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Kara
Humans can't live or survive without food. We have to rely on our food system. These agrochemical companies own a large majority of our food system.
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Hector
They cause cancer to these farmers. And then don't they own the solution to the problem that they've caused as well? What about insurance?
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Kara
We're definitely seeing a trend of people realizing that their health insurance is a scam. And we were paying what, like seven or $800 a month and they were denying everything. School pods parents would find a teacher and they would each individually pay the teacher and they would get a group of kiddos together so like 15, 20 kids and have one meeting place where it would be at someone's house generally. And it's a win win for everybody involved because a teacher is actually making a way better salary. It's a win for the parents because the parents know exactly what the kids are being taught at school. The public schools are a mess.
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Hector
How are you feeling with the mold exposure, being pregnant?
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Kara
Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. Today, my husband Hector is joining me for an Ask me anything. So maybe Hector's gonna throw in a couple of his own questions. We'll see. I've been doing a couple of these on my Instagram lately because I'm finding one. They're very fun for me and hopefully you guys are getting a lot from them. I love the range of a lot of different questions that I get. They're all about my personal life, health, how I'm doing, the mold exposure that we're dealing with, pregnancy. And it's been really fun for me to answer just a wide array of questions and hopefully you guys are enjoying them too. So we're gonna go through some of the ask me anything questions that I got on my Instagram stories and Hector's gonna ask them.
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Hector
Yeah, let's do. This is gonna be fun. I like getting all these questions in here. You get so many. I am just amazed by the amount of questions you get when you put this on your Instagram. And I mean, let's just jump right into it, right? Let's do it. So this is from Michelle in Montana. How are you doing feeling with the mold exposure and being pregnant?
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Kara
This is such a loaded question. I'm probably gonna cry. I am admittedly not doing well. I don't feel good. I have never been so fatigued in my whole life. And I'm not entirely sure if it's the mold. Is it the grief? Is it the pregnancy? It's probably a mixture of all of It. God, it's so interesting too, because so my husband and I, Hector and I, just recorded a podcast all about everything, the whole update of everything that we've been through with the mold in the last couple months. And we're not going to release it right away. The landlords that we're dealing with have been unbelievable. I truly cannot believe the response. And we just don't want to release everything yet because they have found my Instagram and they're screenshotting stuff and they're weaponizing things against us. I already feel myself like in my brain thinking about how I can say this in a way that they're not gonna be able to weaponize it against us. So there's only so much I can say right now, which is really sad because I just wanna be open and honest and like, share the story. Cause I think when we finally can share the story of our mold situation, that it will hopefully help a lot of people. We're learning a lot right now. Hector's health is not doing great right now. I'm actually really concerned about him. All the symptoms that he's been having. And we were actually just having a conversation right before we started recording with the producer of this studio that we record in. He was dealing with mold and he was saying that he finally, after a year, a year later of being exposed, is just now starting to feel better and healthy again. Which concerns me because I'm seeing how much this is affecting Hector right now, how much it's affecting my health. Mold is something you definitely don't want to mess around with. And we're learning so much about it. So really long winded way of me answering and saying, like, I'm actually, like really not doing super well right now. I don't feel good. I'm crying every day. I miss my mom. It's been a really hard season of life.
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Hector
It has. Yeah. We're going to get through the storm court and there's going to be sunnier days around the corner. I can feel it. This is going to be such a great summer. With our baby boy on the way, we're gonna get some fresh mountain air. We're gonna, I think, just have a really great summer. And he's gonna bring in some really great fresh energy. So things are tough right now. Yes, we feel like shit because of the mold, but we are going on the up and up and things are going to get better. Thanks for sharing that.
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Kara
Yeah.
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Hector
Yeah. Okay. This one is from Shanique Ramirez. How can we reverse the folic acid in tortillas and breads that Newsom passed in California.
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Kara
I love this question. I don't have a solution for it. Honestly. If I can figure out any way to do some sort of petition and get that together with the right people in California, I would try to create a movement around that. I don't know how we change that. So for people that don't know, know anything about this, Newsom passed a mandate in California that they are now requiring all tortillas and all grain products. Let me see my phone because I want to make sure that I don't get this incorrect what the exact mandate is. But essentially he is forcing food manufacturers to put folic acid in tortillas, particularly targeting actually Hector's demographic. Yeah, yeah, the Latin demographic, because they tend to have more neural defects. And so it, while it was started with good intention, the problem that I have with it and why it's incredibly dangerous is that folic acid can be poisonous for people. Especially if you have the MTHFR gene, meaning that you, you have a genetic mutation, which I have. Actually, I believe you have me too. If you have mthfr, your body does not synthesize folic acid into folate. Folic acid is the synthetic version of vitamin B9. What you want is folate. And I get attacked so much when I talk about this on Instagram because people misconstrue my words and they think that I'm saying that Nobody needs vitamin B9, which is incredibly not true. It's not what I'm saying. I'm saying you need folate. Folate is the real version of vitamin B9 that your body actually needs. And folic acid is the synthetic version of it. And if you have something like MTHFR, which over 60% of women have this genetic mutation, MTHFR, your body is not able to fully synthesize folic acid into folate. And folate is actually what your body needs if you're acne prone. But you're also starting to think about fine lines, texture, and healthy aging. You know, the struggle. Oftentimes you feel like you have to choose between one or the other. There's so many anti aging products that feel heavy and clogging and then so many of the acne products leave your skin skin feeling stripped and irritated. That's why I love clear stem, because they not only address acne prone skin, but they're also addressing anti aging. And you also don't have to have acne prone skin to use clear stem. I actually don't have acne prone skin and I love their products. If you're going to try one product of theirs, I would highly recommend starting with a gentle clean cleanser. It gives you that clean skin feeling without making your face feel tight, dry or reactive after and it gets all of your makeup off. It's literally what I use to get all my makeup off and it does not leave my skin feeling dry. It's made without pork clogging ingredients which is huge for acne prone skin. I feel like my skin looks clearer, calmer and more balanced overall while still supporting healthy aging instead of fighting against it. Discover the clear stem difference because clear skin changes everything. Go to clearstein.com real foodology and use code real foodology for 15% off your first order. If you're looking for a delicious drink that will improve energy focus and support healthy inflammation levels, 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 Skin, 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 healthy levels of inflammation, brain and immune health and overall wellness all in one deliciously creamy drink. To try the 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 real foodiology I have
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Hector
so many questions about that. First of all, why? What is the benefit of doing so? Are they trying to bring on some good intentions? Are there positive things that could come around from doing this? I just don't really understand it.
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Kara
I am not a fan of Newsom. I think he's done terrible things. The state of California. I will say this. I will give him the benefit of the doubt. I think he thinks that he's doing something good for people. I think he thinks that it's rooted in good intention because he hears that the Latin population struggles immensely with neural defects. And folate is something that you take while you're pregnant in order to prevent these defects. But he's getting bad science and he's getting bad research. You're not supposed to be taking folic acid. It needs to be folate. This is also incredibly important for women that either want to get pregnant or are pregnant. Plan on getting pregnant, make sure you're taking folate, not folic acid. I'm actually doing an entire episode about this with Dr. Ben Lynch. So we're going to dive more into the details, into the science behind it, the mechanisms in the body, and why it's incredibly important to take folate and not folic acid. He is the goat when it comes to MTHFR gene, genetic SNPs in general. He wrote a book called Dirty Genes. And he is just like, amazing. And he's going to come on and explain this in further detail. But basically the mandate needs to be reversed. And I don't know if. If somebody could create a petition, if there's somebody listening that has some sort of involvement in politics in California specifically, that maybe could get a bill that they could bring that would push against it. But somebody needs to get to Newsom and let them know that we should be adding folate, not adding folic acid.
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Hector
Whoops.
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Kara
What was the actual mandate?
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Hector
That is wild. Okay, also, what if it's manufactured outside of California and they're importing it into California? So do they have to change up the formula specifically for California is the ones that are just manufactured in the state? A lot of questions.
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Kara
So that's a great question. It's a great point you bring up. And why so many people are in an uproar about this. Because generally what happens with bills like this is that a company is not wanting to reformulate for one state because that's just a nightmare and a mess, and it's a huge expense for that company. It's easier for them to just completely reformulate their entire stock and then send that to all 50 states. So what's probably gonna end up happening is a lot of these companies are gonna reformulate for this California mandate and then it's just gonna be their new product.
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Hector
It's gonna be.
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Kara
It's gonna go nationwide, and that's a big problem. Okay, so he signed. This is the specific mandate. Cause I just wanted to make sure I got it right. He's requiring manufacturers to add folic acid to corn masa flour used in tortillas. This mandate aims to increase folic acid intake among Latinas, potentially reducing serious neural tube birth defects by up to 70%. Also, part of me is just like, why I understand the tortillas, because. So Hector is Mexican. For those of you that don't know, obviously, your family eats a lot of tortillas. I'm not trying to turn this into anything about my. I'm not trying to. I feel like, God, it's just sad.
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Hector
We do. It's part of our. It's just part of our. It's part of our life. Quite a. It's like every meal. Breakfast.
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Kara
Yeah.
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Hector
Lunch, dinner. You know, it's in every. It's in every meal.
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Kara
Well, and I was gonna say. I said it's so sad. Not about the tortillas. I was just gonna say, it's so sad that we feel like sometimes we have to walk on eggshells so people don't call us racist when you make just a very normal comment like that. And I just wanted to name that. Cause I'm like, we just live in such a wild time. But, yes, having been married to you for almost a year now, we've also dated for a couple years. And just being around your family and noticing that, yeah, Latin culture, Latinos eat a lot of tortillas. So I understand the thinking behind it. But also, there is a part of me that's like, why can't we just get more education out to this population that they should be taking folate? Why are we having to now add it into tortillas? It just, to me, seems like it's so backwards. In 2026, we need to be not adding more synthetic vitamins to our grains, because as we're learning a lot of these, we've made mistakes on, like enriching our bread, for example.
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Hector
Yeah. So this is from Awild Row. Best way to detox from glyphosate and food chemicals.
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Kara
I love this question. I'm incredibly passionate about glyphosate. How do we detox? So it's not. There's not one specific protocol necessarily. There's many ways to do it, and it can get really, incredibly expensive. I'm going to be honest. And there's not really a lot of. A whole lot of research around if we can. And how. Well the detoxes work. To give you a little context when I was living in la. My glyphosate levels were some of the lowest that my doctor said that she has ever seen because I was eating strictly organic. And I was very mindful of what was going on in my body. And then something happened when I moved to Denver. Still eating organic, still incredibly mindful. I lost my access to Erewhon. I miss Erewhon. But something happened. We did my test in when I moved to Denver and my glyphosate levels got pretty high, which was incredibly concerning. So what my doctor had me doing was sauna at least a couple times a week. We did some phosphatidylcholine, IVs. Phosphatidylcholine is also Body BioPC, a supplement that I take daily. I do either the liquid or the tablets, and I was doing those every single day. At least six to 10 tablets a day or two tablespoons of the liquid. By the way, the liquid is more concentrated, so I would recommend doing the liquid. And by the way, this is not a protocol for you. You should be absolutely working with a licensed doctor. I'm not a doctor and I'm not prescribing a protocol for you. This is not medical advice. This is just strictly what I did. So PC is phosphatidylcholine, and it cleanses the cell membranes and replaces the fatty acids in the cell membrane. And so if you're dealing with something like a toxin overload, like glyphosate, it helps to basically scrub the cell membranes clean. So taking something like phosphatidylcholine will help a lot. Another one that I never got around to doing just because I didn't have great access to it in Denver, but if I was in la, I would have done this as ozone. There's a couple different ways of doing it, but it's basically a way to, like, cleanse and oxygenate your blood. And you can do one way. Actually, Hector and I went to shout out to my good friend Do Mark Galilee's office in la. My mom did some ozone. We were fighting off her cancer. And the way that he did it was. Why am I blanking on the specific name? It'll come to me in a second. Eboo. So we did eboo, which is she had a needle in each arm and she had one side pulling blood out. And it would pull it into this ozone machine and it would put it under a UV light. So it was killing off any bacteria, glyphosate, toxins, all of that. And then it was re oxygenating it with ozone and then it was putting it back in her body and so it was this like circular thing. I did do ozone a couple times when I lived in la, but I didn't do the eboo. I just did where they pulled blood out of me and then they re oxygenated and ozonated it and then they put it back in me. So that's another option that you could do. Full transparency. It's incredibly expensive trying to be mindful of people's budgets. I know all this stuff is so expensive. I mean, another great way is, I mean, try to avoid eating non organic food as much as possible. It's getting harder and harder because we're seeing glyphosate showing up in our organic food as well because it's so ubiquitous now. It's showing, showing up in rainwater. There's runoff from farms, so it's showing up in our drinking water. So ways to try to mitigate your exposure as much as possible. Eat organic whenever possible because it's not legally allowed to be sprayed by with glyphosate. Make sure you have a really good water filter. Invest in that. The one that I love is from Aqua Tru. I can leave a link in the show notes. It's about 200 bucks. But I mean, I spent 200 bucks five years ago and I've had it ever since. And then you replace the filters every like six months to a year depending on which filter it is. So it's not a crazy investment and it's a great way to filter your water. Also, focus on sweating as much as possible. Now if you have access to a sauna, great. If you have a gym that has it, if you have the ability to buy one, I mean, they are incredibly expensive. But if you, you have the budget. If not, we have a sauna in our gym and Hector goes almost every day. I can't go right now because I'm pregnant. If you do not have access to a sauna at all. Oh, actually Class pass is also a great way if you're on class pass. We used to go to perspire on class pass and we would go to a sauna there through our class pass credits. If you just really don't have access in any way in that regard. Just, you know, exercise general, just sweating, making sure that you're moving your body, getting sweat out on almost a daily basis. Taking baths with Epsom salts that are really hot that will encourage your body to sweat and get stuff out. So those are more accessible and easier ways to do it. And then also before you get in the sauna, take a binder. So this is what Hector and I've been doing. Have you been taking your binder, by the way, before you go to the sauna? No. Sometimes I can see it on your face. No, you haven't. Something like charcoal or there's one called GI Detox that I love that we can leave a link for in the show notes that has zeolite, clay, charcoal, and it has a couple of other things in there that I'm forgetting right now. But taking a binder before you go in the sauna or before you have a good bath with a sweat is a great way to binding to the toxins to get them out of your body. And I'm trying to think if I'm forgetting. Is there anything else that you've done on your detox protocol that I forgot? I mean, there's various supplements and stuff that you can take, but some of those, I don't want to go into it in full detail because a lot of it was like, for example, it was prescribed to him specifically based on what he was going through.
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Hector
Yeah, more for my stomach and leaky gut and cleaning all that out.
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Kara
Yeah. So just really supporting your detoxification pathways as much as possible. Supporting the liver. If you are dealing with high levels of glyphosate, I would avoid alcohol because it puts a strain on the liver, which is your body's main detoxification pathway. And also wine is loaded with glyphosate. It's why, like, if I ever have a glass of wine, I will only do organic and from outside of the US I do not ever drink California wines. They are consistently, always testing super high in glyphosate because they're spraying it so much in California and on the grapes.
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Hector
That's why we can't have nice things here.
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Kara
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Hector
Also a little suspect how you left LA, you came to Denver, and you started testing higher for glyphosate. Do you think being in the parks and walking the dogs had anything to do with it? Can it seep through your skin potentially, if you're walking barefoot in the grass?
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Kara
I mean, technically, yeah. Is that actually happening? I don't know. But that is something that my doctor and I were going over trying to figure out. We were trying to figure out why they got so high in Denver. Hector and I were walking our dogs to a park nearby every day. But I will say so. I thought maybe that was the thing. And my doctor said, what could be happening is your dogs are getting all over their paws and then they're bringing in the house, which could be happening in from our neighbor's yard. So it's also a great reminder to not use glyphosate on your yard. I went through my dad's garage a couple years ago and tossed everything. Cause I was like, why do you have Roundup in the garage, dad? He's like, it's great for weeds. It's like, it's also great for cancer.
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Hector
I love that.
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Kara
Oh, I know. But something that I noticed in the parks that we were going to is there were a lot of dandelions growing. And glyphosate kills dandelions, because dandelions are classified as a weed. And I put that in parentheses because don't kill. Your dandelions are actually incredibly good for your liver. Dandelions are so good for your liver and detoxification. The irony of glyphosate killing dandelions is not lost on me. But yeah, so there was a. There was a conversation about potentially our dogs tracking it back from either like neighbors yards or from the local parks that we were maybe getting it from. Also a reminder, if you have a yard ban, we just had one that came with our rental with our house, where guy came to like maintain the yard every week. And we had a Conversation with him about not using any of those types of chemicals because we were concerned about our dogs.
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Hector
Okay. This is from a holistic g whole listic gal. Wellness predictions for 2026. Always love these kind of discussions.
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Kara
Okay. Wellness predictions. I'm trying to think of everything that I saw at Expo west because that's usually where I see a lot of the trends going. Protein in everything. I also predict that people are going to get really fatigued by all adding all of these different nutraceuticals and protein, vitamins, minerals, adding everything to normal everyday products. I'm sorry, but we do not need to be having protein sodas. We don't need to have protein in our sodas. We don't need protein in our yogurt. Although I do like to add protein powder to my yogurt. It actually makes it taste really good.
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Hector
It's pretty good. Especially if you, what do you leave it in the fridge overnight, you stir
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Kara
it and turns it into like a pudding. I do love that. I do love that. But I was thinking specifically of there was a protein yogurt that I saw at Expo that was made from eggs. And I hope that the brand never hears this because I'll feel really bad, but it almost made me throw up. It was disgusting. It really tasted gross. And they were like, it doesn't taste like eggs at all. And I was like, this tastes like the inside of a deviled egg. The like whipped part in the inside. I mean, I love that in a deviled egg, but it was the inside of a deviled egg if you added sugar to it. And I was like, it was not good. So we're gonna be seeing a lot of protein added to things. We're gonna be seeing a lot of nutraceutical, functional mushrooms, vitamins. We've already seen that adaptogens. I still think that that's on the rise and trending. But I also think that we're gonna see a general fatigue from the public around all these products because I believe more and more people are getting more bio individualized with their specific vitamin routines and what they need to take because people are doing more things like function, health, something that we use and we love where you get blood work every year and it tracks and maintains your health year to year and tells you where you're deficient, what you need more of, what you need less of. And I think as people get more bio individualized care and they're starting to see specifically what their body needs, not just this blanket statement that's coming from influencers where they're like, oh, everybody needs vitamin D and everyone needs vitamin B12. Yes, that is true. But seeing your numbers specifically and having a protocol that's designed specifically for you based off of your blood work, and so it's harder and harder for people to consume all of these. Oh, my Creamer has vitamin B12 and vitamin D added to it. I struggle with that because I have a very specific, specialized protocol of everything that I know that I need to take. And then if they're adding vitamins to my creamer and my yogurt and my protein powder and everything else, I fatigue from it. One and two, I can't take all of that because then it's just overloading the body with supplements, vitamins that you don't actually need. What other trends am I seeing right now?
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Hector
What about, like, peptides or. Oh, yeah, saunas. Just wellness stuff.
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Kara
Yeah, peptides are huge right now. It's going to be interesting to see where the peptide conversation goes. I wish we had listened to Brigham's podcast before, because I'm wondering how much I can share right now what he shared on Joe Rogan. But Brigham Bueller is a really good friend of mine who is doing the Lord's work right now fighting for compounding pharmacies. And there has become a big war between the FDA and peptide regulations and compounding pharmacies for good reason. There's a lot of nuance there, and I love Brigham's take on it. There needs to be the ability for compounding pharmacies to create clean peptides that come from good sources. But what's happening right now, I actually saw on Instagram just a couple days ago, there was a woman that died. I'm trying to remember exactly what her cause was. I think it was like stomach paralysis from taking a peptide that was coming from China. And so things like that obviously need to be regulated, because right now, it's just a free for all. Everyone's just buying, you know, oh, I'm gonna get BPC157 from this random company online that's not really vetted for. And because we don't have any sort of regulations around it, a lot of these peptide companies are popping up and they're sourcing all their peptides from China, which is incredibly concerning. But however, I see the other side of it, because I look at my friend Brigham Bueller, who runs a company called Ways to well here in Austin, and we have a lot of conversations about how he is seeing so many of his patients come in and completely take 180s in their health. Whether he sees a lot of MMA fighters. So whether they come in and they blew out their knee and they've done five knee surgeries and nothing has helped them. And then they come in and they see Brigham, and he does stem cells, he does peptides, and all of a sudden these guys can walk again and they don't have the knee pain anymore or someone coming in with Lyme or whatever, whatever it is. Actually, he does a lot of mold protocols too. So we're also seeing how these peptides have amazing benefits on people's health, and they really are transforming people's health and they really are helping people. But we need to have regulations on them and make sure that they're not being sourced from China and that these companies are actually getting their peptides from legitimate sources.
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Hector
Ethically sourced peptides.
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Kara
Ethically sourced is what we need. Free range peptides.
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Hector
What about insurance? Do you think insurance trends might be shifting?
- [29:53]
Kara
Oh, yeah. I'm seeing a lot of people cancel their insurance company or their insurance policies. We did health insurance policies, and a lot of people are going to what's called crowdsourcing insurance. We're with a company called Crowd Health. I've done a whole podcast episode about this before you DM me. Just go listen to that episode. I asked him every possible question you would ever have about joining a crowdsourcing insurance, and we cover the full gamut of it. And actually, after that episode, my husband and I decided to join because essentially what it is, is you pay monthly, but it's significantly lower than what you pay for health insurance. And you pay into this pool of like, 10,000 people, and all that money is pooled together, and then if somebody in that group has a serious accident, then that money is used for whatever that accident is. And it's significantly cheaper than health insurance. It covers way more than health insurance does. We are blown away. It's completely, completely covering our home birth, everything after a $3,000 deductible, which is, like, unheard of. So, yeah, I think we're definitely seeing a trend of people realizing that their health insurance is a scam. I mean, what are we paying? We were paying, what, like seven or $800 a month?
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Hector
Way too much.
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Kara
And they were denying everything. They also. They deny you for everything. Yeah, we were paying everything out of pocket. And now under specific, like, health events that you have, like, so, for example, like under pregnancy, they pay for everything. They pay for my labs, for our midwife, they pay for everything.
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Hector
Yeah, they've been great. Yeah. Shout out to Niam from from Crowd Health. He's been awesome. It's literally what insurance is supposed to be.
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Kara
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Hector
Okay. Jamie the sun seeker, will you homeschool?
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Kara
Ooh, I like talking about this. So I want to do a variation of homeschooling. We will not do the old school homeschooling. Or I guess, never say never. Hector and I love to travel, and we really want to be mobile, as mobile as possible. And we want our kids to be able to travel with us. So never say never. But I don't ever see a world in which Hector and I are sitting down with curriculum with our kiddos. What I want to do and what a lot of people are doing where we live is called school pods. I saw this a lot in California during COVID actually, where parents would find a teacher and they would each individually pay the teacher teacher, and they would get a group of kiddos together. So like 15, 20 kids and all have one meeting place where it would be at someone's house generally. And it's a win win for everybody involved. It's a win for the teacher because the teacher is actually making a way better salary because they're just getting paid directly by the parents. It's a win for the parents because the parents know exactly what the kids are being taught at school and they have full control over the curriculum, which the public schools are a mess, a nightmare now, which is why we want to avoid it. And honestly, even some of the private schools, too, like, we just. We've heard horror stories of what they're teaching kiddos at school, and we want to make sure that we. That they're actually learning things that are applicable for real life and that aren't wrapped in social justice bs. That's all I will say about that. Things that they don't need to be learning at school, basically, especially at young ages where they're incredibly impressionable. Is that fair to say? How? I said that's very fair.
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Hector
Yeah.
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Kara
Yeah. So we either want to do a school pod or I've seen some people get a teacher that they hire that they travel with, which would be really cool, too. I know a lot of, like, actors kids did this growing up, but I don't really see us doing that, to be honest, because I want our kids to have a normal school experience where they're surrounded by other classmates. And so that's why I really like the pod idea a lot. Not only because Hector and I don't have time running our business to sit down and do a full curriculum with our kiddos. But I also don't want to deny them that fun and joy of going to school every day with their classmates and having friends and having social interaction. I think that's incredibly important for development. And so when you have these school pods, you have like 20 to 30 kids. So they're still getting that community and that social interaction. There's actually, there's also another school that we would be interested in looking into down the line. Go back and listen to my episode with Mike Feldstein from Jasper. He talks about building healthy schools and what he's doing with his school is really cool and it's something that we might look into also. We just, we want to do kind of alternative schools where they're focused more on health. Oh, and also with these school pods, they're also, you know, feeding them healthy organic foods so you have control over the food as well. That's another nightmare about these pods, public schools is that they're just, they're feeding them ultra processed foods. What is the largest fast food chain across the nation? It's public school system. Yeah, really sad. So I see it as a win, win all around and that's what we're going to look into when the time comes.
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Hector
All right, this is from K Biz. Can you explain methylation, vitamins versus non methylation? I'm so confused.
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Kara
Yeah. Okay, so the reason why they, why they methylate these vitamins is because there is a genetic snip. I talked about this earlier with the folic acid. There's a genetic mutation called mthfr, something that I have also my husband has. Essentially what it means is like you can't break down and your body is not able to go through the methylation process that is necessary in order for your body to get access to those vitamins. So for example, it's why you'll see in a lot of supplements methylcobalamin, which is a form of vitamin B12 that's methylated. And what, what it does, is it. The methyl version of it has already done the process to make it bioavailable for your body in order to utilize it. So the reason why a lot of vitamin companies will put methylated B vitamins, for example, in their supplement is because there's enough people that have MTHFR. In fact, it's estimated that around 40 to 60% of women in the population in population have MTHFR, meaning that they lack the ability to methylate on their own and to convert it into something that makes it bioavailable for the body. And so a lot of companies just automatically do the methylation. They just add the methylated vitamins in there. Now, something really, really interesting to note. I've struggled with anxiety a lot of my life. Some of it, we do know the cause, you know, the trauma. A lot of the trauma that I went through as a kid is absolutely correlated to that. But there was, you know, this interesting period in my life where I did a lot of healing around my trauma. I found a lot of vitamins that were helping me with my anxiety and my stress. And I still just was feeling like I was just having this underlying, like. I don't know how to explain it other than I felt like my body was constantly like. Like, clenching almost from, like, anxiety and stress, and there wasn't necessarily anything that was causing it. And I recently found out that if you have. So I have a specific SNP called 677T under my methylated genetic mutation. And apparently when you have that snp and sometimes the compt also comes in here. But I'm not going to go fully into all this because I feel like I'm going to lose a lot of you guys. And we can talk about this with Dr. Ben lynch, but apparently when you have that 677t SNP, you can actually get more anxious with methylated vitamins, because what happens is they actually ramp you up because they bypass the normal process that's supposed to happen in your body. And yes, my body doesn't do the methylation anyways, but sometimes methylated vitamins actually have the ability to ramp up your body and make you like. Like, it makes you kind of lock up. And this actually completely has changed my life. I stopped taking methylated vitamins late last year, and I don't have that type of anxiety anymore. I'm not saying I don't ever get stressed or anxious anymore. I'm sure Hector's, like, laughing about that right now. He's like, oh, yeah. But I've noticed a significant difference.
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Hector
I have, too, right away. It was right before the Saudi Arabia trip. Yeah.
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Kara
You noticed a difference, too.
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Hector
I did.
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Kara
And me.
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Hector
Yeah.
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Kara
Wow.
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Hector
Yeah. And you were super excited about it, too. And I remember you talking to Gary Brecke about it, and he was pretty. Pretty excited that you were starting to talk about this. Figure this out for yourself. It was a pretty exciting time for you.
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Kara
Yeah, well, because it really changed.
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Hector
It changed so many things for you.
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Kara
Oh, my God. It really. It made such a difference for me because I felt like I went from unable to fully relax in my body to actually being able to relax. And I wasn't waking up with this like anxiety dread that I had kind of where I just, I really struggled with the last. It's interesting because I found out I had mthfr about like 7 or 8 years ago. And I feel like it was around that time because my doctor started telling me, well, you need to take methylated vitamins because now that you have mthfr, you need to make sure that they're methylated. So I've been on methylated vitamins for the last seven or eight years and that's when I was really like, the anxiety was ramping up in a way that I just felt like I could not get a grip on or get to the bottom of. And it's this anxiety that, like, it wasn't coming from anything specifically. It's one thing to be anxious about a talk that you have coming up or, you know, I don't know, whatever it is, like you're anxious about childbirth. But like, there was no things in particular that I could pinpoint to this anxiety. It was just this underlying. And it was the methylated vitamins.
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Hector
Yeah.
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Kara
Again, just make sure that you guys look out for the episode with Dr. Ben lynch because I am by no means an excellent expert on this. I'm just learning about all of this. And he actually is an expert and I'm bringing him on to talk about all this about mthfr. We're talking about folic acid and folate during pregnancy. And we're going to talk about this why you don't want to take methylated vitamins if you have that 677T or how they can cause anxiety.
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Hector
Okay, this is from Exocarolina I1. Why did you stop asking guests about their non negotiables on the podcast?
- [41:51]
Kara
Okay, so this question, I'm so glad that you asked it. And it also made me kind of sad because it made me realize, oh my God, I stopped asking these questions. I actually didn't realize I did that I have been going through a really hard time in life and have not been on my game. And it makes me really bummed because I just feel like so many things in my life are going to the wayside right now and lacking. And I did not mean to stop asking this. In fact, I sent a screenshot of this to my producer and he goes, oh my God, I didn't even notice either. I know. And I was just like, oh my gosh, I can't believe. So I used to ask every Guest at the end of the episode what their health non negotiables were. And I'm gonna bring that back. I made a note to start asking everybody that again. So it was not intentional. It was not intentional. We're gonna bring him back.
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Hector
Was there a trend that you would see from the answers from your guests? Right? Like, was there something, a common occurrence that you would see? Was it, I'm always going to eat organic, I'm always going to do the sauna, I'm always going to work out. Was there one that you saw most commonly answered?
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Kara
I love that question. Hector coming in with the good questions. Yeah. So it was. I felt like sometimes it was a little repetitive, but I'm glad to hear that people actually missed them and they liked them because it is fun to hear what people's specific answers are. But yes, there was definitely a trend. It was often drinking clean filtered water, prioritizing sleep. Sleep was brought up a lot. Moving your body, getting sunlight, prioritizing whole real foods. It was, you know, it was a lot of really basic, simple stuff. But it was interesting to hear people's different perspectives on it. And I will never forget my favorite one to this day that I've ever gotten just because it was so unique and it was very funny. Was I had Ricky Lake on and she said that her health non negotiable. She said something else and then she goes, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no, hold on. She said, taking an edible and having sex with my husband every night.
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Hector
That's her non negotiable.
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Kara
And I just thought it was. It was so funny. It was honest, it was refreshing because nobody else had ever said anything like that. And I was like, mad respect, girl. I love that for you.
- [44:08]
Hector
Good for her. All right. Was it a 10 milligram? 5 milligram.
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Kara
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