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I don't wear deodorant and I don't smell.
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B
Yeah, you know that.
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A
Yeah. And I don't stink, right?
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B
No, you don't stink.
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A
Women are so miraculous in what our bodies can do. We literally build toes and fingers and hands and brains and organs from scratch in our bodies. The FDA has not revamped the formula regulations since 1984, so 41 years ago. And we were really vilifying animal fats, saturated fats. And when you look at the breast milk composition, it's actually a higher amount of saturated fat and then a lower amount of polyunsaturated fats. We get caught in this mindset that I'm eating real food and I have to go to bed at a certain hour. There's all these weird rules that we've made. Right.
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B
What's the healthiest thing that you do that is still fun? Concerts can be healthy. Jumping around, exercising, having fun.
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Yes. Things that bring you joy are good for you and good for your health.
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B
Are you planning to have a home birth?
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A
Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology Podcast. Today is a solo episode. Well, kind of a solo episode. It's an ask me anything episode with my husband, and he's going to be reading your questions that y' all submitted on Instagram if you missed the post. I did a post on my Instagram yesterday saying that I'm about to go on maternity leave. And so we're recording a couple episodes to have them come out while I'm in maternity leave. And one of them was ask me all your burning questions. So we're going to go through and try to answer as many of those questions as we can. I am 37 weeks pregnant the day after tomorrow. I am very pregnant right now.
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B
Baby's coming.
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Baby's coming. And I feel it. So welcome Hector the Show.
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B
I love doing these, Corey. These are so much fun. These AMAs are awesome. Some of these responses are really funny, too. So I'm excited to go ahead and get into it.
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A
Yay.
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B
So this one is from Drake Trumpet Jam. The.
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A
That's my.
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The trumpet player for a ration. Our producer. Literally, he's number one on here. So what's the healthiest thing that you do that is still fun?
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I love this question. Drake. Shout out to Drake off.
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B
On a fun note, I love Drake.
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A
I mean, there's a lot of things that I do that are super healthy that are actually really fun, but if I guess, fun is objective. Walking and hiking. I love, love to hike. That's My one thing I really miss about living in LA and Colorado. Yeah, I love to hike.
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B
This summer we're gonna do a lot of hiking with the baby.
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Yes. Cause you get outside, you get fresh air, you get bonding time with your dogs. Your dogs are happy. Cause they're out in nature. You get sunlight, you're moving your body. I love walking. I walk around the lake a lot here when I feel good. So to me, that's fun. Swimming also, I love swimming. I just. Anything n related I really love. So anything that has to do with being outside and in nature makes me so happy. And I try to do it as much as possible. Like I want us to spend more time on the lake once baby is here. I love being in the water. I love being on boats. I love water skiing and waterboarding. I love snowboarding. And I feel like people don't ever talk about snowboarding and skiing from a lens of it actually being good for you. You forget you're still exercising. It's just fun.
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Best exercise. You're having so much fun. You're not thinking about your crappy corporate job. When you're on the slopes, you're having the best time. You're only thinking about getting down the hill when you're skiing, it's your favorite
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sport and you get to go with your. Your friends.
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Super social.
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Yeah, really social, super fun.
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Concerts can be healthy, you know, if you're okay jumping around, exercising, having fun.
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Yes.
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Not too many tequilas, but besides that.
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Okay. So something that I think most people listening know this about me, but some may not. I worked in music for 10 years before I went back to get well, actually halfway through. So five years in, went back and got my master's of science in nutrition. I took a break, but I actually worked at music for 10 years as a band tour manager and. Cause music is just one of my favorite things. And this is where Hector and I are very. This is one of our many things that we have in common, that we love to go to music festivals and we love music. I have an emoji screamo pop punk phase. It was never a phase, mom. So not a phase. But I have a deep, deep love for alternative emo music like Taking Back Sunday and Brand New and Starting Line Under Oath. Oh, my God. So I go to a lot of concerts. I go to a lot of shows. I haven't been recently just because pregnancy has been kicking my ass recently. And just our lives have been crazy. But Hector and I like to go to a lot of music festivals. And I always Say this. I'm so glad you asked. Ask this question, Drake, because it really got me thinking. I always tell people the things that bring you joy are good for you and good for your health. I think we forget. We, we get so stuck and we, we get caught in this mindset that, oh, well, you know, it has to be like I'm eating real food and I have to go to bed at a certain hour and like there's all these weird rules that we've made. Right. And for good reason. And yeah, most of the time, like consistency. Having a healthy bedtime is really good for you. But also if you want to go out and you want to go to a music festival and you want to go and listen to music till 2am with your friends and dance and laugh and be social and have a great time, that is also really good for your health. Now if you're doing that every night and you're doing drugs and you're drinking a lot, not healthy. But my point is that if you're doing things that are genuinely bringing you joy and you're in community and you're with your friends and you're laughing and it's making your heart sing, whatever it is, I would argue that that's healthy for you.
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Yeah, it's probably worse to be a loser at home and not go out to a concert.
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Yeah, we're, we're all social beings. We're social beings, go out and have fun. So I love to go to music.
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B
Spain's the healthiest country in the world and they're all out until the next day.
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They eat dinner at like 9:00pm it's wild.
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Okay, this is from Kristen Underscore Marin. What detergent are you using with baby Love? Your registry guide.
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Oh, thank you. I'll link that registry guide in the show notes because I get asked for it a lot. I just put everything in there that I was buying for baby or things that I found that my friends really like that are non toxic and clean and pretty and all the things. So I'm actually gonna use the same detergent that I've been using for us. I bought an extra one just to have it on hand. Molly Suds. Apparently a lot of my friends like the Molly Suds infant or baby detergent. I can't remember exactly what it's called but honestly I use a lot of the Branch Basics powdered laundry detergent and I'm just going to use the same thing for baby and then I also use Truly Free, which I really like. But I know that one Has a little bit of a fragrance. I'm probably just going to stick with the Molly Suds or the Branch basics powder detergent because it's unscented, which is probably best for baby to be unscented. So here, let me see why I
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B
got blocked from Courtney's.
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Reach me. I can't. I can only move so far with this belly. Yeah. I want to do the watermelon challenge with you so you can feel what
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it feels like to have the watermelon challenge.
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Have you not seen that online?
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No.
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Oh, my God. We have to do this. Okay.
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So you crush your watermelon in between your legs. I've seen that. I've seen that challenge. No.
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So the wives are getting their husbands to wear a watermelon for the day. And you, like, strap it around you, so I saran wrap it on you, and then I have you do all the normal things that I do, but with a watermelon strap to you, like, bend over and pick up things or, like, go for a walk or drive.
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B
Is the watermelon the same way as a. As what you're carrying with the baby?
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And I mean, it depends, but. Yeah, but, yeah, it depends on what size watermelon you get. And also, like, what size baby are you carrying? And yeah, but generally it's all.
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Yeah, it's all, you know, that doesn't sound fun. I don't want to play that game.
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I would love to see you try to pick up something with a watermelon strapped to your belly.
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Let's go with Courtney. Vince Z. I don't know if you use formula, what would you use?
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Okay, so I like this question. My plan is to strictly breastfeed. And I'm gonna do everything in my power. Everything in my power to breastfeed even. So much so that if for some reason I had a supplement, I will probably be looking for donor milk because I just really wanna do breast milk. However, that being said, I'm gonna have some formula on hand just in case. And that is Sammy's milk, which is a goat milk formula. And then serenity Kids. I always get asked this question. Every time I mention those, people write me back and they say, well, those say toddler formulas on it. Yes, that is the whole point. I am only gonna give my infant toddler formulas because the FDA regulations. The reason why Bobby Kennedy is doing Operation Store speed is because the FDA has not revamped the formula regulations since 1984. So 41 years ago, the year I was born.
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B
You were born.
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What?
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B
What?
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I love that you remember that we have not revamped the regulations since then. Back then, I mean, we still are, but back then, you know, we were really vilifying animal fats. We were vilifying saturated fats. And when you look at the breast milk composition, it's actually a higher amount of saturated fat fat, and it's monounsaturated fats and then a lower amount of polyunsaturated fats. But because we've been demonizing saturated fats so much in formula, they actually, by FDA regulations, in order to be called infant formula, it actually has to have a higher amount of polyunsaturated fats and a lower amount of saturated fats. But when you look at the way that breast milk is composed of naturally occurring in the body, it's actually higher in saturated fat and lower. Lower in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Now, not vilifying PUFAs, polyunsaturated fatty acids. We definitely need them. It looks like the ratio between Omega 6 and Omega 3s, but we know with the standard American diet, we are way overeating pufas. We're eating way too many of them. And you do not want a formula for your baby that has more polyunsaturated fatty acids because it has the potential to become inflammatory in their bodies. Again, not vilifying them, but you want them to be in a ratio to where you're minimizing inflammation, not adding more inflammation on top of that. Now, as a result, because we have vilified saturated fats in formula, and because we are pushing polyunsaturated fatty acids by FDA regulations, they have to have one of the following oils in the infant formulas in order to be called infant formula. So it has to be either canola oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil. I don't think that they're using cottonseed oil. The ones I'm seeing mostly are, like, canola oil. Yes. Even in the healthier organic formulas. So I will not be feeding my baby formula that has canola oil in it or sunflower oil or soybean. Oh, soybean oil is another one. So soybean oil, you see a lot in, like, infant mill, which is the. A lot of the formulas that you see in, like, traditional grocery stores or like Costco and soybean oil. There was a study that came out a couple years ago showing that soybean oil actually reduces the amount of oxygen oxytocin, in the brain. Do you know what oxytocin is, Hector?
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Nope.
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It's your Love Connection cuddling hormone. And so we're putting soybean oil in infant formula and then hoping to connect and cuddle and get oxytocin from our babies, but we're actually reducing the oxytocin in the brain by giving them soybean oil. So again, I'm avoiding all of those oils for my baby. And so I will not be giving my baby any sort of conventional formula. And honestly, I probably I will not be giving him formula. So. But if I did, I would do Sammy's. Oh, or so I would do Sammy's. I would do Serenity Kids or I think the first thing I would do before anything else if I decided to supplement at all is that I would make goat milk formula from Weston A. Price's recipe that they have online. People are going to come for me for this. This is just what I'm doing. I'm not telling that any. I'm not telling you that you have to do it or that anybody else has to do it, but I like Weston A. Price's formula recipe online. Chances are, if you are listening to this podcast, you probably track everything. Your sleep, your workouts, what you're eating, what you're putting on your body. But do you actually know what's going on inside your body? This is why I love Function Health. Function gives you access to 160 plus lab tests a year, which is about five times more than a typical annual physical. It covers things like heart health, hormones, thyroid, liver, kidneys, nutrients, inflammation, even heavy metals. It's a really comprehensive set of tests and what I love is that every result is reviewed by a licensed clinician and broken down in a way that actually makes sense. So instead of guessing, you're actually seeing what's going on and where, you might want to pay closer attention. They also offer member pricing on advanced MRI and CT scans. They can look for early indicators of cancer and hundreds of other conditions across up to 14 organs, which is pretty incredible. And everything lives in one place on the Function platform so you can track changes over time and really understand your body year over year. Check your health the way that I do with 160 plus lab tests and access to scans through function, all for only 365 a year. Learn more at Function Health.com Real Foodology and use code Real Foodology25 for a $25 credit. If you're looking for a delicious drink that will improve energy, focus and support healthy inflammation levels and you need to try Paleo Valley's Superfood Golden Milk, it combines the Profound, well demonstrated health benefits of turmeric with other nourishing certified organic superfoods such as lion's mane, reishi, cordyceps, shiitake, Ceylon cinnamon ginger and more. Plus they've added organic coconut milk for its brain supportive mcts, black pepper, Himalayan pink salt and organic monk fruit for an amazing taste and maximal absorption. Inflammation is an important part of the body's natural healing process. But unfortunately our modern lifestyle diets high in sugar, unhealthy fats, stress, allergies, poor sleep, environmental toxins can trigger chronic inflammation which can become the foundation of modern day disease. Turmeric tea is also something that the Okinawans who are known for their longevity, drink on a daily basis. However, turmeric tea can have a harsh bitter taste that does not appeal to everyone. Furthermore, without black pepper, its range of beneficial compounds may not be fully used by the body. Which is why they created a blend of slightly spicy and sweet ingredients that your body can recognize and use efficiently to support support healthy levels of inflammation, brain and immune health and overall wellness all in one deliciously creamy drink. To try these superfood golden milk today, go to paleovalley.com Real Foodology and you will save 15% off when you use code Real Foodology. Again, that's paleovalley.com RealFoodology this one is
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B
from a journey clean deodorant that works, question mark, exclamation mark. Because your girl is struggling.
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A
Oh no. Oh no.
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B
Let's get you some deodorant.
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A
Okay, so this is one of those things that's a little nuanced and it's dependent on the person. You also really have to find what works for you. I will tell you, I actually don't know the last time I wore deodorant. I don't wear deodorant and I don't smell.
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B
Yeah, you didn't know that?
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A
Yeah. And I don't stink, right? You would know. You would say something to me.
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No, you don't stink. Smell good. You smell very good.
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Oh, thank you. I don't know the last time I wore deodorant. Now the only reason I'm sharing that is because so I went through a journey. Let me share a little bit of my journey. And then maybe because maybe you just need to figure out what works best for you. And also maybe you need to do some like diet tweaks. So when I first started learning about aluminum in conventional deodorant, I was like 21 and I switched over and like you, my girl, I'm so Sorry. I was also really struggling a lot of the natural deodorants. When I was first starting to use them, I was getting a lot of, like, rashes or it was getting, like, rug burny almost, which is a common complaint from people about natural deodorants. So I think some of that is you need to figure out which deodorant works best for you. Baking soda tends to do that to people. So if you're getting that rash underneath, you're going to want to get one that doesn't have baking soda in it. Agent of tour makes one without baking soda. I will tell you that agent a tour has been my go to forever. I started using it, like 10 years ago, and that was the one that really changed the game for me for natural deodorants. So that one, to me is always my tried and true. That works. I really like primally pure. I will give a caveat with primally pure. If you do sweat a lot and you're wearing certain types of, like, certain types of clothing, or if you are just, like, wearing a shirt where you're covering your armpits, you might get a little bit of stains on there. And so I only use primly pure when I'm not. When I'm wearing, like, sleeveless shirts if I wear deodorant. But it really does work. It works really well. It's just because I think the coconut oil can sometimes, like, stain your shirt. So I always like to give that caveat. So I think it's a combination of. I think you need to figure out what you deodorant works best for you. And then also, I think a lot of it is internal cleaning in the body. Now, I'm not calling you out or saying anything's bad, but I'm just saying that a lot of it is hormonal. There could be a hormonal imbalance happening there. It could also be a diet tweak that needs to happen. Now, I wish I could tell you exactly what it is. I don't know. Cause I don't know specifically what's going on in your body. But for me, I've gotten to a place where I don't really have to. I don't have to use deodorant anymore because I figured out my diet. And so I don't smell, I don't sweat that much. If I'm really sweaty or like, I know I'm gonna be in the sun for a lot that day, then I will wear deodor. But otherwise I don't. And so some of it might be a hormonal thing that you need to figure out. In the meantime, I would test out a couple different ones if you have the ability to. Again, Agent Tour is a really great one. Primly Pure is another really good one. If you're looking for a clear deodorant that doesn't have a white cast. Hume is also a really good brand. H U M E. And then my other favorite one is Curie. It's C U R I E. Their scents are like the best smelling scents I've ever smelled. They're so freaking good. And their deodorants really, really do work. And they don't use toxic fragrance or aluminum or anything like that. So I would try to get to the root cause, try to figure out why you're struggling. So it could be hormonal, could be something that you're eating. Oh. Oh. The last thing I was going to say is do internal deodorant. So do chlorophyll drops every day in your water. And there's also chlorella. So chlorella is a blue green algae that's also often referred to as internal deodorant. And it kind of helps clean out the body. So I would try maybe doing chlorophyll or chlorella. I wouldn't do them both at the same time because you want to know which one is actually working. So try one. If it doesn't work, then try the other one and report back and let me know how you're doing. Girl, I. I wish the best for you.
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I wear deodorant, though, because.
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Because, well. So Hector really likes Jack Henry. That's the one you like, Jack Henry?
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B
Yeah.
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Smells really good too. It's very sexy.
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Sexy. Okay. This is from Megan Kenison. Keeping baby. Keeping mama safe while flying. I fly so much for work and know you do too. Would love some insight.
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A
Keeping mama safe.
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So if you're. If you're pregnant, what are the best ways to. To stay safe while flying? Oh, I mean, I think you get attacked by EMFs when you're in the plane quite a bit. Right?
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Yeah.
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You do like the EMF protector.
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Yeah. So there's shirts that you can buy online that protect you and your belly. This is what I did when we flew to Saudi Arabia. I actually bought a blanket that was an EMF protector that I wore the whole time. And then I also had a EMF protector shirt. Just be careful of the ones that you buy because a lot of them are made out of polyester and I'm like, this is ridiculous. It defeats the whole purpose. So you want to buy 100 cotton EMF protector shirt. It's usually made. It usually has silver threaded in with a cotton that helps protect from EMFs. So, yeah, so I have one of those shirts that I wear whenever I fly the blanket. I don't use them unless if I'm going for really, really long flights, like the Saudi Arabia one where we were flying for like 20 hours or something. Definitely don't walk through the. The X ray machine. I always just ask for a pat down. I bring water. This drives Hector nuts. I bring glass water bottles with me to the airport and I tell TSA that it's medical grade water. I usually bring the Mountain valley one because it's green tinted. And then they just test it and they let it go through. And so I do that so I don't get exposed to microplastics. That's been a really big one. I've been very conscious, this pregnancy of not being exposed to phthalates because of all the work that Dr. Shanna Swan has done. I actually had her on the podcast a couple years ago if you want to go back and listen. But she talks about how exposure to phthalates in the womb are affecting penis size.
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B
Oh, fix the problem right now.
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A
Cancer rates,
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B
all.
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All of the things, all of the hormonal issues and cancer that we're seeing is, are connected to that.
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B
You can get through with a Mountain Valley water club, basically. It's like a club that you're walking through. Like you can smack someone over the head. It's like, you know, like club.
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A
Wait, what?
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B
You know, you're talking about how you go through security.
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A
Oh, this is like a weapon.
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B
It's like a weapon, but we try to go through with creatine and we get the SWAT called on us.
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A
I forgot about that.
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B
Wait, the bomb squad calling us with creatine?
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We actually did. This isn't a joke. So I go through with my Mountain valley every time. And they test it. They're like, okay, you're good to go. The one time that we pack creatine in our carry on, we lit. Literally the. Literally. The bomb squad came. I have a video of it. This guy had it said, like, bomb squad squad on his thing, and he pulled out some of the creatine. He literally was out there with his little droppers and doing a full chemistry, like, lab test.
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B
Oh, yeah.
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And I. We were standing there and we were like, late for our flight. And I was like, it's okay. You can just throw away the creatine.
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B
Like, taste a little bit of that white powder. It's okay.
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A
I don't. We don't need this. That was crazy. Wait, you made a really funny joke, too. What did you say?
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B
All those explosive gains. Okay, this is from Lena makes. She's 22 weeks pregnant and has low ferritin. Any good suggestions or supplements?
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Okay, this is not medical advice. I actually need to say that this is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor. I don't know what's going on specifically in your body, so I'm just going to say what I do because I also have had low ferritin, so I've been eating as much red meat as I can possibly stomach. I'm trying to do it multiple times a day. And then I've been taking six Seeking Health iron. The one that just has the vitamin C in it. Because you want to make sure. You want to make sure of two things. You want to make sure that it's iron that's going to be gentle on the stomach because we're already dealing with digestive issues and stomach upset and all the things. And you don't want to get a form of iron that's going to make that worse or make you constipated. So I really like the form in Seeking Health. And then you want to make sure that you're taking it with co factors that actually make it more absorbable. So. So I know the Seeking Health one has vitamin C in it. That's the one that I've been taking, and I really like it.
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B
Okay. This is EMC. Grew 27. What supplements did you take prior to. Trying to convince. To help with egg quality, et cetera?
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A
Trying prior to conceiving took.
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B
Okay, yeah, I just spelled wrong. Yeah.
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Trying to conceive. Yeah, Sorry. Pregnancy is wild. My stomach. Okay. I'd really. I'm gonna.
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B
We're very pregnant here, people.
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I'm on a crusade.
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B
I mean, Cordy's really. I don't think a lot of this weight.
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I don't think women should be working this close up to pregnancy. This is my fault. I shouldn't be working this close. I'm on the struggle bus a little bit. I think this is going to be my next mission when I come back is maternity leave because it's freaking crazy for women in America. We should not be making women work all the way up to their due date. I'm sorry. Okay. Supplements that I took to conceive. So I started doing this about two years before. In fact, I Was already. Hector doesn't even know this. I was already on a fertility journey before we even met.
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B
I'm not surprised. I'm not surprised at all.
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A
I was like, I gotta get this body ready.
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B
You got me ready?
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Basically, yeah, Yeah. I was like, I gotta get this body ready for when my man comes in, for when I meet him. And so at that point, I was already on stuff for probably a year prior to that, I was taking Wenatal egg quality, and then also the Wenatal for her great supplements. I highly, highly recommend them. In my opinion, out of all. I looked at a bunch of different prenatals. Out of all the prenatals on the market and things that are targeting fertility health, those are the highest quality. And my favorite ones, I don't take the egg quality right now because obviously because I'm pregnant. And then I stopped taking the Wenatal prenatal only because I discovered that because of my specific genetic mutation, I don't do well with methylated vitamins. And they unfortunately use methylated B vitamins. I still think it's a great product. I get asked this question all the time. Let me be very clear. I'm taking it specifically because of my own genetics and genetic snips that I have. It doesn't mean that it's not a good quality supplement. I still think Wenadl is the best. So if you do well with methylated vitamins, I think Wenadal is the best. So I did the egg quality and then the. For her up until conception, and then now I'm taking Seeking Health optimal prenatal MF because it doesn't have the methylated vitamins in there. And it's the only prenatal I've actually been able to find that doesn't have methylated vitamins, which is wild. And then for Hector, we had him on the Wenatal for him. So if you're on a journey and you want to get your man involved as well, which is really important because sperm health is half of the conception. Get your man off alcohol, get them in the sauna if you can, get them working out, get them off weed and get them on Wenatals for him.
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B
Prenatal, stay off the weed. Okay?
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Wellness by Maggie Are you planning to have a home birth?
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Yes. Just trying to decide if I'm going to share all that right now.
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Oh, it's a secret.
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It's not that it's a secret, it's just that people love to give you their opinions about everything that you decide to do and talk about and I know it's very well meaning, so I, I appreciate it. But then you also get a lot of unsolicited advice and horror stories that I don't want to open myself up to right now. But yes, that is the plan.
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Only positive vibes.
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Unless if God has other plans for us. But that is the plan. Yes.
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Okay, this is from I underscore Am realmc. Do you think BHRT is safe for women who need hormonal support?
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There is. I hate to use this word, but I don't have another word for it. There is a lot of misinformation surrounding the subject online because there were some poorly done studies that showed that there was a connection to doing this and cancer. A lot of experts in the space speak out against this study actually showing its flaws and showing that it does not have a connection to cancer. Again, I am not an expert on this, so I would seek out somebody who this is their whole world and they're an expert in this field. Seek out those people that actually know the real answers. And I would just say there's a lot of misinformation and I do think that HRT is helping a lot of people. I just think it needs to be done correctly and also done with a doctor that is not just throwing meds at you, but that's also looking at the whole picture. Obviously there's normal signs of aging, like menopause, etc, that our bodies just naturally go through that that generally requires an intervention like hrt. But you just want to make sure that you have somebody that's checking off all the boxes and making sure that they're also looking at your body from a lens of root cause and trying to see if there's anything else going on. Adam Underscore Elliott asked, Was 81 milligrams of aspirin recommended to you at 12 weeks because you're over 35? No, because I'm not seeing an OB. I purposely decided that I was not going to go the conventional medical route for my pregnancy because I don't need a doctor telling me that my body is broken just because I'm over 35. I've been shocked a lot of times through this whole pregnancy from messages that I've gotten from people because, like, shocked in the sense that I didn't even know that this was happening because I was. I didn't go the natural or the conventional medical route. Yes, if you're over 35, you're considered, quote, unquote, quote geriatric, which I do not agree with. I think that's freaking crazy. And we're applying a blanket statement to everyone when we're not. We're not looking at the person as an individual. You look at the health of my cells. My cells are 30 years old, according to my blood work, and they have been consistently for the last 10 years. Well, before that they were. They were 24 when I first got them tested and I was 34. Anyways, anyways, I went off on a tangent. I'm purposely avoiding the conventional medical system because they are no longer practicing bio individualized care. And I really wanted bio individualized care where the person looked at me as an individual and looked at my case, specifically looked at what's going on in my body, assessed any risks that I might have based on me and my individual blood work and everything that's going on in my body specifically, instead of just being told, oh, you're geriatric because you're over 35. So no, I have not been offered that because I don't see a normal ob. I just have a midwife. And I also don't believe in medicine interventions while pregnant. And again, that's just me. That's my approach. Everyone can do whatever they feel most comfortable with, but that's what I feel most comfortable with. I didn't to want somebody telling me that I was a risk just because of my age.
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Okay, this is not a question. I just thought. This is very nice from Sarah Swift. Love your content and will miss you during your leave.
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A
Aww.
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Snaps for Sarah. Thank you, Sarah.
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All right.
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But Sarah did have a question. Sarah Swift, do you plan on homeschooling or what are your thoughts in general on public education?
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Okay, I like this question. I we dove way deeper into this with the founder of Jasper, Mike Feldstein. So definitely go back and listen to that episode. Episode. Because he's starting a school. And we talk about all of this and all my thoughts about the way that our education system is now. Our general plan is kind of a mix of both. So I don't want to go just the traditional public school route, but I don't have the time, the energy or the capacity to do the homeschooling myself. Since we run our own business, we're just. I don't think we're going to have enough time in the day to do that. So we're either going to find a specialty system school where we are, maybe Mike's school actually, which I really love his. Has a focus on lots of outdoor play time, learning things that they actually should be learning about. They're not getting to school at 7am because it's really bad for their brains. They need more sleep. They're being served organic meals cooked by a chef on site. They have purified air, purified water. So I'll be looking either into a school like that for our kiddo or what we might do, which a lot of my friends do, are what people are calling homeschool pods, which is you get a group of kids together. So the parents get together, they hire one teacher, and then there's anywhere between, you know, 10, 15, maybe 20 kids in this little pod. And then the parents pay the teacher and then drop off the kids every day at, you know, one location. And so it's. It's like a hybrid of homeschool slash regular school so that you kind of get the best of both worlds, right? Like, you know what the kids are being taught because you're in full control of that because you hired the teacher yourself. Also, the teachers are getting a much better wage, so it's really great for the teacher too. They're usually in a better. A much better financial situation and just overall situation. And then you also get the social aspects of the kids. So the kids are getting to co. Mingle, they're getting to be social with their friends. They're, you know, going somewhere, somewhere else outside of the home, which I think community and socializing for your kids is so incredibly important. I just don't love what's happening in the education system right now. So we're looking to be outside of that, but not be the sole facilitators of that, because I don't think we have that in us.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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There's so many good questions. Okay. Kelly Macox, very. I'm very passionate about holistic nutrition. Any courses or resources that you recommend.
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Any courses or resources. Okay. Well, so I will admit it's been a while since I've looked into this stuff, so I don't know what is up to date these days. I wrote a blog post that's still up on my blog in probably 2011 or 12. I feel very strongly about this in the sense that it really depends on what your goals are. If you're just wanting to learn more, I think there's a lot of free resources out there, like really amazing podcasts that you can listen to. Weston A Price is a great place to start. I feel like they give so many free resources. They have so many Little booklets and they have their free podcast and I just love all the work that they do.
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What was that?
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Weston A. Price.
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Weston A.
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Based on the work of a dentist.
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Okay.
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Who is one of the, the main beginners of this whole movement where he started to connect our diets with our jaw health and looking at different tribes around the world and seeing how they were eating versus how we were eating and how it was literally causing our jaws to form differently based on like what we're eating. And he was seeing less cavities in the people that were eating whole real foods.
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Wow.
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Ultra processed foods that a lot of people eat in America. It was literally changing the way that our airways were forming and our jaw jaws and also causing more cavities and then as a result causing more chronic disease because we're not eating the right nutrients that we need anymore. So I think Weston A. Price is great. Now again, I said a minute ago, it depends on what your goals are if you actually want to work with people. I feel very strongly about this. I personally, this is just again, my opinion. I don't think that just going and getting a little certificate online is enough. Because if you're genuinely wanting to help people with their health conditions and sit down with them and, and guide them on their diets and help them through chronic disorders and I really believe that you need to have some sort of credentials. I went the route of I found an integrative school. Initially I was going to be an rd. I pulled myself out of the program after a year. I pulled myself out of the program after a year because I was seeing how infiltrated big stuff food was with the Registered Dietitian Coalition. And I just did not want to be a part of that. So I went and got my Masters of Science in Nutrition and Integrative Health and then from there you can actually go and sit for a board certified exam to either become a CNS or a ccn, both which I think are really great valuable titles to have. I was actually going to sit down for my CNS and then I got pulled back on the road and was working with with Tovlo for four years and I just, I never ended up doing it. But so again, depends on what your goals are. If you're just really wanting to learn more. There's so many amazing free resources now. If you're actually wanting to work one on one with clients, I would really urge you to go back and get a Master's in nutrition and then getting some sort of certification because you're really going to Want to learn the ins and outs of the body. I mean we. I had to do two years of prereqs before I was even able to apply and get into my then four year program. So I spent time some six years in school learning about, you know, taking anatomy and physiology, chemistry, biochem, organic chem, all the things because you really want to know how the body works and how you can really help people. And if you're going to work with clients, I just, I highly recommend actually going back for schooling. You know, I'm always looking for ways to support healthy aging naturally, especially when it comes to energy recovery and just feeling good day to day. And honestly I started noticing that my energy was not where it should be and I was just feeling more run down after workouts, just not bouncing back the same way. This is why I was really intrigued by Qualia Senolytic. It's designed to help your body naturally eliminate senescent cells, also known as zombie cells. They can build up as we age and drain energy and vitality. If you want to learn more about this product, go back and listen to my episode with one of the guys from Qualia because we talk in detail about about zombie cells and how these can affect your energy and just your aging in general. And we talk about this product. What I love is that you only take it two days a month and it's packed with vegan plant derived ingredients designed to support better aging at the cellular level. Since adding it into my routine, I've personally felt more energized, more productive and overall just more like myself Again. Experience the science of feeling younger. Go to quality life.com real foodology for up to 50% off off your purchase and use code Real Foodology for an additional 15%. That's Q u a l I a life.com real foodology for an extra 15% off your purchase. Your older self will thank you. And thanks to Qualia for sponsoring this episode.
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I think that was helpful. Okay, this is from the Sour Bee. I think you're going to like this question. Is Maha working on maternity leave? To have nothing unpaid or paid for four months is horrible.
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Oh girl. Well, I don't know if you're a girl, but I'm assuming you're a girl if you're asking this question. I feel very strongly about this. I go on rants about it every single day with my husband and I work for myself, but I'm also just seeing. Yes, I work for myself, but that also means that if I take time off then my money does not come in either. So I don't get paid leave because I. I get paid for the work.
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It's your own company.
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Exactly. I get paid for the work that I do. But just seeing how I've also had a glimpse, just with some other projects that I'm working on that y' all will eventually hear about. I'm seeing a glimpse of what it is like, though, when you are pregnant and looking for a certain amount of time off and trying to navigate that and how we. We are with. In American culture and society is. I honestly, I'm. I'm like. I'm still. I'm working through this. Okay. So I'm still trying to find the right words to say, but it's something that I feel so incredibly passionately about now that I've gone through this, because our bodies, what we go through during pregnancy are. It's insane. I am one of those people that usually has endless energy for the things that I'm super passionate about. I don't get sick ever. I generally feel really good in my body almost all of the time. And pregnancy has really thrown me for a loop because I have been dealing with just the ins and outs of everything that you feel when you're pregnant. And especially the last couple weeks, I've been really struggling with energy and acid reflux and things that I'm just not used to. And I think that it's insane that we expect women to work at the same capacity that they did when they were not growing a baby, because not only are our bodies working to keep us alive, but now they're also working to grow a literal human. Like we're growing an actual. I'm growing an actual human being that's going to walk this earth, that's going to have his own personality, have his own brain, have his own life. This is making me emotional. It's very cute. Women are so miraculous in what our bodies can do. We literally build toes and fingers and hands and brains and organs from scratch in our bodies for nine months. Your bodies work so hard. And the fact that we just expect women to just work at full capacity like they always did before, show up for work every day is crazy to me. And so I. It's definitely something that I'm going to be working on when I come back because I feel so incredibly passionate about this. There needs to be more protections for women around maternity leave, and there is for basically every other. Other country. But the US they respect life in a different way that we do here. And I just think it's Great. Crazy. I don't understand why we don't have more reverence for what women's bodies are going through. And then we pop out a baby and we're just expected to just bounce back after six weeks and show up to work again and do all the things that we did before. And I just. It's crazy. It's just absolutely crazy to me. And I don't know what the plans are right now as far as Maha working on this, but I can guarantee you that this is something that I'm going to be working on adding into my list of things that I want to change in this country. Because we need more protections for women around pregnancy and maternity leave. Because it is absurd what we go through. And then we're expected to work like men and our bodies are. We are not men. We are. We go through very different phases than men do. And I. Yeah.
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B
Okay. From Colini with 12Y's Pregnancy Safe Allergy Meds Clean ingredient alternative to Tums. Oh, this is perfect because this is literally what we have been devouring at home.
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Genexa makes an antacid that is free of dyes. And it's just the antacid, basically and like an organic sweetener or something. I can't remember the exact ingredients, but I have been eating those like candy. I've had the worst acid reflux I have ever experienced in my whole life. I've basically just been throwing up non stop in my mouth all day. I know, it's really gross. I am not normally a person that ever takes antacids and I don't take any sort of medications. In fact, this is the only like quote unquote medication I've taken my whole pregnancy. Well, and I've only been taking it the last couple weeks anyways. Genexa has a great antacid that doesn't have all the other crap in there. And you know, I'm feeling bad if I'm taking those because I normally would not. I normally power through. But I am on the struggle bus. So Boron is a great company. This is not medical advice. You got to talk to your doctor. Depends completely on what's going on in your body specifically. But if I had allergies during pregnancy, I would use boron. It's B O I R O N and I know they make ones, but they. I think they make a couple specifically for allergies. I would look at homeopathic stuff.
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What was the RO system you installed? And do you put minerals back in water before drinking?
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Yeah. Okay. So we went with the Good4Company. Hector and I actually just did an episode about this and then I also did a podcast episode with the founder. I'm a huge fan of her company. I think that she is the best water filtration on the market. The care and quality that goes into this into their filtration systems I think is unparalleled. They have the data to back up that they filter out pfas which are forever chemicals are also filtering out things like pesticide runoff like glyphosate, atrazine that's showing up in our water, pharmaceutical residues like SSRIs and birth control that are ending up in our tap water, fluoride, chlorine. So they get all of the contaminants out. And then if you get their under sink water filtration system, they actually have a thing that adds the minerals back in, which is really awesome. So generally speaking, yes, if you just have an RO system, you want to make sure that you are adding minerals back in because they are are being filtered out. But if you get one like the good for company, they actually add the minerals back in.
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From_ Alysa MN Most Important Non toxic home stuff to focus on cleaning supplies. Branch basics.
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Yeah.
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Boom.
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I love it. You remember that?
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Oh yeah. Water filter.
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Yep. You want a good high quality water filter. I always say start with the things that you're being exposed to. Laundry consistently. Yep. Laundry detergent's a really big one because you're sleeping in the bedding, you're working out in the clothing that's being washed in the detergent, you're living in the clothes, sleeping in the clothes, sleeping in the bedding. Everything that's being washed with your clothing and then you're being exposed to those chemicals on your skin. And then especially if you're wearing workout clothes that have toxic chemicals in them, you're opening your pores when you're sweating and then getting exposed to those toxic chemicals. So yeah, laundry detergent's a really big one. I like truly free and I also like Branch basics. Also. Molly Suds is another great laundry detergent. When you buy a new mattress when the time comes, look into a non toxic mattress that does not use synthetic materials. I really like the ultimate snooze. They use organic cotton and latex and wool. That's what you want to look for when you look for your mattresses. Also your pillows and your bedding too. Comforters included. Don't go for the down alternative comforters. Avoid anything made out of polyester. I always get 100% cotton or 100% linen sheets and bedding and then down pillows and down comforters that are encased in cotton, not polyester.
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B
Chelsea Lee, information regarding vitamin K, please.
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Okay, so I did an episode with my doula about this. So I would go back and listen to this longer. Details. I'll give you the skim of it. So, again, this is not medical advice. This is just what I've learned and then some of my opinion mixed in. Babies are born without vitamin K and they don't start making it until day seven or eight. I don't remember the exact day. So again, this is just what I know, and I am generally of the mind that God does not make mistakes. God designed our bodies perfectly the way that they were designed to be. So there must be a reason why he didn't want vitamin K to start being made in the body until day seven or eight. Now, that being said, there is a risk for bleeding disorders, especially if a baby's pulled out via forceps or a vacuum, which I just found out the other day.
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Yeah, me too. From your dad as well.
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That you were pulled out.
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Explains a lot.
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So we did not know this and we just found out Hector was pulled out with forceps. And I was like, oh, so situations like that where you have a really traumatic birth. I have been told it is very, very highly recommended that you do vitamin K because there is a risk for clotting and it could be deadly. And there is a concern, even if you don't have a traumatic birth, that it could happen and you didn't even know it. And so I like the idea of doing the drops from Europe. I don't like the vitamin K shot. Comes with a bunch of preservatives and there's other crap in there. You're also injecting it to their bloodstream. So we like the idea of doing the European drops that you can get, and they don't have all the preservatives and crap in there and they're just drops instead of an injection. So that's probably what we're going to end up doing.
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Kate Marie, 1, 2, 3. Your thoughts on peptides? Do we use them? Do we need them for optimal health? Thank you.
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Oh, I love the thank you. That's sweet. I have a very nuanced in the middle take on this and I've also done a couple podcast episodes, so I recommend going back and listening to again in full detail. I did one with Lindsay From Designer Gene Co. All about peptides, so definitely go back and listen to it. I sit in the middle on this. I believe that if it improves your quality of life and you're doing low dose and there's not a lot of research showing that they're harmful, I'm not particularly against them, especially if you're getting good source peptides. I have a really great friend here, Brigham Bueller, who has a company where he does a lot of peptides and he's told me time and time again that he is seeing the coolest things happening in his clinic, things that you would never even believe with unless if you saw them with your own eyes, that people are being healed from chronic diseases or you know, terrible knee and back injuries where they've been told that, you know, they've had five surgeries and they're never going to feel pain free again and they're never going to fully feel mobile again. And peptides have really been helping a lot of people in different areas. I also know women after having their babies and you know, dealing with chronic diseases, disorders. I have one very close friend who has been on the craziest health journey for the last 10 years. I mean I just, my heart goes out to her. She has really, I mean when I tell you that she has tried everything, she has tried literally everything. I mean I'm talking about like flying to Mexico to clinics and doing stem cells, I mean just doing everything. And she started doing peptides and got her life back. I mean truly got her life back. And it's a truly like a difference of like night and day. And so I think in situations like that, when it's really needed, they can be really beneficial and really helpful. I would also go back and listen TO My friend Dr. Tina did a four part series on GLP1s and there's just, there's a lot of nuance and there's a lot of noise and there's a lot of fear mongering and a lot of headlines out there about peptides. I think there's a lot of nuance. I think people are overdosing them. I think they're also getting preservatives and other crap in them. I think they're also getting them from China. So they're poorly sourced. I'm, I'm not on a peptide journey. I'm obviously pregnant right now. I will see if I decide to do them down the line. I don't know, I don't really have any crazy chronic disorders or diseases or autoimmune disorders that I really feel like I need them. But if I was Dire Straits like my friend was, and she tried everything for 10 years and basically healed her autoimmune disorder from like, I. If I was on that path, I would probably try them because I would be desperate for anything that would help. So I think it's incredibly nuanced. I also alternatively think that they're being abused and misused. People that are just wanting to lose five pounds and not wanting to, you know, change their diets. And I'm not calling anybody out. I'm just saying that, like, I think that it. There's a time and a place.
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I'm calling you out. Don't be lazy. Just work out, exercise. Just do it right.
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Eat real food.
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Eat real food. Stop being a bum.
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Yeah. So if there's a real issue going on, like autoimmune disorder. Yeah. Hell yeah. If you're just looking to drop five pounds. Personally, I don't think that.
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Yeah.
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That we should be just handing them out like candy like that.
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B
Okay, two more questions. Jank 0225 face facial products for 40 plus skin.
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I don't think that I'm the best person to answer this. I would definitely go check out my friend Jamie Annaesthetics on Instagram and also my best friend Celeste Thomas. They do a ton of content around this. They both have businesses around this and have dedicated their lives and they both have like my dream skin. Like, they just, they look flawless. They're way more equipped to answer this question than I am. I am a creature of habit and I have been using the same products for like 10 years. I love Agent A Tour. I've been using Agent or products forever. I really love Clear stem. I've been using Clear stem for at least last like five years. And I really like Young Goose too. Young Goose is pretty expensive, so I really only stick to like their spf. I love their products. I wish they weren't so expensive, but you know, you get what you pay for. And then Agent A tour is expensive as well. But I find that Agentur products last for a really long time. So I'm not having to buy them every single month. For Young Goose, I was having to refill them every single month and it just was getting really pricey for me. But, but man, if you have the budget, Young Goose really does work. So I would stick to those three and I would do a consultation with Jamie Ann because she does one the of consultations. I think she still does. I hope I'm not getting that wrong. And she will help you come up with a whole protocol designed specifically for your Skin and what you want to target. So I would do that.
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B
Cool. Okay, last question. Psych114. What do we do about constipation during pregnancy?
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Oh, I don't know how to answer this. Okay. No, here, I got one.
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B
Okay.
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Someone said, should we completely stop eating snacks like burger fast food and only eat whole foods? In a perfect world, yes. So there's nuance here, as there is with most things. I don't know. The last time that I had fast food, I was actually laughing with a friend the other day because she's newly pregnant, and she was like, oh, my gosh, the cravings. It's like, I know I had. I admit, I think I admitted this on another podcast. I weirdly had these really strong cravings for Taco Bell my first trimester. I haven't had Taco Bell since college. I mean, literally, I don't. I have not stepped foot in a fast food restaurant except for to pee in like 20 years. Because to me, fast food, I call it Play doh. Some people eat it. Like, toddlers will eat it. You're not supposed to. It's not food, but people eat it.
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So the last time you had Taco Bell in Boulder, like, on the hill.
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Oh, yeah, for sure.
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That's incredible. It's actually, I haven't had Taco Bell in a long time too, but that's really impressive. I've definitely late night, have had some McDonald's or something after college, but that's really impressive.
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I just won't. And this is what I was saying is the nuance here is that there are certain things where I draw a line. I do not consider Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King, Jack in the Box, Chick Fil A. Chick Fil A. That is not food. It's just not food, period. End of story. Again, it's Play doh. Some people eat it. You're not supposed to. Like, you look at the ingredients on that. I'm sorry, it's not food. So for me, if I am given two choices and it's either I eat McDonald's or I fast. I fast. I do. Seriously, I mean, Hector, no, you know this. You can speak to it. I don't. I just don't touch that stuff. The way I get around it is I plan ahead. Oh, I didn't. We didn't. I didn't finish my, like, tangent about Taco Bell. So I didn't eat it, but I was craving it heavily in my first trimester and I was like, what the heck is going on?
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We did Have Chipotle a few times.
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Oh yeah, definitely had chipotle.
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B
Yeah.
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A
But what I do instead. So in those situations when I was craving Taco Bell, I was making my own versions of it at home or I was going to places that use higher quality ingredients and getting tacos and getting my fix that way. I absolutely would never eat Taco Bell while I was pregnant. I would never eat any of those fast food places because again, to me, I, I don't consider that food. It's just not food. So the way that I get around that is I plan ahead. If I'm flying, and I know I'm going to be flying all day, I bring meals with me. Depending on how long I'm gone, sometimes I'll bring two meals. You can actually bring ice packs through tsa. So I'll bring a cooler bag with my food on ice packs so that it stays nice and cold. Or if it's just like a two hour flight or something, I'll just bring a bunch of snacks. I'll eat them meal right before. So if I know that I'm getting myself into a situation where my only choice would be to fast or to eat McDonald's or eat, you know, Taco Bell or whatever it is, I always plan ahead. Same with road trips. Hector can attest to this. We've done many road trips. I pack up a full cooler of meals so that we are never in a situation where we're on the road going, oh my God, we're so hungry and there's only a McDonald's. That's not an option for me. I don't see McDonald's as food. So I always plan ahead. So to answer your question, yes. But I also live in the real world, do I not? Do I never eat burgers? Pizza, French fries, cookies? No burgers. We eat a lot of burgers, actually, but we, we either make them or we go to places that we know use high quality ingredients.
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B
It's just so funny. Burgers are so funny to me because if you take each individual ingredient, it's overall pretty good, right? You get beef, lettuce, tomato, if you use a good bun. So it's all healthy. But if you combine it and you look at it, they're like, oh, burgers are bad for you. I don't know. I just always find burgers kind of funny. I don't know why I'm weird.
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A
No, no, no, you're not. You're right. You have a point. The point is that it's the ingredients that make up that burger. So we go to this place that we love called Picnic and they have like the best burgers ever, grass fed beef. Their buns have like four ingredients. They use organic ingredients. And the, the culprit for the burgers oftentimes is what's in the bun. It's like a really long ingredient list. 20 plus ingredients. Well, I feel like with the McDonald's ones, it's like more than that. It's like 40 plus ingredients. Dough conditioners, canola oil, artificial flavors, natural flavors, dyes, enriched flour, folic acid. Like the list goes on. They're adding all this added stuff in there. It should be like five ingredients. It should be what bread is meant to be made out of, which is, you know, flour, yeast, salt, water, honey. That's about it. And when you look at it from that perspective, and if it's just those ingredients and then you have meat and tomatoes and lettuce, that's actually a great, healthy meal.
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B
True.
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A
But you want it made with whole, real foods. So yeah, eat whole, real foods. Eat organic whenever possible. Don't eat ultra processed food, like products. Don't eat fast food. It's not real food. It doesn't mean that you don't get to eat the things that you want to eat. Just either source them from high quality restaurants or make them at home. Make your pizza at home or go to a place that, you know, imports their flour from Italy and they're only using real ingredients. They're not using preservatives and they're not using additives. Go to places that fry their french fries in avocado oil or beef tallow and they use grass fed organic beef and real burger buns.
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B
Let's go get some burgers. This is fun. Cora, thanks again for letting me join and ask you some of the questions from your followers and your fans. It was fun.
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A
Yeah, it was really fun. Thanks for joining me. I love when you join.
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B
Yeah.
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A
Well, this is most likely the last podcast episode that I am recording before we have a baby.
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B
That's right.
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A
How do you feel about that?
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B
I feel great. I feel like this is going to be such an incredible summer. I'm going to take care of our son and take care of you and watch soccer and watch the World Cup. So I'm stoked.
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A
It's going to be fun. How do you feel about having a baby in the house?
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B
It's such a blessing. It's everything I've ever. Well, let me take that back because
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A
no, I was like, wait, where are we going with this? Because no, that's a lie.
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B
But, yeah, no, I'm. I'm very much waiting for him. I'm very in with a ton of excitement. It's. It's going to change my life, and it's going to make me a better man. And I'm really excited to take care of our boy.
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A
Oh, I'm so excited. He's so lucky to have you as his dad.
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B
Yeah, he's so lucky to have you as his mom. It's crazy. Hopefully we're gonna be good parents and give him the best possible life. Have a good, healthy boy is all we want.
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A
Yeah. Oh, I love you.
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B
Yeah, love you, too.
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A
Okay, thanks for listening, y'. All.
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B
Bye, everybody.
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A
Next time, maybe I'll have a baby on my boob when I come record. Yeah, we'll see how good he is.
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B
Yep.
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A
Okay. Thanks, everyone, for listening.
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B
Bye.
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A
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