September 9, 2025 • 25 mins
Ever wake up feeling exhausted despite a full night's sleep? Or find yourself wide awake at 3 AM staring at the ceiling? The culprit might be hiding in your gut.
The relationship between your digestive system and sleep quality creates one of the most powerful yet overlooked health connections in your body. When your digestion struggles with inflammatory foods, undigested particles, or nutrient deficiencies, it triggers a stress response that ripples through your entire system. Your cortisol rhythm gets disrupted, histamine levels rise, and suddenly that peaceful night's sleep becomes impossible.
Histamine foods deserve special attention for sleep-troubled individuals. Gluten, nightshades (tomatoes, potatoes, peppers), and certain nuts can act as sleep saboteurs by elevating histamine levels in the brain. As Renee explains, "When there's high histamine, there's no way to go down to sleep." This explains why many people find themselves exhausted yet wired at bedtime – their biochemistry simply won't allow them to downshift.
Modern living compounds these issues through blue light exposure and disrupted circadian rhythms. The practical solution? Yellow-tinted glasses after 7PM (yes, they look a bit like Elton John's, but they work), morning sunlight exposure, and proper electrolyte balance. Contrary to popular belief, salt restriction can actually worsen sleep problems by impairing digestion and adrenal function.
The chicken-or-egg relationship between gut health and sleep quality means you need to address both simultaneously. Start with an anti-inflammatory diet, support digestion with proper enzymes, implement solid sleep hygiene practices, and consider how environmental factors like EMFs might be affecting your body's electrical system.
Break the vicious cycle between poor digestion and poor sleep. Your body will thank you with renewed energy, clearer thinking, and that deep, restorative sleep you've been missing.
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Renee (00:09):
We are live.
We are live.
I didn't see it come up on thescreen.
Thank you, my eyes, janine.
Welcome everybody to the TummyWhisperer podcast.
I'm Renee Barish, your host andTummy Whisperer extraordinaire.
I'm here with the lovely Janinewho helps me get these podcasts
rocking and rolling.
Janine has informed me that weare on episode number 24 today
(00:31):
and it just feels likeunbelievable to me that we've
done 24 of these episodes and Ilove that I've been able to
provide some insights for peopleinto their health.
Today we're going to talk abouta big one which is a huge issue
for more and more people, as weare affected by so many
variables in the world, withEMFs and poor food and poor
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digestion and toxicity and poorair quality and shitty water and
all the things.
We're going to be talking aboutsleep via the gut-brain axis.
We're going to talk a littlebit about sleep hygiene, the gut
, how it affects and impactsyour sleep, how the sleep
impacts your energy signatureand how it can become a vicious
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circle if one of those thingsare out of balance, and how it
can affect everything else.
So to me there's so manyvariables in terms of good
health.
How it starts my shtick we'realways starting with good food
in good nourishing products, ongood clean water, air
purification, all the things.
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So when we're looking at how tostay healthy and how to move
the needle forward in gettinghealthy, one of the first places
I like to look is what you'reeating.
Look at is what you're eating,right?
I just worked with a younggentleman this morning.
He's 20 years old, he's superconstipated and no judgment on
my end.
He's in construction, so he'sfast fooding, not even thinking
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about it.
He can't poop, he doesn't feelgood, his sleep is for shit and
he's.
That's it.
I need to do something aboutthis.
I love at age 20, he's likedoing testing and he wants to
get well and he's alreadyloading up the gluten-free app
and he's I can do a gluten-freebun at Culver's, so he's, he's
on it.
But again, looking at how foodaffects your brain, most people
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are familiar with the gut brainconnection and I've talked about
it before, and your brain isrelying on good, healthy,
digested, available nutrientsand minerals in the body to say,
to tell the brain hey, we'vegot enough.
I've spoken about this before.
The cravings that we experience,whether it's for sweets or
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baked goods or salty chips orprotein, have to do with your
body's inability to digest thesethings.
And then your body is devoidand deficient.
So the body says, hey, thehypothalamus starts sending the
message to the tongue we needmore salty chips.
Basically it's more salt.
We need more fat Basically it'smore of what it needs because
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it's not seeing that your body'sdigesting these fats and your
body's burning through the saltand the chloride, because the
adrenals really need that saltto handle stress.
And nobody alive is not underany amount of stress, even
somebody who has a great life.
They handle things well,they're pretty robust.
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They're probably having somedigestive stress because they're
not breaking down a goodanti-inflammatory diet.
So there's some level of stressthat the body has to deal with
on the daily.
From time to time that affectshow your adrenals and your
hormones and your body respond.
So what happens?
If you're burning through yournutrients quicker than your body
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can take them in?
You're going to be devoid andyou're going to be deficient.
And when you're deficient,that's where all that stuff
starts.
That's where the cravings start, that's where the adrenals
start to go wonky.
We start to get a shift in thecortisol.
It becomes destabilized, it'sfiring at the wrong time and
what that may look like ispeople may wake up exhausted in
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the morning.
Even after getting eight hoursof sleep, they may wake up in
the middle of the night and notable to fall back asleep.
Usually between one and threeor one and five.
They may not be able to go tosleep at all, where they're
laying there just thinking andwired and tired and can't even
fall asleep, go to sleep.
So those are signs that we knowthat the cortisol and digestion
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is off, because digestionaffects the adrenals, it affects
your fight or flight and theywork together.
So again, the stress ofundigested food particles starts
to cause and inflammatory foodstarts to cause this cascade.
So what can we do about it?
What's the first thing we cando about it?
We can work on digesting a lowinflammatory diet.
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What's a low inflammatory diet?
Because it's different fromperson to person.
I have talked at nauseam aboutgluten.
Gluten is something that canaffect the wrong person.
This is not to say everybodyhas a gluten issue, but gluten
can be as classified lately as ahigher histamine.
Histamine is a neurotransmitterin the brain and when there's
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high levels of histamine itaffects how we try to live daily
and sleep and how our bodiesrespond to things.
So when there's high histaminethere's no way to go down to
sleep.
So we take antihistamines,right, whether you're taking a
natural one or you're taking aZyrtec or whatever it is.
So looking at foods that may behigher in histamine may be a
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great place to start.
For people, high histaminefoods include gluten nightshades
, which are your tomatoes,potatoes, peppers.
Those are hard for people, butthere's plenty of flavors in
cooking that you can do withoutpeppers.
You can use all your leafyherbs, your cilantro, your
rosemary and parsley and sageand all those things that flavor
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food nicely.
So looking at if you're eatingfoods that are high in histamine
, that's something to look at aswell.
Nuts also can be histamine,high in histamine, especially
peanuts, and then those fallinto your oxalate category,
which is will be another show,because those can also cause
issues.
So looking at what you'reeating could be a start.
A little tiptoe through thetulips into why maybe sleep may
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be a little bit funky.
So if you love spice which I do, but I don't dare then I kind
of fade a little bit more in thewintertime, when there's less
airborne allergens in the air,where my body handles those
histamines better.
Play with it and see.
So, looking at what you'reeating first, order of business.
The next thing we want to lookat too is your digestion, how
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your body's digesting whatyou're putting in.
Can your body break down a nicepiece of chicken with some
broccoli and rice, a salad orwhatever it is that you're
eating?
Is the body digesting that foodproperly so that the brain gets
all the neurotransmitters andyour tissues and cells get all
the nourishment they need andthe cells are able to pull in
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the nutrition and pull in thehydration and convert it and use
it for fuel or whatever it'ssupposed to be used for and get
rid of the waste.
Remember, a cell's job is topull in nutrition, pull in
hydration, get rid of that waste.
Remember, a cell's job is topull in nutrition, pull in
hydration, get rid of that waste.
If that's not happening, you'regoing to have symptoms and name
a symptom and it's probably dueto that.
So, looking at the digestivepieces, part number two is the
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body digesting, absorbing,getting rid of waste properly.
The next part into the gut,brain access is also your sleep,
which is one of those thingsthat affect digestion and
digestion affects the sleep.
This one is a cat chasing thetail, it is just which comes
first, the chicken or the egg.
And many times for most of myclients with sleep issues it's a
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combination platter.
Their digestion is not working.
It's messing up the sleep.
The sleep isn't working.
It's messing up the hormones.
The hormones are messed working.
It's messing up the sleep.
The sleep isn't working.
It's messing up the hormones.
The hormones are messed up.
It's messing up the digestion.
How do you know which one to fixfirst?
Always start with yourdigestion, because your body
needs the nourishment and we canalways tweak the sleep as we're
moving down the line.
The gut-brain axis is a bigpiece of this.
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Right, it's really like atwo-way street between your gut
and your brain and they worktogether.
It's your food doesn't juststop at your stomach and then
jump into your colon.
Right, there's a process thatgoes into nourishing every part
of your body and your brain andwhen that brain needs something,
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the brain always wins.
The brain tells the tongue andthe body temperature, thirst,
hunger, cravings, whatever thebody needs that hypothalamus is
right on saying, hey, we needmore of this, we don't have it.
Here's how you're going to getit.
So when we look at proper sleepagain, we talked about the
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digestive piece andanti-inflammatory diet, looking
at histamines, which can greatlyaffect the sleep.
We want to also look at sleephygiene.
So sleep hygiene is somethingI've talked about, but it's
important.
Everybody's on their phonedoing scrolling, looking at
whatever, but right before theygo to bed you've got all this
blue light exposure and the bluelight scrambles the brain.
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These glasses have a littleblue light blocking, but I don't
Do.
I have my I might've worn myElton John blue light blockers.
I've got blue light blockersthat look like Elton John and I
wear them starting at seveno'clock at night so that I have
less blue light.
And if Mark and I are watchinga movie, I've got those things
on and I look crazy, but I wearthem.
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My sleep is better.
So having your brain start toshift down, downshift, to know
that you're getting ready forsleep without having all this
bright light, is a big issue forgetting good sleep.
And another thing that'scritical is waking up in the
morning, and I'll get to thatplace between sleep and waking
up, which is unfortunately justvery hard for many people is
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when you get up out of bed inthe morning.
See if you can get outside foreven five to 15 minutes because
that natural sunlight starts toreboot your circadian rhythm.
So don't get up and get on yourphone and start looking for a
meditation app.
Get up, your emails will stillbe there.
Start your coffee.
You'll take your shower whenyou're ready.
(10:35):
Right and get outside.
Open the window.
It's nice out still, they'renot snowing yet.
Walk out onto the porch, walkout onto the balcony, sit for
five minutes, take some deepbreaths and get that natural
sunlight on your body,especially on your eyes.
That again is going to help thecircadian rhythm, especially on
your eyes.
That again, it's going to helpthe circadian rhythm.
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So what to do in between, thathour of when we're trying to go
to sleep till the time we wakeup, and we're up ready to vacuum
at one in the morning, hey,I've got all this energy.
What the hell is that?
That used to be me.
And again, it's all thesethings that we're mentioning.
It's inflammatory, fooddigestion, hormones, poor sleep
hygiene.
Start with just one.
If you're already doing a goodanti-inflammatory diet and you
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don't have good sleep hygiene,work on it.
If you want to watch a movie atnight, grab those yellow crazy
glasses.
They fit right over yourprescriptions.
I have the ones from DaveAsbury.
They just slip right over andthey're great.
They just pop right over mineand I should be wearing right
now, and I'm not because I can'tfind them, but they're
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somewhere in the house.
Oh, here they are.
Wait a minute, everybody cansee.
Janine (11:50):
They're not that bad so they're not that bad, so
actually they're trippy.
I'm getting 60s vibes.
Renee (11:59):
I love it yeah so they're great the prescription, because
they're fitting over myprescriptions and I got again.
I got these from Dave Asbury.
He's the was the oldbulletproof guy, but he's got a
lot of hacks and I do love him.
He's a little he's a little outthere and can be a little
inflammatory, but he's got a lotof hacks and I do love him.
He's a little he's a little outthere and can be a little
inflammatory, but he's got a fewgood products that I do, these
being one of them.
So, working on that sleephygiene and again, not to say
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that you can't watch a movie atnight but get these on and most
prescription glasses.
Now people are aware of theblue light.
The optometrist will ask do youwant some blue light blocking?
And people say, yes, it's notenough, you really need
something yellow to block theblue is my understanding.
So that's a big critical onefor people and something that I
could work on as well too.
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I don't have these on sevendays a week and I do have to get
better about it, but when Iremember to put them on, which
is at least three to four days aweek, I do, and especially
after dinner.
That's when really helping yourbody shut down because your
cortisol looks like this whenyou wake up in the morning.
You should have this nice kindof you don't want to be getting
out of bed, ready to go playfootball or something, but you
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should be alert and youshouldn't be okay, just give me
five more minutes, or give meone more hour, or I need a
spatula to get me out of bed.
You should have some alertnessin the morning in a perfect
world and you should have thisnice high cortisol and as the
day goes the cortisol slowlydips until it's bedtime.
People who have adrenal issuesthe cortisol spikes in the wrong
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time where they're exhausted inthe morning they get a hit
around 10 of energy and thenthey need a nap at one or
between three and five, orthey're ready to go to bed at
six or seven and if they stay uppast that they're okay, and
then they're wired and tired atnine o'clock and then they can't
go to sleep.
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So helping your body shift intothat nice cortisol rhythm
through good digestion, goodsleep hygiene, is going to be
another way to really help thatgut brain access.
So these are just tips andtricks that anybody can do.
Looking at the diet, I harp onit all the time.
It's very important in terms ofgood health making sure you're
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hydrated and making sure you'redrinking your electrolytes
whatever you like.
I like the fringe ones.
I think you can get those.
A lot of people use the elementones.
Janine (14:15):
I think those are pretty salty, I like element.
Renee (14:16):
Yeah, they're pretty salty.
I like the fringe ones.
There's no preservatives inthem.
F-r-i-n-g-e.
They make a plain, they make araspberry one.
That is out of this world.
So you want to just getsomething clean, get your
electrolytes in, because,remember, when you are drinking
water without electrolytes,you're watering down your own
electrolytes.
So it's not that you have tomainline electrolytes, but you
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have to have some, especiallyduring the warmer months which
we're starting to cool off,which I've been loving.
So, yeah, those things are veryimportant.
You also get minerals fromfruits and vegetables.
Not enough, because everyoneknows our soils are depleted,
over farmed, over tilled, so youdo have to supplement.
So adding the minerals iscritical.
Also, salt is anotherunfortunately, has developed a
bad rap over the years.
Lower sodium equals healthyhealthy, which is really the
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wrong idea, because you can'teven make stomach acid without
enough salt.
You have a low salt diet.
You're going to have baddigestion, obviously people with
high blood pressure and thingsof that nature.
It's not so much a high sodiumdiet issue, it's a kidney issue,
right, it's a kidney clearingissue.
So, again, when we look atdigestion and how the body
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breaks down food, if the kidneyscan't concentrate the urine
because there's a leaky gut,undigested food, particles, all
the things that go bump in thenight, the kidney is going to be
hey, need a little help downhere.
So working on the digestivepiece lowers the pressure off of
those kidneys, which also helpsthe body with sodium, calcium,
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potassium.
It's a whole cascade.
So just lowering the salt isn'talways the best idea.
And on the urine test that Irun, we actually test for
chloride and we test for saltlevels and we see how the body
is managing the salt that peopleare eating or avoiding.
And it's an important piecebecause, again, there's no way
to digest your food withoutenough salt.
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Your body uses it to makehydrochloric acid, end of story.
So anyway, that was an airfultoday.
What do you think so far,janine?
Is anything resonating for you?
Janine (16:21):
I really like the salt conversation because if you're
not hydrated enough that canaffect your sleep tremendously.
And Element someone had turnedme on to Element and at first I
was like, oh my God, this issalty.
Then I it is salty, but I findthat if I put it in a really big
, large water container itdilutes it a lot and I sip on it
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throughout the day and if Idon't drink it I feel dehydrated
.
It's almost like I start tocrave it after a while.
Renee (16:53):
The hypothalamus, the body's saying Janine, you need
more water, you need moreelectricity.
Our bodies run on electricity.
There's no way to have goodelectricity without enough
conduit.
That's right.
Salt is your conduit Needed tohelp the heartbeat, needed to
help make your stomach acid,needed to help make everything
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in the body Very important.
Yeah, I think this was a lottoday, but it was good To recap.
So good To recap.
We're talking about thegut-brain axis.
We're talking about how sleepis affected, the chicken-egg
type thing between digestion andpoor sleep.
Poor sleep and digestion, howthey feed into each other.
Working on good digesting andanti-inflammatory diet, lower
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histamine, lower oxalate.
Using your digestive enzymes tohelp break down your food and
get good absorption of yournutrients, your vitamins, your
minerals.
Opening up those detoxificationpathways to allow that ash to
leave the body.
And then really working on yoursleep hygiene.
It is important and doing thosethings, just doing parts of
some of those things, I thinkpeople will start to see a shift
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in their health.
The other thing, the last thingthat I haven't really talked
about, and this is one of thosethings that's like woo-woo and
out there there are a lot ofelectronic devices like EMF
blockers and things like that,and who knows if they work.
I'm wearing this.
I don't know if it works, Ijust hope it works.
It's cute and whatever Rook hasone under his pillow and bed,
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mark has his own.
We have a few different onesthroughout the house to block
the electromagnetic waves thatcan affect our electricity
system.
And one of the things that myfriend turned me on to is a
little device.
I don't have it up for the sizeof a coaster.
It's called the Schumann.
It's for anybody listening,it's the Schumann
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S-C-H-U-M-A-N-N and it's alittle device that you charge up
and you can put differentfrequencies on it.
Here, in fact, I'm going tograb my frequency.
I'm going to grab my frequency.
This is cool, this is cool.
So I got this last week andsince I am in menopausal hell
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mostly because going throughmenopause really is tough, it is
tough.
I used to hear like womencomplain about it and I'm like,
ah, I'm so healthy, I'll be fine.
Ha joke's on me, but I am doinga lot better.
The hot flashes are real, asI've complained on many shows
before.
So the Schumann device hasthese different frequencies that
you could set for sleep, wakingup, meditation, aligning with
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the Earth's rhythm, and myfriend, who I trust and love
dearly.
If she loves it, I'm going tolook at it because she vets
everything she researches and ifshe likes it, I'm already like
she's done all the heavy liftingfor me.
So I'm going to look at itbecause she vets everything she
researches and if she likes it,I'm already like she's done all
the heavy lifting for me.
So I'm going to give it a try.
And the most expensive devicewas $199.
It like is not thousands ofdollars and they have a cheap
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one just for sleep, a cheaperone that's, I think, $100.
And there's a code you can get12% off or something.
If anybody needs it, I can.
It's like I think it's Schumann10 or something like that S-C-H
large, s small, c-h-u-m-a-n-n10.
And some of these frequenciesare I have to read them because
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I've deferred back to the chartsMorning activation between five
and nine is you can align withthe earth's rhythm natural
awakening, dna, energyactivation and focus enhancement
for the day ahead.
So you pick which hurts and theyhave Schumann, beta, sulfageo
and Tesla and alpha, of course,and then productive hours they
have maintain harmony whileworking, expand consciousness
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and productivity.
All these different thingsmental clarity, gentle pain and
tension relief, energystabilization, and the list goes
on, because it comes with alittle booklet, an e-booklet.
So I've had this device forabout a week and mine and Mark's
sleep is thin.
As we've gotten older it's beenthinner, it's just all the
things right and he's got a lotof stress at his job and he's on
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his phone and even though myhusband started out as my client
, I can only have that noosearound him so tight.
So he eats clean, he drinks hiswater, he does everything he's
supposed to do and he he hearsme and we all have to, we all
always have to do a little bitbetter and work on ourselves the
best that we can.
So fast forward to turning onthe device.
The minute I turned it on,cause it came fully charged, I
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felt it in my body.
Are you sensitive to energy,janine?
People's energy, people's energy, yeah, yeah, I'm going to go
with that, because when you'remore aware, you're like and it's
the same frequency.
It's if you walk into a placeand you know that like you get
the creeps from that personchange the frequency.
It's like changing the radiostation in the car.
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You don't want to hear thatkind of music because the
frequency is like you turn it toa different song and you're
like, yeah, same difference.
So this machine I literallyturned it on and I was like I
felt an immediate grounding tothe earth.
And there's a lot of groundingdevices out there grounding
sheets, grounding mattresses.
They're super expensive, youhave to plug them in and you
have to make sure you'regrounded and you have to be
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naked on the mat.
And who the heck has time forthat?
I don't have time for that,nobody does.
You plug in this little device,it's this big, and you change
the frequency for what you wantand it's really fantastic.
I think at some point I'm goingto have to get you one, because
they are really amazing and ithelps to me.
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What I feel it does is it helpsalign my energy field with the
earth, so my body works better.
Now here's the best part ofthis whole thing my hot flashes,
which are awful and have gottenbetter in the past week to the
tune of 70% since adding thisdevice, and that's no lie.
Now I'll tell you Mark lovesthe hot flashes because we're
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like at dinner and I'm takingthe clothes off and I'm eating
dinner, like in my bra, and he'sI'm like don't even look at me,
talk to me, don't even bother,I'm just like uncomfortable.
The hot flashes are awful andit keeps me up at night.
It's awful, like one nightabout a week and a half ago.
I had one hot flash the wholenight that never really muted
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down and I was able to fallasleep.
But I just woke up feeling soawful I.
The hot flashes are almost 7075 better just by adding the
device because my cells aren'tgetting more aligned in with a
good energetic field.
Again, there's so manydisruptors in the energy in our
atmosphere and that's anotherreason why I believe that we
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become unwell, and there's datato prove it.
It's not just me spouting offsome nonsense, there's data to
prove it.
So, shuman, for anybody that'sinterested, it really it's been
helping my sleep as well.
I to prove it.
So, shuman, for anybody that'sinterested, it really it's been
helping my sleep as well, Ihighly recommend it and I think
that might be Jennings Christmasgift for me, I like.
Maybe Christmas is coming inOctober, yeah, I like that, but
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it's super, super cool and sohopefully something resonated
with everybody today in terms ofwhat you can do to help your
health move forward in the rightdirection working on some sleep
hygiene, working onanti-inflammatory diet and, of
course, as everybody knows, I'malways here for anybody and
everybody who has questions onany of this stuff.
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I've been in practice forcoming up on 22 years.
I've been in the healthcarefield for over 30.
I know I don't look a day over30, but I'm turning 60 in
October, so it's hard to say.
That freaks me out.
What's the exact day?
Sixth October 6th.
Wow October 6th October 6th 60years old, wow, I know, but I
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know what I'm blessed.
I'm lucky, I feel good, I lovewhat I do, I love helping people
and I just feel blessed in somany aspects of my life.
If anybody has questions,comments, concerns about
anything at all, happy to giveyou my two cents for free.
You're welcome to reach me atthe tummy whisperercom.
You can find me on Facebook andyou can find me online, and I
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do a free 15 minute consultationand we can talk about what may
serve you in your better healthand help you be the healthiest,
best version that you can inthis day and age.
Yeah, that felt good today.
So thank you everybody forjoining.
We are live.
We are live.
I didn't see it come up on thescreen.
Thank you, my eyes, janine.
Welcome everybody to the TummyWhisperer podcast.
I'm Renee Barish, your host andTummy Whisperer extraordinaire.
I'm here with the lovely Janinewho helps me get these podcasts
rocking and rolling.
Janine has informed me that weare on episode number 24 today
(00:31):
and it just feels likeunbelievable to me that we've
done 24 of these episodes and Ilove that I've been able to
provide some insights for peopleinto their health.
Today we're going to talk abouta big one which is a huge issue
for more and more people, as weare affected by so many
variables in the world, withEMFs and poor food and poor
(00:53):
digestion and toxicity and poorair quality and shitty water and
all the things.
We're going to be talking aboutsleep via the gut-brain axis.
We're going to talk a littlebit about sleep hygiene, the gut
, how it affects and impactsyour sleep, how the sleep
impacts your energy signatureand how it can become a vicious
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circle if one of those thingsare out of balance, and how it
can affect everything else.
So to me there's so manyvariables in terms of good
health.
How it starts my shtick we'realways starting with good food
in good nourishing products, ongood clean water, air
purification, all the things.
(01:35):
So when we're looking at how tostay healthy and how to move
the needle forward in gettinghealthy, one of the first places
I like to look is what you'reeating.
Look at is what you're eating,right?
I just worked with a younggentleman this morning.
He's 20 years old, he's superconstipated and no judgment on
my end.
He's in construction, so he'sfast fooding, not even thinking
(01:58):
about it.
He can't poop, he doesn't feelgood, his sleep is for shit and
he's.
That's it.
I need to do something aboutthis.
I love at age 20, he's likedoing testing and he wants to
get well and he's alreadyloading up the gluten-free app
and he's I can do a gluten-freebun at Culver's, so he's, he's
on it.
But again, looking at how foodaffects your brain, most people
(02:20):
are familiar with the gut brainconnection and I've talked about
it before, and your brain isrelying on good, healthy,
digested, available nutrientsand minerals in the body to say,
to tell the brain hey, we'vegot enough.
I've spoken about this before.
The cravings that we experience,whether it's for sweets or
(02:43):
baked goods or salty chips orprotein, have to do with your
body's inability to digest thesethings.
And then your body is devoidand deficient.
So the body says, hey, thehypothalamus starts sending the
message to the tongue we needmore salty chips.
Basically it's more salt.
We need more fat Basically it'smore of what it needs because
(03:06):
it's not seeing that your body'sdigesting these fats and your
body's burning through the saltand the chloride, because the
adrenals really need that saltto handle stress.
And nobody alive is not underany amount of stress, even
somebody who has a great life.
They handle things well,they're pretty robust.
(03:26):
They're probably having somedigestive stress because they're
not breaking down a goodanti-inflammatory diet.
So there's some level of stressthat the body has to deal with
on the daily.
From time to time that affectshow your adrenals and your
hormones and your body respond.
So what happens?
If you're burning through yournutrients quicker than your body
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can take them in?
You're going to be devoid andyou're going to be deficient.
And when you're deficient,that's where all that stuff
starts.
That's where the cravings start, that's where the adrenals
start to go wonky.
We start to get a shift in thecortisol.
It becomes destabilized, it'sfiring at the wrong time and
what that may look like ispeople may wake up exhausted in
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the morning.
Even after getting eight hoursof sleep, they may wake up in
the middle of the night and notable to fall back asleep.
Usually between one and threeor one and five.
They may not be able to go tosleep at all, where they're
laying there just thinking andwired and tired and can't even
fall asleep, go to sleep.
So those are signs that we knowthat the cortisol and digestion
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is off, because digestionaffects the adrenals, it affects
your fight or flight and theywork together.
So again, the stress ofundigested food particles starts
to cause and inflammatory foodstarts to cause this cascade.
So what can we do about it?
What's the first thing we cando about it?
We can work on digesting a lowinflammatory diet.
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What's a low inflammatory diet?
Because it's different fromperson to person.
I have talked at nauseam aboutgluten.
Gluten is something that canaffect the wrong person.
This is not to say everybodyhas a gluten issue, but gluten
can be as classified lately as ahigher histamine.
Histamine is a neurotransmitterin the brain and when there's
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high levels of histamine itaffects how we try to live daily
and sleep and how our bodiesrespond to things.
So when there's high histaminethere's no way to go down to
sleep.
So we take antihistamines,right, whether you're taking a
natural one or you're taking aZyrtec or whatever it is.
So looking at foods that may behigher in histamine may be a
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great place to start.
For people, high histaminefoods include gluten nightshades
, which are your tomatoes,potatoes, peppers.
Those are hard for people, butthere's plenty of flavors in
cooking that you can do withoutpeppers.
You can use all your leafyherbs, your cilantro, your
rosemary and parsley and sageand all those things that flavor
(06:05):
food nicely.
So looking at if you're eatingfoods that are high in histamine
, that's something to look at aswell.
Nuts also can be histamine,high in histamine, especially
peanuts, and then those fallinto your oxalate category,
which is will be another show,because those can also cause
issues.
So looking at what you'reeating could be a start.
A little tiptoe through thetulips into why maybe sleep may
(06:28):
be a little bit funky.
So if you love spice which I do, but I don't dare then I kind
of fade a little bit more in thewintertime, when there's less
airborne allergens in the air,where my body handles those
histamines better.
Play with it and see.
So, looking at what you'reeating first, order of business.
The next thing we want to lookat too is your digestion, how
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your body's digesting whatyou're putting in.
Can your body break down a nicepiece of chicken with some
broccoli and rice, a salad orwhatever it is that you're
eating?
Is the body digesting that foodproperly so that the brain gets
all the neurotransmitters andyour tissues and cells get all
the nourishment they need andthe cells are able to pull in
(07:13):
the nutrition and pull in thehydration and convert it and use
it for fuel or whatever it'ssupposed to be used for and get
rid of the waste.
Remember, a cell's job is topull in nutrition, pull in
hydration, get rid of that waste.
Remember, a cell's job is topull in nutrition, pull in
hydration, get rid of that waste.
If that's not happening, you'regoing to have symptoms and name
a symptom and it's probably dueto that.
So, looking at the digestivepieces, part number two is the
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body digesting, absorbing,getting rid of waste properly.
The next part into the gut,brain access is also your sleep,
which is one of those thingsthat affect digestion and
digestion affects the sleep.
This one is a cat chasing thetail, it is just which comes
first, the chicken or the egg.
And many times for most of myclients with sleep issues it's a
(07:59):
combination platter.
Their digestion is not working.
It's messing up the sleep.
The sleep isn't working.
It's messing up the hormones.
The hormones are messed working.
It's messing up the sleep.
The sleep isn't working.
It's messing up the hormones.
The hormones are messed up.
It's messing up the digestion.
How do you know which one to fixfirst?
Always start with yourdigestion, because your body
needs the nourishment and we canalways tweak the sleep as we're
moving down the line.
The gut-brain axis is a bigpiece of this.
(08:20):
Right, it's really like atwo-way street between your gut
and your brain and they worktogether.
It's your food doesn't juststop at your stomach and then
jump into your colon.
Right, there's a process thatgoes into nourishing every part
of your body and your brain andwhen that brain needs something,
(08:40):
the brain always wins.
The brain tells the tongue andthe body temperature, thirst,
hunger, cravings, whatever thebody needs that hypothalamus is
right on saying, hey, we needmore of this, we don't have it.
Here's how you're going to getit.
So when we look at proper sleepagain, we talked about the
(09:03):
digestive piece andanti-inflammatory diet, looking
at histamines, which can greatlyaffect the sleep.
We want to also look at sleephygiene.
So sleep hygiene is somethingI've talked about, but it's
important.
Everybody's on their phonedoing scrolling, looking at
whatever, but right before theygo to bed you've got all this
blue light exposure and the bluelight scrambles the brain.
(09:27):
These glasses have a littleblue light blocking, but I don't
Do.
I have my I might've worn myElton John blue light blockers.
I've got blue light blockersthat look like Elton John and I
wear them starting at seveno'clock at night so that I have
less blue light.
And if Mark and I are watchinga movie, I've got those things
on and I look crazy, but I wearthem.
(09:47):
My sleep is better.
So having your brain start toshift down, downshift, to know
that you're getting ready forsleep without having all this
bright light, is a big issue forgetting good sleep.
And another thing that'scritical is waking up in the
morning, and I'll get to thatplace between sleep and waking
up, which is unfortunately justvery hard for many people is
(10:13):
when you get up out of bed inthe morning.
See if you can get outside foreven five to 15 minutes because
that natural sunlight starts toreboot your circadian rhythm.
So don't get up and get on yourphone and start looking for a
meditation app.
Get up, your emails will stillbe there.
Start your coffee.
You'll take your shower whenyou're ready.
(10:35):
Right and get outside.
Open the window.
It's nice out still, they'renot snowing yet.
Walk out onto the porch, walkout onto the balcony, sit for
five minutes, take some deepbreaths and get that natural
sunlight on your body,especially on your eyes.
That again is going to help thecircadian rhythm, especially on
your eyes.
That again, it's going to helpthe circadian rhythm.
(11:01):
So what to do in between, thathour of when we're trying to go
to sleep till the time we wakeup, and we're up ready to vacuum
at one in the morning, hey,I've got all this energy.
What the hell is that?
That used to be me.
And again, it's all thesethings that we're mentioning.
It's inflammatory, fooddigestion, hormones, poor sleep
hygiene.
Start with just one.
If you're already doing a goodanti-inflammatory diet and you
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don't have good sleep hygiene,work on it.
If you want to watch a movie atnight, grab those yellow crazy
glasses.
They fit right over yourprescriptions.
I have the ones from DaveAsbury.
They just slip right over andthey're great.
They just pop right over mineand I should be wearing right
now, and I'm not because I can'tfind them, but they're
(11:44):
somewhere in the house.
Oh, here they are.
Wait a minute, everybody cansee.
Janine (11:50):
They're not that bad so they're not that bad, so
actually they're trippy.
I'm getting 60s vibes.
Renee (11:59):
I love it yeah so they're great the prescription, because
they're fitting over myprescriptions and I got again.
I got these from Dave Asbury.
He's the was the oldbulletproof guy, but he's got a
lot of hacks and I do love him.
He's a little he's a little outthere and can be a little
inflammatory, but he's got a lotof hacks and I do love him.
He's a little he's a little outthere and can be a little
inflammatory, but he's got a fewgood products that I do, these
being one of them.
So, working on that sleephygiene and again, not to say
(12:21):
that you can't watch a movie atnight but get these on and most
prescription glasses.
Now people are aware of theblue light.
The optometrist will ask do youwant some blue light blocking?
And people say, yes, it's notenough, you really need
something yellow to block theblue is my understanding.
So that's a big critical onefor people and something that I
could work on as well too.
(12:42):
I don't have these on sevendays a week and I do have to get
better about it, but when Iremember to put them on, which
is at least three to four days aweek, I do, and especially
after dinner.
That's when really helping yourbody shut down because your
cortisol looks like this whenyou wake up in the morning.
You should have this nice kindof you don't want to be getting
out of bed, ready to go playfootball or something, but you
(13:04):
should be alert and youshouldn't be okay, just give me
five more minutes, or give meone more hour, or I need a
spatula to get me out of bed.
You should have some alertnessin the morning in a perfect
world and you should have thisnice high cortisol and as the
day goes the cortisol slowlydips until it's bedtime.
People who have adrenal issuesthe cortisol spikes in the wrong
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time where they're exhausted inthe morning they get a hit
around 10 of energy and thenthey need a nap at one or
between three and five, orthey're ready to go to bed at
six or seven and if they stay uppast that they're okay, and
then they're wired and tired atnine o'clock and then they can't
go to sleep.
(13:47):
So helping your body shift intothat nice cortisol rhythm
through good digestion, goodsleep hygiene, is going to be
another way to really help thatgut brain access.
So these are just tips andtricks that anybody can do.
Looking at the diet, I harp onit all the time.
It's very important in terms ofgood health making sure you're
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hydrated and making sure you'redrinking your electrolytes
whatever you like.
I like the fringe ones.
I think you can get those.
A lot of people use the elementones.
Janine (14:15):
I think those are pretty salty, I like element.
Renee (14:16):
Yeah, they're pretty salty.
I like the fringe ones.
There's no preservatives inthem.
F-r-i-n-g-e.
They make a plain, they make araspberry one.
That is out of this world.
So you want to just getsomething clean, get your
electrolytes in, because,remember, when you are drinking
water without electrolytes,you're watering down your own
electrolytes.
So it's not that you have tomainline electrolytes, but you
(14:44):
have to have some, especiallyduring the warmer months which
we're starting to cool off,which I've been loving.
So, yeah, those things are veryimportant.
You also get minerals fromfruits and vegetables.
Not enough, because everyoneknows our soils are depleted,
over farmed, over tilled, so youdo have to supplement.
So adding the minerals iscritical.
Also, salt is anotherunfortunately, has developed a
bad rap over the years.
Lower sodium equals healthyhealthy, which is really the
(15:05):
wrong idea, because you can'teven make stomach acid without
enough salt.
You have a low salt diet.
You're going to have baddigestion, obviously people with
high blood pressure and thingsof that nature.
It's not so much a high sodiumdiet issue, it's a kidney issue,
right, it's a kidney clearingissue.
So, again, when we look atdigestion and how the body
(15:27):
breaks down food, if the kidneyscan't concentrate the urine
because there's a leaky gut,undigested food, particles, all
the things that go bump in thenight, the kidney is going to be
hey, need a little help downhere.
So working on the digestivepiece lowers the pressure off of
those kidneys, which also helpsthe body with sodium, calcium,
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potassium.
It's a whole cascade.
So just lowering the salt isn'talways the best idea.
And on the urine test that Irun, we actually test for
chloride and we test for saltlevels and we see how the body
is managing the salt that peopleare eating or avoiding.
And it's an important piecebecause, again, there's no way
to digest your food withoutenough salt.
(16:10):
Your body uses it to makehydrochloric acid, end of story.
So anyway, that was an airfultoday.
What do you think so far,janine?
Is anything resonating for you?
Janine (16:21):
I really like the salt conversation because if you're
not hydrated enough that canaffect your sleep tremendously.
And Element someone had turnedme on to Element and at first I
was like, oh my God, this issalty.
Then I it is salty, but I findthat if I put it in a really big
, large water container itdilutes it a lot and I sip on it
(16:44):
throughout the day and if Idon't drink it I feel dehydrated
.
It's almost like I start tocrave it after a while.
Renee (16:53):
The hypothalamus, the body's saying Janine, you need
more water, you need moreelectricity.
Our bodies run on electricity.
There's no way to have goodelectricity without enough
conduit.
That's right.
Salt is your conduit Needed tohelp the heartbeat, needed to
help make your stomach acid,needed to help make everything
(17:15):
in the body Very important.
Yeah, I think this was a lottoday, but it was good To recap.
So good To recap.
We're talking about thegut-brain axis.
We're talking about how sleepis affected, the chicken-egg
type thing between digestion andpoor sleep.
Poor sleep and digestion, howthey feed into each other.
Working on good digesting andanti-inflammatory diet, lower
(17:38):
histamine, lower oxalate.
Using your digestive enzymes tohelp break down your food and
get good absorption of yournutrients, your vitamins, your
minerals.
Opening up those detoxificationpathways to allow that ash to
leave the body.
And then really working on yoursleep hygiene.
It is important and doing thosethings, just doing parts of
some of those things, I thinkpeople will start to see a shift
(18:01):
in their health.
The other thing, the last thingthat I haven't really talked
about, and this is one of thosethings that's like woo-woo and
out there there are a lot ofelectronic devices like EMF
blockers and things like that,and who knows if they work.
I'm wearing this.
I don't know if it works, Ijust hope it works.
It's cute and whatever Rook hasone under his pillow and bed,
(18:26):
mark has his own.
We have a few different onesthroughout the house to block
the electromagnetic waves thatcan affect our electricity
system.
And one of the things that myfriend turned me on to is a
little device.
I don't have it up for the sizeof a coaster.
It's called the Schumann.
It's for anybody listening,it's the Schumann
(18:49):
S-C-H-U-M-A-N-N and it's alittle device that you charge up
and you can put differentfrequencies on it.
Here, in fact, I'm going tograb my frequency.
I'm going to grab my frequency.
This is cool, this is cool.
So I got this last week andsince I am in menopausal hell
(19:11):
mostly because going throughmenopause really is tough, it is
tough.
I used to hear like womencomplain about it and I'm like,
ah, I'm so healthy, I'll be fine.
Ha joke's on me, but I am doinga lot better.
The hot flashes are real, asI've complained on many shows
before.
So the Schumann device hasthese different frequencies that
you could set for sleep, wakingup, meditation, aligning with
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the Earth's rhythm, and myfriend, who I trust and love
dearly.
If she loves it, I'm going tolook at it because she vets
everything she researches and ifshe likes it, I'm already like
she's done all the heavy liftingfor me.
So I'm going to look at itbecause she vets everything she
researches and if she likes it,I'm already like she's done all
the heavy lifting for me.
So I'm going to give it a try.
And the most expensive devicewas $199.
It like is not thousands ofdollars and they have a cheap
(19:55):
one just for sleep, a cheaperone that's, I think, $100.
And there's a code you can get12% off or something.
If anybody needs it, I can.
It's like I think it's Schumann10 or something like that S-C-H
large, s small, c-h-u-m-a-n-n10.
And some of these frequenciesare I have to read them because
(20:16):
I've deferred back to the chartsMorning activation between five
and nine is you can align withthe earth's rhythm natural
awakening, dna, energyactivation and focus enhancement
for the day ahead.
So you pick which hurts and theyhave Schumann, beta, sulfageo
and Tesla and alpha, of course,and then productive hours they
have maintain harmony whileworking, expand consciousness
(20:39):
and productivity.
All these different thingsmental clarity, gentle pain and
tension relief, energystabilization, and the list goes
on, because it comes with alittle booklet, an e-booklet.
So I've had this device forabout a week and mine and Mark's
sleep is thin.
As we've gotten older it's beenthinner, it's just all the
things right and he's got a lotof stress at his job and he's on
(21:02):
his phone and even though myhusband started out as my client
, I can only have that noosearound him so tight.
So he eats clean, he drinks hiswater, he does everything he's
supposed to do and he he hearsme and we all have to, we all
always have to do a little bitbetter and work on ourselves the
best that we can.
So fast forward to turning onthe device.
The minute I turned it on,cause it came fully charged, I
(21:26):
felt it in my body.
Are you sensitive to energy,janine?
People's energy, people's energy, yeah, yeah, I'm going to go
with that, because when you'remore aware, you're like and it's
the same frequency.
It's if you walk into a placeand you know that like you get
the creeps from that personchange the frequency.
It's like changing the radiostation in the car.
(21:47):
You don't want to hear thatkind of music because the
frequency is like you turn it toa different song and you're
like, yeah, same difference.
So this machine I literallyturned it on and I was like I
felt an immediate grounding tothe earth.
And there's a lot of groundingdevices out there grounding
sheets, grounding mattresses.
They're super expensive, youhave to plug them in and you
have to make sure you'regrounded and you have to be
(22:08):
naked on the mat.
And who the heck has time forthat?
I don't have time for that,nobody does.
You plug in this little device,it's this big, and you change
the frequency for what you wantand it's really fantastic.
I think at some point I'm goingto have to get you one, because
they are really amazing and ithelps to me.
(22:28):
What I feel it does is it helpsalign my energy field with the
earth, so my body works better.
Now here's the best part ofthis whole thing my hot flashes,
which are awful and have gottenbetter in the past week to the
tune of 70% since adding thisdevice, and that's no lie.
Now I'll tell you Mark lovesthe hot flashes because we're
(22:48):
like at dinner and I'm takingthe clothes off and I'm eating
dinner, like in my bra, and he'sI'm like don't even look at me,
talk to me, don't even bother,I'm just like uncomfortable.
The hot flashes are awful andit keeps me up at night.
It's awful, like one nightabout a week and a half ago.
I had one hot flash the wholenight that never really muted
(23:10):
down and I was able to fallasleep.
But I just woke up feeling soawful I.
The hot flashes are almost 7075 better just by adding the
device because my cells aren'tgetting more aligned in with a
good energetic field.
Again, there's so manydisruptors in the energy in our
atmosphere and that's anotherreason why I believe that we
(23:32):
become unwell, and there's datato prove it.
It's not just me spouting offsome nonsense, there's data to
prove it.
So, shuman, for anybody that'sinterested, it really it's been
helping my sleep as well.
I to prove it.
So, shuman, for anybody that'sinterested, it really it's been
helping my sleep as well, Ihighly recommend it and I think
that might be Jennings Christmasgift for me, I like.
Maybe Christmas is coming inOctober, yeah, I like that, but
(23:57):
it's super, super cool and sohopefully something resonated
with everybody today in terms ofwhat you can do to help your
health move forward in the rightdirection working on some sleep
hygiene, working onanti-inflammatory diet and, of
course, as everybody knows, I'malways here for anybody and
everybody who has questions onany of this stuff.
(24:18):
I've been in practice forcoming up on 22 years.
I've been in the healthcarefield for over 30.
I know I don't look a day over30, but I'm turning 60 in
October, so it's hard to say.
That freaks me out.
What's the exact day?
Sixth October 6th.
Wow October 6th October 6th 60years old, wow, I know, but I
(24:41):
know what I'm blessed.
I'm lucky, I feel good, I lovewhat I do, I love helping people
and I just feel blessed in somany aspects of my life.
If anybody has questions,comments, concerns about
anything at all, happy to giveyou my two cents for free.
You're welcome to reach me atthe tummy whisperercom.
You can find me on Facebook andyou can find me online, and I
(25:05):
do a free 15 minute consultationand we can talk about what may
serve you in your better healthand help you be the healthiest,
best version that you can inthis day and age.
Yeah, that felt good today.
So thank you everybody forjoining.
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