This video explains how toxins in our environment, like those in food, water, and personal care products, can harm our bodies. It covers symptoms of toxin buildup like fatigue and brain fog, and discusses how common chemicals such as pesticides and plastics (BPA) can disrupt hormones and increase cancer risk. The video also provides easy, actionable steps to help your body detoxify and reduce your exposure to these harmful substances.
Key Takeaways
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Toxins are everywhere in our daily lives, found in water, air, food, cleaning products, and personal care items.
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Symptoms of toxin overload can include muscle aches, exhaustion, weight gain, brain fog, headaches, insomnia, skin problems, and digestive issues.
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Modern chemistry, especially pesticides developed after World War II, has introduced many chemicals that our bodies are not equipped to handle, leading to long-term health problems like Parkinson's disease and various cancers.
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Endocrine disruptors, a class of toxins found in many chemicals, can interfere with hormone production and function, leading to increased risk of cancers and hormonal problems in men, women, and children.
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Bisphenols (like BPA) found in plastics and canned goods, act like synthetic hormones, mimicking estrogen and are linked to reproductive problems, cancer, obesity, and heart disease.
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Phalates and parabens, common in moisturizers and cosmetics, have been shown to accumulate cancer-associated gene expressions in breast tissue, which can be reduced by switching to clean products.
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Increasing fiber intake from organic fruits and vegetables helps bind and eliminate toxins from the gut.
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Supporting liver function with herbs like dandelion, burdock, and milk thistle, and drinking green tea, can help cleanse and protect the liver.
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Ensuring adequate hydration with pure water (two to three quarts daily), deep breathing, and transforming stress are crucial for detoxification.
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Sweating through exercise or saunas, dry brushing, and getting sufficient sleep are also effective ways to help the body eliminate toxins.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight feel great or live
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longer better usually all three so I've
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been asked to do a little review of the
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worst toxins how to avoid them quick
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easy steps to help the body detoxify
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things that we may have accumulated over
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time because you know we're getting new
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ones all the time the body is constantly
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being exposed Heaven Knows we've got it
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in your water our air our homes our food
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our cleaning products and household and
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yard products and of course the worst
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personal care products so I'm today I'm
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going to cover it really fast in just a
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few minutes so hold on to your hat and
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you might want to get out of pen and
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paper at the end I'm going to give you
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some real strong suggestions so if
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you're old school like me pencil and
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paper Okay so first let's review what
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toxins can do some symptoms
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that you may have that your body is
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showing you you're having trouble
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getting rid of these toxins could be
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muscle aches exhaustion stubborn weight
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gain dementia brain fog headaches
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insomnia irritability skin problems
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hormonal problems body odor cancer and
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good old digestive problems like
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constipation bloating
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diarrhea as you can tell these problems
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are pretty widespread and that's because
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your detox pathways are the liver the
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gut the kidneys the skin the lungs the
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lymphatics all these are designed to
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move toxins out you know because they
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cause oxidative stress breakdown in the
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tissues metabolically a log Jam so why
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is this an issue more today than ever
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well our bodies are designed to clear
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out metabolic toxins stuff your body
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makes just from living and moving
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metabolic stuff we are well equipped to
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clear beautifully equipped and also a
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little bit more it's designed to clear
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out an occasional food born pathogen
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like bacteria from spoiled food or a
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parasite our buddy does a really good
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job of that it has to clear but then
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Along Came modern
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chemistry in about 1940 the Germans had
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chemicals stockpiled after the war and
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they'd been design designed for chemical
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warfare and they decided to repurpose
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them for agricultural use we didn't know
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better and we started to really embrace
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all new things we could come up with in
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a laboratory to make our lives easier
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save money you know but you talk about a
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two-edged sword it's got a lot of good
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stuff but it got some real downsides and
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we never really gave much thought to
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longterm problems for example pesticides
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that are designed to kill pests by
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destroying their nervous system that
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came from World War II to nerve gas and
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it's been linked to horrible
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consequences I remember when I was
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getting my undergraduate degree in my
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biochem book there was a page I'll never
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forget there was a caption on
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Parkinson's disease and a certain
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pesticide that in humans targets the
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dopamine center of the brain causing
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irreversible damage and the latest
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research I love shows that depending on
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where you live your risk could be a heck
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of a lot higher for many cancers July
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2024 very recent there was research
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published under the title comprehensive
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assessment of pesticide use patterns and
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increased cancer risk look it up very
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high correlation around here you can
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look it up there's a map and it shows
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different states and the counties and
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what the risk is but what is good this
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study also hints of what pesticide are
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safest need a lot more research but this
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is an important study for us and our
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future children so a toxin checklist
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they're everywhere from internal toxins
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I got to mention that toxic thoughts but
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then Personal Care technology clothes
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food water cookware home environment
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there's not a single place on the planet
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that you could go that hasn't been
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touched by the chemicals we've added in
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the last 802 100 years for better yes
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it's allowed so many good things but we
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really need to be educated on better
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choices that we need to make
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personally can't count on our government
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it's really out to lunch on this one big
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time you got big food big Pharma Big Egg
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big money is influencing all of these
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things and we really must vote with our
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dollars to make the changes that are
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going to shape the future
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and just a quick note here I have been
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invited to go to Washington DC tomorrow
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for a senate panel discussion on
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American health and nutrition a second
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opinion so excited about this a topic
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that is long overdue and I'm thrilled to
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be asked to attend hope going forward
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that I can help make a difference I'll
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keep you posted but back to our subject
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easy
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detox there so many areas you know these
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these things don't just include
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excuse me chlorine but lead Mercury
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Arsenic pcbs and what we call Pops or
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persistent organic pollutants that are
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probably the most Insidious because they
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don't
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decompose and even though some have been
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outlawed 50 years ago or more they're
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still showing up in human breast milk
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today so how are they impacting our
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health so many ways one class of toxins
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has been described as endrin disruptors
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endrin are endrin glands secrete
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hormones your thyroid your estrogen your
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testosterone your insulin all these
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hormones so they disrupt them and
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according to the environmental working
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group quote there's no end to the tricks
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these endocrine disruptors can play on
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our bodies so some of the dangers for
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endrin disruptors include increasing or
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increasing production of certain
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hormones okay production of thyroid
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hormone perhaps testosterone hormone can
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imitate hormones so many of the
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pesticides and herbicides and
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fungicides they actually act like
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estrogen we call them
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xenoestrogens because they will mimic
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estrogen in our body increasing risk for
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cancers causing hormon
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disruption in men and women alike and in
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our children atrazine is a really bad
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one or they can turn one hormone into
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another kind of like um changing some of
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the enzymes because you can change
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testosterone to estrogen with the uh
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effect of aromatase enzyme and you can
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interfere with hormone
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signaling signaling cells to die
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prematurely it can compete with
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essential nutrients it can bind to
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essential hormones making them inactive
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so in the serum in your blood work it
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all looks like you got plenty of
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hormones maybe even too much but what
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happens is it binds to The receptors so
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it can't sit on the cell the hormone
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can't get to the cell receptor turn it
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turn it on and make it do what it's
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supposed to do or they also can
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accumulate in the organs that produce
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the hormones
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so the uh another thing the incidence of
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cancer in younger people has increased
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dramatically from 2019 2010 to 2019 and
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breast cancer is the highest number of
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incidences in younger women
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gastrointestinal cancers the fastest
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growing incidents in younger people
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study was published in jamama Journal of
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the American Medical Association and it
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was called patterns in in cancer
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incidents among people younger than 50
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in the US 2010 to 2019 Journal of the
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American Medical Association not good
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young people I mean it's one thing when
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you're 90 and 100 years old another
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thing when you're 18 to
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25 one of these nasty ones bisphenol a
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but it's actually all the bisphenols
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it's an industrial chemical that's been
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used in many Plastics since 1960 most
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a lot of them are used in canned food
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and beverages like water bottles acts
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like a synthetic hormones imitates
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estrogen interferes with
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reproduction uh linked to prostate
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cancer breast cancer environmental
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working group has reported that BPA is
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linked to everything from breast and
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other cancers to reproductive problems
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obesity it is linked as an obesogen
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early puberty heart disease it goes on
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and on and according to government tests
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93% of Americans have high levels of BPA
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in their body according to the CDC
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people are commonly exposed to low low
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levels when they consume food and water
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that's just been stored in containers
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made with
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BPA I've been super sensitive of this
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hits my kidneys and bladder commonly
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found in women with the history of PCO
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cuz we may not have a certain
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um genetic snip we have a certain so we
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don't detox like we should or optimally
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so I've been a real detective in my life
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got to be so you got to be a detective
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too you know you need to avoid plastic
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packaging that has label number seven in
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the recycling code or anything that says
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PC always buy food in glass if you buy
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it in plastic change it out of out of
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there even your produce get it out of
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there quickly because that'll out gas
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always use fresh food frozen food uh
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avoid microwav and Plastics even even if
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it says microwave stay safe and those
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and never pour anything hot in
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plastic baby toys wood rather than
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plastic and while we're on babies Oh
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gramsy be sure never to let them use
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plastic baby bottles or microwave them
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in plastic even if it says microwave
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safe it is not okay another biggie is
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phalates really popular in moisturizers
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Cosmetics May of 22 there was a shocking
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I should say astounding paper that
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should be a wakeup call to all of us
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okay the title of the the paper is bad I
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wish they' thought about this but okay
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reduction of daily use parabens and
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phalates reverses accumulation of cancer
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Associated photop within disease-free
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breast tissue in subject
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studies okay now I wish they'd really
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come up with the better one but what it
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was is they took 41
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Brave and noal healthy women that did
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needle aspiration of healthy breast
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tissue just to get the Baseline of
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breast cancer genes okay then they
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switched out their beauty and personal
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care products and only gave them ones
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that were allowed and approved that were
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clean no parabens no thades no fenals
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nothing in there that are known as nasty
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endocrine disruptors they and just 28
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Days Later they
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retested lo and behold researchers found
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a significant a huge reduction in
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several breast cancer Gene
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Expressions just 28 days the genes were
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healing and you know of
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course
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Gene the genes in the first step of
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cancer is the genes have to be turned on
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and in just 28 days they were down
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regulating bottom line many of these
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chemicals are not good for us and we
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need to be smart about
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exposure you're not going to be perfect
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but don't think these women did is they
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stopped using products reduced their
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exposure and 28 days their body was is
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healing so now I'm going to switch gears
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here and we're going to talk about
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reducing your exposure and helping your
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body get rid of these toxins easy
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actionable doable steps so number one
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plenty of fiber fiber binds up those
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toxins in the gut and eliminates them
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honestly this is one of the best way the
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liver gets rid of toxins so including 6
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to9 organically grown fruits and
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vegetables focus on the veggies is a
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great way to go beets radishes
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artichokes cabbage broccoli even spirina
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and chlorella they are really powerful
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ones number two um cleanse and protect
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the liver by taking herbs either in a
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tea or in food dandelion berock milk
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thistle and drinking green tea three
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cups of green tea a day has shown
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remarkable anti-cancer and even
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anti-aging property and while I'm on the
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anti-aging thing you know aeri Italy
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putting a tea bag of green tea and
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rosemary tea in your mug and you got a
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little bit of magic number
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three vitamin C simple things like
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vitamin C or NAC and acetyl cysteine or
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adding a few Brazil nuts will help your
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body make the best
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antioxidant glutathione
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number four plenty of pure water two to
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three quarts a day is what they
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recommend or 1/ half your weight in
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ounces of water so 150 lb person should
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drink about 75 o of pure water I like a
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good reverse osmosis and I would
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recommend getting uh the filter on
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automatic renewal because a year goes by
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really fast number five breathe deeply
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this allows oxygenation to circulate and
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pump the lymphatics you don't have to
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exercise to do that although that would
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be really good but you can just breathe
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deeply while relaxing while doing
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meditation and number six this goes
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really good with the last one
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transforming stress by changing the
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mindset this is probably the biggest
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obstacle for most people and can make a
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world of difference good Old Uncle Henry
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Ford said if you think you can or think
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you can't you are
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right change your mindset and you change
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everything but only you can do it and do
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that with deep breathing with meditation
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number seven protein good clean protein
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your body takes those amino acids and
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uses them to neutralize the toxins so if
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you don't have a good continuous Supply
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you're not detoxifying well I love to
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add a good protein powder where you you
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know you can add some pyan fibers some
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flax oil some good olive oil maybe a
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handful of organic berries and greens
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that really kicks your morning off great
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number eight sweat your kid your skin is
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called your third kidney does a powerful
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job of clearing those toxins any way you
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can in a sauna far infrared sauna
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extracise doesn't matter just sweat
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number nine dry brush your skin before a
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show hour to help open up those pores so
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you can get rid of those toxins sweep
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towards the heart that really helps
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number 10 20 to 30 minutes of exercise a
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day even 10 minutes three di times a day
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whatever just get that heart
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pumping number 11 sleep okay so now I
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know it seems like a lot but if you've
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got your pencil and paper here this is
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how you can do it and get almost all of
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it in by 9:00 a.m. all right number one
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get up at 6:00 or before after 8 hours
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of sleep number two exercise for 20
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minutes treadmill you're going to be
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sweating you're going to be deep
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breathing then you're going to have 16
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ounces of water down the hatch do a dry
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brush massage towards the heart before
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you shower drink a protein smoothie add
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some glutathione boosting greens maybe
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throw in some berries and some added
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vitamin C and some Fiber number or
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number 10 you're going to get this is
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like the 10th thing here you're going to
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be including do a 15minute
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meditation and then drink a cup of green
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tea there you go all those things you
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got done and it's probably not even
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9:00 I hope you learn something that
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will help you or someone you love as
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always if you want to listen to this
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again you can go to my website Deb
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for.com on YouTube or any place you
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listen to podcasts uh and if you know
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you want a help making some changes it's
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my greatest pleasure have a great day
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and do something really good for
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yourself
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Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Oct 31, 2024
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