May 18, 2023 • 57 mins
Jenna recovered from aspartame poisoning in her early 20s after using the diet products throughout her teenage years. In high school, Jenna was a high functioning athlete and was student-body Vice President. Like so many teenage girls, Jenna struggled with her body image, and she dealt with an eating disorder starting at 14 years old - this was when she began regularly using diet products with aspartame.
Her aspartame reactions included high anxiety, depression, fainting, stroke-like symptoms with numbness on one side of her face, an impaired immune system, brain fog and many more - all health symptoms a 14 year old should never have to experience. Thankfully, Jenna was able to resolve her eating disorder on her own before graduating from high school. However, the diet products and the daily use of diet sweeteners followed her throughout college and into her early 20s, eventually landing her in the emergency room several times and spending countless hours at doctors visits with unresolved answers to her health symptoms. Today, Jenna is a Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and Behavior Change Specialist. Jenna is most active as a Natural Health and Fitness Coach who works with clients both virtually and in-person, implementing frequent detoxification protocols and regular exercise as critical parts of a natural, preventative, healthy lifestyle. Jenna met Dr. Hull in 2009. At the time, Jenna was drinking 4-6 diet colas per day and relied on prescribed antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications to cope with her young life.
The very day that Dr. Hull learned about Jenna’s health symptoms, she put Jenna on a detox program eliminating ALL diet sweeteners, and did a hair analysis test for her. After avoiding all diet products and replenishing her nutrients, Jenna got off all her medications, became confidently self-employed, and now lives, without depression, with her husband and Golden- doodle, Rosie, on the sunny coast of South Texas.
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Her aspartame reactions included high anxiety, depression, fainting, stroke-like symptoms with numbness on one side of her face, an impaired immune system, brain fog and many more - all health symptoms a 14 year old should never have to experience. Thankfully, Jenna was able to resolve her eating disorder on her own before graduating from high school. However, the diet products and the daily use of diet sweeteners followed her throughout college and into her early 20s, eventually landing her in the emergency room several times and spending countless hours at doctors visits with unresolved answers to her health symptoms. Today, Jenna is a Certified Personal Trainer, Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and Behavior Change Specialist. Jenna is most active as a Natural Health and Fitness Coach who works with clients both virtually and in-person, implementing frequent detoxification protocols and regular exercise as critical parts of a natural, preventative, healthy lifestyle. Jenna met Dr. Hull in 2009. At the time, Jenna was drinking 4-6 diet colas per day and relied on prescribed antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications to cope with her young life.
The very day that Dr. Hull learned about Jenna’s health symptoms, she put Jenna on a detox program eliminating ALL diet sweeteners, and did a hair analysis test for her. After avoiding all diet products and replenishing her nutrients, Jenna got off all her medications, became confidently self-employed, and now lives, without depression, with her husband and Golden- doodle, Rosie, on the sunny coast of South Texas.
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Please note that all XZBN radio and/or television shows are Copyright © REL-MAR McConnell Meda Company, Niagara, Ontario, Canada – www.rel-mar.com. For more Episodes of this show and all shows produced, broadcasted and syndicated from REL-MAR McConell Media Company and The 'X' Zone Broadcast Network and the 'X' Zone TV Channell, visit www.xzbn.net. For programming, distribution, and syndication inquiries, email programming@xzbn.net.
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After curing herself from a near deathexperience caused by aspertaine poisoning, Doctor
Hull became one of the world's mostrenowned artificial sweetener experts, combining her expertise
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dot com and now here is thehost of Healthy Alternatives, Doctor Janet Hull.
Hello, everyone, Welcome to thissegment of Healthy Alternatives. Today,
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we're going to be talking about aspartamereactions and we're going to be doing some
storytelling on how aspartame can affect yourchildren, how it can affect young children
and especially teenagers that are going throughpuberty. Our guest today is Jenna Serrano.
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She's a certified personal trainer and acertified health coach in behavioral and nutritional
wellness. Jenna came into my lifelife in two thousand and nine, and
she's a very special person to me. She's working with us at the Holistic
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Network and doing health coaching and advisingon nutritional health. But when I met
Jenna, she was twenty one yearsold and she started dating my oldest son.
Well, whether she was dating myoldest son or not, I would
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have still interacted with her as Idid. But Jenna was experiencing some very
serious health problems and she was onantidepressant since she had anxiety, she wasn't
sleeping well, and she was twentyone years old, and so of course
the first question I'm going to askher, much to the chagrin of my
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children because they hate it when Ialways asked the question, But the question
was are you using Aspertain? Areyou using the sugar free diet? Sweet
Nurse? And of course her answerto that was well, yes, and
she'd been using them since she wasfourteen years old during puberty. So she
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is here today to tell us herstory. I'm very interested in talking to
Jenna about her experience when she wasfourteen and in high school using the diet
products, and at that time theywere mostly the Asker Team products, and
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I'm very interested in talking to herabout her recovery, how she did it,
and then of course we're going tobring it up to the present day
to where she is in tiptop shape, perfect health and quite an inspiration.
So what I want the mothers todo is to stop and think about their
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children, if their children are chewingsugaralist gum, if their children are using
any of the diet products, drinkingthe diet sodas, etc. To stop
and maybe connect the dots here thattheir behavioral problems, their anxiety, some
of their phobias, maybe even eatingdisorders can be connected to using the diet
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products. So Jenna, I wantto welcome you. Thank you for coming
to Healthy Alternatives to share your storyto help others. Well, thanks so
much for having me. This isa really neat experience, so we got
a lot of them. Yeah,definitely, Well is this will be the
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first time that really come out andtalk about my personal experience with aspert tame
specifically and also I'm sure we'll geta little bit into the eating disorder that
you know, I developed as ateenager, also in conjunction with all of
these diet products and stuff like that. So I'm really hoping that that some
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people have some takeaways from this forsure. Well, you know, I've
discovered through doing the asperteam whistleblowing foralmost thirty years now that of course we
know that the truth about the dietsweeteners and their health reactions are not on
mainstream, and we know that they'restill selling the diet products and promoting the
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diet products for pro athletes, moviestars, models, and of course it's
offered in the schools. They canpop out a can of diet soda in
the public schools. But the lackof information is just getting buried, and
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it's becoming something that's less and lesstalked about, harder to find the truth
about the dangers of the diet sweeteners, and for many many mothers, it's
hard for them to connect the dotsthat some of their child's behavior may be
connected to what, of course they'reeating or drinking. But when they're eating
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or drinking the diet products, that'sa red flag. For me. It
just runs right up the pole.That's something that we really really need to
look at seriously. But I alsothink too, I can appreciate it's not
easy thing to talk about when you'vehad an eating disorder, or if you've
started it at such a young ageand you don't understand what's going on.
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It's really hard to come out andtalk about that because it's not a good
history and you're chapter in your historybook. You know, it's something that
is hard to talk about. SoI really appreciate you're doing this, and
I hope that we can be doingthis more because case has stories. The
storytelling is what I'm wanting to reallyfocus on with healthy alternatives. There's a
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lot of good stories out there thatcan help people connect the dots. So
I really appreciate your honesty and andyour willingness to come out and talk about
the details of this absolutely, andagain, thanks for giving me the opportunity
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to share and help other people.Well, and I went over your certifications,
which we will go over at theend of the show, but you
are a certified personal trainer and younow I have your licenses and certifications in
natural nutritional counseling correct specifically it's Iam a certified fitness nutrition specialist and then
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I'm also a certified behavior change specialistas well. That's the isitial names for
them. Okay, so you're seeingthis in your line of work in young
people as well, reactions to baddiets, but particularly using the diet sweepers.
Well, I can't. I haven'tworked with a lot of adolescents and
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teenagers to be frank, but um, I can only speak to my personal
experience on um on the front ofyou know, the diet stuff. But
UM, I know that I'm notthe only one that was struggling with this
stuff as I was growing up inthe high school that I was at,
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and um the only one I graduatedwith a class of four hundred people.
So you know, given the ratioof male to female, you know we're
talking about two hundred females about inmy class. So, UM, I
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can think of at least three otherpeople right off the bat that you know,
we're exposed to what I was exposedto and experiencing similar like body image
issues as a as a teenager.Do you notice this today when you now
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being a little more aware of it, Because like I can, I can
go to the grocery store. Andagain, my kids are always don't say
anything, you know, but Ican go to the grocery store and you
can look at someone's shopping cart andthey'll have young kids with them, maybe
even babies and toddlers, you know, sitting in the front of the cart,
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and you can look into their cartand you can see what they're getting,
and you know, so much ofit is unhealthy, but so much
of it are the diet products.And then while you're waiting in line to
check out, you'll see them,you know, the kids go grab some
gum and ask mom if they canhave some gum, and their mothers will
get it for them, and youjust know that that unawareness is there because
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they have not been educated about this. It is not easy information to find,
and they're unaware that when that childputs that stick of gum in their
mouth, they're going to begin misbehaving. They may be getting a headache,
and a child isn't going to beable to express to themselves, I've got
this pounding headache right here at myforehead, which is one of the more
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common reactions to ask for team inthe diet sweeteners, it's going to make
them hungrier. It does affect theirmoods. We're going to go through all
of these health reactions that you hadwhen you were in high school. Anxiety
it can actually even cause people togain weight because it makes them hungrier,
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and it tricks the body into thinkingthat they've eaten and they haven't, so
they're hungrier. But I've noticed thatwhen you put the child together with the
diet sweeteners, you are going tosee frustration in the parents because the child
is going to be acting up andand is not going to pay attention and
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listen and just be growthy and anxious. Have you noticed that as well?
Oh? Absolutely, with um,with young adults and adults, you know,
I don't think they're putting the puzzlepieces together with you know, their
their experience income some kind of behavioror reaction and not connecting the dots that
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it's related to something they're consuming.And um. You know, if you
know you're talking about the grocery store, if you next time you're in line
at the grocery store, look atthe label on the diet drinks that are
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there in the little cooler, andevery single one of the gums that's there
at the checkout and those little thingsthat you're grabbing on the go that are
just available for you to grab quicklyhave this stuff in it. So what
I see more often is that peopleare consuming this stuff without the knowledge of
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what this weird word ingredient is inthis stuff, and they're consuming it,
they're having some kind of reaction andthey're not piecing it together. Well,
after we met in two thousand andnine and you stopped using the ass partak,
you paid attention to me. Letme ask you. Why did you
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pay attention to me? What didI say or do that turn the light
on in your head to think?Okay? Because in two thousand and you
were on anti anxiety medications antidepressants correct, Yeah, antidepressants anti anxiety yea.
So what got you to connect thedots for you? Because you did very
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quickly. I remember you did listento me and you did stop using them,
which I respected very much, becauseI either get the role of the
eyeball or I get the lot Isee the live bulb turn on. What
was it that did it for youwhen we when we first met, well,
number one, I was already suspiciousabout my um, about my dosage
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that was prescribed to me. AndI had been m I'm originally from Nakodoches,
Texas, and I was in Dallas, you know, after graduating and
um living in Dallas now after that, and so I was having to reach
out to my doctor or about notbeing able to focus and being foggy,
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and he wanted to increase my dosageof my medication and I didn't want to.
I didn't want to take more medication. I thought that that was part
of the problem. So this wasshortly this was shortly before you and I
met, So I just felt likeI needed to hear it and take advantage
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of the opportunity to change something.So the timing was divine. Well,
I tell you what, I think. We have a good message to deliver.
And if people can reach the pointin their life to where they know
something is wrong, it's not gettingfixed. Typically you go back to your
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doctor needing a higher dose of themedications that they've had you on, and
you're typically taking that medication with adiet soda. So what we're going to
do when we get back from breakhere is I want you to go back
in time for us. I wantyou to go back to when you were
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fourteen and start us over there andtake us through your experience. We'll be
back after the break. Welcome backto Healthy Alternatives. Now that I've had
my introduction to establish the background herewith our guest Jenna Serrano, I'm going
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to turn it over to Jenna,because Jenna's going to tell you a story.
Jenna today is a certified personal trainerand wellness coach, and she has
a background with reacting to aspartame inthe diet sweeteners starting when she was fourteen
years old. And it's a wonderfulstory to hear and I hope it helps
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some of you connect the dots thatthis may be happening to your children,
are to someone in your life thatyou love as well. So, Jenna,
in this segment, if you woulddo us the honor of sharing an
experience that we hope no one elsehas to go through. The unfortunate truth
is that there still will be,but hopefully we're able to to help some
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people and prevent that moving forward.So thanks again for having me on.
So the way that I was reallyintroduced to diet products and diet sweet nurse
aspartame was by accident. I didn'tintend on falling into diet products as a
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as a teenager who frequents you know, their friends houses and stuff. I
would go over to my friend's homesand just drink what they had in the
fridge. And my best friend andyou know her, her mom had diet
coke all the time, and soI was at her house more than I
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was at my house. So Iwas either at school or doing some kind
of extracurricular activity or hanging out withmy BFF at the time. And so
that's how I really got introduced toaspartame was through diet coke. And what
I found was that I became addictedto it, and so I started to
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crave having diet coke. So Istarted to get it on my own.
And the diet coke then led meto other diet products. I started drinking
diet green tea. I started buyingEqual in the blue packets. I started
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I started to think that cutting outsugar was a good thing to do,
so I started buying equal in bulkand cooking with it, baking with it,
I would. I just started reachingfor the diet stuff I knew.
I didn't know at the time thatthat the artificial sweeteners were in gum,
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but as a teenager YouTube gum allthe time, you know. UM,
So I started getting addicted to thediet stuff. And then this was when
I was about fourteen, I wasa freshman in high school. Then um,
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sometime between the time I was fourteenand sixteen, I did have an
eating disorder. Um that I wasable to realize that I got into and
stopped it all on my own,without even telling my parents about it or
even admitting to doctors and stuff.But there was about a two year period
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where I was believe it. Andfor those people who don't know what that
is, that's where you throw upafter you eat. And so that was
an addiction also. And I reallydon't know a whole lot about addiction itself.
I just know that, you know, once I would do something like
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drink a diet coke or I wouldwant more of it. It was the
same thing with the eating disorder.Once I did that, I would want
to do it again, like Iwould crave to do it again. So
thankfully I was able to kick thatafter a couple of years. Now.
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My diet product use followed me fromthe time I was fourteen to the time
that I was twenty one, Sofor seven years I use diet products not
knowing that they were affecting me.So the reason why I want to bring
up the eating disorder though, isto be truthful about my experience within um,
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those two years, because I didstill experience, um, some crazy
symptoms and stuff far after the bulimiawas gone. Okay, So I don't
want people to get mixed up andthink, well, it could have been
the other thing. Well it's not, because um, even into my twenties,
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I'm still experiencing the symptoms of theUh. The diet sweeteners can with
us. Absolutely, yeah, no, good, good question. So,
um, the first thing that Inoticed about diet coke is that I knew
that I was getting addicted to it. When I wouldn't have one, I
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would start to get a headache,and so I would drink one to prevent
the headache. So that really Iwas probably I was drinking between the time
I was fourteen and twenty one,drinking at least a six pack a day
of diet coke. So I wasdrinking it pretty similarly to water, and
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at the water I did drink water. Also, I was an athlete,
you know. In high school,I was a cheerleader and I was on
the swim team as well, soI got a lot of exercise, and
I did drink water. I drankwater, I drank gatorade. But when
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I was not working out, Iwas reach the diet code. So probably
water was first thing in the morningbefore I went to bed and while I
was doing my sports stuff because itjust wasn't available. So um, So
the headache is really the first symptomthat I had. There were a lot
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of other things too, some otherthings that happened to me while I was
in high school. I remember havingthese terrible, terrible night terrors. So
I would have these awful dreams.Also, I had really bad anxiety when
I was when I obviously whenever Iwas asleep, and also whenever I was
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awake. I had anxiety so badI would faint and it wasn't just I
will tell you what was the triggerto it. But um, going back
to the night tears, what wouldhappen is I would have these awful,
awful nightmares and I would wake upjust drenched in a pool in my sweat,
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and my arms and my legs werecompletely numb. So I was like
paralyzed laying awake as a teenager,like scared out of my mind, like,
what the hell is wrong with me? Why can't I you know,
I would have to fling my armsfrom side to side to wake my limbs
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up. And um, now,I'm sure that a lot of people who
are my age, I'm thirty fiveor thirty six. I think I'm thirty
five. I'm about six. Remember, Yeah, when we were raised,
you know, our moms were myyou know, our moms are nor age
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doctor Holmes. So you know,these are working moms. The generation before
that, you know, moms werelike really weren't out in the field working
like our moms were, and so, you know, we were just raised
to like tough it up. Youknow, our both of our parents were
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working every day, and we werejust taught to be tough. You know,
if there's something wrong with you,just stuck it up, don't complain
about it, deal with it.So I did not know. I literally
did not know to go to myparents and say I'm experiencing an issue.
I just thought to internalize it andlearn how to deal with it on my
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own. So I would have thesenight terrors, I'd wake up in sweat,
and then I mentioned the anxiety.The anxiety was so bad it was
stabilitating. So and I'm still tothis day. I'm very social. I
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have no problem public speaking. Ican get up in front of, you
know, five hundred people and talkto five hundred people, probably more easily
than I can, like a groupof my closest friends. It's just not
a problem for me. But whenit came to like situations that I felt
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like were really really important to me, I would pass out. And so
for example, growing up from thetime I could read my favorite books to
read as like a Kenner gardener oranatomy books. I am not kidding.
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I loved learning about the human body. I loved learning about the Latin names
of all of the human tissues andmuscles and bones. I could name all
two hundred and five bones for you. By this I'd grade. And I
always thought that I was going togo into the medical field. So when
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I was sixteen, I joined HosaHealth Occupation Students of America, and this
is when the fainting started. Thisis when the fainting started, and this
continued all throughout the beginning of mytwenties. When I was working in Hosa,
you go around and you shadow differentsections of the hospital, to see
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which specialty you think you might wantto specialize in when you go into college.
And it did not matter the differentarea that I went to, I
fainted every single time. So eventuallyI pulled myself out of this program.
And as a sixteen year old,you know, I went to my parents
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and I said, I don't thinkthis is gonna work because I can't stand
the site of p I faint atsmells. I can't look at throw up,
I can't look at by all,I can't look at blood, I
can't look at a needle, allof it. It just made me faint.
And so it started happening when Iwasn't just in the hospital. It
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would start happening at social events.I would just faint and what would happen
now, I'd just get like overlyexcited, I guess, or just stress,
and my body didn't know how todeal with it, and I would
just faint. And so my parentstook me to psychiatrists, psychologists. Nobody
knew what was wrong with me,and very common. I had a car
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accident when I was sixteen at nightby myself, and after that I started
having anxiety attacks every time I woulddrive at night. So I stopped being
able to drive at night as anadult, you know, in college and
into my early twenties and stuff,I had a hard time driving at night
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because I would have to pull overbecause I could feel that I was going
to faint. And that's not that'snot normal. And my doctors couldn't explain
it well, especially since you werean athlete. I mean, would that
would that happen to you when youwere cheerleading? No, I'm running a
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marathon or no, when I wasexercising, it did not affect me.
It was um. And you know, we had performances too, like I
had to. I had to andI was I was vice president of my
class. I did have to getup in front of people impromptu and talk
in front of the entire school,you know, thousands of people. And
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that didn't seem to affect me.It was just certain things that it was
just a trigger and then I wouldI would faint. And so that's that's
ready to take a break. Andso when we come back from our break,
I want to pick this back upagain because of what you're doing today
and how you turned your life around. Okay, all right, East,
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So we'll talk about that in aminute. Alrighty, Welcome back to Healthy
Alternatives with personal trainer and fitness specialistJenna Serrano. Jenna, your story is
it's amazing, It really is,because as a child, what you were
experiencing would be scary for an adult. Adults could be having these exact same
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health symptoms and they're not going toknow what the heck is going on.
But at least they're an adult andthey had some experiences under their belt to
where they could try to justify ormaybe they could go out on their own
and try to figure out what amI doing that's causing this to trigger in
my body. But as a child, and that's the point that I want
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to make with this segment here,is children are having reactions two a chemical
that's been proven to cause all ofthese side effects that you experienced, headache,
anxiety, depression, sleep, atmia, physical body aches, elevated
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heart rate, fainting, all ofthese symptoms have been documented as being a
cause and effect of using aspartame andthe diet sweeteners. But as a child,
you're not going to know any ofthis. And you said a really
important thing that I really picked upon, and that was you didn't noted
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tell parents that, and even ifyou did tell your parents that, you
might not have wanted to go tothe doctor. So you just wanted to
go away. When you did goto the doctor, then they started addressing
it with the pharmaceuticals, right,And as anybody who is taking a pharmaceutical
knows that when you start taking apharmaceutical, it'll get rid of one problem
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and then you start experiencing other problems. So it was like the more medication
I took, the more and moreI had to take to stay normal.
So I would get like foggy headed, and I would I was losing my
ability to concentrate, when I hadalways been really spectacular at concentration and focus.
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If I set my mind to doingsomething, I could achieve it.
And so I knew that something waswrong. I had to take more.
The doctors were just prescribing me moreand more and more medication. And so
this really brings us back to wherewe left off at the beginning, where
we were talking about medication, andor where you were talking about what made
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you listen to me, And itwas it was just about a month or
two before I met you that Ihad told my doctor something's not right.
I am not able to concentrate likeI used to, and they wanted to
increase my dose. And to methat just because I knew that I was
just taking more and more and moreincrementally over the last seven years, that
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it just it wasn't making sense tome. It was like, I want
to take less of this, notmore. I just want to get to
the bottom of it, you know, I want to get rid of this.
I don't want to take medication.It sucks to try to travel and
take pills, you know, orhave these symptoms. Well, you were
so young to have to be dependentupon the medication in order to do something
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which should be natural. But yousee, you were starting to come out
of it. You you were,you were growing up, you graduated from
college, you were an adult.You know, the experiences under your belt
to be able to connect the dotsa little bit better. Right. Well,
really, the straw that broke thecamel's back for me, which was
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um the worst, the worst symptomthat I had ever had, was just
before you and I met, Ihad lost I was drinking a diet coke.
I remember this so distinctly because itwas so scary. I was at
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a burger joint with my friend takinga lunch break from work, and I
was having a diet coke like Ialways have, and um, the left
side of my face went totally numb. And I looked at my friend and
I said, we'll call him bOkay. I said, b do I
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look normal because I feel like theleft side of my face is plato right
now like my And he said,no, you look fine. So I
was having this sensation that the leftside of my face was not functioning,
so I thought I was having astroke. At this point, I have
already taken hypoglossinia tests, you know, I had already, you know,
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seen my psychiatrist and psychologists and theycan't explain shit. So like she worked.
Shortly after that, thank god,literally, thank god, I met
doctor Hall and she just knew immediatelybecause she was like, well, do
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you drink diet stuff? And I'mlike every day and She's like, no,
stop and immediately put me on herhair analysis and detox program and that
when I D talks, it tookthree I remember, it took distinctly three
days to D talks. I hadflu like symptoms. I had the worst
headache. I'm getting chill bumps thinkingabout like like it was like rushing.
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The experience is rushing back to meright now. I had a bad headache,
I had nausea. I had coldsweats. I remember I used to
work for State Farm and I wassitting at my desk like freeze sweating,
you know. And I had Ibasically had gotten a flu. I guess
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whenever I detoxed, and like literallysince then, my whole life has changed.
Since I removed the diet sweeteners anddetoxed from it, it took me
seventy two hours, That's all ittook to firm myself of something that I
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had struggled with for seven years.Yeah. Well, you know, aspartam
does so much more, and whenyou use it during puberty, it can
affect your hormonal development. So onething, I hope it's okay because I
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know this is kind of I mean, we're getting down and dirty here on
our storytelling and getting pretty crazy.But you have repaired it. But it
had affected your hormone development, andyou've fought with having regular, regular minstrel
cycles, you fought with cramping,you've fought with fibroid cysts. But now
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you have achieved your goal and youhave gotten yourself back onto normal, right.
It only took another fifteen years.Yeah, but that's a toughie.
That that's a tough one because thebody you have to get into the brain
and help all the glands in thein the brain and you know, get
that system going. It does takea while. But you did it.
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You did We did it. Imean there's no way, there's no way
that I could have done that hadI not met you and had the experience
that I had from detoxing. SoI definitely, you know, consider that
a wee effort, not an eyeyou know. Well, I thank you,
but I will tell you when Iwork with when I work with clients
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that are like you. They beforeyou met me, you had gone to
your doctor and said, look atthere's just something not right here, and
of course he couldn't give you anyanswers because he's not schooled in it.
But there's so many people that areat that point to where our clients that
come into the holistic network they're wantingto get off their pharmaceutical medications because they're
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having to take more, they're havingto increase their doses. Just like you
had said your doctor wanted to dowith you, and they're like, no,
I don't want to continue on thisdependency over the counter and prescribe medications.
But what do I do? Andso I think with working with people
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that are figuring it out, Ithink one of the best things that we
could do is, you know,offer them the healthy alternatives and tell them
this that it's going to take time. And I give you so much credit
because I can give you the tools. I can give you the data and
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the information and the research and thecase histories and all of that. But
it's up to you. It's upto the person to take it upon themselves
to stand up to their doctor andsay, you know, there's something else
going on. I'm going to tryto figure out what that is. Don't
worry about it, I'll do iton my own. It takes a strong
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person to to face the fear thatthey may get worse, that if you
don't work, they might die.But when you when you take it upon
yourselves to learn, educate yourself,try to find people like you and me
that are out there that can helpgive you some some suggestions and advice can
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get you steer you towards the research. It takes the person's strength to do
it, and you did that,and it's it's hard, but you know,
at the same time, it's likepeople can't experience exactly what you're experiencing,
especially if you know, um,if you're talking to a male doctor
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and you're experiencing female issues. SometimesI have a hard time believing that male
document, that male doctor's expertise.If I'm like, how do you know?
Like I know that I know thatyou have all of this, like
probably forty years of background and stuff, but you're telling me something that doesn't
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make sense because you don't know you'renot. It's almost like they didn't believe
what I was experiencing at some points, you know, like they didn't believe
me. I'm like, this isnot the answer, Like I just know,
like this isn't helping me, Thisisn't you know. It's kind of
like somebody who is complaining about somethingincessantly but then never does anything about it.
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That's not the kind of person thatI am. You know, if
I know that something is wrong,I know I have to change it in
order to expect a different result.So I'm not one to go around in
circles. And I was just fedup even as a young twenty one year
old. You know, they wereprobably like that brat, you know,
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like, who did she think sheis? You know, I'm Jenni Serrano.
I'm going to figure this out.Yea, and we did and you
did. So what I want todiscuss We'll start it now and then we'll
break for a segment here in acouple of minutes. But wow, this
this segment has really gone fast.In the last segment that we have,
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I want to talk about what you'redoing now, but quickly here for a
couple of minutes we have left.Tell us how you what you did once
you realized it was the Asport teamand you went through the withdrawal symptoms.
Then what then? What was yourtrain of thought? Then? What did
you think? Um? I droppedthe medication like immediately and was basically gave
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the finger to the medication, notthe doctor, because you know, I
know the doctors are really just outthere doing the best they can. Everybody
is out there just doing the verybest they can. So it's I don't
blame the doctors. It's that theydon't have the expertise, they don't have
the knowledge. Most doctors out theredo not have education and nutrition. They
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do not know about all the stuffthat's out there that we have to share
in our experience and then our expertise. You know, it's nutritionists and toxicologists
and things. But I stopped themedication. I was able to focus again,
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able to think clearly, set goalsfor myself. I quit my job,
I moved to a different city andstarted started living the life that I
knew that was meant for me again. And it took me a long time
to grow the balls to start gettingback into the medical field again. And
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I was in my thirties when Istarted doing that again, and now I'm
happier than ever. Well, Iwill tell you what I'm watched you get
a transform. I guess we'll putit that way. I've had the pleasure
of watching you transform. But thething that's been so stimulating for me is
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your success on how you've restored yourhealth. And I will say when we
come back, we're going to talkabout what you are doing now. But
if there's somebody out there that iscut, with low body fat and in
great shape, it's you. We'llbe back, and we'll be back for
our final segment to talk about whatJenna's doing. Now. Welcome back to
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Healthy Alternatives and today our guest isJenna Serrano, a personal trainer who pulled
her life together and it's made itto the top after she had a very
very hard as for team reaction beginningof fourteen years of age. It not
only affected her physically, but itaffected her mentally. And that's really hard
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for anybody at any age, butcan you imagine a teenager. So Jenna's
got it all figured out and shehas recovered, and she's sharing her experience
to try to help others, especiallyteens, teens that possibly have eating disorders,
mothers and parents that do not knowthat the diet sweeteners and the artificial
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sugars are harming their children. Sowelcome back Jenna. Before we broke for
the break, I was saying thatyou are extremely physically fit. You run
marathons, You've got low body weight, You've got the most beautiful arms,
I mean your cut girl, andyou are in great shape to you.
To me, relaxing is going outsideand maybe weeding the garden and trimming some
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plants. To you, relaxing isrunning ten k. You've restored your health,
You've restored your your minstrual cycle.You've restored your sleep cycle. You've
you are back, you are backto normal, and you are now.
You didn't enter the nursing field orthe medical field, but you entered the
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holistic nutrition field and physical physical fitnessthrough being a personal trainer. So what
I'd like to do in this finalsegment is talk about what you're doing now
where people can find you because youcan help people physically, emotionally, spiritually,
and mentally recover from experiences that arehaving from various food chemicals. Absolutely,
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yes, thank you. She givesme a lot of credit for that.
My exercise and things, and youknow what, it's all relative.
Um, you know, being fitdepends on your lifestyle, you know.
And that's why in my personal trainingbusiness I do. I do um one
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on one personal training. I leadpersonal training classes and fitness classes, and
I also do virtual health and fitnesscoaching one on one so uh and for
couples also, And the the thething about health and fitness is that everybody
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is at a different point on theirhealth and fitness continuum. Even if,
um, you know, there's there'ssomebody that is my exact age, my
body type that goes to the gymthat at the same time I do and
does the same exercises, that girlis going to be at a different part
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of her inner a different point inher health and fitness continuum than I am,
because I've had different experiences, andum, I build muscle in different
ways. I enjoy doing different exercises. I live a different distance from the
gem. I Um, you know, I have a different amount of family
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and a different kind of family.I mean I go I go home to
a husband and a golden doodle andfour hundred animals at a wildlife center.
So um, you know all allof that, you know, I points
right, and so um, Fitnessfor me at least is um. It's
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a it's a hobby. It's anoutlet for me to release excess energy.
I've always been high energy though,and for a lot of people, you
know, that's not it, youknow, But health and fitness for for
somebody else could be you know,just moving, moving in all of the
different planes, moving the joint sothat they don't get stiff as we grow
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older, you know. And howmany people out there want to lose weight?
How many, like most most peoplewant or need to lose weight,
And there's so much misinformation out thereabout foods, and like I was saying,
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everybody's at a different point in theirhealth and fitness continuum, So a
potato could affect me differently than itcould affect you, doctor Hall. And
that's what people really need to realize, is that there's not just one way.
There's not A is better than Band B is better than C.
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It's that there's a hundred million differentways out there that combinations of ways that
you could eat and exercise. Andwhat it really comes down to is fitting
in healthier habits and giving you healthierresources, healthier alternatives to what you're currently
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doing. That are things that arenot serving you. You need to identify
the things that you feel like maynot be serving you. And it just
so happened that I recognize that somethingwasn't serving me, and it took me
meeting you to identify what that thingwas, and then I removed it,
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and then I was able to doall the rest of the things in my
life that I had set out todo as I wanted to do them.
Well, you know, one ofthe things that you're doing with your fitness
business is you're working with people oneon one and there are so many people
that go to the doctors. AndI'm not dogging the doctors, but I
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mean they don't have the time.The traditional allopathic way of helping people is
you've got a problem, let's addressthat problem, let's get that fixed,
and it's over, you know.And but to work with someone one on
one, to take the time toget to know their background. You know,
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what their profile looks like now,how they've brought that profile with them
from years before. How you canmake lifestyle changes so that they move forward
with a different profile. That's somethingthat you do. That's something that we
do at the Holistic Network, andyou do with get Fit for Jenna with
Jenna, and you work with peopleone on wine and it does take someone
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that cares and has the time towork with you and get you started on
your lifestyle changes so that then youcan take them on your own in the
future. Correct. Yeah, absolutelyso for the people out there who are
listening, I am a health coachfor Doctor Hale. When somebody gets a
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hair analysis and does a consultation withdoctor Hall, they have the option to
do the detox health coaching where alot of times people will get the information
that they need from the doctor onwhat they need to do, but then
they don't know how to continue carryingout the process. So that's what I
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do with Doctor Whole as far ashealth coaching these days. I help get
her clients from where they are atpoint A and then they have the map
that Doctor Whole has given them withpoint B and then the point C is
where they want to be. Havingthat map, they need help navigating the
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map like they don't know. Okay, well I know I need I'm here
and I need to get here,and here's all the directions, but I'm
not sure how to fit this intomy lifestyle. And then that's where I
really come in. What do yourecommend for someone as far as do you
recommend a fitness program, get themwalking or get them lifting lightweights, or
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do you recommend that they get startedon an exercise program tailored for them.
It really depends person to person,because there could be there could be somebody
who was very athletic in high schooland who hasn't worked out for the last
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forty years but still has that musclememory. They can still do a lunge
properly, in a squat properly.They just pick it up like they like
riding a bicycle, right, Butthen you have people who were in banned
and played the piccolo and never dida squat in their life, and they
have no idea how to pick upa weight, you know, in their
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store or after doing five five poundbicep pearls, you know. So it
really, it really depends on theperson. I would say it's always a
good idea to exercise. I wouldalso say that the first place I start
is with nutrition. You know,what are you eating? You know,
and what are your goals? Soit really depends on the person. And
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what works for people is taking onestep at a time. So instead of
changing a whole lot of things allat once and it being really overwhelming,
just taking it one step at aside, one step at a time.
Instead of looking at the entire staircase, we look at taking that first step.
Oh I like that. I likethat a lot. Well, you
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have a certification and behavioral coaching,correct, did I say that? Right?
Certified UM certified behavior change specialists.That's just that entail so UM like
with uh like with unhealthy behaviors likelet's say smoking or an eating disorder,
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and an eating disorder could be thereverse thing of being anorexic or belimic.
It could be that you overeat duringcertain times, so you might be overweight
because you eat your emotions and so, um, what the my behavior change
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and how that contributes to my health. Coaching is looking at, well,
what behaviors are you doing that arenot serving your long term goal? Or
what are the behaviors that you feellike you could do that would help you
achieve your goal. We kind ofreplace some of the old things that aren't
serving so that we can make roomfor the things that do. Sir,
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Wow, that is really awesome andyou know what, that would make a
good segment. We should Jenna isgoing to be coming back on with me
once a month and we're going tobe talking about topics and again storytelling,
and that would be an awesome topicto talk about because I think after COVID,
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and again I'm probably always going tocircle back to that, I saw
so many social changes for the negativeafter COVID. People stopped thinking about cause
and effect of health symptoms. Theystopped thinking that they could control their health
and wellness. And I think westopped talking a lot about eating disorders,
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what it is that we're eating theamount of it just seems like health and
wellness has taken a farther back seaton the bus since COVID, and I
think it would be really important tostop and go back over each one of
those topics that you had mentioned andreally talk about them in detail, because
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they're huge. Health and wellness tome is physical and emotional, spiritual.
It takes the belief that you canfind the answers and you can get well,
and it also takes the belief thatjust to be positive that you can
improve your life. So I reallyappreciate all of these super super ideas that
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you've put my head, and ofcourse with your story and helping others,
I think it's critical that we remindpeople that health and wellness, you know,
disease just doesn't come out of nowhere. Something is going to cause the
reaction and the effect. But onceyou identify that, it takes a strong
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will, it takes self education,it takes exercise, it takes changes,
and so I really appreciate it.And where can they find you? Jenna?
Where can if you want to ifyou want to learn more about me,
you can go to get fit withJenna dot com, or if you
want to check out the program thatI went through for myself, detoxing myself,
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going through the hair analysis and detoxingand utilizing the health coaching program that
comes along with it. Just checkout janethole dot com. It's at janethole
dot com. Thank you so much, Jenna, appreciate your time's been great.
Next week we're going to be talkingabout pain and healthy alternatives for pain
prevention. Thank you for joining ustoday
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After curing herself from a near deathexperience caused by aspertaine poisoning, Doctor
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Hello, everyone, Welcome to thissegment of Healthy Alternatives. Today,
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we're going to be talking about aspartamereactions and we're going to be doing some
storytelling on how aspartame can affect yourchildren, how it can affect young children
and especially teenagers that are going throughpuberty. Our guest today is Jenna Serrano.
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She's a certified personal trainer and acertified health coach in behavioral and nutritional
wellness. Jenna came into my lifelife in two thousand and nine, and
she's a very special person to me. She's working with us at the Holistic
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Network and doing health coaching and advisingon nutritional health. But when I met
Jenna, she was twenty one yearsold and she started dating my oldest son.
Well, whether she was dating myoldest son or not, I would
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have still interacted with her as Idid. But Jenna was experiencing some very
serious health problems and she was onantidepressant since she had anxiety, she wasn't
sleeping well, and she was twentyone years old, and so of course
the first question I'm going to askher, much to the chagrin of my
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children because they hate it when Ialways asked the question, But the question
was are you using Aspertain? Areyou using the sugar free diet? Sweet
Nurse? And of course her answerto that was well, yes, and
she'd been using them since she wasfourteen years old during puberty. So she
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is here today to tell us herstory. I'm very interested in talking to
Jenna about her experience when she wasfourteen and in high school using the diet
products, and at that time theywere mostly the Asker Team products, and
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I'm very interested in talking to herabout her recovery, how she did it,
and then of course we're going tobring it up to the present day
to where she is in tiptop shape, perfect health and quite an inspiration.
So what I want the mothers todo is to stop and think about their
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children, if their children are chewingsugaralist gum, if their children are using
any of the diet products, drinkingthe diet sodas, etc. To stop
and maybe connect the dots here thattheir behavioral problems, their anxiety, some
of their phobias, maybe even eatingdisorders can be connected to using the diet
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products. So Jenna, I wantto welcome you. Thank you for coming
to Healthy Alternatives to share your storyto help others. Well, thanks so
much for having me. This isa really neat experience, so we got
a lot of them. Yeah,definitely, Well is this will be the
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first time that really come out andtalk about my personal experience with aspert tame
specifically and also I'm sure we'll geta little bit into the eating disorder that
you know, I developed as ateenager, also in conjunction with all of
these diet products and stuff like that. So I'm really hoping that that some
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people have some takeaways from this forsure. Well, you know, I've
discovered through doing the asperteam whistleblowing foralmost thirty years now that of course we
know that the truth about the dietsweeteners and their health reactions are not on
mainstream, and we know that they'restill selling the diet products and promoting the
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diet products for pro athletes, moviestars, models, and of course it's
offered in the schools. They canpop out a can of diet soda in
the public schools. But the lackof information is just getting buried, and
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it's becoming something that's less and lesstalked about, harder to find the truth
about the dangers of the diet sweeteners, and for many many mothers, it's
hard for them to connect the dotsthat some of their child's behavior may be
connected to what, of course they'reeating or drinking. But when they're eating
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or drinking the diet products, that'sa red flag. For me. It
just runs right up the pole.That's something that we really really need to
look at seriously. But I alsothink too, I can appreciate it's not
easy thing to talk about when you'vehad an eating disorder, or if you've
started it at such a young ageand you don't understand what's going on.
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It's really hard to come out andtalk about that because it's not a good
history and you're chapter in your historybook. You know, it's something that
is hard to talk about. SoI really appreciate you're doing this, and
I hope that we can be doingthis more because case has stories. The
storytelling is what I'm wanting to reallyfocus on with healthy alternatives. There's a
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lot of good stories out there thatcan help people connect the dots. So
I really appreciate your honesty and andyour willingness to come out and talk about
the details of this absolutely, andagain, thanks for giving me the opportunity
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to share and help other people.Well, and I went over your certifications,
which we will go over at theend of the show, but you
are a certified personal trainer and younow I have your licenses and certifications in
natural nutritional counseling correct specifically it's Iam a certified fitness nutrition specialist and then
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I'm also a certified behavior change specialistas well. That's the isitial names for
them. Okay, so you're seeingthis in your line of work in young
people as well, reactions to baddiets, but particularly using the diet sweepers.
Well, I can't. I haven'tworked with a lot of adolescents and
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teenagers to be frank, but um, I can only speak to my personal
experience on um on the front ofyou know, the diet stuff. But
UM, I know that I'm notthe only one that was struggling with this
stuff as I was growing up inthe high school that I was at,
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and um the only one I graduatedwith a class of four hundred people.
So you know, given the ratioof male to female, you know we're
talking about two hundred females about inmy class. So, UM, I
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can think of at least three otherpeople right off the bat that you know,
we're exposed to what I was exposedto and experiencing similar like body image
issues as a as a teenager.Do you notice this today when you now
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being a little more aware of it, Because like I can, I can
go to the grocery store. Andagain, my kids are always don't say
anything, you know, but Ican go to the grocery store and you
can look at someone's shopping cart andthey'll have young kids with them, maybe
even babies and toddlers, you know, sitting in the front of the cart,
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and you can look into their cartand you can see what they're getting,
and you know, so much ofit is unhealthy, but so much
of it are the diet products.And then while you're waiting in line to
check out, you'll see them,you know, the kids go grab some
gum and ask mom if they canhave some gum, and their mothers will
get it for them, and youjust know that that unawareness is there because
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they have not been educated about this. It is not easy information to find,
and they're unaware that when that childputs that stick of gum in their
mouth, they're going to begin misbehaving. They may be getting a headache,
and a child isn't going to beable to express to themselves, I've got
this pounding headache right here at myforehead, which is one of the more
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common reactions to ask for team inthe diet sweeteners, it's going to make
them hungrier. It does affect theirmoods. We're going to go through all
of these health reactions that you hadwhen you were in high school. Anxiety
it can actually even cause people togain weight because it makes them hungrier,
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and it tricks the body into thinkingthat they've eaten and they haven't, so
they're hungrier. But I've noticed thatwhen you put the child together with the
diet sweeteners, you are going tosee frustration in the parents because the child
is going to be acting up andand is not going to pay attention and
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listen and just be growthy and anxious. Have you noticed that as well?
Oh? Absolutely, with um,with young adults and adults, you know,
I don't think they're putting the puzzlepieces together with you know, their
their experience income some kind of behavioror reaction and not connecting the dots that
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it's related to something they're consuming.And um. You know, if you
know you're talking about the grocery store, if you next time you're in line
at the grocery store, look atthe label on the diet drinks that are
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there in the little cooler, andevery single one of the gums that's there
at the checkout and those little thingsthat you're grabbing on the go that are
just available for you to grab quicklyhave this stuff in it. So what
I see more often is that peopleare consuming this stuff without the knowledge of
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what this weird word ingredient is inthis stuff, and they're consuming it,
they're having some kind of reaction andthey're not piecing it together. Well,
after we met in two thousand andnine and you stopped using the ass partak,
you paid attention to me. Letme ask you. Why did you
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pay attention to me? What didI say or do that turn the light
on in your head to think?Okay? Because in two thousand and you
were on anti anxiety medications antidepressants correct, Yeah, antidepressants anti anxiety yea.
So what got you to connect thedots for you? Because you did very
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quickly. I remember you did listento me and you did stop using them,
which I respected very much, becauseI either get the role of the
eyeball or I get the lot Isee the live bulb turn on. What
was it that did it for youwhen we when we first met, well,
number one, I was already suspiciousabout my um, about my dosage
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that was prescribed to me. AndI had been m I'm originally from Nakodoches,
Texas, and I was in Dallas, you know, after graduating and
um living in Dallas now after that, and so I was having to reach
out to my doctor or about notbeing able to focus and being foggy,
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and he wanted to increase my dosageof my medication and I didn't want to.
I didn't want to take more medication. I thought that that was part
of the problem. So this wasshortly this was shortly before you and I
met, So I just felt likeI needed to hear it and take advantage
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of the opportunity to change something.So the timing was divine. Well,
I tell you what, I think. We have a good message to deliver.
And if people can reach the pointin their life to where they know
something is wrong, it's not gettingfixed. Typically you go back to your
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doctor needing a higher dose of themedications that they've had you on, and
you're typically taking that medication with adiet soda. So what we're going to
do when we get back from breakhere is I want you to go back
in time for us. I wantyou to go back to when you were
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fourteen and start us over there andtake us through your experience. We'll be
back after the break. Welcome backto Healthy Alternatives. Now that I've had
my introduction to establish the background herewith our guest Jenna Serrano, I'm going
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to turn it over to Jenna,because Jenna's going to tell you a story.
Jenna today is a certified personal trainerand wellness coach, and she has
a background with reacting to aspartame inthe diet sweeteners starting when she was fourteen
years old. And it's a wonderfulstory to hear and I hope it helps
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some of you connect the dots thatthis may be happening to your children,
are to someone in your life thatyou love as well. So, Jenna,
in this segment, if you woulddo us the honor of sharing an
experience that we hope no one elsehas to go through. The unfortunate truth
is that there still will be,but hopefully we're able to to help some
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people and prevent that moving forward.So thanks again for having me on.
So the way that I was reallyintroduced to diet products and diet sweet nurse
aspartame was by accident. I didn'tintend on falling into diet products as a
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as a teenager who frequents you know, their friends houses and stuff. I
would go over to my friend's homesand just drink what they had in the
fridge. And my best friend andyou know her, her mom had diet
coke all the time, and soI was at her house more than I
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was at my house. So Iwas either at school or doing some kind
of extracurricular activity or hanging out withmy BFF at the time. And so
that's how I really got introduced toaspartame was through diet coke. And what
I found was that I became addictedto it, and so I started to
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crave having diet coke. So Istarted to get it on my own.
And the diet coke then led meto other diet products. I started drinking
diet green tea. I started buyingEqual in the blue packets. I started
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I started to think that cutting outsugar was a good thing to do,
so I started buying equal in bulkand cooking with it, baking with it,
I would. I just started reachingfor the diet stuff I knew.
I didn't know at the time thatthat the artificial sweeteners were in gum,
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but as a teenager YouTube gum allthe time, you know. UM,
So I started getting addicted to thediet stuff. And then this was when
I was about fourteen, I wasa freshman in high school. Then um,
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sometime between the time I was fourteenand sixteen, I did have an
eating disorder. Um that I wasable to realize that I got into and
stopped it all on my own,without even telling my parents about it or
even admitting to doctors and stuff.But there was about a two year period
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where I was believe it. Andfor those people who don't know what that
is, that's where you throw upafter you eat. And so that was
an addiction also. And I reallydon't know a whole lot about addiction itself.
I just know that, you know, once I would do something like
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drink a diet coke or I wouldwant more of it. It was the
same thing with the eating disorder.Once I did that, I would want
to do it again, like Iwould crave to do it again. So
thankfully I was able to kick thatafter a couple of years. Now.
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My diet product use followed me fromthe time I was fourteen to the time
that I was twenty one, Sofor seven years I use diet products not
knowing that they were affecting me.So the reason why I want to bring
up the eating disorder though, isto be truthful about my experience within um,
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those two years, because I didstill experience, um, some crazy
symptoms and stuff far after the bulimiawas gone. Okay, So I don't
want people to get mixed up andthink, well, it could have been
the other thing. Well it's not, because um, even into my twenties,
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I'm still experiencing the symptoms of theUh. The diet sweeteners can with
us. Absolutely, yeah, no, good, good question. So,
um, the first thing that Inoticed about diet coke is that I knew
that I was getting addicted to it. When I wouldn't have one, I
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would start to get a headache,and so I would drink one to prevent
the headache. So that really Iwas probably I was drinking between the time
I was fourteen and twenty one,drinking at least a six pack a day
of diet coke. So I wasdrinking it pretty similarly to water, and
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at the water I did drink water. Also, I was an athlete,
you know. In high school,I was a cheerleader and I was on
the swim team as well, soI got a lot of exercise, and
I did drink water. I drankwater, I drank gatorade. But when
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I was not working out, Iwas reach the diet code. So probably
water was first thing in the morningbefore I went to bed and while I
was doing my sports stuff because itjust wasn't available. So um, So
the headache is really the first symptomthat I had. There were a lot
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of other things too, some otherthings that happened to me while I was
in high school. I remember havingthese terrible, terrible night terrors. So
I would have these awful dreams.Also, I had really bad anxiety when
I was when I obviously whenever Iwas asleep, and also whenever I was
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awake. I had anxiety so badI would faint and it wasn't just I
will tell you what was the triggerto it. But um, going back
to the night tears, what wouldhappen is I would have these awful,
awful nightmares and I would wake upjust drenched in a pool in my sweat,
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and my arms and my legs werecompletely numb. So I was like
paralyzed laying awake as a teenager,like scared out of my mind, like,
what the hell is wrong with me? Why can't I you know,
I would have to fling my armsfrom side to side to wake my limbs
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up. And um, now,I'm sure that a lot of people who
are my age, I'm thirty fiveor thirty six. I think I'm thirty
five. I'm about six. Remember, Yeah, when we were raised,
you know, our moms were myyou know, our moms are nor age
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doctor Holmes. So you know,these are working moms. The generation before
that, you know, moms werelike really weren't out in the field working
like our moms were, and so, you know, we were just raised
to like tough it up. Youknow, our both of our parents were
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working every day, and we werejust taught to be tough. You know,
if there's something wrong with you,just stuck it up, don't complain
about it, deal with it.So I did not know. I literally
did not know to go to myparents and say I'm experiencing an issue.
I just thought to internalize it andlearn how to deal with it on my
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own. So I would have thesenight terrors, I'd wake up in sweat,
and then I mentioned the anxiety.The anxiety was so bad it was
stabilitating. So and I'm still tothis day. I'm very social. I
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have no problem public speaking. Ican get up in front of, you
know, five hundred people and talkto five hundred people, probably more easily
than I can, like a groupof my closest friends. It's just not
a problem for me. But whenit came to like situations that I felt
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like were really really important to me, I would pass out. And so
for example, growing up from thetime I could read my favorite books to
read as like a Kenner gardener oranatomy books. I am not kidding.
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I loved learning about the human body. I loved learning about the Latin names
of all of the human tissues andmuscles and bones. I could name all
two hundred and five bones for you. By this I'd grade. And I
always thought that I was going togo into the medical field. So when
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I was sixteen, I joined HosaHealth Occupation Students of America, and this
is when the fainting started. Thisis when the fainting started, and this
continued all throughout the beginning of mytwenties. When I was working in Hosa,
you go around and you shadow differentsections of the hospital, to see
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which specialty you think you might wantto specialize in when you go into college.
And it did not matter the differentarea that I went to, I
fainted every single time. So eventuallyI pulled myself out of this program.
And as a sixteen year old,you know, I went to my parents
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and I said, I don't thinkthis is gonna work because I can't stand
the site of p I faint atsmells. I can't look at throw up,
I can't look at by all,I can't look at blood, I
can't look at a needle, allof it. It just made me faint.
And so it started happening when Iwasn't just in the hospital. It
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would start happening at social events.I would just faint and what would happen
now, I'd just get like overlyexcited, I guess, or just stress,
and my body didn't know how todeal with it, and I would
just faint. And so my parentstook me to psychiatrists, psychologists. Nobody
knew what was wrong with me,and very common. I had a car
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accident when I was sixteen at nightby myself, and after that I started
having anxiety attacks every time I woulddrive at night. So I stopped being
able to drive at night as anadult, you know, in college and
into my early twenties and stuff,I had a hard time driving at night
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because I would have to pull overbecause I could feel that I was going
to faint. And that's not that'snot normal. And my doctors couldn't explain
it well, especially since you werean athlete. I mean, would that
would that happen to you when youwere cheerleading? No, I'm running a
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marathon or no, when I wasexercising, it did not affect me.
It was um. And you know, we had performances too, like I
had to. I had to andI was I was vice president of my
class. I did have to getup in front of people impromptu and talk
in front of the entire school,you know, thousands of people. And
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that didn't seem to affect me.It was just certain things that it was
just a trigger and then I wouldI would faint. And so that's that's
ready to take a break. Andso when we come back from our break,
I want to pick this back upagain because of what you're doing today
and how you turned your life around. Okay, all right, East,
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So we'll talk about that in aminute. Alrighty, Welcome back to Healthy
Alternatives with personal trainer and fitness specialistJenna Serrano. Jenna, your story is
it's amazing, It really is,because as a child, what you were
experiencing would be scary for an adult. Adults could be having these exact same
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health symptoms and they're not going toknow what the heck is going on.
But at least they're an adult andthey had some experiences under their belt to
where they could try to justify ormaybe they could go out on their own
and try to figure out what amI doing that's causing this to trigger in
my body. But as a child, and that's the point that I want
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to make with this segment here,is children are having reactions two a chemical
that's been proven to cause all ofthese side effects that you experienced, headache,
anxiety, depression, sleep, atmia, physical body aches, elevated
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heart rate, fainting, all ofthese symptoms have been documented as being a
cause and effect of using aspartame andthe diet sweeteners. But as a child,
you're not going to know any ofthis. And you said a really
important thing that I really picked upon, and that was you didn't noted
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tell parents that, and even ifyou did tell your parents that, you
might not have wanted to go tothe doctor. So you just wanted to
go away. When you did goto the doctor, then they started addressing
it with the pharmaceuticals, right,And as anybody who is taking a pharmaceutical
knows that when you start taking apharmaceutical, it'll get rid of one problem
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and then you start experiencing other problems. So it was like the more medication
I took, the more and moreI had to take to stay normal.
So I would get like foggy headed, and I would I was losing my
ability to concentrate, when I hadalways been really spectacular at concentration and focus.
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If I set my mind to doingsomething, I could achieve it.
And so I knew that something waswrong. I had to take more.
The doctors were just prescribing me moreand more and more medication. And so
this really brings us back to wherewe left off at the beginning, where
we were talking about medication, andor where you were talking about what made
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you listen to me, And itwas it was just about a month or
two before I met you that Ihad told my doctor something's not right.
I am not able to concentrate likeI used to, and they wanted to
increase my dose. And to methat just because I knew that I was
just taking more and more and moreincrementally over the last seven years, that
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it just it wasn't making sense tome. It was like, I want
to take less of this, notmore. I just want to get to
the bottom of it, you know, I want to get rid of this.
I don't want to take medication.It sucks to try to travel and
take pills, you know, orhave these symptoms. Well, you were
so young to have to be dependentupon the medication in order to do something
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which should be natural. But yousee, you were starting to come out
of it. You you were,you were growing up, you graduated from
college, you were an adult.You know, the experiences under your belt
to be able to connect the dotsa little bit better. Right. Well,
really, the straw that broke thecamel's back for me, which was
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um the worst, the worst symptomthat I had ever had, was just
before you and I met, Ihad lost I was drinking a diet coke.
I remember this so distinctly because itwas so scary. I was at
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a burger joint with my friend takinga lunch break from work, and I
was having a diet coke like Ialways have, and um, the left
side of my face went totally numb. And I looked at my friend and
I said, we'll call him bOkay. I said, b do I
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look normal because I feel like theleft side of my face is plato right
now like my And he said,no, you look fine. So I
was having this sensation that the leftside of my face was not functioning,
so I thought I was having astroke. At this point, I have
already taken hypoglossinia tests, you know, I had already, you know,
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seen my psychiatrist and psychologists and theycan't explain shit. So like she worked.
Shortly after that, thank god,literally, thank god, I met
doctor Hall and she just knew immediatelybecause she was like, well, do
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you drink diet stuff? And I'mlike every day and She's like, no,
stop and immediately put me on herhair analysis and detox program and that
when I D talks, it tookthree I remember, it took distinctly three
days to D talks. I hadflu like symptoms. I had the worst
headache. I'm getting chill bumps thinkingabout like like it was like rushing.
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The experience is rushing back to meright now. I had a bad headache,
I had nausea. I had coldsweats. I remember I used to
work for State Farm and I wassitting at my desk like freeze sweating,
you know. And I had Ibasically had gotten a flu. I guess
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whenever I detoxed, and like literallysince then, my whole life has changed.
Since I removed the diet sweeteners anddetoxed from it, it took me
seventy two hours, That's all ittook to firm myself of something that I
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had struggled with for seven years.Yeah. Well, you know, aspartam
does so much more, and whenyou use it during puberty, it can
affect your hormonal development. So onething, I hope it's okay because I
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know this is kind of I mean, we're getting down and dirty here on
our storytelling and getting pretty crazy.But you have repaired it. But it
had affected your hormone development, andyou've fought with having regular, regular minstrel
cycles, you fought with cramping,you've fought with fibroid cysts. But now
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you have achieved your goal and youhave gotten yourself back onto normal, right.
It only took another fifteen years.Yeah, but that's a toughie.
That that's a tough one because thebody you have to get into the brain
and help all the glands in thein the brain and you know, get
that system going. It does takea while. But you did it.
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You did We did it. Imean there's no way, there's no way
that I could have done that hadI not met you and had the experience
that I had from detoxing. SoI definitely, you know, consider that
a wee effort, not an eyeyou know. Well, I thank you,
but I will tell you when Iwork with when I work with clients
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that are like you. They beforeyou met me, you had gone to
your doctor and said, look atthere's just something not right here, and
of course he couldn't give you anyanswers because he's not schooled in it.
But there's so many people that areat that point to where our clients that
come into the holistic network they're wantingto get off their pharmaceutical medications because they're
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having to take more, they're havingto increase their doses. Just like you
had said your doctor wanted to dowith you, and they're like, no,
I don't want to continue on thisdependency over the counter and prescribe medications.
But what do I do? Andso I think with working with people
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that are figuring it out, Ithink one of the best things that we
could do is, you know,offer them the healthy alternatives and tell them
this that it's going to take time. And I give you so much credit
because I can give you the tools. I can give you the data and
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the information and the research and thecase histories and all of that. But
it's up to you. It's upto the person to take it upon themselves
to stand up to their doctor andsay, you know, there's something else
going on. I'm going to tryto figure out what that is. Don't
worry about it, I'll do iton my own. It takes a strong
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person to to face the fear thatthey may get worse, that if you
don't work, they might die.But when you when you take it upon
yourselves to learn, educate yourself,try to find people like you and me
that are out there that can helpgive you some some suggestions and advice can
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get you steer you towards the research. It takes the person's strength to do
it, and you did that,and it's it's hard, but you know,
at the same time, it's likepeople can't experience exactly what you're experiencing,
especially if you know, um,if you're talking to a male doctor
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and you're experiencing female issues. SometimesI have a hard time believing that male
document, that male doctor's expertise.If I'm like, how do you know?
Like I know that I know thatyou have all of this, like
probably forty years of background and stuff, but you're telling me something that doesn't
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make sense because you don't know you'renot. It's almost like they didn't believe
what I was experiencing at some points, you know, like they didn't believe
me. I'm like, this isnot the answer, Like I just know,
like this isn't helping me, Thisisn't you know. It's kind of
like somebody who is complaining about somethingincessantly but then never does anything about it.
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That's not the kind of person thatI am. You know, if
I know that something is wrong,I know I have to change it in
order to expect a different result.So I'm not one to go around in
circles. And I was just fedup even as a young twenty one year
old. You know, they wereprobably like that brat, you know,
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like, who did she think sheis? You know, I'm Jenni Serrano.
I'm going to figure this out.Yea, and we did and you
did. So what I want todiscuss We'll start it now and then we'll
break for a segment here in acouple of minutes. But wow, this
this segment has really gone fast.In the last segment that we have,
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I want to talk about what you'redoing now, but quickly here for a
couple of minutes we have left.Tell us how you what you did once
you realized it was the Asport teamand you went through the withdrawal symptoms.
Then what then? What was yourtrain of thought? Then? What did
you think? Um? I droppedthe medication like immediately and was basically gave
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the finger to the medication, notthe doctor, because you know, I
know the doctors are really just outthere doing the best they can. Everybody
is out there just doing the verybest they can. So it's I don't
blame the doctors. It's that theydon't have the expertise, they don't have
the knowledge. Most doctors out theredo not have education and nutrition. They
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do not know about all the stuffthat's out there that we have to share
in our experience and then our expertise. You know, it's nutritionists and toxicologists
and things. But I stopped themedication. I was able to focus again,
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able to think clearly, set goalsfor myself. I quit my job,
I moved to a different city andstarted started living the life that I
knew that was meant for me again. And it took me a long time
to grow the balls to start gettingback into the medical field again. And
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I was in my thirties when Istarted doing that again, and now I'm
happier than ever. Well, Iwill tell you what I'm watched you get
a transform. I guess we'll putit that way. I've had the pleasure
of watching you transform. But thething that's been so stimulating for me is
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your success on how you've restored yourhealth. And I will say when we
come back, we're going to talkabout what you are doing now. But
if there's somebody out there that iscut, with low body fat and in
great shape, it's you. We'llbe back, and we'll be back for
our final segment to talk about whatJenna's doing. Now. Welcome back to
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Healthy Alternatives and today our guest isJenna Serrano, a personal trainer who pulled
her life together and it's made itto the top after she had a very
very hard as for team reaction beginningof fourteen years of age. It not
only affected her physically, but itaffected her mentally. And that's really hard
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for anybody at any age, butcan you imagine a teenager. So Jenna's
got it all figured out and shehas recovered, and she's sharing her experience
to try to help others, especiallyteens, teens that possibly have eating disorders,
mothers and parents that do not knowthat the diet sweeteners and the artificial
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sugars are harming their children. Sowelcome back Jenna. Before we broke for
the break, I was saying thatyou are extremely physically fit. You run
marathons, You've got low body weight, You've got the most beautiful arms,
I mean your cut girl, andyou are in great shape to you.
To me, relaxing is going outsideand maybe weeding the garden and trimming some
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plants. To you, relaxing isrunning ten k. You've restored your health,
You've restored your your minstrual cycle.You've restored your sleep cycle. You've
you are back, you are backto normal, and you are now.
You didn't enter the nursing field orthe medical field, but you entered the
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holistic nutrition field and physical physical fitnessthrough being a personal trainer. So what
I'd like to do in this finalsegment is talk about what you're doing now
where people can find you because youcan help people physically, emotionally, spiritually,
and mentally recover from experiences that arehaving from various food chemicals. Absolutely,
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yes, thank you. She givesme a lot of credit for that.
My exercise and things, and youknow what, it's all relative.
Um, you know, being fitdepends on your lifestyle, you know.
And that's why in my personal trainingbusiness I do. I do um one
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on one personal training. I leadpersonal training classes and fitness classes, and
I also do virtual health and fitnesscoaching one on one so uh and for
couples also, And the the thething about health and fitness is that everybody
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is at a different point on theirhealth and fitness continuum. Even if,
um, you know, there's there'ssomebody that is my exact age, my
body type that goes to the gymthat at the same time I do and
does the same exercises, that girlis going to be at a different part
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of her inner a different point inher health and fitness continuum than I am,
because I've had different experiences, andum, I build muscle in different
ways. I enjoy doing different exercises. I live a different distance from the
gem. I Um, you know, I have a different amount of family
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and a different kind of family.I mean I go I go home to
a husband and a golden doodle andfour hundred animals at a wildlife center.
So um, you know all allof that, you know, I points
right, and so um, Fitnessfor me at least is um. It's
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a it's a hobby. It's anoutlet for me to release excess energy.
I've always been high energy though,and for a lot of people, you
know, that's not it, youknow, But health and fitness for for
somebody else could be you know,just moving, moving in all of the
different planes, moving the joint sothat they don't get stiff as we grow
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older, you know. And howmany people out there want to lose weight?
How many, like most most peoplewant or need to lose weight,
And there's so much misinformation out thereabout foods, and like I was saying,
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everybody's at a different point in theirhealth and fitness continuum, So a
potato could affect me differently than itcould affect you, doctor Hall. And
that's what people really need to realize, is that there's not just one way.
There's not A is better than Band B is better than C.
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It's that there's a hundred million differentways out there that combinations of ways that
you could eat and exercise. Andwhat it really comes down to is fitting
in healthier habits and giving you healthierresources, healthier alternatives to what you're currently
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doing. That are things that arenot serving you. You need to identify
the things that you feel like maynot be serving you. And it just
so happened that I recognize that somethingwasn't serving me, and it took me
meeting you to identify what that thingwas, and then I removed it,
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and then I was able to doall the rest of the things in my
life that I had set out todo as I wanted to do them.
Well, you know, one ofthe things that you're doing with your fitness
business is you're working with people oneon one and there are so many people
that go to the doctors. AndI'm not dogging the doctors, but I
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mean they don't have the time.The traditional allopathic way of helping people is
you've got a problem, let's addressthat problem, let's get that fixed,
and it's over, you know.And but to work with someone one on
one, to take the time toget to know their background. You know,
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what their profile looks like now,how they've brought that profile with them
from years before. How you canmake lifestyle changes so that they move forward
with a different profile. That's somethingthat you do. That's something that we
do at the Holistic Network, andyou do with get Fit for Jenna with
Jenna, and you work with peopleone on wine and it does take someone
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that cares and has the time towork with you and get you started on
your lifestyle changes so that then youcan take them on your own in the
future. Correct. Yeah, absolutelyso for the people out there who are
listening, I am a health coachfor Doctor Hale. When somebody gets a
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hair analysis and does a consultation withdoctor Hall, they have the option to
do the detox health coaching where alot of times people will get the information
that they need from the doctor onwhat they need to do, but then
they don't know how to continue carryingout the process. So that's what I
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do with Doctor Whole as far ashealth coaching these days. I help get
her clients from where they are atpoint A and then they have the map
that Doctor Whole has given them withpoint B and then the point C is
where they want to be. Havingthat map, they need help navigating the
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map like they don't know. Okay, well I know I need I'm here
and I need to get here,and here's all the directions, but I'm
not sure how to fit this intomy lifestyle. And then that's where I
really come in. What do yourecommend for someone as far as do you
recommend a fitness program, get themwalking or get them lifting lightweights, or
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do you recommend that they get startedon an exercise program tailored for them.
It really depends person to person,because there could be there could be somebody
who was very athletic in high schooland who hasn't worked out for the last
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forty years but still has that musclememory. They can still do a lunge
properly, in a squat properly.They just pick it up like they like
riding a bicycle, right, Butthen you have people who were in banned
and played the piccolo and never dida squat in their life, and they
have no idea how to pick upa weight, you know, in their
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store or after doing five five poundbicep pearls, you know. So it
really, it really depends on theperson. I would say it's always a
good idea to exercise. I wouldalso say that the first place I start
is with nutrition. You know,what are you eating? You know,
and what are your goals? Soit really depends on the person. And
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what works for people is taking onestep at a time. So instead of
changing a whole lot of things allat once and it being really overwhelming,
just taking it one step at aside, one step at a time.
Instead of looking at the entire staircase, we look at taking that first step.
Oh I like that. I likethat a lot. Well, you
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have a certification and behavioral coaching,correct, did I say that? Right?
Certified UM certified behavior change specialists.That's just that entail so UM like
with uh like with unhealthy behaviors likelet's say smoking or an eating disorder,
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and an eating disorder could be thereverse thing of being anorexic or belimic.
It could be that you overeat duringcertain times, so you might be overweight
because you eat your emotions and so, um, what the my behavior change
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and how that contributes to my health. Coaching is looking at, well,
what behaviors are you doing that arenot serving your long term goal? Or
what are the behaviors that you feellike you could do that would help you
achieve your goal. We kind ofreplace some of the old things that aren't
serving so that we can make roomfor the things that do. Sir,
(55:06):
Wow, that is really awesome andyou know what, that would make a
good segment. We should Jenna isgoing to be coming back on with me
once a month and we're going tobe talking about topics and again storytelling,
and that would be an awesome topicto talk about because I think after COVID,
(55:28):
and again I'm probably always going tocircle back to that, I saw
so many social changes for the negativeafter COVID. People stopped thinking about cause
and effect of health symptoms. Theystopped thinking that they could control their health
and wellness. And I think westopped talking a lot about eating disorders,
(55:53):
what it is that we're eating theamount of it just seems like health and
wellness has taken a farther back seaton the bus since COVID, and I
think it would be really important tostop and go back over each one of
those topics that you had mentioned andreally talk about them in detail, because
(56:14):
they're huge. Health and wellness tome is physical and emotional, spiritual.
It takes the belief that you canfind the answers and you can get well,
and it also takes the belief thatjust to be positive that you can
improve your life. So I reallyappreciate all of these super super ideas that
(56:39):
you've put my head, and ofcourse with your story and helping others,
I think it's critical that we remindpeople that health and wellness, you know,
disease just doesn't come out of nowhere. Something is going to cause the
reaction and the effect. But onceyou identify that, it takes a strong
(57:02):
will, it takes self education,it takes exercise, it takes changes,
and so I really appreciate it.And where can they find you? Jenna?
Where can if you want to ifyou want to learn more about me,
you can go to get fit withJenna dot com, or if you
want to check out the program thatI went through for myself, detoxing myself,
(57:28):
going through the hair analysis and detoxingand utilizing the health coaching program that
comes along with it. Just checkout janethole dot com. It's at janethole
dot com. Thank you so much, Jenna, appreciate your time's been great.
Next week we're going to be talkingabout pain and healthy alternatives for pain
prevention. Thank you for joining ustoday
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