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Yeah. And let's talk about that just for a second. Toxins in the chemical industry are described as chemicals which are contaminants or heavy metals. They're chemicals that kill more than 50% of the animal subjects in a study in less than 96 hours. So, you know, so they could, might not describe certain elements. Like aluminum is considered a toxic metal. It's not considered a heavy metal. Yeah. Even though heavy metals can be toxic. Right. So I know there's like, there's framing around it, which is difficult. And they, some people wouldn't describe certain pesticides or chemicals as toxic because it may take longer for them to kill those animals and the subject. So sometimes we just say harmful pesticides. Right. Like we want to get these harmful pesticides out of our food because some people may not consider certain ones toxic, even though they're very harmful. But either way, toxic chemicals kill things. And they can also cause lifelong permanent damage. They can cause mental illness, endocrine disruption, liver and kidney disease. They can slowly kill people. Right. Over a period of 10 or 20 years. It doesn't necessarily mean that they will kill somebody within 96 hours. Now there's certain levels of toxic chemicals that can kill people within less than 96 hours, for sure. But what we're talking about is chronic exposure over time of these toxins that add up sometimes, often do not get detoxified very easily and can cause an impact, you know, many, many years down the road. I've personally experienced this with my sons. I did have huge Benefits. When we went organic, when they were children, my sons, they had many different allergies. That was at first what I noticed. They had rashes, febrile seizures. You know, this is definitely after vaccines. And I didn't know it until later, but two out of three were, you know, on the spectrum. And so they had issues with learning behavior and focus and attention, mood, you know, circular thinking, depression, all of that. And, and we got some testing along the way and we noticed things like they had over 20 different food allergies. They had some industrial chemicals in their bodies. And we did take certain steps for detoxing, like, you know, foot baths or certain, you know, activated charcoals, eating organic as much as possible. And we found when we ate organic, we definitely noticed results. Our children's allergies went away. A lot of the rashes went away, a lot of the behavioral issues calmed down. And at one point, one of my sons who had autism symptoms that were very apparent, very aggressive, and difficulties with learning and all of that, all of those went away. When he ate organic, after a period of six weeks, he just dramatically improved. So I'm a huge advocate for eating organic. However, my eldest son, who ate Organic for 10 years, his name is Ben, he ate organic food for 10 years. When I say organic food, I mean when we went to a restaurant, he would drink water or bring his own food. He would not eat the food at the restaurant. The only food he ate was from Chipotle because we had tested and we had found they had the least amount of pesticides. They had advertised that they were non gmo, many of their ingredients were organic. So he had Chipotle maybe once a month, some maybe twice a month. If it was like, you know, he got a gift card from somebody, you know, he. But other than that, he ate organic a hundred percent of the time. And he also became a vegan. But he wouldn't have called himself a vegan. He would said. He said he was a whole food plant, organic, whole food, plant based diet person. Because you can eat chips and soda and be a vegan, right? He did not eat processed food in that way. Hardly ever. Maybe some salsa chips, right? Chips with salsa. That was it. And of course they were organic. So he ate vegan, organic, whole food, plant based diet for seven years and organic for 10 years. And yet, unfortunately, close to six months ago, he succumbed to depression and committed suicide. And it's been horrible. And it was the last thing that we suspected because as I said, he ate very healthy. He wanted at one point to be a Nutritional scientist. You know, he was very focused on food. He read the book how not to Die by Michael Greger at 14 years old and decided to focus on doing everything he could to live a long life. He was a survival skills expert. He was a runner. He was a man of God. He worked at the neighbor's house next door three hours a day on a farm, outside, outdoors, you know, organic farm. He practiced Muay Thai for a while the year before he passed. So there were a lot of things that he was doing for a long time to keep himself very healthy. And it was the last thing that we ever would have expected. But a year before he passed, I did notice signs of depression. And I was very concerned about him eating, being a vegan, because I had heard that some people get depressed after a while. So we got him tested and we did notice genetically that there were certain things like he had to. He really should have been eating eggs because his body did not absorb choline well through plants. Same with me. So he and I both started eating more eggs, and I do believe it impacted our memories. It did help, but he had some toxins in his body. I gave him supplements. I found out later he was not taking them, so he was not detoxifying the way he should. And then four months before he passed, we did additional tests on him and found out that his cholesterol was extremely low and it was contributing to his depression. We also found out that he had high levels of heavy metals. One in particular is thalium. And thaleum causes DNA breakage and mental illness. And it's found in very high levels in kale. And he ate a giant bowl of kale salad or green salads every day. I mean, like a family size bowl. So we believe that the thallium contributed to his mental illness. Also, he had high levels of mycotoxins, which are found in grains and beans. And that's primarily because glyphosate increases the growth of molds, and the byproduct of molds are mycotoxins. And we also found high levels of Candida, which eats the heavy metals. So you'll have higher levels of Candida in people with high levels of heavy metals. And Candida definitely causes suicide ideation. And we also found very low levels of other nutrients that were indicative of a vegan diet, which, you know, like vitamin D and E and other vitamins that contribute to the health issues and the problems. So we know now, we know basically why he passed. And the MTF HR gene variants also did not help, right he had several of those and those impair a person's ability to detoxify. And so the heavy metals and, oh, he also had high levels of DDT and some banned pesticides in his body, which we don't know where those came from, but we know that they can impact people especially, you know, worse when they have a mtf, HR and other gene variants. So we are advocates for people finding out about those toxins and mycotoxins, heavy metals, pesticides, you know, all these things in their bodies because they can and do contribute towards depression. And I'm also a massive advocate now for genetic testing to find out, you know, if your body, you know, can handle not only the toxins, but being a vegan, there are just some people that should not ever be a vegan. And I don't think that's information that, you know, advocates of veganism are telling people often enough.