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Biohacking Beauty: The Anti-Aging Skincare Podcast
Eva Hooft: How Emotions and Trauma Cause Aging Skin
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Podcast Host 1
Before we dive into today's episode, I want to thank everyone who's been leaving ratings and reviews. It may not feel like a big deal, but those reviews really do help us grow this podcast and keep bringing you the kind of conversations you want to hear. To show our appreciation, we're giving away a free product every week to one reviewer. This week we're highlighting Holy Dolly for Foreva on Apple Podcasts for their five star review.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
And now I'm going to read that review.
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Podcast Host 1
I'm a 52 year old perimenopausal nurse.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Practitioner who has just recently gotten into anti aging and longevity.
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Podcast Host 1
Heading into menopause, I was shocked at how quickly I saw the changes in my skin. I've always taken care of myself. I don't smoke, rarely drink, work out, so I didn't understand why my face.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Was changing so rapidly.
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Podcast Host 1
So thank God I found this podcast.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I've already implemented so many things into my routine now, including supplements and hrt.
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Podcast Host 1
I have not yet purchased any Angus.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Products, but that is next on my list.
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Podcast Host 1
Well, Holy Dolly forever, thank you so much. But now you're actually going to get.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
A product so that's pretty exciting. Thank you. Send us a DM on Instagram to confirm that this was your review and.
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Podcast Host 1
We'Ll get you your free product shipped out. Foreign. Beauty the podcast where we break down the science of looking younger and feeling stronger.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Starting with your skin. I'm Amitai, co founder of Young Goose Skincare and our mission here is to is pretty simple to cut through the noise, connect the dots and and show you how to actually age younger at a cellular level. Today we're joined by someone who embodies the holistic root cause approach to wellness and her name is Eva Hooft. She's a certified holistic health coach, somatic and detox practitioner and the founder of the Realignment method. What's so fascinating about Ava and her work is how she integrates a advanced detox protocols mineral balancing, emotional releases and nervous system regulation, bridging science, psychology and.
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Podcast Host 1
Spirituality to help people achieve deep healing and alignment.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
And in this conversation you'll discover why that matters so much for your skin. You'll learn the psychosomatic and emotional roots of skin issues, how liver congestion is.
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Podcast Host 1
Directly tied to skin skin health and.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
How heavy metals and mineral imbalances can silently accelerate aging. Eva makes a bold point that I and Etiangus here, we love detoxing from heavy metals and restoring mineral balance might just be the biggest hack to longevity and beauty alongside balancing your emotional and Nervous system. This is going to be a powerful blend of biohacking and super soul level healing. So I'm very happy to dive in. Before we start, I'm reminding you, if you like what we're doing here and you want to support and you're interested in what products come out of this approach, I encourage you to go to yangoos.com and use code podcast10 to get 10% off your first order. And now, without further ado, let's welcome Eva Hooft. All right, first of all, as I said, off air, long overdue Eva to do a podcast about anything that got to do with detoxification. So welcome to the Biohacking Beauty podcast. You are very welcome for being here.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Thank you so much. It's such a pleasure to be here.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Yeah, so I want to jump right in because I do have, again, I have a lot of things I want to cover and I want to make sure we provide good information. I think where I want to start is when you explore skin issues, mainly the ones that have to do with how we perceive aging, skin aging over time, when we perceive them as more than just skin conditions. How do you explain the dependency between unresolved emotion and physical manifestations, like, for example, wrinkles, premature aging in general, acne, even things like eczema.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Such a good question. So, yeah, I like to really look at things through a lens of psychosomatics. Right. So really understanding that really the body is kind of like the canvas and it shows the deeper, not only like emotional, but also obviously like physical, physical and like pathology and things like that. So the way I like to look at this is that in traditional Chinese medicine, there, there's actually a thing called face mapping. Like skin mapping is similar with like body mapping and like mapping our, our organs to specific, different, different emotions. And it the same is with like different regions of the face. So I will say it's like a whole world. So I'm not like the best when it comes to like actually pinpointing. I know people literally can say, oh, there is a tiny wrinkle beneath your eye. This means that, you know, you're not showing yourself enough in the world. Like there's there's a whole science to it. But the way that I like to look at it is like, you know, is my client showing skin issues that they shouldn't really have at this age or they shouldn't really express? Especially like, given how healthy they eat and how well they take care of their skin. And obviously their lifestyle is really, really good and healthy. So the way I like to kind of look at this is that any perceived stress on the system can cause oxidative stress and, like, premature aging. So the. The perceived stress on the system can obviously be right, like we overwork or we're exposed to environmental toxins. But what it can also be is that when the system gets stuck in chronic fight or flight, I'm gonna break it down super, super simple. Let's say that, you know, we go through a childhood trauma, and somehow you perceive that it's not safe for you to be in the world. Then over time, this really stores right. In our. In our memory. This is something that the body remembers. And so it's always going to the world as it's not safe for me to be here. That is a constant stressor on the system. So just from, like, a stress perspective, premature aging tends to happen with people who are overly worried and have a lot of, like, childhood trauma, repressed emotion, and especially when it comes to wrinkles. Right, because we store the expression on our face, right. Especially if someone smiles a lot, they tend to have smile lines. But also if someone, like, worries a lot and is really anxious, and we tend to have more like fine lines and wrinkles that actually kind of embed that facial expression into our face. And so, yeah, the way I kind of like to look at it is that the skin really acts as a barrier between us and the world. So it's kind of like our. Our boundary. And if we have issues with boundaries, for example, you know, we grew up as people pleasers because our needs weren't met by our parents and things like that, then that boundary to the physical body, you know, you're. You're basically telling the body, like, hey, my boundaries don't matter. So it's no mistake that then also the actual physical boundary tends to dissolve, or there's issues with that boundary.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I love it. You know, we talk a lot about the skin shifting from a communication organ for sexual vitality when we're in our prime or around that prime to something that is more just a maintenance layer or a protective layer against foreign objects getting into the body as we grow older. And I'm sure, as you alluded there, it's not. Not only a physical aspect, actually the emotional aspect drives those shifts as time goes on. They might accumulate over time. Right. But they are definitely a driver of those shifts.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And the way that I like to look at it as well is that different skin conditions can also really reflect different emotional states. Because when we like to look at you know, heat, for example, acne or rashes or a lot of redness in the face. I contribute this more towards, like, liver congestion or just like, issues with the liver in general, because the liver is like a really hot organ, right? It. It runs a lot hotter than the rest of the body. And when there's excess heat in the system, it tends to be linked to things like anger, frustration, resentment. Right. When we have a lot of anger, like, our face gets red. And that's like the literal expression of repressed anger tends to be these eruptions of the skin. And I see that time and time again with. With clients with, like, tons of acne that come to me. And then when they start to work with their anger in a healthy way, that their skin actually starts improving, I.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Definitely want to dive into liver and liver congestion. But before that, talking in, you know, we talked more about, like, general terms. And by the way, I think temperature is very general term. I think the body is. It's a very safe mechanism for the body to use, because when the body uses hormones, one hormone in the brain could mean something completely different in the rest of your body. You talked about the liver. We can talk about not only adrenaline, but even melatonin. The difference between what it does in the brain and what it does in the rest of the body, it's almost irrelevant. There's no connection. So temperature is extremely safe because it's registered in the entire organism in the same way. And we can regulate, you know, anything from skin to liver to brain to anything kind of all at once, just by raising or lowering the temperature. I do want to ask you about, you know, we're talking basically, or talking in general terms around the nervous system. And if we think about it as the kind of the governing root, how does you know that chronic dysregulation that you talked about? Because, you know, for whatever reason, repressed emotions or. Or anything like that, how does it cascade into things like inflammation, like, which obviously eventually shows up in skin aging, but obviously has. Again, we talked about heat managing everything. Inflammation is definitely something that would wreak havoc in the system if stayed there. So how. How do these two kind of intersections.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, so the way I like to look at this, I'm not sure if you've heard of something called the cell danger response. It's a. It's a theory that I swear by. I've seen it in my practice over and over again. I. I kind of like to explore these theories and actually see how, you know, how they manage to come up in real time. And especially in my own journey, this is something that I really viewed like, like every single day. This is something that came up for me. And so the cell danger responds. The, the theory essentially goes into the idea that, you know, when the body or the organism perceives that it's in danger. And this can be from all sorts of things, right? This can be environmental stressors, this can be a physical injury. This can be toxins, endotoxins, exotoxins. It can be things like emotional trauma, right? Whatever the body perceives as this is dangerous, or there's something here that's not right, something called the cell danger response will turn on. And what cells will do is they literally will go into lockdown and not allow any nutrients to come in and really obviously also not allow any toxins to go out of the cell. It's kind of like this protective mechanism. And if the system, for whatever reason, gets stuck in the cell danger response, this is really like one of the main drivers of inflammation. And so essentially the body can discharge the inflammation if it gets the signal of, like, oh, you know, the threat is gone, we can come back to baseline and get back to homeostasis and go back to the rest and digest state. But when the body has a constant perceived threat, which is what happens when the nervous system is kind of stuck in this, in this perception that the entire world is unsafe, for example. So that's kind of like the connection to the emotional trauma. If there is a constant perception that you don't feel safe in your body, then that can stay on for prolonged periods of time, even though the original stressor, right, Maybe like an argument with your parents when you were really young, that's already gone, but the system stays in that state. And this can really like where I found this fascinating is that this theory really goes into also why people tend to be hypersensitive to things like molds or environmental toxins or perfumes, right? Like, why does one person respond to this and the other doesn't? And the answer is really in the limbic system, in our perception of, you know, what happened when we first were in contact with this thing. So let's say that you were having a massive fight with your boyfriend and you were living in an apartment with mold at the time. The body was a snapshot of whatever pathology is present there and whatever, you know, chemical, like, chemically is available or even like your, your mineral pattern at that time. And then as you revisit those states, let's say that you're now again in a moldy apartment, the body will associate again the same feelings that you had when you were in that argument, you were living in that apartment. And it will say, oh, this is not safe. I have to have this mass of response to it. Right. Of course this is simplified into like, I love it.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I'm going to use it as an excuse to not argue with people anymore.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
I'm going to tell you exactly.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
There might be mold here.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, it's not the mold, it's just the emotions towards the molds. But yeah, essentially what that really tells us as well is that unfortunately, in today's day and age, whether it is through our ever changing society and our constant use of cell phones and AI and then of course, how we're not learned to deal with our emotions and our traumas. And what I perceive more and more is that like a lot of our systems are stuck in this state of like unsafety essentially. And when the body doesn't feel safe in whatever level or reason, like I can say I feel safe in my body, but if my nervous system is stuck in that chronic fight or flight, it's not going to be able to discharge the inflammation. It's not going to be able to deal with the pathology to actually, you know, have proper immune function to properly digest and detox from all the things that are coming in. So yeah, like I, that's kind of how I like to see the connection. It's, it's all so interconnected and that's obviously how we perceive the world because one person might experience a trauma and say, you know, they can laugh at it because it wasn't traumatic to them and the other person, they're going to have a lifelong of like these issues kind of coming up.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
And I agree with you. And you know, it's one thing to talk about it and it's another thing to start seeing it around you and in you, these changes. And to, by the way, to the question is like to flipping that a little bit from your perspective from what you've experienced, how does releasing stored emotional trauma, you know, for that matter through somatic practices, how does it create visible shifts, for example, in, in overall health or in, or in skin health?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Which is obviously the contrary what we were talking about until now.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
The way in which I like to really connect like the somatics to the physical changes that I notice. First of all, like, there's no, there's nothing that gives me better physical changes than somatics do. As well as with my clients. Like, I, you know, I typically start with like Some physical stuff. And then when we bring the somatics in, it's kind of like you 10x the results that they're getting. And in my experience, right, it's kind of like the lens through which we perceive the world, which can be accessed through somatics.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Maybe double click on that a little bit. What are, let's say someone heard the word for the first time, somatics. Where would you start introducing them to the concept?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, beautiful question. I always forget that people don't. People don't know. So somatic. So the word soma is body. So it's essentially like processing, whether it's like emotions or just processing the world really through our bodies. And so rather than thinking like, oh, what do I think about this specific thing? It's like, what is the sensation that I'm having when I'm perceiving this? Right. Do I feel tense? Do I feel soft? Do I feel like a little cold? Or do I kind of feel like a knot in my stomach? And so somatics is essentially in, in my way of speaking about it, there's many different ways, you know, people will explain somatics. It's having a conversation with the body as the subconscious. So we are essentially using the body as an access point into our subconscious in order to actually understand why it is expressing certain pathology, why it is, you know, having specific tension or physical expressions. And I would like to argue that every single thing that we experience on a physical matter level, right, let's say that you're injuring your right shoulder. It has a deeper symbolic meaning to that. So we, we can kind of look at, okay, now when we have this right shoulder injury, if we were to actually look at it through a psychosomatic lens, right, the shoulder is pushing. It's the masculine side. Where am I pushing too much in my life right now? And then also, what would happen if I communicate to my right shoulder as a part of my subconscious and actually see what does this pain bring up for me? And this is usually when all these memories start to come up and we can actually access the younger parts of ourselves that are frozen in time, if you will, in those memories from our past, whether it was, you know, not feeling like it was safe to rest in the feminine and therefore needing to push all the time and needing to work harder in order to be loved. And so we can have these conversations with younger parts and then release them. And like I mentioned, and I, you know, a lot of people know me for detox work and parasites and all these things. And I kid you not. I've had so many clients come to me. We didn't touch a single supplement, and we would focus on more of, like, the energetics, the boundaries, like, all of these things, and they would start releasing, like, 10, 20, 30 parasites in the next couple days just by changing their energetics and their body, and therefore, even just, like, the amount of energy that the body has to actually kick up the immune system.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Wow.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
And start releasing parasites on its own. So, yeah, it's fascinating. And I've seen this with myself as well. I've done a lot physically, and my body at some point was like, no more of that. We're just going to focus on creating safety in the body and releasing these patterns and these memories that were kind of chaining me to the past.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Have you seen people use Somatics as more of a. As really as more of a vanity tool? Have you seen people saying, you know, all really what I care about is my 11 lines? I am understanding that that has to do a lot with the way that I, you know, express my emotions through facial expressions. I am going to use somatic techniques in order to change the way I, I, I kind of contract my muscles, for that matter.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
I haven't had someone who specifically came to me for that, but it is something that I hear all the time. It's like my face. Like, your face can literally change within one hour of just you doing a Somatic session. I see it all the time when clients come to me and they're like, you know, their facial structure is kind of like inward, and they're kind of like, frowning, and they feel really timid and inward. And after the session, it's just like, all, like, you know, the face is open and more wide and they can breathe better. And, yeah, like, as a lens, like, you know, through a vanity standpoint, it is one of the best things you can do to actually open up the facial structure. Because, as we mentioned. Right, like, the fine lines and the frowning, like, this is all part of the. These deeper emotions that are presented on the canvas, which is our face.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Yeah. Makes perfect sense.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Let's say you had a friend, you left Los Angeles, you met him one last time before you left, and they're like, you know, I'm going to give this somatics thing a shot. How would you set them on the journey? Where do they start? What kind of guidance is there for them to follow if they want to end up being a somatics practitioner expert?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, great question. So from like, a simplicity standpoint, something that every, like all your listeners can do at home is like, the magic word, I would say, in somatics is allowing. So it's kind of like a dialogue with the body where you keep allowing whatever comes up. And I know that in, like, you know, manifestation techniques, everyone's always like, oh, don't look at, like, the anger and focus on the love and light. But I would say if we don't focus on what's in your body, clearly it stays stuck, and whatever we resist persists, and it will create more of these subconscious outcomes. So I would like to say, you know, let's say that you have a lot of anger towards an ex or something like that, just allowing yourself to notice where that is in your body. As you close your eyes and you feel into, like, what shape does that have? How does it feel like? So you're just without any sort of judgment, allowing the body to kind of express itself. And whenever we allow and we don't resist or we don't try to, like, steer the experience, you will naturally have these, like, visual experiences or, like, memories that are coming up. And so it's essentially just witnessing the body unravel itself. Because the whole. The whole reason that the emotion stuck is because we, as, you know, the mind decided it Wasn't good to express that. That emotion. So I'm gonna keep it stuck. So if we actually allow that, it will actually unravel itself. So it's just a continuous experience of allowing. People who are meditating are gonna be a lot easier with this work just because it's. It comes more natural. And then you can find tons of, like, somatic experiencing meditations on YouTube. Like, I have a whole library that I share with my clients. And then of course, like, if you want to do it with a practitioner, I personally would say you can get yourself like 60% of the way there. And then there's the 40% of you. That's the parts that are dissociating, that are protecting, that are, you know, kind of like keeping all these, like, nasty parts of you nasty, like, you know, air quotes, because they're actually really lovable, but they're keeping that stuck. So I find that when you work with a practitioner and they can just love and hold you in that space, you're obviously going to go a lot deeper. And that's when you really get into, like, the past life experiences, generational trauma, which is something that I love to work on with my clients. So. Yeah, but if you just want to start, just notice how your body feels when you're experiencing emotion. So when you're being cut off in traffic, what does your body feel? Where do you feel tight? Can you just breathe into those places? So it's just connecting to essentially body awareness.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Love it. And it does remind me a lot about. Of my meditation practice. I specifically listen to Sam Harris's Waking up, and he does talk plenty about looking at the emotion or looking at what's going on and trying to understand, see how it feels in your body. And what does happen is a type of unraveling which then goes away. The same thing you wanted to do to begin with, which is kind of suppress it. Instead of suppressing it, you observe it, you experience it, and then it doesn't force itself upon your psyche, if you would anymore. So does actually make a lot of sense to me personally and with my experience. Okay. I do want to spend some time on kind of the intersection between liver congestion and skin health. So in your framework, how do you describe the liver as the kind of central node, if you would, connecting things like detoxification hormone balance and obviously clear skin, but also youthful skin.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah. So as I'm sure many people know, like, the liver is besides the skin, of course, like our largest detoxification organization. And I think it has, like about 500 functions in the body. It's. It's a powerhouse. And we really need the liver to function properly in order to obviously, right. Like, clear hormones in a proper way, but also to filter our toxins. And when the liver gets backed up or the colon gets backed up, it's kind of like the way I like to look at it is like, we have this thing called a drainage funnel, and the organs ideally drain in a very specific way. So of course, the colon is where all of our waste exits. So when the colon's backed up, the bottom of the funnel gets clogged. So this is why typically people will say, hey, like, you know, your skin issues are likely related to gut issues, which is true, because when you have a leaky gut and these toxins are able to, you know, enter the bloodstream or even tiny food particles, and the body has, like, an immune response to that, then it can purge through the skin. So that's one way of looking at it. But really, even the way I like to look at, like, gut issues, they typically stem from liver issues. Because when we look at the liver and the liver obviously producing bile, as are not only, you know, a very essential digestive fluid, but also the way that it releases toxins that when the liver gets backed up and bile doesn't get released in the way that it should, not only does this hurt the liver over time, of course, because toxins will recirculate or they actually won't be, like, expelled. But also, bile is like our largest microbial balancing fluid. So if we don't have enough bile, then specific microbes can overgrow. So this is really when we see, you know, pathogens overgrow, like candida or parasites or molds. And so people can say, like, hey, I'm having, you know, Candida now I'm having all these skin issues and rashes. And so I typically like to look at the liver as kind of the main driving force there. Not necessarily like, oh, you're eating too much sugar or anything. That's kind of like a secondary piece. So, yeah, like, when it stops detoxing properly, when it stops actually clearing toxins properly, then of course, like, hormones will back up. We don't clear estrogen effectively. We don't express, you know, expel heavy metals and other toxins that are coming into the body. And the issue with that is that when, you know, we hold on to heavy metals more than we should, that also will throw off our mineral balance. And as I'm sure many of your listeners know, like, good, healthy skin has proper mineral balance. It has proper fluid balance. Right. So copper toxicity, for example, especially women that have had, you know, for whatever reason, either liver congestion or a copper iud, this tends to really drive acne, eczema. It can drive fungal overgrowth as well as, you know, zinc deficiencies. Poor wound healing can also drive inflammation as well. So I like to look at really, like, the liver as if it doesn't do its job effectively, which can also, again, be a nervous system or emotional issue. Because when our body is in fight or flight, bile secretions will also. Or bowel production will slow down as well because the body's like, I need to fight a bear and a tiger. I don't need to create bile and, you know, try to detox. So it's kind of like this domino effect that happens in the system where, of course, course, it will also affect the skin. But typically, even before it affects the skin, we're going to see these things as, like, bloating, brain fog, fatigue, like, just overall not feeling your best self. Like, another thing is, like, red. Redness of the eyes, like redness of the skin, or, like, a dullness of the skin. And when I see my clients go through liver cleansing specifically, like, the skin is usually the first thing that clears up. It's like this, like, youthfulness, this, like, glowiness that returns to the skin, skin elasticity, like, better wound healing. So, yeah, it's. The liver is, like, such a central component to that.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I agree. And do you normally connect the two? Let's say you have a discussion with someone, you're guiding them through detox protocols. Do you make a point to kind of connect the release of. Of a liver burden with. With improvement in skin, whether it is, you know, laxity or radiance or.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's mostly the first thing I tell my clients, especially those that are coming to me with, like, acne, rosacea, any sort of, like, psoriasis, like, skin issues, is we tend to obviously work with the colon first because you have to clear, you know, the. The bottom end of the funnel. And even with that, sometimes just getting their drainage up and running. Because one thing that's important to note as well, like, if you do have any level of constipation and some people think they have, oh, I have daily bowel movements. I don't have constipation. But you can have a chronic backup in the upper parts of the GI tract as well. So you have daily bowel movements. But there are, like. There's a lot of stagnation in the colon, what that does is that now the bile that gets released from the liver, it stays in the, in the small intestine for too long and gets reabsorbed into the bloodstream. So also, just constipation by itself can cause that liver toxicity and like retoxification of the body. So sometimes even when we just focus on clearing the colon and introducing things like, you know, things that help bile move efficiently, things that help the bowels move, they can see a massive improvement in skin conditions from that. And then we haven't even touched the liver yet.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Yeah.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
So yeah.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Is there anything that you would say is a sweeping recommendation around bowel movement as far as, like, things you can take or obviously do somatic exercise, but other than that?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Totally. Absolutely. So for, you know, good bowel movements, obviously fiber is a big piece, but not too much fiber. So a lot of people will say, oh, I'm going to just start a fiber supplement supplement, and then they get more backed up. So the microbiome is a very particular place and it likes to slowly adapt and change. So, you know, eating enough well cooked vegetables, I like to say two cups of pressure cooked, steamed or well cooked vegetables per meal as your first line of like fiber. And what the fiber does is it also traps the bile salt. So it is kind of like a binder that helps bile move along and helps the toxins move out. So this is why, in my experience and opinion, you know, carnivore diets tend to create more inflammation and skin issues over time because the body doesn't effectively clear that bile because of the lack of fiber. So fiber hydration, specifically, you know, mineral water. So spring water is extremely helpful. I know people like, you know, the filter systems and RO systems, and I've tried it that way, it just tends to dehydrate the body more and reduce skin elasticity just because of the structure of the water. So the closer that we can get to nature, nature the better. So I like glass bottled spring water, good, you know, good amount of fiber. And then things that I really love in the morning, unless you have histamine issues, then there's a different route to take. But things like lemon water, you know, hot lemon water with shilajit, really remineralizing the body. If you don't have oxalate issues, then celery juice can be extremely helpful for clearing the skin as well. And also just clearing the bowels because of the salts in the celery. And then from there, you know, just eating like a clear, clean breakfast like always. Focusing a little bit on, like, you know, blood sugar management. So I like to just have people eat plenty of protein. If you don't tolerate protein, then focusing on like the, like the stomach acid first and making sure that the actual digestive process moves smoothly. And then for liver and B flow, green tea is amazing. Just sipping on some green tea, liver bitters are amazing. And then castor oil packs over the liver can be extremely helpful for the skin as well. So those are kind of like things that if people are really new to this and they start that stack, they can already see massive improvements. And of course, there's like super advanced detox, detox methods that I won't go over here that are best done on their practitioner guidance. But those just those things just to get the bowels clear and to get the bowel flowing, it can help a lot.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I love it. So some people who are. I mean, I love shilajit. I'm really okay with the smell and taste, and that's probably one of my pet peeves. Experience. Seeing people experience shilajit for the first time, it's a little sadistic of me, but I like it anyway. But what I want to ask is, you know, a lot of people who are kind of understanding that message but saying, you know, this is either because of time, I just don't want to wait, you know, 10 minutes for the shilajit to slowly, you know, dissolve into my. Into my cup of water or because of the taste and smell, I normally recommend something like, just like minerals, like B minerals or something you can, you can get like humic and fulvic acid. Is there, is there any other recommendation on how to kind of consume shilajit without the, the added experience?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, totally. So, I mean, my opinion on shilajit and other kind of like, you know, mineral, like trace minerals and things like that, is that they're. They're okay, right? Like, they're. They're good. However, if your mineral balance, like your, your main four minerals are completely out of whack, you're not really going to absorb them anyway. So for people that are just like, you know, really, really dysregulated, they know they need a little bit more. I like to actually put them on a mineral balancing program. So then we're actually working with, you know, what, what is your hair like? What are your hair levels? What do you actually need to take in order to balance that out? So, yeah, for people that are kind of like, I don't want to do all, like, the small, fancy stuff and have like, an hour long morning routine and, you know, just throw in all these new things, then I would point them to that way. But other things that are mineral rich that I love are, you know, things like seaweed and. Gosh, what else? I mean, there's so many things that are mineral rich. Like I know people like sea moss. I don't personally like the taste of that.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
So seaweed, do you specifically refer to like chlorella and, and spirulina or.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
So those are algae, which are great as well.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Yes. You're.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah. If again, if the source is really clean, like, I think third, gravity testing is extremely, extremely important in these cases. With spirulina and chlorella, what I tend to find is that if people are sensitive, like if they have sensitive systems, if they do have a little bit of leaky gut, it's not as well tolerated because it can really dislodge some heavy metals. So it's, it's kind of like implementing those in the right order. I love spirulina and chlorella, but it's because I've done a significant amount of work to be able to really tolerate it at high doses. But you know, kelp is another great mineral. I'm sorry, it, it contains iodines and other trace minerals. Iodine is extremely important for us. However, same story. People that are extremely sensitive might not tolerate it yet. So it is, you know, if you are listening and you're falling under someone like that where you're like, oh my gosh, like my system is really sensitive and I respond to everything. It's way, way, way better to just actually get, you know, guidance on what to take for your specific body. But for people that don't tend to be too sensitive, even just eating kelp a few times a week, the other day I found this, like, it was kind of like a kelp based kimchi that actually had really high doses of iodine. And I was like, this tastes amazing and it's great for us. So yeah, just even adding in little bits like here and there is great.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Good. Do you know the brand? You remember the brand?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
I think it was something like this. Actually. I don't. I think it's something like this. No, the C. Tangle company is this other, other brand, but it was at Whole Foods, so I think people can easily find it. Yeah.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
It means it's on Amazon and everyone's going to.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Okay, you did mention. You did, you mentioned mineral, but you also mentioned metals and heavy metals, obviously, no pun intended. How much weight do you attribute to heavy metal accumulation as you know, as the dependent stressor that accelerates aging, skin aging, undermining, obviously our underlying health.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, I mean, a lot. I personally think that in today's day and age, almost everything can be traced back to either metal or mineral imbalances. And the reason being that when we take back into account that the stress idea, right, like when we're experiencing chronic stress, we're experiencing chronic inflammation, we're experiencing gut issues, skin issues, et cetera. Now, when we're experiencing chronic stress, the first thing that happens is that our minerals get extremely depleted. Like we burn through minerals by producing things like aldosterone, cortisol, things like that. So what now happens is that over time we experience adrenal fatigue, which is really attributed to these minerals being out of balance, right? Like sodium, potassium ratios like calcium, magnesium. So in order to restore proper adrenal function, to restore proper thyroid function, when we work with balancing those four main minerals and other trace minerals, what happens is that the body gets enough energy back to actually release these metals. Because in my experience and opinion, we don't only hold on to heavy metals just because of how toxic the world is, but we retain metals much more easily when we are mineral deficient because they use the same pathways. So if, for example, you know, you're burnt out and now you're walking through the streets of LA and you're breathing in all the toxic, you know, car exhaust and things like that, you're going to retain metals a lot more easily than someone who is, you know, like, full of energy. They have good mineral reserves because the system actually doesn't need to absorb these heavy metals because it's already full of these minerals. And so.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Yeah, that's so funny. You know, that's a subject we've never. You know, sometimes when you formulate products, you. Well, when l' Oreal formulates products, they do it so people find it appealing. But when we formulate products, a lot of the times we put things there that we don't really explain why they're there, but. And one of them is a subject we really, maybe I mentioned once in my life to someone which is called sticky skin. The same way you have leaky gut and leaky skin, you also have sticky skin. And sticky skin is the ability of pollutants and heavy metals to adhere and accumulate in the skin, on the skin and in the skin. And one of the ways that you can help the skin prevent that is through there are a few algae extracts that we actually use in order to prevent that, alongside, obviously, mineral balance and healthy fats. But it's crazy that we can have a conversation and there is obviously an ecosystem here where that applies to anywhere in the body.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Absolutely. Wow, that's fascinating. I'm not surprised because, like, algae, they're super high in minerals as well. And that's. Yeah, it's kind of like our first line of defense. So, like, having a good amount of mineral reserves is our first line of defense against anything, whether it's microplastics, whether it's, you know, like other pathogens and heavy metals. And when these heavy metals are in our system. And what I think a lot of people misunderstand is that, you know, we can try our best to, with the information that we have now, to avoid heavy metals. Right. We do third party testing and we know which products are good and bad. However, we pass down metals, four generations worth in utero. So whatever your, you know, your unique makeup today is because maybe your mom was exposed to, you know, maybe she had mercury fillings. Maybe she was exposed to lead because that's what was in the pipes and in the pains back then. Maybe your grandmother was actually, you know, playing with mercury, which is normal back then.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Yeah, you know, the thermometer.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Exactly, exactly. Or, you know, maybe your parents, which all of my parents were, and their family as well, were chain smokers. Right. So now you're getting all of that cadmium and lead. And what tends to happen and what I perceive as it being the Main reason why so many babies are now born with things like autism and eczema and just all these issues that, you know, we didn't see a hundred years ago is because we're passing down similar to how, right? We say, like you have to avoid eating tuna because it's high mercury, because it's eating, you know, all these lower fish and that accumulates through the food chain. It's the same with us. Like, we accumulate this generations down. And so now, you know, the more depleted we are because of these heavy metals, the more that we are born into bodies that are lacking certain minerals that are actually full of heavy metals. And I am on a journey of releasing those, which is something that many people misunderstand. I think it's a trending topic right now. Everyone talks about chelation and doing heavy metal detox smoothies. And if I can give your listeners one thing is that don't play with it unless you actually know what you're doing. I almost killed myself doing this. I've heard many stories of people doing that that are just using the, the viral heavy metal detox sprays and all those things. And those are not the way to go about cleaning these up. It's about actually restoring safety and letting the body release the metals itself. And that happens through restoring proper mineral balance. Yes, you can work with some binders, but the binders actually don't get the minerals that are deep in our bones and our tissues and our nervous system, which is where they like to be. So, you know, when we talk about trauma and nervous system dysregulation, I would say the main irritant to our nervous system is when there are heavy metals lodged in our brain and nervous system. And of course it's going to have these like insane misfiring experiences because of the mineral balance not being properly there. And if you really want to take it. Woo woo. I posted a reel about this the other day. But when we look at like from a spiritual lens, what people tend to say, like entities, whether you want to believe that or not, it's when our system is able to get hijacked. And what is a great conductor of energy, it's metals. So things like copper and other heavy metals, they can literally disturb our energy field. And therefore we are much more susceptible as well to things like, you know, parasites and other things and people having these like, you know, psychic attacks and, and whatever and not understanding what's going on or having psychotic breaks. Like, if you ask me, I think the heavy metals are like playing a.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Huge part in that I wouldn't be surprised. And the problem is that we are so first to what you say about carrying heavy metals and contaminants a few generations down. It's almost like we are the accumulation of anything happening after, like the 16th century with, obviously with progress. Right. Would you say that when we look at a map of prevalence of autism, for example, we can see the Western world being significantly more prevalent? However, you know, heavy metals is a global phenomenon. For that matter, do you think the missing aspect within Western world is that connection to, I would say, like spirituality or emotional balance, community, things that allow you for a more. I would say, like emotional homeostasis.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
I think it's a lot of different things. I think that's one of them. I think the lack of community. Right. It's like we're so individual, we don't have community. The body is a lot more isolated, which I think is honestly like one of the bigger reasons for disease. And I also think that our food plays a massive role. Like we aren't eating from, you know, good soils anymore. In the Western world, our soils are extremely depleted. We're eating fast food, we're eating junk food. So we're going to be more mineral deficient and again come back to the idea that we're absorbing a lot more from the environment. I also believe that in more, like rural, like more of these areas, like suburban areas, you know, there are more pollutants. So we do get exposed to heavy metals a lot more than people who are, you know, living in other places of the world. And then I do really think that like, the community piece plays into it because, you know, there's. There's India and there's all these other places that are extremely polluted as well. But the culture is so different and they are like really together. Right. Like that's, that's such a. It's like CO regulation literally at its finest.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I believe it's literally the best supplement. And you know, Anastasia, my wife, made me watch the Blue Zones Netflix thing only to get me upset about them recommending sweet potato as the solution to everything. Nothing against sweet Potato, but. And he never talked about community. I mean, he never emphasized community. I mean, that's the most glaring thing you can see out of every, you know, community that he visited. That it's first and foremost a community. They do everything together, things like that. I think there is so much there. We talk about nervous regulation. You know, it's not a. Not a secret that social media makes us significantly feel more isolated, feel more Depressed, et cetera. But that. Because that's the antithesis of community. Right. You don't have people sharing with you your. Your lows and definitely not sharing your. The highs with you. Everything is done through kind of comparison to whatever, to someone's best manufactured day. So it was crazy to me that no one in the longevity community puts it at the top of the list.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, I'm same. And I think that's really what helped my journey so much because, I mean, I was always traveling, I was modeling for a long time, and I felt so isolated, you know, in dealing with my symptoms. And I think that's what I see as well with my clients that are going through. I. I run these group containers and to see them connecting and like, you know, coming into the program and saying, I feel so alone in this. No one understands me. And to find others that are going through like, a similar healing journey and how fun it becomes. Right. Like when you're like, actually having people that also love to like, nerd out on like, these biohacking things and like, you know, optimizing their bodies and like avoiding foods that are full of pesticides and stuff, and to feel that you have like an ally in that and like a friend and a community, I think that's what contributes, like, the most amount of healing to our bodies.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I love it. So actually, you know, coming to, to, to towards the end of our conversation, let's talk a little bit about how you are doing things, because this is what intrigued me in the. In the first place. What is your view of how do you approach integrating subconscious reprogramming, mineral detox support, and how do you kind of integrate them to create sustainable improvement? Because I think sustainable is a very important discussion here.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, yeah. So both for myself and for my clients, I like to say that there's really two ways in which people are practicing these days. There's either the very masculine way and the very feminine way. Right? There's the people that say, here's your supplement program. Stick to it, do it, and go.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
How many supplements can you take at once?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Exactly. How many supplements? How many biohacking tools can you stack? And doing things where it feels almost like if I don't do this, then I don't get better. And I see so many people come into my programs that say, I think I just need to eat even more healthier and be even more on top of things, and then I'll experience the health that I want, which is really just right. That's just a belief system that's running itself. And if you think that that's the case, then of course that will be the case for you. So what my journey has led me to and what I really drive home to my clients is that the main connection should be between you and your body. So for me, whatever any other practitioner tells me, it doesn't matter how much I look up to them, how much I trust them. If my body says no to something, then I learn to listen to that and that becomes kind of like. So it's very much like feminine based intuition, understanding that your body's needs change on a daily basis. So even when I design supplement protocols for my clients, I teach them how to listen to their body on a daily basis and understand that when they're going through, you know, a big upgrade, a big healing reaction or like a big retracing of some sort of emotional trauma, that in those moments if they say, hey, actually I feel like taking a day off of like my supplements of all these things that I actually encourage that because we cannot override the intelligence of the body. So that is, I believe, the key to it being sustainable. Because like 9 out of 10 clients that find me have done the functional medicine protocols. They've done some sort of detox, they've tried, you know, to heal their bodies with all these like Instagram like influencer advice and all those things and come to the conclusion that like, you know, either they made their health worse, they had some sort of adverse reaction and it just simply didn't work for them. And the thing that's going to work for them is something that like, I, yes, I might have ideas and I can give them tools, but ultimately they are going to have to implement it in a way that their bodies feel safe with. And that's how I tend to do it. So whatever the body doesn't feel safe with, like we said, it's going to turn off the ability to detox and digest. So we want to do the opposite. So the nervous system really comes first.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
I agree. And I think just like, you know, even going extremely granular and talking about things like I love the book Atomic Habits. Not because it's groundbreaking, because it's so simple, you know, if you don't build a habit around it, if it's not easy enough to build a habit around, it doesn't even matter what it is, if it's not something you can easily and simply do for the rest of your life. Obviously you shouldn't do everything for the rest of your life. But if the habit is not there what you are doing is playing around with something until you're not being watched anymore. If it's your guidance or whatever that is, it's not now rooted in your identity. If you would.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, absolutely.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Okay, so to bring it to a close, we normally do a lightning round, but I have too many questions for you, so I'm going to ask you a few very simple questions. Give me a short answer if you can. If not, that's also. Okay. So what is your opinion about Botox?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
I think it's a neurotoxin and I'm a huge no. I think there is definitely tons of natural ways in which we can stimulate similar effects.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Okay, what is your favorite. You see, you know my questions already. What is your favorite beauty treatment that aligns with your view of health and the world?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Oh, so many. I would say, like. Like there's so many holistic facialists these days. Like, I just had the studio nearby reach out about, like, a bioenerget facial with microcurrent that mimics Botox. Like, there's, you know, like the snail creams and like, all the natural remedies. And honestly, mineral balancing is, like, favorite for my beauty, for sure.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Amen. Yeah, I agree. And okay, so third is. Let's assume you had to start from scratch, your health journey. What would be the first thing, the first test, the first action you would do to create that, that snowball effect, that cascade that would lead you to. To a good, healthy place?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Oh, that's a tough one. If I had to start over, I would probably start with cutting out things that are not good for me, including relationships. That was the last thing to go for me. So any toxicity, including relationships, I love it.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Okay, great. Listen, Eva, this was very fun. I'm super grateful for your time, and I believe that we did a good job balancing between things that are less philosophical and some actionable items. But really, I think if someone needs to start a journey, the best way to start a journey, aside from actions, but the best way to start a journey is, is by accessing someone's as a source of knowledge. So that brings us to how do people work with you? How do they learn more about your methodology, etc.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Yeah, so I share a lot, a lot of free information on my Instagram. So that is just my first last name. So, Eva Hoft. I run group programs three times a year, which is really, as I mentioned, kind of like it's my baby. It's where I put all my time and energy in. So I have a course that I guide people through basically teaching them everything from detoxification to the somatics, through the emotions to the nervous system and doing that in a group program. We also are bringing out a self paced course for that as well. So if you don't want to do it in a group, you can access that as well. It's all available on my website and then I also work with a very selective number of one on one clients, typically no more than five or six at a time. So yeah, that's something that you can just inquire over email or Instagram as well. And yeah, tons of you know, free master classes, podcasts that you can access. I will post all of that either on my newsletter or on my Instagram.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Great. And what is the address of your website?
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
It is my first and last name. Dot com.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Okay, yeah, evahof dot com.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Absolutely.
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Amitai (Co-founder of Young Goose Skincare)
Eva, it's been an absolute pleasure, thank you. Thanks everyone who was listening and yeah, bye.
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Eva Hooft (Certified Holistic Health Coach and Founder of the Realignment Method)
Likewise. Thank you so much.