Dumb Blonde - Dani Williamson: Wellness Warrior

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

Your favorite country kid holistic nurse practitioner, Dani Williamson, is back! In this episode, she dives into the connection between childhood trauma and autoimmune disease, explaining how conditions like Hashimoto’s and gut issues often stem from unresolved trauma. Dani also shares her common sense tips for radical healing, including the importance of gut health, removing gluten and dairy, managing stress, and balancing hormones. Dani and Bunnie also talk about the role of environmental toxins and how to reverse autoimmune diseases. Plus, Dani answers questions from Patreon listeners and introduces her new book Wild & Well, offering practical advice on how anyone can take charge of their health and start healing today.Watch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comDani Williamson: Website | Wild & Well See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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They love your hair. They love your aura. They love your spirit. They love it all. You are probably one of the most requested comeback guests that I have. I had no idea. Well, thank you. Well, you know, I'm a common sense, practical medicine country kid, right? From Gilbertsville, Kentucky, who just

happens to have done pretty well. Yeah. You know, I'm so proud of you. As a nurse practitioner, it's common sense, right? Yeah. A lot of it is. Yes. I'm so proud of you. Um, if, for those of you who want to know Danny's entire story, we did that the last time she was on the podcast. So you can go check out that episode. This episode is going to, we're going to really like dive into some things. Like a lot of you guys on my Patreon asked episode. This episode, we're going to really dive into some things. A lot of you guys on my Patreon asked questions. I have questions for Dani. There's things Dani wants to talk about.

So we're going to talk about a lot of it. And Dani, you brought your book with you. Let's plug that really quick too. Yes, yes. Wild and well. It's a great book. It is, isn't it? It's Common Sense Practical Medicine.

I wrote it so that everyone from a country kid to a Harvard-educated person could read it and say, whoa, whoa, if I was born healthy, I don't have to live sick, and I can turn this around. And I am living proof after turning around 24 years of chronic lifestyle diseases that you can turn anything around, right? It's very simple, but it's not easy.

As you know. Yeah. You have to really want, like, I feel like a lot of people are like, I just want to feel better. I want to get better. But then when they're given the protocols, people don't want to put the work in. It's almost like they want their health to magically heal on their own without doing the work. That's exactly right. Because by nature, heal on their own without doing the work. That's exactly right. Because by nature, we want things the easy way. Well, this is not easy. It's not easy. It's real simple though. Garbage in equals garbage out, right? For me, you have to heal the gut. You have to eat well, sleep well, move well, poop well, de-stress well. You need to commune well. But for me, after seeing doctors for 24 years,

I also had to address the childhood trauma. And most of my patients do. And actually, my patient's healing has gone through the roof once I learned about childhood trauma. Well, you and I have talked about this for hours. And the body definitely keeps score. And for me, it manifested itself in the gut. Many of my patients, though, it manifests itself in the thyroid because this is your fifth chakra here. This is your voice. And many of these women, mainly I see women, many of these women who had childhood trauma, they lose their voice or they

feel like they don't have a voice. So they have thyroid issues, thyroid cancer, thyroid nodules, Hashimoto's, thyroiditis. And this is your voice. And once we get their voice back and we get their thyroid working better and we address the trauma, it's amazing to watch these patients' lives just blossom. Mimi was actually just diagnosed with Hashimoto's. Mimi? Really? Where's the microphone? That's my focus. That's what I do. Where's your microphone, Mimi? Yeah.

It's the number, Hashimoto's thyroiditis is the number one undiagnosed autoimmune disease in the United States because it is an autoimmune disease, right? It's an autoimmune disease of the thyroid. And I don't have Hashimoto's. My trauma, my childhood trauma manifested itself in irritable bowel syndrome. I think that's my problem, which we'll talk about, but I definitely want to get into the Hashimoto's thing. Mimi, if you have any questions for her, but I do know that like online, a lot of people are being diagnosed with this and I never even knew about it. A lot of people are being diagnosed with this, and I never even knew about it. So I want you to kind of dive in about Hashimoto's, but also about the link from childhood trauma into autoimmune disease. Can we start there? Yeah, absolutely.

So we know that there's a huge link between childhood trauma and autoimmune disease. And I think I don't remember the statistics off the top of my head on autoimmune disease with it. But if you have a childhood, an ACE, an adverse childhood experience score of four or more, you have a 1200% more greater likelihood of dying by suicide. What test is this? That's the ACE questionnaire, the Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire, the 10-question test that we did on the very first visit with you. And it talks about trauma, talks about physical abuse, mental abuse, abandonment. It's 10 questions, not perfect, developed by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente out in California and addressing what happens to you before the first 18 years, right? So we know that what happens to you before the first 18 years of life can set you

up for a lifetime of chronic disease and autoimmune disease and drug addiction. And you set a score of how much or higher? Four or higher set you up for 1,200% higher rate of suicide, 390% higher rate of pulmonary lung disease, 200 to 400% higher rate of drug use. It's greater than six, which I'm a six. You have a decreased lifespan by 20 years. And the list goes on and on and on. And it's not a perfect test. And it's in the book, like I have it in the book, but you can also get it online for free. It's a good starting point for your childhood because I spent 24 years seeing doctors. I know you've spent years seeing doctors. No one ever asked me, Danny, what happened to you before the age of 18? It's not

normal to poop your pants every time you eat almost, to have to know where the bathroom is at every restaurant that you go to. That's not normal. Something's going on. And again, I grew up with a child molester for a stepfather, one that beat me up. My mother was mentally ill. My grandfather died by suicide. That's not uncommon. I mean, we know that 67 to 75% of the population have this kind of childhood trauma. Yeah. I mean, I feel like everybody has some sort of childhood trauma. Even if you had the quote unquote perfect childhood. It's very rare that I get someone come in the office and they say, oh yeah, my childhood was phenomenal, Dani. I'm just here. Just check my labs. I feel great or whatever. I mean, very rare do I have someone who said, yeah, I had the Mayberry childhood.

Very rare. So childhood trauma manifests into autoimmune disorder. Well, it manifests into tons of things in your body. I, everybody on the podcast knows, have a problem with pooping. I cannot poop to save my life. So you went the opposite way, right? You didn't open up like I did, like chronic diarrhea. You clamped down constipation. My butthole puckered. Your butthole puckered because you never knew.

I love that. I'm sure my nurse practitioner school is like, oh, my Lord, Danny, this is not medical. But your butthole puckered, whereas mine opened up, right? I mean, because you never knew when the trauma was going to happen, right? And you hold on. You hold on to that. And it's fascinating. And I went to Onsite.

I went to Onsite for a week and spent a week at Onsite doing intense trauma therapy. And that took my healing to a whole nother level. But again, everyone manifests their trauma into something different. But the thyroid is a huge one for women. Huge for women. And that is Hashimoto's, right? Hashimoto's thyroiditis and women have autoimmune disease eight to ten times more than men do eight to ten times that's now we are also the most toxic right the lotion the makeup the hair color the tampons tampons are a huge problem for women and and um we've been screaming this and now it's finally viral on tiktok everywhere right we just had a study come out yes with the lead in it and heavy metals in it we've been talking about this

for years yeah you and i have and and i didn't know that i put roundup in bleach in my vagina for 35 years i had no idea i have a great education i wear diapers now i wear diapers now i have another patient who wears diapers i love love it. I love it. I will fucking diaper it up no matter fucking how heavy I am. You can wear like, you know how the pad you used to go through pads and I would go through cause I'm heavy. I would go through multiple, multiple pads, diapers. I literally, literally go through like maybe three my entire period. Are you serious? Yes serious yes well i never got an opportunity to try the diaper situation and i also never got an opportunity to use a menstrual cup

i just no i those always freaked me out because anything that goes inside of me hurts me so i've never was brave enough to do it tampons even hurt me really yeah well tampon got tampons i can see why because again we, we know cotton's one of the most toxic crops in the United States. It has more glyphosate sprayed on it than pretty much any other crop. And then they take that Roundup Ready cotton you're getting ready to put in your vagina for decade after decade, and they bleach it with Clorox bleach. Clorox bleach and Roundup in your vagina. And you wonder why you have heavy periods and cramping and clotting and PCOS and endometriosis and just can't get out of the bed. So a cup, a menstrual cup,

my patients swear by a menstrual cup. I never got to use it. I don't know. I think it takes a minute to get it right. But again, autoimmune disease in women is a toxic burden. And I tell women this, I wasn't born with lupus, which I have. I wasn't born with fibromyalgia. Say you had MS or, you know, you weren't born with MS or you weren't born with rheumatoid arthritis. We turn that on, turn that on. And that through decades of dysfunction, most people do. Now there's genetic component to it, right? But as a rule, it's allostatic load. And just like with Mimi, I don't know the reason for the Hashimoto's, but there's probably decades of stress and maybe bad food, I don't know, perfume, makeup, all the

things you put in your thyroid. Look what you do for a living, right? We're breathing in this nose, or through the nose. Here's the nose. Here's the thyroid. There's a proximity issue to these chemicals as well. And so it's like the straw that broke the camel's back. It just builds up. I tell patients, it's not the one time you drive through Chick-fil-A and eat a chicken sandwich, right? It's the decades of driving through fast food or chronic stress. And then it builds up and boom, it tips over. And it's like herding cats, trying to get them all back in, trying to get it all back together.

And it's difficult. I know. I spent 24 years seeing doctors, 10 doctors, before a doctor looked at me and said, what are you eating? Is there a way to reverse Hashimoto's? Because I've been. I've been studying for Mimi to try to figure out like something we could do, but I wanted to wait.

Girl, this is my specialty. What was the first thing I told you? Yeah. She goes, you're going to see Danny. Like what's happening? Yeah. So we reverse it every month in the office. And I get patients who come in who their endocrinologist told them, oh, there's nothing you can do about it. We reverse it every month in the office.

And I get patients who come in who their endocrinologist told them, oh, there's nothing you can do about it. We don't ever need to check your thyroid antibodies again. You're never going to be able to lower those antibodies. So what happens with Hashimoto's thyroiditis, you have these thyroid antibodies that, quote unquote, it's attacking the thyroid, right? Like with me, with lupus, it attacks my joints.

But it's really not attacking it, but it's an inflammatory response. Hashimoto's thyroiditis, vasculitis, thyroiditis, gastritis, colitis, itis means inflammation. So it's an inflammatory response where the thyroid is inflamed, right? Not the prostate, not the joints. It's the thyroid that's inflamed. So you cool it down just like you do any other autoimmune disease, right? And yes, you can reverse it. Yes, you can bring those antibodies down. What's the number one trigger for Hashimoto's food-wise? Number one trigger for Hashimoto's food-wise, number one trigger for Hashimoto's to raise those antibodies up. Gut health? Well, gluten. Gluten, number one food.

Yes, well, your gut health, yes. Gluten is the number one inflammatory agent for Hashimoto's thyroiditis. I feel like gluten is- Gluten cross-reacts with those thyroid antibodies, creating an inflammatory response in that thyroid. So the first thing that you do as a patient of mine, in any book you read on Hashimoto's, you cut gluten out immediately. And your doctors

just say, there's no research on that. That's bullshit. There are decades of research, Mimi, on gluten and thyroid and dairy and thyroid. Gluten and dairy. I ask my patients to go gluten and dairy free to start bringing down the inflammatory response in the thyroid. And we watch those thyroglobulin antibodies come down and those thyroid peroxidase antibodies come down. So your people who are listening, if they're just getting a TSH checked, a thyroid stimulating hormone checked. They need a new provider because that's only like one-fifth of the labs that you need checked to check your thyroid properly. Oh. TSH, free T3, free T4, which we check on you all the time, right?

Those are your free thyroid hormones that are circulating around. They're active. And then your thyroid peroxidase antibodies and your thyroglobulin antibodies. Not everybody has both of those positive for Hashimoto's, but 90% of the people who have Hashimoto's have a positive thyroid peroxidase antibody. Wow. So I have a question. Mimi has no tonsils and she has had strep throat probably six times this year. Is that caused from the Hashimoto's?

No, that's a strep infection going on in you, some sort of chronic strep infection. Yeah, I have no tonsils. I haven't had them in years. Six times in a year, I have now gotten strep. So I'm just like, I literally feel like I'm living on antibiotics. Right. Which is so bad for your gut. Which is absolutely not destroying the gut, but creating even more of a leaky gut.

And I wondered if that caused an issue with the thyroid because I'm on so many antibiotics. Well, it could. It could because it's an inflammatory response, just like childbirth. So a lot of women who deliver babies, they didn't have Hashimoto's before, but after childbirth, it's called postpartum thyroiditis. Wow. So they have thyroid antibodies present then afterwards, sometimes up to 18 months after we'll have positive antibodies.

So you had some sort of trauma, and that very well could be what did that. That's crazy. She has a three-year-old. The problem is we don't know, did you have Hashimoto's before? So did anybody check your labs? And this is where we have a disconnect in the medical field. We don't check thyroid antibodies. You know this.

I check a lot of labs and either rule in or rule out Hashimoto's thyroiditis when you walk through that door. Either you have it or you don't. I was checked right before my daughter was born and I was put on levothyroxine because they said I had hypothyroidism during the infertility treatments. And they were like, maybe that's causing infertility problems. So I was put on the levothyroxine right before my daughter. And then they took me off of it while I was pregnant. And then after I had her, my levels equaled out. And they were like, we don't feel like you should be put back on it. Okay. But you were hypothyroid, which is completely different than Hashimoto's thyroiditis. What's the difference? So it's two

different disease processes, not disease, but hypothyroidism is hypothyroid, a sluggish thyroid, right? Your thyroid stimulating hormone is rising. You're not making enough thyroid hormone. So it keeps prompting up, popping up the thyroid stimulating hormone. So you have a high TSH. That's hypothyroid. Hashimoto's thyroiditis is a completely different thing you can be hypothyroid for decades and never have Hashimoto's never never but you can also have Hashimoto's thyroiditis and never be hypothyroid so I have a whole group of patients who have Hashimoto's but their thyroid works fantastic they're not hypothyroid they don't need to be on medication. On thyroid hormone, levothyroxine, which this is something else your tribe needs to know. If you're taking generic thyroid medicine, there are three medications I would never use generic.

Thyroid medicine, seizure medication, and blood thinner. Those medications need to be spot on every single month to keep your levels, your blood levels normal. So I don't prescribe generic thyroid medicine. Were you on Synthroid or generic levothyroxine? Just the levothyroxine. Just that's all it is. Just sounds like, I feel like Western medicine just throws a pill at everything. Everything. Like literally, you could be like, I have a headache. They're like, take a pill.

And my husband is like that. If somebody, if a doctor prescribes him something, he's like, I'm going to take it. And I'm like, no, you're not. I'm like, there's a way that we can fix this. And now he's gotten so much better because he's just so used to me being his wife. But like, even the other day he was, they prescribed him a Valium and I had them all freaked out. I'm like, where did you get the Valium? What pharmacy was it filled at? Is it in a pill bottle? I just freak

out. Well, he needed it to travel on the plane because he was so tired from in between shows. And he was like, I found myself getting freaked out. And he goes, I got mad because I was like, stop rubbing off on me. But you should,, that's a big deal. And you know, we hand out benzodiazepines like crazy. And I had someone call me last week wanting me to prescribe anti-anxiety meds. And I said, you know, I stopped it 10 years ago. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. There are plenty of people out there to write those prescriptions now. And sometimes people need an anti-anxiety. I'm not saying never, but I'm not riding another Xanax again as long as I live. I'm not going to because I've had too many patients not be able to get off of them. And you were hard courts miracle. You didn't end up, you know, sick as a

dog. Getting off Xanax was probably one of the hardest things I've ever done. Absolutely. That and to stop drinking cold turkey was really hard too. But yeah, Xanax, I have, I'm missing a big chunk of my twenties because I took so much Xanax. Like there's things I don't remember. My longterm memory is like shot from how much Xanax I used to take. And let me tell you, it, you don't have a care in the world, but you do other weird shit. So for what it fucking like, it made me a klepto i loved to steal when i was on xanax boy let me tell you if i walked in a store something was getting stolen like it just it so for every ailment that it was supposed to cover it gave you other things that were like just out

of this world weird you know telling what i would have done then because oh i got thrown in jail for stealing i got thrown in jail for stealing i was got thrown in jail for stealing. I was 18 years old. Freshman year in college. Oh, this is going to be terrible. Freshman year in college. Yes, I sure did. And you notice Walmart, don't mess with Walmart. They will.

I got caught at Target. They will nail your ass to the wall at Walmart. Walmart, 69 cent spool of thread I stole. Spool of thread. I was a fashion design major in college, so my first 20 years was all in merchandising. You animal, you. And I stole 69 cents, and my roommate did too. Well, she stole something else, a pattern. But anyway, they hauled our ass to jail in Bowling Green, Kentucky, strip searched us, put us in

jail. My mother didn't come pick me up because we know her history. And so when I called her, my roommate's mother had already, or my roommate had already called her mother. I called my mom. Carolyn answered the phone and she goes, you thief. Boom. And hung that phone up and never showed up. Never showed up. He came and got, her dad came and got us out. And yeah, no. So I can't imagine what it, yes, that was 18, had just turned 18. Oh my gosh. Can you imagine? I was put on probation for three years in college.

Three years for stealing. Over a spool of thread? I wouldn't eat a grape off the dang, you know, produce thing, you know, testing out the grape. That's like my friend actually cut a tag off of her mattress and ended up going to jail for that. What? You know how it says, do not take it off. Yeah, she ended up going to jail for that what you know how it says yes don't take it off yeah she ended up going to jail for that i thought that was a joke like if you cut

your you can really be prosecuted if you cut that tag off of mattresses why the fuck is that tag even on there what i had no idea i learned something new why is that tag even on there i think i cut every i have a weird ocd thing with tags. I can't have tags on anything, so I cut it off of everything. But yeah, my girlfriend, April, poor baby, ended up going to jail for cutting a tag off of a mattress. Oh, we've got bigger problems in this world to deal with than cutting off your mattress tag, right? But anyway, going back to, people don't need to know I ended up in jail, but I did. And Ella used to say that the say- It kind of gives you a little bit of an edge. It makes you more relatable. In opportune times, my daughter would go, mama, tell us about that time you got thrown in jail.

I mean, it would be like wherever out in public. And I'd like, you know, Ella, please. But so, and I was stone cold sober, not on Xanax. So I can't imagine if I had been on, not on Xanax. So I can't imagine if I had been on, you know, taking Xanax, but we treat symptoms. And that's how I was taught in school. And that's how all of your medical doctors are taught and your nurse practitioners and your PA, because we don't understand root cause. And like my son is fourth year medical school right now, fourth year, just started his fourth year, which means he's going to be out hopefully in four more years. He's not taught root cause medicine. Now he knows because he's grown up with a mom that there's a root cause for Bunny's constipation.

There's a root cause for thyroiditis. There's a root cause for her heartburn, right? People aren't born with heartburn. What's going on? And so that's what we have to do. We have to get better about that in allopathic medicine and ask those questions, right? So what happened to your childhood? Or what are you eating?

Your diet will heal you or kill you. It is as simple as that. And you are good at your diet. You are true to the course. Well, that leads me into my next question that I have for you, because you know how crazy I am with my diet. I don't do, I do no sugar. I do do a little gluten, but I get it through sourdough because that's the only bread I'll eat, but it's a special sourdough that I order. And it's like, I am so diligent in my fricking diet, but my blood sugar is still wonky.

So I had Gary Brekka's team do some of my blood work earlier this year before you did mine. And they came back and told me like, hey, you need to stop intermittent fasting. You're almost making yourself hypoglycemic, which is crazy because I feel so much better when I intermittent fast. But then every time I go and get my blood checked, people tell me my blood sugar's high. So how am I hypoglycemic if I have high blood sugar? Both my parents are diabetic, by the way. Okay. So type two diabetics, not type one. They're not on insulin. They weren't on insulin. Yeah. No, my mom was. Your mom was an insulin dependent diabetic? She was on insulin, yep.

I think my dad was too. Okay. So we want to pay close attention to that. But if I were you, I can give you a blood glucose monitor, checking. So what you're doing is you're getting just a snapshot, one shot, when you draw your blood. a snapshot, one shot when you draw your blood. If you did a glucose monitor, a continuous glucose monitor, we would know 24 seven every day, every minute what's going on with your blood sugar. And then you would know, oh gosh, when I'm intermittent fasting for 14 hours, yeah, I'm dropping or I'm spiking or whatever. I think I have what's called the dawn phenomenon.

So my blood sugar is always high in the morning. No matter what I do, I could fucking eat perfectly the night before and I still have high blood sugar in the morning. Okay. That is the dawn phenomenon. Yes. And so most people don't eat enough protein during the day. I ate 135 milligrams a day. Grams. 135 milligrams or 135 grams. Yes. Sorry. She said grams, bitch. Yes. Grams. And so that's good because a hundred. Yeah, that's, that's really good. So you're getting, um, are you eating breakfast? Are you eating most of that? I eat breakfast, lunch, dinner. I think the only thing I, you know you know me i'm always trying to figure it out i am high protein high carb low fat so i'm thinking that me being high carb is what's

triggering it probably probably that segues into my next thing about what is it called tri-sepitide i'm thinking about doing tri-sepitide because i want to lose a couple pounds but i also want to regulate my blood sugar how do you feel about semi-iglutide, trizepatide and all that stuff? On the spot. All right. I think there's a place for it. Absolutely, there's a place for it. And it has changed many of my patients' lives. I'm not prescribing it. I'm doing a tiny bit through a compounding pharmacy here for a few people that's sublingual. I'm not prescribing it. I'm doing a tiny bit through a compounding pharmacy here for a few people that's sublingual. So it's under the tongue. It's not an injection. I want to microdose it. I don't want to do it.

Well, it's microdosing it. So I just barely started it. And it's been several years, right, that this has been popular. Because I really feel like you need to know exactly what you're doing. And I didn't have time. Honestly, my mom was dying and all, but no, my gynecologist, I went in there the other day to see her. She looks unbelievable. And she told me, she said, we're doing tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri-tri, Danny. And she said, I would highly recommend you get into it. And I said, okay. So she was telling me that, you know, all the benefits and how her patients, not everyone, not everyone's a candidate for it. Right. But the blood sugar regulation benefits of that.

Now, do we have long-term studies on all of this to see? No, we don't. No, and that's what scares me because I've been doing a ton of research. Which is why I haven't done it yet with patients. I know. I'm waiting for you to hop on the horn. I know. I know.

But then I, yes, yes. But I think that that's a really great one. I mean, I've got patients on, I mean, they're on everything from metformin to Wagovi to the one that right now that. I've read so many bad things about metformin and the side effects. I was on it for a long time. Were you? I mean, not even, you know, I take that back. It wasn't long, long because I couldn't handle it.

I literally had to come to my doctor and said, you're killing me. Diarrhea? Was it diarrhea? I mean, everything. It was coming out of every hole. I was like literally becoming, I was becoming like to the point that like I made myself sick because I couldn't even drink a glass of water without it just coming somewhere oh gosh and so they were like okay well we'll try you on the

slow release okay now take it at this time now try this we'll put you on the lowest i was on the lowest dose on the like slow release of it it still could not keep anything within my body then it's not your thing exactly and so I hadn't been on anything until recently. I did go on trizeptide and I can handle it. I can fully handle it. I hear great things about trizeptide. I do. Do you know the difference between,

what's the difference between semi-glutide, ozempic and trizeptide? Isn't it all the same thing? Semi-glutide is ozempic. Okay. Manjaro is trizeptide. Okay, gotcha hormone um receptors it's what it's blocking so that's why they're using triseptide for addicts because it

blocks two hormone receptors versus the semaglutide only stops one of them right so like people who are addicted to you know they put them on the suboxone a lot of the times yes instead of suboxone they're trying to triseptide because it does and i will be honest i was on the suboxone a lot of the times yes instead of suboxone you're trying the triseptide because it does and i will be honest i was on the semaglutide to begin with i could still feel some of my food noise triseptide zero yeah i have a patient who's noise who went out to la and is on monjero was same thing and she said it, it completely took away the food noise in her. And she, I didn't think she needed to lose any weight anyway. She looks fantastic. And she said, you know, she'll start weaning off of it now, but here's where I, here's where I'm still skeptical on so many,

so much of this is you have to change the root cause to whatever's going on with you. Once we stop this, right? Were your portion sizes too big? Were you eating too many carbs, right? Were you not eating enough protein? Were you not exercising? Was your stress level through the roof, right? Are you not sleeping at night? I mean, I think sleeping is almost equally as important as your diet. Are you eating real food? Are you still driving through fast food and you're getting your food out of somebody's window? Well, that's not real food. So we have to change all the emotional things that go on around food once we stop this, once you stop your GLP-1, whatever it

is you're taking. And I don't know that everyone's doing that right so i'm worried about people losing a tremendous amount of weight which you don't have a tremendous amount of weight to lose you don't have a tremendous amount of weight to lose but then gaining more weight back right because you didn't fix the root cause well i do all of those yes you do um but my thing is is i want i want to lose about five to ten pounds but i also want to i feel like i've hit a plateau i'm sitting at in between 155 and 160 and i've been here since january that wild yam cream yes everybody has all of these great reviews about wild yam cream that shit fucked me up you know i'm always going to be honest about it. It did not do good for me. Like it literally, it made me feel

terrible. And it also made me like, um, now that I've gotten off of it, I've been off of it probably about three months. I am the skinniest and tightest on my period. And anytime it was the minute I'm off my period, I'm swollen. I feel inflamed. Like I hate it. It like has made me reversed. Uh, it's so crazy that's wild that happens to me yeah i feel my skinniest like the day before i start my period yeah i'll drop down to like 155 156 right before my period and i'll weigh that all through my period which is unheard of for me normally i gain like five pounds on my period and then as soon as it comes off i go up five pounds as soon as my period's over with, anywhere from three to five pounds. That stuff really sent my hormones for a loop.

It did, didn't it? My body is so opposite. It is, because progesterone is the calming hormone. It is the first hormone that starts to drop in your body in your 30s, actually in your mid-30s. It's the one that keeps a baby in the womb. It's the one that keeps you calm and helps you sleep at night. It's a game changer for most people, but not everyone. And this is why you have to have personalized medicine, right? Not everybody gets the same treatment, but for you, it wasn't a good thing. And that doesn't mean that maybe later it wouldn't

be. Oh no, like when I'm going through menopause. Oh yeah, when you're an old lady like me and your progesterone is my favorite, man. I love it. I take it every night, 100 milligrams, man. No, 130. We're up to 130 now. Let's talk about menopause because I feel like so many people do not want to touch the menopause subject. And, you know, for the longest time, I was always like, oh, my God, like dreaded menopause.

And now I'm actually kind of like, I can't wait, dude. Like I am so tired of having periods. Um, let's talk about perimenopause, menopause and postmenopause. So perimenopause usually starts in between what ages? 30s, 30s, mid 30s ish, somewhere right around there. And women don't even notice it. I didn't notice it. Did you notice it in your 30s? No, but some women do, but it's the first hormone that starts to drop. The progesterone does, and some people get a little more emotional maybe before their period or their periods get a little erratic in the 30s. And then in the 40s, most women do start to notice something at 44 is when I was like, gosh, this is weird. But I always had really regular periods. is when I was like, gosh, this is weird.

But I always had really regular periods. It's just a hormonal fluctuation. And a lot of women have babies in their late 30s and early 40s. And think about that. Out with the baby goes what little bit of progesterone they had left. Once they have this baby, oftentimes we have to supplement progesterone during pregnancy for these women because it is the hormone that helps keep the baby in the womb. But it's the calming ones, the one that balances breast tenderness, helps you sleep at night, helps you poop, all those things. Progesterone's calming. And that's perimenopause.

And it can be a little erratic, those seasons. And then here we are raising teenagers and all the things while we're perimenopausal, right? And your hormones are doing this and their hormones are doing this, especially if it's girls and nobody's getting along at all in there at the house. And menopause, oh my gosh, and I'll be 59. It is, and I tell women this every day and they look at me so mad and so angry. They're hot flashing, their vagina's drying up. It's like rice paper. They don't want... Damn. The visual. Yeah, yeah. And it hurts. It's like glass, they tell me,

and they bleed a little bit with sex. And the hot flashes and it's when osteoporosis gets diagnosed. It starts decades before. But before we get into all the symptoms of menopause, always remember it is an honor and it is a privilege and it is a rite of passage denied by many women. Always remember that, that it is, many women never live this long to get through menopause. We all have friends who've died before they ever hit menopause. It doesn't mean it's fun. It doesn't mean it's always enjoyable,

but it is an honor to go through. And once you get to the other side, it is freedom like you have never seen. And you do have to keep your hormones balanced, right? Or you will have, you know, rice paper vaginas that just shred apart. Oh, my God. And you hear it. You listen to the women. They don't want sex. Their libido goes down.

Well, that could start any time. I have 25-year-olds who have no sex drive that are married. And that's a whole other topic we could talk about why that is. But menopause, if it's balanced properly, if you're done, what I have found is that women who have the worst time going through menopause, if it's balanced properly, what I have found is that women who have the worst time going through menopause are the ones who have the most inflammation in their body. Because inflammation is the root of every single bit of these chronic diseases. Menopause is not a disease, but it's going to be exacerbated the more inflamed you are. The worse your gut is, the more you're not sleeping, the more your job is killing you and your kids are killing you and you can't poop and all those

things. When you start getting those things in order, those balls in order, your menopause symptoms level out. But you also have to have a healthcare provider who understands hormones. Then you get into, Bunny, you get into, I'm scared. My doctor says I can't take hormones. Then you get into, Bunny, you get into, I'm scared. I don't want, my doctor says I can't take hormones. I should never take hormones. Bioidentical hormones cause cancer. Well, show me that research. I want to see the studies that say, because I have studies as big as this book right here that show bioidentical hormones do not cause cancer. Now, there are hormone-based cancers, absolutely. But if bioidentical hormones cause cancer, then all the women who have hormones in their body would all have cancer. The Baileys, right? My daughter Ella, our 25-year-olds, our 30-year-olds,

our 35-year-olds, they're not the ones who get cancer. Who gets cancer? Women my age with no hormones in their body. That's who gets cancer. So if they're balanced properly and if the inflammation is down in your body, I believe bioidentical hormones are an unbelievable thing to transition. I just don't think we're designed to shrivel up and dry up. No. Right? I want to be juicy forever. You bet. And so think about Bailey and think about my daughter Ella. And those girls, their brains are on fire. Now they may be kooky and crazy right

now, but you know what I mean? Their hormones are firing. Their brains are firing on all cylinders. It's estrogen that keeps your boobs up to here, right? Your skin up to here, your brains and your bones strong, right? And I don't think we have to be like we're 20 years old anymore, but I definitely want my hormones balanced so that I'm not hot flashing. Hot flashes are horrible. Have you ever had a hot flash? I have panic attacks and I get really hot when I have panic attacks. So if that's what hot flashes feel like, I don't want it. It is. And it is no fun. I can tell you that. And when your hormones are balanced. And then I think that's when the wild yam cream will come in to play for me. Absolutely. And maybe you don't even need the wild. Maybe you

need something different. Maybe you need chasteberry, vitex. I don't know. You know, there's many things that we can do to get you through perimenopause, menopause, postmenopausal, herbal-wise. You know, there's tons of herbs out there that we can use. And then we get into the bioidentical hormones. And you find a provider who's going to help you do that. If you have a healthcare provider who says, no, I'm not prescribing new hormones, then find a new provider. You've got a family history of cancer. That's right. Yeah. Got a family history of cancer, but I don't have to be my genetics. And they say the genetics loads the

gun, but your environment pulls the trigger. So I will die with my bioidentical hormones held in my hands as tight as anything. Danny Williamson will go to her grave with her estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and pregnenolone, which is the happiness hormone. I will take them until I'm done. Does it take a long time to get adjusted to them? Well, it didn't for me, although I've had a little blip lately and had to have a biopsy and all this, some postmenopausal bleeding. I think, I don't know if you saw or not. I did. I saw it online. And then I had to have a biopsy last week because I had an abnormal pap smear. So this is something that your tribe needs to know. You know, the guidelines say now you don't

have to have a pap smear, but every three to five years. Yeah, I'm not cool with that. Have they lost their mind? I go once a year. I do too. And insurance pays for it. And also I wanted to bring up to you guys, when you go and get a pap smear, ask them for an ultrasound of your ovaries also, because pap smears only check for cervical cancer. They do not check for ovarian cancer. That's right. We have no screening for ovarian cancer, but the test we did, the gallery cancer screening test, that looks at the methylation cycle. So the only way that we know about ovarian cancer is when they do the bimanual exam, when we do the pap smear, right? And we put the fingers

in there. We're feeling ovaries, right? To see if anything's off. The only signs of ovarian cancer are bloating and early satiety, like eating and getting full very quickly. Those are signs of ovarian cancer are bloating and early satiety, like eating and getting full very quickly. Those are signs of ovarian cancer. Well, who doesn't have that? Yeah. I'm like God. Me every day. So I had, for the first time, 58 years old, she called me and said, Danny, we've got an abnormal pap.

But it's not just abnormal. It's low grade. Like could be a cancer. Not just atypical cells. And I said, what are you talking about? And we went back and looked. 15 years I've been with her, never had an abnormal pap smear. So I had to go in for a colposcopy and a biopsy two weeks ago. And I just got the phone call Friday that it's completely negative. There is no cancer there. There is no cancer. But what if, and I

had a pap smear last year, I have one every year. What if I'd waited the guidelines and had a pap smear in three years? Well, that atypical or low grade cells could have turned into a cervical cancer. And that's only one of five cancers that we screen for. So I'm a big believer in getting your pap smear every single year. And the ultrasound as well, and interns may not pay for that, right? And some people can't do that. And ultrasounds are pretty inexpensive. But I'm a believer in going in and getting your breast exam from the clinician, whoever it is, if it's a gynecologist, whatever, or family

practice, get the breast exam, get your pap smear every year. These are things we can do. Preventative medicine. Which I still need to go get my mammogram this year. I haven't done it yet. I mean, I've had enough health shit this year. I'm just like, fuck my life. I'm like, Lord, I don't want to go get another test done, but I actually do need to get it done. So maybe I'll try to get that done before we go on tour. Get that done. Always go to your dermatologist. Yeah. And I didn't get my ultrasound either because my gynecologist, her ultrasound machine wasn't

working. So I need to get that done too before I leave for tour. Yes. I did get my pap smear. So we're good. Well, that's good. Get your pap smears. I'm telling you, that's a big deal, but get your preventative things done.

Absolutely. You know, your skin. I just went, I just got a big deal, but get your preventative things done. Your skin. I just got a little biopsy there taken off Friday. I went and saw my dermatologist, had my first skin cancer six months ago on my leg, a basal cell. I mean, it's like, what in the world? But getting older, age is a risk for cancer. It is a risk for cancer. So the older you get, the more determined you have to be to stay on top of your preventative medicine. Absolutely. Health is wealth. Health is wealth. And your wealth will help you with better healthcare. But I am telling you, you better take care of your health no matter what, because you could have all the money in

the world and you're not going to live any longer if you get diagnosed with it. That is the one thing I realized whenever we went through that aneurysm scare was I was just like, I've worked my ass off to be where I'm at. And it's like, what if something so simple like that can just take it away at the blink of an eye and take you away from all of it? And it was just like, you can't take any of that with you, you know? So you have to really stay on top of your health, be preventative, check everything. Every year I get blood work done by you. I get blood work done.

I get mammograms. I get pap smears. Like it's a ritual that I do that if you can, you know, and thank the Lord, we're fortunate enough to be able to do that. And a lot of insurances will cover most of these things, the basic stuff, right? Absolutely. I was on TennCare.

I was on food stamps and TennCare for six years going through nurse practitioner school. And I got divorced and lost everything. Let me tell you, TennCare or Kentucky Medicaid or whatever, any of it, that was the best insurance I've ever had in my life. It paid for everything. It paid for everything, every pap smear, every preventative stuff. So even if you're on 10-Care or if you're on state aid like I was, utilize it and get your preventative exams done. But people are scared. They put their head in the sand. And I am telling you, putting your head in the sand will kill you. It will kill you. You would never let your child, if you had children, you would never ignore your child's health. If there was something going on,

right? Maybe you would take them straight. We did my kid to the doctor all the time. maybe you would take them straight my kid to the doctor all the time yeah yes you have to be your advocate your health advocate i've learned that too you have to be you know doctors will do the bare minimum especially western medicine so you have to be like hey man this is what's going on i learned that last year whenever i couldn't figure out why my blood pressure or my blood sugar and blood pressure kept spiking and i fucking figured out that it was rice that i'm allergic to they were ready to put me on blood pressure kept spiking. And I fucking figured out that it was rice that I'm allergic to. They were ready to put me on blood pressure medication.

Nobody would advocate for my own health. And you are the only person who knows your body as well as it is, you know? So it's like, you have to be your own advocate. If something doesn't feel right and you don't agree with something, don't just go with it and take the pill, go search further. It's like,

be like, no, this is, I need to figure it out. And process of elimination can help you figure out so much stuff that's going on with your body too. You bet. You bet. And then, you know, rice, who knew rice is, you know, the Asians eat rice every day, all day. What in the world? It's not killing, you know? I mean, it's not the devil. My body is so weird. I know. I miss rice. I want rice so bad. I love rice.

And that's where the ability to be able to do food sensitivity testing that we've done and that I do, and not everyone has the ability to be able to do that because it's like $400 for the big test, great big test. But the top seven foods out there that affect most people, the top seven foods that that whole chapter is written on in there, gluten, dairy, soy, corn, sugar, eggs, and peanuts. Those are the top seven inflammatory foods in the country. They always have been. That's not going to change anytime soon. Who knew rice for you, right? Avocados for me. My body doesn't like avocados. That's crazy.

Does not like avocados and does not like cashews and cashews are my favorite. Oh, I love cashews and anything that's dairy free because I can't dairy, eggs, gluten, cashews, avocados. Those are the five big ones for me. Yeah. I don't do dairy cashews. Last time I ate cashews, I fucking felt like I swallowed glass and had to take Benadryl. I've eaten cashews my whole life. And I ate them one day, and that was it. Game over. Couldn't eat them again. My heart rate was racing. Yeah, my buddy hates cashews.

And it is a highly inflammatory nut. Yeah. A lot of people are allergic to cashews. They certainly are. And so peanuts aren't so bad. It's the mold in the peanuts that's the problem, right? It's the aflatoxin. You didn't know that there's mold?

No. So the mold in peanuts. Because Mimi eats peanut butter all the time. Mimixin you didn't know that there's mold no so the mold and peanuts because mimi eats peanut butter all the time mimi i need you to read also contribute to your your hashimoto's because it's an inflammatory yes so it is so polluted peanuts i have a whole section in here on on peanuts and and you know and it's so good peanuts are so good i love peanut butter i could eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich right now sitting here with you. Love it. I don't have a peanut sensitivity at all.

So I can eat organic peanuts that are not loaded with mold. And so I talk all about it in here. They grow in the ground and stuff. Yeah. And so it's the same with corn. Corn is the mold problem yep as well the aphrodite right but trader joe's has organic and as does costco organic peanut butter that's valencia peanut but valencia peanuts have less mold in them okay i'm gonna go check i have organic

peanut butter at home i keep it in the fridge if it's valencia does it have sugar in it though i gotta i don't think so because jason eats it and he doesn't eat sugar so it probably shouldn't then if i don't know you gotta be careful because there are some organics that have sugar in it you have to make sure it says sugar free on it oh my i know just peanuts you just need peanuts in it yep you know and maybe some salt i taught her that the least ingredients yeah oh i taught taught Olivia that recently. She is obsessed with reading ingredients now. When you read those ingredients, if it's got more than two ingredients in it, that's fake

food. Yeah. And you people don't realize it. I just so want to go up to people at the grocery that are down the frozen food aisle, right? Yeah. And you look at the back of those meals and literally the ingredient list is that long. Yeah.

You know, and I rat on Chick-fil-A all the time, but I mean, I love it. I mean, I think it's great. I mean, it's fine. I think this will be- There's 51 ingredients in one Chick-fil-A sandwich. What, tell me about Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A. There is a reason that Chick-fil-A tastes the same in Nashville, Tennessee, as it does in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is 100% frankenfood. That's it. There's

nothing real about it. There's 51 ingredients, count it, in their chicken sandwich. 51. There is a piece of chicken. That's the number one ingredient, but it's got hormones and antibiotics, which they refused to take that out this year in 2024. Number three ingredient is MSG. 51 ingredients. There is a reason it tastes the same all over the United States. It is a chemistry experiment. And it's not just Chick-fil-A. I mean, you might as well eat at McDonald's or Taco Bell or any of that because they're all the same, or Cracker Barrel. It's a formula. Nobody's chicken sandwich. If you cooked a chicken sandwich three days in a row, it would taste different every time because we mix it up a

little bit different. Not when it's a chemistry experiment. That was designed specifically for addiction. Addiction. And people are addicted to it. I know some people who eat it almost every day. Every day. I want waffle fries. Isn't that sick? I love their waffle fries.

But ever since you came on the podcast and told me that, I don't eat it anymore. I'll eat it if I have to. Right. And it's like once every fucking six months. I can't even remember the last time we had it, but I won't eat it anymore. I feel so gross. And my face gets so red and flushed after I eat anything from Chick-fil-A. It's unbelievable. And I think, you know, they're, they're, they're an amazing company. I'm sure, but they got to pay their board members. Right. I mean,

I mean, they've got, if it tasted different here as it did in Paducah, Kentucky, that's a problem. People will be returning their chicken sandwiches. So always think about that. Why does it taste the same everywhere? It's the same with frozen food and the frozen food aisle. It's the same with all of this. It's not one ingredient food. Now, we don't always have time to put together a big meal, right? But you can chop up some broccoli and some cauliflower and an artichoke. I think we talked about artichokes last time. You don't have a problem cooking them. It takes me all day. I love them. We love artichokes. I know. I love artichokes, but that's one ingredient food. Look at the list of ingredients in what you're buying. And if it's in a package, a box,

a bag, a can, a tube, it's designed to be eaten randomly, not all the time. That's the allostatic load that we're talking about, right? Eating it every day, all day. Well, it's going to build up, build up, build up, And those toxins, those chemicals, that inflammation, and then boom, we're going to tip over into autoimmune disease, chronic lifestyle diseases, diseases you weren't born with. So that brings me to another question then, because we had, some people got offended at a conversation that Mimi and I had had about getting lower ingredient foods. They were like, well, we don't have the money to do that. And for you to talk bad about certain foods isn't okay.

So for the people at home that are on a budget, what can they eat that's healthy and low ingredient food? Well, one ingredient food. I mean, seriously, Walmart is the number one buyer and supplier of organic food in the world. So even if you don't eat organic, right? Even if you're eating traditional sprayed apples, grapes, all of that, you're on a budget, right? You're on a budget. You have Aldi's, you have Walmart, you can go and get clean. it may not be clean, but you can get one ingredient food. So, I mean, you can. The farmer's markets. I mean, I was on food stamps and I didn't know

that you could use food stamps at most farmer's markets. I had no idea. Most of them take food stamps, but it takes a little effort. So then you have to look, okay, if you're busy, if you were like me, two little kids on food stamps, no money, $430 a month in child support and in school full time, right, nurse practitioner school. I mean, I had to do the best I could. I did the best I could. And we ate a lot of frozen pizza. Don't beat yourself up. When you know better, then you begin to do better.

But if you can make soup, right? I used to make a ton of soup. I used to use my Crock-Pot all the time. Well, I still do. I mean, I love my Crock-Pot. I'm a Crock-Potter. There is a cookbook called Make It Fast, Cook It Slow. One of the best cookbooks. I need it for tour. You need it. Make It Fast, Cook It Slow. One of the best cookbooks. I need it for tour. Maybe you need it. Make it fast. Cook it slow. One of the best cookbooks I've ever had. It's all gluten free actually. And so, and I used to use it. You can do that on a budget. You can buy cheap, cheap, cheap meat on a budget, put it in a crock pot. We eat so healthy on tour. So I love crock pot meals. I think the issue is, is like people don't want to identify. It's not that healthy food is expensive

it just takes more effort it does and that's where people i think get offensive with it it's like oh well we don't have the money no no because i know how much broccoli costs i know how much zucchini costs they don't cost ten dollars a zucchini no but it is going to take you going home and cooking it you gotta chop it cook it exactly cook it, bag it, meal prep it, and all that. And I'm guilty of that, though, because I didn't love putting effort in. And I've noticed going one ingredient, and she's really helped me change my diet, and that is it does take a lot more effort. That's just the take of it.

But the cleaner your diet is, the more one-ingredient food you eat, the less you eat, too, because that food is designed, that Chick-fil-A, that McDonald's, that's designed to keep feeding you, right, or to keep you getting hungry, to keep you eating, right? Diet Coke has so much sodium in it for thirst so that you will be more thirsty and drink more. It's designed for addiction. And you just keep eating and keep eating the chips right the popcorn all of that

but when you eat one ingredient food you eat less you're full you do less don't you i had this conversation with my husband yesterday because he ate a hot dog at costco and then he got home and he goes this is the first time i've started to realize that the the food because you know my husband's food addict like his is way worse than mine, but he really, I was proud of him for yesterday, identifying how his body felt after eating that. He goes, man, he goes, I don't feel full and it made me feel bad. And he's never said that about foods before. So many people are not in tune with how they feel. They think it's normal to be exhausted after they eat, to be bloated after they eat,

to have to go have diarrhea after you eat. That's normal. That's just who I am. That's not true. That's not how we were designed to live. I feel better at 58 years old than I ever did at 38. Same, I feel better at 44 than I have in a long time. That's exactly right.

And you know, I did change my diet, but I also changed the stress level. And I got a lot of stress, but I cut out the soul suckers in my life. I automated a lot of things and eliminated and delegated a lot of things in my life. And I think oftentimes people poo-poo things they're not up on, right? Because they don't have the other things in their life in balance, right? Maybe they're not sleeping. It's very difficult to eat well if you're not sleeping at night, because you're exhausted. You're exhausted. And so we have to get you sleeping. And we need to get you exercising, because your body's designed to move itself. You don't have to go to CrossFit

four days a week, but you do need to move your body at least after you eat. And that's gonna help you feel better and make better decisions. And when you feel better, one step at a time, you make better decisions. And there's no shaming anyone if they can't afford. I've been there. I grew up with a mom that had no money, but my mom also grew a garden and she canned everything.

And I don't do that. I wish I could grow a garden. Me too. That is one of my dreams is to be a gardener. Yes, I know. Me too. And it takes, you talk about taking time. Yeah. Right. But man, if all heck breaks loose and the grid goes down and we have some sort of massive something happen here, the people who are canned up and have canned their vegetables and like my mom. Oh, yeah. They're the real MVPs. You bet they are. You bet. And that's a whole other way to also eat if you have the time because it's expensive initially to get everything together, but then it's so less expensive. But I am telling you, the people who do it, who have children, we have the opportunity right now to change the entire next, the trajectory of the next generation. And it starts with diet.

And they are not feeding their brains on, their brains can't grow on sugar and carbs and red food coloring and blue food coloring and processed packaged food. The food coloring. I just cut red dye out of my son's diet, and he is a different child. Completely different. He'd do a total 180. Completely. And I slipped up, and I didn't check a piece of food the other day.

He ate it. Holy terror. That's right. But that wasn't food. He was eating Franken food if there was red food to color in it. And that's something. And it's these little things that you discover that you learn. And when you know better, you do better. And so it's not all at one time. You throw the baby out with the bath water.

It's every day, every week, every month, every year you make better choices. And in six months you go, holy shit. So I can't believe I feel so much better. I wanted to use that as an example. I cut out sugar going on two years ago and, um, I ate something the other day. I forget what it was. Oh, the ice cream. So Mimi and I, I was like, you know what? I haven't had sugar in forever. I'm going to eat some ice cream with my friend because I deserve it. Right. I ate ice cream with her. I could, it was delicious, but I could, it hurt. It had so much sugar in it. Like my taste buds have changed so much. And then I get on a plane and have a panic attack for four fucking hours because I ate sugar. And you really don't realize like even these changes, you don't realize how much your body is affected by

these things until you've been out of it for that long. And then you try to go back and you're like, holy shit, now I know why I cut this out of my diet. That is such a great point because people say to me all the time, patients, well, I don't feel like I ever had a reaction to gluten before. And now I tried it. Now I ate it after you've made me be off of it for six months. And I am, I mean, I had a horrible reaction. No, you lived in a constant reaction before you had no idea that your body was in fight or flight and you had this huge inflammatory load going on. You didn't know any differently until you started feeling better. And then you, but you know, the goal is, and I'm fortunate, that's unfortunate that happened to you. the goal is and i'm fortunate that's unfortunate that happened to you the goal is though to build up enough resilience that when you do want to have ice

cream with your friend mimi right that you don't panic attack in an airplane i don't think it listen let's just danny at this point i don't think my body is in this lifetime i don't think my body is made up to go back to bad habits. Like once I've let something go, my body is so sensitive. Yeah, your body is. I'm not that sensitive. So if I wanted to have ice cream with you, even though dairy is like the top of my list, I have built up enough resilience through the years of healing my gut, right? With probiotics and things and all the things and eating clean that I would probably

feel it the next day in my hands because that's where I feel it is the joints. Me too. I get it. Oh, the joints. My hands get swollen and my feet get swollen. My feet don't, but my hands look like little piggies, just like little piggy fingers. But I would have built up enough resilience that I could handle it. And that is what you want. It's not about forever denying yourself. That's what people think is, oh, Dani, I love good food. What do you eat? What do you mean? What do I eat? That's like five foods out of hundreds that God made. I love eating healthy. I feel so good after I eat healthy. If I eat a fast food meal,

I get so tired and my stomach is just uncomfortable. Like you just don't feel good. You're just dragging down. It drags you down. So your body is designed to heal itself and it wants to be 150%. But it's a process and it takes time. But there's no shaming anyone who says they can't afford it because I am living proof that you can.

Absolutely. One little thing at a time. Maybe just change one thing. Absolutely. We're going to eliminate. We're going to cut down on gluten drastically. Or I'm going to learn what is gluten. Or cut sugar out once a week.

Cut sugar out. That's right. I love what you said about being more informative. You then tend to make better choices. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. Yes. But yeah, we never want to shame anybody.

And we are always here just to bring awareness. It's not us trying to be like, oh, we're better than you because we eat organic. It's never like that. We just want you to know that there is a different way that you can eat to make yourself feel better. And me, Dani, Mimi, we're all living proof. Mimi has made drastic changes since she's came back. Um, since she's came into this, you know, the whole situation and she's done so good. How many pounds are you down now? 40. It's phenomenal. I'm so proud of you. And it is, it's about baby steps and it's just making these,

these little changes. And you look back in a year and you're like, whoa, I can't believe where I was in 2024. Cutting out the dairy was big for me. Dairy's huge. And dairy is such a trigger for patients, such a trigger, because we love cheese. Most people do. And I tell people, if you believe in the Bible, Daniel knew 2,000 years ago how inflammatory dairy was. He gave up dairy. That's the basis of the Daniel fast.

The warriors who came out, the strongest warriors after 10 days, Daniel said, we're not eating that. We are not eating that food of the king's palace, red meat, red wine, and dairy. That was the basis of the Daniel fast. They knew 2,000 years ago they didn't have pasteurized dairy. They didn't have antibiotics in their dairy. That was the basis of the Daniel Fast. They knew 2,000 years ago they didn't have pasteurized dairy. They didn't have antibiotics in their dairy. They did not have glyphosate round up all over their grass, those cows eating it. And they knew then how inflammatory dairy was. And it was clean dairy. So I am telling you, dairy's for one thing, baby cows.

I used to love cheese. Like I, you could do, I could eat that whole table. I can't, I can't. They gave, they brought me a cheeseburger the other night and I sent it back. She was like, ah, that's way too much cheese. Like, and normally I would have never said that. But now, like, since I've been off dairy for almost a decade, I can't like, I can have it in small doses, but if it's like a lot I can't I just don't crave it

anymore yeah and that's I think that's another thing that we should bring up for a you know as a point is like yes you might crave Doritos and you might crave french fries right now but your palate changes the healthier you get like I crave brussel sprouts and salads yes and like you know just like good stuff and i promise you it's hard it is so hard when you're first getting off something because it's an addiction you bet it is and it literally will take six months to a year but if you stick with it you will the just the rewards of sticking with a clean diet are so much better than going back and getting those fries okay so funny i'm not as clean as her and she'll eat stuff sometimes. And she'll be like,

this is delicious. And because I'm not as clean, I'll eat it. And me and Haley are like, that's fucking disgusting. Yeah. I gave them some, like I, this, this, I made this like concoction that I thought tasted like s'mores and I'm like, taste it. It tastes like s'mores. And Mimi's like, this tastes like fucking dirt. dirt oh I can't believe you just said that because I fixed something recently and Jackson was home from from medical school and I said man you can't tell the difference between gluten and I think it was a gluten-free pizza I can't remember what I mean I love he looked at me and he goes mom I don't think you understand you have been doing this since 2010. This tastes nothing like a regular pizza. I love gluten-free pizza though. I think it's gluten-free bread, all of it. I love it.

And he said, mom, it just doesn't taste, but it's great because our palate has changed. And so again, when you know better, you do better. And I mean, when you get the opportunity to see your children's lives change, if you have children, it is fascinating that the teachers will send notes home from school, like, what have you done? Like, this kid is totally different. I don't know how these teachers do it now

with these sugared up, chemicaled up, red food colored, blue colored, yellow colored up children. Doesn't that food contribute to autism also? Don't they say that or that it can? Well- Is that wrong? Some people say that, but there's no proof.

Some people can say that. The same with, I think it's all environmental. Yes. So it could be vaccines. It could be genetic something. It could be environmental. It could be, I think it could be i think it's again it's the whole allostatic and if i'm wrong forgive me i thought i had read that somewhere

i'm an information junkie probably have read that somewhere yeah here's what i can tell you after working with autistic children for five years at my old clinic which i left 10 years ago today and he was the greatest or or still is, autism doctor. The minute he would take them off of red coloring and blue and yellow and sugar and gluten, those children's lives change. Those children's lives change. Sometimes they went from nonverbal to speaking or from flapping. I've seen that too. Jenny Farley, JWoww, has that same story about her autistic son.

So I think that was another example that I had. You bet. And so again, if these children were not born autistic, we have to go back upstream and figure out what happened. What caused it. What's caused it. What's going on. And let's start working on reversing.

And that's what Dr. Kalb did beautifully. It's the same with autoimmune disease. Same thing with what do right what brought on this hashimoto's now it could be sick strep infections right well i also i got sepsis a year ago i went into septic shock yeah i was left in a waiting room for three hours in the er until i started going into septic shock and my husband ran up and was like help her and I was yeah literally dying maybe I had no idea I've been trying to get her into you for years I'm like please go see Danny you know where I am I'm coming I'm coming I'm in a good location before tour go please you guys need to figure this out we got you covered sis I'll see

you so are you ready to answer some questions from Patreon? Let's do it. Because all of our Patreon members love you to death. Oh, my goodness. Well, I tell you what. They come in, you know, the ones that come just for appointments. And how'd you hear about us on our paperwork? And it'll say, bunny, bunny.

I know. Bunny. I love that. That makes me so happy. I know. I love it, too. It makes me. So we're going to head over to patreon and

we're gonna answer a bunch of you guys's questions and they actually have some really really good questions in here we'll start off with one that i think that you could relate to because you said you do have lupus uh-huh what advice uh rachel is asking what advice do you have for lupus i was diagnosed with sre lupus last year, and I'm trying my best to manage it holistically and spiritually. I don't want to have to rely on medication. I know my autoimmune disease is related to my childhood trauma, which I'm also working on healing right now, as I believe they correlate. Any insight is appreciated. Thank you so much, Danny. Oh my goodness. Rachel, right? Rachel.

Rachel. Okay. Well, I hear you. And, um, I was 35 years old when I was diagnosed with lupus and that rheumatologist had that hand on that door and, and she said, well, Danielle, there's no cure for lupus. It kills women every year. That's what she said to me. And she said, some people should not have their fucking medical license. She still practices it at, yeah, she still practices too. And so, so all that's her license. Oh, she still practices it. Yeah, she still practices too. What's her name? No, I'm just kidding. I know.

Yeah. I had a patient probably two years ago who had her listed as her rheumatologist. And I said, oh, man, she's still on her as hell? She said, yeah, she is. I said, yeah. She told me. Kills people. And it does.

But here's the thing. You weren't born with lupus. She already has enough insight to know, Rachel, about the childhood trauma. And so address that. I took the pain medication. I took the lupus medications very briefly. And this was before I even knew anything about integrative medicine. And it boiled down to healing the gut. Find out real fast what your food sensitivities are. If you can't do that, then cut out the top seven foods initially and do that for one solid month and start bringing the inflammation down.

And I would be taking a really great quality fish oil and turmeric. And I'm a big fan of CBD. Now, I don't know what her symptoms are, right? There could be a butterfly rash. There could be the joint pain. There could be the kidney manifestation because lupus will affect the kidneys. But the bottom line is, it's an inflammatory response. Lupus is. And so once you have one autoimmune disease, the average is three. Did you know that? I did not know that. Did you know that Hashimoto's, multiple sclerosis, and celiac are like triplets?

Wow. So we want to stop it at one, right? One autoimmune disease. But it's an inflammatory response. So fish oil, for sure. Turmeric, turmeric, turmeric, anti-inflammatory. That's anti-inflammatory. Anything you can do to bring the inflammation down in your body

and get sleeping, moving. But now some people need to be on medicine for lupus. So do not ignore that. I don't know how severe it is, but get a great rheumatologist. And if you don't have a good rheumatologist, this is probably the best advice you'll get out of me. Find a new one then. Find a new one.

Because as you know, you and I know, there are multiple providers out there. There is someone out there who will help you. Yes. Right? And I am living proof if you were born healthy, you do not have to live sick. And if you're in a toxic relationship at home, if you're in a toxic job,

these are all things that have to be addressed because stress will kill you. Oh, absolutely. That's what I've had to do this year is really lower a lot of my stress. You bet. And it's worked out swimmingly. Well, and you know, if I hadn't wanted to do this, right, I could have said, but I can't do this. I don't, I'm tapped out. We have the right to say no. And we don't, as women, especially, we don't realize that no is a complete sentence.

Yes. I say that all the time. All the time, right? I know. That's why I just adore you. But so seriously, bringing down the inflammation, I know what it's like. I know what it's like to have lupus. And it is something that, you know, I still have lupus, but I don't have the symptoms of lupus. When I check my antibodies, lupus antibodies are there, but I don't have the symptoms. But I healed my gut. I am telling you, the gut, no matter what these gals are asking or guys on here, the gut is 80% of your immune system.

So you could answer almost any health question by saying, or 80% of it, by saying you've got to heal the gut. And we do that by eliminating the inflammatory foods first. And then a good probiotic will bring down inflammation. You don't take a probiotic, do you? No. I just read about some guy dying because he took a fucking probiotic. I'm scared. I own a supplement store and I sell a lot of probiotics and no one has died from a probiotic. What? I'm telling you, I research everything. And by the way, any of these supplements that we do talk about on this podcast today, please go over to Danny's website and order them. What's your website? DannyWilliamson.com. Yes. Yeah. The store pops up. Yeah.

Speaking of supplements though, let's talk about magnesium because there's so many magnesiums on the market though. How do you know which one to take and which one is for which? Well, so if you're constipated, a magnesium oxide, a magnesium citrate, I don't care for those. We have them because some people just want them, but they're very harsh on you, right? Magnesium glycinate, chelate, malate. That's my favorite. That's that big one that we've used with you before. I take three of them at bedtime, at night. Magnesium has over 300 functions in our body. We are so deficient in magnesium as a United States population because there's no magnesium left in the soil. There's no minerals left in the soil. Magnesium calms you down. It helps with panic attacks. It helps with migraine headaches.

It helps with heart palpitations, restless legs, constipation. Which one magnesium is best for constipation? Oxide and citrate are the ones that they give you for constipation. But if it's harsh on your body. It is. That's why I use glycinate, chelate, malate. Ours has all of it in it. That has magnesium glycinate and malate in it. I love it. I take three at night. Poop like a goose. I don't have any problems with it. And I know you're not dehydrated. How do you take three? I would fucking feel like I woke up in a

Benadryl coma. Magnesium makes me so tired. Then take one. I need to take a freaking smidge of one. Maybe you're a good one. I just started. We just got in the store because people kept asking for it and I never would good one. I just started. We just got in the store because people kept asking for it and I never would do it. A magnesium gel, topical spray. And I've been putting it on the

bottom of my feet at night. I sleep well, but I play around with everything to see how it works. And then putting it on my shins, it's fantastic. And I think it would work amazing on your belly. Girls who are having cramps, I know it would. I don't think it would. I know it would. Like spray it on your belly. If you're having cramps or if you're constipated, maybe put it on your belly. Maybe use it topically because the best way to absorb anything really, honestly, is transdermally. What you put on your skin, you put in your body within 26 seconds flat. Wow. So it better be clean, whatever you're putting on, your lotion, your makeup, your hair color, all the things. Does it get in your bloodstream?

You bet. Wow. Well, sure. This is the largest organ on the body right here. Wow. So when you put all that toxic stuff on your body, it's through your bloodstream. 26 seconds. Haley uses the spray. You bet. She likes it. Yeah. What'd you say? Haley uses the spray. She puts it on the bottom of her feet and then she'll put socks on and go to sleep. You bet. likes it yeah yeah what'd you say hayley uses the spray she puts it on the bottom of her feet yeah and then she'll put socks on and go to sleep you bet and it's fantastic for children who don't sleep well or don't poop you know put it on the bottom of their feet rub it on there they'll sleep great yeah but yeah i'm loving the magnesium magnesium is what is and you can get magnesium from from you know vegetables and some nuts and things but um i just think taking a magnesium supplement and i drink a little magnesium i drink my magnesium a lot at night i do that too at

nighttime it's like the one you stir in with the warm water and then fill the rest with cold water yep and i put it in a wine glass so it's like i'm having a cocktail a lot of times i'll yeah danny's hilarious all right heather m is asking, how can I naturally boost my testosterone levels? I'm doing the pellets at this time and it's great, but not pleasant to get. Well, pellets are great. I have pellets in me and I'd like my testosterone pellets, but natural ways to boost your testosterone level, like Sheila J ways to boost your testosterone level. Like Shilajat will help your testosterone level. S-H-I-L-A-J. Shilajat will. Horny goat weed. Have you ever used horny goat weed? I've taken it before, but I don't know if I took it long enough for it to do anything.

You got to take it consistently long enough to do it. We have a product, I call it Wild Vitality, and it's horny goat weed and shilajah. It's got all these things in it. So say naturally, working out, hardcore lifting weights will help also. Well, exercise clearly will, but libido is a very strange thing. If your sex drive is not good and you're on testosterone pellets, which is a hormone, which is a little pellet that's inserted through a surgical incision in the hip, if your libido does not get better on that, because it's a pretty high dose, then it's not a testosterone problem. Does that lower your voice? No, my voice, I've had testosterone in me and I've got this squeaky voice. Yeah. No, I was just wondering. I don't have a lot of hair. All my hair's on my head. It's not on my face, but I do shave my face. But listen, if your testosterone,

if your sex drive doesn't get better on pellets, then it's not a testosterone problem. It could be a relationship problem. So this is one thing that a lot of women and men don't realize. You may not be in a good relationship. Maybe your libido is bad because you're in an asshole marriage or a relationship. Yeah. If a woman's mind and emotional well-being is not stimulated in a positive way, she is not going to be horny. Bingo. Bingo. And a man can be mad as a hornet. You could be fighting all morning long and he wants to have sex all the way down the hallway oftentimes. And a woman just shuts down. So it's way more than just hormones. Sex drive is right. It's dating your spouse. It's sexting your spouse,

right? I don't have one, but if I had one, I'd be like, I am so horny right now. I can't wait to come home. I mean, or take your pants off. And we forget all of that, right? Redating our partner, redating our spouse. But working out, dating your partner again, giving them their love language. And these are all natural ways to boost your sex drive because men are real simple. They want good food, good sex, and they want to protect you. Yeah. Am I right? Yeah.

That's my husband through and through. That's my husband through and through. I mean, they are like putty in your hands. They're simple creatures. They're so simple. Yeah. Right? And they usually are good. I mean, there are some men that are not good, right? There are women that aren't good. And then that's a bad situation. But if you give your partner what

they need and their love language, if you're giving them your love language and their love language is not acts of service, well, it's not going to go well. Somebody's going to give them what? Somebody's needs aren't being met. You bet. And so those are great ways to raise your sex drive. But again, Shilajat, horny goat weed, saw palmetto oftentimes will raise your sex drive because oftentimes women with low sex drive,

like PCOS patients, polycystic ovarian. Do you? Yeah. So ovacetol, ashwagandha. What did I just say? Ovacetol. Oh, salt palmetto. Those will lower.

They actually lower testosterone a little bit, but it'll increase your sex drive. I had a really adverse reaction to ashwagandha. You did? Oh, it made me want to fucking run a mile and kill myself all at the same time. Oh, don't say that. No, it's one of my all-time favorites. Ashwagandha is for most people. This was also when I was taking all of those other, um, you were like overdosing. This is right before I overdosed on the vitamins when I was taking all those standard process vitamins. So I need to take ashwagandha again and give it a fair shake.

I think we have a really clean one that's a Shodan ashwagandha. It's a clean one. But again, you're sensitive. Yeah. And you use things for a little bit and then you don't react well to it. So you have to mix your things up quite a bit. But libido is such an interesting question. But I do love my pellets. And there's a lot of controversy on pellets. And I put pellets

in women, but I don't advertise it off the mountain anywhere that I do. But I do have a good little pellet. But I only put testosterone in patients. I don't use estrogen. Okay, I have a question about this then so i don't have a great sex drive whatsoever but when i was pregnant with a boy it shot through the roof when i was pregnant with a girl none well look at that because you had all that testosterone going is that what it was so i should supplement with testosterone then because then that was i'm telling you like i could not get enough my poor husband was chasing him around the house when I was pregnant with cash. But with Olivia, I didn't even want him to look at me. But this is the number one

Ashwagandha. Ashwagandha is great. Yeah. Before you do testosterone. I want to try is also Vitex Chaseberry is phenomenal. Yep. Vitex Chaseberry. It helps with PMS, irritability, breast tenderness, and sex drive. It's been used for thousands of years. And we use it with PCOS patients as well. But libido is real interesting. It's the number one complaint I have in my office is low libido. It's real rare that I have a woman who comes in and says, heck yeah, I got a great sex drive.

Danny, I can't get enough. Me, her. I can't get enough. Me, her. I can't, yeah. She's like, yeah. I'm the horny goat over here. I can't, you know, and it's, again, it could go back to childhood. There's lots, and I always ask,

when was your sex drive the best? Most people say it was before child, I mean, before I had children. Yeah. And then, and that's where you gotta, you gotta really put your God, your spouse, and your children in that order. We forget. Alyssa says, I'm so glad you're bringing back Dani.

I found her through your podcast. She's helped me so much. I love her Sunday night services on Facebook. Great free advice. I talk to her and ask her questions through her chat. She's awesome. Awesome. Thank you. I appreciate that, man. I try to answer them. That's hard. That's a lot of

messages. I appreciate that. People who do what I do for a living, we give away a lot of free education, like she just said, because we love it. And I know what it's like to be sick. And I also know what it's like to be healthy. And I will never go back to how I felt. And I want everyone to feel the way that I do. And, you know, you give it away. Give away as much as you can. I think when you get to a certain point, you just want, the only thing that makes you feel good is helping people.

You bet. That's how I feel too. You bet. Katie asks, what is the healthiestiest cleanest form of protein for a vegetarian i'm 44 and trying my best to eat enough protein every day to keep some muscle as i age but i don't want to rely on junk protein like soy products or processed stuff to get it that's right i don't think i can go back to eating real meat but i do eat fish and i'm not opposed to to some animal products please help help. I love your other advice

the last time you were on the podcast. Thank you. Well, I'm going to tell you, if you're not opposed to some animal products, if you want a protein shake, I'm a huge fan of a paleo protein shake, which is bone broth protein. We have a wild, we call it wild paleo. It's the cleanest. It's 23 grams of protein, I think. And then by the time I've put everything in it in the morning, it's about 36 grams of protein in the morning. So it's a paleo bone broth protein. So if you're not opposed to animal protein, then I would find a good paleo protein, like a bone broth protein. but there are clean vegan protein shakes out there that are cranberry chia pea hemp and rice protein i think we do a good job with them with multiple

ones but and then i just brought in the first whey protein ever i can't drink it because i can't drink dairy whey makes me swollen well but it and me, I just would hurt terribly. I tested it and it was amazing. And we brought in a just ingredients one because people have been wanting it. And some people just won't give it up. And I thought, well, if they're going to be drinking it, I want it to be just one ingredient, whey protein. It's the best one I've found. And if you're not against it, and there's great protein in whey protein, but it's inflammatory for a lot of people. And to get your protein as a vegan or a vegetarian is different.

They have pea protein. They have pea protein. That's right. We have pea, rice, cranberry. You can't have rice protein. But my favorite one is called, well, what is it? Wild Vegan, I think. And it's cranberry, chia, pea, hemp, and rice protein,

which you couldn't do because the rice was in it. But it's really good, 24 grams of protein. But there's a lot of protein in nuts if you're just eating food. Beans, nuts, soy if you're not sensitive to soy. If you're sensitive to soy, don't eat it. But soy's not the devil because, again, look at all the Asians who eat the rice and the soy. And they look like freaking babies. Oh, my Lord.

Their skin looks great. Their boobs are up to here. They don't age. Right? No, they don't age at all. So good, clean, non-GMO soy. I'm not against tofu. I don't know how to cook it.

I love it if somebody can cook it. And the beauty of tofu is you can make it taste like anything because it just absorbs everything you put on it. So I'm not a good tofu cooker, though. Can you cook tofu? Tofu scrambles are bomb. And then if you live in Vegas, there's a place called Greens and Proteins out there,

and they have these tofu fries. I promise you guys, if you're not a tofu fanatic, you will be after you eat these tofu fries. They're good. I like them. They're so good. Really? Oh, they're amazing, Dani. You will have to go to Vegas one time just so you can have them. I would love to go to Vegas just so I could have those. Yes, absolutely. But you can get plenty of protein in, but I would do... My first thought is get a paleo protein that's

a bone broth protein. Oh, yeah. Where do you get that, though? my first thought is get a paleo protein that's a bone broth protein. Where do you get that, though? Well, we have it online called Wild Paleo. But I don't know. I mean, you could just find a good one. Ours is clean, organic. I trust all of Dani's supplements.

So if you guys are going to, and we're not just plugging just her store, but she really does. We do work hard. Pour her heart and soul into these supplements, and you can trust what she has in her supplements. I started with one little shelf like you behind there and now it's gone to a full blown store. Oh, it's a whole store. And it is, we are very blessed. We have done a lot of work and they're all nutraceuticals, you know, like medical grade stuff. So we do. Yeah. And we bring in stuff like if Mimi says, you know, Dani, I've been wanting to try these electrolytes. Like I hate electrolytes, whatever. So we are now bringing in new things because we have a new store, you know, whatever, if people are wanting stuff, message us, we'll bring it in.

But you do have to be careful buying your supplements. You do. You have to be careful. You know this. There's a lot of crap out there. Well, I went to go buy some magnesium because I'm going to try to start taking magnesium again. And every magnesium has magnesium steathate or sciatate in it. And they said that that's like the most horrific magnesium you could have. But all these supplements have it in there. You really should try like our powder magnesium that I do. The one I take, I should have brought you that instead of the Chillax Max. But you know, there's magnesium

in that Chillax Max. Yeah. I just, you know, I don't know. My body likes something one or two times and then it like does something crazy. Magnesium threonate is phenomenal for your brain. And that's the one I drink at night. And then I take my magnesium glycinate, but the threonate, I don't think you would react to. And it crosses the blood brain barrier and it helps with memory and it helps calm you down, helps you sleep. It'll help you poop as well. All magnesium will help you poop. But the citrate and the oxide are the ones that are the most. It's crazy. Cause I used to take magnesium all the time. And then one day I started taking it and it just made me so tired, like deathly tired. And I was like groggy the next day after I had taken it. And I was just like, I can't do this. Like there, it just makes me so tired. At the same time you were taking those other vitamins though. I'm not sure. I

don't remember. It's been so long since I've taken magnesium. I don't remember. Magnesium is a good one. You need a little bit. Yeah. Just a little magnesium. I don't remember. Magnesium is a good one. You need a little bit. Just a little bit. I finally incorporated fish oils and vitamin D3 and K2 back in my diet. I do the D3 and K2 once a week now. I'll break the capsule open and just put a little bit under my tongue just to get it in. And I could take fish oils, no problem. That's two of my five. I think people need a fish oil, a D3, a probiotic. Most people need a probiotic. Most people are not eating enough fermented foods and probiotic-rich foods, right?

A D3, a fish oil, a probiotic, a magnesium. Yeah. And I think a good multivitamin, like a full food multivitamin. I just bought some multivitamins off of TikTok shop, the liquid one. It tastes like almond cookies or something like that. They say it's for hair growth or whatever. Those St. Mary Kate or something like that. Mary Ruth.

So I'm going to try a little bit of that to see if my body can handle it. Because if I don't have methylated vitamins, my body, especially B vitamins, I'll be up for three days. You bet. And so every vitamin we have in that office is met. I assume everyone has an MTHFR mutation. Because I assume they all have a methylation problem. So we just methylate everything. Everything's methylated.

So it won't hurt you, could help you, is how I look at it. Maybe I'll come in there tomorrow and stock up on some stuff. I have a question. You need to let me know if you do. Because it's the new, we're at the new store. It's beautiful. So I know these are trending right now. So this is going to be a really great thing

everyone's going to want to know about is these probiotic sodas. So these Olipops, these, what are, there's another brand. Yeah, Olipop. That's my favorite. My husband's addicted to those. He loves them.

The Olipop? Me too. Cherry vanilla is my favorite. Yeah. How do you feel about those? Yeah, I feel real good about them. Okay, good, because I just bought a case. So you do love the Olipops.

I love the Olipops. I think that they are fantastic. I drank a cherry vanilla one yesterday. Fantastic. And they're probiotics? I don't care for the poppy. Free and pro. Oh, so maybe that's how I can get my probiotics in.

And there's some inulin in it, and there's prebiotic. Yeah, you could try it. See, I really think they're great. Yeah. What's your favorite flavor? There's like a strawberry lemonade or something like that one. Yeah, there's prebiotic yeah you could you could try it see i really think they're great yeah i love your favorite is there's like a strawberry lemonade or something like that one i really like that one yeah i don't like the new barbie one oh i tried that i didn't like that it was like peachy yeah peaches and cream i didn't like it but the strawberry vanilla and the orange the grape one is fantastic oh poppy poppy is the other one that's the one everybody likes that one i prefer the olipop, but it's fine.

Whatever. You think they're good ingredients? I do think so. I think so. I mean, I'm not drinking eight a day or even one a day, but I really love it. Oh, yeah. If you were trying to come off a Coke, there's... Is there?

Oh, then I can't drink it. Is there... They add sugar to it? Let me check. I'm checking right it. Is there, they add sugar to it? Let me check. I'm checking right now. But is it added sugar or natural sugar that's already in it? I don't know the difference. Well, it'll say five grams of added sugar,

or it'll say five grams sugar, and then if it doesn't say added, they have to put on there. If it's added in it, it would just be the natural sugar. I'm going to look because that's a good question. So I think that there's a lot of trendy stuff out there. You just have to always be careful, right? But I do think lollipops are good. But I do think most people need a foundational. And a lot of people always ask, you know, what do we really need?

I think a D3. Most people need some D3. Most people need some D3. Most people need some fish oil. They need some magnesium, a probiotic, and a multivitamin. That's a basic right there. But other people, some people need extra CoQ10 or extra ashwagandha, or some people need D-ribose or L-carnitine. What about collagen? Collagen seems to be viable right now too. Now, I've used collagen for I don't know how many years, probably over 10 years. And I use a grass-fed, grass-finished, glyphosate-certified free collagen. So there may be grass-finished, but if there's Roundup on the grass, you're still getting it. Do you sell that?

Yeah, we do. Okay, cool. Maybe I'll come grab some tomorrow. Yeah, the perfect. Because I can just put them in my morning smoothies. Yeah. And I don't notice anything. It comes in chocolate and it comes in regular, like I put it in my coffee. You don't, you're not drinking coffee in the morning, but it dissolves instantly, like instantly. You could put it in hot tea. You could put it in your smoothie. I was at the dermatologist Friday getting shaved off. He said, man, your skin's looking good, Danny, but I've done the same thing for years shaved off He said Man your skin's looking good Danny

But I've done the same thing For years Maybe it's just working Finally Danny for being almost 60 years old You look fucking great I am getting ready to be

I'm gonna be 59 in January Yeah Thank you I want I hope I look as good as you Your skin is fucking glowing Like you are beautiful You got a head full of hair

I do have hair I lost a lot of it I got hair I got a hair But I don't have a boyfriend I feel like you could afford To lose some You got a i do have hair i lost a lot of it i got hair i got a hair but i got i don't have a boyfriend you could afford to lose some you got a lot of hair baby i lost a lot during covid it's a little bit different than that i know it's a miracle i'm still single right baby it is a miracle these men are just yeah i know danny's a catch i tried to hook my dad up with her i know you did and and it i mean thankfully it didn't work out because this

would have been a whole sad situation. This would have been terrible. Yeah, that would have been fucking god awful. Story of my life. Probably would have been love of my life. And then he turns around and dies. I mean, well, that's Bill's signature move. But it's better to have loved and lost, they say. That's Bill's signature move, though.

Love him and leave him. So I mean, it would have been par for the course. That would be a halt. But no, God was protecting you. You didn't want that. You didn't want that headache. Bunny stepmom. I could be better than this. I'd be a halt. But no, God was protecting you. You didn't want that. You didn't want that headache. Bunny stepmom. I could be better than that.

I would have loved that. God, you'd have been the only stepmom I like, dude. Oh my God. That would have been awesome. I am pretty cool. I don't know. I think it's just, you know, I'm busy. I do my stuff.

I had a woman tell me yesterday, she said, I think this is it, Dani. You really don't need a man to do anything. But I asked somebody to help me, and he was very excited about it because I needed something done at the house. She said, that's it. You asked him for help, and he was thrilled to help you because he knows that there's not a darn thing that you can't get done. And I think that might be why you have such a hard time finding love

because you are so independent. Men want to feel masculine all the time. They want to feel needed. And when, and that's the same problem that I had when I, even with my husband, when we first got together, he would be like, you're just so tough. Like, well, you're just so tough about everything. Can you just soften a little bit? And I've softened so much, you know? And I think that, you know, especially nowadays men are threatened by women who have their own success going on. Thankfully my husband's not, but in the dating world, it's hard. That's what my psychiatrist said. He said, I think it's an intimidation thing, Danny, a lot, but, but, but, but then that's shame on them because then they

haven't taken the time to get to know me, right. To get to know me, to know that I can be soft. And I don't have to have a man, but I want a man, right? And so not to do life with. I would love to eat well, love well, travel well. Those three things. Is it that complicated? You just want a best friend that has a wiener. Isn't that something? Yes.

Literally, I totally want, that's how I feel about my husband like that's my best friend and he has a wiener that i can hop on every now and then you know so and that's all we really want i think if jay and i didn't work out i would be just like you i would not i would want somebody but i would like you know be very picky i'm not gonna settle right about who i have in my energy i'm not going to settle you earned that right though you have worked your ass off to get to where you are and you don't have to just settle for anybody.

No. Because you are special and you deserve to have somebody who makes you feel special. And we all do. Yeah, we all do. For sure. Jaime's got,

his girlfriend's got the nicest rack I've ever seen. What? I just saw her the other night. I had to not look at her for too long because her boobies were so luscious and delicious. I was like, okay, go Jaime. I've been missing out. I love her.

And they're real. They're real. They're real. The rack is huge. And she sings like an angel. Oh, yeah. She got nice tits and can sing. She can sing.

Does she ever sing topless to you? If she hasn't, we need to make that happen. What were you going to say but you brought up something oh no the added sugars for the the poppy the poppies have three added sugars three grams so a teaspoon yeah the poppy though porky though okay what about it it's very little tiny bit tiny bit yeah yeah no i love them i love those sodas i'm happy to hear that they're good that's one good way i mean and get your eat your probiotics you know i mean nobody's eat very few people are eating kimchi i do sauerkraut well i love it too i will eat it with every meal yeah i love it i agree what's another good source if someone doesn't

like because i can't do the sauerkraut. She'll down some sauerkraut. I put cut up sausage and put it with sauerkraut. Oh my God, it's so good. I try to eat really green bananas. Green bananas. Green bananas. Artichokes. Green bananas are a good prebiotic.

Prebiotic, yeah. Prebiotics and artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, prebiotic. What's a green banana? Like an unripe banana? Yes. Yes. And I do eat the hell out of some artichokes i have an artichoke tattoo that's how much i love them yeah what i do you got to teach

me how to cook them man it took a half a day to cook them and that's no you just boil it in water and then you make this uh mayonnaise not real mayonnaise of course we use we use vegan eggs or whatever yeah yeah um and you put garlic in it oh, my God. And you mix it together and you just fucking dip. My daughter loves it, too. She'll eat artichokes all day with me. So good. I love artichokes. Love them.

Yeah, I do. Danny. Well, I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. You're kicking it over here. You're doing it. You're fighting for your health. You're fighting for other women and men.

But you're such a role model to these women that you can overcome. I love you. And overcome. And I appreciate that. You're a true warrior. I appreciate that. But you are the same. You're my birthday twin, right?

Aren't you? What are you, January 21st? 18th. January 18th. Yeah, we're on the same cusp. Yep, we are. We're on the same cusp as Dolly Parton. Yes, we are.

You have moved places into a bigger, nicer area. You bet. All one level. You're going to love it. It's really cool. It's about to give me a nervous breakdown, but yes, and it's cool. And Jackson will come out of school eventually. The reason I'm doing it now is he'll come out and wants to go into practice with me. Have a pelvic floor physical therapist in there with me now who is unbelievable. I need that. She's practice. Oh, she's phenomenal. They come from all over to see her. She's amazing. What do they do?

Well, pelvic floor. So women's pelvic floor. I went to see her. My urologist sent me to her five years ago because I was peeing on myself. I'd laugh or jump or whatever and just old and getting older. And she gets up and personal in there, all in there and checks your vaginal tone, your pelvic tone. When you're doing Kegels, when you're doing, she taught me the proper way to do Kegels. I'm a nurse midwife. I thought I knew all that. No, I didn't. Wow. You always do them on the exhale. You never do them on the inhale. A Kegel on the exhale. On the exhale. So teach me how to do a Kegel. So let's inhale. Okay. And let's do it. Hang on. Here we go. On the exhale,

squeeze it up, squeeze it up, squeeze it up. The beauty of Kegels is you can squeeze them. You can do Kegels. You can do a hundred of them sitting here. So when you do a Kegel, you don't just go like this. No, you don't pull it up like an elevator hold on hold it on the exhale my pussy feels tighter it was time a breathing with us men can do it too because but they get leaky penises the older they get too so really yes i never knew that yeah Yeah. Oh, so funny. Oh, yeah. Their prostates get large.

Yeah. And then they start dribbling around. You got these guys with little, you see the little pee-pee on the front of them, little poor bless their hearts. Son of a bitch. I know, I know. I'm going to have to find a guy who doesn't do that.

Danny, we need to get you a young buck. I need a young buck. We need to get Danny some street meat. Oh, not the street meat again. So anyway. Not that one, but I just mean young one. We need to get Danny some street meat. Oh, not the street meat again. So anyway. Not that one, but I just mean in general. You all stop. The new place is great.

The new place is fantastic. Anybody who comes to Nashville or Brentwood needs to come see us. We'd be thrilled to death to have Bunny's Tribe in there saying hello. Where do they go? Give them the address. 7105 Bakers Bridge Avenue, right catty-cornered from Costco. Oh, I love that. We are in the perfect location now.

Yay. Like everybody goes to Costco and gets a hot dog or a piece of pizza. Yeah. Then they need to come over to me and get their probiotics. And get gut health products. That's right. And then if they want to shop online, they go to dannywilliamson.com. That's right.

That's right. And Danny Williamson Wellness is Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, all the things. Of course, I'm not as good at TikTok as you are, but you got us going. But again, your body's designed to heal itself. And Bunny, that's the thing. Everybody needs to know that, that listens to this. I mean, you've got amazing guests that come on here, but the thing is, our bodies are so resilient and we are so resilient. And oftentimes we don't realize, we can't see the forest for the trees. We got so much going on, but just make one little baby step, one something, make one little change. Maybe it is the sugar. Go for a walk. go for a walk after dinner

i'm gonna do it three nights a week or maybe put your phone down and don't take it to bed we just got a bit i mean they just came out just yesterday i think i shared it in fact it's still on my it may still be on my instagram probably can't get over to it. That, which we've been saying forever, do not get your phone in the bedroom with you. No, it's gone. The bed is for sleep and sex only, right? You don't sleep near your phone. You don't have it near your phone. This phone in its settings tells you how far it has to be off of your body to prevent cancer. It tells you if you go to your settings, which we don't want people doing this because they'll get off air with you or whatever, but you go to your settings, to general, you scroll all the way down to legal and regulatory. Who knew this was in the bowels?

Do you see it? I'm in it. Legal and regulatory, click it. The very bottom one says RF exposure. That stands for radio frequency exposure. And then it tells you, mine is on the second paragraph. This must be five millimeter separation off of your body. It's about a pencil eraser. So they're covered when you get brain cancer because you put your phone to your head. I always speak on speakerphone. You bet you do.

Distance is your friend with radio frequency, with electromagnetic fields. But they just came out with a study, just literally, just this week, I think. The further this is away from you, the better. We're seeing a higher rate of testicular cancer on young men because they put their phone, get your phone out of your pocket, get it away from your testicles. He literally sets it up on the counter. That's crazy. Yes, right? And so back when these were smaller and women put them in their breast, we saw breast cancers, the shape of that lithium battery in there. This is radioactive. So you get it off your person. You speak on speakerphone with it, right? You don't put

it up your head. You for sure don't have it on your head driving down the road in a metal tube where it's having to work super hard to find a cell signal. So it's putting out more electromagnetic fields. Yeah, this is a big deal. This was designed, you think Chick-fil-A's designed for addiction? Now, this is a big deal. This was designed, you think Chick-fil-A's designed for addiction? This was highly intentional. Crazy. And that's why the symbol is an apple on the back of it because of Adam and Eve,

and it has the apple that has a bite bitten out of it. You bet. So you could make yourself crazy thinking about everything that we need to do, but just baby steps. Even if you get the phone away, right? Minimum of six feet. I've been detaching from my phone a lot. I've been trying to detach from my phone a lot too. I feel so much better on days where I'm not online. You bet. You bet you do. It's called fubbing. So we actually wrote about it in here. Don't fub your spouse instead of snubbing your spouse. Fubbing, fubbing the phone. We do. We fub our spouse. There's another reason you may not have sex drive, right? You're on your frigging phone

all the time. Put the phone down eyeball to eyeball. There's nothing like eyeball to eyeball, is there? And just talking to people. So again, it's all about allostatic load and it's just, nobody's perfect. Nobody's got all these balls in the air at the same time in beautiful rhythm. You know, somebody's kids going haywire or, you know, out whatever happening to them, you know, somebody's finances are falling apart. Maybe, you know, you don't have time to cook and you had to eat a pizza, but it's okay. Tomorrow's a new day. Tomorrow's a new day. Just as long as you take those baby steps. Baby steps. Just change something once a week. Once a week. Up it to twice. And read. Up it to three times. Because

there's so much free stuff online, but you got to also know who you're reading because there's a lot of crap. But I mean, the basic stuff, read about it, start making changes. And I'm telling you, we've got this beautiful life and don't waste it. Because just like what happened to you a couple of weeks ago, that was very scary. What happened to me last week when she said, you know, Dani, I've got to biopsy this because this could be cervical cancer. I was like, what? I've just gotten everything in order. Right, that's how I felt too. My life is great.

I even said, I was like, Lord, you have given me my dream life. Are you really gonna take it from me right now? And I am telling you, don't wait until you have a wake-up call. Don't do that. Do it now because here's the beauty. And I know, I know we gotta go, but here's the thing.

If you get diagnosed with a cancer, right? If you get diagnosed with a stage three cancer and you've spent 15 years reversing inflammation in your body, or you get diagnosed with a stage two and you've really worked hard doing, working the steps, then that's a blessing that it's a stage two and not a stage four, because guess what? Had you not been doing the work the last four years or 10 years or whatever, that would be a stage four cancer. And we don't have a stage five cancer. So don't discount the fact if you do get a bad diagnosis and you've really been working hard on something through the years that you probably saved your life. Yeah, absolutely diagnosis and you've really been working hard on something through the years that you probably saved your life. Yeah, absolutely. Because you've, you've, you've decreased inflammation and

you've really been working. So I think that's hard to hear when you're going through the fire, but yeah. Yeah. But it's needed to be heard. So, well, we love you, Danny. Thank you for coming on again. I can't wait to have you back. I You're one of my favorite people to sit down and just pick your brain because it's just so crazy, the wealth of knowledge that just flows out of you. So I really appreciate you coming here. Thank you. Well, I love what I do and I'm blessed every day to get to go open those doors. And it's emotional. And today, like I said, it's my 10 year anniversary of leaving my office, stepping out of that boat to open that clinic. Yeah. And 10 years today, and it's very emotional because I could have gone bankrupt,

which, you know, if I did, I did, right? But if you don't take chances, you never know. My thought was, what's the worst-case scenario? I go bankrupt. Well, okay, well. Get up and try again. Try again. That's right.

And, you know, I didn't have to. I was blessed. I walked on water, and anyone can. If you're scared, you know, I didn't have to, I was blessed. I walked on water and, and anyone can, if you're scared, I mean, do it scared. You've done everything scared your entire life. So have I. Yeah. I thrive on being scared. I do too. I do too. If it doesn't make my butthole pucker, I don't want to do it. That's right. So I, I, that's right. I thrive on being scared too, apparently. You know, I'm getting older now. We're adrenaline junkies.

We are adrenaline junkies. That's, that's fact. Unlike Chachi over there. Oh, he's sleeping, man. Look at him.

All right, guys, we are out of here. Thank you guys for listening to another episode of Dawn Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.