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Thank you for joining us, andwelcome to another edition of Answers Network.
I'm your hopest Alan Cardoza. Forthose of you that have been listening sending
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you know who can benefit from aparticular subject. This is one powerful way
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that we together can make a positiveinfluence in the world. Now I can
tell you that today we have someonewho is going to be able to make
a positive influence on all of usbecause it's an area that is very near
and dear to me right now.But before we get to that, I
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want to talk a little bit aboutthe fact that we're doing this show on
Martin Luther King's birthday and in thepast I've had some very interesting and thought
provoking guests to honor doctor King.Today, I'm going to start the show
with a powerful lesson, and itisn't a quote from Martin Luther King,
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although I will bring up some afterthis. This was a lesson where a
high school class is learning about theSalem witch trials. Their teacher told them
that they were going to play agame. He said, I'm going to
come around and whisper to each ofyou, whether you're a witch or you're
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a regular person. Your goal isto build the largest group possible that does
not have a witch in it.In the end, any group found to
include a witch gets a failing grade. Well, the teens dove into grilling
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each other. One fairly large groupformed, but most of the students broke
into small, exclusive groups where theywere pretty sure that they didn't have a
witch. They turned away anyone theythought gave off even a hint of guilt.
Okay, the teacher said, you'vegot your groups. Time to find
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out which ones failed. All witches, please raise your hand. No one
raised their hand. The kids wereconfused. They told the teacher that he'd
messed up the game. Did Isaid the teacher, was anyone in Salem
actually a witch? Or did everyonejust believe what they were told. And
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that is how you show kids howeasy it is to divide a community.
Now, unfortunately we live in atime we have to show adults as well,
shunning scapegoating, placing blame and dividingothers. It will destroy far more
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than they will protect. And againI bring this up because I believe this
is something that doctor King message hewas trying to get out as well.
Now, for everybody out there,don't allow fear to cloud your decisions,
use your own discernment, trust yourheart and your gut. Think about what
you've been told and who benefits fromyou believing it if you end. For
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the students out there, if youknow a teacher's political affiliation, they've already
failed at their job. The bestteachers will show you where to look,
but they won't tell you what yousee or what you must think. So
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with that, I now want toshare a couple of quotes again from Martin
Luther King in honor of this day. One of his quotes is, we
may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Another is the function of education isto teach one to think intensively and
to think critically. Intelligence plus character. That is the goal of true and
the quality, not the longevity ofwhat of one's life is what's important.
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And with that I say that joiningus to discuss many ways to improve the
quality of our life is Brigitte Mars. Brigite is an herbalist, a nutritional
consultant of natural health with over fiftyyears of experience. She is a founding
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and professional member of the American HerbalistGuide and Brisit is the author of many
books, including Natural Remedies for afor Mental and Emotional Health, The Sexual
Herbal Addiction Free Naturally, the NaturalFirst Aid Handbook, and the Desktop Guide
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to Herbal Medicine, to name justa few. Her latest project is a
phone called Iplant. He also hasan online herbal healing course, and you
can learn about both as well asa wealth of knowledge by checking out Brigitte's
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website at www dot Brigitmars dot comand that's b R I G I T
T E M R s dot com. But if you're driving, don't try
to take that down. Know thatwe will have all of this information in
our show notes by going to Answersdot Network. With that, Brigitte,
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thank you for joining us on AnswersNetwork. My pleasure and honor, Allan.
Thank you. Well, what I'dlike to start with is if you
can give us a little bit ofbackground, because I've fortunately, I've been
on this earth for quite some time, and I was looked at as somebody
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who was somewhat of a you know, a plant guy or you know,
they'd say, a a health nut. Uh. And as I was telling
you before the show that you know, even as a room dad, you
know, I'd bring my drinks toclass and the young kids go that looks
like pond scum. Give us alittle bit of a history of of this,
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uh, this movement of how howwe got away from eating healthy and
how we can now get back intoa culture of eating well and putting things
in our body that's good for us. Well, you know, it is
kind of interesting, Ellen, ifyou watch an hour of TV, what
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you see as a lot of adsfor junk food and pharmaceuticals. Eat this
food, take these drugs, eatthis food, take these drugs. And
uh, you know, I thinkfor a long time, you know,
even with the American Cancer Society,maybe thirty forty years ago, there was
a feeling like what you eat hasno effect on whether or not you get
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cancer. And I'm really glad tosay that we're starting to look at that
a lot of the things that thehealth nuts were talking about fifty sixty years
ago were really right on. Andnot only does it affect our physical health,
but it also affects our mental andemotional states of being. And in
this country, it seems that whenpeople have a physical condition, they go
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to one type of physician, butwhen they have something going on such as
anxiety, depression, memory loss,there's a different kind of doctors. And
yet in Asian medicine, food,herbs, acupuncture their use for mental and
emotional health. And we do knowthat the mental body can affect the physical
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body, and the physical body canaffect the mental body. So here we
are, it's time to talk aboutit, and you know, take some
responsibility because all of these conditions,there are simple things that we can do.
Not to say, you know,you don't want to talk to your
healthcare professional, but I'm trying toencourage people to be their first choice for
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healthcare. And then everything else isextra well. First of all, I
couldn't agree more. And you broughtup the Asian community and having done some
recent research. The country of Singaporehas now been named as a blue zone
and one of the and their lifeexpectancy as well as their health span has
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been on an upward trajectory in anincredible fashion, you know, having gone
up like twenty five percent just inthe last forty or fifty years. On
the other hand, the US lifeexpectancy and health expectancy is on a downward
trajectory after you know, many manyyears of leading the world in that area.
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Do you also attribute that to theyou know, the advertising, the
drunk the junk food, and inour diet as Americans. Yeah, absolutely,
But you know, we could lookat it from so many ways.
You know, chemicals in the water, chemicals in the air, pesticides in
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our food. And unfortunately, youknow, one pharmaceutical drug often can lead
to having to use another drug becausethere's very often side effects. And so
you know, some of my goodfriends are doctors, and one of my
doctor friends said, you know,I really don't like offering so many prescriptions.
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But if people came to see meand I just said, go home,
drink plenty of fluids. Have someyou know, chicken soup with lots
of garlic in it and take somevitamin see, they would think that I
wasn't doing my job. And veryoften, even though physicians are there to
make recommendations, very often it's thepatient compliance that's the most difficult because people
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say, I'll take a pill,but I don't want to lose that ten
pounds. I don't want to quitsmoking, I don't want to drink less
coffee or less alcohol, and sonatural medicine really allen is for people that
are motivated. But I think there'sa lot of people who are really realizing,
look, I don't want to beon these drugs my whole life.
Maybe they want to have a baby, maybe they know find that as they
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get older, you know, otherthings start to creep into their life.
So I love that taking some timeand energy to do self care for yourself
can lead to so many benefits,not only physically but mentally. To well,
that's interesting what you brought up inregards to what your doctor said.
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I would like to think that moredoctors that think that way would be strong
enough to say I'm not going todo it. I'm not going to try
to put you on this drug thatyou're going to have to take for the
rest of your life or something that'sgoing to slow down your metabolism and you're
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then going to put on weight.So you're then going to come back in
here because of the fact that you'regoing to now want something for the weight
gain. You know, I wouldlike to think that we're going to turn
this corner, and I'll tell youa story that of me finding a new
doctor because of that. And Ithink I've talked about it on the air.
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Six months ago, I had amassive heart attack and I had so
many people that said, you're thelast person that we would have even thought
that. Well, it turns outthere was there's a hereditary component to it
because of my health and conditioning.Most doctors that were involved said it saved
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my life, that that's why Igot through it. But I had a
cardiologist that when I started talking aboutthe things that I wanted to do,
natural things that I wanted to do, because he immediately put me on after
this, put me on four medications, and right after they put the stint
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in, I felt great. Iwanted to go home. The same day.
I said, Okay, I'm ready, Can I go? I go?
No, no, no, westill have to do these things.
Well after those drugs kicked in.I felt terrible, and they said,
this is what we want you totake now for the rest of your life,
so this never happens again. SoI started doing my research, and
as an international detective, that's whatI do, and I found so many
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incredible natural ways to deal with thesame subject. So I went back to
the cardiologist and explain what I wantedto do, and talked about what red
rice yeast and bergamet and baby aspirinand I forget the other one now,
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but anyway, and all of thesethings. And I said, you know,
my investigation shows that these things aregoing to do the same thing as
these pharmaceuticals. And I didn't havea blood pressure problem before this, why
would I be on blood pressure medicinenow? And he told me to quit
going to the internet and quit askingquestions. I said, thank you.
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I walked out of his office.I went to another cardiologist, sat down
with him and said, I havequestions and I have things that I want
to discuss. Here are some ofthe things. Are you with me asking
these questions and us discussing it?He said absolutely. I said, you're
now my new cardiologist. Dingo,good move, and Unfortunately a lot of
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people just want to take the pill. But you're so right. I mean,
there's dietary things we can do redyeast, rice, garlic, hawthorn,
eating tart apples. Rather than onlythinking about the heart, we can
think about the liver and the kidneysthat help to regulate fluids in the body
and help to break down fats.So unfortunately, nutrition is not a big
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part of what people learn in medicalschool, but hopefully it will be in
the future. And I'm not tryingto divide the country or the people or
say it's us against them. It'slike, I think the best health is
going to come when we put ourheads and hearts together and look at what
we can do as individuals to helpget ourselves out of a pickle, rather
than more and more and more drugs. The older you get, you're going
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to be on like ten pills ratherthan four. And and I completely agree,
And I say that not trying todivide either. In fact, my
my general doctor, that's a conciergedoctor. He is an m D and
an ND and and that's what wasimportant to me. So so he doesn't
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he doesn't go to one or theother. He looks at both things,
and at times I'm very thankful youknow that he comes up with something that
he learned while in medical school,but at the same time we go to
a lot of things that he learnedwhile becoming an n D For those that
don't know, that's a naturopathic doctor. So I agree with you. It
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isn't a matter of division, it'sa matter of inclusion. Uh. It
just concerns me when when you havea doctor that doesn't want to include,
because I want to say, well, what are you afraid of? So?
And when it comes to mental health, you know, I've been saying
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for years like wherever two or moreare gathered, probably one is on antidepressants.
And I do think that there's alot of people being medicated for things
like depression and anxiety and OCD andmemory loss, and we might need to
look at some more simple things likecould they be eating a food that they're
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allergic to? And I know thatsounds weird, like could allergies affect our
consciousness? Well, we do knowthat allergens can cause inflammation in the body,
joint inflammation, sinus inflammation, skininflammation, but also brain inflammation.
We're also finding out that a lotof our neurotransmitters are made in our guts,
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and so the copious use of antibiotics, or even eating animals that are
treated with antibiotics that could be disturbingour gut microbile, as well as eating
things were allergic to. We evenknow that things like heavy metals, such
as cooking our food in aluminum cookware. I've been saying this for sixty years.
It's only now coming out in themainstream media. Do you know we've
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all heard the term mad as ahatter from the Alix Wonderful story. But
in the eighteen hundred's, hat makerswould dip felt in a mercury solution so
they could shape these like grandiose chapeause, and after a while the hat makers
would develop neurological ticks, and thatled to calling people mad as a hatter.
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But for how many decades were theyputting mercury fillings in our mouth saying
it's totally safe. But yet youcan't even buy a mercury thermometer at the
drug store anymore because it's considered sotoxic that if one breaks, the vapors
would cause toxins in the whole household. So food allergies, having metal toxicity.
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We certainly know the trauma affects us, and unfortunately, so many of
us have experienced some kind of trauma. It may be that some people have
a higher need for a certain vitamin. Maybe they need more B vitamins,
they are more magnesium to sleep better, to have less pain. So my
book Natural Remedies for Mental and EmotionalHealth, it's all about all kinds of
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ideas, food, herbs, supplementswhich you can buy at the natural food
store. You know, color therapy. People don't realize that color can affect
our consciousness. We think, oh, color, it doesn't matter. And
yet Madison Avenue is thinking all thetime about what color should we make this
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package so that people buy our product. And so, you know, I
like to tell people when you needto feel calmer, wear blue when you
need to get more energized. Thinkabout wearing red when you need to be
very mentally focused. Yellow. Andyet I see people who are just like
wearing gray day after day. Andyet the world might be a little gray
with all the storms and the colballike this might be a day where you
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need to like brighten your world.And color is energy. So maybe that's
the day, you brighten things up, even light therapy. How many people
are going to work in the dark, They're coming home in the dark,
They're under floors and lighting all daylong. And yet we do know that
lack of light seasonal affect hateive disorder, can affect our moods, and very
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often in areas where it's dark alot, you know it's dark, you
know all winter long, there's higherincidences of alcoholism, addiction, suicidal,
you know, suicidal things happening.Absolutely so getting outdoors in full spectrum light
because light enters our eyes and nourishesour brain and affects our hormones as well
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as our moods. And a lotof these ideas in natural remedies for mental
and emotional health are simple, inexpensivethings you can do. And another thing
I want to say is a lotof the things when it comes to food
and nerves, they're folk remedies thathave been used by millions of people for
thousands of years. And I alwaysgo back to that because I worked in
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a holistic pharmacy for twenty years andI saw a lot of drugs that were
approved on and they're taken off theshelf, and so I really like partnering
with things that maybe our ancestors usedare I feel like they have been studied
by humans using them, not likea you know, rat study or a
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two year study on healthy college students, when it might be the elderly or
the pregnant people who are going tobe taking these stuff instances exactly. And
I will get people that will askme because I will bring up things like
that. Well, for instance,you brought up as far as light,
I know that I try to getout out onto the balcony where I can
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see the sunset because I want toget that last bit of light into my
eyes before I go to sleep orbefore I go back in and do eat
or whatever we're going to do.So there's so many things like that.
But the answer that I have givenbecause I'll get people to say, well,
if if all of these you know, ancient remedies and stuff like that
worked, why aren't they doing itnow? And I tell them, I
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said, because big pharma can't monetizeit. You can't patent a plant.
And you know, one great example, the dandeline. I also have a
new book I'll call Dandeliine Medicine.You know, dandeliine leaves have been found
to be very diuretic, and asdiuretic is one of the leading diuretic drugs.
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Now, if you take a chemicaldiuretic, it depletes your body of
potassium. But dandelions are diuretic andgive you potassium and it's free, and
it would be growing everywhere. Butthe same kind of companies have us thinking,
oh, you got dundolons in youryard, you need to not only
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spray them, but then you needto like drive to the store and buy
gasoline and cut them down. Andyet the dandelions are air rating the soil.
And I really feel ellen that alot of the so called weeds are
really some of the Jedi plants thatadapt to adversity that can really strengthen our
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immunity. So, you know,it's it's said that the you know,
in America, we're using a thirdof our nation's water to water grass so
we can mow it down. Likewe're giving all this water to a crop
that nobody's eating on unless you're agoat or may get cow or something.
And so that's got to change.We really need to start respecting water more
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and realize that maybe those weeds thatadapt to adversity like frost and drought and
intense heat, that they are survivorplants and they just might have something for
us. But you are so right. You can't patent the plant and the
pharmaceutical companies. Even though in theyear nineteen hundred about eighty percent of all
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the pharmaceuticals came from the plants,there was this movement to either synthesize it
or extract just one chemical component,one alkaloid like a fedrine from a fedra
to make duta fed or birth controlpills came from wild yam, aspirin from
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willow bark or metal sweet or aspentrees, so they just looked at one
active component. But erbolists are sayingherbal medicine is not just one chemical component.
It's alkaloids, vitamins, minerals,fiber, chlorophyll. It's a symphony
of all these healing things that transformthe nutrients in the earth into a form
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that our bodies recognize, have evolvedwith, adapted to, and very many
of them are really quite delicious andnutritious, you know. And I love
the fact when you shifted us overto focusing on mental health, which is
what I had intended to do.In fact, I think I think you
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can add mental telepathy to some ofthe skills that you have, because that's
exactly where I was going when youwent there, so you can now quote
that as well. But because ofmental health, I think so many people
only focus on the physical thing,so they think, okay, if I
have this, okay, well thisis a nourishment and it helps in this
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way, or it doesn't help inthat way. But I want to talk
a little bit more about mental healthin a particular area, which is what
some people call attention deficit disorder,which, by the way, I refer
to it as attention surplus. Solet's talk about how foods are affecting those
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that people are diagnosing with add andhow just shifting their diet can do a
lot more than some of the pharmaceuticalmedications that they're actually giving many of our
children. It's true, and I'veeven heard that there are some schools that
get more money and funding the morekids that are being medicated. And you
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know, it's also interesting that therehave been studies that show that kids that
have ADHD OFT under the same kidsthat maybe had to take a lot of
antibiotics for other conditions like ear infectionsor step throat and so again, no
antibiotics can save lives. But there'sa lot of kids who are on antibiotics,
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you know, every month or sofor some type of new infection.
And that right there could have beena sign. Maybe the child has a
dairy allergy or a gluten allergy,or corn or soy or peanut butter.
Those are all some of the reallycommon allergenic foods. So now you have
a child who has behavior problems.I also want to say I also think
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that ADHD could be a superpower.We're so quick to label everything, you
know, so we need to treatthis. And I think it's really hard
for kids to sit in a chairfor many, many hours. And we've
seen a lot of school programs bediminished because not every kid is a jock,
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and not every kid is a scholar. Some are artists, some are
thesbians, some are you know,poets. There's a lot of ways that
we can find our true calling.But I do want to say the first
thing I would recommend for ADHD isa dietary change, and I've seen I
just want to share an example.Someone came to see me and said our
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child. They're suggesting the choggo onmedication. And I said, what is
your child crave? And the mothersaid, boy, Ever since she was
eighteen months old, she would goand like bang her head on the refrigerator
and say cheese, geese, cheese, cheese. And I said, I
wonder if she has a dairy allergy, because we often crave the things we're
allergic to, because when we eatsomething that we're sensitive or allergic to,
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it will increase white blood cell production, which is an immune response, because
we feel comforted like oh wow,now my white blood cells are really working
over time, but that could bethe problem. And again, we live
in a time where whatever the allergenis, you can go to the natural
food store and they've got you know, gluten free noodles and cookies, and
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they've got dairy free this. AndI'm not saying we all need to live
off of gluten free you know,chocolate cupcakes or anything. There's a lot
of junk out there too, butthere are alternatives, and I do find
it's a lot easier if the wholefamily goes on the program rather than like,
oh, you get the beige cupcakeand everybody else gets the nice little
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pink cup. And I do wantto share that my grandson, who's now
twenty, he was diagnosed with Aspergersyndrome when he was maybe three or four,
and his mom, my daughter,said I'm going to try taking him
off a gluten and she did,and ever since then he was in the
Gifted program and his honor roll everytime. But instead of just like,
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oh my god, he's a specialneeds child, which he was, lifting
the brain fog enabled him to reallyexcel. And I think that we will
try we will put children on adrug rather than making a family cooperative effort
to see if there's something we cando. And you know, even things
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like media, if the TV isalways on, if there's fast music always
on, even the idea of likedriving your kids to preschool or something,
you know, in the morning andthe music is really fast, or it's
all this troubling news broadcast or whatever, like that's all going into you.
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So now we also have toxic mediaaffecting our brains exactly. Well, that's
in fact, I'd love for usto do a whole show on toxic media
sometimes because it's incredible. Now whatwe're going to do I need to take
a break, But when we comeback, can you give us some of
the specific foods that tend to helpa particular area. So if you have
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somebody out there saying I'm dealing withthis, well, here's a you know,
here's a food that has had successin that. I'm not as need
to diagnose or anything else, butI think a lot of people would love
to hear that. And for everybodyout there, know that, you know
a lot more of this information isgoing to be in the book, But
for right now, we're going totake a break. We'll be right back.
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are speaking with Brigitte Mars and herlatest book is Natural Remedies for Mental and
Emotional Health. And again that wasone of the things that drew me in
because I've looked so much at food, more so from the standpoint of physical
health. I love the fact thatamongst many of her books, that she
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has one that really focuses on mentaland emotional And with that said, when
we went to break what are someof the foods that are affecting us or
I'm sorry, what are some ofthe foods that, if we are being
affected in a certain way, thatmay help us get through whatever we might
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be dealing with. Well, youknow, because depression is such a common
ailment right now, and I don'tthink Western medicine has really looked at some
of the principles of Asian medicine thatwhen we have depression, we might want
to look at what's going on withthe liver. The liver and gall ladder,
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according to the principles of Asian medicine, correspond to the emotions of anger,
depression, and creativity. Okay,so let's say we're looking that.
We could also look at thyroid healthand all of that, But what would
be making our liver, which helpsto clean the blood kind of have this
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like, oh, I feel sodepressed and lethargic and all that. So
I do think that the lack ofsour foods. A little bit of sour
This morning, I started my daywith a little lemon and water get alkaline.
You know, that's a simple thing. The liver loves it when we
eat greens. And I'm not talkingabout iceberg lettuce shipped in from another continent.
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I'm talking about things like cable andarugula, and you know, cabbage
and am dandel and greens. Absolutely, And I'm a big believer in eating
all the colors of the rainbow.The American diet has gotten rather beige,
so watch out for that. Berriesare really good. They also emulate the
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sour flavor raspberries, blackberries, tartapples. And you know, this is
really just my theory here, Allan. But if we think back, you
know, two one hundred years ago, when hunters were and still in many
parts of the world are still doingthat. They kill an anti with appreciation,
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eat the parts of the animal maybethat they think is going to really
help them, like the heart orthe testicles, or the liver. And
what about eating animals that live inagricultural situations where it's overcrowded, it's smelly,
the lights are left on, they'rebeing fed drugs all the time,
they become cannibalistic. Could we bepicking up on the anxiety and depression by
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eating animals that live in a hllaciouskind of situation? Because health food stores
do sell things like thyroid and adrenalto help our thyroid and adrenal glands.
So I mean, I think it'spretty much a given that if we are
going to eat animal products, weshould really support the farmers that are doing
a better job, whether it's grassfed or pasture raised. But I also
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think that we harm our liver's abilityto be able to clean the blood by
eating a lot of fried foods,chips, poor quality oils like canola oil,
soy oil, safflower oil, becausewhen the machinery presses the oil out
of the beans or canola seed orwhatever, the machinery heats up to over
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three hundred degrees, so the oilsare heated. And even though it might
not list this as an ingredient,we're ingesting free radicals all the time,
which are kind of congesting to thebody, and even things like microwaving our
food. It's funny when people feelbad, they say things like I'm zapped
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or I'm fried. I'm zapped,I'm fried, I'm baked, I'm toasted,
you know, which might mean somethingelse different in certain parts of the
color. But in any case,when we're always zapping and frying our food,
it could be making us feel zappedand fried. So again, I'm
not saying we have to eat everythingraw, but eating more fresh fruits and
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vegetables, more colors. Could webe going for a salad once a day,
and could we take the extra stepof making our own dressing with some
extra virgin olive oil. I thinkthat right, there would be a great
ben And that's a great point whenyou bring up the oils. You mentioned
some of the bad oils, butI love that you're also now mentioning one
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of the good oils, which isyou said, the extra virgin olive oil.
What are some of the other essentialoils or tinctures, whatever that can
help with mental health, and whatare some of the best ways to take
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them? And let's talk a littlebit about you know, some of these
because they can go through the bloodbrain barrier, how it actually can get
into our brain and help us.Whereas in some cases, some of these
same oils, if they are asyou said, press or detrimental, they
can also get through the blood brainbarrier and do harm as well. Well,
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you know, you mentioned the termessential oil, and I just wanted
to say that a really simple thingthat can shift our consciousness almost immediately is
to smell some kind of essential oil. And so I have here a bottle
of a lavender oil. So let'ssay, Oh, I'm really freaking out,
I'm going to be late for myjob, and I'm really I'm freaking
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out. I'm going down freak outfreeway. And then I open up a
bottle of lavender oil and I takefive deep inhalations on each nostril. Now
I'm going down lavender lane. Becauseour nasal cavities are in very close proximity
to our brain. So something assimple as smelling something can help us through
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a difficult situation. And I wantto mention how many people are working in
an environment where there's chemical air freshenersthat might really be neurotoxic. There's this
bank that I have to go toto pay my credit card, and I
mean I only have to go inthere like once a month, But what
about the people that work in thatenvironment. They don't even notice it anymore.
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They are smelling petrochemical. It's notlike it's really pine needles or rosemary
or fresh lemon. It's petrochemicals thatare if you're smelling it, it's going
into your blood stream. Yeah,and it's going into your lungs and your
bloodstream. So we need to thinkabout that. And what about people who
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are like slathering themselves with petrochemical mineraloil, synthetic fragrances. And sometimes you
can smell these people like a blockaway, you know, like you mean
like a cologne or a perfume rightalone, an aftershave, a sunscreen,
a hair spray, you know,all these things. People are in a
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cloud of these things. So Ithink, you know our health, our
mental health is also closely related tothe health of our planet. And we
know that our planet is suffering.So that's another place. So when we
partner with natural remedies and say,yeah, I think I'm going to try
the lavender oil, or I'm goingto try the Saint John's ward herb another
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great herb for depression, or lemonbalm herb. That means that somewhere on
the face of the Earth, there'sgoing to be fields of plants with happy
pollinators, bees and butterflies and safeenvironments not polluting the water. And I
really think that that's the direction weshould be looking at, because as we
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help our planet to heal, itcan help ourselves to heal well. I
have a question that's coming in,and again I want to thank those people
that send in questions. We getthese sometimes through instant message or people email
us ahead of time. We sendout a newsletter, you know, sometimes
you know a week ahead or acouple of days ahead of time. And
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so if anybody has a question.Feel free to send it to us.
If you get it to us aheadof time, that's great. If you
get it to us during the show, we'll try to get to it.
But again, I thank those thatdo this. One reads I'm a fifty
five year old soon to be grandmawho has struggled with gut issues since childhood.
A few years ago, I realizedI was gluten intolerant. Coding out
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gluten has helped, but I stillget bounced with stomach issues and fatigue at
times. I'm eating very clean andI exercise regularly. What else can I
do to feel like a normal personand not worry about everything I eat?
And this is from Meredith in SantaCruz. Well, that's a very personal
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question. But you know, itcould be gluten. It could also be
dairy. It could be soy,It could be corn, there could be
other things. And I don't knowenough about this lady, and I thank
you for her question, but Iwould wonder about, you know, what
else she's doing. What was goingon in your life when it started?
What medications are you on? Imean, I do think things. A
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simple thing that many of us coulddo to help improve our digestion is not
to drink with meals, and Iknow that is so the American way.
You go to a restaurant, theykeep filling your glass up with ice water.
But when we drink a lot ofwater with meals, we dilute our
natural digestive enzymes. And icy coldis even worse because it causes things to
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constrict. So you know, that'sone thing. There's many herbs that can
help digestion, like peppermint tea,ginger tea. But I also have a
private practice where I help people figureout what's going on and it's specific to
them, and I want to knoweverything that they're doing. It's you know,
that's sort of a blanket, youknow, big big question there,
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no, and I realized that,but again we try to to you know,
to address as many things as possible. As I look at this one,
it sounds like they're I mean,it says that they're eating clean and
they're exercising regularly so and that they'vealready cut out gluten. But it sounds
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like some of the things you've broughtup something simple and I didn't even know,
is you know, maybe drinking theliquids is keeping your saying, is
keeping the stomach from actually helping themdigest things properly right. And there's so
many things you can find it thehealth history, whether it be enzymes,
peppermint capsules, umaboshi, plum paste. There's so many remedies. But I
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would want to know more about theperson. And I think a lot of
people think they're doing a great thingby eating more plant based, and then
they start doing a lot of soyproducts like oh, I'm gonna I want
the soy milk or the soybeans,SOI is actually really hard to digest for
a lot of people. It's alsoa common alergen. So when I meet
with people, I ask them tokeep a food journal and try to be
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a detective to figure it out.But if we have time, Alan,
I'd like to say a few wordsabout anxiety, because I think that anxiety
is such a big thing, andI've been around people that are having panic
attacks, so we know that whena person has a anxiety attack, it's
often when their blood sugar's really low. So let's say you get up in
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the morning and you start your dayhow American with coffee. Maybe you've got
a couple cups of coffee because yougo to work and they got free coffee
there. They don't have kombucha orcarritchies, but they got free coffee.
So when our or maybe we skipbreakfast, but we ate something sweet couple
of cookies or a pastry, sothat makes your blood sugar go up and
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then it crashes. So okay,So if you have anxiety, you want
to look at one or what aresome of the triggers. Could you have
a healthy snack with you, maybesome Brazil knots, or you know something
from the health food store that's ahigh fiber, high protein type of bar
that's sugar free. Sugar and caffeineare the eminy enemies of anxiety. So
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let's say someone's anxious. What couldthey do well? The simple trick we
just learned a minute ago. Openup a bottle of lavender oil. Take
some deep inhalations of lavender oil.There's also a little gem you can find
it natural force called rescue Remedy.It's a bock flower remedy. Two drops
of Rescue Remedy is really good forstress panic. If you don't want to
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ingest it, you only need twodrops. You can put it on your
wrists. It's like a little miraclein a bottle. There's even a it
soaks in, It soaks in throughyour skin as well. Absolutely, you
know Alan that we are seeing somany drugs being delivered transdermally through the skin,
heart medicine, diabetes, medicine,and I you know, somethings like
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to remind people. The first youknow, Albert Hoffman, when he was
working on a remedy for migraine headaches, got some LSD on his fingertips.
He didn't eat it, but justgetting it on his fingertips made him I
have to leave work and ride hisbike homeb So we're not thinking that what
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we put on our bodies is affectingyou. I had a client the other
day, a beautiful woman with reallyreally bleached blonde hair, and I said,
you know, I can appreciate,you know, wanting to have hair
the color you want, But whenyou put these chemicals on your scalp month
after month at the roots and leavethem on for an hour, and these
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chemicals are designed to remove the pigmentfrom your hair, could it also be
going into your bloodstream, crossing theblood brain barrier and also even contributing to
lesions or even dementia or memory lossas we get older, and again there
are natural things you can buy thatcolor your hair with, you know,
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chemameal and lemon and oak bark andthings like that too. See there you
go with telepathy again, that wasperfect. I was just gonna ask,
well, is there an alternative?But you had that as well, so
the telepathy is still working. We'veonly got about about two minutes. I'd
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love to end with whatever you seeas one of your favorite success stories.
Oh my goodness, so many successstories. And I don't know if I
can narrow it down, but Ifeel that this is a way of empowering
people to make healthier choices. It'sgood for people, it's good for the
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planet. And you know, Ithink you already mentioned my grandson rather than
like a lifelong diagnosis of Asperger's.You know, now he's twenty and working
in LA in the music industry,graduated with honors like it was a dietary
change and that's really all it took. We didn't have to do a drug.
And I really think that this isan opportunity to love yourself more.
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I think a lot of people feelthat they don't have time to take care
of themselves, and yet it mightget up an hour earlier because you're going
to take care of your kids,your spouse, your boss, your car,
your dog. You need time foryou, and getting up an hour
earlier means there is time for yoga, There is time to pack a healthy
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lunch, there is time to takeyour supplements that are going to help you
get through the day. And youmight even lay your clothes out the night
before and think about what am Itrying to emulate tomorrow. Where I want
to feel calm. Right now,we're in a huge snowstorm, so it's
freezing here right now. But youknow, I think that this is an
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opportunity to love yourself more. It'sgood for the earth, it's good for
yourself, it's good for your family. Give it a try. There's nothing
to lose natural remedies for mental andemotional health because happier people make a better
world. So we need abolutely absolutelyagain. So first of all, Briggie,
thank you so much, and foreverybody out there again, if you
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go to her web site, there'sa wealth of information there, so it's
brigittemars dot com. And again,if you're driving, we'll make sure that
we have all of this in theshow notes. So Brigitte again, thank
you so much. The time justflew by. I love having you on
here. I love what you're doing. Please keep us alerted when the next
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book comes out or the next timewe can have you on to help more
people. Thank you so much,many blessings to you and your listeners.
Alan all right, thank you,and for everybody out there, let's see
here if you will be with usnext week, we're going to be joined
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Thank you for joining us, andwelcome to another edition of Answers Network.
I'm your hopest Alan Cardoza. Forthose of you that have been listening sending
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that we together can make a positiveinfluence in the world. Now I can
tell you that today we have someonewho is going to be able to make
a positive influence on all of usbecause it's an area that is very near
and dear to me right now.But before we get to that, I
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want to talk a little bit aboutthe fact that we're doing this show on
Martin Luther King's birthday and in thepast I've had some very interesting and thought
provoking guests to honor doctor King.Today, I'm going to start the show
with a powerful lesson, and itisn't a quote from Martin Luther King,
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although I will bring up some afterthis. This was a lesson where a
high school class is learning about theSalem witch trials. Their teacher told them
that they were going to play agame. He said, I'm going to
come around and whisper to each ofyou, whether you're a witch or you're
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a regular person. Your goal isto build the largest group possible that does
not have a witch in it.In the end, any group found to
include a witch gets a failing grade. Well, the teens dove into grilling
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each other. One fairly large groupformed, but most of the students broke
into small, exclusive groups where theywere pretty sure that they didn't have a
witch. They turned away anyone theythought gave off even a hint of guilt.
Okay, the teacher said, you'vegot your groups. Time to find
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out which ones failed. All witches, please raise your hand. No one
raised their hand. The kids wereconfused. They told the teacher that he'd
messed up the game. Did Isaid the teacher, was anyone in Salem
actually a witch? Or did everyonejust believe what they were told. And
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that is how you show kids howeasy it is to divide a community.
Now, unfortunately we live in atime we have to show adults as well,
shunning scapegoating, placing blame and dividingothers. It will destroy far more
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than they will protect. And againI bring this up because I believe this
is something that doctor King message hewas trying to get out as well.
Now, for everybody out there,don't allow fear to cloud your decisions,
use your own discernment, trust yourheart and your gut. Think about what
you've been told and who benefits fromyou believing it if you end. For
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the students out there, if youknow a teacher's political affiliation, they've already
failed at their job. The bestteachers will show you where to look,
but they won't tell you what yousee or what you must think. So
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with that, I now want toshare a couple of quotes again from Martin
Luther King in honor of this day. One of his quotes is, we
may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
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Another is the function of education isto teach one to think intensively and
to think critically. Intelligence plus character. That is the goal of true and
the quality, not the longevity ofwhat of one's life is what's important.
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And with that I say that joiningus to discuss many ways to improve the
quality of our life is Brigitte Mars. Brigite is an herbalist, a nutritional
consultant of natural health with over fiftyyears of experience. She is a founding
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and professional member of the American HerbalistGuide and Brisit is the author of many
books, including Natural Remedies for afor Mental and Emotional Health, The Sexual
Herbal Addiction Free Naturally, the NaturalFirst Aid Handbook, and the Desktop Guide
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to Herbal Medicine, to name justa few. Her latest project is a
phone called Iplant. He also hasan online herbal healing course, and you
can learn about both as well asa wealth of knowledge by checking out Brigitte's
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website at www dot Brigitmars dot comand that's b R I G I T
T E M R s dot com. But if you're driving, don't try
to take that down. Know thatwe will have all of this information in
our show notes by going to Answersdot Network. With that, Brigitte,
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thank you for joining us on AnswersNetwork. My pleasure and honor, Allan.
Thank you. Well, what I'dlike to start with is if you
can give us a little bit ofbackground, because I've fortunately, I've been
on this earth for quite some time, and I was looked at as somebody
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who was somewhat of a you know, a plant guy or you know,
they'd say, a a health nut. Uh. And as I was telling
you before the show that you know, even as a room dad, you
know, I'd bring my drinks toclass and the young kids go that looks
like pond scum. Give us alittle bit of a history of of this,
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uh, this movement of how howwe got away from eating healthy and
how we can now get back intoa culture of eating well and putting things
in our body that's good for us. Well, you know, it is
kind of interesting, Ellen, ifyou watch an hour of TV, what
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you see as a lot of adsfor junk food and pharmaceuticals. Eat this
food, take these drugs, eatthis food, take these drugs. And
uh, you know, I thinkfor a long time, you know,
even with the American Cancer Society,maybe thirty forty years ago, there was
a feeling like what you eat hasno effect on whether or not you get
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cancer. And I'm really glad tosay that we're starting to look at that
a lot of the things that thehealth nuts were talking about fifty sixty years
ago were really right on. Andnot only does it affect our physical health,
but it also affects our mental andemotional states of being. And in
this country, it seems that whenpeople have a physical condition, they go
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to one type of physician, butwhen they have something going on such as
anxiety, depression, memory loss,there's a different kind of doctors. And
yet in Asian medicine, food,herbs, acupuncture their use for mental and
emotional health. And we do knowthat the mental body can affect the physical
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body, and the physical body canaffect the mental body. So here we
are, it's time to talk aboutit, and you know, take some
responsibility because all of these conditions,there are simple things that we can do.
Not to say, you know,you don't want to talk to your
healthcare professional, but I'm trying toencourage people to be their first choice for
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healthcare. And then everything else isextra well. First of all, I
couldn't agree more. And you broughtup the Asian community and having done some
recent research. The country of Singaporehas now been named as a blue zone
and one of the and their lifeexpectancy as well as their health span has
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been on an upward trajectory in anincredible fashion, you know, having gone
up like twenty five percent just inthe last forty or fifty years. On
the other hand, the US lifeexpectancy and health expectancy is on a downward
trajectory after you know, many manyyears of leading the world in that area.
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Do you also attribute that to theyou know, the advertising, the
drunk the junk food, and inour diet as Americans. Yeah, absolutely,
But you know, we could lookat it from so many ways.
You know, chemicals in the water, chemicals in the air, pesticides in
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our food. And unfortunately, youknow, one pharmaceutical drug often can lead
to having to use another drug becausethere's very often side effects. And so
you know, some of my goodfriends are doctors, and one of my
doctor friends said, you know,I really don't like offering so many prescriptions.
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But if people came to see meand I just said, go home,
drink plenty of fluids. Have someyou know, chicken soup with lots
of garlic in it and take somevitamin see, they would think that I
wasn't doing my job. And veryoften, even though physicians are there to
make recommendations, very often it's thepatient compliance that's the most difficult because people
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say, I'll take a pill,but I don't want to lose that ten
pounds. I don't want to quitsmoking, I don't want to drink less
coffee or less alcohol, and sonatural medicine really allen is for people that
are motivated. But I think there'sa lot of people who are really realizing,
look, I don't want to beon these drugs my whole life.
Maybe they want to have a baby, maybe they know find that as they
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get older, you know, otherthings start to creep into their life.
So I love that taking some timeand energy to do self care for yourself
can lead to so many benefits,not only physically but mentally. To well,
that's interesting what you brought up inregards to what your doctor said.
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I would like to think that moredoctors that think that way would be strong
enough to say I'm not going todo it. I'm not going to try
to put you on this drug thatyou're going to have to take for the
rest of your life or something that'sgoing to slow down your metabolism and you're
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then going to put on weight.So you're then going to come back in
here because of the fact that you'regoing to now want something for the weight
gain. You know, I wouldlike to think that we're going to turn
this corner, and I'll tell youa story that of me finding a new
doctor because of that. And Ithink I've talked about it on the air.
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Six months ago, I had amassive heart attack and I had so
many people that said, you're thelast person that we would have even thought
that. Well, it turns outthere was there's a hereditary component to it
because of my health and conditioning.Most doctors that were involved said it saved
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my life, that that's why Igot through it. But I had a
cardiologist that when I started talking aboutthe things that I wanted to do,
natural things that I wanted to do, because he immediately put me on after
this, put me on four medications, and right after they put the stint
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in, I felt great. Iwanted to go home. The same day.
I said, Okay, I'm ready, Can I go? I go?
No, no, no, westill have to do these things.
Well after those drugs kicked in.I felt terrible, and they said,
this is what we want you totake now for the rest of your life,
so this never happens again. SoI started doing my research, and
as an international detective, that's whatI do, and I found so many
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incredible natural ways to deal with thesame subject. So I went back to
the cardiologist and explain what I wantedto do, and talked about what red
rice yeast and bergamet and baby aspirinand I forget the other one now,
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but anyway, and all of thesethings. And I said, you know,
my investigation shows that these things aregoing to do the same thing as
these pharmaceuticals. And I didn't havea blood pressure problem before this, why
would I be on blood pressure medicinenow? And he told me to quit
going to the internet and quit askingquestions. I said, thank you.
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I walked out of his office.I went to another cardiologist, sat down
with him and said, I havequestions and I have things that I want
to discuss. Here are some ofthe things. Are you with me asking
these questions and us discussing it?He said absolutely. I said, you're
now my new cardiologist. Dingo,good move, and Unfortunately a lot of
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people just want to take the pill. But you're so right. I mean,
there's dietary things we can do redyeast, rice, garlic, hawthorn,
eating tart apples. Rather than onlythinking about the heart, we can
think about the liver and the kidneysthat help to regulate fluids in the body
and help to break down fats.So unfortunately, nutrition is not a big
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part of what people learn in medicalschool, but hopefully it will be in
the future. And I'm not tryingto divide the country or the people or
say it's us against them. It'slike, I think the best health is
going to come when we put ourheads and hearts together and look at what
we can do as individuals to helpget ourselves out of a pickle, rather
than more and more and more drugs. The older you get, you're going
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to be on like ten pills ratherthan four. And and I completely agree,
And I say that not trying todivide either. In fact, my
my general doctor, that's a conciergedoctor. He is an m D and
an ND and and that's what wasimportant to me. So so he doesn't
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he doesn't go to one or theother. He looks at both things,
and at times I'm very thankful youknow that he comes up with something that
he learned while in medical school,but at the same time we go to
a lot of things that he learnedwhile becoming an n D For those that
don't know, that's a naturopathic doctor. So I agree with you. It
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isn't a matter of division, it'sa matter of inclusion. Uh. It
just concerns me when when you havea doctor that doesn't want to include,
because I want to say, well, what are you afraid of? So?
And when it comes to mental health, you know, I've been saying
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for years like wherever two or moreare gathered, probably one is on antidepressants.
And I do think that there's alot of people being medicated for things
like depression and anxiety and OCD andmemory loss, and we might need to
look at some more simple things likecould they be eating a food that they're
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allergic to? And I know thatsounds weird, like could allergies affect our
consciousness? Well, we do knowthat allergens can cause inflammation in the body,
joint inflammation, sinus inflammation, skininflammation, but also brain inflammation.
We're also finding out that a lotof our neurotransmitters are made in our guts,
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and so the copious use of antibiotics, or even eating animals that are
treated with antibiotics that could be disturbingour gut microbile, as well as eating
things were allergic to. We evenknow that things like heavy metals, such
as cooking our food in aluminum cookware. I've been saying this for sixty years.
It's only now coming out in themainstream media. Do you know we've
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all heard the term mad as ahatter from the Alix Wonderful story. But
in the eighteen hundred's, hat makerswould dip felt in a mercury solution so
they could shape these like grandiose chapeause, and after a while the hat makers
would develop neurological ticks, and thatled to calling people mad as a hatter.
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But for how many decades were theyputting mercury fillings in our mouth saying
it's totally safe. But yet youcan't even buy a mercury thermometer at the
drug store anymore because it's considered sotoxic that if one breaks, the vapors
would cause toxins in the whole household. So food allergies, having metal toxicity.
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We certainly know the trauma affects us, and unfortunately, so many of
us have experienced some kind of trauma. It may be that some people have
a higher need for a certain vitamin. Maybe they need more B vitamins,
they are more magnesium to sleep better, to have less pain. So my
book Natural Remedies for Mental and EmotionalHealth, it's all about all kinds of
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ideas, food, herbs, supplementswhich you can buy at the natural food
store. You know, color therapy. People don't realize that color can affect
our consciousness. We think, oh, color, it doesn't matter. And
yet Madison Avenue is thinking all thetime about what color should we make this
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package so that people buy our product. And so, you know, I
like to tell people when you needto feel calmer, wear blue when you
need to get more energized. Thinkabout wearing red when you need to be
very mentally focused. Yellow. Andyet I see people who are just like
wearing gray day after day. Andyet the world might be a little gray
with all the storms and the colballike this might be a day where you
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need to like brighten your world.And color is energy. So maybe that's
the day, you brighten things up, even light therapy. How many people
are going to work in the dark, They're coming home in the dark,
They're under floors and lighting all daylong. And yet we do know that
lack of light seasonal affect hateive disorder, can affect our moods, and very
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often in areas where it's dark alot, you know it's dark, you
know all winter long, there's higherincidences of alcoholism, addiction, suicidal,
you know, suicidal things happening.Absolutely so getting outdoors in full spectrum light
because light enters our eyes and nourishesour brain and affects our hormones as well
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as our moods. And a lotof these ideas in natural remedies for mental
and emotional health are simple, inexpensivethings you can do. And another thing
I want to say is a lotof the things when it comes to food
and nerves, they're folk remedies thathave been used by millions of people for
thousands of years. And I alwaysgo back to that because I worked in
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a holistic pharmacy for twenty years andI saw a lot of drugs that were
approved on and they're taken off theshelf, and so I really like partnering
with things that maybe our ancestors usedare I feel like they have been studied
by humans using them, not likea you know, rat study or a
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two year study on healthy college students, when it might be the elderly or
the pregnant people who are going tobe taking these stuff instances exactly. And
I will get people that will askme because I will bring up things like
that. Well, for instance,you brought up as far as light,
I know that I try to getout out onto the balcony where I can
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see the sunset because I want toget that last bit of light into my
eyes before I go to sleep orbefore I go back in and do eat
or whatever we're going to do.So there's so many things like that.
But the answer that I have givenbecause I'll get people to say, well,
if if all of these you know, ancient remedies and stuff like that
worked, why aren't they doing itnow? And I tell them, I
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said, because big pharma can't monetizeit. You can't patent a plant.
And you know, one great example, the dandeline. I also have a
new book I'll call Dandeliine Medicine.You know, dandeliine leaves have been found
to be very diuretic, and asdiuretic is one of the leading diuretic drugs.
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Now, if you take a chemicaldiuretic, it depletes your body of
potassium. But dandelions are diuretic andgive you potassium and it's free, and
it would be growing everywhere. Butthe same kind of companies have us thinking,
oh, you got dundolons in youryard, you need to not only
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spray them, but then you needto like drive to the store and buy
gasoline and cut them down. Andyet the dandelions are air rating the soil.
And I really feel ellen that alot of the so called weeds are
really some of the Jedi plants thatadapt to adversity that can really strengthen our
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immunity. So, you know,it's it's said that the you know,
in America, we're using a thirdof our nation's water to water grass so
we can mow it down. Likewe're giving all this water to a crop
that nobody's eating on unless you're agoat or may get cow or something.
And so that's got to change.We really need to start respecting water more
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and realize that maybe those weeds thatadapt to adversity like frost and drought and
intense heat, that they are survivorplants and they just might have something for
us. But you are so right. You can't patent the plant and the
pharmaceutical companies. Even though in theyear nineteen hundred about eighty percent of all
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the pharmaceuticals came from the plants,there was this movement to either synthesize it
or extract just one chemical component,one alkaloid like a fedrine from a fedra
to make duta fed or birth controlpills came from wild yam, aspirin from
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willow bark or metal sweet or aspentrees, so they just looked at one
active component. But erbolists are sayingherbal medicine is not just one chemical component.
It's alkaloids, vitamins, minerals,fiber, chlorophyll. It's a symphony
of all these healing things that transformthe nutrients in the earth into a form
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that our bodies recognize, have evolvedwith, adapted to, and very many
of them are really quite delicious andnutritious, you know. And I love
the fact when you shifted us overto focusing on mental health, which is
what I had intended to do.In fact, I think I think you
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can add mental telepathy to some ofthe skills that you have, because that's
exactly where I was going when youwent there, so you can now quote
that as well. But because ofmental health, I think so many people
only focus on the physical thing,so they think, okay, if I
have this, okay, well thisis a nourishment and it helps in this
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way, or it doesn't help inthat way. But I want to talk
a little bit more about mental healthin a particular area, which is what
some people call attention deficit disorder,which, by the way, I refer
to it as attention surplus. Solet's talk about how foods are affecting those
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that people are diagnosing with add andhow just shifting their diet can do a
lot more than some of the pharmaceuticalmedications that they're actually giving many of our
children. It's true, and I'veeven heard that there are some schools that
get more money and funding the morekids that are being medicated. And you
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know, it's also interesting that therehave been studies that show that kids that
have ADHD OFT under the same kidsthat maybe had to take a lot of
antibiotics for other conditions like ear infectionsor step throat and so again, no
antibiotics can save lives. But there'sa lot of kids who are on antibiotics,
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you know, every month or sofor some type of new infection.
And that right there could have beena sign. Maybe the child has a
dairy allergy or a gluten allergy,or corn or soy or peanut butter.
Those are all some of the reallycommon allergenic foods. So now you have
a child who has behavior problems.I also want to say I also think
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that ADHD could be a superpower.We're so quick to label everything, you
know, so we need to treatthis. And I think it's really hard
for kids to sit in a chairfor many, many hours. And we've
seen a lot of school programs bediminished because not every kid is a jock,
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and not every kid is a scholar. Some are artists, some are
thesbians, some are you know,poets. There's a lot of ways that
we can find our true calling.But I do want to say the first
thing I would recommend for ADHD isa dietary change, and I've seen I
just want to share an example.Someone came to see me and said our
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child. They're suggesting the choggo onmedication. And I said, what is
your child crave? And the mothersaid, boy, Ever since she was
eighteen months old, she would goand like bang her head on the refrigerator
and say cheese, geese, cheese, cheese. And I said, I
wonder if she has a dairy allergy, because we often crave the things we're
allergic to, because when we eatsomething that we're sensitive or allergic to,
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it will increase white blood cell production, which is an immune response, because
we feel comforted like oh wow,now my white blood cells are really working
over time, but that could bethe problem. And again, we live
in a time where whatever the allergenis, you can go to the natural
food store and they've got you know, gluten free noodles and cookies, and
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they've got dairy free this. AndI'm not saying we all need to live
off of gluten free you know,chocolate cupcakes or anything. There's a lot
of junk out there too, butthere are alternatives, and I do find
it's a lot easier if the wholefamily goes on the program rather than like,
oh, you get the beige cupcakeand everybody else gets the nice little
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pink cup. And I do wantto share that my grandson, who's now
twenty, he was diagnosed with Aspergersyndrome when he was maybe three or four,
and his mom, my daughter,said I'm going to try taking him
off a gluten and she did,and ever since then he was in the
Gifted program and his honor roll everytime. But instead of just like,
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oh my god, he's a specialneeds child, which he was, lifting
the brain fog enabled him to reallyexcel. And I think that we will
try we will put children on adrug rather than making a family cooperative effort
to see if there's something we cando. And you know, even things
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like media, if the TV isalways on, if there's fast music always
on, even the idea of likedriving your kids to preschool or something,
you know, in the morning andthe music is really fast, or it's
all this troubling news broadcast or whatever, like that's all going into you.
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So now we also have toxic mediaaffecting our brains exactly. Well, that's
in fact, I'd love for usto do a whole show on toxic media
sometimes because it's incredible. Now whatwe're going to do I need to take
a break, But when we comeback, can you give us some of
the specific foods that tend to helpa particular area. So if you have
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somebody out there saying I'm dealing withthis, well, here's a you know,
here's a food that has had successin that. I'm not as need
to diagnose or anything else, butI think a lot of people would love
to hear that. And for everybodyout there, know that, you know
a lot more of this information isgoing to be in the book, But
for right now, we're going totake a break. We'll be right back.
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are speaking with Brigitte Mars and herlatest book is Natural Remedies for Mental and
Emotional Health. And again that wasone of the things that drew me in
because I've looked so much at food, more so from the standpoint of physical
health. I love the fact thatamongst many of her books, that she
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has one that really focuses on mentaland emotional And with that said, when
we went to break what are someof the foods that are affecting us or
I'm sorry, what are some ofthe foods that, if we are being
affected in a certain way, thatmay help us get through whatever we might
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be dealing with. Well, youknow, because depression is such a common
ailment right now, and I don'tthink Western medicine has really looked at some
of the principles of Asian medicine thatwhen we have depression, we might want
to look at what's going on withthe liver. The liver and gall ladder,
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according to the principles of Asian medicine, correspond to the emotions of anger,
depression, and creativity. Okay,so let's say we're looking that.
We could also look at thyroid healthand all of that, But what would
be making our liver, which helpsto clean the blood kind of have this
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like, oh, I feel sodepressed and lethargic and all that. So
I do think that the lack ofsour foods. A little bit of sour
This morning, I started my daywith a little lemon and water get alkaline.
You know, that's a simple thing. The liver loves it when we
eat greens. And I'm not talkingabout iceberg lettuce shipped in from another continent.
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I'm talking about things like cable andarugula, and you know, cabbage
and am dandel and greens. Absolutely, And I'm a big believer in eating
all the colors of the rainbow.The American diet has gotten rather beige,
so watch out for that. Berriesare really good. They also emulate the
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sour flavor raspberries, blackberries, tartapples. And you know, this is
really just my theory here, Allan. But if we think back, you
know, two one hundred years ago, when hunters were and still in many
parts of the world are still doingthat. They kill an anti with appreciation,
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eat the parts of the animal maybethat they think is going to really
help them, like the heart orthe testicles, or the liver. And
what about eating animals that live inagricultural situations where it's overcrowded, it's smelly,
the lights are left on, they'rebeing fed drugs all the time,
they become cannibalistic. Could we bepicking up on the anxiety and depression by
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eating animals that live in a hllaciouskind of situation? Because health food stores
do sell things like thyroid and adrenalto help our thyroid and adrenal glands.
So I mean, I think it'spretty much a given that if we are
going to eat animal products, weshould really support the farmers that are doing
a better job, whether it's grassfed or pasture raised. But I also
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think that we harm our liver's abilityto be able to clean the blood by
eating a lot of fried foods,chips, poor quality oils like canola oil,
soy oil, safflower oil, becausewhen the machinery presses the oil out
of the beans or canola seed orwhatever, the machinery heats up to over
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three hundred degrees, so the oilsare heated. And even though it might
not list this as an ingredient,we're ingesting free radicals all the time,
which are kind of congesting to thebody, and even things like microwaving our
food. It's funny when people feelbad, they say things like I'm zapped
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or I'm fried. I'm zapped,I'm fried, I'm baked, I'm toasted,
you know, which might mean somethingelse different in certain parts of the
color. But in any case,when we're always zapping and frying our food,
it could be making us feel zappedand fried. So again, I'm
not saying we have to eat everythingraw, but eating more fresh fruits and
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vegetables, more colors. Could webe going for a salad once a day,
and could we take the extra stepof making our own dressing with some
extra virgin olive oil. I thinkthat right, there would be a great
ben And that's a great point whenyou bring up the oils. You mentioned
some of the bad oils, butI love that you're also now mentioning one
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of the good oils, which isyou said, the extra virgin olive oil.
What are some of the other essentialoils or tinctures, whatever that can
help with mental health, and whatare some of the best ways to take
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them? And let's talk a littlebit about you know, some of these
because they can go through the bloodbrain barrier, how it actually can get
into our brain and help us.Whereas in some cases, some of these
same oils, if they are asyou said, press or detrimental, they
can also get through the blood brainbarrier and do harm as well. Well,
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you know, you mentioned the termessential oil, and I just wanted
to say that a really simple thingthat can shift our consciousness almost immediately is
to smell some kind of essential oil. And so I have here a bottle
of a lavender oil. So let'ssay, Oh, I'm really freaking out,
I'm going to be late for myjob, and I'm really I'm freaking
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out. I'm going down freak outfreeway. And then I open up a
bottle of lavender oil and I takefive deep inhalations on each nostril. Now
I'm going down lavender lane. Becauseour nasal cavities are in very close proximity
to our brain. So something assimple as smelling something can help us through
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a difficult situation. And I wantto mention how many people are working in
an environment where there's chemical air freshenersthat might really be neurotoxic. There's this
bank that I have to go toto pay my credit card, and I
mean I only have to go inthere like once a month, But what
about the people that work in thatenvironment. They don't even notice it anymore.
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They are smelling petrochemical. It's notlike it's really pine needles or rosemary
or fresh lemon. It's petrochemicals thatare if you're smelling it, it's going
into your blood stream. Yeah,and it's going into your lungs and your
bloodstream. So we need to thinkabout that. And what about people who
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are like slathering themselves with petrochemical mineraloil, synthetic fragrances. And sometimes you
can smell these people like a blockaway, you know, like you mean
like a cologne or a perfume rightalone, an aftershave, a sunscreen,
a hair spray, you know,all these things. People are in a
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cloud of these things. So Ithink, you know our health, our
mental health is also closely related tothe health of our planet. And we
know that our planet is suffering.So that's another place. So when we
partner with natural remedies and say,yeah, I think I'm going to try
the lavender oil, or I'm goingto try the Saint John's ward herb another
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great herb for depression, or lemonbalm herb. That means that somewhere on
the face of the Earth, there'sgoing to be fields of plants with happy
pollinators, bees and butterflies and safeenvironments not polluting the water. And I
really think that that's the direction weshould be looking at, because as we
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help our planet to heal, itcan help ourselves to heal well. I
have a question that's coming in,and again I want to thank those people
that send in questions. We getthese sometimes through instant message or people email
us ahead of time. We sendout a newsletter, you know, sometimes
you know a week ahead or acouple of days ahead of time. And
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so if anybody has a question.Feel free to send it to us.
If you get it to us aheadof time, that's great. If you
get it to us during the show, we'll try to get to it.
But again, I thank those thatdo this. One reads I'm a fifty
five year old soon to be grandmawho has struggled with gut issues since childhood.
A few years ago, I realizedI was gluten intolerant. Coding out
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gluten has helped, but I stillget bounced with stomach issues and fatigue at
times. I'm eating very clean andI exercise regularly. What else can I
do to feel like a normal personand not worry about everything I eat?
And this is from Meredith in SantaCruz. Well, that's a very personal
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question. But you know, itcould be gluten. It could also be
dairy. It could be soy,It could be corn, there could be
other things. And I don't knowenough about this lady, and I thank
you for her question, but Iwould wonder about, you know, what
else she's doing. What was goingon in your life when it started?
What medications are you on? Imean, I do think things. A
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simple thing that many of us coulddo to help improve our digestion is not
to drink with meals, and Iknow that is so the American way.
You go to a restaurant, theykeep filling your glass up with ice water.
But when we drink a lot ofwater with meals, we dilute our
natural digestive enzymes. And icy coldis even worse because it causes things to
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constrict. So you know, that'sone thing. There's many herbs that can
help digestion, like peppermint tea,ginger tea. But I also have a
private practice where I help people figureout what's going on and it's specific to
them, and I want to knoweverything that they're doing. It's you know,
that's sort of a blanket, youknow, big big question there,
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no, and I realized that,but again we try to to you know,
to address as many things as possible. As I look at this one,
it sounds like they're I mean,it says that they're eating clean and
they're exercising regularly so and that they'vealready cut out gluten. But it sounds
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like some of the things you've broughtup something simple and I didn't even know,
is you know, maybe drinking theliquids is keeping your saying, is
keeping the stomach from actually helping themdigest things properly right. And there's so
many things you can find it thehealth history, whether it be enzymes,
peppermint capsules, umaboshi, plum paste. There's so many remedies. But I
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would want to know more about theperson. And I think a lot of
people think they're doing a great thingby eating more plant based, and then
they start doing a lot of soyproducts like oh, I'm gonna I want
the soy milk or the soybeans,SOI is actually really hard to digest for
a lot of people. It's alsoa common alergen. So when I meet
with people, I ask them tokeep a food journal and try to be
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a detective to figure it out.But if we have time, Alan,
I'd like to say a few wordsabout anxiety, because I think that anxiety
is such a big thing, andI've been around people that are having panic
attacks, so we know that whena person has a anxiety attack, it's
often when their blood sugar's really low. So let's say you get up in
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the morning and you start your dayhow American with coffee. Maybe you've got
a couple cups of coffee because yougo to work and they got free coffee
there. They don't have kombucha orcarritchies, but they got free coffee.
So when our or maybe we skipbreakfast, but we ate something sweet couple
of cookies or a pastry, sothat makes your blood sugar go up and
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then it crashes. So okay,So if you have anxiety, you want
to look at one or what aresome of the triggers. Could you have
a healthy snack with you, maybesome Brazil knots, or you know something
from the health food store that's ahigh fiber, high protein type of bar
that's sugar free. Sugar and caffeineare the eminy enemies of anxiety. So
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let's say someone's anxious. What couldthey do well? The simple trick we
just learned a minute ago. Openup a bottle of lavender oil. Take
some deep inhalations of lavender oil.There's also a little gem you can find
it natural force called rescue Remedy.It's a bock flower remedy. Two drops
of Rescue Remedy is really good forstress panic. If you don't want to
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ingest it, you only need twodrops. You can put it on your
wrists. It's like a little miraclein a bottle. There's even a it
soaks in, It soaks in throughyour skin as well. Absolutely, you
know Alan that we are seeing somany drugs being delivered transdermally through the skin,
heart medicine, diabetes, medicine,and I you know, somethings like
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to remind people. The first youknow, Albert Hoffman, when he was
working on a remedy for migraine headaches, got some LSD on his fingertips.
He didn't eat it, but justgetting it on his fingertips made him I
have to leave work and ride hisbike homeb So we're not thinking that what
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we put on our bodies is affectingyou. I had a client the other
day, a beautiful woman with reallyreally bleached blonde hair, and I said,
you know, I can appreciate,you know, wanting to have hair
the color you want, But whenyou put these chemicals on your scalp month
after month at the roots and leavethem on for an hour, and these
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chemicals are designed to remove the pigmentfrom your hair, could it also be
going into your bloodstream, crossing theblood brain barrier and also even contributing to
lesions or even dementia or memory lossas we get older, and again there
are natural things you can buy thatcolor your hair with, you know,
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chemameal and lemon and oak bark andthings like that too. See there you
go with telepathy again, that wasperfect. I was just gonna ask,
well, is there an alternative?But you had that as well, so
the telepathy is still working. We'veonly got about about two minutes. I'd
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love to end with whatever you seeas one of your favorite success stories.
Oh my goodness, so many successstories. And I don't know if I
can narrow it down, but Ifeel that this is a way of empowering
people to make healthier choices. It'sgood for people, it's good for the
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planet. And you know, Ithink you already mentioned my grandson rather than
like a lifelong diagnosis of Asperger's.You know, now he's twenty and working
in LA in the music industry,graduated with honors like it was a dietary
change and that's really all it took. We didn't have to do a drug.
And I really think that this isan opportunity to love yourself more.
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I think a lot of people feelthat they don't have time to take care
of themselves, and yet it mightget up an hour earlier because you're going
to take care of your kids,your spouse, your boss, your car,
your dog. You need time foryou, and getting up an hour
earlier means there is time for yoga, There is time to pack a healthy
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lunch, there is time to takeyour supplements that are going to help you
get through the day. And youmight even lay your clothes out the night
before and think about what am Itrying to emulate tomorrow. Where I want
to feel calm. Right now,we're in a huge snowstorm, so it's
freezing here right now. But youknow, I think that this is an
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opportunity to love yourself more. It'sgood for the earth, it's good for
yourself, it's good for your family. Give it a try. There's nothing
to lose natural remedies for mental andemotional health because happier people make a better
world. So we need abolutely absolutelyagain. So first of all, Briggie,
thank you so much, and foreverybody out there again, if you
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go to her web site, there'sa wealth of information there, so it's
brigittemars dot com. And again,if you're driving, we'll make sure that
we have all of this in theshow notes. So Brigitte again, thank
you so much. The time justflew by. I love having you on
here. I love what you're doing. Please keep us alerted when the next
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book comes out or the next timewe can have you on to help more
people. Thank you so much,many blessings to you and your listeners.
Alan all right, thank you,and for everybody out there, let's see
here if you will be with usnext week, we're going to be joined
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