Ever wondered why your skin acts up or why you feel exhausted despite getting a full night's sleep? Tune in to this episode of The Tummy Whisperer Podcast, where we unravel the hidden links between digestive health and overall well-being. We tackle the usual suspects like gas, bloating, and constipation, and shed light on lesser-known symptoms such as poor sleep and fatigue that might be rooted in your gut. You'll hear fascinating stories of clients who transformed their health through dietary adjustments, emphasizing the paramount importance of nutrient absorption and the dangers of quick fixes like energy drinks.
We also explore the complex relationship between diet, meal frequency, and emotional health. Learn how managing your sugar intake can significantly impact cravings and cognitive function. We discuss the evolving perspectives on meal frequency, from six small meals a day to intermittent fasting, and how these choices impact digestive health. Don't miss our deep dive into the emotional connections to food cravings and how childhood experiences can shape our current health issues. Personal anecdotes, including stories about autoimmune conditions and the role of trauma, highlight the necessity of a holistic approach for a balanced, healthy life. Join us for an enlightening discussion that promises to offer hope and practical insights for your journey towards optimal health.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
and we're live.
Thank you, janine, welcomeeverybody.
Welcome to the tummy whispererpodcast.
I'm back.
It's been a minute.
Whoa feels good to be back.
How's everybody doing?
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I wanted to just dial it backtoday.
I want to check in, see howeverybody's doing and I want to
bring everything back to what westarted in the beginning of the
(00:30):
year, which is not only how tostep in to some better health,
better digestion, betterabsorption, better elimination,
detoxification all that Also.
So many people I get this allthe time, janine People are
calling me up.
This prescription doesn't work.
I've seen a functional medicinepractitioner.
I love functional medicine.
Sometimes they don't do muchwith the digestive tract.
(00:52):
They're saying I've been takingthese supplements.
My cousin told me to try thissupplement.
I want everybody to stop playingwhack-a-mole with their
digestion instead of trying allthese things.
It's not wrong to try somethingbecause for some people,
something may work.
A probiotic may work, or aprobiotic could also cause more
gas and bloating.
(01:13):
It depends on what's going onin the small intestine and
really from the mouth to thecell.
So it's okay to try stuff.
What's not okay is if you keeptrying things and they're not
working.
That's where I come in.
That's where I come in to helpyou guys with trying to figure
out what's happening with yourdigestion.
So you guys have heard me saythis over and over again what
really is poor digestion?
(01:34):
Gas bloating, constipation,diarrhea, belching, bloating on
an empty stomach, all the funstuff.
All the stuff we don't like totalk about because it seems
embarrassing.
But everybody has some kind ofhealth issue.
Nobody's absolutely perfect,right, but your digestive system
is what feeds and nourishes therest of the body, and your body
(01:56):
is definitely heavily relyingon your digestive tract.
So we just went through thoseobvious digestive issues, right.
But how about some of the notso obvious digestive issues,
like poor sleep, fatigue, skinconditions, eczema, psoriasis,
rashing all these things thatare happening from some kind of
(02:16):
refractory response in the GItract in the body?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
right.
People don't know that a lot ofthe causes are from exactly
what you just mentioned.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Right.
And again, it's not just a twostep process with eat good food
and digest it.
That's just the first tinymicrocosm of it.
Right, you've got to putsomething in good that your body
doesn't go oh, whoa, whoa, whatis that?
What are you sending down here?
You have to put the good stuffin.
So say, you do put something inanti-inflammatory, for your
(02:46):
body's then got to break thisdown.
It's got to start getting allthe substrates and all the
things that it needs to get intothe cell wall.
If you can get into the cellwall for better absorption and
help your body utilize all thosenutrients that's there.
So it is a pretty complexprocess.
But, as I was mentioningearlier, these digestive issues
that are ranging from the thingsthat I mentioned earlier and
(03:07):
now we just talked about poorsleep and skin conditions and
rashing and all that stuff.
I had a woman that just she juststarted with me a couple of
weeks ago and she's been throughfunctional medicine.
Her two cheek complaints are alittle bit of bloating and she's
got some joint pain in hermiddle finger, which maybe she's
just using it too much.
I don't know.
You never know, but it's solocal, it's so weird.
(03:30):
So tweaked her diet a littlebit, a lot bit, not a lot, but
she was already doing some goodstuff dietarily, but we tweaked
it.
She's already noticing she'sfeeling less bloated.
She's already noticing thisweird little pain in the joint
of her middle finger is muted.
So in her mind and in my mindwe've changed the diet.
We haven't even starteddigesting the food yet because
(03:53):
we haven't received theurinalysis test back, but she's
already noticing.
So again it's these littlenuances of.
She didn't really have a lot ofdigestive issues.
In fact I had another clientcome to me with only joint pain.
Ball movements were perfect.
She felt good, no bloating, nogas, usual like regular, but
nothing that's earth shatteringthat she's embarrassed about or
(04:14):
can't leave the house about.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So people think that pain is an arthritis pain and
has nothing to do with yourdigestion.
Is what you're trying to say?
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And first, arthritis is an inflammatory condition.
Why do we get inflammation?
There's only one way to getinflammation right what you're
eating, what you're taking in,what you're breathing in.
There's only three ways to getinto the body the skin, the nose
and the mouth.
That's what are we breathing in.
What are we eating?
What are we digesting?
If we are even at all, thebody's taking it all in.
(04:44):
But can the body eating whatare we digesting?
If we are eating at all, thebody's taking it all in, but can
the body manage it, utilize it,get your energy from it.
Guys, do you know how you'resupposed to get your energy?
Not from Red Bull, right?
Because Red Bull gives youwings and Red Bull gives me more
clients.
So keep it up.
We're going to mess up youradrenals to the point of I don't
know total exhaustion.
(05:04):
But the way we get our energyis from our food, from our fat,
from our protein, from ourcarbohydrates, if the body can
feed them and get them.
And the way we actually helpquiet some of these digestive
noises is from making these goodchoices and helping your body
(05:25):
to break it down.
I know we touched on this lasttime with Dr Carey, but air
traffic control center, thebrain, called the hypothalamus,
is that craver, that's the onethat's saying hey, janine, you
know we need something down hereand you're like, I'm on it.
Sometimes it's hard to keep theblood sugar stable, and that's
another misnomer too, thatpeople think eating more often
is what helps stabilize bloodsugar, and that's absolutely
(05:47):
false.
So we're going to go into thatnext time.
But you know, eating we'redesigned to eat three meals a
day and I have just starteddoing more of a fasting, so to
speak.
It's not really fasting.
I'm putting four hours inbetween meals and I'm not always
making it four hours, sometimesthree, but in between I'm not
always making it four hours,sometimes three, but in between
I'm having a little bit offrozen butter with like maple
(06:08):
syrup, like a butterscotch right, and it gives me that fat, it
gives me that sweet and I'm likehypothalamus is happy, it's
like thank you for setting thatdown.
So I've also been testing myblood sugars, which have been
remarkably good.
I don't have diabetes, I don'thave prediabetes, I don't have
anything like that, but for me,I'm trying to make sure my blood
sugar is staying stable so Idon't have to grab something all
(06:32):
the time.
It's just interesting, and Iwas out yesterday and I took the
dog for a walk and I was outfor a couple of hours and I went
to the grocery store to getsome things for the house and
I'm like I'll just have onelittle Lara bar.
They're so small, they're thisbig, they're literally four
little bites.
It was just.
There was four ingredients, Ithink pecans, dates, two other
(06:55):
things, no sugar, no nothing.
But dates are high in sugar.
I had the whole bar.
I waited to test my blood sugarand it was out of range.
It was 129, which 120 is normal.
It wasn't that far out of range, but I've been in the 90s and
the low 100s.
I haven't spiked past 103.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Interesting that you mentioned that, because I used
to be a big fan of the RX barsand the dates were one of the
main ingredients in RX bars aswell.
Yes, yes, I wonder why they dothat.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Because it can be dried easily and it's probably
dates are probably cheap andyeah, we're saying date sugar
maybe better than cane sugar,but sugars hate to say it,
sugars like the devil.
Anyway, like again for my sweettooth, I'm taking a little bit
of maple syrup with this frozenbutter like a butterscotch and
I'm just having.
That's like I'm having two patsof butter with a half of a
(07:46):
teaspoon of maple syrup and I'mstabilizing through there.
But I don't want to go off ablunt sugar tangent here.
What I'm saying is that it allgoes back to digestion.
It goes back to what's going inhow the body can manage it.
If the body understands thatthis is friendly, the body can
use it.
The body needs a little bit ofthis sugar from the maple syrup.
I need this to stabilize whereI'm at.
I need this to turn down someof these cravings so that I'm
(08:07):
not overeating.
That's another huge thing.
Janine, right, we're overeating.
And not big portions at themealtime, it's the eating
throughout the day, every singleday, every two hours.
I'm going to grab an apple andsome sunflower seed butter right
Now I need a bar.
Now I need a rice cake and somehummus.
Now I need some cucumbers.
You know, I'm really working ontrying to streamline this so
(08:28):
that I can have my three to fourmeals a day, and I've noticed
that my brain feels like it'sfiring a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Ron.
Well, shame on the media,because the media years ago was
like oh, we're doing it allwrong, we don't need three meals
a day, we need six small mealsa day.
And got personal trainers andthey all said the same thing oh,
you need to eat six small meals.
And it's like you know what.
Not everyone's created equaland every digestive track is
different and unfortunately themedia controls a lot of what the
(08:59):
population does and for me thatdidn't work.
For me, my body, like I can'teat that often, that frequent, I
just can't do it.
My body doesn't like to eatlike that.
It won't for most people whoare not diabetic, somebody who's
diabetic.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They need a little bit more support.
Maybe they need a little bit.
Their blood sugar starts totank and they definitely have to
have a little something.
So this again, I preface thisby saying, not talking to
diabetics, although type twodiabetics maybe this could be
something for you as well too,because you're not having that
huge plummet and that huge spikeas well too.
But yeah, that eating every sixsmall meals so much for the
(09:37):
digestive system to try tomanage, which is really how
intermittent fasting was birthed, right Like to rest the
digestive system so that youcould have some room for a good
incoming load.
So my diet's been laced withanimal protein, like I'm having
steak, small servings, I'mhaving eggs, I'm having chicken,
I'm having turkey.
Of course Brooke loves my newdiet.
(09:58):
He has the kitchen like head up, like mom's cooking, so damn
cute.
But I'm definitely noticing asI move through this.
It seems to be helpful.
So that's next level stuff Forthose of you that are listening
to me and those of you who I'mtalking to.
You know what your symptoms are.
You've got the constipation,you've got the diarrhea, you've
(10:19):
got the bloating, you've gotnausea.
You can't sleep or you'rewaking up, you're able to fall
asleep, but you can't stayasleep and you're waking up
exhausted.
That is all a mechanism andfunctionality of digestion.
Your adrenal glands rely onyour body to break your food
down, Because if not, theadrenal glands are like oh
(10:42):
Houston, we have a problem.
What happens there?
Start having destabilizedcortisol, more craving.
It's a circle.
So when you can stop that bymaking a good food choice and
actually digesting what you'reeating, it really helps the body
on so many levels.
But yeah, some of the clientsthat come across my desk are
(11:05):
having joint pain with nodigestive issues, so they don't
think in their wildest dreamsthat it can be a digestive
problem.
When, sure enough, a lady justgave me another five-star review
, I'm honored.
But she was having so manyjoint issues and her son
actually went to the program tooand he was having digestive
issues and he's doing better.
He's a young guy.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That's another thing.
Kids these days are having somuch health issues, and why?
Because of our shitty food,because stress, right, poor
digestion, and it's causing alot of issues for them and all
of us.
To be honest with you, I don'tknow what that means.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Can I talk Like you're fl flashing, everyone
watching?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I don't mean to flash everybody, sorry, why not?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It's like the weather girl who's stripped.
It's like the tummy whisperer.
You know why not?
Let's do it Just kidding.
So funny.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I can't I don't even know what to say at this point.
It's funny.
We just cut out of that, whichis funny, I know.
Well, they're okay, we're notgoing there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But anyway, but yeah.
So again, just remindingeverybody that there is solution
to these health issues thatfeel unfortunately so big and
out of your control.
I have a friend I guess I'llcall him my husband's colleague.
He's having some really severehealth issues, from like brain
(12:35):
issues to blood clotting issues,to he had a mini stroke.
He's our age, too young, tohave all that.
He eats relatively clean, buthe's exhausted.
And when I shared with him hey,there's possibly something that
you're eating is causing thisexhaustion through the feedback
(12:57):
loop of your adrenals and poordigestion, it makes sense to him
.
He's not ready to move forwardyet because he's still stuck in
the medical model.
And I'm here to tell you, folks,western medicine does not stop
digestive chaos.
It's not the answer formetabolic diseases that are
often your body due to poordigestion.
Don't get me wrong.
(13:17):
Medication is needed to saveyour life.
We need it for emergency careAbsolutely beneficial, but for a
new and digestion and digestiveissues not fixed, it's a.
It's a bandaid, right, it's abandaid over a pothole and for
some people not even a bandaid,for some people it makes them
worse.
I've had so many people come tome on either PPIs, nexium,
(13:40):
prilosec.
I'm like, ah, I just felt worsetaking it.
How do I get off of that?
Because that stuff shuts offyour digestion.
If you already have a digestiveproblem and you take something
that's going to shut off yourdigestion, how do you think
you're going to feel Like you'rejust going to feel poorly.
So I'm preaching, but I lovewhat I do so much.
Preach, honey, let's go preach.
I love what I do so muchbecause I love helping people
(14:05):
not have to worry about theirhealth, not have to have that be
a second Retire.
When I'm only worried about myhealth, I'm not enjoying my
retirement.
I'm worried out of theirdigestive health.
So we talked about whack-a-mole, right?
All these things that peopleare trying to do to help their
health and help their digestion.
(14:27):
Again, it's okay to try thesethings, but at the end of the
day, you've got to really stripit down.
Oh, I keep cutting it out, okay, yeah, you do too.
Is this better?
Yeah, at the end of the day,we've got to really dial it back
.
We've got to really strip itdown and really look at the food
that we're eating, what we'reconsuming.
How clean is it?
(14:47):
Can our body digest it?
Can our body absorb it?
Can our body utilize it and getrid of the waste.
If we're eating Taco Bell,body's going to have an issue
with that eventually.
For those of you like I, haveTaco Bell so we can own those.
Well, eventually, don't get mewrong.
I love me a piece of Taco Bell,but I haven't had it in years.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I knew a girl in her 20s that would eat it every day.
I'm like what do you mean?
Who's going to catch up to you?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh, you eat Cutting In and Out now too.
I missed you.
What did you say?
You were Cutting In and Out.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh, a friend of mine used to have Taco Bell every day
in her 20s and she loved it.
And she, every day, withoutfail, every day, taco.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Bell.
Remember we used to call itTaco Hell, right, taco Hell,
yeah, taco Hell Again.
The whole idea behind thesepodcast guys are to give you
some help, some hope, someinspiration.
Just a little push in the rightdirection.
Right, a little tiny push, alittle nudge, so that you can
(15:51):
have some awareness around thesethings that are happening in
your body, this joint pain,these rashes that are coming on
your neck or your arms or yourlegs, this stomach ache, this
kind of nausea, this low levelhunger all the time.
Or another thing I hear peopletell me and I have heard this
for coming up on 20 years now isI can eat a full meal and still
(16:11):
feel hungry.
You know why?
Because they're not breaking itdown.
The brain isn't seeing that thestomach has what it needs.
The stomach has enough volume,but it's not broken down
properly.
So the brain's saying, hey, goget more protein, go get more
fat, go get more carbohydrate.
We don't see it down there.
We don't have enough that wholegut-brain connection.
(16:32):
So when we start really lookingat not only those physical
symptoms, janine, right, thoseemotional symptoms too, the
cravings that come from what wethink are physical hunger I was
actually talking to my colleague, my practitioner, one of my
coaches, because of course takesan army, like Dr Kim said, and
she said to me you think you'rephysically hungry, but this is,
(16:54):
it's deep rooted emotions behindfood for everybody and there's
not one person on this planetthat doesn't have some kind of
association or need right, thosecarbohydrate cravers, missing
some of the sweetness in life,fat cravers, needing to have
that long-term fuel but maybemissing something who knows
(17:15):
long-term childhood stuff.
And this stuff goes way, wayback too.
So there's a deep emotionalcomponent to food.
So when we start changing thechemistry which is what I help
people with start changing thatbiochemistry can help that brain
.
Some at least start to see thatwe have better fuel available.
And then, when we have that bigbrain stuff, we're going back
(17:36):
to Dr Carey's work.
I started seeing her colleague,dr Naomi, who, oh, I gotta tell
you, had on a stick.
What he's been on is hercolleague, dr Naomi, who, oh, I
got to tell you, kind of sick.
She's so phenomenal, such agifted healer, and really feel
my body just being pushed notpushed, nudged in the right
(17:57):
direction or pushed Like shewere lifting off a lot of old
stuff and it's really helping mybody just get back on lines and
even by changing the physicalchemistry.
For some people that's notenough.
Like me, right?
I have old wound, childhoodtrauma.
I'm not wearing it as a badgeof honor, I'm just saying it
messed me up, right, messed uphow my body processes, changes
(18:17):
my chemistry to now having anautoimmune diagnosis right,
hashimoto's thyroiditis verycommon.
So what I'm saying with therollercoaster, thyroid
medication and autoimmune stuff,autoimmune is an impressional
opinion and learned as well too,with something called
psychoneuroimmunology.
I've surveyed every autoimmuneperson in the world.
But if I did, I guaranteethere'd be some kind of trauma
(18:39):
there.
So I'm moving off.
I wanted to paint the picture.
and we're live.
Thank you, janine, welcomeeverybody.
Welcome to the tummy whispererpodcast.
I'm back.
It's been a minute.
Whoa feels good to be back.
How's everybody doing?
Thank you so much for tuning in.
I wanted to just dial it backtoday.
I want to check in, see howeverybody's doing and I want to
bring everything back to what westarted in the beginning of the
(00:30):
year, which is not only how tostep in to some better health,
better digestion, betterabsorption, better elimination,
detoxification all that Also.
So many people I get this allthe time, janine People are
calling me up.
This prescription doesn't work.
I've seen a functional medicinepractitioner.
I love functional medicine.
Sometimes they don't do muchwith the digestive tract.
(00:52):
They're saying I've been takingthese supplements.
My cousin told me to try thissupplement.
I want everybody to stop playingwhack-a-mole with their
digestion instead of trying allthese things.
It's not wrong to try somethingbecause for some people,
something may work.
A probiotic may work, or aprobiotic could also cause more
gas and bloating.
(01:13):
It depends on what's going onin the small intestine and
really from the mouth to thecell.
So it's okay to try stuff.
What's not okay is if you keeptrying things and they're not
working.
That's where I come in.
That's where I come in to helpyou guys with trying to figure
out what's happening with yourdigestion.
So you guys have heard me saythis over and over again what
really is poor digestion?
(01:34):
Gas bloating, constipation,diarrhea, belching, bloating on
an empty stomach, all the funstuff.
All the stuff we don't like totalk about because it seems
embarrassing.
But everybody has some kind ofhealth issue.
Nobody's absolutely perfect,right, but your digestive system
is what feeds and nourishes therest of the body, and your body
(01:56):
is definitely heavily relyingon your digestive tract.
So we just went through thoseobvious digestive issues, right.
But how about some of the notso obvious digestive issues,
like poor sleep, fatigue, skinconditions, eczema, psoriasis,
rashing all these things thatare happening from some kind of
(02:16):
refractory response in the GItract in the body?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
right.
People don't know that a lot ofthe causes are from exactly
what you just mentioned.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Right.
And again, it's not just a twostep process with eat good food
and digest it.
That's just the first tinymicrocosm of it.
Right, you've got to putsomething in good that your body
doesn't go oh, whoa, whoa, whatis that?
What are you sending down here?
You have to put the good stuffin.
So say, you do put something inanti-inflammatory, for your
(02:46):
body's then got to break thisdown.
It's got to start getting allthe substrates and all the
things that it needs to get intothe cell wall.
If you can get into the cellwall for better absorption and
help your body utilize all thosenutrients that's there.
So it is a pretty complexprocess.
But, as I was mentioningearlier, these digestive issues
that are ranging from the thingsthat I mentioned earlier and
(03:07):
now we just talked about poorsleep and skin conditions and
rashing and all that stuff.
I had a woman that just she juststarted with me a couple of
weeks ago and she's been throughfunctional medicine.
Her two cheek complaints are alittle bit of bloating and she's
got some joint pain in hermiddle finger, which maybe she's
just using it too much.
I don't know.
You never know, but it's solocal, it's so weird.
(03:30):
So tweaked her diet a littlebit, a lot bit, not a lot, but
she was already doing some goodstuff dietarily, but we tweaked
it.
She's already noticing she'sfeeling less bloated.
She's already noticing thisweird little pain in the joint
of her middle finger is muted.
So in her mind and in my mindwe've changed the diet.
We haven't even starteddigesting the food yet because
(03:53):
we haven't received theurinalysis test back, but she's
already noticing.
So again it's these littlenuances of.
She didn't really have a lot ofdigestive issues.
In fact I had another clientcome to me with only joint pain.
Ball movements were perfect.
She felt good, no bloating, nogas, usual like regular, but
nothing that's earth shatteringthat she's embarrassed about or
(04:14):
can't leave the house about.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
So people think that pain is an arthritis pain and
has nothing to do with yourdigestion.
Is what you're trying to say?
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
And first, arthritis is an inflammatory condition.
Why do we get inflammation?
There's only one way to getinflammation right what you're
eating, what you're taking in,what you're breathing in.
There's only three ways to getinto the body the skin, the nose
and the mouth.
That's what are we breathing in.
What are we eating?
What are we digesting?
If we are even at all, thebody's taking it all in.
(04:44):
But can the body eating whatare we digesting?
If we are eating at all, thebody's taking it all in, but can
the body manage it, utilize it,get your energy from it.
Guys, do you know how you'resupposed to get your energy?
Not from Red Bull, right?
Because Red Bull gives youwings and Red Bull gives me more
clients.
So keep it up.
We're going to mess up youradrenals to the point of I don't
know total exhaustion.
(05:04):
But the way we get our energyis from our food, from our fat,
from our protein, from ourcarbohydrates, if the body can
feed them and get them.
And the way we actually helpquiet some of these digestive
noises is from making these goodchoices and helping your body
(05:25):
to break it down.
I know we touched on this lasttime with Dr Carey, but air
traffic control center, thebrain, called the hypothalamus,
is that craver, that's the onethat's saying hey, janine, you
know we need something down hereand you're like, I'm on it.
Sometimes it's hard to keep theblood sugar stable, and that's
another misnomer too, thatpeople think eating more often
is what helps stabilize bloodsugar, and that's absolutely
(05:47):
false.
So we're going to go into thatnext time.
But you know, eating we'redesigned to eat three meals a
day and I have just starteddoing more of a fasting, so to
speak.
It's not really fasting.
I'm putting four hours inbetween meals and I'm not always
making it four hours, sometimesthree, but in between I'm not
always making it four hours,sometimes three, but in between
I'm having a little bit offrozen butter with like maple
(06:08):
syrup, like a butterscotch right, and it gives me that fat, it
gives me that sweet and I'm likehypothalamus is happy, it's
like thank you for setting thatdown.
So I've also been testing myblood sugars, which have been
remarkably good.
I don't have diabetes, I don'thave prediabetes, I don't have
anything like that, but for me,I'm trying to make sure my blood
sugar is staying stable so Idon't have to grab something all
(06:32):
the time.
It's just interesting, and Iwas out yesterday and I took the
dog for a walk and I was outfor a couple of hours and I went
to the grocery store to getsome things for the house and
I'm like I'll just have onelittle Lara bar.
They're so small, they're thisbig, they're literally four
little bites.
It was just.
There was four ingredients, Ithink pecans, dates, two other
(06:55):
things, no sugar, no nothing.
But dates are high in sugar.
I had the whole bar.
I waited to test my blood sugarand it was out of range.
It was 129, which 120 is normal.
It wasn't that far out of range, but I've been in the 90s and
the low 100s.
I haven't spiked past 103.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Interesting that you mentioned that, because I used
to be a big fan of the RX barsand the dates were one of the
main ingredients in RX bars aswell.
Yes, yes, I wonder why they dothat.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Because it can be dried easily and it's probably
dates are probably cheap andyeah, we're saying date sugar
maybe better than cane sugar,but sugars hate to say it,
sugars like the devil.
Anyway, like again for my sweettooth, I'm taking a little bit
of maple syrup with this frozenbutter like a butterscotch and
I'm just having.
That's like I'm having two patsof butter with a half of a
(07:46):
teaspoon of maple syrup and I'mstabilizing through there.
But I don't want to go off ablunt sugar tangent here.
What I'm saying is that it allgoes back to digestion.
It goes back to what's going inhow the body can manage it.
If the body understands thatthis is friendly, the body can
use it.
The body needs a little bit ofthis sugar from the maple syrup.
I need this to stabilize whereI'm at.
I need this to turn down someof these cravings so that I'm
(08:07):
not overeating.
That's another huge thing.
Janine, right, we're overeating.
And not big portions at themealtime, it's the eating
throughout the day, every singleday, every two hours.
I'm going to grab an apple andsome sunflower seed butter right
Now I need a bar.
Now I need a rice cake and somehummus.
Now I need some cucumbers.
You know, I'm really working ontrying to streamline this so
(08:28):
that I can have my three to fourmeals a day, and I've noticed
that my brain feels like it'sfiring a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Ron.
Well, shame on the media,because the media years ago was
like oh, we're doing it allwrong, we don't need three meals
a day, we need six small mealsa day.
And got personal trainers andthey all said the same thing oh,
you need to eat six small meals.
And it's like you know what.
Not everyone's created equaland every digestive track is
different and unfortunately themedia controls a lot of what the
(08:59):
population does and for me thatdidn't work.
For me, my body, like I can'teat that often, that frequent, I
just can't do it.
My body doesn't like to eatlike that.
It won't for most people whoare not diabetic, somebody who's
diabetic.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
They need a little bit more support.
Maybe they need a little bit.
Their blood sugar starts totank and they definitely have to
have a little something.
So this again, I preface thisby saying, not talking to
diabetics, although type twodiabetics maybe this could be
something for you as well too,because you're not having that
huge plummet and that huge spikeas well too.
But yeah, that eating every sixsmall meals so much for the
(09:37):
digestive system to try tomanage, which is really how
intermittent fasting was birthed, right Like to rest the
digestive system so that youcould have some room for a good
incoming load.
So my diet's been laced withanimal protein, like I'm having
steak, small servings, I'mhaving eggs, I'm having chicken,
I'm having turkey.
Of course Brooke loves my newdiet.
(09:58):
He has the kitchen like head up, like mom's cooking, so damn
cute.
But I'm definitely noticing asI move through this.
It seems to be helpful.
So that's next level stuff Forthose of you that are listening
to me and those of you who I'mtalking to.
You know what your symptoms are.
You've got the constipation,you've got the diarrhea, you've
(10:19):
got the bloating, you've gotnausea.
You can't sleep or you'rewaking up, you're able to fall
asleep, but you can't stayasleep and you're waking up
exhausted.
That is all a mechanism andfunctionality of digestion.
Your adrenal glands rely onyour body to break your food
down, Because if not, theadrenal glands are like oh
(10:42):
Houston, we have a problem.
What happens there?
Start having destabilizedcortisol, more craving.
It's a circle.
So when you can stop that bymaking a good food choice and
actually digesting what you'reeating, it really helps the body
on so many levels.
But yeah, some of the clientsthat come across my desk are
(11:05):
having joint pain with nodigestive issues, so they don't
think in their wildest dreamsthat it can be a digestive
problem.
When, sure enough, a lady justgave me another five-star review
, I'm honored.
But she was having so manyjoint issues and her son
actually went to the program tooand he was having digestive
issues and he's doing better.
He's a young guy.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Nope.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
That's another thing.
Kids these days are having somuch health issues, and why?
Because of our shitty food,because stress, right, poor
digestion, and it's causing alot of issues for them and all
of us.
To be honest with you, I don'tknow what that means.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Can I talk Like you're fl flashing, everyone
watching?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I don't mean to flash everybody, sorry, why not?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It's like the weather girl who's stripped.
It's like the tummy whisperer.
You know why not?
Let's do it Just kidding.
So funny.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I can't I don't even know what to say at this point.
It's funny.
We just cut out of that, whichis funny, I know.
Well, they're okay, we're notgoing there.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
But anyway, but yeah.
So again, just remindingeverybody that there is solution
to these health issues thatfeel unfortunately so big and
out of your control.
I have a friend I guess I'llcall him my husband's colleague.
He's having some really severehealth issues, from like brain
(12:35):
issues to blood clotting issues,to he had a mini stroke.
He's our age, too young, tohave all that.
He eats relatively clean, buthe's exhausted.
And when I shared with him hey,there's possibly something that
you're eating is causing thisexhaustion through the feedback
(12:57):
loop of your adrenals and poordigestion, it makes sense to him
.
He's not ready to move forwardyet because he's still stuck in
the medical model.
And I'm here to tell you, folks,western medicine does not stop
digestive chaos.
It's not the answer formetabolic diseases that are
often your body due to poordigestion.
Don't get me wrong.
(13:17):
Medication is needed to saveyour life.
We need it for emergency careAbsolutely beneficial, but for a
new and digestion and digestiveissues not fixed, it's a.
It's a bandaid, right, it's abandaid over a pothole and for
some people not even a bandaid,for some people it makes them
worse.
I've had so many people come tome on either PPIs, nexium,
(13:40):
prilosec.
I'm like, ah, I just felt worsetaking it.
How do I get off of that?
Because that stuff shuts offyour digestion.
If you already have a digestiveproblem and you take something
that's going to shut off yourdigestion, how do you think
you're going to feel Like you'rejust going to feel poorly.
So I'm preaching, but I lovewhat I do so much.
Preach, honey, let's go preach.
I love what I do so muchbecause I love helping people
(14:05):
not have to worry about theirhealth, not have to have that be
a second Retire.
When I'm only worried about myhealth, I'm not enjoying my
retirement.
I'm worried out of theirdigestive health.
So we talked about whack-a-mole, right?
All these things that peopleare trying to do to help their
health and help their digestion.
(14:27):
Again, it's okay to try thesethings, but at the end of the
day, you've got to really stripit down.
Oh, I keep cutting it out, okay, yeah, you do too.
Is this better?
Yeah, at the end of the day,we've got to really dial it back
.
We've got to really strip itdown and really look at the food
that we're eating, what we'reconsuming.
How clean is it?
(14:47):
Can our body digest it?
Can our body absorb it?
Can our body utilize it and getrid of the waste.
If we're eating Taco Bell,body's going to have an issue
with that eventually.
For those of you like I, haveTaco Bell so we can own those.
Well, eventually, don't get mewrong.
I love me a piece of Taco Bell,but I haven't had it in years.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
I knew a girl in her 20s that would eat it every day.
I'm like what do you mean?
Who's going to catch up to you?
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Oh, you eat Cutting In and Out now too.
I missed you.
What did you say?
You were Cutting In and Out.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Oh, a friend of mine used to have Taco Bell every day
in her 20s and she loved it.
And she, every day, withoutfail, every day, taco.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Bell.
Remember we used to call itTaco Hell, right, taco Hell,
yeah, taco Hell Again.
The whole idea behind thesepodcast guys are to give you
some help, some hope, someinspiration.
Just a little push in the rightdirection.
Right, a little tiny push, alittle nudge, so that you can
(15:51):
have some awareness around thesethings that are happening in
your body, this joint pain,these rashes that are coming on
your neck or your arms or yourlegs, this stomach ache, this
kind of nausea, this low levelhunger all the time.
Or another thing I hear peopletell me and I have heard this
for coming up on 20 years now isI can eat a full meal and still
(16:11):
feel hungry.
You know why?
Because they're not breaking itdown.
The brain isn't seeing that thestomach has what it needs.
The stomach has enough volume,but it's not broken down
properly.
So the brain's saying, hey, goget more protein, go get more
fat, go get more carbohydrate.
We don't see it down there.
We don't have enough that wholegut-brain connection.
(16:32):
So when we start really lookingat not only those physical
symptoms, janine, right, thoseemotional symptoms too, the
cravings that come from what wethink are physical hunger I was
actually talking to my colleague, my practitioner, one of my
coaches, because of course takesan army, like Dr Kim said, and
she said to me you think you'rephysically hungry, but this is,
(16:54):
it's deep rooted emotions behindfood for everybody and there's
not one person on this planetthat doesn't have some kind of
association or need right, thosecarbohydrate cravers, missing
some of the sweetness in life,fat cravers, needing to have
that long-term fuel but maybemissing something who knows
(17:15):
long-term childhood stuff.
And this stuff goes way, wayback too.
So there's a deep emotionalcomponent to food.
So when we start changing thechemistry which is what I help
people with start changing thatbiochemistry can help that brain
.
Some at least start to see thatwe have better fuel available.
And then, when we have that bigbrain stuff, we're going back
(17:36):
to Dr Carey's work.
I started seeing her colleague,dr Naomi, who, oh, I gotta tell
you, had on a stick.
What he's been on is hercolleague, dr Naomi, who, oh, I
got to tell you, kind of sick.
She's so phenomenal, such agifted healer, and really feel
my body just being pushed notpushed, nudged in the right
(17:57):
direction or pushed Like shewere lifting off a lot of old
stuff and it's really helping mybody just get back on lines and
even by changing the physicalchemistry.
For some people that's notenough.
Like me, right?
I have old wound, childhoodtrauma.
I'm not wearing it as a badgeof honor, I'm just saying it
messed me up, right, messed uphow my body processes, changes
(18:17):
my chemistry to now having anautoimmune diagnosis right,
hashimoto's thyroiditis verycommon.
So what I'm saying with therollercoaster, thyroid
medication and autoimmune stuff,autoimmune is an impressional
opinion and learned as well too,with something called
psychoneuroimmunology.
I've surveyed every autoimmuneperson in the world.
But if I did, I guaranteethere'd be some kind of trauma
(18:39):
there.
So I'm moving off.
I wanted to paint the picture.
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