Business Innovators Radio - Dealing with Detox

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

Detox doesn’t have to be a dirty word! It’s a process that your body does around the clock without you giving it a single thought. But that doesn’t mean it’s an easy job – or that you can’t lend a hand in the process! The choices you make on a daily basis improve or inhibit your body’s ability to detox. In this episode, Dr. Dan, Dr. Riley and Angela discuss the concept of detoxification and how to support the body’s natural detoxification processes. They explore everyday toxin exposure and how often toxin accumulation can lead to health issues, as well as proactive habits you can start today to support the detox systems in your body. If you’re ready to get your detox on (Or kick-start your current routine), this episode will help you get things moving.To learn more about this and other hot health topics, follow us on social media and subscribe to our WTH podcast. If you have a specific health question or would like to find out if we can help you with a personal health challenge, check out our office page or contact us at 412-369-0400/ [e-mail]. As always, our mission is to help you Get Healthy and Stay Healthy for a Lifetime!What the Health?!https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/what-the-health/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/dealing-with-detox

Welcome to What the Health, where anything health is fair game as we tackle the trends and bust the myths about health and wellness. Here are your hosts, Dr. Dan and Angela Toro. And welcome to another episode of What the Health podcast. I am, Dr. Dan, here with two of my co-hosts. Angela and Dr. Riley. Welcome back, everyone. Go ahead. You guys know the drill at this point. We're here for informational purposes only and no way offering individualized medical advice.

As always, talk to your trusted health care provider. You know the drill. We've done how many of these now. Trusted health care provider. Hopefully we're one of them. Yes. Here we are. We're talking today about dealing with detox.

Yeah? Yep. Right. So why don't we start with what the heck does it mean when we talk about detoxification? Because when you go into like the mental emotional world and, you know, substance abuse, detoxification is a whole concept. But it certainly does tie in to. what we're, I think, more focused on is kind of like a detoxification from, you know,

from the foods and the toxins that we are exposed to on a daily basis. Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, toxins, you know, are anything, really anything that builds up in your system that's going to start to affect the natural way, the natural systems of the bodies. So, yeah, I mean, we talk about, you know, that you mentioned, people think of drugs and alcohol and that type of detoxification that needs to happen. But, you know, if you're on medications for long periods of time, again, just the food, I mean, I constantly, I know we've talked about this another podcast, but, you know, constantly seeing more and more things coming out

with just the massive amounts of chemicals that are in American version of foods versus, you know, European and Canadian, same food, but like thousands and thousands of less chemicals in it. It was a fantastic meme that I saw the other day. And it was, it basically said across the top, me trying to avoid toxins in my food and environment. And it basically had all of these, like, you know, police cars and, like, you know, super high-end vehicles chasing this person. And they were out in the front in this little, like, you know, little Tykes toy car, you know, trying to outrun them. And it was just like, yeah, exactly. Good luck.

Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty much where we're at. So because it's becoming harder and harder to avoid the actual toxic exposure than this idea of detoxification and how do you help your body best balance these additional chemicals and potentially harmful things that are going into our body. That's where the idea of detox comes in. So I don't know if you want to talk about it. I know you talk a lot from like the cellular level, what happens with when you get this buildup and the interference and how that can even affect what you're seeing on the on the chiropractic side. Yeah. So I mean, even, you know, so think of, you know, your detoxification as your, you know, essentially your main sewer line in your house, right? Like, you know, your body has natural mechanisms in place to detoxify any foreign, you know, substances or chemicals that it comes across.

So, which is why we always say the first and foremost way to detoxify your body is just don't toxify it in the first place. But as you mentioned, it's getting more and more difficult in today's day and age. you know, even if you're eating everything organic, you're avoiding, you know, every, you know, type of exposure, you know, from what you put on your body, your cleaning products, you know, air fresheners, air purification, like your water purification. Even if you're doing your absolute best, you still have to go out into society and, you know, and be a part of that. So, you know, even those people who, you know, are pristine in their purification, and what they eat and what they put on their bodies, you know, still will have, you know, toxic buildup. And they're even showing now. And the average person is not pristine.

Oh, no, not at all. And that's the thing. Like, that's probably less than, you know, 1% of 1% of people who live like that. So, you know, your average person just has an extreme mass of chemicals. I mean, they're even doing autopsies now and just showing the amount of, you know, heavy metal toxicity. in your brain tissues, you know, and they're starting to, you know, link that to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's and dementia. So where do these come from? A lot of them come from food. It come from, you know, the cleaning and chemical products that we use, you know, whether it's lotions that

we put on our system. So, you know, first and foremost, going back to that example, it's like, you know, making sure that your body, your body's natural detoxification mechanisms are functioning at their best, right? When your sewer line is clear in your house, you know, you can have a very shitty day. And again, you're able to, you know, flush all of that away, you know, with whatever's going on in your house. So, you know, the problem is if that starts backing up, then you really have a crappy time, you know, because that can start backing up in your basement. It can start backing up into your, you know, into your, you know, wash basin. your toilets, whatever the case.

So if that main sewer line starts backing up, it's not functioning the way it's supposed to, then you can really start to have a backup of that, you know, toxic material that is supposed to be cleared out. That's not. And even the smallest amount can create that. It can create an absolute mess, yeah, because it's not getting out the way it's supposed to.

So I think it's important for us to kind of talk about what those systems are in terms of, you know, detoxification. I don't think you can talk about detoxification without discussing the liver. your liver is, you know, your body, my mentor always referred to, Dr. D. Maria, you always referred to it as it's the body's oil filter, right? It's the oil, the air filter. It is what is cleansing the blood that, you know, is pumped through your entire body. You know, your blood's, you know, pumped through your body. And, you know, as it goes through the liver, there are biochemical processes that are designed to break down these foreign components and then push them back out into, You know, into the urine and into the feces so that it's it's pushed out of the body. It's detoxified. You know, you will see a number of people, you know, so, you know, one big sign that someone is having an overabundance of toxicity in their system, you know, is first seen on the skin, right? You get irritated skin.

You get, you know, weird rashes that come and go, eczemas that come and go. You know, you see it a lot in teenagers, right? with the overabundance of acne. And again, a lot of times it's not just the food that they're eating, but their bodies are also going through a major hormonal change. So now their bodies are trying to, you know, it's trying to work with the shift in their hormones going through that major, you know, adolescent period and puberty period. So they're shifting the hormone, you know, rates in their system.

But then, you know, if they're having an overabundance of, you know, sugar in their system, if they're having an overabundance of seed oils is another thing that people are talking about now. You know, processed grains. Artificial dyes. Artificial dyes. Yeah. And so it's like, you know, these things will start being exposed and, you know, just an overabundance of acne, you know, the eczema is the, just the itchy or dry skin is a is a common sign. You know, we're going into this cold and flu season, quote unquote, I'm putting out my quotes, where we're having this, you know, change of the season.

So anytime you go through a change, you know, your body is put under stress, right? So a lot of people, their bodies are already functioning at the boiling point. And so just a little bit of a change in the season. People are down and out. Yeah, their bodies can't handle it. So, like, you know, now they have this, like, you know, dry cough, you know, with the leaves changing. Or now, like, they have this mucus build up. And so, like, the sinuses get blocked up and headaches.

And you just go down the line to sleep, you know, irritable or, you know, difficulty sleeping. So, you know, these are all signs that the body is just overtaxed and overtoxified. I don't know if that's that word, evertoxified. It is now. It is now. So, you know, so really it comes down to, so how do we support that liver? And in conjunction with the liver, you also have to look at the immune system, right? Because your immune system is, you know, creates these cells, we're called, you know, natural killer cells and these macrophages that are basically like the non-specific, you know, garbage eaters, right?

They're the garbage trucks that go around. Just imagine a, you know, a, you know, a. few garbage trucks. Yeah, not the raw of garbage. They won't pick up everything. Just imagine, you know, a thousand, you know, millions of tiny garbage trucks that just go around and pick up every little piece of that in your system. You know, that's what happens, you know, in the bloodstream. And these, and these macrophages can actually get out into, so like, let's say you cut yourself, you know, those white blood cells that are normally circulating throughout the blood, when you have a cut. And you have a cut. And you have a cut. And, you know, you know, those white blood cells that are normally circulating throughout the blood, when you have a cut. And, or an injury, you know, those vessels actually open up, they dilate, and create pores big enough so that those macrophages can get out of the bloodstream and into the areas, what's called the interscial fluid, the areas between other cells, so that they can eat up and break up any damaged, you know, tissue or foreign bodies, dirt, you know, that's in that area. Again, you know, certainly you wash a wound after you get it, but, you know, there's, you know, microscopic

you know, dirt and things in there that are, you know, not going to be completely washed off just by, you know, washing it in water and soap. So, um, so your, your immune system has a, as an amazing way to go and, you know, detoxify your system. But again, what happens when you have artificial dyes or you, you know, sugar overabundance? Yeah, they find sugar directly, uh, limits the, uh, production of those macrophages that you were just talking about. So it's like If you're somebody that is constantly eating sugar and getting sick all the time, there's a very high correlation between that because it's directly dampening your immune system. So, like, keeping that in mind as we're heading into this, again, quote unquote, cold and flu season.

And also the high sugar season. It's like, we got Halloween around the corner. And then from there, it's just like six months of sugar. Yeah, we always joke about it. It's Halloween. We go into Halloween candy and then you go right into Thanksgiving. and then it's the holiday, winter holidays, Christmas, New Year's.

And then you go into Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day. So it's literally like non-stop for six months. Easter. Easter. Yeah, so. But yeah, so that's, yeah, so those are the big things that are then overtaxing the system. So yeah, if your liver, so if your liver's essentially clogged up and not not functioning at its max and now your immune system's not functioning at its max.

It's, you know, our bodies can only, again, we always say your body's designed to heal, but it only has, it only has so much of a capacity. Yeah. Yeah. So, again, supporting what you can do, you know, you know, the, again, making sure, a lot of people that we talk to, right, they have struggled with bowel movements, right? They're either constipated or diarrheal, you know, and there are, are, you know, people who are experts in the digestive field that, you know, actually argue that that's kind of like, you know, just kind of a similar dysfunction, just kind of opposite ends

of the spectrum of that dysfunction. But yeah, when you're constipated, you know, your body is not getting rid of, right? That's the backup, you know, that's, you know, your body is not getting rid of those toxins efficiently. You know, you should really be at an absolute minimum. You should be having a bowel moment once a day. But really, like, you know, after every time you eat, you know, close to that. I don't know if you have a cat, you have a dog. You know, does your dog go pretty much after, you know, she eats every day? Yeah.

Yeah. Especially when she was young. Yeah. So, I mean, I know what we feed our dog morning and evening and it's like, eat poop, you know. So it's, you know, it's a very routine. But how many of us as humans are eating food and it's like, it'll be two, three days? It amazes me, you know, some people come in and it's like, yeah, you know, go once a week. Oh, my God.

Like, that's normal for that. I'm like, oh my gosh, like talk about being backed up. Yeah, talking about toxic. Toxicity. Yeah, because then it's sitting in there and where does it go? Yeah, that's, like it sits in there. So it's sitting in your intestines and it's not like it's being kept. Yeah.

Everything's not being kept isolated. I mean, well, yeah. So it's like, you know, so then those toxins from the feces literally start leaching. That's what they talk about leaky gut syndrome. It's like it literally starts leaching from the small intestine and the large intestine and leaching back. out into the, you know, into your system, right? You know, anyone who's ever got a sump pump fail, you know, you look out into your yard and it's just like, shit, everywhere. I think this was the

episode to, you know, use an excuse to swear. Yeah, seriously. But there's literally crap everywhere, you know, there's watery, you know, feces all over the yard when your sump fails. And so, you know, if you're not, you know, evacuating, you know, at a number of minimum once a day, there's a backup there. There's a problem. Um, you know, so, so we'll talk about that in a minute. I want to refer back to what you said, though, about the immune system and the macrophages. Um, you know, you're literally as, you know, dampening your ability to kind of replicate and reproduce those macrophases, but you're also drastically reducing the macrophages's ability to fight viruses and bacteria. Um, I heard at one point and I, you know, I'd have to reference this, but like, you know,

your average, you know, bacteria or your average macrophage can, you know, fight and eat so many bacteria, you know, per minute. If you have, you know, a certain, you know, level of sugar intake for every tablespoon of sugar that you add to your diet, you drastically decrease the efficiency of those macrophages because they become sluggish. So you drastically decrease the efficiency of those macrophages to go and eat up. any of the damaged tissue viruses, bacteria. So again, one other way that you're just continuing to toxify and build that, excuse me, build that back up. So what, no, go ahead.

I was just going to say, and I think at the last piece of the cycle, that would be important to talk about would just be what's going on in your gut. So in the stomach before you even get to the intestines, or early on in your intestines, because we talked about, you know, the end result, if you're not having a bowel movement, know if you're having bowel movements too frequently, that's all starting way earlier in the process. And again, a lot of that just when you talk about the sugar, another one, again,

don't quote me on the exact number, but I remember I was talking with somebody who's done a lot of work into looking into gut and probiotics and just how, how those, why actually a lot of probiotics fail is because our guts are so far destroyed that we don't even have, we don't even have enough in our system to for the probiotics to be effective so putting lipstick on a pig exactly exactly you never heard that term you never heard that phrase before so so again if we're so but the sugar made me think that um that this person was telling me that you know essentially what we're putting into our

what we're eating is feeding the bacteria in our gut for their next several lifestyle life cycles, which again, are much faster than ours. We're talking over the course of a couple of days. But if you're thinking about, so if you're eating, every time you eat sugar, that's what those bacteria are going to be eating. Every time you're eating those toxic things, that's what those bacteria are going to be eating. And that's why we're just having this breakdown of the system.

So, yeah, so whether, so if that gut, if that microbiome is not up to par, is not where it should be, which, again, very few people are anymore, because of just unfortunately what we put into our system on a regular basis. Right there, I mean, that's part of the issue. So that's where things are either going through you too quickly because they're not having the time to get broken down and processed or they're not going through you at all because, again, they're just sitting. So it's, yeah, it's really, really important.

You know, we talked about the liver, talked about the immune system. And a lot of that comes back to just the, you know, all the way back to that gut microbiome, which is so important. And I know we've talked about before. I can't remember we've been a full podcast on it or not, but I know we've talked about the importance of it. And they're just finding more and more how important that really, that really is for everything that we're kind of been talking about. Well, so you bring up another good point then is like how long it can take, you know, when we talk about detox, right? So many people they want, you know, instant gratification, right?

It's like, well, you know, can I just take a, you know, a couple supplements to just flush me out and be done? And it's like, no, that's not the answer. In fact, I've heard, it's the same thing with chiropractic care. I just had this very serious conversation last night with a new patient who was kind of on the fence about, like, you know, whether or not he wanted to commit to a certain, you know, a certain timeline in our office. And, you know, again, I'm just very, you know, upfront with people. It's like, yeah, we can, you know, our hope is that you start feeling better immediately. But, like, true health takes a lifetime commitment, right?

And it's not, and again, we talk about it's a journey, right? it's not a destination. You're not just going to, you know, oh, I'm healthy now and now I'm just going to go back to doing everything I was doing when I was unhealthy. Which is unfortunately what a lot of people do. Yeah, that's just, that's right. So it's like, you know, we, you know, the idea of the timeline, like, I've heard minimum, if you're actually going to, you know, try and do a diet, you know, change a diet to actually impact the microbiome, six months, minimum is, you know, it's kind of. standard. So it's like these people that, now, can you take some supplements and start feeling better

pretty immediately? Sure you can. But to actually like, you know, get to the underlying life cycles of these bad bacteria that have just, you know, proliferated in our guts over years and years and years. It takes time. So that's where I think, you know, we can now talk about some of the, you know, the points and what we do to support our body's natural detain. detoxification systems, you know, so, you know, what can we do to support the gut, the gut brain access and the microbiome, you know, the liver, you know, natural detoxification, what can we do to help, you know, improve our immune system? And a lot of these points will sound familiar from other discussions that we've had. But I think one of the most important things that I know I have

implemented in my life, you know, and I, you know, go on and off of it at times, but fasting, I think is something that we've all done, you know, to some degree in our, in our system, in our, you know, health routines. So, I mean, Dr. Riley, have you, you know? I implemented it for, I think, two or three years straight in chiropractic schools when I really, like, picked up on it. Yeah. And it was like a 16 to 8 fast. So I would fast for 16 hours, I would eat 8 hours during the day. And looking back, you know, I've broken that habit now, unfortunately, but life has. happens. But when I look back on that, I mean, I was waking up five o'clock, go to the gym. You know, I would have energy in the morning and then I'd go to my 7 a.m. class, you know, I'd be fine. I'd eat

10 to 6 every day. Yeah. Slept great. So I think, yeah, fasting just kind of cleansed me out. I didn't have any, you know, I never really had terrible skin conditions, but, you know, growing up with a little bit of eczema and stuff, like I haven't had any of that flare up when I was eating well, fasting as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. So, so. And again, what Dr. Riley just mentioned is what's called intermittent fasting, and that's, you know, IF has been, you know, pretty well documented across the board, although, you know, and you've done some research in, like, the intermittent fasting, uh, from a, from a female perspective and how, like everything, it just doesn't work the same for us. It doesn't work the same way, right? It doesn't mean it's not valid. It's just it doesn't work the same way.

And a lot of that has to do with, you know, cycles, right? And, you know, making sure that you're feeding your body. Yeah, there's times that the fast. directly is going to inhibit the hormones that you need so it actually can have the opposite effect and can now again some some women do it regularly and have no issues but I noticed I did probably about two years of the strict 16-8 and it's probably when I started getting to my late 20s it was like all of a sudden my hormones went haywire and it started having the opposite effect I started gaining a bunch of weight I didn't I changed nothing like it was like it just was like all of a sudden I'm like what is happening and

And so I was like, well, the only thing I can think of change is start eating breakfast again. And I started eating breakfast again. And it was like that wouldn't need it. So, yeah, I go back and forth. I try to, I try to follow it. It is such a pain. It really sucks being a woman sometimes. But, yeah, I try to just go more off of, like, when it feels.

Yeah. Well, that's what always, that's what always fascinated me about fasting, right? It's like you can start and stop it so easily. Like, you know, you can't do that when you're on a, you know, strict medication protocol. Like, you can't do that with a blood pressure medication or a reflux medication. Like, you know, you have to follow very, very strict protocols. But when you're talking about fasting, you know, doctor, he has the complete guide to fasting. Dr. is it?

Oh, shoot. I'm going to forget his name now. But anyway, he talks about like, you can start it. And, you know, for every hour that you go without food, it's like you're continuing to exponentially amplify the, you know, the results of it. And it's like, again, if you can get to a hunger wave and push through it, you're actually, again, kind of encouraging your body to go without, to go without. And then it has to tap in to these different mechanisms where it's not burning sugar as much anymore, especially once you get to like that 24 to 48 hour mark. and that's about the time that the liver and the muscles have started to deplete their glycogen stores. And glycogen is just sugar that is lined up, stored in like a really long chain molecule.

And it's stored in the muscles and it's stored in the liver. So once you go to about 48 hours without eating, a lot of those glycogen stores have been used up. So when you're kind of transitioning then, you're slowly flipping the switch from sugar burning, to more fat burning. And that's the, you know, a lot of people have heard of, you know, ketosis or, you know, you're burning more ketone bodies then because your, your body has to burn and break down fat. So you're transitioning your body from a sugar burning state, which is what most of us are in,

because when food is in abundance, you're going to, it's going to tap into the easiest resource. And, you know, your simple sugars, you know, what is, you know, what is available, you know, right out of your stomach, you know, so these simple sugar. And that's why high fructose corn syrup is so dangerous, right? Because it's like, it's like sugar on steroids. It's like this amplified, you know, sugar. And so your body is going to tap into that because it's the easiest way to burn. It's literally like, you know, taking a bunch of, you know, dry toilet paper and leaves and, you know,

lighten it on fire and boom, it just goes, you know, right up in flames. It's very quick. Glycogen is a little bit slower than that because your body has to break down the chains of those simple sugar molecules, but then fat is a little bit more complicated for the body to burn. But it's like a diesel engine because once it's going,

that diesel engine can run as long as there's fat available, your body will pull from those fat stores. And that's why the myth and misconceptions about, you know, oh, you can't fast because your body's going to start to break down protein, that has just been debunked left and right. As long as your body has,

fat available, it is going to burn fat before protein. I mean, that's just hands down, you know, how your body works when it is in a fasted state. So, you know, the longer you can go, so we talk about intermittent fasting, but, you know, talking about block fasting, you know, I actually find that block fasting works well for me where I'll go like a 36 to 48 hour period, you know, once a week or once a month where I'll try and go that. you know, one to two days without eating anything. And again, you know, there's different, there's different biochemical, you know, processes that are turned on when you hit that, that fat, that you're transitioning from the sugar burning to the fat burning. So that's a, that's block

fasting. And then you really have like the elongated fasting, which is really beyond three days, you know, 72 hours. And that's where they said you really get into the immunity. Yes. rebuilding. So yeah, 24, after about 24 hours, your gut microbiome will start to reset, because again, that has a very quick life cycle. So if you've now not been putting the sugar and crap into it, so that can start to reset, 48, you're going to start to get some of those, the dopamine reset, which is why if you can make it to, if anyone's ever made it as a 48 hours, it's funny, that first 24 is miserable. Oh, it is. And then you make it a day too, and you're like, I feel great. And it's because you get that. dopamine boost kicked in. But then, yeah, if you're dealing with a lot of, like, chronic illness, just chronic fatigue, things just, that's really what, if you can get to 72 and beyond, that's where you really start to get that autophagy, where basically, yeah, your body just wipes out

all the dead junk cells that are no longer needed. And that's where you get a nice true, I would say that's really more where you're hitting the cleansing. Yeah. The one and two day fasting absolutely great for cell rebuilding. But if you're talking a true cleanse, you

want to go for that 72 plus. And again, it's, you listen to your body. I mean, there's been plenty of times. Like Monday, I was like, I'm going to fast. And I was like, no. I did the same thing. I'm like, I got the lunchtime. I'm like, no, I'm hungry. And like, for me,

I always kind of base it more off of, I'm like, am I craving junk? Because then that's an indication you need to keep fasting and push through it. Or, like, last night, I was craving a chicken Caesar salad. I'm like, that's what I was craving. And I'm like, okay. Like, so your body's craving nutrients of some kind. So that's where it's like I listen to that.

It's like if I was craving ice cream, which I actually really never crave anymore, which is interesting since, again, doing a full sugar detox. and years ago. Yeah, so it's really just kind of listening to that. It's like, okay, do I want to eat just because I think I'm supposed to eat, or do I actually need some kind of? Definitely, like, that makes, just made me think of, like, when you're done with your fast, you know, don't follow it up with what you did before.

Yeah. I'm sure you eat something that's very nutrient and dense, like, you know, to age, you know, keep pushing that process forward because essentially just, I mean, you might feel good if you do, you know, 48 hours, but then it just kind of reverts straight back if you follow it up with a, you know, sugar. A hamburger.

Yeah. It's like, yeah. Nothing wrong with hamburgers, but, you know. If you go it from the right place. Yes.

A grass fed burger wrapped in lettuce, not not the white bun. Yeah. And not with fries. And not with fries. Exactly. You know, unless they're home cooked potatoes

in an air fryer with, you know, some like avocado oil or something. You know, it's been good Celtic sea salt. You could, you could argue the potatoes. that would be okay.

Avocado and eggs, that's usually what I break my fast with. I usually break mine with bacon. We could probably debate on that way. Yeah, we could probably debate on that way. Grass fed. Grass, grass fed bacon. Anyway, but yeah, it's literally like, you know,

how far can you push your system? Because so many people, when you first bring up the concept of fasting, I mean, I was really diving into this heavy in like 2018. And, you know, when I was talking to my, you know, a lot of people about, you know, my journey with it, they're like, you know, oh, I could never go 24 hours without food. And it's like most people in their lifetime, like if they've ever had a day when they were really sick and in bed, most people have gone 24 hours in their lifetime at least once without food. But so many people are like, wow, I have, you know, I get, I get low blood sugar. So I have to eat. Like, I can't.

It's like, well, no, you're literally, your body is having a detox reaction because you're so toxic. and your so your sympathetic, parasympathetic nervous system is just so out of whack that, you know, they get like the clammy skin and, you know, it's, it's the metabolic. Yeah, the headaches, that, you know, the drainage, the, you know, the skin, you know, and we all know these people who, you know, just have, they just have like this almost sickly look to them. And they're the ones that are like, it's just so, their bodies are so far, you know, toxified that, it takes time to come out of that. And that's where...

And it's not going to feel good. And it's not going to feel good. That's exactly thank you for bringing that. That's the other thing. It's like, think about, like, if you've ever known somebody who's gone to rehab, like, it's not a fun process to get those toxins out of your system. Like, your body has gotten used to, your body has become dependent on them. So it's not going to feel good when you, you know, same thing. It's like when people come off a medication.

You don't just stop, you know, cold turkey. it's because, again, that we could have some very harmful effects. So when you're doing, like when your body has gotten used to this constant intake, and then you take that away, yeah, you're going to have, you're going to have reactions. Like you said, the headaches, the, you could have nausea, you could feel lateheaded. It's, you know, and that's not, that's not your body craving food. That's your body wanting the crap that you've been putting, that you've been giving it along with food. Well, and that's another thing, too, that people have to understand that toxins, you know, they're heavy in the liver, but they're also heavy in fat tissue, right?

Like, that's, you know, and what's your, what's your brain made out of? 70% fat. So, like, these toxins are literally hiding your fat tissue. So when you are really shifting from a sugar burning to a fat burning state, you literally have toxins that are, you know, kind of getting dumped into the bloodstream because now that the fat cells are starting to shrink down, those. toxins are being leached back out. And again, that can be, that's a very good thing if you're doing, you know, doing it through the proper channels that your body can handle, you know, that detoxification. But, but yeah, it's, it's tough. It is tough. We, I would probably argue that, you know, within the last two decades, is probably the hardest, especially in the United States, maybe not other parts of the world, but the United States, it is probably the hardest time in history to actually be healthy. I mean, our chronic disease is just at an absolute, you know, high rate. I mean, it's continuing to. And it's continuing to increase. You said you just saw again,

the life expectancy drops again. We dropped. Yeah, the life expectancy in the United States dropped in men. I think it's down to like 76 and women. It's like 78. Like it's continuing to decrease. So it's like we're not getting healthier. We're getting sicker. You know, and it's because of this chronic disease. You know, The reason of life expectancy increased so much, you know, early on, you know, especially after, like, the industrial revolution is that sanitation, you know, we just, you know, we had things like trash pickup. We had things like indoor plumbing that got implemented, you know, from the late 1800s into. Handwashing. Yeah, exactly. Like, it's like that is, yeah, that.

Yeah, so we had a lot less infant mortality. You know, that decreased significantly, even though that's starting to go back up. And that's a whole other podcast. But like, you know, our infant mortality, you know, and, you know, kids running around on a farm, you know, weren't dying, you know, two, three, four, five, six years old. You know, well, if you take, you know, a five-year-old who would have died and now because of sanitation and, you know, antibiotics and, you know, good, you know, good care, it's like that five-year-old now lives to 80. Well, you've just increased the life expectancy of that person's 75 years. So that's, the sanitation is what rapidly increased the life expectancy in the United States and across the world. But now what you're seeing is, you know, we almost like max that we tapped out the maximum.

And now chronic disease is starting to bring us back down because people were dying in their 40s, 50, 60s because of chronic illness, heart attacks, strokes, you know, cancer. Daddy liver disease. Daddy liver, diabetes. Like how many kids, you know, are now getting diagnosed with diabetes? And it's not, it's not the, you know, type 1 diabetes. It's, it's juvenile onset, you know. It's sometimes even pre-juvenile onset because there is just such an overexposure to all of these toxins. You know, so what do you do?

I mean, I think at the end of the day, what do you do, like, you know, fasting, you know. Yeah, there's a lot. Fasting. I mean, drinking plenty of water keeping the blood circulation. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah, the amount of people that don't drink water, yeah. Like that is...

I'll plug sugar or massage therapist. Yes, that's sugar, the good sugar. You know, lymphatic massage and stuff like that. Exercise. I mean, working out, the muscles... Sweating. Yeah, sweating. Yeah, sweating.

Sona, infrared sauna, exercise. Yeah. Yeah, if you're not... I did just a blog article years ago, right, talk about sweat 16, you know, instead of sweet 16. 16 sweat 16. And it's like if you could sweat 16 minutes a day.

16 minutes a day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that's the thing. Yeah. You know, just, yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean, that's a big detoxification, you know.

And a lot of people, when they haven't been sweating or working out and it's like, and then they start to, you know, their eyes will burn because like the sweat is getting into their eyes. They're, you know, they will literally have like a salty, like, rough feel on their skin. because there's so much salt content in that, in that sweat. And again, it's because they're so highly concentrated with sugar and salt that, you know, there's nowhere else to go. But it's like as your body gets more efficient at sweating, then it's more the water that's being released. So you can actually improve your efficiency of your sweat. And it's amazing.

If you are an efficient sweater, which I am. And then you have, like, I will say like, it's like, if you have. have a, you know, day, like, post-a- post-event, there's an event where I consumed more alcohol, and then the next day go to work out. It is amazing how, like, it's like, I can feel like I want to sweat. I should be sweating, and then it's that, like, clammy, but nothing's coming out because I'm dehydrated,

and it's a terrible feeling, especially when you're used to just, like, I'm normally, like, you know, 20 seconds into a workout, I'm sweating. But it just, yeah, it goes to show how much our body is dependent on having enough that proper hydration having the proper you know being able to that is so important for being able to flush everything out if that's our body you know it's like we are you know what percentage water and it's like if we don't have that proper hydration that's again everything just gets stuck in there and you almost have to think of your body like a sponge right so you're you're taking water in and what happens when you take a dry sponge and you put it on you know you try and sink it in water it's like it's like

you know, crusty and like hard, but then as you squeeze it a little bit, it takes some time, but then it's like, then it'll start absorbing the water, but it takes some time. But if you take a damp sponge and put it in water, it immediately sucks in the water. So it's like you think of your body like a sponge and then you mention the exercise, Dr. Riley. It's like when you engage that muscular system, you know, you're heating up the body. And then it's like literally pumping, you know, the water through your system. So, yeah, I mean, great points that. And resistance, I think, is, you know, one of the most important.

Again, cardiovascular is certainly important, you know, by long distance cycling or, you know, trail running. But, you know, the resistance where you're, you know, really working every muscle group of the body is going to be so important for moving that fluid through your body in a healthy way. So, and I don't think we need to sit here and, you know, beat the drum about, you know, not eating things. things. It's like, how many, my guess, have we talked about? It's like, you know, don't eat things. If we could, if we talk, if we just throw out a list of like things, you should avoid at all costs, you know, what would you, what would you say? Processed foods. Okay, so like break that down a little bit. Sugar, right? Yeah, sugar. High fructose corn syrup. Yes. Um, you know, seed oils is the other thing that we hear a lot about. So like canola oil, um, peanut oil,

sunflower oil, like, those are all the, you know, those are all the difficult oils. And there's a whole laundry list. If you just Google seed oils, like, you'll get a whole list of things that you should avoid. I know. Every time I look at stuff, I'm like, is that one you're supposed to or not? And it's like, if I don't know, I just don't. Exactly. And it's harder and harder to find, even when you're trying to find, like, a healthy, you know, snack, you know, a lot of things of, you know, that used to be made with like an avocado oil or a coconut oil are now being made with seed oils. And it's like they just transition because they're cheaper to make, you know, and, you know, it's more money for the company. It's not good for your health.

Same with like the pre-made salad dressings. It's like they're not. Oh, salad dressing are horrible for you. Yeah, it's like just use oil and vinegar. Extra virgin olive oil and vinegar. Yep. And vinegar. That's 100%. Like, yeah, I don't have, I don't have dressing in the house. I don't, yeah, it's just. It's so, yeah, it's so bad for you. the mayonnaise is and the, yeah, you can just go down the list. So seed oils, the sugars, you know, again, it's like... I would say, so what I always talk about is like pretty much everything on the inside aisles at the grocery store. So we always talk about, now again, we've said there's concerns with things now anymore

and the fresh produce too, but at least starting out, it's like if you go home, if the majority of your diet is coming from your pantry as opposed to your, refrigerator, then right off the bat, that's concerning. Because, again, if things are coming pre-packaged, pre-box, pre-werept, that's pre-wrapped, right there, they've been processed. There's some type, you know, there's things that have been done to them to prolong their shelf life. Yes, and if they increase the shelf life of the product, they're decreasing your shelf life.

It's living, you know? Literally. Yeah, literally. So, again, it's like not to say you can never have that stuff, but. You know, people ask me all the time, it's like, what kind of bread do you eat? I'm like, I don't. There is, like, if you come look, my pantry, like, has, is storage for, like, pots and pans, not food. I have, I have my one, I have my one little shelf of stuff, but, um, yeah, it's just, you know,

not having that stuff on a regular basis. And they're like, oh, like, what do you? It's like, I go to the grocery store twice a week and buy fresh stuff. I'm like, is it a pain in the butt? Yes. but it feels, yeah, pain in the butt, but good for my gut. That's what I would say. That's, yeah, I mean, that's the biggest thing is it's like, okay, do I want to take the extra, you know, hour or two out of my day, you know, out of, to do that?

Versus how I'm going to feel if I continue to go to the convenience-based eating. And we have a whole podcast on that, the convenience catastrophe. That was, I was a while back. But, yeah, so I'd say, yeah, I agree with the processed food and what comes, come. in that, I'd say, on top of that, then I'd say, like, the fast food, eating out. And that's, you know, because even when you make, even when you make the best choice, you think you're making the better choices eating out, it's still going to have, they're not using high-quality fats, I'm telling you right now, they're not, you know,

they put sugar on, they put sugar. Oh, yeah, I don't even want to think about what. Terrible meat. Sugars, yeah. I think they put sugar on the fries. They put sugar on everything. Yeah, the fries, the buns, like, probably on a salad. Right. Yeah. Especially not. And it's not good quality sugar. No. It's hyperdiscort and serum sugar. And again, it is literally addictive. You talked about the dopamine reset earlier. Sugar is addictive. It is, you know, it has been research that is. It triggers that same opioid pathway. Yeah, the cocaine does, right? I mean, it literally is it is as addictive as cocaine. And it's just, it's sick. And way more easily accessible. Way more easily accessible. Can't go through a drive-thru and get cocaine as far as I. As far as I am. As far as I.

I know. I used to be able to get in Coca-Cola. But, yeah, I mean, so, yeah, we could, again, we could just harp on this forever, but just, you know, make common sense decisions. And if you're not sure about something, you know, first of all, Google it, you know, you can get some good information out there. But it's like, reach out to a trusted health professional, someone that you, you know, you know, you trust, you've built a relationship with.

We always talk about that. You should have a couple of those people in your life that you know that you can go to them. And if they don't know the answer, they will go, they know the resources to go and find it for you. You know, so, and again, it's like, does that mean you can never have another piece of candy again, never have another drink again, you know, adult beverage again, never have another hamburger again? Like, no, of course not. But it's like you can't make that the majority of your eating. And we didn't even get into that. We've done a whole podcast on like what you put on your skin.

Like cleaning products and lotions. If it goes on your skin or can get on your skin, it can be absorbed into your system. So you just have to watch. And so again, you're never going to be able to avoid it completely, but being able to help your system function more efficiently, you know, through the water intake, through the fasting. We didn't even mention chiropractic care. But again, it's like I love the people that get adjusted who have been constipated for, you know, a couple days. And it's like, you know, then they go home and they like come back the next day. And it's like, could that adjustment have helped me go to?

the bathroom like yes absolutely i just adjusted the shit out of you so um so yeah i mean you know we can sit here and harp on all of this it's it's hard you know being healthy is hard but have you all seen that like choose your heart um concept you said it to me yeah so it's like you know choose your heart it's like um either you know eating healthy is hard but so is going through cancer treatment is hard. Choose your hard. Going to the gym is hard. Going to the gym is hard, but, you know, being overweight and, you know, getting out of bed and walking up and down steps with, you know, degenerative joints is hard. Like, choose your hard. So, you know, it's difficult, but, you know, we're hopefully, it's,

it's not the end of the world and you can do better. And it's like, we always talk about baby steps over a long period of time, equal big results. So, you know, find, you know, find a trusted health professional you can work with, find an accountability partner you can work with, and go make some changes. What are some simple changes you can make today? Hey, I haven't drank a lot of water recently. You told a patient recently to go, you know, drink two, you know, two big cups of water a day. You know, she was barely drinking one.

So it's like just that little change can make a difference. So what are the little things that you can immediately do to make the biggest return? So, all right, I think we've harped on that enough, dealing with detox. Hopefully that was helpful. If anything, you know, rang true to you. Feel free to reach out. Website, Toro, T-U-R-O, Family Chiropractic.com. And, again, a ton of resources available.

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