1 00:00:05,679 --> 00:00:10,080 Welcome to Living on Doctor, sponsored by Pure Essentials. I am Rachel Ash, 2 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:14,160 your hosts. We are here on w R seven ten am every Sunday 3 00:00:14,199 --> 00:00:17,960 from five to five thirty pm. For more information, I'm Pure Essentials. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:23,719 You can go on their website www dot pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's 5 00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:30,320 p U r E hyphen e ss e ntils dot com, or on Facebook 6 00:00:30,359 --> 00:00:35,240 or Instagram at shop Pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, wellness 7 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,479 consultant and healthy living expert. I'm joined by my co host, Melissa chris 8 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,600 Bell, who was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. She has 9 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:50,079 a whole host of other wellness certifications to include uricular acupuncture for detoxification and relaxation, 10 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,560 yoga and natural healing. Melissa spent the better part of the last thirteen 11 00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:59,320 years teaching doctors all around the world how to look at both traditional lab testing 12 00:00:59,520 --> 00:01:03,879 with a functional medicine lens, use specialty lab testing like nutritional genetic tests, 13 00:01:03,879 --> 00:01:10,840 food sensitivity tests, and micronutrient tests, along with professional grade nutraceutical supplements such 14 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:15,200 as Pure Essentials to create their own signature programs. A self proclaimed wellness warrior 15 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,680 advocate, Melissa is Atomission to teach you how to reclaim your health and live 16 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,959 your best life. Undoctored. Today's show, we're going to be talking about 17 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:29,280 functional wellness and functional nutrition. Functional nutrition is a holistic approach that focuses on 18 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:33,560 identifying the causes of health issues rather than treating the symptoms with the medication. 19 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,439 By investigating and identifying the root cause, people can make meaningful diet, lifestyle, 20 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:42,120 and nutrition choices. Melissa, you are involved in all of this. 21 00:01:42,239 --> 00:01:46,319 What are some ways people can investigate and identify their root causes? Yow, 22 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,760 You're right, Rachel. This is my world, this is my passion when 23 00:01:49,760 --> 00:01:56,000 it comes to investigating and identifying your own root cause. While this sounds very 24 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:59,680 basic, I believe the very first thing to do is start charting what you 25 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,400 eat, chart what you drink, chart your exercise, your relaxation time, 26 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,120 the causes of stress and sleep. When you can look at patterns and you 27 00:02:08,159 --> 00:02:13,560 can look at changes in the pattern, then you're able to help yourself identify 28 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:16,039 where the changes need to happen for the better. So if you're tracking all 29 00:02:16,039 --> 00:02:19,120 this data, and I know it is such a great way to do it, 30 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:22,680 do people still need the lab testing and everything that goes along with it, 31 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,159 or how do you negotiate what somebody needs? Why? Guess, just 32 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,360 test? You know, the body doesn't lie, The numbers don't lie, 33 00:02:29,439 --> 00:02:31,960 your blood doesn't lie. As a matter of fact, the body is probably 34 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:37,400 giving warning signs that most people are ignoring, or people right off. I 35 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,719 heard clients say, oh, I'm just getting old, I'm just tired. 36 00:02:40,039 --> 00:02:46,759 Unfortunately, with some practitioners, even warning signs with them are missed, so 37 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:50,240 you can't substitute for testing. And with that, you know, we're talking 38 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:53,680 about diseases and onsets of autoimmune issues. You know, some people say it 39 00:02:53,759 --> 00:02:58,159 happens over time. Some people say it's a sudden occurrence. I know, 40 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,840 through functional medicine and nutrition and that whole functional wellness world. A lot of 41 00:03:01,879 --> 00:03:06,159 times we look at cumulative toxic load or through that lens. But what is 42 00:03:06,199 --> 00:03:08,960 your thought on that an autoimmune condition is not going to just pop up overnight. 43 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:14,360 Now, someone might have a sign or a symptom that pops up overnight. 44 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:21,520 But if you're looking at autoimmune disease autoimmune conditions, those are chronic symptoms. 45 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,800 They happen over and over and over again. They might come and go 46 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:30,400 for people, but there is some sort of experience of a symptom that's happening 47 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,639 for quite some time, and like we were just talking about, someone might 48 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:37,199 think, oh, I'm just getting old. Oh it's just a sign of 49 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:39,240 age or something like that, and so they kind of write it off for 50 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:44,039 that moment, and then something else might pop up and they write it off 51 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,680 as something else. If you take a look, there's a pattern somewhere. 52 00:03:47,879 --> 00:03:53,400 There's always a pattern. And research this isn't even my opinion now. Research 53 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:58,800 shows that signs of autoimmunity can show up on tests, simple tests, months 54 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,840 even before someone has full blown symptoms and receives a diagnosis or a label from 55 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:06,680 their medical professional. And I think there are a lot of issues that are 56 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:12,599 autoimmune issues that people don't realize are autoimmune issues that they're treated in other ways. 57 00:04:12,639 --> 00:04:15,000 People are given medications. There's a whole bunch of ways that people handle 58 00:04:15,040 --> 00:04:19,040 it, not understanding that's really occurring as an autoimmune issue. So let's talk 59 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:24,399 specifics. How many autoimmune conditions are there and what are some things that are 60 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:30,160 autoimmune issues that people might not realize are. They're about eighty ish different autoimmune 61 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,639 conditions or autoimmune diseases. So there can be quite a few differences, as 62 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,920 you may have guessed, because there are different conditions. There's good news and 63 00:04:36,959 --> 00:04:42,000 there's bad news here. So early signs are pretty similar. That's the good 64 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,199 news. The bad news is they can also be a little bit vague. 65 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,600 They can be kind of non specific in the early stages, so they can 66 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:53,360 be kind of tricky to point out. The one common denominator, though, 67 00:04:53,639 --> 00:04:59,560 is inflammation the skin. The skin is the best place to note the first 68 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:04,079 sign of inflammation, so someone could look out for recurring rashes, redness, 69 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:11,800 itchiness, blotchiness, maybe tender or even a painful area. Even acne can 70 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:15,120 be a sign that something isn't right on the inside. In school, I 71 00:05:15,199 --> 00:05:20,519 learned that the skin is an outward reflection of an inward condition, So when 72 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:26,199 you have something happening on the outside, you probably have something happening on the 73 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:29,639 inside as well. And I know the skin is the largest organ and you 74 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,120 can absorb more by putting something on your skin than you can by eating it, 75 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:35,480 so it's a big gateway for your body. Yeah, conditions like lupus 76 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,879 are directly linked to changes in the texture and the color of the skin, 77 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,720 so it's good for people to be mindful of any kind of swollen or maybe 78 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,680 scaly areas. And a good rule of thumb is if you notice changes that 79 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:53,560 don't have an explanation or don't have a reason. You know, if you 80 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:56,879 bump into the counter in the kitchen and you have a bruise on your hip, 81 00:05:56,879 --> 00:05:59,160 you know cause and effect, you know what happened. But if something 82 00:05:59,199 --> 00:06:01,879 pops up on your in and there's no explanation for it, that's something that 83 00:06:01,959 --> 00:06:05,399 really should be looked at. You know, it suggests that something's up there. 84 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:10,079 It's a message from the body. And that's the way that these practitioners 85 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:15,800 practice looking holistically evaluating cumulative toxic load. How does the body detox, how 86 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,759 does the body repair, how does the body rebuild itself? And putting somebody 87 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,959 in that optimal state and reducing that toxic burden, a lot of times you 88 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,319 can alleviate relief or even potentially reverse symptoms. I know you had a client. 89 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:30,959 I'd love for you to share that story of a client who was a 90 00:06:30,959 --> 00:06:35,319 pretty severe case. Yeah, so little Rider was eight years old. His 91 00:06:35,519 --> 00:06:40,800 mom had heard it was one of those friend of a friend through the grapevine 92 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,959 things that seems to be how the clients find me. There were two moms 93 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,680 in the natural food store talking. One was talking about food and chemical sensitivity 94 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,279 testing done on their daughter and this was what was noted and what was found 95 00:06:51,319 --> 00:06:56,800 and all of those things. So anyway, Rider's mom locates me through a 96 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,639 chiropractor friend of mine, and they asked me to come in and help from 97 00:07:00,639 --> 00:07:06,360 a nutrition perspective. And at the time, Rider was probably eighty five percent 98 00:07:06,439 --> 00:07:12,720 covered in agzema. Writer had quit te ball because he didn't want to wear 99 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,279 short sleeve shirts. He didn't want people to see the scars, just these 100 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,759 call marks down his arm from the itching. It was constant for him. 101 00:07:20,959 --> 00:07:27,800 Sweating outside was burning. This kid was in eighty degree weather. He's wearing 102 00:07:27,839 --> 00:07:30,920 a hoodie, sweatshirt and jeans because he doesn't want anyone to see his skin. 103 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:33,680 Yet he's making himself sweat and it's making it more painful for him. 104 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,879 We did food and chemical sensitivity testing, we did food tracking, we did 105 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:43,120 we did all the things. We sat down with the results and the mom 106 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:46,120 and dad, and we had some emotional components there too. Something that this 107 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:53,240 probably frequently overlooked the stress. Writer's parents went through a divorce and Writer was 108 00:07:53,319 --> 00:07:57,240 very stressed about that Writer's mom not to but all their business out there, 109 00:07:57,279 --> 00:08:00,360 but this was part of the story that was stressful for him, and that 110 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:05,639 stress was the source of his gut issues. So we went through detoxification, 111 00:08:05,959 --> 00:08:09,639 we went through repairing, we went through were building, and this took us 112 00:08:09,639 --> 00:08:13,680 as solid eighteen months. This was not overnight, you know. It's not 113 00:08:13,759 --> 00:08:16,079 just like, oh, well, we figured it out, here's a pill. 114 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:18,399 This is the end of it. It takes the body time. You 115 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:20,879 know. We've been doing the show for a couple of weeks now, and 116 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:24,319 we were talking about the nervous system and the different parts of the nervous system 117 00:08:24,519 --> 00:08:30,199 and calming the nervous system so that the body can absorb those nutrients and can 118 00:08:30,279 --> 00:08:33,480 go through the whole healing process. Fast forward. It's been a few years 119 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,799 since then, probably eight years now, writers probably getting close to graduating from 120 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,440 high school. And his mom used to check in with me every so often. 121 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,960 I haven't heard from her in a year or two now, but all 122 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,279 as well, and the whole family. That was the cool thing about that 123 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:52,399 was the whole family learned, and the whole family made adjustments to their stress 124 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,799 levels, their activity levels, their sleep their rest. So that was probably 125 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:58,240 the coolest part was that the whole family benefited from that one when we had 126 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:03,559 the center in this That's what I love coming in and seeing those aha moments, 127 00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:07,879 those life changing moments. Doctor I should put people on alkaline forming diets 128 00:09:07,879 --> 00:09:11,440 with pure essentials, Vitamin C, the pure essentials, coerced in and just 129 00:09:11,519 --> 00:09:16,159 some really basic things to help reduce that inflammations, speed up repairing and detoxification 130 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:22,039 and rebuilding and a lot of times some really simple changes and identifying those root 131 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,039 causes can have drastic changes. And that was so much fun to witness and 132 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:31,120 just really special. The hot topic right now is brain fog, inflammation product 133 00:09:31,159 --> 00:09:35,279 issues. Brain fog comes with that. Can you talk about how brain fog 134 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:37,960 comes into play here? Yeah, So, in addition to skin issues, 135 00:09:39,039 --> 00:09:43,080 brain fog is another early sign of an autoimmium condition. Feeling exhausted after a 136 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:48,399 full night's sleep. That absolutely should not be ignored. That's not how the 137 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,759 body works, that's not the cycle. So fatigue and brain fog are some 138 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:56,559 early signs. Fatigue can be a cause or can be the physical consequence. 139 00:09:56,600 --> 00:10:01,519 It can be you know the result of an anemia or chronic inflammation. It 140 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:07,360 can also be a sign of a nutrient deficiency, so the chronic deficiency can 141 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:11,399 result in inflammation. So you know, if we're all connecting the dots here, 142 00:10:11,919 --> 00:10:18,279 everything is connected. One thing has a consequence somewhere else, So if 143 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,279 everything's connected, we can also say if somebody's experiencing weight gain or weight loss, 144 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:26,480 that can be an early indicator too. Yeah, most definitely, most 145 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,080 definitely. While a lot of autoimmune issues are associated with or linked to weight 146 00:10:31,159 --> 00:10:35,639 loss, there are some that are associated with weight and gain. If your 147 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:39,840 diet hasn't changed, your exercise, or your activity level hasn't changed, and 148 00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:45,799 you're experiencing weight changes that are not attributed to an age related metabolism situation, 149 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,120 you might want to look deeper at that. Hypothyroidism is linked to slower metabolism, 150 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:54,240 which can mean a rapid weight gain even if your diet in your activity 151 00:10:54,240 --> 00:10:58,600 has stayed the same. Hypothyroidism is an autoimmune condition, so you know, 152 00:10:58,600 --> 00:11:03,279 it's a signaling issue. The liberties to signal the pancreas, the pancreas signals 153 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:07,279 up, so there's always a system involved in the body, and we have 154 00:11:07,399 --> 00:11:11,679 to look at is the message getting from point A to point b. These 155 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:16,559 symptoms are all messages, So even though there's a whole host of potential symptoms, 156 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:20,240 it's all coming down to the same route with whatever that inflammation is. 157 00:11:20,399 --> 00:11:24,559 And to that point, aches and pains could be included. Aches and pains 158 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,720 are definitely included. Probably not surprising, but yes, muscle or joint pain 159 00:11:28,799 --> 00:11:33,480 can be an indicator of something going on in your immune system. So your 160 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:37,200 muscles and joints should not just randomly hurt. You don't just wake up one 161 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,759 day and go, oh, this hurts without there being some sort of reason. 162 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:43,679 You know, if you're in the CrossFit box, or you're training for 163 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:48,240 an event, or you just simply overdid it out there doing the yardwork. 164 00:11:48,919 --> 00:11:52,320 Yeah, okay, waking up the next day and feeling like, oh this 165 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,840 doesn't feel so hot, that makes sense. But if none of that happened, 166 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:58,559 then just oh this hurts shouldn't happen either. And I know that's how 167 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:03,679 Drash got into this whole field of functional integrat of medicine. He was on 168 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:07,759 twenty milligrams of prednizone a day for two and a half years because he was 169 00:12:07,759 --> 00:12:11,600 suffering from an inflammatory type of arthritis. Was on steroids, saw all these 170 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:15,039 doctors, there was nothing they could do to get him better. And he 171 00:12:15,159 --> 00:12:18,279 turns out he turned to this type of evaluation to functional medicine and the root 172 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:24,919 cause of his issue was organic carrots. And who know that also speaks to 173 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,519 we're all individual biochemistries. So when we see our functional medicine, doctors will 174 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:33,320 get these special evaluations that we can see what our specific biochemistry is. But 175 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:39,000 through changing diet, through supplementing properly here where you recommend pure essentials because of 176 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,440 its high quality and that it gets the results, and not all supplements are 177 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:46,080 created equal. But he was able to reverse his chronic illness just through evaluating 178 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,840 through this lens also ibs, which he wrote a book on the same type 179 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,480 of thing, a general term for I don't know what's going on in my 180 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,360 gi track. I love that you brought that up because so many functional medicine 181 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:03,200 practitioners, whether medical doctor, naturopath, nutritionist, dietitian, chiropractors, I've 182 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:09,720 met them all. Everyone has some story, They have some situation, whether 183 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,480 it was themselves or a family member, and that's how they got into this 184 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,759 line of work, and that's how they decided that this was the way to 185 00:13:16,879 --> 00:13:22,000 practice. I have to say that any discomfort in the digestive track should be 186 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:26,559 explored, absolutely should be explored, especially if there are other symptoms present too. 187 00:13:26,799 --> 00:13:31,039 So if you're having something along the lines of constipation and you have skin 188 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,480 issues, and we'll get into it a little bit later about genetics. When 189 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:37,840 everything starts lining up, don't ignore it. Don't ignore it. We need 190 00:13:37,879 --> 00:13:41,240 to take a look at it. But you know, too many times symptoms 191 00:13:41,279 --> 00:13:45,440 wax and wane. They show up for a little while, you do something, 192 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:48,000 it might feel a little bit better, and then they get written off 193 00:13:48,039 --> 00:13:50,360 and they get pinned on stress, or they get penned on poor eating or 194 00:13:50,399 --> 00:13:54,279 on you know, I was just traveling and I wasn't eating as well as 195 00:13:54,279 --> 00:13:56,960 I should, or I wasn't sleeping as well as I could. I would 196 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:58,960 really recommend that if you have these things lining up, take a look at 197 00:14:00,159 --> 00:14:03,360 take them seriously. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, joined by my co 198 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,039 host Melissa cris Bell, living on Doctor Here on War. If you struggle 199 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:11,000 with occasional digestive discomfort. I used to eat all sorts of food, nothing 200 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:16,200 bothered me, but recently my stomach seems less tolerant. 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I'm your 212 00:15:05,559 --> 00:15:09,480 host Rachel Lash joined by my co host Melissa Chris Bealve was trained as a 213 00:15:09,559 --> 00:15:16,279 natural path and nutrition specialist, talking about functional wellness and functional nutrition, Melissa, 214 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:20,399 what kinds of tests does Pure Essentials have to unravel some of these mysteries 215 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:22,320 before they get the best as someone, I would say, first and foremost 216 00:15:22,679 --> 00:15:28,279 do to the nutritional genetics test. Pure Essentials design this nutritional genetics test that 217 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:33,039 looks at forty different genes to help someone understand what their specific full potential is. 218 00:15:33,159 --> 00:15:37,039 So someone can see if they have the potential to be vitamin deficient. 219 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:41,720 They can look and see if they have the potential to be gluten sensitive or 220 00:15:41,759 --> 00:15:45,960 to have an unfavorable fat metabolism gene. Didn't anyone know you have a gene 221 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:48,399 for that, you know, to have a pesticide sensitivity or to have a 222 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,960 histamine intolerance. All of these things, they're the programming of your body, 223 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:58,000 and they will show up and they will tell your body how to do something 224 00:15:58,039 --> 00:16:00,600 specifically, so it could be and take a look and see what your body's 225 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:04,320 potential is. So it's really good to have as a tool in your toolbox 226 00:16:04,360 --> 00:16:08,320 and a guide to help you understand yourself better. And those are available on 227 00:16:08,399 --> 00:16:15,279 our website here hyphen Esentials dot com a's www dot pure hyphen E S S 228 00:16:15,399 --> 00:16:19,799 E N TI ALS, dot com, or you can call the office Monday 229 00:16:19,799 --> 00:16:26,759 through Friday nine two five at two and two seven five eight three two zero 230 00:16:26,879 --> 00:16:30,720 zero. That's two on two seven eight thirty two hundred. Actually, it's 231 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:33,399 interesting. So you talked about sensitivities, and you mentioned pesticides. If someone 232 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,240 has a pesticide sensitivity, and I sort of think most people you know would 233 00:16:37,279 --> 00:16:41,559 have some type of sensitivity, whether it's manifesting you know, noticeably or not. 234 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:45,320 What does that look like? You know everyone? You're right, everyone 235 00:16:45,399 --> 00:16:49,320 does have some level of difficulty processing environmental toxins. We weren't designed to do 236 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:53,159 that. We were designed, however, to detoxify. So we have the 237 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:57,879 specific organs, we have the specific processes that take what we need and leave 238 00:16:57,919 --> 00:17:04,079 the rest. When we're overburdened, particularly children and older adults who are the 239 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:10,319 most susceptible. When we're overburdened, our body just can't clear those toxins properly. 240 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:15,640 So there are a variety of genetic variations that make those folks more prone 241 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:22,240 to experiencing a neurological or a metabolic dysfunction as a result of not being able 242 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:26,200 to let those toxins go. So we have specific ways that toxins leave our 243 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,559 body. The genes that are assessed in this report have been linked to poor 244 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:38,599 detoxification of several chemicals, but specifically pesticides and food dies. So if we've 245 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:44,759 got a little one, a little buddy who has this gene is unable to 246 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:48,119 process the toxins from those food dyes, and those food dyes are in their 247 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:52,240 multi vitamin, what are we doing. We might be causing a problem, 248 00:17:52,319 --> 00:17:53,920 and that's something that we need to look at. Yeah, and what are 249 00:17:53,920 --> 00:17:59,680 some specific symptoms associated with poor detoxification with these genes. Yeah, I'm going 250 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:03,240 to sell one of those commercials again. But migrains, anxiety, low T, 251 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,720 low testosterone, guys, PCOS, infertility, It affects a lot of 252 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:14,559 very important areas ADHD, fatigue, asthma, autism, brain fog, fatty, 253 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,880 liver, spider veins. These are all specific signs that are associated with 254 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,960 poor detoxication of pesticides and food dice. And in terms of the pure essentials, 255 00:18:23,079 --> 00:18:26,559 I know there's so much on the line that's designed for a detox repair 256 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:32,119 and rebuild. What would be your recommendation? I always recommend pure essentials. 257 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:37,480 See Bufford Quercetin So see Bufford has antioxidant properties, It has clearing abilities. 258 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:41,720 I like to refer to it as nature's vacuum cleaner, and it just goes 259 00:18:41,759 --> 00:18:45,799 around and it sucks all the issue from the tissues. Quercetin is a natural 260 00:18:45,839 --> 00:18:49,559 anti inflammatory. It can be used in place of end sets. If you'd 261 00:18:49,559 --> 00:18:55,000 like to stop taking ibprofen and other pain relievers, you can use Pure essentials 262 00:18:55,039 --> 00:19:00,119 Quercetin. Pure Essentials Ultra Antioxidant is a really great one, as is the 263 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:04,839 NAC the nctal system by Pure Essentials, milk thistle and glutathione are considered the 264 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:10,920 gold standard supplements for someone that's having issues with detoxification. Pure Essentials and Ultra 265 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:14,960 Anioxidant has milkwhistle in it. It also has vitamin D, vitamin E, 266 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:21,079 and coqu ten which are superpowerhouse anioxidants. And NAC is a precursor to glutothione. 267 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:25,640 So instead of taking straight glutothione, which you can do, we prefer 268 00:19:25,799 --> 00:19:29,759 to support the body and help it do what it was designed to do naturally, 269 00:19:29,839 --> 00:19:34,920 and those two products will help deliver with its own natural gluteothione production. 270 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,920 And when we talk about the genetic tests, so we're talking about different sensitivities. 271 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:41,720 When we have this tests, I know, I'll just point out one 272 00:19:41,759 --> 00:19:45,400 thing that Pure Essentials does not save or sell your information, and I know 273 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:48,400 that's something that a lot of other tests do. This is something you can 274 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,079 do at home. And again, your information's not sold or saved. It's 275 00:19:52,079 --> 00:19:53,400 yours and belongs to you. And if you want to share with anyone, 276 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:56,440 you're welcome to. But if a gene shows up in this report, does 277 00:19:56,440 --> 00:20:00,079 it mean that you have whatever is associated with it? Talk about how somebody 278 00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:03,039 can take this test and use it to their advantage. So let's start there. 279 00:20:03,119 --> 00:20:07,680 How can someone take the test? So you go to pure dash essentials 280 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,359 dot com, you order the test, that test comes to you in the 281 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,240 mail. The first thing you're willing to do is register your viole number. 282 00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:21,319 This is how your results get linked to you. Because Pure Essentials doesn't save 283 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,680 your information, doesn't save your results, you have to do some of these 284 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,960 things on your own. We want to make sure at Pure Essential that there 285 00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:33,160 is complete transparency. There's no buying and selling of information. So you're going 286 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:37,759 to have to register your vial, that number is assigned to you and your 287 00:20:37,759 --> 00:20:40,200 results. You're going to use the cheek. Pop, rub it up and 288 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,920 down on your cheek like you're kind of like what you do when you're brushing 289 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:45,039 your teeth, so you can get the cells. You're going to stick it 290 00:20:45,039 --> 00:20:48,240 into the vial, break the other end off, lid on it, stick 291 00:20:48,279 --> 00:20:51,519 it in the little zippy bed, put it back in the box, tape 292 00:20:51,519 --> 00:20:53,799 it up, and then send it off with the prepaid label. You're going 293 00:20:53,839 --> 00:20:57,160 to receive your results in three to five weeks, and that's when the magic 294 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:02,079 starts. That's when you start planning everything. All of the information that is 295 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:06,119 in your report is for you to make the best choices for you. What 296 00:21:06,279 --> 00:21:10,720 works in your house, what works in your family. Just because you may 297 00:21:10,759 --> 00:21:17,079 have a gene or a variation that says your gluten sensitive, it doesn't necessarily 298 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:19,920 mean that you're a Celiac. Very specifically, if you show up having the 299 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:26,119 HLA, d Q eight or two point five, which are specific Celiac genes, 300 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,160 it doesn't mean that you have Celiac disease. It's information for you to 301 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,519 make choice. Do you want to keep eating bread? Do you want to 302 00:21:33,559 --> 00:21:37,880 keep eating pasta? Do you want to keep eating gluten containing foods and take 303 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:44,279 the risk. Probably not so this is an opportunity for someone to change the 304 00:21:44,279 --> 00:21:48,759 way that they put food on the table. The NYO nine B, that's 305 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:52,559 a gene associated with autoimmunity, just a general autoimmunity. Variants in this gene 306 00:21:52,559 --> 00:21:57,680 are directly linked to a higher risk of an autoimmune diagnosis, especially crones and 307 00:21:57,759 --> 00:22:03,160 rheumatoid arthritis. But in those that consume gluten, so chances are your results 308 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:07,160 are going to show that a gluten free diet is recommended. In addition, 309 00:22:07,519 --> 00:22:10,759 those who are a wild type, which means that there's no variant, they're 310 00:22:10,799 --> 00:22:15,039 more likely to have something like heartburn, silent reflux, gird symptoms when they 311 00:22:15,079 --> 00:22:21,039 consume gluten. I was, for the very very longest time I was not 312 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:25,240 a everybody needs to be gluten free. But the more I learn about our 313 00:22:25,279 --> 00:22:30,200 genetics and what shows up even if you're not a celiac, even if you 314 00:22:30,359 --> 00:22:33,519 don't have signs and symptoms that can be completely tied back to gluten right there 315 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:37,400 on the spot and that are very very obvious. There are things that are 316 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,640 kind of lurking in the woodshed that can be not so lovely for us. 317 00:22:40,799 --> 00:22:44,839 It can be a pesticide issue, it can be a processing issue additives and 318 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,160 such. You know, here in America they do what's called desiccating the field, 319 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:53,599 which is spraying the field that you know, where the grains are growing, 320 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,480 to force maturation so that they can wipe those fields faster and get more 321 00:23:00,559 --> 00:23:03,200 volume from them. The problem is that when they do that, they're spreading 322 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:07,119 everything, and it's the pesticide that you can't wash it off. So this 323 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,279 is all just information to help people make the best choices possible for their lives. 324 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:14,400 Yeah. I don't know who was said at first, my mom or 325 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:17,920 Oprah. But when we know better, we do better. And how many 326 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,720 people look at illnesses that a family member has gone through, You know, 327 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:25,240 they have the thought if I had only known, or if I knew this, 328 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:26,799 then I would have done that. If I had known sooner, I 329 00:23:26,839 --> 00:23:30,319 would have made this change. That's how I came to this field too, 330 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,039 And I'll share that story on a different time. But a family member who 331 00:23:33,039 --> 00:23:37,079 had toxicity exposure that changed my world. It changed my life. So when 332 00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:41,079 you know better, you do better. You know, we're talking about onsets 333 00:23:41,079 --> 00:23:45,200 of autoimmune issues. Some people say it happens over time. Some people say 334 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,519 it's a sudden occurrence. I know through functional medicine and nutrition and that whole 335 00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:52,279 functional wellness world. A lot of times we look at cumulative toxic load or 336 00:23:52,319 --> 00:23:56,799 through that lens. But what is your thought on that an autoimmune condition is 337 00:23:56,799 --> 00:24:00,519 not going to just pop up overnight. Now, someone might have a sign 338 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:04,839 or a symptom that pops up overnight, But if you're looking at autoimmune disease 339 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:11,400 autoimmune conditions, those are chronic symptoms. They happen over and over and over 340 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:15,440 again. They might come and go for people, but there is some sort 341 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,440 of experience of a symptom that's happening for quite some time. Someone might think, 342 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,920 Oh, I'm just getting old. Oh it's just a sign of age 343 00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:26,839 or something like that, and so they kind of write it off for that 344 00:24:26,039 --> 00:24:30,559 moment, and then something else might pop up and they write it off as 345 00:24:30,599 --> 00:24:34,519 something else. If you take a look, there's a pattern somewhere. There's 346 00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:40,359 always a pattern. And research shows that signs of autoimmunity can show up on 347 00:24:40,599 --> 00:24:47,559 simple tests months even years before someone has full blown symptoms and receives a diagnosis 348 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:49,319 or a label from their medical professional. And I think there are a lot 349 00:24:49,319 --> 00:24:53,839 of issues that are autoimmune issues that people don't realize are autoimmune issues that they're 350 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,440 treated in other ways. People are given medications. There's a whole bunch of 351 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:02,519 ways that people handle it, not understanding that's really occurring as an autoimmune issue. 352 00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:04,160 There can be quite a few differences, as you may have guests, 353 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,640 because there are different conditions. There's good news and there's bad news here. 354 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:12,039 So early signs are pretty similar. That's the good news. The bad news 355 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,759 is they can also be a little bit vague. They can be kind of 356 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:19,400 non specific in the early stages, so they can be kind of tricky to 357 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:25,160 point out. The one common denominator, though, is inflammation the skin. 358 00:25:25,599 --> 00:25:30,759 The skin is the best place to note the first sign of inflammation. When 359 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:34,480 you have something happening on the outside, you probably have something happening on the 360 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,000 inside as well. And a good rule of thumb is if you notice changes 361 00:25:38,039 --> 00:25:41,880 that don't have an explanation or don't have a reason. You know, if 362 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,079 you bump into the counter in the kitchen and you have a bruise on your 363 00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:48,359 hip, you know cause and effect, you know what happened. But if 364 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,240 something pops up on your skin and there's no explanation for it, that's something 365 00:25:52,279 --> 00:25:55,640 that really should be looked at. You know, it suggests that something's up 366 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,759 there, and it's good to have the resources to not have to reinvent the 367 00:25:57,759 --> 00:26:00,759 wheel. 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