Welcome to The Holistic Skin Guru, where what's on the surface is

just as important as what's underneath. I'm your host, Aamena.

Let's dive deep into the world of holistic skincare. Welcome

back to another exciting episode of our podcast. Today

we're going to dig deep and dive into organic

lifestyle choices. If you are already

on an organic lifestyle journey, you probably have

touched on or researched on some of these

points before, so I'm going to introduce

these points to you and some of them are a little bit controversial

and I'll probably get some flack for it and I'm ready for that, but

I will stick to my guns and I will say that I stand by

whatever I say 100%. As

you all know, I grew up very holistically and my

mum is very much into organic foods and

that sort of got me started and got me thinking about what

I was putting into my body. And I want to share

that information with you guys so you can make informed decisions as

well. So why should we choose organic

food? A lot of people will say that's a

lot of rubbish, there's nothing wrong with our food, you

know, we have lots of research and science backing a

lot of the stuff that's on our shelves already and that is true. However,

we have to remain sceptical so that we can ask the right questions. Why?

Because large corporations always have their

fingers in the pie and they also have a lot of influence politically,

so they often get their way when it comes to things

that are slightly controversial. So what am I alluding to?

I'm alluding to pesticides. One of the world's largest pesticide

companies owns the rights to seeds. This

might seem like a conspiracy theory to some, But

I promise you, if you start doing your research, you will go down

rabbit holes that you never thought existed. And you will find

some information that's truly, truly interesting. Now,

coming from an immigrant family, coming from the continent of

Africa, I understand a lot of what these farmers go through in

these third world countries. And they are faced with

an uphill battle because a lot of the times they are

producing organic foods in a very healthy way.

And then you have big, huge companies that are pushing

them to use pesticides so that they

can have these perfect vegetables and perfect fruits that they

can then offer to their customers. And all

this does is push prices up and make

big companies rich. What does it mean for us

in Australia? Well, if you speak to farmers in Australia, they

will tell you that our soil in Australia is

depleted of all minerals. So we have to put the

minerals back into our bodies somehow by

supplementing. The other thing that happens with

our crops is that these pesticides are

damaging the end product, and

in such a way that it's depleting the nutritional value

from our produce. So our produce looks

absolutely perfect on the shelf, and we all know that God's

creation is not entirely perfect, especially when it

comes to fruits and vegetables, and a couple of blemishes here and

there are absolutely fine. However, by

genetically modifying our food, by using pesticides, we're actually

messing with our ecosystem, we're messing with the natural consistency

of that product. And then we're consuming that. So

when we think about whole foods, we think about eating fresh

fruit and vegetables and that's exciting and that's also really

great for our overall health. And I'm not a dietician, so

disclaimer here, but I am someone who practices good

health and I am looking at what I'm consuming. So

ask the questions, you know, if the farmer that's farming the

potatoes sprays those potato plants and

then cannot leave his home for five days after

spraying, because of the toxicity of

that pesticide. And then once those

crops are harvested, they actually have to sit in

warehouses so those toxins can settle within

them and they become safe for even handling.

And I'm just talking about potatoes here. They're not all potatoes, but I'm talking

about one specific potato that's used by one specific company

for a specific kind of chip, if you know what I mean. And

so these potatoes are not very good

for us because first of all, they have no nutritional value after they've

been compromised so heavily. And no one's asking

these questions, so I urge you to go online,

forget about the fact checkers, they're always going to tell you something else. Actually

go in there and see what information is available to you.

I spoke earlier about companies that are actually trying

to take over the seed market, so they're making it so that

the plants are genetically modified, they can't produce seeds

for the farmers, so the farmers then have to buy the seeds. Do

you see where I'm going with this? Question, question

everything. What is that doing to the end product? And

how is that impacting you as the end user, as the

consumer? And what is that doing to your health? And

the end goal is what is that doing to your skin? Because if

it's affecting our health, it's definitely affecting our skin. Our

skin is our body's largest organ and

we usually see health conditions showing

up in our skin as rashes or

bumps or dullness. Sometimes

the greying of the skin will also tell us a lot about what's

going on in our bodies. So everybody knows what processed foods

are and we all know how toxic they can

be for our systems. We don't generally try

not to give our babies processed foods and then we consume them.

So let's talk about processed foods and what that means. I

don't have a lot of time to talk about this in depth, but I am going to

talk about oils specifically. Processed

oils are one of the biggest toxic ingredients

in our cooking today. I want you to walk down

the aisle and look in the oil in the supermarket,

look at the array of oils that are on display. Vegetable oils

and seed oils are heavily processed. What

does this actually mean? So I'm going to break it down for you. What

the manufacturer actually does is they start extracting the

oil from the vegetable or the seed. And

in this process, they end up with an oil that's

very gummy-like or sticky. And

to be able to change a consistency so we get something

that looks like oil, they need to de-gum this

oil. In order to de-gum the oil, they use an

ingredient called hexane. Hexane is

a known neurotoxin. So it's

frying your brain cells, whether you like it or not, this

is what it's doing to your body. But it doesn't stop there because after

they de-gum the oil, they

then heat it to over 400 degrees. And

I'm not entirely sure why they do that, but they do that in this process

and that makes this

product rancid. It starts to stink and

in order to get rid of the smell, they will use

sodium chloride to deodorize the product. Now,

we all know sodium chloride is a carcinogen, so I'll

let that sink in because we're not finished yet. After they've

done that, they will then have a

mixture that's quite cloudy. And to clarify that,

they will then use chlorine. So these are

the processes that they're putting the seed oils

through to be able to have the liquid in the bottle

that you see on the shelf. Now, I will let you make up

your own mind about how you consume these products in the future,

but my recommendation, and I know there's a lot of people out there in

the holistic world that will tell you the same thing, They will say

stick to olive oil, cold pressed, organic, preferably.

Stick to ghee or organic butter or

lard because these are in their truest forms and

this is going to be much better and healthier for you to cook with.

We've spoken about whole foods, we've spoken about pesticides and

toxins in the growing of our foods and

I've also spoken about the processing of certain

products that are available for consumption in our supermarkets.

The next thing I'd like you to think about is your water, tap

water specifically. If you can avoid it, it's

going to be a lot better for you in the long term because tap

water is full of fluoride. There was a Harvard University

study done about 15 months ago, roughly. that

actually proved how toxic fluoride is for

us. It is a neurotoxin. So I'm

encouraging you to go and do the research because all

of this information is out there. Harvard University

is a respected university and research organisation and

these were their findings. So the dental

associations will have us believe that

fluoride is good for us And it probably is good for our

teeth. However, it's not good for our brains. So

we don't need it. We don't actually need to put it into our

water. We need to be asking more questions. So

I'm going to urge each and every one of you to start

doing simple things in your daily life. When it

comes to your food, if you can't afford to buy organic,

because generally speaking organic food is a little

bit more expensive than the regular food on the shelf, and

I totally get it. But in order to get the pesticides off

your fresh fruit and vegetables, I'm going to encourage you

to wash everything in a solution of water and

bicarb. And that way you can give yourself

a much better start to

your cooking process by eliminating some of that toxicity from

your food. What does this mean for your skin? Well,

at the end of the day, when we consume food, we're

consuming food to nurture us. We want it to sustain

us, make us healthy, make us stronger. And

the same thing is true for our skin. So our

food intake, our water intake is what keeps our skin

healthy. So start thinking about what you're putting on

your plate and down your throat and

how that's going to reflect in your skin and in the health of your skin. I

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