZoom, the Zoom line.
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Zum it's a goat soap, goat milksoap with essential oils and
there's no crap in it.
So all the SLSs and all thefoaming agents and all the stuff
that you would find in shampoosand soaps and conditioners not
foaming conditioner, but there'sa lot of stuff in there and
there's a lot of companies thathave really taken care of trying
to get that stuff out and makecleaner products for people who
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want it, like me and otherpeople who are aware and don't
want to put crap in there ontheir body.
Even it doesn't have to beorganic.
It just has to be not loadedwith chemicals.
Janine (07:50):
What about no sulfites?
Like I know that when I buystuff to do with hair products,
I try to do it as no sulfite asI can.
Renee (08:01):
As clean as possible?
Janine (08:02):
Yeah, or paraffins.
What is it Parabens?
Renee (08:05):
Parabens are a big one, yeah yeah, and there's a lot of.
It's hard to get all that stuffout.
But if you can get it mostlyout and you have this a little
bit in, if you're getting lessof a hit to your body remember
your skin is your largest organof absorption right.
What you put on goes in.
So if you're putting stuff on,the body's got to filter and
clean it out.
The kidneys deliver all yourorgans of detoxification nasal
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passages, skin part of ourdetoxification right and urinary
bladder and bowels.
That's the way we get rid ofstuff.
But if stuff gets stuck in thetissues and causes issues in the
tissues, we're going to haveproblems, issues in the tissues.
Another thing to look at too isnot just what we're putting on
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our skin, but what we'rebreathing.
I know we've talked aboutplugins before, but even saying
those two words together causesme great PTSD.
I cannot.
I just don't have the bandwidthfor the chemicals.
Some people can handle themjust fine, and again, that's
good.
Their body doesn't tell themhey, this is a problem.
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Like me, I get a burningheadache when I have an around
perfume or Febreze or anythinglike that.
In fact, I just ordered somelittle poop bag containers for
the end of the leash for a rowand they always send them with
some bags in them and the bagsare always scented and I'm like,
I hope in the package fromAmazon I go, why?
(09:31):
Yeah?
Janine (09:33):
why would they do that?
Renee (09:35):
Even if I get a magazine which I don't get magazines, but
once in a while I'll get like aglamour or a logo it's got a
perfume card sample in there andI'm like I don't even open it,
I just send it straight into thegarage, in the garbage in the
garage yeah, those kinds ofthings.
In the home, if you're usingcandles and air fresheners, if
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you want to use a clean, freshin the home essential oils, if
you have pets, look up what oilsare indicated around dogs,
around cats.
But using cleaner stuff withoutthe chemicals is a long-term
help for the body.
You feel good now You're inyour 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, but
down the road you don't want toend up with brain diseases and
things that cause issues becausethe body's full of loaded with
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toxins and doesn't have a way torelease and get rid of them
because we keep bombarding thebody with the toxic environment.
So the air that we breathe.
Cleaning products seventhgeneration there's a bunch of.
You can just Google whatevercleaning products there are.
Some people like themulti-level marketing Melaleuca.
I use some of their products.
If you notice that somethingbothers, you switch to something
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else, switch to unscented.
I mean, everything for me isunscented.
How about the garbage bags?
Scented garbage bags.
Why is that a thing?
That is why I have the goodpoint.
And what is?
Janine (10:56):
in that scent?
What is actually in that?
What chemicals are in that Tomake it?
Renee (11:01):
smell.
I mean, I can't tell you howmany times I, when I go to the
grocery store and I know whichglad bags to buy there have no
scent in them.
But every once in a while Markmakes a mistake or I make a
mistake and I don't check thelabel and I open up the thing.
I rip open the cardboard andI'm bombarded with the toxins.
I'm like, oh, I just close itup and then give it to my
neighbor.
So so garbage, scented garbagebags, things that are scented,
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is a good thing to start gettingout of the environment.
And not only is it bad for youguys, it's bad for your pets.
It's one thing if you don'tcare about yourself.
Take some care for your pets,your cats and your dogs and your
living animals in your homethat are breathing in that stuff
, that have smaller organs ofdetoxification than we do and
have a harder time getting stuffout because their little livers
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are smaller, right, theirkidneys are smaller than ours
Little chalupas, Little chalupasoh, I wish I could see the
chalupas.
Janine (11:56):
They're right next to me , they're sleeping.
I have a tent, I have a littletent for them, and they're
snuggling up together.
Renee (12:03):
Episode number 11,.
Stay tuned for the chalupas, Iknow.
Janine (12:08):
My babies.
Renee (12:09):
So, janine, do you clean your house with?
Do you use Lysol, or do you useany of that stuff, or do you
try to use like?
Janine (12:16):
Try to use like Malaluka products or like seventh
generation or something that'slike less toxic to the.
Yeah, because the last thingfirst of all.
Those chemicals are so potentin itself Like even Clorox is
just the scent of it.
It's awful.
So it's super important whenyou're cleaning that you have
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things that are safe, especiallywith you and I may not have
children, but we have dogs andthey're like kids and they lay
on the floor and they're lickingtheir paws and people don't
realize what they're doing totheir animals when they're
mopping their floors or wipingoff different surfaces.
Renee (12:54):
And it's one thing too if you're gonna use a little
bleach, then wash it with waterafterwards I know like our
shower gets pretty like the moldand diatomaceous earth and
apple cider vinegar not applecider, but like white vinegar or
something like that Get some ofit.
But sometimes you need just alittle elbow grease.
So if you're gonna use itquickly, get your air purifier
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going and then rinse it.
Rinse it really and rinse itfast.
Sometimes you do have to use alittle bit of bleach for
something or another, but notevery week and not all the time.
It's definitely something thatyou can use as a once in a while
thing, for sure.
And that's another thing toocountertops what are you washing
your countertops with?
Vinegar is a greatanti-parasitic, anti-viral,
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anti-microbial.
A little vinegar and watercleans your surfaces.
You certainly have to becareful with vinegar on wood,
but other surfaces certainly.
It's good for that too.
Janine (13:45):
My dad's wore by white vinegar Growing up it was always
white vinegar in the mop, whitevinegar on everything.
Renee (13:52):
Yeah, your house was a small like vinegar.
Janine (13:54):
It did it did.
I have PTSD from that, but itwas healthier.
Renee (14:00):
But you probably don't have any vinegar in your house
because you're like no vinegar.
Janine (14:03):
No white vinegar for me.
I'm sure, I think I have itsomewhere, but I don't use it on
purpose.
Renee (14:07):
I'm like no, the other thing too I was gonna mention is
laundry detergent.
Hmm, I found something I meanthese health groups on Facebook
and I'll just look every once ina while because I don't wanna
spend too much time on it butthey're these little laundry
sheets now, not tied pods guys,not that.
But there's something that Ihave it's a reasonable price,
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called clean people, and it's asheet.
It's a soap sheet that's gotlike biodegradable enzymes that
are break the dirt off theclothes and I get the unscented
because I don't want the scentsand it cleans wonderfully.
And when you're washing yourclothes, one rinse isn't enough
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on some of those commercialdetergents, right, if you wash
your clothes, and you probablydon't have to put soap in every
single time if you're usingcommercial detergent, because
the sudsing agents are.
They're just so much in themthat if you lift the lid up to
the washing machine, you'd seethe white suds even on the rinse
cycle.
So that's why I like thisproduct.
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Clean people you can get onAmazon C-L-E-A-N.
People, clean people littlesheets that you throw in, one
for a small load, two for alarge load, and sometimes I'll
use a little bit of Melaleucaoil just to disinfect the
underwear.
Yeah yeah, from or if I'mwashing Rook stuff you wanna get
, he's always in stuff androlling in stuff.
So you wanna have some kind ofantimicrobial agent in the
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washing machine.
That's not a toxin.
A little tea tree oil coupledrops into the cycle.
Janine (15:38):
Oh, that's a good idea.
Renee (15:39):
Tea tree oil Tea tree oil yeah, but that clean people is
great.
I know Dottara makes laundrydetergent that I've used.
Janine (15:45):
Oh, I love Dottara products.
I love that yeah.
Renee (15:49):
I sometimes use their laundry detergent a little bit.
With that, just a little bit.
If I'm using the clean people,if I have a big load, I'll put a
couple of so a little quarterof a cap full in just to give it
the nice Dottara smell theessential oils.
But laundry detergent is a bigthing.
And again, Janine, right, I'mwashing Rook, I'm drying them
off with my towels.
Do I wanna be drying them offwith toxins?
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No, you don't wanna dry thetulupas off with toxins.
Right, you want your laundrydetergent.
Janine (16:15):
But people are used to growing up in a society where
you watch the tide bear on thetelevision and you watch the yes
, the snuggle bear.
The snuggle bear.
And then you watch the.
You're programmed in the 60sand 70s and 80s and 90s to do
and buy certain things and it'sso crazy the advertising that
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it's just so unhealthyadvertising.
Renee (16:44):
And you don't even think about like that.
Honestly, the Glade SC Johnsonwax, all these days are going to
come after me, but theirplug-in product is just so
horrible and I told you, when Igo into restaurants, I use the
bathroom, I throw, I take thatplug-in out and I throw it out
because it's you're just killingpeople.
It's really you're just.
You're breathing in that stuffinto your lungs.
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It's no different than vaping.
It's no different than vapingand kids getting popcorn lungs.
You're breathing in that samestuff, only worse.
In my opinion, it is bad.
Where were we?
Yeah, we were at a restaurantlast week and then we came
before and there was a plug-inin there and I just went right
in the garbage and I washed myhands real well afterwards.
Janine (17:25):
That is hilarious.
Renee (17:27):
I know.
Janine (17:27):
You should start a whole movement where you just go
around town in Illinois and justtake all the Glade plug-ins out
.
Renee (17:34):
Yeah, how fun that would be.
We could make it like worldwide.
It'd be the lunatic wherepeople would be like, oh yeah,
the plug-in girl, yeah, and youknow how many people are like
you had.
They'd be like go plug-ins,make me sick, or you know what
you could do.
Janine (17:46):
We could write to them and be like hey, glade, we
should tag Glade in this and belike hey, can you please come up
with an eco-friendlyalternative for?
Your plug-in, because then wewould be promoting them as
opposed to the alternative.
Renee (17:59):
If they made an essential oil and it had none of the
toxins in there, I'd be allabout it, because brand names
are a big thing for people aswell too.
But yeah, so that pretty muchcovers the home between cleaning
products, your own beautyproducts, your water, that type
of thing.
Let's dive into what peoplereally want.
Let's talk about food.
Let's talk about food toxins.
What's in food, what to lookfor, what to avoid, what to try
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to start reading the label onthings like that.
So everybody goes to thegrocery store, everybody has to
buy things, typically buyingyour produce and you're gonna
shop around the outside of thegrocery store because that's
where all the fresh stuff is theinside aisles.
You do need some stuff.
For whatever diet you're on ornot on, I would start looking
for things that have ingredientsthat are less than six.
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Ingredients are less than six.
So if you are looking at ifyou're gluten-free and you get a
gluten-free cracker or agluten-free cookie, you wanna
look for ingredients that arethings less than six.
So there's a specific buckwheatcracker that I get that has two
ingredients in it Buckwheat andwater.
Perfect, it's a gluten-freecracker, it's organic, it's
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non-GMO and that's one of thecrackers that I use.
Seed oils are another thing thatpeople are becoming very aware
of, and it's something to stayaway from.
Seed oils are very toxic.
Now, I'm not saying sunflowerseeds or pumpkin seeds in whole
form are toxic, because they'renot.
It's the seed oil that turnsrancid in high heat and a lot of
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these companies use thesesunflower seed oil because, a
it's cheap and B it's availableand you can get it and they can
get it in big quantities.
But sunflower seed oil and alot of the seed oils very toxic.
So when you're looking at yourfavorite products, guys look for
sunflower seed oil and thingslike that, tlax seed oil.
That's not great either, unlessyou're actually grinding your
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own flax seeds and using thatfor your oatmeal or something
like that.
So the seed oils are anotherbig one.
There's been a big controversyon organic versus non-organic.
If what you're buying saysorganic on it, is it 100%
organic?
No, it's not.
Nothing can be 100% organic,but what it has is less
chemicals on it, less crap on it.
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So instead of getting somethingthat's not organic, you're
having a big boatload of toxicwaste on it, right, toxic crap,
chemicals.
You're buying something that'sorganic, maybe has less than
half, maybe hopefully more thanthat of toxic stuff.
That's not in it.
There are certain things thatcompanies to label something
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organic, a food product, it doescost companies a lot of money,
so a lot of companies stay awayfrom it, just like that seed oil
, that oil that I was talkingabout earlier.
They are organic and free butthey don't pay to stay organic
because it would cost thecompany tons of money.
I think it's I don't know howmuch it is, but it costs small
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businesses a lot of money.
Janine (21:01):
I'm not gonna be totally that's the whole podcast in
itself.
It is, they believe, somethingas organic or non-GMO or
non-gluten-free or like thatwhole process.
Kosher, like that whole process.
Renee (21:13):
Yes, yes, vegan yeah, and the company that was mentioning
earlier this is what I wastalking about was Zero Acre
Farms.
And here I just, oops, hold onT-t-t-t-to-do.
It is so.
It's gluten-free and I'm gonnalook at the profile real quick.
They have no.
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Vegetable oils are bad.
Fat is good.
Vegetable oils are bad, bad forus, bad for the planet.
This guy goes into Y, I'll sendyou the little link.
But this is a cultured oil,cultured fermented oil, and it
really talks about why the waythey process their oil and how
it's grown in a very specializedregion of the world where it's
less toxic, is better for you.
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It stands with stands on highsmoke point.
You can saute, you can cook,you can fry in it, you can do
anything, and it's got a veryneutral flavor.
You can pour it straight onyour salad for salad dressing.
All that is very important interms of where things are grown.
And do you know the companyBulletproof Genine Hiver ever
heard of doing?
I do, dave Appsbury.
So he's got a new coffee calledhe changed the Bulletproof name
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to I don't know, it's somecrazy name Danger that has
danger coffee.
It's danger coffee.
It's so good, it's dangerous.
So he doesn't label his coffeeorganic, but his stuff, his
coffee beans are grown in aplace in the Robots.
I don't know where they are,but they don't use pesticides.
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But in order for him to stayorganic.
He's a small business, he's gota big business but it would
cost him a lot of money to staycertified organic.
But some companies will pay it.
But his stuff is clean and itdoesn't have the pesticides that
we use here in the good old USAthat are banned in other
countries, which I've mentionedbefore.
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Europe does not.
I don't know how many places.
There's only a few places thatallow roundup and we're one of
the lucky ones.
Janine (23:07):
So Interesting Europe.
Europe is a totally it's.
You're going to laugh at me andyell at me, but it's the only
country, or the only countriesin the world were like when I
lived in Italy, I would drink acan of Coca Cola because it was
actually made with sugar, likethen.
It's not made with high fridges, corn syrup, like.
The actual ingredients arelisted and it's a different case
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to everything over there, butthey don't allow certain things
that Europe does not.
Renee (23:35):
they have banned so many things that we allow here, and
we wonder why we're such a sicksociety for such an advanced
country that we are so farbehind the times when it comes
to our food, and that's not anaccident, so I believe that 100%
they're.
They know money in the caremoney's in keeping, keeping
everyone sick.
And this drug, need that drugand sounding like Chris rock,
(23:58):
off to it.
So you do some of the funniestbits on drugs and doctors off to
send you one if you need tolaugh.
But but back to what'simportant.
So you don't feel great and youthink that you would like to
start feeling better.
Start checking in with yourenvironment, what you're putting
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on your skin, what you'reliving within your home, your
cleaning products, what you'reeating, going with things that
have less than five than them.
I'm not saying I have someclients, jeanine, who come to me
eating very clean salads andgrilled chicken and no cereal,
vegetables and fruit and stillfeel poor because part of it is
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they're not breaking down withtheir eating.
But their organs ofdetoxification are working
really well.
And when we're talking in termsof detoxification, we always
start with how the body gets ridof stuff.
What do we put into the body?
Food, right food is if we don'tdigest what we're putting in.
That's the first way we startbacking up our detoxification
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pathways.
The first way is by putting ininflammatory things that our
bodies can't get rid of, andthese foods get trapped in the
tissues and can't get rid of thepesticides and the toxins that
are on these foods.
The term, like you got, we'vetalked about before.
How does the gut leak leaksfrom undigested food particles
that actually pass through thegut membrane, from something
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called zonulin.
So when you eat certain foodson your release, the tight
junctions of the GI track thatare very tight start to pry
apart and then the that opens up.
I'm sorry, in the junctions ofthe GI tracks it's supposed to
be very tight when they start toopen up, that's when the
undigested food particles canleak in to the bloodstream.
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The kidneys have to clean andfilter the blood and if there's
so much undigested food in there, it's going to back up the
kidneys.
The liver's in play there.
The liver can hold on to stuff.
The bile from the liver makesthe bile.
The gallbladder regulates it.
Bile is a huge organdetoxification.
The bile is what holds toxinsin as well.
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So if you're craving a lot offat and craving a lot of sugar
and your body's not breaking itdown, you're going to get sludge
, you file, you're going to getdiarrhea, you're going to get
constipation, bloating, gas, allthe digestive stuff.
So here's a way to use whatyour level of health is as a
barometer How's your digestionRight?
Do you have good digestion?
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Are you bloated?
Do you have gas?
Do you have poor ball movements?
Do you have low energy?
Do you wake up in the morning?
Do you wake up in the morningfeeling like you can need
another three to five hours ofsleep because you just can't get
out of bed?
That is a surefire sign thatyour digestion isn't working.
And what you're eating maybepart of the issue, but how
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you're digesting what you'reeating is the second part of it,
because, remember, good healthis what you're eating, how your
body digest it, absorbs thenutrients and gets rid of the
waste.
And then there's 10 other stuffin between there about what has
to happen with conversion andwhat's the difference to be used
for making hormones or makingenergy or whatever we need for
our bodies to perform optimally,which a lot of people just
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don't feel good anymore.
And why is that?
It's because our world isfricking polluted.
Our food is polluted.
I'm on my soapbox, but you guyswho are listening I know you
guys understand this, becauseyou're like, yeah, I've been
thinking about this and I don'tfeel good, or I already knew
about this, and this is great tohear somebody else talk about
it, because it's true.
Janine (27:37):
It's so true, it's so true and it's people just don't
know what they don't know, and alot of things are.
But then again that raises thequestion can we're all old
enough to know better and knowhow to find resources to know
better?
So it's like what excuse, towhat point can you give someone
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grace?
And when it comes to that, andthat's- a great point.
Renee (28:03):
It's hard for people to make change because they're so
used to what they're used tountil they're not feeling good
and then they're forced intochange or they want to do a
little bit of preventativemaintenance and not feel crappy
as they're aging right.
Do some prevention now so thatyou can age gracefully, not
talking without wrinkles or grayhair.
I'm talking feeling good everyday, which a lot of people don't
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, and it's definitely important,and we talked about this last
podcast.
We're entering into holidayseason, or as I call it, holiday
or food season, becauseeveryone uses the excuse of oh,
thanksgiving and Halloween'sover now, but Thanksgiving and
Christmas and New Year's and allthis other stuff, and it's not
really an excuse to eat poorly.
You can have a lot of volume offood.
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You just have to make sure it'sgood, clean, healthy food.
Like I am hosting forThanksgiving, it's gonna be Rook
and Mark and I and hopefullyhis daughter is coming,
hopefully Greta will be joiningus and maybe a friend of mine
might be coming and bringing herdog too, which will be fun.
But we're gonna have turkey,we're gonna have butternut
squash soup and we have somegarlic green beans, gonna have
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some sweet potatoes, some mashedpotatoes and these delicious.
Janine (29:14):
Butternut squash soup is that traditional?
Renee (29:17):
Yes, yes, you have you.
Janine (29:19):
Yeah, have you ever had butternut squash soup In
restaurants?
But I've never actually made it, and I love it.
Renee (29:25):
And so that four screens and fluff plug.
They make a delicious butternutsquash soup.
In fact, I'm gonna have theowner on with me when she can
find some time so we can getmore people over to her Cute
little cafe.
She's got juices, she's gotsweets, she's got soup, she's
got entrees.
Everything is organic, handmade, so delicious.
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We picked up a.
This was grilled chicken on abed of sprouts with roasted.
Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoand this cashew dressing.
I have a tiny little bit ofspice to it.
My body loved it.
My body loved it.
I told her thank you for savingmy marriage Because I don't
like to cook and you said youhave a place by you that you
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could pick up your little niceentrees with grilled chicken and
some vegetables Mixed, somecheese.
Janine (30:14):
There's a place it's called Delivery Service, but
it's local and you can literallygo in there and the chef is in
there making gluten-free mealsand not only gluten-free if he
makes a little bit of everything.
But they're healthy, they'reportioned, you can go in and
grab them and they're reallygood.
I think it's fit foods orsomething local, yeah that's so
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nice.
That's so nice, so delicious.
Renee (30:40):
And that's what people can start looking for a local
place near you that you can pickup a nice grilled salmon on a
bed of greens and some potatoesor something like that.
If you don't like to cook andso many of my clients have
included myself something Idon't like to, I just don't make
the time to I'll make eggs outor something like that and make
some oatmeal or something orwhatever.
I'll grill some chicken orsomething or bake some chicken
or something like that.
But to open up the refrigeratorand have those soups and have
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those little entrees, it makeslife so much easier and it makes
it easier to stick to my diet.
In fact, anna Marie is.
She's the owner of ForestGreens and she's so kind and I
told her that I wanna have somesoups made without black pepper,
because for people that areauto-mean like myself, black
pepper is really an O, and she'smore than happy to make some
soups for me, some of her soupswithout black pepper.
Janine (31:26):
I didn't know that black pepper can be like a trigger
for auto-immune.
Renee (31:31):
Yeah, it definitely hits the immune system hard and if
you don't have an issue with it,it's fine.
But when you have auto-immune,that's one of the things to
watch that and the nightshades,of course, for sure, and other
things, and we can make aseparate show about that we will
.
But, yeah, finding someconvenient ways to feed yourself
cleanly, cleaning up yourenvironment, chewing your food
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really well, is a nice, good wayto detoxify.
And breathing.
I don't talk about it on everyepisode, but I wanna end today's
episode with just taking aminute after dinner and just
sitting, relaxing and justopening up your rib cage, taking
deep breath in and just exhaleout.
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Open up that rib cage, allowthe diaphragm to release and
push the contents of the stomachso that the stomach can start
digesting better.
So your diaphragm a lot ofpeople's diaphragms, myself
included just tight and itdoesn't allow for it, can impair
digestion.
So when you can open up andexpand your rib cage and give
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your food room and give yourstomach room to break down the
incoming load, that is helpingto release the contents of the
stomach and helping withdigestion.
So, sitting for a minute andbreathing breathing is free,
doesn't get any cheaper thanthat.
Guys, it's free.
Take a minute after dinner everyday, one minute.
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Sit, relax and breathe inthrough the nose always that's
the only mandatory rule and outthrough either the mouth or the
nose, and expand can put yourhands on your belly.
I'll stand up just for a minute.
Inhale hands, go out, exhale.
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I think it helps when youactually touch your tummy.
You can see your hands push outwhen you're inhaling, so your
hands should be moving out.
When you're inhaling, you'refilling yourself with air and
when you exhale, blow it all out.
Be grateful for the food thatyou eat, and the energetic piece
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to this, to detoxification, ishaving a good mindset around
your environment, your day, yourlife, things that you do, being
good people, being kind, beinghelpful and trying to be the
best person that you can be.
Janine (34:02):
So that was my I was not Renee and I'm standing up right
now doing these exercises withyou.
So I'm literally standing.
It just feels so good to openup that diaphragm because I
struggle with digestiveobviously digestion issues.
So a lot of people forget tojust do that because if they're
sitting and they're not allowingtheir body to open up, they're
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not allowing that digestiveprocess to start too.
Renee (34:26):
Because physically your rib cage is closed in.
But the minute you open up that, you open up your rib cage by
giving it that physical room ofinhaling, your expanding your
rib cage.
Drop your shoulders, you canpress in, you can feel your
tummy and a lot of people whodon't feel good.
That's even hard for them to do.
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But start by just changing yourmind about what you want for
yourself every day.
Just wake up.
Maybe wake up you don't feelgood, but you know what?
Do something that's going togive you joy for that day,
something that's going to makeyou feel good.
And if you can start helpingyour mind and your body do
things to feel good, your energywill follow that.
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Remember, energy flows whereenergy goes.
So if you think you're feelinglike shit, and you are, guess
what?
You're going to keep feelinglike shit until you start to
make some change, and thechanges can be very small.
You can put some extra waterthroughout the day.
Put some fruit in your water, alittle bit of cucumber, a
little bit of lemon, if water isboring, so that you can get a
little hydration in you, so thatyour cells can get some water.
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And, as always, reach out to mewith any questions about any of
this.
I'm happy to help.
You guys can reach me atthetummywhisperercom, and if you
have any kind of questionsabout your health, about your
digestion, about the environmentor anything you're thinking
about, please don't be shy.
I'm here to answer yourquestions and, of course, make
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sure you download and AppleSpotify.
Where else?
Janine, I wish we got this.
This is your cart.
Janine (35:57):
Yes, leave a five star rating for Renee on Apple,
spotify or your preferredplatform and definitely share
this with friends or family ifyou like the episode, because it
really goes a long way in thepodcast ecosystem.
Renee (36:12):
It's the ecosystem.
Good job there, janine.
But yeah, everybody, you guys,everybody have a happy, healthy
Thanksgiving.
I don't think we'll be talkingbefore then.
When we have one more episode,I think we will have one.
Janine (36:25):
Let me see, we will.
Renee (36:26):
We have one more, I think so we are going to be.
Let me check it real quick.
We are going to have oneThanksgiving week.
How about that?
That's right, we'll make it fun.
We'll make it fun, that's right, we'll make it fun For sure.
Take care, everybody, be well.
Janine (36:47):
Bye guys.
And we're live.
Janine is here with us.
She looks great, doesn't she?
She's having camera issuestoday, but she's still here with
us.
So welcome everybody to theTummy Whisper podcast.
We are on episode number 10already.
I can't believe it.
It's so exciting and when I wasthinking about what I'd be
(00:30):
talking about today, there'sjust so many topics and so many
things to talk about when we'retalking about whispering the
tummy.
But I thought I would branchout a little bit and talk about
toxins environmental.
What's in the air, what's inour environment, what's in our
food?
How can we start to lower thetoxic load in our body?
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And there's many ways to do it.
So, janine, you and I havetalked about this before.
Feel free to jump in anytime.
I feel like I don't, since Ican't see you.
You're not really here, but youare.
Janine (01:00):
I'm here.
I'm here.
Renee (01:01):
I swear I'm here.
I know you're here, but Ithought we would just dive into,
maybe starting with some foodtoxins and then spilling out
over into the environment, butjust a quick idea about what
toxins are, where they're found,how we can start to lower the
toxic burden in our environmentby what we eat, by what we
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breathe, the air that we breathe, by what we surround ourselves
with.
And then, don't forget, there'semotional toxins too, and
that's a whole other podcast.
But starting with the air,starting with our water,
starting with our food our foodtoday is just not grown on very
clean soil.
There's a lot of pesticide,there's a lot of genetic
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modification, there's a lot ofenvironmental toxins.
There's just dirt in the airand dirt everywhere.
So we have to do extrafiltering and cleaning to get
cleaner products in our body.
And I will say Facebook.
I'm a target on Facebookbecause of what I do for a
living, but I'm always gettinginundated with all these
different snacks and oils andproducts, isn't it fine?
(02:07):
You're like this sucks, this isgood, this sucks, this is good,
and I do my due diligence and Iactually I'm going to talk about
the cooking oils a little bitlater on but I got a paid
advertisement from a companycalled Zero Acres and this guy
was talking about cooking oilsand I'm always searching for
something that's clean, that hasa high smoke point and is, and
this guy really did his duediligence and created a really
(02:30):
awesome product.
So I'll get into oils in alittle bit, but I want to start
with just let's start with someenvironmental toxins, then we'll
go over into the foods.
We've talked about pluginsbefore.
Perfumes, deodorants, cruise.
There's so many toxicingredients in our beauty
products.
It is daunting and some of thestuff you can't even pronounce
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and they use it as preservative,as a way to make things like
more sudsy.
Even in toothpaste there'sfluoride and there'll be
dentists on here going how dareyou bash fluoride?
But fluoride's a toxin and itdoesn't help harden the enamel
of your teeth.
It may do that, but it's alsoan estrogen mimicker.
It's also a toxin.
It's also.
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The body doesn't have a way toreally get rid of that stuff.
So fluoride toothpaste is.
I believe it's a marketingthing.
People should probably gettoothpaste without fluoride.
Now again, I'm not a dentist soI certainly can't make
recommendations for youpersonally, but I personally do
not use toothpaste with fluoridein it, and I haven't for years.
Janine (03:32):
Don't they keep putting fluoride in our water?
Oh, it's in there.
Renee (03:37):
It is in there.
I'll just send another thingand we can do a whole show on
water, but I'll give it just aquick minute excerpt on water.
If you are not filtering yourwater and I don't care where you
live, you are the water filter.
You're filtering all the toxinsout through your own body.
So I always love you when yousay you've heard me say it
before either buy a water filteror become a water filter.
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You need to clean the water.
You can't afford a big fancysystem.
You can get a Brita or a zeropitcher.
That's 46 bucks from Amazon andthat will at least clean a lot
of the garbage out.
We use a Berkey filter here athome, which is great.
It takes out the fluoride, thechlorine, viruses, parasites,
mold.
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It takes out so much stuff.
I'm on water here where I liveout in Fox Lake Illinois, so
there's a lot of parasites and alot of bacteria and a lot of
stuff you don't want to bedrinking.
So we filter all that out.
The Berkey filter keeps theminerals intact, so it's a nice
system.
My system costs about 350 bucksand it's a lifetime system.
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I have to replace the filtersonce a year.
They're like 46 bucks for thefluoride filters and then for
the big black filters.
Those are every five years andthey're under $100.
So it is definitely a moneysaver.
And if you're drinking water outof plastic for females, for
males too, it's estrogenmimicking.
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If you're over 30, you'redrinking out of plastic, you
definitely don't.
There's phthalates in thereestrogen mimickers.
The body doesn't clear all thatstuff out.
It was funny.
I even took Rook, my dog.
I have an environmentalholistic vet for him and they
did a little swab on his gums tosee where he was having any
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kind of sensitivities toenvironment or foods or anything
I was feeding him or anything.
And he was in great shape, thislittle guy.
It made me so happy.
The only thing that showed upon his little cheek swab was he
had a sensitivity to plastics.
So he does love to steal theplastic bags and chew them and
shred them and all that stuff.
And it was a very low level.
Plastics showed up for himbecause plastic is everywhere.
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It's probably in our water andI'm not sure if my Berkey is
filtering out all the plasticsand if the plastics are filtered
out of all the food that we eat.
His little frozen pucks are inplastic in the freezer.
So it's funny.
I found an amazing littlerestaurant about half an hour
for me in Lake Bluff, illinois.
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So if anybody is near LakeBluff, there's a restaurant
called Forest Greens and shemakes organic, clean,
environmentally friendly soupsand this is plastic that's made
from, not plastic, excuse me,she used.
The cartons are not plastic orStyrofoam, they are paper and
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the liner is all plant-based.
So you have to really open upthe soup and let's start to
defrost.
You have to get it in the potand eat it within one to two
days because the packaging willstart to get soft and the water
doesn't leak through it, butthere's no crap going into your
soup that the food is sitting in.
So looking at packaging isanother thing.
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Plastic is.
You can't go to the grocerystore without finding stuff in
plastic.
So getting rid of the plastics,or getting rid of as much as
you can, is definitely a bighelp.
Back to the water real quick.
Fill up the water, get somekind of water filtration system
for yourself.
It's only going to help yourhealth long term.
When we were talking aboutshampoos and we're talking about
so I use for bar soap, I useZoom, the Zoom line.
(07:14):
Zum it's a goat soap, goat milksoap with essential oils and
there's no crap in it.
So all the SLSs and all thefoaming agents and all the stuff
that you would find in shampoosand soaps and conditioners not
foaming conditioner, but there'sa lot of stuff in there and
there's a lot of companies thathave really taken care of trying
to get that stuff out and makecleaner products for people who
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want it, like me and otherpeople who are aware and don't
want to put crap in there ontheir body.
Even it doesn't have to beorganic.
It just has to be not loadedwith chemicals.
Janine (07:50):
What about no sulfites?
Like I know that when I buystuff to do with hair products,
I try to do it as no sulfite asI can.
Renee (08:01):
As clean as possible?
Janine (08:02):
Yeah, or paraffins.
What is it Parabens?
Renee (08:05):
Parabens are a big one, yeah yeah, and there's a lot of.
It's hard to get all that stuffout.
But if you can get it mostlyout and you have this a little
bit in, if you're getting lessof a hit to your body remember
your skin is your largest organof absorption right.
What you put on goes in.
So if you're putting stuff on,the body's got to filter and
clean it out.
The kidneys deliver all yourorgans of detoxification nasal
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passages, skin part of ourdetoxification right and urinary
bladder and bowels.
That's the way we get rid ofstuff.
But if stuff gets stuck in thetissues and causes issues in the
tissues, we're going to haveproblems, issues in the tissues.
Another thing to look at too isnot just what we're putting on
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our skin, but what we'rebreathing.
I know we've talked aboutplugins before, but even saying
those two words together causesme great PTSD.
I cannot.
I just don't have the bandwidthfor the chemicals.
Some people can handle themjust fine, and again, that's
good.
Their body doesn't tell themhey, this is a problem.
(09:11):
Like me, I get a burningheadache when I have an around
perfume or Febreze or anythinglike that.
In fact, I just ordered somelittle poop bag containers for
the end of the leash for a rowand they always send them with
some bags in them and the bagsare always scented and I'm like,
I hope in the package fromAmazon I go, why?
(09:31):
Yeah?
Janine (09:33):
why would they do that?
Renee (09:35):
Even if I get a magazine which I don't get magazines, but
once in a while I'll get like aglamour or a logo it's got a
perfume card sample in there andI'm like I don't even open it,
I just send it straight into thegarage, in the garbage in the
garage yeah, those kinds ofthings.
In the home, if you're usingcandles and air fresheners, if
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you want to use a clean, freshin the home essential oils, if
you have pets, look up what oilsare indicated around dogs,
around cats.
But using cleaner stuff withoutthe chemicals is a long-term
help for the body.
You feel good now You're inyour 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, but
down the road you don't want toend up with brain diseases and
things that cause issues becausethe body's full of loaded with
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toxins and doesn't have a way torelease and get rid of them
because we keep bombarding thebody with the toxic environment.
So the air that we breathe.
Cleaning products seventhgeneration there's a bunch of.
You can just Google whatevercleaning products there are.
Some people like themulti-level marketing Melaleuca.
I use some of their products.
If you notice that somethingbothers, you switch to something
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else, switch to unscented.
I mean, everything for me isunscented.
How about the garbage bags?
Scented garbage bags.
Why is that a thing?
That is why I have the goodpoint.
And what is?
Janine (10:56):
in that scent?
What is actually in that?
What chemicals are in that Tomake it?
Renee (11:01):
smell.
I mean, I can't tell you howmany times I, when I go to the
grocery store and I know whichglad bags to buy there have no
scent in them.
But every once in a while Markmakes a mistake or I make a
mistake and I don't check thelabel and I open up the thing.
I rip open the cardboard andI'm bombarded with the toxins.
I'm like, oh, I just close itup and then give it to my
neighbor.
So so garbage, scented garbagebags, things that are scented,
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is a good thing to start gettingout of the environment.
And not only is it bad for youguys, it's bad for your pets.
It's one thing if you don'tcare about yourself.
Take some care for your pets,your cats and your dogs and your
living animals in your homethat are breathing in that stuff
, that have smaller organs ofdetoxification than we do and
have a harder time getting stuffout because their little livers
(11:48):
are smaller, right, theirkidneys are smaller than ours
Little chalupas, Little chalupasoh, I wish I could see the
chalupas.
Janine (11:56):
They're right next to me , they're sleeping.
I have a tent, I have a littletent for them, and they're
snuggling up together.
Renee (12:03):
Episode number 11,.
Stay tuned for the chalupas, Iknow.
Janine (12:08):
My babies.
Renee (12:09):
So, janine, do you clean your house with?
Do you use Lysol, or do you useany of that stuff, or do you
try to use like?
Janine (12:16):
Try to use like Malaluka products or like seventh
generation or something that'slike less toxic to the.
Yeah, because the last thingfirst of all.
Those chemicals are so potentin itself Like even Clorox is
just the scent of it.
It's awful.
So it's super important whenyou're cleaning that you have
(12:38):
things that are safe, especiallywith you and I may not have
children, but we have dogs andthey're like kids and they lay
on the floor and they're lickingtheir paws and people don't
realize what they're doing totheir animals when they're
mopping their floors or wipingoff different surfaces.
Renee (12:54):
And it's one thing too if you're gonna use a little
bleach, then wash it with waterafterwards I know like our
shower gets pretty like the moldand diatomaceous earth and
apple cider vinegar not applecider, but like white vinegar or
something like that Get some ofit.
But sometimes you need just alittle elbow grease.
So if you're gonna use itquickly, get your air purifier
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going and then rinse it.
Rinse it really and rinse itfast.
Sometimes you do have to use alittle bit of bleach for
something or another, but notevery week and not all the time.
It's definitely something thatyou can use as a once in a while
thing, for sure.
And that's another thing toocountertops what are you washing
your countertops with?
Vinegar is a greatanti-parasitic, anti-viral,
(13:35):
anti-microbial.
A little vinegar and watercleans your surfaces.
You certainly have to becareful with vinegar on wood,
but other surfaces certainly.
It's good for that too.
Janine (13:45):
My dad's wore by white vinegar Growing up it was always
white vinegar in the mop, whitevinegar on everything.
Renee (13:52):
Yeah, your house was a small like vinegar.
Janine (13:54):
It did it did.
I have PTSD from that, but itwas healthier.
Renee (14:00):
But you probably don't have any vinegar in your house
because you're like no vinegar.
Janine (14:03):
No white vinegar for me.
I'm sure, I think I have itsomewhere, but I don't use it on
purpose.
Renee (14:07):
I'm like no, the other thing too I was gonna mention is
laundry detergent.
Hmm, I found something I meanthese health groups on Facebook
and I'll just look every once ina while because I don't wanna
spend too much time on it butthey're these little laundry
sheets now, not tied pods guys,not that.
But there's something that Ihave it's a reasonable price,
(14:29):
called clean people, and it's asheet.
It's a soap sheet that's gotlike biodegradable enzymes that
are break the dirt off theclothes and I get the unscented
because I don't want the scentsand it cleans wonderfully.
And when you're washing yourclothes, one rinse isn't enough
(14:49):
on some of those commercialdetergents, right, if you wash
your clothes, and you probablydon't have to put soap in every
single time if you're usingcommercial detergent, because
the sudsing agents are.
They're just so much in themthat if you lift the lid up to
the washing machine, you'd seethe white suds even on the rinse
cycle.
So that's why I like thisproduct.
(15:09):
Clean people you can get onAmazon C-L-E-A-N.
People, clean people littlesheets that you throw in, one
for a small load, two for alarge load, and sometimes I'll
use a little bit of Melaleucaoil just to disinfect the
underwear.
Yeah yeah, from or if I'mwashing Rook stuff you wanna get
, he's always in stuff androlling in stuff.
So you wanna have some kind ofantimicrobial agent in the
(15:31):
washing machine.
That's not a toxin.
A little tea tree oil coupledrops into the cycle.
Janine (15:38):
Oh, that's a good idea.
Renee (15:39):
Tea tree oil Tea tree oil yeah, but that clean people is
great.
I know Dottara makes laundrydetergent that I've used.
Janine (15:45):
Oh, I love Dottara products.
I love that yeah.
Renee (15:49):
I sometimes use their laundry detergent a little bit.
With that, just a little bit.
If I'm using the clean people,if I have a big load, I'll put a
couple of so a little quarterof a cap full in just to give it
the nice Dottara smell theessential oils.
But laundry detergent is a bigthing.
And again, Janine, right, I'mwashing Rook, I'm drying them
off with my towels.
Do I wanna be drying them offwith toxins?
(16:09):
No, you don't wanna dry thetulupas off with toxins.
Right, you want your laundrydetergent.
Janine (16:15):
But people are used to growing up in a society where
you watch the tide bear on thetelevision and you watch the yes
, the snuggle bear.
The snuggle bear.
And then you watch the.
You're programmed in the 60sand 70s and 80s and 90s to do
and buy certain things and it'sso crazy the advertising that
(16:41):
it's just so unhealthyadvertising.
Renee (16:44):
And you don't even think about like that.
Honestly, the Glade SC Johnsonwax, all these days are going to
come after me, but theirplug-in product is just so
horrible and I told you, when Igo into restaurants, I use the
bathroom, I throw, I take thatplug-in out and I throw it out
because it's you're just killingpeople.
It's really you're just.
You're breathing in that stuffinto your lungs.
(17:04):
It's no different than vaping.
It's no different than vapingand kids getting popcorn lungs.
You're breathing in that samestuff, only worse.
In my opinion, it is bad.
Where were we?
Yeah, we were at a restaurantlast week and then we came
before and there was a plug-inin there and I just went right
in the garbage and I washed myhands real well afterwards.
Janine (17:25):
That is hilarious.
Renee (17:27):
I know.
Janine (17:27):
You should start a whole movement where you just go
around town in Illinois and justtake all the Glade plug-ins out
.
Renee (17:34):
Yeah, how fun that would be.
We could make it like worldwide.
It'd be the lunatic wherepeople would be like, oh yeah,
the plug-in girl, yeah, and youknow how many people are like
you had.
They'd be like go plug-ins,make me sick, or you know what
you could do.
Janine (17:46):
We could write to them and be like hey, glade, we
should tag Glade in this and belike hey, can you please come up
with an eco-friendlyalternative for?
Your plug-in, because then wewould be promoting them as
opposed to the alternative.
Renee (17:59):
If they made an essential oil and it had none of the
toxins in there, I'd be allabout it, because brand names
are a big thing for people aswell too.
But yeah, so that pretty muchcovers the home between cleaning
products, your own beautyproducts, your water, that type
of thing.
Let's dive into what peoplereally want.
Let's talk about food.
Let's talk about food toxins.
What's in food, what to lookfor, what to avoid, what to try
(18:22):
to start reading the label onthings like that.
So everybody goes to thegrocery store, everybody has to
buy things, typically buyingyour produce and you're gonna
shop around the outside of thegrocery store because that's
where all the fresh stuff is theinside aisles.
You do need some stuff.
For whatever diet you're on ornot on, I would start looking
for things that have ingredientsthat are less than six.
(18:45):
Ingredients are less than six.
So if you are looking at ifyou're gluten-free and you get a
gluten-free cracker or agluten-free cookie, you wanna
look for ingredients that arethings less than six.
So there's a specific buckwheatcracker that I get that has two
ingredients in it Buckwheat andwater.
Perfect, it's a gluten-freecracker, it's organic, it's
(19:05):
non-GMO and that's one of thecrackers that I use.
Seed oils are another thing thatpeople are becoming very aware
of, and it's something to stayaway from.
Seed oils are very toxic.
Now, I'm not saying sunflowerseeds or pumpkin seeds in whole
form are toxic, because they'renot.
It's the seed oil that turnsrancid in high heat and a lot of
(19:30):
these companies use thesesunflower seed oil because, a
it's cheap and B it's availableand you can get it and they can
get it in big quantities.
But sunflower seed oil and alot of the seed oils very toxic.
So when you're looking at yourfavorite products, guys look for
sunflower seed oil and thingslike that, tlax seed oil.
That's not great either, unlessyou're actually grinding your
(19:54):
own flax seeds and using thatfor your oatmeal or something
like that.
So the seed oils are anotherbig one.
There's been a big controversyon organic versus non-organic.
If what you're buying saysorganic on it, is it 100%
organic?
No, it's not.
Nothing can be 100% organic,but what it has is less
chemicals on it, less crap on it.
(20:17):
So instead of getting somethingthat's not organic, you're
having a big boatload of toxicwaste on it, right, toxic crap,
chemicals.
You're buying something that'sorganic, maybe has less than
half, maybe hopefully more thanthat of toxic stuff.
That's not in it.
There are certain things thatcompanies to label something
(20:39):
organic, a food product, it doescost companies a lot of money,
so a lot of companies stay awayfrom it, just like that seed oil
, that oil that I was talkingabout earlier.
They are organic and free butthey don't pay to stay organic
because it would cost thecompany tons of money.
I think it's I don't know howmuch it is, but it costs small
(21:00):
businesses a lot of money.
Janine (21:01):
I'm not gonna be totally that's the whole podcast in
itself.
It is, they believe, somethingas organic or non-GMO or
non-gluten-free or like thatwhole process.
Kosher, like that whole process.
Renee (21:13):
Yes, yes, vegan yeah, and the company that was mentioning
earlier this is what I wastalking about was Zero Acre
Farms.
And here I just, oops, hold onT-t-t-t-to-do.
It is so.
It's gluten-free and I'm gonnalook at the profile real quick.
They have no.
(21:33):
Vegetable oils are bad.
Fat is good.
Vegetable oils are bad, bad forus, bad for the planet.
This guy goes into Y, I'll sendyou the little link.
But this is a cultured oil,cultured fermented oil, and it
really talks about why the waythey process their oil and how
it's grown in a very specializedregion of the world where it's
less toxic, is better for you.
(21:55):
It stands with stands on highsmoke point.
You can saute, you can cook,you can fry in it, you can do
anything, and it's got a veryneutral flavor.
You can pour it straight onyour salad for salad dressing.
All that is very important interms of where things are grown.
And do you know the companyBulletproof Genine Hiver ever
heard of doing?
I do, dave Appsbury.
So he's got a new coffee calledhe changed the Bulletproof name
(22:16):
to I don't know, it's somecrazy name Danger that has
danger coffee.
It's danger coffee.
It's so good, it's dangerous.
So he doesn't label his coffeeorganic, but his stuff, his
coffee beans are grown in aplace in the Robots.
I don't know where they are,but they don't use pesticides.
(22:36):
But in order for him to stayorganic.
He's a small business, he's gota big business but it would
cost him a lot of money to staycertified organic.
But some companies will pay it.
But his stuff is clean and itdoesn't have the pesticides that
we use here in the good old USAthat are banned in other
countries, which I've mentionedbefore.
(22:57):
Europe does not.
I don't know how many places.
There's only a few places thatallow roundup and we're one of
the lucky ones.
Janine (23:07):
So Interesting Europe.
Europe is a totally it's.
You're going to laugh at me andyell at me, but it's the only
country, or the only countriesin the world were like when I
lived in Italy, I would drink acan of Coca Cola because it was
actually made with sugar, likethen.
It's not made with high fridges, corn syrup, like.
The actual ingredients arelisted and it's a different case
(23:30):
to everything over there, butthey don't allow certain things
that Europe does not.
Renee (23:35):
they have banned so many things that we allow here, and
we wonder why we're such a sicksociety for such an advanced
country that we are so farbehind the times when it comes
to our food, and that's not anaccident, so I believe that 100%
they're.
They know money in the caremoney's in keeping, keeping
everyone sick.
And this drug, need that drugand sounding like Chris rock,
(23:58):
off to it.
So you do some of the funniestbits on drugs and doctors off to
send you one if you need tolaugh.
But but back to what'simportant.
So you don't feel great and youthink that you would like to
start feeling better.
Start checking in with yourenvironment, what you're putting
(24:20):
on your skin, what you'reliving within your home, your
cleaning products, what you'reeating, going with things that
have less than five than them.
I'm not saying I have someclients, jeanine, who come to me
eating very clean salads andgrilled chicken and no cereal,
vegetables and fruit and stillfeel poor because part of it is
(24:44):
they're not breaking down withtheir eating.
But their organs ofdetoxification are working
really well.
And when we're talking in termsof detoxification, we always
start with how the body gets ridof stuff.
What do we put into the body?
Food, right food is if we don'tdigest what we're putting in.
That's the first way we startbacking up our detoxification
(25:04):
pathways.
The first way is by putting ininflammatory things that our
bodies can't get rid of, andthese foods get trapped in the
tissues and can't get rid of thepesticides and the toxins that
are on these foods.
The term, like you got, we'vetalked about before.
How does the gut leak leaksfrom undigested food particles
that actually pass through thegut membrane, from something
(25:28):
called zonulin.
So when you eat certain foodson your release, the tight
junctions of the GI track thatare very tight start to pry
apart and then the that opens up.
I'm sorry, in the junctions ofthe GI tracks it's supposed to
be very tight when they start toopen up, that's when the
undigested food particles canleak in to the bloodstream.
(25:49):
The kidneys have to clean andfilter the blood and if there's
so much undigested food in there, it's going to back up the
kidneys.
The liver's in play there.
The liver can hold on to stuff.
The bile from the liver makesthe bile.
The gallbladder regulates it.
Bile is a huge organdetoxification.
The bile is what holds toxinsin as well.
(26:11):
So if you're craving a lot offat and craving a lot of sugar
and your body's not breaking itdown, you're going to get sludge
, you file, you're going to getdiarrhea, you're going to get
constipation, bloating, gas, allthe digestive stuff.
So here's a way to use whatyour level of health is as a
barometer How's your digestionRight?
Do you have good digestion?
(26:31):
Are you bloated?
Do you have gas?
Do you have poor ball movements?
Do you have low energy?
Do you wake up in the morning?
Do you wake up in the morningfeeling like you can need
another three to five hours ofsleep because you just can't get
out of bed?
That is a surefire sign thatyour digestion isn't working.
And what you're eating maybepart of the issue, but how
(26:52):
you're digesting what you'reeating is the second part of it,
because, remember, good healthis what you're eating, how your
body digest it, absorbs thenutrients and gets rid of the
waste.
And then there's 10 other stuffin between there about what has
to happen with conversion andwhat's the difference to be used
for making hormones or makingenergy or whatever we need for
our bodies to perform optimally,which a lot of people just
(27:16):
don't feel good anymore.
And why is that?
It's because our world isfricking polluted.
Our food is polluted.
I'm on my soapbox, but you guyswho are listening I know you
guys understand this, becauseyou're like, yeah, I've been
thinking about this and I don'tfeel good, or I already knew
about this, and this is great tohear somebody else talk about
it, because it's true.
Janine (27:37):
It's so true, it's so true and it's people just don't
know what they don't know, and alot of things are.
But then again that raises thequestion can we're all old
enough to know better and knowhow to find resources to know
better?
So it's like what excuse, towhat point can you give someone
(27:57):
grace?
And when it comes to that, andthat's- a great point.
Renee (28:03):
It's hard for people to make change because they're so
used to what they're used tountil they're not feeling good
and then they're forced intochange or they want to do a
little bit of preventativemaintenance and not feel crappy
as they're aging right.
Do some prevention now so thatyou can age gracefully, not
talking without wrinkles or grayhair.
I'm talking feeling good everyday, which a lot of people don't
(28:26):
, and it's definitely important,and we talked about this last
podcast.
We're entering into holidayseason, or as I call it, holiday
or food season, becauseeveryone uses the excuse of oh,
thanksgiving and Halloween'sover now, but Thanksgiving and
Christmas and New Year's and allthis other stuff, and it's not
really an excuse to eat poorly.
You can have a lot of volume offood.
(28:47):
You just have to make sure it'sgood, clean, healthy food.
Like I am hosting forThanksgiving, it's gonna be Rook
and Mark and I and hopefullyhis daughter is coming,
hopefully Greta will be joiningus and maybe a friend of mine
might be coming and bringing herdog too, which will be fun.
But we're gonna have turkey,we're gonna have butternut
squash soup and we have somegarlic green beans, gonna have
(29:10):
some sweet potatoes, some mashedpotatoes and these delicious.
Janine (29:14):
Butternut squash soup is that traditional?
Renee (29:17):
Yes, yes, you have you.
Janine (29:19):
Yeah, have you ever had butternut squash soup In
restaurants?
But I've never actually made it, and I love it.
Renee (29:25):
And so that four screens and fluff plug.
They make a delicious butternutsquash soup.
In fact, I'm gonna have theowner on with me when she can
find some time so we can getmore people over to her Cute
little cafe.
She's got juices, she's gotsweets, she's got soup, she's
got entrees.
Everything is organic, handmade, so delicious.
(29:47):
We picked up a.
This was grilled chicken on abed of sprouts with roasted.
Brussels sprouts, sweet potatoand this cashew dressing.
I have a tiny little bit ofspice to it.
My body loved it.
My body loved it.
I told her thank you for savingmy marriage Because I don't
like to cook and you said youhave a place by you that you
(30:08):
could pick up your little niceentrees with grilled chicken and
some vegetables Mixed, somecheese.
Janine (30:14):
There's a place it's called Delivery Service, but
it's local and you can literallygo in there and the chef is in
there making gluten-free mealsand not only gluten-free if he
makes a little bit of everything.
But they're healthy, they'reportioned, you can go in and
grab them and they're reallygood.
I think it's fit foods orsomething local, yeah that's so
(30:38):
nice.
That's so nice, so delicious.
Renee (30:40):
And that's what people can start looking for a local
place near you that you can pickup a nice grilled salmon on a
bed of greens and some potatoesor something like that.
If you don't like to cook andso many of my clients have
included myself something Idon't like to, I just don't make
the time to I'll make eggs outor something like that and make
some oatmeal or something orwhatever.
I'll grill some chicken orsomething or bake some chicken
or something like that.
But to open up the refrigeratorand have those soups and have
(31:03):
those little entrees, it makeslife so much easier and it makes
it easier to stick to my diet.
In fact, anna Marie is.
She's the owner of ForestGreens and she's so kind and I
told her that I wanna have somesoups made without black pepper,
because for people that areauto-mean like myself, black
pepper is really an O, and she'smore than happy to make some
soups for me, some of her soupswithout black pepper.
Janine (31:26):
I didn't know that black pepper can be like a trigger
for auto-immune.
Renee (31:31):
Yeah, it definitely hits the immune system hard and if
you don't have an issue with it,it's fine.
But when you have auto-immune,that's one of the things to
watch that and the nightshades,of course, for sure, and other
things, and we can make aseparate show about that we will
.
But, yeah, finding someconvenient ways to feed yourself
cleanly, cleaning up yourenvironment, chewing your food
(31:52):
really well, is a nice, good wayto detoxify.
And breathing.
I don't talk about it on everyepisode, but I wanna end today's
episode with just taking aminute after dinner and just
sitting, relaxing and justopening up your rib cage, taking
deep breath in and just exhaleout.
(32:13):
Open up that rib cage, allowthe diaphragm to release and
push the contents of the stomachso that the stomach can start
digesting better.
So your diaphragm a lot ofpeople's diaphragms, myself
included just tight and itdoesn't allow for it, can impair
digestion.
So when you can open up andexpand your rib cage and give
(32:36):
your food room and give yourstomach room to break down the
incoming load, that is helpingto release the contents of the
stomach and helping withdigestion.
So, sitting for a minute andbreathing breathing is free,
doesn't get any cheaper thanthat.
Guys, it's free.
Take a minute after dinner everyday, one minute.
(32:56):
Sit, relax and breathe inthrough the nose always that's
the only mandatory rule and outthrough either the mouth or the
nose, and expand can put yourhands on your belly.
I'll stand up just for a minute.
Inhale hands, go out, exhale.
(33:20):
I think it helps when youactually touch your tummy.
You can see your hands push outwhen you're inhaling, so your
hands should be moving out.
When you're inhaling, you'refilling yourself with air and
when you exhale, blow it all out.
Be grateful for the food thatyou eat, and the energetic piece
(33:44):
to this, to detoxification, ishaving a good mindset around
your environment, your day, yourlife, things that you do, being
good people, being kind, beinghelpful and trying to be the
best person that you can be.
Janine (34:02):
So that was my I was not Renee and I'm standing up right
now doing these exercises withyou.
So I'm literally standing.
It just feels so good to openup that diaphragm because I
struggle with digestiveobviously digestion issues.
So a lot of people forget tojust do that because if they're
sitting and they're not allowingtheir body to open up, they're
(34:22):
not allowing that digestiveprocess to start too.
Renee (34:26):
Because physically your rib cage is closed in.
But the minute you open up that, you open up your rib cage by
giving it that physical room ofinhaling, your expanding your
rib cage.
Drop your shoulders, you canpress in, you can feel your
tummy and a lot of people whodon't feel good.
That's even hard for them to do.
(34:48):
But start by just changing yourmind about what you want for
yourself every day.
Just wake up.
Maybe wake up you don't feelgood, but you know what?
Do something that's going togive you joy for that day,
something that's going to makeyou feel good.
And if you can start helpingyour mind and your body do
things to feel good, your energywill follow that.
(35:10):
Remember, energy flows whereenergy goes.
So if you think you're feelinglike shit, and you are, guess
what?
You're going to keep feelinglike shit until you start to
make some change, and thechanges can be very small.
You can put some extra waterthroughout the day.
Put some fruit in your water, alittle bit of cucumber, a
little bit of lemon, if water isboring, so that you can get a
little hydration in you, so thatyour cells can get some water.
(35:30):
And, as always, reach out to mewith any questions about any of
this.
I'm happy to help.
You guys can reach me atthetummywhisperercom, and if you
have any kind of questionsabout your health, about your
digestion, about the environmentor anything you're thinking
about, please don't be shy.
I'm here to answer yourquestions and, of course, make
(35:52):
sure you download and AppleSpotify.
Where else?
Janine, I wish we got this.
This is your cart.
Janine (35:57):
Yes, leave a five star rating for Renee on Apple,
spotify or your preferredplatform and definitely share
this with friends or family ifyou like the episode, because it
really goes a long way in thepodcast ecosystem.
Renee (36:12):
It's the ecosystem.
Good job there, janine.
But yeah, everybody, you guys,everybody have a happy, healthy
Thanksgiving.
I don't think we'll be talkingbefore then.
When we have one more episode,I think we will have one.
Janine (36:25):
Let me see, we will.
Renee (36:26):
We have one more, I think so we are going to be.
Let me check it real quick.
We are going to have oneThanksgiving week.
How about that?
That's right, we'll make it fun.
We'll make it fun, that's right, we'll make it fun For sure.
Take care, everybody, be well.
Janine (36:47):
Bye guys.
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