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Speaker 2: an awesome show. I have an incredible guest whom I've
Speaker 2: known for my goodness twenty five years, and I am
Speaker 2: so grateful to bring on Dolores Sternness Bliss today. Dan,
Speaker 2: can you cure up Dolores? Please? Hi?
Speaker 3: Dolores, Hi, Jenevieve, how are you?
Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic? Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 2: So without further ado, I'm going to tell everyone what
Speaker 2: you're going to be talking about today, and you know
Speaker 2: it's really going to be meaning full. Bruce is also here.
Speaker 2: He will join us at the end of the show
Speaker 2: to do a little wrap up, maybe a few last
Speaker 2: minute questions for you, Dolores. But to tell all our
Speaker 2: valued listeners and viewers, Dolores is going to be talking
Speaker 2: about endocrine disruptors, and it's going to be in a
Speaker 2: way which you've probably heard, but maybe not quite like this.
Speaker 2: And this lends to what Bruce and I have been
Speaker 2: talking about, which is menopause, menopause, the endocrine system, etc.
Speaker 2: So Dolores, thank you again for your wisdom and for
Speaker 2: joining us.
Speaker 3: It's my pleasure.
Speaker 2: Perfect So everyone, without further ado, I need to read
Speaker 2: a little bio about Dolores. So. Dolores grew up the
Speaker 2: oldest girl in a family of nine children on a
Speaker 2: farm in northern BC. Her parents grew and raised most
Speaker 2: of what they ate, and she learned an appreciation for
Speaker 2: being self so efficient and living a healthy, natural lifestyle.
Speaker 2: She earned her teaching certificate from SFU in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 2: Dolores taught for a number of years in elementary school
Speaker 2: and took some time off to raise her three children.
Speaker 2: Once she went back to work, she taught at the
Speaker 2: College of New Caledonia in Burns Lake. However, she found
Speaker 2: that her true interest was in herbs and natural products,
Speaker 2: so she bought a health food store in Burns Lake,
Speaker 2: which she owned and operated with her husband for almost
Speaker 2: ten years. From there, they opened an organic cafe at
Speaker 2: Sfu which they also ran for ten years. And that's
Speaker 2: where I met you, Dolores and your amazing husband. Wow,
Speaker 2: almost twenty five years ago. So further to Dolores's bio.
Speaker 2: After retiring from the cafe, she had an online business
Speaker 2: called Natural Health and Wellness where she helped busy people
Speaker 2: cook healthy meals. As well, she held online classes to
Speaker 2: teach people how the chemicals in their home and personal
Speaker 2: care products are harming their health. She offered them healthy
Speaker 2: home care and personal products through the business which she runs.
Speaker 2: She is in the process of adding to her business
Speaker 2: natural perfumes that have no artificial and synthetic sense in
Speaker 2: or other ingredients. She and her husband returned almost four
Speaker 2: years ago to live on the family farm that they
Speaker 2: grew that they grew up on, grow their own food
Speaker 2: and grow their own food. Dolores has discovered that many
Speaker 2: of the plants that grow on the farm can be
Speaker 2: used to make healing oils. She loves the quiet rural life,
Speaker 2: but works two days a week in her old health
Speaker 2: food store because she loves to help people with their health. Dolores,
Speaker 2: that's a mouthful, and everyone, that's just a tip of
Speaker 2: the iceberg as to who and what Dolores has done,
Speaker 2: but a lot of wisdom they're Dolores, thank you of course,
Speaker 2: of course, So let me just jump into the questions
Speaker 2: because I am just so excited and interested about this
Speaker 2: part of what we're doing on Youthful Aging. So, Delores,
Speaker 2: we've talked about things here on the show, and you
Speaker 2: may have seen some of the past episodes. One of
Speaker 2: the reasons why I love the guests, including yourself, is
Speaker 2: despite your wealth of information and all the different things
Speaker 2: you've done, you have the ability and gift to take
Speaker 2: the complicated and make it simple. So let's talk about
Speaker 2: the endocrine system and what it does. Can you elucidate that, please?
Speaker 2: And Dan you can bring up that slide please.
Speaker 3: Yes, certainly, the endocrint system. And this is just to
Speaker 3: keep it really simple, because obviously it's a marvelous part
Speaker 3: of our body and does many things. But what it
Speaker 3: does is it's composed of these glands that are distributed
Speaker 3: throughout the body. So if you look at the diagram
Speaker 3: you can see the hypothalamus, the pituitary and those two
Speaker 3: are mainly involved in our reproductive system and therefore menopause,
Speaker 3: as well as the ovaries and the testicles in the males.
Speaker 3: So those are the three main ones that I'm going
Speaker 3: to talk about today. So what these what they do,
Speaker 3: these glands do is they produce and release hormones into
Speaker 3: the bloodstream. Then these hormones are the chemical messengers that
Speaker 3: travel into our cells. So the body is very dependent
Speaker 3: on these hormones for a healthy underconsystem because it helps
Speaker 3: to control so many functions in the body, such as
Speaker 3: our normal growth coordination. It includes metabolism, fertility and reproduction,
Speaker 3: growth and development. It helps control our mood and the
Speaker 3: way our organs work. So these hormones are very important,
Speaker 3: but they're in extremely small amounts excuse me and an
Speaker 3: a bit of a cold earlier, So any minor disruptions
Speaker 3: in those levels can cause significant differences or problems in
Speaker 3: our development and as well as our biological so it
Speaker 3: has effects in all those are areas.
Speaker 2: So the key.
Speaker 3: Glands that I mentioned that are involved with menopause is
Speaker 3: the first one is the pituitary gland.
Speaker 2: So this one that's up again. Maybe we'll put up
Speaker 2: that little slide you at again and people can see
Speaker 2: how they're perfect. Yes, So the petuitary gland.
Speaker 3: Yes, So the haary gland is the master gland, and
Speaker 3: that's located at the base of the brain, and this
Speaker 3: controls many of the underc glands, so it's kind of
Speaker 3: the controller, and it produces the follicle stimulating hormones, which
Speaker 3: are essential to regulate our menstrual cycle, our ovarian functions,
Speaker 3: and at the start of menopause, the ovaryx down are
Speaker 3: the ones that are the primary source of estrogen and progesterone.
Speaker 3: So at the beginning of menopause, the hypothalmis senses that
Speaker 3: there's a decrease in the estrogen and progestone, so it
Speaker 3: releases a hormone. In response to this hormone, the pituitary
Speaker 3: gland releases a hormone. So what happens then is these
Speaker 3: hormones cause the eggs in the follicles start to decrease,
Speaker 3: and then we get less of the hormones estrogen, so
Speaker 3: everything kind of gradually starts to decrease, and they're all interrelated.
Speaker 3: So that's the main and then the pineal glan. It
Speaker 3: does release melatonin, which is very important for our sleep.
Speaker 3: So although it's not involved mainly in overy function, all
Speaker 3: of that it can influence, especially in men, can make
Speaker 3: a difference in their testicles, affects the release of hormones
Speaker 3: for men, so as the age, it can cause problems
Speaker 3: with our sleep, so both men. So that's because the melatonin,
Speaker 3: it's the hormone for sleep.
Speaker 2: And thank you for mentioning that. I'm just going to
Speaker 2: jump in here for a sat Dolores, and you know
Speaker 2: what we've talked about in everyone. If you haven't seen
Speaker 2: the past episodes, please go back and look. We talked
Speaker 2: about nutraceuticals. When Bruce started with us, he talked about
Speaker 2: the gut and the liver, and I know, Dolores, you
Speaker 2: get how all that everything affects everything else, but melatonin,
Speaker 2: for instance, A lot of times people don't realize that
Speaker 2: a lot of the hormones we share them between men
Speaker 2: and women, and one of the major one is melatonin.
Speaker 2: And we're going to talk a little bit later about
Speaker 2: as we age what happens through menopause. And we talked
Speaker 2: about menopause as I like to call it, our andropause.
Speaker 2: I'm just some of the similars that are similar. So
Speaker 2: I'm glad you mentioned melatonin. We don't have the little
Speaker 2: slide up dolores. But keep going on on the endocrine system.
Speaker 3: Please, Okay. So that's kind of the basically what I
Speaker 3: had to say about that.
Speaker 2: Okay, So about the.
Speaker 3: About the glands and what they produce and how that
Speaker 3: affects our our menopause, menstruation, all of that fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well, then it's perfect timing for me because I had
Speaker 2: another question brewing, and my question was what happens to
Speaker 2: make menopause so difficult for some women and andropause for
Speaker 2: some men. Now that you've explained the endocrine system as
Speaker 2: we get older, what happens.
Speaker 3: Well, there are the natural aspects of menopause, but one
Speaker 3: of the factors they believe that has a big impact
Speaker 3: is endicin disrupting chemicals. So, as I just mentioned, that's
Speaker 3: the endercon system, so chemicals can come in and because
Speaker 3: the hormones are just in very tiny amounts, it doesn't
Speaker 3: take a lot of chemical to interrupt how they work.
Speaker 3: So there's a study done by the National Institute of
Speaker 3: Health that shows that there is a link between menopause
Speaker 3: symptoms such as hot flashes, sleep disturbances, weight gain, and
Speaker 3: this because there's with the study that they did. They
Speaker 3: found that there were certain chemicals in the urine and
Speaker 3: they believe that those chemicals affect the hormones. So if
Speaker 3: we're in an environment where there's a lot of hormones
Speaker 3: i mean, sorry, chemicals, then we're having these hormones being affected.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're talking about chemicals, and these are endocrine
Speaker 2: disrupting chemicals. Dolores, did you have a suggestion, and I'm
Speaker 2: probably going to jump around a bit here, where do
Speaker 2: we find these chemicals? Can you give us just a
Speaker 2: couple of products that we may find these chemicals in?
Speaker 3: Right, Well, chemicals are used in most of the products
Speaker 3: that we're using in our home. So everything that we're
Speaker 3: using for cleaning, our personal care, things we're putting on
Speaker 3: our body, the things we're using to scent the air,
Speaker 3: those have chemicals and there's a certain type of chemical
Speaker 3: that is used for creating the scent that's in there,
Speaker 3: and I'll explain that in a little more detail here
Speaker 3: in a moment. So those chemicals are in our homes,
Speaker 3: in our products, we're putting them on our bodies. We're
Speaker 3: breathing them, we're drinking water that has chemicals, foods that
Speaker 3: we eat have chemicals.
Speaker 2: Right, wow, Okay, no, I understand, so thank you. So
Speaker 2: that's how we encounter these chemicals. They're coming in in
Speaker 2: all these different places, places that we may not have
Speaker 2: thought of. So it's just in our environment in general,
Speaker 2: but certainly on the products that we're using. So my
Speaker 2: question is, are these Are these chemicals listed on ingredient labels.
Speaker 3: No, And the reason they're not listed is they're considered
Speaker 3: and trade secrets. So there's all this whole arrange of
Speaker 3: chemicals that manufacturers can use to create their sense, right,
Speaker 3: whatever scent they want in their product. And we know
Speaker 3: that all the products we buy have sent, right, your
Speaker 3: dish soap has sent your laundry soap has sent your
Speaker 3: dryer sheets, have sent your spray's room scenty. They're all sent, right, Well,
Speaker 3: they all come under the Proprietary Secrets Act where they
Speaker 3: don't actually have to tell you what's there because that's
Speaker 3: their secret formula. And they have an option of using
Speaker 3: over around three thousand different chemicals that can be used
Speaker 3: to make their own scent. So that's their proprietary secret
Speaker 3: so they're by law they don't have to list them,
Speaker 3: so that I'm not realizing that.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, well, thank you for that. And everyone something else
Speaker 2: you know about me. And by the way, as we mentioned,
Speaker 2: we're sharing information. This stuff is out there and so
Speaker 2: we're just talking here about what's going on. If you
Speaker 2: want to look further, you can just google these things.
Speaker 2: But here's something about set sense that I am that
Speaker 2: I can't even believe that I have been exposed to
Speaker 2: it so much, not really realizing that it could be
Speaker 2: causing an effect because everyone has known about what I'm
Speaker 2: going through with that stage, get a hot flash right now.
Speaker 2: So my mom, my mom, was a housekeeper and nannie
Speaker 2: and fell in love with where we live right now,
Speaker 2: on the beautiful wet coast as we like to call it.
Speaker 2: She loved the trees and the rain, and this woman
Speaker 2: loved her chemicals and she loved to make the houses
Speaker 2: smell so absolutely beautiful. So I grew up with all
Speaker 2: these sense and I started to like, you know, when
Speaker 2: you're spraying down you're doing your housekeeping. Not gonna call
Speaker 2: any names, but you spray all your air fresheners and
Speaker 2: all of that. And now, as I got older and
Speaker 2: did my research. You know, I find out that a
Speaker 2: lot of these chemicals. Of course they go into your
Speaker 2: body and everyone we talked about xeno estrogens, and maybe
Speaker 2: Bruce when he does the breakdown, we can talk about
Speaker 2: xeno estrogens in the last part of the show, because
Speaker 2: that's exactly what you're tying together for us dolores is.
Speaker 2: Those chemicals form different kinds of things that affect hormones,
Speaker 2: including different types of hormones, and this causes problems with
Speaker 2: these symptoms that we get as we get older, going
Speaker 2: through menopause and menopause. Is that just a general me defining.
Speaker 3: Yes, because these hormones can mimic. These chemicals can mimic
Speaker 3: our hormones. So our cells have a receptors for our
Speaker 3: hormones and they are close enough and they can block
Speaker 3: that receptor site so the actual real hormone can't get
Speaker 3: in there. So it interrupts the whole function because the
Speaker 3: body is not getting the hormones that it needs because
Speaker 3: these chemicals are getting in the way. They're blocking those sites,
Speaker 3: so they mimic and they block or interrupt, causing problems
Speaker 3: with how our intercoon system is working.
Speaker 2: Right. No, I have a question, why don't the manufacturers
Speaker 2: then just use natural sense?
Speaker 3: Well, natural sense come from planet right, yes, exactly, So plants,
Speaker 3: of course they're not consistent. Right, So growing seasons, where
Speaker 3: it's grown soil, whether all of that affects the consistency
Speaker 3: of the oils in the plants, Well, they want consistency.
Speaker 3: They also they're cheaper. They can get more of the
Speaker 3: product you know it's made, so they can get that
Speaker 3: more of that, and so it's just cheaper to use
Speaker 3: the chemicals. And plus they can create their own sense.
Speaker 3: So there's a whole variety of you know, you think
Speaker 3: about perfumes. I used to love some of them, and
Speaker 3: I you know, they were I loved the scent until
Speaker 3: I discovered there were chemicals. But you know they're all individual,
Speaker 3: they were different. And so manufacturers can make their own
Speaker 3: blend what they're known for because they mix their chemicals
Speaker 3: all and they've got three thousand to choose from. So
Speaker 3: there's a hidariety of sense that one can make with that, right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, No, that totally makes sense now when we're talking
Speaker 2: about chemicals. So it's it's found in perfumes, but it's
Speaker 2: not only in perfumes. Were you saying just everyday household things.
Speaker 2: We just have to look at the scense. So anything
Speaker 2: that probably has a nice smelling scent, yeah, some kind
Speaker 2: of a chemical, right, yes, because we're just talking here,
Speaker 2: can we go through a list you and I of
Speaker 2: of things that we use every day that might have
Speaker 2: you know, your kin.
Speaker 3: It's in plastics, one of the main ones called thilights.
Speaker 3: They're in plastics, so they're in everything. They're in like toys,
Speaker 3: the vinyl floor covers, wall coverings, pharmaceuticals, but all our
Speaker 3: personal care products so nail polish, hair spray, cleansers, makeup cosmetics,
Speaker 3: but in products as well, so an after shape and soaps.
Speaker 3: So it's like a huge number of things that they're
Speaker 3: in and where you find them in there is under
Speaker 3: the word fragrance. So they don't tell you that there
Speaker 3: you're there, but the key word is fragrance. Fragrance is
Speaker 3: a cover up for all these chemicals because they don't
Speaker 3: have to listen, so they just have to say fragrance.
Speaker 3: So when you look through your list of things, like
Speaker 3: your products that you have way down usually kind of
Speaker 3: hidden kind of in the middle. It's there. Takes a
Speaker 3: bit to find it, but you'll find fragrance and then
Speaker 3: you know that there's chemicals in there.
Speaker 2: Wow. Wow, that is really interesting. I'm going to go
Speaker 2: back to something you said. Now, you mentioned that it's
Speaker 2: in plastics. Now, are you talking about a plastic container
Speaker 2: that doesn't have a smell but in the plastic itself?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, chemical that can be endocrine disruptors. Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's far better to store your food in
Speaker 3: glass okay, glass containers?
Speaker 2: Okay? And and why is that? Does the chemical come
Speaker 2: out of the way?
Speaker 3: Well, the chemicals can leak out into the food. I
Speaker 3: mean some of the containers are supposedly safer, but they're
Speaker 3: still plastic, so undoubtedly. I mean I'm suspicious, right, so
Speaker 3: there's probably some leeching. So I just use glass containers
Speaker 3: to store my food for that reason.
Speaker 2: Right right. Oh my goodness. Well that's really really interesting
Speaker 2: and something that I'll share with everyone as well. By
Speaker 2: the way, everyone, remember if you're enjoying what we're talking about,
Speaker 2: taking the complicated, you may have heard of chemicals. Well
Speaker 2: what is it? And Dolores is here breaking it down
Speaker 2: for us today about fragrances and just you know, in general,
Speaker 2: if you're going to have certain plastics with your food,
Speaker 2: just consider that the chemical in it might leach out, so.
Speaker 3: Some simple particularly if you put it in the microwave,
Speaker 3: right of.
Speaker 2: Course, because it's cooking it in, is that why well
Speaker 2: it releases it the heat of course of course absolutely,
Speaker 2: so everyone, if you want to talk to us further,
Speaker 2: you can contact me directly at Wisdom Wisdom at walkwi
Speaker 2: Wisdom dot Ca is the email Wisdom at walk with
Speaker 2: Wisdom dot Ca. Dolores is also available. She has coached
Speaker 2: and counseled and we're going to talk about what she's
Speaker 2: doing now. And she's given us her email as well,
Speaker 2: which is if you're watching, you can see it, but
Speaker 2: it's d Storness Bliss at gmail dot com and we'll
Speaker 2: put it in the chat for you. So it's d
Speaker 2: Sternness Bliss at gmail dot com. But to make it simpler,
Speaker 2: you can always email me and I will be happy
Speaker 2: to pass on her information. Now we're coming up, it's
Speaker 2: time for us to take a little break to hear
Speaker 2: from our sponsors. Dolores, you have gotten me excited to
Speaker 2: talk about what we can do about all of this,
Speaker 2: and we will be right back every day.
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Speaker 2: Hi everyone, I'm Jennevieve Wisdom. Welcome back to Walk with Wisdom.
Speaker 2: It's a lifestyle show on Youthful Agent, which is looking
Speaker 2: good and feeling amazing as you age. We have Dolores
Speaker 2: Storness Bliss here today and she's talking about how environmental
Speaker 2: things can affect us as we age, as we get
Speaker 2: younger as I like to call it. And speaking about
Speaker 2: getting younger, we have the amazing Bruce Pollock who's back
Speaker 2: joining us because Dolores, I don't know if you're awaring
Speaker 2: for aller reviewers out there. Bruce was my first guest,
Speaker 2: and I have also known Bruce not unlike yourself, for
Speaker 2: a couple of decades, and Bruce has that gift take
Speaker 2: the complicated, make it simple. We have that balance of
Speaker 2: male and female, which I didn't want to leave the
Speaker 2: men out as we got younger, and everyone asked for
Speaker 2: Bruce to come back. So here the three of us
Speaker 2: are and we're gonna have a little discussion. Now this
Speaker 2: is the part where when Bruce comes in, he basically
Speaker 2: summarizes what you've said, Delora. So we're gonna give Bruce
Speaker 2: a moment to just kind of go over what you
Speaker 2: said and see if he has an equest at the
Speaker 2: end of it. Hi, Bruce, are you doing you look younger?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 4: I'm feeling it. So I was really I found it
Speaker 4: interesting when you started talking about the hormones being blocked
Speaker 4: by these by these chemicals or these xeno estrogens. And
Speaker 4: I think if you look at that in a different way,
Speaker 4: you could say, it's you've got You've just got this
Speaker 4: little area where this chemical where the hormone can absorb,
Speaker 4: and if there's something laying over top of it, again,
Speaker 4: plug in a sink, so nothing you get past that,
Speaker 4: that means a hormone can't get in there. That's what
Speaker 4: you're saying, right.
Speaker 3: Absolutely so the hormones.
Speaker 4: So the hormones actually being blocked from getting to where
Speaker 4: it needs to go because of these other chemicals that
Speaker 4: are in our system. And this is this is what
Speaker 4: you refer to as as enderkin disruptors because they're disrupting
Speaker 4: the underconsystem from working the way it should because the
Speaker 4: hormones aren't getting to where they need to be. Does
Speaker 4: that is that a summary of it?
Speaker 3: That's right?
Speaker 4: Yep, exactly perfect. So I have a question. It was
Speaker 4: very interesting. By the way. I really appreciated the the
Speaker 4: three thousand. I didn't know there's three thousand different chemicals
Speaker 4: they add they can make a combination to make a smell,
Speaker 4: it taste, a flavor. Well, they could even be number,
Speaker 4: but it's a good number. It guess it's a ballpark,
Speaker 4: you know. But my question is, is I go shopping,
Speaker 4: I look on the back of something and it says
Speaker 4: natural flavor or natural fragrance. Does that have a legal
Speaker 4: meaning to it.
Speaker 3: It's basically they don't have to actually reveal what's there
Speaker 3: because of that law that allows them to. It's their
Speaker 3: trade secret, so they just give a like a cover word,
Speaker 3: and it's you don't really know what's in there, but
Speaker 3: you can suspect because they're not telling you that it's
Speaker 3: likely a chemical.
Speaker 4: So because it says natural, it doesn't really mean anything.
Speaker 4: And there's nobody holding this person to say natural has
Speaker 4: to grow on the ground. It's just the word they
Speaker 4: use to describe their their flavor. They're scent exactly exactly.
Speaker 4: Because that's interesting because I've had friends say me, but
Speaker 4: it's natural flavor or it's natural scent. And what we're
Speaker 4: saying now is that means nothing in a legal.
Speaker 3: Manner exactly, and you get what they call is greenwashing.
Speaker 3: You get products that advertise themselves as being natural, but
Speaker 3: they still have like fragrance or like you're saying natural
Speaker 3: on there, and that's really just a cover up which
Speaker 3: they're allowed legally to use to cover up that there's
Speaker 3: chemicals there that they don't have to divulge.
Speaker 4: So to go a step further, if you don't want
Speaker 4: these things in it, you have to start looking for organic.
Speaker 4: Is that the idea You have to look for organic?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that as well as a company that divulges what
Speaker 3: they're using, like if they're using plant natural sense, they'll
Speaker 3: list so it'll be like the essential oils they say
Speaker 3: Alavin's are central oil, citrus, eucalyptus, peppermints, so they're actually
Speaker 3: telling you what it is. And when you get a
Speaker 3: product that is.
Speaker 2: Open and.
Speaker 3: Responsible, not trying to hide things, they'll list them all there.
Speaker 3: And you can have a huge list, but they'll all
Speaker 3: be listed there and you'll know clover O, well, I
Speaker 3: know what clothes are, so I get it right.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I have a question and I've said when we
Speaker 2: started the show, and again, thank you everyone, there are
Speaker 2: lots of comments going on, Please continue to comment. I
Speaker 2: saw someone here saying, yeah, I heard that about the natural,
Speaker 2: and thank you for explaining that. You know, we just
Speaker 2: dig a little bit deeper. So what I said in
Speaker 2: the nexus of the show was I have wise people
Speaker 2: that have taught me to give me my wisdom. And
Speaker 2: often a wise man is sometimes a wise woman. In
Speaker 2: this case, it was a wise man who once said
Speaker 2: that there's something called schools of thought, and there is
Speaker 2: one school of thought that says that, Okay, we can
Speaker 2: go down a little bit of digging trying to figure
Speaker 2: out how natural a product is on one end, or
Speaker 2: we can take what the companies are saying because we
Speaker 2: live where we live as truth. Dolores. I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask you this again, and I think Bruce started, and
Speaker 2: I'm just going to continue on that. So are you
Speaker 2: saying then that there are home care products that we
Speaker 2: can get that have essential is in it? Because I
Speaker 2: love essential oils, Bruce, I love is such absolutely man. Yeah,
Speaker 2: me too, Yeah, absolutely, And so are you saying them
Speaker 2: that there are products out there that we can get.
Speaker 3: Yes, there are, and they do use they do guarantee
Speaker 3: that they are not using any toxic chemicals that they
Speaker 3: are using essential oils, and you're getting the scent, the
Speaker 3: real scent from the plant. It's not made up. It's
Speaker 3: not a chemical sense, so you're not going to get
Speaker 3: the effects on your endocrine system that you're getting from
Speaker 3: the chemicals.
Speaker 2: Right. No, that's excellent, Roost. Did you have any questions
Speaker 2: or comments here? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I did. The other thing you're asking, why do they
Speaker 4: use chemicals instead of plants? Even if they wanted to
Speaker 4: use plants. There's not enough plants in this earth to
Speaker 4: perfume all the bottles of stuff that we buy. If
Speaker 4: you walk through aisles and aisles and aisles of these
Speaker 4: different massive box stores, it would be yeah, it would
Speaker 4: be uh. And and I really appreciate as well, consistency
Speaker 4: if you're buying I'm a supplement guy. If you're buying
Speaker 4: organic supplements, they can look different every time you buy them,
Speaker 4: just because the plants are slightly different. I mean, it's
Speaker 4: the same plant, but it just as you say, it
Speaker 4: rained more this year, right, So it's a very difficulty
Speaker 4: to and people come back and say it doesn't look
Speaker 4: like it did last time. I say, well, it's an
Speaker 4: organic thing. It can't look the same. You know, that's
Speaker 4: the whole basis of being organic, right, So a lot
Speaker 4: of good points about why they use the chemicals and
Speaker 4: and and if you have a bad year, you have
Speaker 4: no you have no plants to use if applieds that year.
Speaker 4: So a lot of interesting points you're brought up to lours.
Speaker 3: Well, an interesting thing that when you said that about
Speaker 3: there's not enough plants, in actual fact, there's more products
Speaker 3: claiming to have lavender scent then there's is lavender to
Speaker 3: even provide it. So you can't even get enough lavender
Speaker 3: to provide all the scent that's being claimed out there.
Speaker 3: So so good point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely so it's man made right, absolutely so dolorous
Speaker 2: by the way, and everyone Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom
Speaker 2: dot ca. Wisdom at Walk with Wisdom dot Ca. That's
Speaker 2: where you can get a hold of Bruce and I.
Speaker 2: We do one on one coaching. We're happy to do
Speaker 2: complimentary coaching on any of these products. A lot of
Speaker 2: people have been following the show Bruce, who are in
Speaker 2: the menopause menopause stage. But here's what's really interesting and Dolores,
Speaker 2: which I'm so excited to see. We have a lot
Speaker 2: of younger followers that are looking as to what they
Speaker 2: can do before And I think it started when Bruce
Speaker 2: talked about menopause, menopause, about all these chemicals that now
Speaker 2: were or realizing that's coming in. You take care of
Speaker 2: your gut, you take care of your liver, you go
Speaker 2: to the bathroom. It all helps all those symptoms dissipate
Speaker 2: or at least be less later on in life. At
Speaker 2: least that's our hope. So we have a lot of
Speaker 2: younger generation watching and learning from us to have an
Speaker 2: easier time. Dolores question on this and then maybe Bruce
Speaker 2: can jump in as well. How do we take charge
Speaker 2: of our health in this scenario? What are one or
Speaker 2: two things that we can do to decrease the chemical load.
Speaker 3: Well, you can actually take charge. I mean there's a
Speaker 3: lot of things we have no control over, Like we
Speaker 3: can't control what's happening out in the environment. But you know,
Speaker 3: there was a study that showed the home environment it's
Speaker 3: actually three to five times more polluted than the outside environment.
Speaker 3: And that's because the products we're using. So you're actually
Speaker 3: in charge of what you buy, right, So you don't
Speaker 3: have to buy products with you don't have to bring
Speaker 3: those into your home. You can take charge of that.
Speaker 3: So it might take a little bit of researching, but
Speaker 3: these products are there, they're available, and the biggest thing
Speaker 3: you can do is stop buying.
Speaker 4: Well, of course I am, yeah, I want to go
Speaker 4: a little more. I want to go a little further.
Speaker 4: Years ago, years and years ago, I was using a
Speaker 4: deodorant and I switched to their sports deodorant and my
Speaker 4: whole arm started burning and went bright red. And after
Speaker 4: that I've never used a non natural deodorant since. And
Speaker 4: just start small. If you're trying to just move into
Speaker 4: a healthy, healthier lifestyle, start small. Start with deodorant. There's
Speaker 4: lots of good natural deodorance. Now, with a natural deodorant,
Speaker 4: you have to switch it up every six months or
Speaker 4: so because the things that smelmutate and the deodorant will
Speaker 4: stop working, So you need to switch it up every
Speaker 4: once in a while. But still this soap, hand soap,
Speaker 4: the clothes soap. And if you want your house to
Speaker 4: smell nice, get essential oil. What are they called, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's get essential oil diffuser. My wife has one going
Speaker 4: all the time in our house. It smells wonderonderful. And
Speaker 4: just with those five things, and the odorant that soap
Speaker 4: us on your body, the clothes soap, the dish soap,
Speaker 4: and the essential oil diffusure. You've changed hundreds and you've
Speaker 4: taken hundreds of chemicals out of your out of your
Speaker 4: home and off your body. So it's very simple. Start small.
Speaker 4: Just just start with a few things and keep keep
Speaker 4: adding to it.
Speaker 3: Right, that's really the vast way because they're expensive. You
Speaker 3: don't want to throw out what you have, but you
Speaker 3: just gradually make the changes and gradually improve the environment
Speaker 3: in your home and on your body. And I would
Speaker 3: start with my body because that's absorbing directly in so
Speaker 3: good good point.
Speaker 2: There absolutely Now, Dolores Dan, if you could please just
Speaker 2: put up Dolores's contact Dolores is available everyone, and that's
Speaker 2: what we love about my incredible guests who have come on.
Speaker 2: Dolores is available for consulting, et cetera. So her email
Speaker 2: address will be posted momentarily and if not now after
Speaker 2: the next break here it is like magic. I did that.
Speaker 2: So it's D Streness Bliss D S. T O R
Speaker 2: N E. S. S. Bliss at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 2: if you're listening and you didn't get that email, wisdom
Speaker 2: at Walk with Wisdom dot c A Wisdom at Walk
Speaker 2: with Wisdom dot c A. Dolores, I have to put
Speaker 2: you on this spot here for a moment, and so
Speaker 2: Bruce and I. I mentioned to Bruce that I love
Speaker 2: essentially loyals. His wife does. She has a diffuser going, Dolorus.
Speaker 2: Can we talk essential oils? Just an intro and when
Speaker 2: we come back, I would love for you to talk
Speaker 2: about a product that you have found and so so
Speaker 2: we can actually point people somewhere have it a little
Speaker 2: bit more more pinpointed for our listeners and viewers. Just
Speaker 2: so because you can google, so many things come up,
Speaker 2: so essential oils, Dolores. I learned about phenomenal essential oils
Speaker 2: from you. Can you in thirty seconds? We have about
Speaker 2: thirty seconds right now before we go on a break.
Speaker 2: Is there such a thing as organic versus non organic
Speaker 2: essential oils?
Speaker 3: Yes, there is. And the thing about essential oils at
Speaker 3: such a good point, they're not regulated, so there's all
Speaker 3: kinds of cheaper versions of es central oil, so you
Speaker 3: don't want to be careful. You want to get the organic.
Speaker 3: And the ones that I'm using come from a company
Speaker 3: that actually grow their own so they control the whole
Speaker 3: process from the seed to the seal, and everything is
Speaker 3: done organically and all sorts of testing and standards. It's
Speaker 3: amazing and so yes, that's so important is to get
Speaker 3: the quality.
Speaker 2: Fantastic everyone. We're going to take a break for or
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Speaker 2: Yet the thing dot Hi everyone, I'm Genevieve Wisdom and
Speaker 2: welcome back to Walk with Wisdom, a lifestyle show on
Speaker 2: youthful Aging. Today's show has been exciting. It's really put
Speaker 2: together things that I know you've all heard of about
Speaker 2: our endocrine system. Why it's important to consider what we're
Speaker 2: putting on our body in our environment because how it
Speaker 2: can affect us and those symptoms that we go through
Speaker 2: in menopause and Andrew pause or menopaus as I like
Speaker 2: to call it, or before Dolores, thank you so much
Speaker 2: for being with us. Bruce. You're incredible at taking putting
Speaker 2: everything together, taking the complicated, making it simple. Did you
Speaker 2: have any further questions for Dolores to leave someone? Yes,
Speaker 2: please go on one.
Speaker 4: So we've been talking about essential oils and we know
Speaker 4: they come from plants, but exactly what is an essential oil.
Speaker 3: The essential oil is really the life force of the plant.
Speaker 3: So in every plant there's these oils and it's how
Speaker 3: they're extracted that makes a huge difference. So they can
Speaker 3: be extracted with the chemicals heaccanes or which is putting
Speaker 3: more chemical into the plant, or they can be done
Speaker 3: in a very gentle steam distilled way, and that pulls
Speaker 3: out this life force of the plant. Really it's in
Speaker 3: the oil, and then we get the benefits of the oils.
Speaker 3: They actually go through our body and they go into
Speaker 3: the areas that are needed for healing and for change.
Speaker 3: So not only are they good in scent for the
Speaker 3: products we use, we can use them fractual healing purposes.
Speaker 4: So they're actually the oils within the plants that are
Speaker 4: removed to make an essential oil. And can you put
Speaker 4: it directly on your skin or does it be watered down?
Speaker 3: Some of them are if you're sensitive, you can put
Speaker 3: them on your skin. For sensitive skin, we usually recommend
Speaker 3: putting them with a carrier oil, and actually the carrier
Speaker 3: oil does allow them to stay longer on the skin,
Speaker 3: so it is actually recommended. But I use a lot
Speaker 3: of them. I never never do use the carrier oil, so.
Speaker 4: And quickly one the last thing I know, were running
Speaker 4: out of time. What carry oil do you recommend?
Speaker 3: There's different ones I use like jojoba, you can use
Speaker 3: grape seed, you can use avocado, you can use olive oil.
Speaker 3: So any healthy oil could be used as a carrier oil.
Speaker 4: Perfect. Back to you, Jed, Thank you Bruce.
Speaker 2: That was so awesome and very well said and the
Speaker 2: questions you asked. I use coconut oil because Bruce. And
Speaker 2: one day we'll tell everyone about our connection or background
Speaker 2: or bloodline. Can they're gonna think where brother and sister.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that later. But where I'm from, we
Speaker 2: use coconut oil as a carrier oil for everything. So
Speaker 2: what I'll do, Dolores, you know, take a tablespoon of
Speaker 2: coconut oil, douse it with the organic essential oil and
Speaker 2: put it hair, skin, everywhere. Absolutely and sometimes I even
Speaker 2: cook with them. So we can talk about that another time. Again, everyone,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining in. If you want
Speaker 2: to talk to Dolores further, you can email her directly
Speaker 2: at Dstorness Bliss at gmail dot com or Wisdom at
Speaker 2: Walk with Wisdom dot ca. There you can also have
Speaker 2: Bruce and I were available for complimentary coaching so that
Speaker 2: you get to know us. This is what we do. Dolores,
Speaker 2: I know you're familiar with this as well. With your
Speaker 2: health food store. We help so many people who come
Speaker 2: in in a health food store capacity, in a natural
Speaker 2: health food environment, in an integrative pharmacy environment, and they
Speaker 2: need help with their skin, their gut, all the things
Speaker 2: that we've talked about, So we're more than happy to
Speaker 2: help and capable to do so. Of course, check with
Speaker 2: your primary care practitioner before you change anything major in
Speaker 2: your healthcare regiment. Now this leads us into something that
Speaker 2: is coming up on our show next week, and both
Speaker 2: Bruce and Dolores have heard me talk about it and
Speaker 2: a lot of my valued guest friends, family, and I
Speaker 2: think the audience. Now I have a line of organic
Speaker 2: skincare and Dolores, I'm so glad that you mentioned the
Speaker 2: difference between organic versus non organic, and it's called Revived
Speaker 2: twenty five. It's Revived twenty five skincare dot com. And
Speaker 2: a lot of these central oils that are put into
Speaker 2: skincare products aren't real. And Bruce and Dolores, we've just
Speaker 2: talked about the chemicals and how their endocrine disruptors, and
Speaker 2: so maybe dolors if you can talk a quick second,
Speaker 2: and then I'll have Bruce just you know, talk again
Speaker 2: about maybe xeno estrogen. Just mentioned that word because we
Speaker 2: can talk about that further next week. But having organic
Speaker 2: essential oils in the skincare what's the value of that
Speaker 2: versus just regular Like you mentioned, there are all these
Speaker 2: lavender scents and not enough lavender to make that much lader.
Speaker 3: Well, one of the things with organic is you're not
Speaker 3: going to be getting the pesticides, and pesticides as a
Speaker 3: great example of a chemical that can interrupt your endocrine system.
Speaker 3: But you're also getting the soil is not fertilized with
Speaker 3: synthetic fertilizers, so you're getting natural food so that the
Speaker 3: plants are actually growing naturally, drawing the nutrients that they
Speaker 3: need out of the soil, and therefore the quality is
Speaker 3: that much better.
Speaker 2: Fantastic. Where is anything you wanted to add there?
Speaker 4: I did. I just wanted to recap what De Laura
Speaker 4: said about how they're made the less expensive essential oils.
Speaker 4: They actually use chemicals to pull the oils out. Now
Speaker 4: it seems backwards to do that, but you're actually getting
Speaker 4: more chemicals. When you're using a poor quality essential oil,
Speaker 4: and there's organic Sentual oils available in almost every vitamin store,
Speaker 4: it's worth going in spending extra money to get those
Speaker 4: as opposed to going to a big box store and
Speaker 4: spending very little to get Sentual oil. They won't be organic,
Speaker 4: they won't be a good quality member. Zeno Estrogens are
Speaker 4: thins that come from outside of the body and go in.
Speaker 4: They're not natural inside. We don't want to add to
Speaker 4: that when we're trying to we're trying to remove them.
Speaker 4: So get a good quality es Central oil. When you're
Speaker 4: going to go, get one, it's worth it. It's worth
Speaker 4: the money.
Speaker 2: Excellent, excellent. And again everyone this platform on Youthful Aging,
Speaker 2: we talk about health and beauty from the outside in.
Speaker 2: And you both know that when I was much younger,
Speaker 2: taller and thinner, I was in fashion. And that's why
Speaker 2: skincare is so important to me. By the way, both
Speaker 2: your skin look fantastic, and that's one of the things Bruce.
Speaker 2: When I met Dolores, she has this amazing skin. She
Speaker 2: I won't tell everyone how many decades young you are, Dolores,
Speaker 2: but everyone will be absolutely surprised. Dolores is practice, has
Speaker 2: practiced and is practicing what she preaches, and really that's
Speaker 2: one of the motivation. When I found out what was
Speaker 2: in our skincare, what I was eating through my skin,
Speaker 2: the xeno estrogens, and now coming up to menopause, I
Speaker 2: had to do something. So thank you all again for coming.
Speaker 2: We're talking about health and beauty from the outside in.
Speaker 2: There is a link on when you email Wisdom at
Speaker 2: walk with Wisdom dot Ca. For the nutraceuticals that Bruce
Speaker 2: and I have talked about. We've had Cido Matrix and
Speaker 2: DFH come on. That supports everything that Dolores has talked about.
Speaker 2: It helps deliver to take out these xeno estrogens. Bruce
Speaker 2: and I are going to actually start doing a little
Speaker 2: bit more training for everyone, Bruce, because everyone is asking
Speaker 2: about how we can cleanse, deliver, etc. Just little ten
Speaker 2: minute tips. We're going to start to do that in
Speaker 2: the next week or to everyone, so look out for that.
Speaker 2: Until then, I want to thank you all for coming.
Speaker 2: Look out for Revive twenty five skincare. We're going to
Speaker 2: talk about that next week. It's Interview the Interviewer week
Speaker 2: and thank you Bruce. Any last minute things you want
Speaker 2: to say to Dolores, we have about thirty seconds to wrap.
Speaker 4: No, just thanks for your time. It was very very interesting.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, fantastic, fantastic, Dolores. Thank you you look amazing.
Speaker 2: We've learned a lot. Everyone, d Soreness Bliss at gmail
Speaker 2: dot com or Wisdom at walkwi Wisdom dot Ca. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much for joining us today.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for having me. I appreciated it.
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