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Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast.

And this episode is coming out in late March 2020. To come

rounding out the theme of the power with in. And what I mean

by that is the power within our body to heal. And so today I

want to talk to you about how our health has shifted in the

last 50 to 100 years alongside our food having shifted our

toxic load having shifted etc, etc. Because when we understand

all of this, we can understand why we have the chronic illness

that we have in the planet today. And if you don't want

that to be your health outcomes, then you'll also realize you

have choices in what you're putting in your body and what

you're also helping your body get out in order to avoid your

cells turning on your or triggering your genes to turn on

disease. So we know from the science of epigenetics that's

come out in the last 10 years or so that our genes are not the

only factor that dictate our health outcomes. It's in fact,

our genes plus the environment and lifestyle factors that

impact our health outcomes. And our genes are only five to 10%

of that equation. And our lifestyle factors and the

environment we create inside our body is 90 to 95% of that

equation. And that's really powerful and really empowering

to me, because it means you have a choice, you don't simply have

to live your life as dictated by your genes believing that, you

know, my parents had high blood pressure or heart disease or

breast cancer, whatever it was, therefore, I'm going to get it

as well. We know that is no longer the case. And instead

it's like, okay, they had these diseases. But I can choose to do

something differently for the health of my body, the one and

only body that I get in this lifetime, in order to ensure

that my cells do not trigger those genes to turn on.

And so how do we do that? Well, there's many factors here that I

want to talk to you about today. But the biggest factor is

inflammation in the body. It is the inflammation in the body

that triggers ourselves to turn on those genes. And yes, the

body needs some level of inflammation, we want healthy

levels of inflammation, inflammation that will go to a

sprained ankle to help it heal inflammation that goes to a

wound to help it heal. We don't want to be living in a place of

chronic inflammation. And yet unfortunately, because of our

lifestyle factors, that is where so many of us are living today.

Inflammation is caused by a higher toxic load toxins that

get into our body that our body can't cope with. And they get

stored in our body. And over time that causes inflammation.

Inflammation can be triggered by us eating foods that we have

food sensitivities to and that triggers an immune response. And

when we do that day in and day out every day that causes an

inflammatory response. inflammation can be caused

simply because of an imbalance between the number of omega

threes and Omega sixes that we are getting in our diet and our

body doesn't make them so we have to get them through our

diet. That's why they're called essential fatty acids. But Omega

six is the inflammatory one is in everything so it's very easy

to get through our diet and omega threes the anti

inflammatory count During essential fatty acid is harder

to get through our diet today. And as a result, we can become

out of balance and be inflamed. Omega threes we get through our

fatty wild fish like salmon and mackerel and anchovies, and

sardines and oysters. And if you're not eating those four

times a week, is probably not enough to counter the Omega

sixes that you're so easily getting through your diet. And

that leaves us inflamed. Poor sleep can leave us inflamed.

Digestive struggles and issues poor stomach acid caused by high

stress, maybe there's a beer fighting a pathogen, maybe

there's a parasite in your belly, maybe you're, you've got

bacterial overgrowth, or you've got Candida or yeast in your

body, all of that causes inflammation as the body tries

to heal. And when we have all of this going on all at the same

time, on an ongoing basis, it causes our inflammatory levels

to be higher, and it increases our risk of our cells triggering

those genes to turn on disease. Many people have been diagnosed

with chronic illnesses and told that they have to take a

prescription drug for the rest of their life in order to mask

the symptoms and have them feeling better. And they've also

been told that they're going to have this for the rest of their

life. But the reality is that dis ease of the body doesn't

have to be a life sentence, that we can actually undo that by

bringing the body back into balance, lowering the

inflammation levels. And I just want people to know that that is

absolutely possible. Yes, it takes some effort. Yes, it might

take some dietary changes, yes, it might take some lifestyle

changes. But if you want to heal, and you want to get off

the drugs, and you want to get back to living life fully and

feeling amazing again, you can do it. And if you don't ever

want to be diagnosed with a chronic illness, you can choose

that too. Because remember, 90 to 95% of that equation is

triggered by the environment you choose to create inside or

inside your body. And you just might not have ever been taught

that before. And the other factor, of course, is that we

can't see what's going on inside our body. And we don't

necessarily pay attention to the symptoms that our body is giving

us. As a society, we're very quick to write off symptoms as

aging, and genetics, and seasonal allergies, and keep

pushing through. Whereas those symptoms are our body's way of

asking us to do something differently. And the sooner we

tune into those symptoms, and try to discover what our body's

trying to let us know and what it's asking us to do something

differently, the sooner that we can come back into balance, and

lower the inflammation level on the body.

So I just want to dive into some history here that I learned

recently. And I thought this was very interesting. And I hadn't

actually realize the numbers or as drastic as they are. But if

we look at heart disease, for example, which by 2010, which is

still 12 years ago, now, it was already the cause of 32% of the

deaths in North America, that's one in three people were dying

of heart disease. If we go back to the 19th century, only eight

people worldwide were ever reported to have had heart

disease or died of heart disease, eight people in the

19th century. And now, in the 21st century, it's 32% of the

entire North American population. It was in the 1930s

that it became the leading cause of death. So what changed

between the 19th century to the 1930s to 2010. That triggered

heart disease to become the number one cause of death. Then

if we look at type two diabetes in the 19th century, it was

rare. In 9919 35.37% of the population was diagnosed with

type two diabetes. Now it is over 10% of the population

that's diagnosed, but insulin resistance is actually impacting

90% of the US population nine 0% and Many people just haven't

been diagnosed, they don't realize that they're on that

path to type two diabetes. When we look at obesity, in the 19th

century, 1.2% of the population was obese. By 1960, that was up

to 13% by 1999. So another 39 years later, it was at 30.5%.

And by 2021, another 22 years later, is that 42.4% As

statistically obese, that's not even just overweight, that is

morbidly overweight, obese. And then we look at cancer in the

19th century, around 1811, one out of 188 people died of

cancer. By 1900, it was one in 17. And by 2010, it was one in

three. So you can see from the 19th, century two now, these are

awful statistics in what's happening with our health. It's

declining rapidly. And we have this incredible medical system

that is amazing when it comes to acute health needs. But it

doesn't seem to be helping us when it comes to these

lifestyle, chronic diseases. So what's changed in this time?

Well, let's talk about toxins. 144,000 manmade chemicals have

been introduced into our world since World War Two. And the

human body was never designed to have to deal with that level of

toxic burden. That didn't exist in the 19th century. To that

degree. In today's world, our babies are being born toxic, you

can go to ew g.org and look at their 20 minute documentary

called 10 Americans. And they did a study on just 400 Toxins

not even 144,000 toxins and found that of the 400 toxins

they were testing for that on average babies were being born

with over 200 of them, because they're traveling through the

placenta for a month. So in today's world, our babies are

being born toxic.

With 144,000 manmade chemicals getting into our body to our

waterway, our airways being put on our skin, and when we put

them on our skin, they get into our bloodstream in 26 seconds.

And the average woman is using putting over 200 Toxins onto her

skin every morning before she goes out the door to work just

using personal care products that you can buy in the local

drugstore and pharmacy and etc etc. Straight to the bloodstream

are liver was never designed to have to deal with this toxic

load. Our daily life is literally overloading the liver.

And our liver is the epicenter of our body trying to stay clean

and healthy is charged with over 500 reactions in the body in

order to help us stay clean and healthy on the inside, including

cleansing our blood every six minutes. But when it gets

overloaded and bogged down, it can't do its job as well. So

besides just those toxins, let's talk about other things that are

bogging down our liver, alcohol intake, excessive workload and

the stress triggered by that bogs down are our liver,

smoking, prescription drugs and over the counter medicines. The

liver has to try and process them as well detox them from our

body after the fact. infection and illness whether it's acute

or chronic stress, psychological and emotional, processed foods,

sugar and white flour products and what else is in those

processed foods, GMO foods, chemicals in order to extend the

shelf life of those processed foods as well as environmental

toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, etc. Our own

allergies and food intolerances put extra stress on the liver.

Poor nutrition and poor eating habits eating on the run. No

even allowing our body to properly digest our food that we

are eating, and then coffee and energy drinks. So, as you can

see, our liver is really overburdened in today's world.

And our liver actually has two phases of detoxification. And in

phase two, it is when it is D, it is converting the toxins to

being water soluble so that we can excrete them through our

skin, through our bowels, through our urine and even

through exhalation. But if it can't convert them to phase two

and into being water soluble, it can't excrete them from the

body. And so in that case, it will store them in our adipose

tissue, or our fat closets. In order to prevent those toxins

from getting into our bloodstream. It's simply doing

the best it can with what it has to work with. And part of the

reason that it can't, or it struggles to convert our toxins

to being water soluble, so that we can excrete them is that it

takes very specific nutrients in order for the liver to be able

to do that well. And guess what, we also live in a tile and a

time of nutrient deplete soils. And so as a result, the

nutrients that the liver needs are not in our soils, therefore

they're not grown into our food, therefore, they're not getting

into our body. So basically, we have an under nourished and over

burdened liver, trying to cope with what we are doing to it. Is

it any wonder that there are so many people with fatty liver

disease and different types of liver issues as well as chronic

disease, because these toxins are building up inside our body

causing inflammation, and then causing ourselves to turn on our

genes and triggering some kind of disease. But here's the great

news is you can do something about this, you can support your

liver in helping get these liver the toxins out. This is what I

talk about a lot. If you're a longtime listener to this show,

you know, this is what I teach. Because I truly believe that

when we support our liver and doing what it's supposed to do,

that we can create a body that is inhospitable to disease, or

liver just needs more support. And the education needs to get

out there to let people know this.

It's not taught through public health. It's not taught through

our mainstream education system. We've been taught that we need

to shower and wash our outer body for good health and good

hygiene. But we haven't been taught how to look after our

inner body. And detoxing is still something that is

practiced to this day through Ayurvedic medicine in India,

traditional Chinese medicine, the Latin American cultures. And

where do you see most of the chronic illness in the world

today? Yes, it's in the first world countries where we don't

have these practices anymore. And I love how responsive our

human body is when we create an environment in which it can

heal. When we create that environment, it starts healing

so quickly, when I guide people through a 21 day detox. Every

single one of them in side 21 days, which three weeks notices,

health improvements. For some of them, it's been long standing

issues they've been dealing with. And then they realize,

Wow, there is something to this. I'm on the right path and my

body is finally starting to heal. Again, that's so

empowering for them. health improvements from things like

aches and pains go away. You know joint pain, muscle pains,

headaches go away. They're sleeping better, sleeping more

deeply. They no longer need daytime naps to brain fog goes

away. Great mental clarity comes from lowering the inflammation

on the body, too. I had one lady recently that couldn't get out

of bed in the morning and walk barefoot on her bedroom floor.

It hurts so much. It felt like I've actually had two ladies

they had different feelings of this one lady said it felt like

she was walking on rocks. And now that feelings gone away, and

another lady who had to put special shoes on to walk on her

hardwood floor and Now she doesn't have to. As the

inflammation has lowered in the body, the body has started to

heal, and they are regaining movement and regaining their

life as a result. So is it any old detox that you can do? Well,

if you want the best results, I highly recommend that you do a

functional medicine detox that's created by a functional medicine

doctor or a naturopathic doctor. And that's what I offer. And

it's very specifically designed so that people can do it in

their average everyday life. So you don't have to take vacation

to do this. Instead of doing a six or seven day water fast,

because for somebody who did that, first of all, most of the

world wouldn't want to. And secondly, by the end of day two,

you're not really functioning well enough to be at an optimal

level to be at work, right. So we fast but we fast two days,

two and a half days of each week, over three weeks, long

enough to get the body into a state of autophagy, or deep

cleaning, so that it can clear out those toxins. And it can

start to get rid of dead cells and damaged cells. And then the

human growth hormone kicks in and starts to generate new

healthy young cells from which you get new vibrant energy. And

by supporting phase two of liver detoxification with very

specific herbs and supplements, that phase two can start

happening and the body starts detoxing. When I guide people

through this program, we talk about poop, it's important to

talk about poop because we need to make sure those toxins are

coming out. And people notice in three weeks, the difference in

their poop and how that changes over that time. And they're

fully aware of their body releasing toxins. So fasting is

an important part of this and fasting for long enough. But

doing it in a way where the body is still nourished, so that you

can still go about your daily life. And so that's what I offer

in my program is we use a shake powder, so that you're getting

some protein, you're getting some vitamins and minerals,

where you're getting a lot of vitamins and minerals, actually

everything that your body needs, when not having any food so that

you won't starve, you might have a little bit lower energy,

because you do have a lower caloric intake. But we're

keeping the body in that state of autophagy. And we're not

turning on digestion, because we're having this through the

course of the day and four shakes that you sip slowly, so

that the body can just really easily absorb all that goodness

without having to turn on digestion. The moment we start

turning on digestion, the body comes out of that deep cleaning

mode. And it's indigestion.

And where do you spend most of your time these days, especially

if you're working from home and have done so for the last two

years and the refrigerators just over there, and we're constantly

grazing all day long. On average, it takes two hours for

a meal to be digested. And if it's a steak or something that's

harder to digest, it could take three hours or if you have slow

motility, it could take even longer. And so if you're putting

more food in before the last food is fully digested, your

body never gets to go into that deep cleaning state between

meals and do what it's supposed to do. And so it's just more

food and more toxins constantly going in and no time to clean

up. And yes, the body is supposed to detox overnight. But

are you allowing it enough time to do that? Are you getting

enough sleep? Are you going to sleep with your meal, your

dinnertime meal fully digested already so that digestion isn't

happening when you're going to bed or you eating right up until

bedtime and your body's still in digestion mode and not able to

get into detox mode to properly detox overnight. In even when

you are allowing your body to properly detox overnight, that's

awesome. But if you're not getting those nutrients, for

phase two of detoxification, the body has a harder time getting

those toxins out of the body. So doing a 21 day detox has

profound benefits for everyone that I've ever guided through

it. And I love this program because when I guide you through

it, I also support you with recipes and meal plans and show

you or teach you how to be set up for success and support you

throughout the program. So when you have questions, you can get

them answered. Yes, you can go to a store and buy a detox kit

and start doing it and then your brain starts going, what are you

doing? This is different. Why are you eating these foods? Why

aren't you eating those foods? Why don't you have some ice

cream or whatever it is that you normally like to have. And so

often we give into those voices in our head because it does feel

hard and we don't even know if what we're doing if we're doing

it right if it's going to benefit at us, et cetera, et

cetera. But when you're on a guided programming, you

understand all those benefits and why it's set up the way that

it's set up. And you can get your questions answered when you

have questions. Can I have this? I'm not sure what about that, or

I'm going to this restaurant, how do I go to the restaurant

and have a nice time with family and friends that still stick

within what I'm allowed on this detox program. Because we can do

that. That helps you stick with the program, and helps you get

the best results. Those results I mentioned earlier, for from

all of those people that love, love, love how they feel when

they finish the detox and start loving how they feel even

partway through the detox. And then we make it a lifestyle

factor. Because you can't just detox once in today's world and

think I'm all done. The reality is the toxins are here to stay.

So we have to recognize that we have to just accept that and go

okay, so what more can I do in order to help my body get these

toxins out, I can't avoid them. But I can support my liver. I

can give it added nourishment, in order to help get those

toxins out. And I can do it on a regular basis so that it's not

getting bogged down. So Quarterly, we do a seven day

detox because those toxins are always coming in. So we want to

always get them out. People love the results that they're

getting, because they feel so much better. It's extremely

powerful, it is not difficult to do. And it makes such a

difference on your health outcomes. Because when we get

those toxins out, we're significantly lowering the

inflammation in the body. And then we are not having our cells

trigger our genes to turn on disease. It's in fact a complete

reset for the body. A detox like this, because our liver is also

charged with detoxing excess estrogen in the body. So it

starts to rebalance our hormones, which can be really

important for so many women out there today who are struggling

with symptoms of pms and menopause, because they have too

much estrogen in their body.

And that happens very easily in today's world because we have

toxic estrogens coming in, we get estrogen through our food,

our body makes estrogen and then there's a lot of Xeno estrogens

are copycat or estrogen mimicry coming in through toxins into

our body through plastics and water bottles, and etc, etc. And

if the liver can't get rid of all that excess estrogen, it

puts our hormones at a balance relative to our progesterone,

which can be lower because of high stress levels. And we have

symptoms of pms and menopause, that we simply tolerate thinking

it's our lot in life. And it's not again, we can do something

about this, we just need to know how. So toxins weigh something,

a lovely benefit of a detox for many people is actually losing

some weight. And also resetting our metabolism, understanding

the timing of the way that we eat so that we can eat and

digest and deep clean and eat and digest and deep clean. And

when we eat nutrient dense foods, foods full of nutrients

instead of our processed foods that have very few nutrients in

them, we actually can sustain ourselves from one meal time to

the next meal time without having to snack and graze in

between. So we lose some weight. And we can maintain that weight

loss because of these newfound habits coming out of the

program. So there are so many wins from clear skin to you

know, the aches and pains have gone away, etc. More mental

clarity, which means we can actually be more productive

because when we've got that clarity, we've got that focus,

we can get more things done, to clearing out our body and just

feeling lighter as a result, better sleep because the body

doesn't have to struggle so hard to detox during the night

because all of our systems are working better, to releasing of

symptoms of hormonal imbalances, etc, etc, etc. It's a win, win

win. So I'm sharing this podcast with you today because again, it

comes back to that power within the power of our own body when

we respect it, when we learn about it when we understand how

it functions. And when we create give it the environment when we

create the environment in which it can heal. It will heal so if

something's going on for you, health wise, you're looking to

feel better or maybe you're just looking to optimize your health

Maybe you're of the mindset that you want to live as long as you

can, and not spend 10 years in a nursing home at the end of your

life, which is how long the average North American spends in

a nursing home. To me, that's not living longer, they might

say, we're living longer, but you're not really living. If

you're in a nursing home, unable to truly care for yourself. I

love to help people, we're set them on a path to be living

longer and dying shorter. And that's what we can do when we

start to pay attention to the insides of our body, keep the

insides of our body clean, respect our health, and our body

as our greatest asset. You look after your house, you vacuum you

clean, etc, etc. you upgrade you renovate, you replace broken

things, because you can see the inside of your house. So you

take care of it, you do the same for your car, you take it for

regular services, change the tires, do oil changes, etc, etc,

etc. What do you do for your body? Most people probably have

a shower daily. That's what we do for our body. And we eat

three times a day for food and energy, I should say, right? But

what is it that we're putting inside our body in that food, if

it's processed food, it has only 17 of the 90 nutrients that are

needed for optimal health. So right there we're lacking. But

even if you're eating really well, because of our nutrient

depleted soils, your body might not be getting everything that

it needs. And so that's where supplementation comes in. Again,

something we can avoid in today's world. In between giving

our body what it needs to supplementation, and helping our

liver do its job and getting out what we don't want all of those

toxins. That's how we can put ourselves on a path of

longevity.

This is something you'd like to know more about, feel free to

reach out, go to my website, your guided health journey.com

click on the Contact Forms, send me an email, I run regular detox

programs for people. I love guiding people through this is

such a critical piece on our health journey. And I just want

to continue getting this message out. Because when you know this

information, then you have a choice, you have a choice to say

you know what, I think I might need that. And step into that.

Or at least book a call to talk to me a little bit further about

your own health issues. And how I might be able to help you

don't just accept the way your feeling is normal, and keep

going. Because the symptoms will build. And as I've said time and

time again, initially, the body whispers to you gently in the

touch of a feather. And if you don't listen, it might come

along and thump you with a brick. And if you still don't

listen, it might show up and whack you with a wrecking ball.

And I don't want anyone to get to that state I would much

rather work with people at the whispering of the feather or the

thumping of the brick stage. Because we can be empowered in

our health. So thank you for listening. Thank you for joining

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