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Now I love turning my offline relationships.
I'm a fan of bringing them onto the show and having the conversations where I'm speaking to a trusted expert.
Today's guest is someone that I've followed on social media for a few years now.
And anytime I have a question about a new supplement, a vitamin, a product, this is the person that I go to to pick her brain to find out what she has to say about it.
And considering I trust her so much offline, I thought I'd love to introduce you all to her online.
I'm speaking about Alyssa Goodman, who's an integrative holistic nutritionist.
Alyssa had issues with her health for her entire life from cancer to autoimmune issues and Hashimoto's in her thirties, which inspired her to take control of her own health and the lives of people around the world.
Alyssa's created her own delivered EG kitchen cleanse in LA.
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If you're someone who wants to work on your health, if you're someone who wants to get more connected with your body, and if you're someone who wants to know how to cleanse and detox, this episode is for you.
Welcome to the show. Alyssa Goodman.
Thank you. What an introduction.
That was so beautiful. Oh, well, I have so much more I could say, but I stuck to the professional introduction, but we obviously have a wonderful personal connection too.
I know. And I just, I love what I do.
So it comes easy, as you can imagine.
You know, I just, I absolutely am obsessed with helping people get better.
I can see that. I mean, anyone who follows you on social media will see it immediately.
Like it's so radiant, so vibrant, so true to who you are.
And I think our audience is really going to find this fascinating because I don't think we've ever had a cleanse expert on the show before.
And I wanted to start there.
Like, what is a cleanse expert?
I know. That's a great question because cleansing gets a bad connotation.
I mean, detox, cleanse is all about deprivation, starvation.
And I would say that, you know, after I went to school, integrative holistic school, I became a cleanse person for Cafe Gratitude, M Cafe, Error One, and I didn't know what it was, but I actually created these cleanses for these restaurants and handheld the cleansers throughout the five days or three days, however long they were doing it and found out their ailments,
what worked for them, what didn't work for them.
One was vegan and one was, you know, macrobotic from M Cafe.
And it was a beautiful thing because I saw in five days people can restore their body, reset their body, get better brain, you know, retention, better digestion, just weight loss in five days, like crazy.
So feel better, energy, mood, all of it.
So it was really fascinating.
I'm like, hmm, there's something to this cleansing.
And so I decided that it was, those were a little bit more deprivation, starvation.
So I created a cleanse nine years ago that wasn't about that.
There's a lot of food on it.
It's very anti-inflammatory and it's giving you a lot of like 50 different vegetables in over five days.
So it's super nurturing, nourishing.
And that's what I'm trying to do for people is really introduce them to vegetables and plants and foods that are grown from the earth and taking away the inflammation.
So that's what my cleanse is all about.
Why do people need to go on a cleanse?
It's because most people eat unhealthy, you know, they eat way too much processed food.
They eat bad seed oils that are out there.
We're eating out a lot. You know, we're stressed.
So we're not even thinking about what we're eating.
We're eating on the run.
There's just like a lot.
There's just the foods out there are have chemicals in them and are toxic.
So I think that, you know, everybody's like not feeling well.
They're not energized.
The brain fog is huge digestive issues are on the rise, autoimmune issues like we talked about cancer, you know, all of it diabetes.
And so they need to be reset.
They need to have, you know, someone kind of help guide them and when you can deliver it to them so they don't have to cook it and don't have to meal prep it.
It's the ultimate. How often do we need to go on a cleanse and how long does it need to be?
How does that impact? That's also a great question because you can do my clients weekly.
So because if you're, it's mostly plant based, there is a bone broth, but if you're vegan, you can do a vegan broth.
But people have had a client on there for a year and a half and couldn't get off of it, loved it until she moved to London.
So she just like, it's just really healthy food.
So it's really cleansing is it's not about, you know, the detox and like, like deprivation.
It's about just feeding the body and nourishing it and giving your microbiome what it needs, the prebiotics, the probiotics, you know, giving the cells what it needs.
Plant based food is, as you know, being what, you know, how you eat it like is it's really absorbs quickly into the system.
Animal protein takes a long time to digest and I do eat some animal protein, but plant based food goes through the system absorbs really quickly and can give you energy really fast.
It's fascinating to me, isn't it?
Because I think a lot of us are walking around, as you said, not feeling well, not feeling good and we start to think that's normal.
And I remember feeling that way where I just thought it was normal to get a headache or I thought it was normal to have have calf pain or I thought it was normal that my gut wasn't healthy.
Like I was just like, oh, that's normal.
I'm getting older and I'm not even that old.
And it's like, you just keep thinking, oh, this is normal.
It's okay. And you almost don't realize how good you can feel.
And over the last couple of years, I've changed a lot about my diet, about my sleep, about my well-being routine.
And I feel better than I've ever felt, even better than five, six years ago when I was younger and you're someone that I think inspires so many of us in seeing how, and I know you're working on a new book too called Pro Aging Hacks and the ability to stay healthy for longer.
Talk to us about the moments in your life.
I was talking about in the introduction, you've gone through so much personal struggle and pain which has shifted you in this direction.
So does that mean before that you didn't eat healthy and that you didn't care?
Walk us through that, Alissa Goodman, that we don't know.
Yeah, it was, you know, when I was born, I was born with this low white blood cell count.
So that was, I'm going to be 64 in two weeks.
So that's amazing. I was 60 years ago and no one knew about how to build the immune system.
So like fast forward, I was sick all the time.
You know, I had two parents that were really type A and as a teenager and a young 20 year old adult, they were running circles around me.
So not only did I physically feel bad, so I was eating a lot of sugar, caffeine, you know, just trying to keep my energy up, but also emotionally I was a little distraught because I'm like, how are these older, you know, parents running circles around me and I can't even keep up with them mentally.
They did a number on me and so I kind of just like, you know, tried to keep up with everyone and I was living the fast track.
I was, you know, that's what I grew up with, making money, you know, being successful, move from Arizona to New York, you know, worked in the advertising business, was just working around the clock, no sleep and really eating really poor.
Alcohol entertaining, all of that.
And I just felt crappy all the time.
And at one point when I met my husband and we got married, I said to him, we're moving west and basically he was like, New Jersey, like, no, I go, no, we're going to California.
I need sunshine. I need a slower way of life because I grew up in Arizona and thank God for that.
Because when I landed in California and I got this fantastic job with Vogue magazine, I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma.
So I got all the accumulation of all my stress and not feeling well and eating really poorly was the cancer.
And how old were you then?
I was 32. Wow. I know. So I was getting a massage.
Like you were saying, I felt crappy all the time.
So I didn't know what, you know, feeling good felt like.
And I'm sitting there getting a massage with like sitting upright and the masseuse felt a lymph node on my collarbone.
And she's like, that's not okay.
You're not supposed to have a swollen lymph node there.
And so basically the next thing I knew, it was cancer.
And I got really lucky. The masseuse was fantastic to find it early.
And then I found this doctor who I went to, a radiologist who said, sat me down and was staged by that time.
And he said, you know, are you happy?
Do you love what you do for a living?
Do you love your life? Do you love yourself?
You know, what's your stress like?
What's your sleep like?
That was 30 years ago. Doctors still don't say that today, which blows my mind because cancer is on the rise and all of these things.
So like he made me feel at peace.
Like he goes, we got to get your emotional well-being back in control and like get you to a better place, which I did.
I dove into all of that. And then I dove, I became a vegan and I was really lucky.
I was in California and there was Mrs.
Guches before Whole Foods.
So the food, you know, there was a grocery store that was beautiful and organic, organic meats, everything was like healthy, farmed a table.
And then I went and juiced all the time.
I juiced every single day and did all the modalities here, yoga, you know, self-help, went to see a therapist and I got my shit together.
Thank God. And then I went on to have, you know, two really healthy girls.
But after I did do some radiation, I chose not to do the chemo because of my immune system and I knew my instincts told me that that was going to take me down.
So I did half the radiation.
My oncologist fired me because he said, you're not doing what I'm supposed to, what I'm trying to tell you to do.
And so I found someone to do half the radiation and the radiation gave me hypothyroidism, gave me Hashimoto's, celiac, all these other illnesses, anxiety, things that I hadn't had before, insomnia.
So I basically, like the radiation was awful, but I basically went on to have the girls and then 11 and a half years later, my husband was diagnosed with cancer.
So it's a crazy time. I mean, I got really healthy for that period after the cancer and for a while.
And then I kind of went back into the unhealthy world a bit more.
I didn't stay on that track.
And so when he got cancer, you know, I realized, oh my God, two parents who have cancer and watching him pass away in a year and a half, that's when I really took it seriously.
After he passed away at 45, I'm like, this has to be serious.
And that's like basically when I realized, you know, I have to really get healthy because I didn't have any energy.
I was like my stamina was low because of life with him was really crazy for a year and a half in and out of the hospital.
So and I watched him go from a healthy man to a very unhealthy, you know, and pass away a fungal pneumonia.
So the cancer didn't get him.
It was his immune system.
And I followed the protocols of like healthier eating and all those modalities when I was sick, but he didn't do that as much.
He really was scared and that he just did what the doctor said.
So it was like a very different story.
So thank God, like then that's when I took it a step further and I really started getting healthy.
And so ever since now, you know, years later, almost 18 years later, I feel better than I did when I was in my twenties.
Wow. Because of all the modalities.
Thank you. Thank you for sharing that because I can't even begin to imagine what a challenging journey that is personally and then in a relationship as well.
What have you found and what have you discovered as you've been studying?
Because I think, you know, a lot of people will say, well, no, I need to get the radiation.
I need to do what my doctors are saying.
You obviously had a different confidence and an intuition around how you wanted to heal yourself.
And I think ultimately it comes down to how people want to heal themselves.
What have you found works at different stages?
What have you seen across other patients who are struggling with cancer?
Like what have you seen?
What have you witnessed and observed?
It's been fascinating, Jay, because I have seen stage four heal cancer heal without using Western modalities.
And it really is a mindset as you are tuned into, you know, it's distressing.
It's like releasing trauma.
It's really getting into your subconscious and rewiring it is believing in yourself and having the confidence that you can heal from anything.
I do believe you can heal from anything almost.
So I feel like we got to believe it.
And most people don't believe they can.
And most people don't believe that they love themselves.
They don't admire who they are.
They don't love themselves.
Their self-esteem is low.
So I would say that is the biggest thing.
When I ask clients all the time, you know, when they have cancer, do you love them yourself?
And they're like, no one's asked me that question.
And I'm like, you know, that's something we really got to work on.
You know, do you have peace in your life?
Those are the things that totally changed my life.
All of those things, finding love, finding peace, you know, not labeling myself a sick kid because I had labeled myself and all the people around me as a, you know, young adult I was a sick kid because I was always getting sick.
So we label ourselves, you know, when we have trauma in those early years, or we're just not in a good place, you know, growing up, we do label ourselves.
And those are the things we've got to rewire.
I have found that to be number one, you know, one of my favorite books, Radical Remission, Radical Hope by Kelly Turner, you know, the Heel Documentary, all those things are beautiful in terms of like talking about that.
And also just then I would say it comes to the food.
Food is medicine as we know.
So people, you know, eating, nourishing, you know, vegetables, plants, you know, foods that are grown from the earth, that's where, you know, from the sunshine, like energy-wise, it's a beautiful thing.
I've always been a big juicer for 30 years and I've been juicing ever since.
I've taken some breaks, but I almost can't live without it.
And so juicing greens has been like, I think, a lifesaver for me, you know, because I feel like that's my multivitamin.
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Yeah. So let's break this down for people now so that they can practice it.
Right. So you've been a juicer for so long.
Walk us through how to juice, what to juice, why to juice, and what the benefits are for a beginner.
I know, because there's a lot of controversy about juicing.
Yes. It's like all the nutrients are taken out of it, you know, of course, right?
Correct. I'm hearing that a lot.
Yeah. And the fiber and all of that.
But, you know, I was a purist, so I would juice and drink it right away.
So I feel like, you know, I was able to, and I would do a cold pressed juice.
I wouldn't do heat. So that's also the nutrients stay intact with the cold press.
So I love that. Nowadays I'm just throwing them in a blender because I do love the fiber.
So that, you know, doesn't take out that also the nutrients is fast.
And I love having all that fiber.
So I think people just don't eat enough vegetables.
I'm trying to get clients to eat 10 to 10, 8 to 10 cups of vegetables a day.
And that is like their eyes glazed over.
Like how the hell do I do that?
And juicing, you can get four to five easily throwing them in.
And I do cucumber, celery, lemon, ginger, spinach, super easy things.
And sometimes not so expensive.
You know, people think it's like very arduous and got to have all those vegetables.
And, you know, it could be easy.
Celery is huge in terms of the minerals.
Cucumbers super hydrating, cleansing for the kidneys.
Celery cleanses your gut, cleanses your liver.
I mean, you know, spinach is full of iron.
So ginger is, you know, antibacterial lemon.
I mean, they're just beautiful things.
And I think it just wakes me up every day and like gives and also helps skin and digestion and all of that.
So I think it's a beautiful way to start the day.
And you're having that first thing in the morning.
Yeah. That's what you have on an empty stomach.
On an empty stomach. Right.
And you've just done that for years and years.
Yeah. Yeah. I found that too.
I remember when celery juice became, you know, it had its wave, which was a few years ago now, I feel.
And I remember trying it out and I've still not found something better than celery juice.
So you just do straight celery juice still?
Generally, well, I'll probably do like celery with a bit of apple in it just to give it a bit of sweetness.
Right. Just to make it like easy to do.
Palatable. Yes, exactly.
For me to enjoy it, usually I would just stick to celery in the beginning, but then I was like, okay, I need to enjoy this a little bit.
And so a little bit of apple in it would be perfect, but just enough, just enough, not too much.
And to me, that's been one of my favorite things that has helped my gut heal so much.
And I find it to be such a powerful practice.
So I've read it. Well, who brought the celery juice craze on was the medical medium, right?
Yes, we've had him on the show.
Yes. And years ago, I was working with him as well.
And he was the one who really did help me get past my autoimmune issues.
So I started the celery juice like four or five years ago when it all just started.
And you know, I was wondering like, why is the celery juice so powerful?
And I started clients on it as well.
And I realized there was like a little bit of a trick to it in terms of it's super hydrating.
And I find that hydration is like really an epidemic right now.
Dehydration is crazy. And celery has, is full of minerals, you know, and also like is great with prebiotics and things like that.
But the mineral content in celery is huge.
So people are drinking this celery juice wondering like, how am I feeling so good?
And it's hydrating them.
So people just don't get up in the morning.
And I always say it kind of blows my mind.
I say people like have to have a mandatory of two cups of water, just 16 ounces of water before their coffee or their tea or anything caffeinated.
And they're like, well, that's easy, but I don't do it.
And then they call me back and go, well, that was life changing.
Just two cups of water. I'm like, you paid me to tell you to drink two cups of water.
That's crazy. But the celery juice is the same thing.
It's super hydrating. And you're dehydrated.
Nothing works right. You know, your adrenals aren't working, your cortisol and your adrenaline are rising.
You know, you're not going to the bathroom regularly.
Your brain can't work. You think you're hungry.
Like it really is like an epidemic.
And we have all this beautiful water at our fingertips, but we just don't have minerals.
You know what? I've not actually thought about that.
I don't think we've ever heard anyone say that so clearly because it again, like you said, it sounds so obvious.
Right. But most of us are not drinking close to enough water.
And like you're saying, the minerals that actually come from the earth grown vegetables that naturally are filled with the impact with it.
Yeah. The plants and legumes and complex carbs too.
People are kind of anti-carbs when they want to lose weight, but they're full of minerals.
So when they also calm the central nervous system down.
What are some examples of those?
Those are legumes and beans, you know, and also like I'd say some really good rice's quinoa, sweet potatoes, squash, all of those things, you know, wild rice, black rice.
I mean, those are beautiful complex carbs.
Also great for the gut as well.
So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What have you seen about, because what we're really talking about here, like you said, the client that calls you up after doing it.
And so I can't believe it worked.
And I can't believe I paid you for that, et cetera.
That idea, it seems like, and even for you, like, you know, you went through this terrible experience yourself, you know, the radiation caused more challenges.
You know, you go through the tragic loss of a partner, like, who's, you know, also suffering from this.
And you say, that's what wakes you up.
And I think a lot of us, it's hard to think that a lot of us, and I guess that's why you do what you do is you don't want people to wait for personal loss in order to get serious about their health and wellbeing.
And I find that as humans, we're so bad at changing our habits and we're so quick to forget even pain.
And I remember this, like, not in a, not in a close to the extremes that you have had, but I've had different reminders in my health where my body's slowed down or fallen apart or I've needed a surgery or whatever it may be.
And it's so quick, like, you know, a couple of months later, you're eating all the stuff again and you're just happy that you're back to being normal and you just let yourself go again.
And then again, you get another wake-up call.
And for me, I think what really got me serious was last year I sat down with my doctor who I've had on the show, Darshan Shah.
And when we looked all my bloods and everything, he said to me, Jay, this is not your fault because your diet seems to be good, but because of your genetic makeup, your predisposed diabetes and cholesterol.
So even though you don't eat fried food and oily food and you don't eat that much sugar comparatively, you're just more predisposed to it.
And when I heard that, I was like, all right, got it.
Like I need to now be serious about my health.
And I feel like that was towards the end of last year where I just really got dialed in.
But it's almost like a lot of us wait for pain in order to get proactive.
And I guess the reason you do what you do is to not let people wait for pain because that's just so painful and challenging.
What have you learned about habit change when you're working with your clients?
What is it that really helps people change?
What are some of the hacks?
What are some of the habits that have transformed people's lives?
That's so good. I know because I think since COVID, people are now starting to take their hells more serious.
Agreed. Thank God for that.
And also you're right. Like the diabetes is on the rise.
Like blood sugar issues are crazy out of control.
So like when I work with my clients, I would say like you what you were saying earlier, you know with next health and all of that is like I'm now doing blood work with my every client I do blood work on.
I'm doing really thorough blood work.
I'm even doing heavy metals, all the metabolic, you know, thyroid, all the hormones, even if they're young.
And I'm seeing such fascinating things.
Everybody's blood sugar is too high.
It's not pre-diabetic yet, but it's very close.
Their thyroid is out of whack.
Their insulin levels are too high.
Their cortisol is too high.
You know, it's wild. It got heavy metals.
So they're heading towards health issues.
And I feel like that has been the coolest thing lately for me to be in the last year doing that because I'm catching these things before they get unhealthy.
I know they don't feel good and they're lethargic and they're not sleeping well and they have hormone issues, but there's something behind it.
If they are eating healthy, you know, like there is something physical like you found and that has been game changing.
Like to be able to, you know, get their blood sugar under control, to get their thyroid working again, to also get their hormones working better before they even go into menopause has been huge.
So I feel like those, you know, those things have been life changing, the blood work stuff and do it at once a year.
Amazing. And great for the clients.
Like it's not expensive to do with me.
Also then it's about, you know, really one thing at a time.
So like we talked about, like maybe getting them hydrated the first week.
Secondly, you know, maybe getting them eating more plant based foods.
Of course the sleep is crucial.
Like people aren't sleeping enough and also getting them sleeping better and helping them to sleep better.
You know, there's a lot of modalities, you know, in terms of getting healthy, but I don't want to overwhelm them.
So I try desperately not to overwhelm them, you know, with giving them too much off the bat.
I mean, I am a supplement junkie.
I've been like dabbling with supplements since I had cancer.
Now it's a billion dollar business and there's too many out there and there's a lot of crappy supplements out there.
So I do feel really lucky that I've dabbled it in a long time.
So I know what's good and what isn't.
And I had to also deal with it myself.
So I take a lot of supplements and I figure out what works for me and what doesn't.
And I muscle test them on myself and all of that.
And I try to teach my clients to muscle test the supplements on them.
What's a muscle test? So this is fascinating.
You have never heard of this?
I don't know. I'm not sure.
Maybe it's called something else.
I feel like I thought at Next Health they do that, maybe not, but you actually stick a supplement like on your gut or you can hold it.
And actually it's kind of like Eastern medicine, you know, either you hold your hand out and somebody pushes your hand down.
If you're with somebody, okay, that's muscle testing.
How you do it on yourself is you put it on your gut and you stand like kind of like try to balance yourself and stand upright.
And then you say, hey, is this B complex right for me?
And then your body moves forward if yes and back if no.
And then you say, should I take one?
Should I take two? And your body tells you everything.
It's so in tune. You know, we were born with these incredible instincts and we lose touch with them, right?
Like we lose touch all like along the way with all the things that have gone on in our life.
And it's the same thing with food, with supplements, with what we need to do to heal our self.
And where we want to be in our lives is all instinctual.
So the instincts are huge.
So I try to teach them that as well.
It's so interesting, isn't it?
Because I feel like we've become so distrusting of our bodies.
Because we've been told to trust someone or something else.
And of course we do need guides.
We need experts. We need doctors.
You know, and I'm not discouraging anyone from any of those things.
I'm just saying that I think claiming back some of that in the same way as when you eat something, you know whether your body is accepting or rejecting it based on how it's feeling.
And of course, if your digestion is strong, then it gives you the best sense.
Sometimes if your digestion is weak, it may not give you the best marker.
But when you're talking about vitamins and supplements, walk us through in a practical sense, how does someone make a choice?
What do they need to read on the back of a box or a bottle with vitamins and supplements?
Like what should they be looking for and what should they be looking at to make sense of it from a technical standpoint, not just the intuition standpoint?
Yeah, that's a great question.
Because you want to have as least fillers and additives in that supplement as possible.
And what's a filler in an additive?
So filler is like something that just fills up the supplement.
You know, it's like a, you know, crystalline cellulose is a filler.
Not all the supplement is going to be the B complex, but they need other things, you know, to bind the Bs, you know, for that, for you to be able to digest them.
So a lot of times, you know, or like it's expensive to have the supplement be all, you know, liposomal C or B or whatever or vitamin D.
So a lot of times they add that the additives so that it isn't as costly.
So it really is a struggle because a lot of people don't do well with these additives and they don't know that.
So micro crystalline cellulose is one that's in a lot of supplements and it gives you digestive issues if you're taking too many.
So you could see a lot of people's supplements and they can all have micro crystalline cellulose.
I mean, it's wild. So it or soy lecithin, you know, or just these additives just like in foods, you know, it kind of maintains the shelf life of the supplement as well.
So it's hard to find supplements without that because they're costly and a lot of people can't afford that.
So that's why, you know, I try to go more like with the food and that, you know, lead with the food and then supplements come second.
But there are some supplements out there that we absolutely do need.
You know, vitamin D is one of them.
I mean, since COVID, the studies that have been done on vitamin D and especially liposomal D because liposomal is a fossil lipid outside of a, you know, supplement and basically is better to absorb easier to absorb like liposomal C and liposomal glutathione and all those things.
And so basically, you know, D, when you raise your D levels, you can lower your cholesterol.
Actually, you raise your D levels.
It's better for your immune system.
It's better for cognitive function.
People don't realize that there's a vitamin D cell receptor in every cell in your body.
So you know, there's that.
It's omega threes. It's, you know, it's magnesium.
And like there's certain things out there be, be complex for stress.
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Yeah, one thing I definitely didn't realize until I really got on a good regime of supplements and vitamins was just how much harder I was working to feel good.
It was, I just thought it was a mental battle.
And so I was fighting the mental battle every day with meditation and mindfulness and everything else.
And then I realized I was like, actually I would have been a much better meditator if I just took supplements and vitamins early on, because then your body's actually helping you with that focus and with the physical activity or movement and exercise, right?
Whether it's hiking or sport or whatever it may be.
And it's so funny now that you're naming all these things, I'm like, I've seen all these things on the backs and never known what that means.
And it's so easy to just feel so uneducated.
And I've definitely felt that way in this space, you know, without having good people around you, it's so hard to really know whether what you're doing is good for you or not.
Walk us through like if we took a random stack of snacks right now, and I don't want to pick on any brands or anything like that in any way.
But if you were to teach someone how to read the back of a snack pack, what should they be looking out for because this is something that I believe has changed the way I snack.
And I generally, I'd say my diet is like maybe, I don't know, at this point, like 5% processed or packaged foods in any, if that probably when I'm traveling, I'll have like a protein bar that I travel with or something like that.
But generally it's not, I'm on the whole foods diet and everything else.
But it wasn't that way before.
I used to think that if I ate healthy snacks, then that was okay.
So I would eat packaged goods and then 50% of my diet was packaged goods or maybe 30%.
Walk us through what we should be looking out for because I think so much is hidden on these.
Well, it's the same thing as the supplements, you know, there's a laundry list of things on the back of the snack, you know, box or bag or whatever that you don't even recognize.
Right. And it's just, I mean, there are like, you know, certain dyes that are bad for us.
And like going back to the soy lecithin, like soy lecithin is really bad for us.
I see that everywhere. It's so funny.
I've pronounced that long for them my whole life now that you've told me.
I mean, I love soy, whole soy products, but you know, when it's processed down to that, it's bad.
It's like the bad seed oils, that's Omega-6s and 9s and like really causing inflammation.
So again, if it's a laundry list of things that you don't recognize, like that kind of is a no-go.
I mean, you know, let's talk about some of the things we know like plant milks, you know, they've been huge for years, right?
Now there's, thank God, there's better, healthier plant milks out there.
They're just almonds and sea salt and water.
Like those are the things to look for.
Something that's just simple.
Even the cheeses, you know, I do love some of the plant-based foods and cheeses and some of the fake meats, but again, they could have a lot of bad stuff in them.
So it's like, you know, I sometimes, you just got to go for the less is more, even the protein bars too.
You know, every so often it's not bad to have some of these things that do have these, you know, all these things to end them because you're not going to be perfect.
But I would say 75% of the time, 80% of the time to try to look for, you know, those things on the back and just try to do things with less additives because your system doesn't know how to process it, doesn't know how to digest it.
And the more you add these additives into your body, I think more toxic you become.
And also the digestive system, like the digestive issues are crazy out of control.
Like I created a digestive cleanse because it's been like everybody has digestive issues.
Everybody calls me. Like my diet, every time I eat, I get bloated.
You know, I can't eat anything now, or I can't go to the bathroom like the constipation for days on end.
Like it's really crazy or the other side of it where they're going to the bathroom too much.
That's an epidemic like the hydration.
Yeah. So you're saying when you're looking at, if you're outside, you're looking for snacks and products, it's like less ingredients, simple ingredients and real ingredients basically, things that you actually know what they are.
If you don't know what they are, right?
That's probably a sign that.
And the problem is it doesn't taste as good though.
No, it doesn't. Like, you know, I had a protein bar the other day because I was at expo and I had a protein bar and I was like, oh great.
Like this literally had three ingredients on it.
I was so excited to eat it and I tried it and it was so bad compared to the one that I've been programmed to love, which has all the other 30 things that you'd say I shouldn't eat and are not good for me.
And it's so frustrating because I'm like, I wish I was trained to believe that whole natural foods were tasty and healthy.
Whereas because I've been so spoiled by my taste buds have been ruined by all of this other stuff that now feels captivating and exciting and tasty.
Yeah. Most of America has, you know, right?
I mean, the sugar in these things, like, you know, there's a lot of sugar in these bars and in these milks and cheeses or whatever it is because things don't taste so great when they are on that simple side.
You know, there's a lot of salt.
There's a lot of sodium.
So to make them taste better.
Walk us through. So walk us through the core needs that people come to you with.
So that you said they do it.
There's a gut cleanse. Walk us through the different cleanses that people need in their life.
So the regular cleanse is really, I'll tell you a little bit about what's on it.
There's a detox tonic on it with coconut kefir, which is a probiotic drink.
I love coconut. It's so good.
I am a big fan of probiotics and I love coconut kefirs, cocoa-yo, and there's a lot of great products out there on the market.
Then it has chlorophyll, apple cider vinegar, lemon, ginger, and there.
And then there's my homemade super seed bar.
Then you basically get a bone broth or a vegan broth.
Our bone broth is really gelatinous.
And so there's a lot of collagen, which I love.
And then you get different salads for the week, different salad dressings, fermented vegetables.
You get different soups for the nighttime and then you get lattes for the evening.
Then you also get digestive enzymes and you get magnesium.
So to make sure that everything's working properly.
Because people going from an animal protein diet into a plant-based, legumes and beans can disrupt their stomach.
It also a lot of vegetables can as well.
So there's that one. There's a three-day.
So with that one, how, walk us through.
So are you encouraging people to not have dinners in that?
The soup is dinner. Yes, right.
Or they could have soup for lunch and do the salad for dinner.
So it's not super strict.
A lot of people who exercise a ton will add a little bit of animal protein to the meal potentially and it doesn't take you away from the cleanse.
So again, you're just getting tons of vegetables.
You're getting anti-inflammatory, nourishing, nurturing foods.
So that one is like my regular one that has been going on for nine years.
Sometimes it blows my mind because the tonic's been on there for nine years.
The bar's been on there.
It's crazy that things are still popular.
People buy the tonics and the bar separately.
And then the gut cleanse has activated charcoal on there.
So walk us through that.
What activated charcoal?
So I love activated charcoal because it lowers bacterial loads in your gut.
Wait, how do you eat activated charcoal?
You take a pill. Right, okay.
You can put it in a drink and you know, you can put it in the detox tonic or in water or whatever, but you take, it's a pill.
It's a very strong pill.
And I have found when I had insulin resistant clients who couldn't lose weight, you know, weight resistant clients, their insulin was high, their gut bacteria was too high.
So I would put them on five days of activated charcoal and lower their insulin levels, which was like fantastic.
So that's how the gut cleanse came about.
So they get activated charcoal.
They still get the enzymes to get the magnesium, but they get chia pudding.
They get sauerkraut. They still get the detox tonic.
They don't get the bar because a little too much sugar.
I don't want sugar for them because of the bacteria.
And then they get everything else that's pretty similar.
And the nighttime is a Tulsi tea.
You know that. Holy basil is one of my favorites.
It's anti-inflammatory and great for the gut, great for sleep.
So that's the other cleanse that I love.
And so what I'm trying to do for people is really clean them out.
Those clients are the ones that have a little bit of constipation issues, like aren't going to the bathroom regularly, and by the end of the week, they're going two and three times a day.
Wow. That's another crazy thing.
Wow. Just in five days. Yeah, once a day, that's considered constipated these days.
It's crazy. So. Walk us through that because that's always like an uncomfortable topic for people.
I know. It's something that people don't talk about.
But I mean, I don't think we've even, we're getting to the point of understanding how important that the digestive system is.
Yeah. And how often should be people going to the restroom?
What should be the healthy way of going about that area of their life?
Well, you know, once a day is good, twice is great, three is perfect.
So we really, because we don't get enough fiber, because we don't get enough hydration, because we're stressed, because when we're stressed, our digestive system completely shuts down.
We are not being able to digest our food.
So also, and also we're eating a lot of animal protein.
So it takes, you know, 14 hours to get through the small intestine, cow and animal protein, and 90 minutes for plant-based food, which is crazy.
So we're just. We would say that difference again.
Yeah. So for plant-based food, it takes 90 minutes to get through the small intestine.
For cow and animal protein, it takes 14 hours.
So we're, you know, we're eating eggs for breakfast and chicken for lunch and salmon for dinner.
So we're just like, not that it's bad for you, but we're just, we're not getting hydration.
We're not getting fiber.
You know, we're stressed.
We're not doing all the other things.
We're not doing the other things.
We're not sleeping. Sleeping is very detoxifying and helping us with our digestive system.
So yeah, so we're supposed to be kind of like an animal and going after every meal.
And people are a little bit like, oh, please don't tell me that.
Yeah. Wow. I know. It's interesting how interconnected it all is though.
You talked about hydration earlier, we're talking about the gut now.
Like it's, it's fascinating because it's almost like, even for me, I was talking to a friend about it this morning and we were just talking about how like, we're like, okay, we want to get proteins, but then if I'm eating this, because as a plant-based person, you get proteins harder.
It's also that way around, right?
So you're trying to get a protein in your diet, but then it's like, well, maybe that particular item doesn't sit well with my gut and doesn't make me feel good.
And so you're also finding that as well, right?
Like it's, it's not as simple as like, well, this is really great for everyone.
Right. It's so individual.
Yeah. It's not a one size fits all, right?
And I do believe in, you know, if you're vegan, I can help someone get enough protein or vegetarian or, you know, animal protein.
For me, I grew up eating animal protein.
So I, you know, I feel like I need that.
And I feel like as I've aged, I feel like I need more amino acids.
But sometimes certain animal proteins don't agree with me.
So I do take digestive enzymes before I eat animal protein, so I can digest it.
So I mean, what form do you take your digestive?
I love this Enzemedica Digest Gold AT Pro is one of my favorites.
It's on the cleanse. But you can also get it from apple cider vinegar.
You can also get it from bitter greens like dandelion greens, arugula, endive, radicchio.
So sometimes I'll just take a handful of arugula before I eat a meal.
It's really crazy. And I'll wake up your enzymes.
Really? Yeah. That's incredible.
I didn't know that. So if you have a digestive issue, you could take some arugula and eat it.
I know it sounds very strange, but, or have some apple cider vinegar or take an enzyme after the meal.
It doesn't have to be before the meal.
So a lot of tricks that people sometimes don't know because digestion can be an issue.
And I also don't overdo the animal protein.
Like I'm not having like eight to 10 to 12 ounces of something, you know, I'm having like three to four ounces.
So that's like, you know, 30, 40 grams of protein.
So I feel like nowadays protein is the hot topic.
Like you know, some people feel like you need to get a gram per body weight, but I'm really someone who feels like, you know, 70, 75 grams for women is great.
So that's kind of easy to do.
And of course it impacts based on your workouts.
Exactly. And everything else that are going on.
Yeah. Yeah. And hoping that you do digest, you know, what you're eating.
That's important. I found that adding, in the beginning, adding protein to my diet felt heavy on my digestion, but actually it's now led to better digestion.
But it took, it took this like transition point where I was like, God, that's really heavy.
Like it's harder to digest in the beginning.
Even though it should be helping me.
Right. But then I feel like it's, it's just staying committed to it.
My digestion is quite used to it.
Is that natural? Do you find that?
That's the same with legumes and beans.
Right. Because people will go on the cleanse and be like, I can't eat legumes and beans.
They're not used to that because they're animal protein eaters.
And most of us have been animal protein eaters.
I feel like most people I talk to, they just don't, they feel like beans and legumes are gassy and are hard to digest.
But the more you eat them, the easier they are on the system.
Right. Yeah. Your digestive system gets, you know, used to it.
Right. It is kind of wild.
What are some of the biggest mistakes you see people making when it comes to their health and wellbeing that you've kind of noticed as trends over the years that these seem to just be the things that trip people up.
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That's such a great question because there's so many, but I would say a lot of people are over-supplementing.
Oh, interesting. Yeah, they are like on social media, TikTok or Instagram.
They're seeing all these influencers who are great at what they do, but they're promoting all these different products and they have no idea if that product is right for them.
They're buying it. All see cupboards and suitcases of people who have all these supplements and they're taking them and they don't feel good.
They're not really making them feel better.
But the person who's promoting is that this is going to change your life.
That's huge. It's also hard is basically like following the prototype, like gluten-free or not everybody needs to be gluten-free or dairy-free or all of those things.
Or they're not gluten-free.
The other side of it, they're just not eating, they're not taking gluten out of the diet because it's inflammatory or dairy or sugar.
Sugar is a huge one. People really feel that sugar, they can have a little sugar.
Some people can't. I think food-wise, it's like there's so many misconceptions of what they should or shouldn't be doing and they should be gluten-free or not or dairy-free or maybe like, should they be, could they have some sugar or not?
It depends on what their blood sugar is, what their gut is happening.
I'm seeing a lot of that, the supplements.
I also see that people are over exercising too.
They're doing berries boot camp and spin classes and their cortisol and adrenaline is so high and they're so stressed and their adrenals are fatigued and it's just making them more tired.
That's why you have to be observing the 360 and that's what's so hard about it because you could look great and then still feel terrible and be super stressed out because it's kind of like, we were having this conversation offline which last night I played pickleball for two hours, it was super physical.
I think everyone's fitness trackers said that we burnt 1,100 calories last night playing for two hours but I came back and my body temperature was really high.
When I got into bed and as I was telling you, my AC unit wasn't working so I couldn't lower the temperature in the bedroom and my house gets quite hot.
I had a high body temperature and the temperature of the room was probably like 78 which is super high and so then now it was so hard for me to sleep and I remember while I was struggling to sleep I just started researching body temperature and why it was hard to sleep and all the rest of it and that's all it was saying and I was thinking this is so interesting because I could be
thinking, oh it's because I'm stressed about something or I've got loads on and it's like, well no, it's just body temperature and the temperature of my room.
It's challenging because I think that food is such a source of joy, it's such a source of excitement for so many people and yet now when you start really getting into it, it can become such a source of stress and such a source of pressure like, oh my god I'm eating too much of this, I'm eating too little of this, like oh no I didn't meal prep this week and oh no now like I didn't get it, oh I forgot to take my vitamins, like I think we're so stressed
about being healthy. How have you made sense of that because I can find...
