Pursuit of Wellness - Daisy Keech On Healing From A Toxic Lifestyle, Mold, Acne & Finding Her Dream Relationship

Episode Date: June 3, 2024

Ep. #104 Imagine waking up every day feeling like you’ve been hit by a truck—that was Daisy Keech’s reality, battling mold toxicity and relentless acne. In this episode of Pursuit of Wellness, Daisy shares her journey from the soccer field to health clinics, discovering issues like candida and a detoxification gene mutation. Moving to Los Angeles, Daisy found solace away from the Hype House’s party culture, leading to a fulfilling career in real estate and home renovation. She candidly discusses her ongoing skincare struggles, experimenting with various treatments and coping with the emotional toll. Amid serious health discussions, we also enjoy lighter moments about matcha, Bloom products, and a humorous take on a potential mold cleansing program. Leave Me a Message - click here! For Mari’s Instagram click here! For Pursuit of Wellness Podcast’s Instagram click here! For Mari’s Newsletter click here! For Daisy's Instagram click here! For POW Brand Promo Codes click here! Sponsored By:  Bite is offering our listeners 20% off your first order. Go to trybite.com/POW or use code POW at checkout to claim this deal.  Right now, my listeners can receive 40% off Earth Breeze just by going to earthbreeze.com/pow to cut out single-use plastic in your laundry. This week from June 3rd - June 9th you can get 20% off on all Stainless Steel Cookware. Plus, if you visit Carawayhome.com/PURSUIT you can take 10% on all other products. Again, visit Carawayhome.com/PURSUIT or use code PURSUIT at checkout for Caraway Home products and an automatic 20% off Stainless Steel Cookware. Caraway. Non-Toxic cookware made modern. Show Links: The Candida Diet CLEARSTEM LYMA Laser Illuminare Makeup King Coffee Topics Discussed 02:43 - Daisy’s wellness journey  08:22 - The Candida Diet 12:49 - Sugar sensitivity and brain fog 13:58 - Fat loss and glute growth   16:54 - Personal growth and self-discovery journey  21:32 - Life transformation through real estate development 29:38 - Choosing the right partner  32:50 - Ance, skincare, and self-value 40:15 - Tallow skincare trends and experiences  43:41 - Skin reactions to makeup products 45:28 - Reactions to mold  47:41 - What’s next for Daisy

I just feel so grateful for the things that I've been through and the path that I've been on and everything that's happened in the right order, whether it's bad or good, I feel like it's all led me to be where I am now, which is a much more healed person. This is the Pursuit of Wellness podcast, and I'm your host, Mari Llewellyn. What is up, guys? Welcome back to the show. Today, we have a guest I know you were going to be so excited about, Daisy Keech. I have been following Daisy since her days in the Hype House. She really rose to fame on the internet during COVID, during the TikTok era, but she has transformed a lot since that time. She has recently moved to Nashville

and just really gotten in touch with her own spiritual journey, her relationship with Michael. She's also been through an acne and mold journey, very similar to me. And she shares very candidly about this on her YouTube channel. And I really respect the way she's gone about everything.

In this episode, we talk about her skin journey, nutrition. We talk about self-worth. We talk about finding your partner through self-reflection. We talk about how she's kind of transformed from living in LA and the things she's been through. I felt like we had a very strong connection together. And I was really honored that Daisy agreed to do the show. I don't think she's ever done a podcast before. And I was really honored that she chose this platform as a space to tell her story. And I think she's just such a beautiful, sweet individual. And I think you guys are going to absolutely love her.

Without further ado, Daisy, welcome to the show. Daisy, welcome to the Pursuit of Wellness. Thank you for having me. I'm freaking out right now. I'm freaking out right now. We're both freaking out. I've been following you forever since you lived in LA, you were doing your workout plans, you were in the Hype House for a little bit. And now I'm just so like proud of you. Obviously, we don't know each other on a personal

level but just I feel like I do know you though you know what I mean like seeing you thrive in Nashville you're in your dream relationship you seem to be living so authentically and I'm just so happy for you so thank you for agreeing to do the show I know you haven't done a ton of podcasts yeah no it's like my second I forgot I even did one and I was like, oh, this is my first. I was like, oh wait, no, I did. I am honored truly because I think the girls were so excited when I said you were coming on and there's so much to discuss from acne, mold, trauma, healing, horses, you know, across the board, so much to talk about. I'd love to start by just hearing about how you

started in health and fitness like what sparked your interest well I've always been into health and fitness I played soccer like my whole life growing up so I feel like I always had a love for like being in shape and getting exercise and being outside but I feel like it truly started like the actual like you know caring about my health not for aesthetics but for like my actual body when the mold happened because I was like whoa I've never felt this way before like this needs to change and it just you know made me change a lot of my habits and look into like the ingredients I was eating and all that. So yeah, it was the mold did it for me. What were the first symptoms of mold for you?

You know, it kind of like came on slow. I feel like it started with like brain fog, insane fatigue, acne, red eyes, like like blurry vision stuffed up nose um I'd get these crazy rashes like these little bumps all over like my shoulders and my back and kind of on my face and I would pop them because I thought they were like pimples and they were not pimples and they just turned into this like crazy like red patchy like itchy rash I guess um and so I don't know it's kind of like really hard to explain so that would happen really bad bloating like I literally looked like pregnant sometimes um yeah it was nuts when you started noticing those symptoms, what was the first thing you did? Like, did you go to a naturopath? Or did you just start googling

what's going on? So I already kind of had a doctor that it's like an integrated medicine doctor where they take your blood and you do all the tests and they, you know, create this whole supplement, you know, pack for you. And so I was already going to her, and I was like, look, there's something else going on. I still don't feel good. And I saw on TikTok something about mold, and I was like, oh my gosh, that's what my skin looks like.

These are my symptoms. And yeah, so then I asked my doctor to take a test, and it was positive for ocrotoxin a that's exactly what I had yeah exactly and it sounds so terrifying and it really is terrifying dude yeah I feel like a zombie I know mold mold is such a a weird thing too because it can keep popping up like we were just talking about before you can do a cleanse and eat a certain way and it will go away yeah but then you can be in a new environment or something will happen and it comes back like your immune system gets like triggered or something like yeah for example like i went to costa rica and out of nowhere my skin got so bad again all my symptoms

came back like the candida was like roaring like wow so you had candida too yeah okay i did as well uh-huh so wild do you know what's weird i have a theory what is it and guys this is not like a scientific theory like i have no idea what i'm talking about i just noticed a lot of girls with our coloring get this type of acne and i've literally asked an expert like is it a fair skinned type of thing yeah and apparently not but i just do think that's interesting this might be able to give you some more insight i also got a genetic test and i have literally like what do you oh my god i'm blanking on the word what genetic testing gene i have okay it's a. I have a gene where my body has a hard time detoxing.

Oh, what's it called? It begins with an M. Yeah, it's something. It looks like the word motherfucker, but it's not. Do you know what I'm saying? Sounds about right. Yeah, yeah.

Rightfully so. It's the motherfucker gene, okay? And so- I think I have that as well where you can't detox. Yeah. And so my theory is that when I went into Costa Rica, there was a lot of pollutants in the air and just things my body wasn't used to. And same with when I moved to Nashville, the same thing happened to me.

My body just freaked out because it's like, whoa, like I'm from Northern California where it's dry and it's not humid. And so I think, you know, when it it's humid all that bacteria and pollutants can float in the air a lot easier and so that's what I think happened and now I'm thinking when I move to Austin it's way more humid in Austin than LA yeah perhaps that did the same thing to me it's possible oh we're just out here trying to survive. Have you gotten the testing done? I've gotten tests. I get tests done like every couple months. I'm so insane.

Like I love lab tests. Yeah. And I did kill the candida technically. Oh my gosh, good. But I think it's back. And you can't really test it accurately without doing a stool test, which I hate. I know my doctor sent me that. And I was like, no, like I'm just going to send in the pee test. Cause I'm like testing for mold again too. Like when everything came

back after Costa Rica. Um, so yeah, I wouldn't do it. I'm like, I like feel so grossed out even though it's just like myself doing it, you know? Daisy, it's awful. Like ew, and I was just imagining it like being in like a truck. Like it's awful. I need to stop. I've done it twice. It's so humbling. Like you, I can't even describe how awful it is. Like it's awful. I need to stop. I've done it twice. It's so humbling. Like you, I can't even describe how awful it is. Like I couldn't look myself in the mirror for days, but it tells you so much about what's going on in the gut. Yes, it really does.

Like leaky gut, candida, it revealed so much to me. I just can't get myself to do it again. Yeah. I've heard you talk about the candida diet being so helpful for you. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Like incredible. Tell us what that is. So the can, I mean, I'm not like an expert on candida. I've just like pure experience. Yeah. Pure experience. You avoid things that are high sugar. So that even means like high sugar fruit, like pineapple, bananas, dates, you know, carbs, like pasta, gluten, crackers, whatever, cake, whatever it is. Literally the only kind of like carb you can

have is like cauliflower. It feels like like you can't even have potatoes, none of that. And so, yeah, basically it's just trying to starve the candida. Yeah. And no alcohol. No alcohol. No sugary drinks. And usually what you want to do is just, you know, put all the good bacteria back in so it can help fight all of the candida. And it's actually really crazy. When I have Greek yogurt, I can hear my stomach doing all of these things.

And I'm like, my symptoms start to get really bad out of nowhere. And that's because the symptoms, the candida is like, no, don't kill me. Like, you know, it's like freaking out, try to defend itself. No, that's such a thing. And the Greek yogurt is killing it. So I'm like, okay, more Greek yogurt. Wait, so you feel like Greek yogurt is helpful. Which is crazy because I thought you couldn't do dairy. That's what I thought.

Right. like greek yogurt's helpful which is crazy because i thought you couldn't do dairy that's what i thought right and then i did some more research and i i heard you can do greek yogurt for some reason what obviously like unsweetened all that nancy's non-fat wow okay okay i'm not doing greek I feel like all of us are being more careful about our everyday products especially with our toiletries and I was really careful with my toothpaste I read somewhere that certain toothpaste ingredients can cause acne so that's when I found Bite. I absolutely love Bite. You guys have heard me talk about them before. Most commercial toothpastes are filled with harsh chemicals, artificial flavors, and preservatives, not things you want to be putting in your mouth, let alone eating. That's why Bite makes dried toothpaste tablets made with clean ingredients that are sulfate-free, palm oil-free, and glycerin-free. The toothpaste bits are so convenient,

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even though I'm like, oh, it actually tastes good. Like I can't get past it like mentally. I don't feel well when I eat it. Really? No. And I feel like also with the candida mold, whatever's going on, if I eat a lot of fruit, I immediately have brain fog. Really? Immediately. Yeah. Because you're like feeding it all the sugar. Yeah. Anytime I have sugar, immediate brain fog,

like I can tell that it's like in full effect. What about raw honey? Do you do that? I've dabbled with it, but I get the same brain fog. I feel like I'm really, really sugar sensitive. Like I feel my best on full keto, but I'm trying to get pregnant right now. Right. And keto is not optimal for that. So it's such a like double-edged sword. I'm trying to kill my candida, but I'm trying to get pregnant. That's so hard. We're multitasking. It's like, do you pick and choose? Like, it's kind of also like, how do you lose fat, but also grow your butt at the same time? You kind of got time answer that question can you please answer that question because i did this q a for daisy guys and it was all mold acne how do i grow my butt and keep a small waist oh my gosh well i think it depends where you're

starting you know so if you've never worked out before there's this thing called recomping where, you know, the fat that's burning can go towards building your muscle if you eat at maintenance. So it's just kind of tricky where you're at. But for me, what works is eating really high protein and making sure that I'm like slowly progressing in weights while like eating low carb, which is also good for like my candida. But I find that when I overeat in carbs, like it goes straight to my stomach and it goes straight to gaining fat. And so I really think a lot of it is like macros and also knowing how much you're burning. I feel like, what is it called? Steady state cardio. So rather than doing something like HIIT, I find with myself that that burns my muscle

and then I start to lose my booty. But if I do things like walking, like just steady state cardio, it kind of like burns the fat, but still allows me to keep my muscle and continue to build it. So yeah, I'd just say walking, high protein, eat your carbs before your workout.

Yeah. Hopefully that made sense. It's so complicated. It does. How often do you train legs? Three days a week. Sometimes two. I really just go with what my body is telling me.

If I feel like I'm sore, I'll take a break. So yeah. And upper body twice? Twice. Honestly, sometimes once a week, I'll be honest. Cause it's not a break. And upper body twice? Twice. Honestly, sometimes once a week, I'll be honest. Because it's not a priority. That's okay. You know, like I don't want to have like big bulky muscles.

And you won't working out two or three times a week. I'm just... That's your goal. It's just not my priority. Like I'd rather go ride my horse. Cashew, we love you. I love that because I think a mistake that I made at the beginning is I would do legs once a week maybe.

And I just think that for me personally, I'm so quad dominant. It just takes me more time doing glute workouts. Right. And if you start with activating the glute muscle, like so like band work and, um, you know, doing things like that, it can help your, you know, tell your body to use your glutes more during your workout. And if you kind of drop the weight and really start to do, you know, muscle mind connection and, you know, squeezing your glutes as you're working out, um, I find

that helps me activate them because sometimes when i do hip thrust i can feel it in my quads or my hamstrings and i'll just have to like adjust my feet and or drop the weight so i can really focus yeah so i want to backtrack a little bit you were living in la when were you in la what year 2019 through 2021 so literally covid yeah right yeah literally I had one year that was like normal okay and that was the era that I personally found you online and I think a lot of people will recognize your face from social media and that was a very different like era for you yeah what was your experience like living in LA? At first, it was really exciting. I kind of explained it like the Garden of Eden where, or sorry, not the Garden,

but like, you know, the fruit. Yeah. And the serpent is like, oh, it's so great. Like you will love it. Like you see all like the positives to it and then you take a bite of it and you're like, whoa. And I kind of it and you're like whoa and I kind of felt like LA was like that for me at first it was so exciting and I was like oh my gosh all my dreams can come true here like I feel so motivated inspired everybody is just like wanting to work and to be successful and then I feel like once I you know started to develop a following and um I noticed the way that people treated me differently and I feel like it kind of just like spiraled from there and I started to see people's intentions and um I just feel like I started to see the truth of LA and there's

definitely good people there like don't get me, but I just feel like it's a place where people are so focused on their goals, which is good, but to where they don't care who they step over, you know? And that is just something that I can't do and I don't want to have friends like that and I can't be a part of that. And so I think it just really was like hurting me as a soul.

Yeah, on a spiritual level you seem like someone who's very empathetic and like sensitive thank you and I feel that way about myself too and being in LA it's like a very transactional yeah environment yeah what was the hype house experience like that seems crazy to me I mean it's giving like like what just tell me what it was like um I mean it was fun at first you know there's a lot of just fun creative energy people running around like just very like young vibes but I don't remember how many people are in the house but I think it was like eight or 10, but like, it's like eight or 10 young people, like just getting out of their parents' house, maybe dropped out of college, whatever their situation is, all living in one house, like boys and girls, you know, all

staying up until midnight and partying and doing all the things, just as young people do, you know, and I'm naturally more of an introvert. I've never really been a drinker or a partier. I've always had to like force myself to go and do it. And so I just personally don't feel like I meshed well with them, which is totally fine. And I kind of just wanted to, I don know you know it was just crazy situation and I just felt like looking back it's just it doesn't match my personality it doesn't align with me you know how old were you then 20 I was 19 wait was I 20 I was 19 or 20 that's crazy I don't know it literally it all happened so fast Like it's all kind of blurry to me just because there was so much drama in such a short period of time. I'm probably like

semi-traumatic and you tend to like black out things. Oh no, I do. And then I process it later. Like someone could like tell me the meanest thing to my face and I'm like, and then like an hour later I'm like, oh, it's hitting. Like it's a full dissociation really just to handle yeah that's how i protect myself is dissociating same it's a it's a skill yeah it's a blessing and a curse dissociating right now no daisy you're safe here i promise i just think it's wild to be 19 or 20 when i was 19 or 20 i was at school being a crazy person like i think about myself at 19 or 20, I was at school being a crazy person. Like I think about myself at 19 or 20, I was not fully developed. Yeah. I was insane.

Like if what I was doing when I was 19 or 20 was on the internet, I would die. And considering that, I feel like, I don't know, I feel like you've always had a very positive influence. And I just, I don't know, I can't believe how far you've come since then. And it's such a awesome evolution to see how authentically you're living now. You seem to be with the love of your life and your dream life. How has your career evolved since then to now to the renovating? So when I met Michael, I feel like everything kind of changed for me. He really provided like this safe space for me to heal and really like find myself.

And he really just loved me through every single phase and everything I had to go through. And I feel like he really was like the start of me being able to like really think about what I want with my life and to be able to like take a step aside and figure that out. And so he's always been into like real estate. It's like the first thing he did when he moved to LA before he did modeling or anything. And my goal with social media was to make as much money as I can and like pour it into real estate way like back when I first wanted to do it.

And so we naturally like, you know, got along with that. And, um, and so Michael and I, we bought our first house together, which is the one that we're living in now, renovated it. We plan to rent it out. And then we found another house too, that we wanted to renovateate live in as like the dream home and had to move into the investment property and all that and I think in the process of like designing the homes we just fell in love with it like it's so much fun my Pinterest boards are like it's like all I do like it's so fun I that's like my top social media platform wow I love it I don't know I mean I just do it like for

myself because I love it it's so fun on like house inspo and things like that yeah I have like every category of my life like on my Pinterest board I'm getting more and more into it oh I love it it's really fun what would you say is your taste in homes um very like calming homey um indoor outdoor like very earthy um relaxing I don't like a bunch of clutter I like a balance of like feminine and masculine colors and textures and yeah it's I don't know if there's like an actual name to describe it but it's just your vibe yeah that's my vibe do you feel like you've transitioned from kind of being in your masculine era to being more in your feminine yes okay let's talk about that oh my gosh so so it goes deep which I can talk about if you want me to please please we talk we always

talk about that on the show and I'm obsessed because I'm trying to get more into my feminine. So please go off. Okay. But I mean, like, it goes back in my childhood. So I felt like when I was growing up, I had to be in my masculine. And obviously I didn't, like, know what any of that meant back then. But I felt like I had to be really strong and I had to protect myself. And I felt like I had to be really like, I don't know, like not cold, but just, um, hopefully you get what I'm trying to say. Protective of yourself. Yeah, protective.

And, um, I grew up in a household just where I didn't feel safe. And so that's what came out. And so I naturally had that. And I always felt like, you know, I had to go and be really successful. I had to go and be this business woman. I had to do that because that's what fit the whole mold of being the strong woman. And that's how I could protect myself and to provide for myself. And when I moved to LA, I felt like that masculine creative or not creative energy, I guess that's feminine, but that masculine driven energy helped me get to where I am today. But it also showed up in ways of when I'd have conflict with people, I wasn't very warm in understanding. I was very like, just more like black and white, or like, I was so quick to defend myself. And what really

got me to realize that is my relationship with Michael. You know, he provided the safe space for me where I didn't feel like I had to protect myself anymore. I felt like I could be soft and warm. I've always had a really strong awareness of myself. I've always just processed things and really dive deep into like why certain things were they were they why they were the way they were. And yeah, I just feel like it was all about, you know, feeling safe. Yeah. And even when I feel unsafe now, I feel like I resort to that masculine energy where I can switch it on and I can come across really confident and all that,

but it's not true confidence. It's more of coming from a place of being scared. And so I felt like I used a lot of that back then, where now I feel like I can still be confident in a very feminine way. And I don't know. I feel really grateful for like my whole journey and I just feel like God really placed him in my life at the perfect time because when I left the clubhouse as well it was just so much drama in such a short period of time and I realized that a lot of my

people that I thought were my friends they weren't and Michael really just was like such a true person for me and um yeah it's just my whole journey like it all just makes sense to me now and you know now Michael and I moved here where I'm healed and you know we're talking about having babies in a couple years. And I just feel so grateful for the things that I've been through and the path that I've been on and everything that's happened in the right order, whether it's bad or good, I feel like it's all led me to be where I am now, which is a much more healed person. I get tons of compliments on my caraway cookware every time someone comes over they're like okay what are you using because Greg and I cook all the time and they also know we are very conscious

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10% off all other products. Again, visit carrawayhome.com slash pursuit or use code pursuit at checkout for Carraaway home products and an automatic 20% off stainless steel cookware caraway non-toxic cookware made modern do you have advice for girls listening who want to attract that type of partner who makes them feel safe and is really their soulmate? Yes. Drop the toxic men. That was a big thing for me. And it all stems because my dad, he was not verbally not the nicest to my family.

And he has a lot of childhood trauma too but what he thought was a man is what he tried to be and so that's what I thought a man was and so I I would look for that in guys and that's what I was attracted to like men that were like really loud and like strong and like you know not like aggressive but they had that like I don't know if that makes sense, but you know, yeah, bold, exactly. Um, and when I first met Michael, I literally, I told my friends like, can you tell him to be mean to me? Can you tell him to like play with me or something? And I caught, that's right when I caught myself and I was like, Daisy, like, are you serious right

now? Like you have been crying in your bed every single day, praying to God to bring you like the man of your dreams. Here he is. Here he is. And I'm literally saying he's too nice. Like, are you serious? Wow. And you know, not saying like, just choose a nice guy at all, because there's other factors with Michael. Like I just had such a special connection with him. Like when I look in his eyes, like I just feel like I've known him my whole life. And there's like that special like, you know, little sparkle there. And so, yeah, I think it's to like be honest with yourself and, you know, what's good for you and be attracted to the right things.

Yeah. You know, be like, okay, what kind of guy am I attracted to right now? Yeah. And also like, what kind of girl am I being? You know, because why would this man of my dreams want a girl who's acting this way? In a toxic way. Exactly. Right. Yeah. That's really special. And it's really cool seeing you guys grow together. I mean, I feel like I'm so happy you're doing this right now because I feel like people are going to get to know you on such a deeper level because I think with people like you and Michael you're so beautiful as a couple people might not take the time to kind of like I don't know hear more about your story and there's so much depth there and so much understanding which is why I love podcasts I feel like you get to go so deep with people yeah and when do we ever sit down for like an hour just to hear someone's story

you know well it's true and I don't feel like I've ever like shared it maybe like a little bit on my youtube but I don't think I've ever heard you say that yeah probably not no I say it all the time to like my friends and my and Michael yeah yeah it's funny in your safe environment oh you guys don't know that I'm like what well I could understand from your perspective like going through what you went through in LA why you would feel unsafe sharing too much of your personal life yeah I mean just with millions of oppressions of everything that you do every single day it's kind of like oh my gosh but I'm kind of getting to the point where I'm like you know what what? I know myself. I know my heart.

Like the right people will follow. Yep, exactly. And I think it's also, I really appreciate you being transparent with even just showing your skin without makeup. Like for someone like me, that's really, really powerful. Like I even have a hard time going on camera without makeup on. It's so hard. Yeah.

It's really hard. I can't even really. I couldn't even go to the gym. I was like, I'm so embarrassed right now. Same. And when you live such a healthy lifestyle and your skin doesn't represent that. Oh my gosh. It made me feel like a fraud online too, because I like talk about all this health, but then here I am with like all these issues and I'm just like, trying to figure it out yeah and you know comments really don't bother me I very rarely care yeah but I occasionally will see a comment on my podcast videos where my skin was bad where they're like pointed out and be like who is this

girl talking about health with acne that person like a, happy person doesn't do that. Like it just really shows how upset they are about themselves. Because I feel like at least what I notice with myself when I'm happy, I only have good things to say to people. I only have encouraging, uplifting words. But when I'm like a little upset, I definitely have some thoughts going through my head that I'm like, okay, like that's on me. Yeah. And so like, you know, it's really just sad where it's a projection. Exactly. It's a projection. But acne really is, I think one of the biggest tests I've ever been through in my life, because you need to start figuring out what you love about yourself outside of the way you look, which is such a reality check. It like teaches you where you place your value to like I didn't realize how much I placed it in my looks and when I was saying I

got taken away from me but when I had was really insecure about it you know it made me realize like oh wow like I do think about it that much like maybe I do need to take a step back and not be so vain and focus on the other areas like it got so bad to where I'd be at the grocery store and I couldn't even look the cashier in the face I couldn't even give him a smile I'm like it's starting to affect how I treat other people yeah and that's when I was like whoa this maybe this is a problem I need to work on and And maybe my acne will go away when I can fix that. Who knows? Maybe it's spiritual like that. Maybe the second you accept it is when you begin to heal. People have told me that. It's always a battle with me. Some days I feel

good about it. Some days I don't. But I've been there where I can't even look people in the eye. I feel like it's all they see. Living in LA for me was really hard. I mean, for a lot of it, I was on spironolactone. Did you ever take that? You know, I took it like for a little bit and it messed up with my periods and it made me, I think, lose my period and have it twice in a month.

And so like when I did that, I was like, whoa. Good for you for getting off of it. And so I stopped after like a month. And then I even tried the topical, still made my periods weird. I'm so sensitive. month. And then I even tried the topical. Still made my periods weird. I'm so sensitive. Wow. Yeah.

I mean, honestly, a blessing because it's become so normalized. But you can't, to me, if it's something you can't be on while you're pregnant, why would you take it? Yes, exactly. You know? How is it safe for me? Right. It's not.

And people are just taking it like it's casual. And then there's a whole accutane craze right now on tiktok i know everyone's like have you tried accutane i'm like babe same and i'm like it's not gonna happen okay like literally never it's the one thing i've never done yeah i will do just about anything for my acne and not accutane like i'm currently taking kidney like i swallow chunks of kidney every day. Of like beef kidney or something. Oh my God.

I did that with liver. I know you did. How was that? I mean, it's fine. I take it with like orange juice. You still do it. I mean, not really because I don't like cutting it up. I know.

I have Greg do it for me. Yeah. Michael doesn't care enough to do it. Like not about me taking it. Sorry, that's kind of so wrong. But he used to take it too. But he like doesn't think there's enough of a benefit to continue taking it yeah and so I think that he doesn't want to cut it up got it yeah that was my thought too with the liver but I also think

so here was a theory that I heard I have completely cut out dairy and gluten for my skin yeah but I've also in that, I'm not getting enough vitamin A. And I think organs are really high in vitamin A. Yeah, interesting. So I feel like, and that's what makes up Accutane is synthetic vitamin A. Right. So I'm trying it. TBD.

Let me know. Kidneys are really disgusting. Like it's bright red. Oh gosh. I know. How do you eat it? I just do the same thing as you. I have a chunk.

I freeze it. Yeah. It's basically like taking a pill. Do you freeze it? Does it not like? No, freezing is way better. Really? Because I feel like if it's like slimy,

it can just go down. I know. I know. No, no, no, no, no. That honestly makes me want to throw up. If it's hard, it's like a capsule to me. Really? How small do you cut but i

do it gets a little bit stuck yeah exactly i'd rather choke than have acne oh my gosh this is so gross but did you ever have like liver burp yeah yeah yeah full blood just full blood i know michael and i first tried like when we first started taking it he thought it'd be a good idea to have it with milk like raw whole milk i'm gonna throw up i'm gonna throw up it's giving liver king oh my god no yeah oh liver king i'm dead why was he taking it like i get it for acne because like everybody like says it on social media like oh like try this and he's like oh wow like these benefits sound really good like everybody else you know yeah um so yeah and i just think he didn't see enough of a benefit so he doesn't do it are you continuing no i know i stopped for a while but i'm back do you notice the difference i've only

been doing it for three days okay tv did you bring it here i was like should i bring it in my little lunchbox like i do travel the lunchbox but i it's just too disgusting like yeah you know but when i get home I also do I mean I've done just about everything at this point for my skin I do glutathione shots in my butt every week that's been helpful shots like an actual shot an actual injection because glutathione is best absorbed through an injection I take that in like the powder but it's in like a capsule from my doctor yeah injections are good too I know no I've it's insane my whole life revolves around my skin there's also these peptides I don't know much

about peptides so just my personal experience um I'm taking ll37 which is actually for mold no yeah and it helps your body detox and I I don't know if it's helped really like my symptoms have gotten better I haven't taken another test to see like what it's done but ll37 i've done bpc 157 that one really like my knees sometimes i'll have like knee aches from working out and i take that and the next day literally gone like it's fine wow yeah insane that one's a big difference. People love BPC-157. Epithalon is good for fertility, apparently. Are you taking it? I did for a little bit. I'm on so much stuff.

It's crazy. I take so many supplements. I know. I feel like I do too. Yeah. I show it sometimes online and people are like, are you? I think I saw one of yours. I was like, are you dying?

Like, are you good? I'm like, I'm just trying to heal my skin. It's a full-time job. No, it it is especially when you're poor detoxing pathways period or detoxing pathway babes yeah it's a club i think so have you ever felt like skincare moves the needle for you at all no neither neither have i everyone asks me what skincare and I'm like honestly there's brands I like like I like clear stem I feel like that's a good one oh my gosh I actually I just watched your podcast with them and I just spent like a thousand dollars Daisy they would send it to you I'm sure I yeah I know I just feel bad like reaching out sometimes I don't know why

I never do I honestly I'm so bad I buy everything I don't ask because I think because I have a brand I know right you know my boyfriend has a clothing brand too so you get it yeah and I'm like I don't want to be like one of another you want to be supported other influencers totally asking and then I feel bad totally and I want to be supportive because like that product costs money you know yeah like it's actually crazy. 100%. I like ClearStem. Everyone's putting tallow on their skin. Yeah. Did you try that? Yeah. My friend actually makes like a tallow balm. I think she's about to start selling it. No. I don't know the details or anything. She talks a little bit about her on her Instagram. But she made me this like little tallow sample.

And it's hard because I feel like it's internal for me. Yeah. But I don't notice any more breakouts with it. Okay. Yeah. Because some people think it's pore clogging. But I've also seen people like completely clearing their skin using tallow as like a moisturizer. Yeah.

That's crazy. I don't know. And there's sunscreen. I guess we'll find out when I've been doing it for a while. Yeah. Let me know what you think. Do you put it on like after cleansing? Mm-hmm.

Okay. Yeah. I need to try that. But I also feel like skincare has literally never made an improvement in my skin. I know. It's all internal. Yeah. And I've spent so much money on products.

Oh, same. Yeah. I spent like $2,000 on a Lazy the other day. I swear. I swear. Which one did you do? Lima. I haven't heard of that. Oh, haven't heard of that oh I've done it all I've done it all I've been doing microneedling but then it kind of makes me break out a little bit thank you what yeah same I know I heard you

say that and and I'm like why like I I didn't have any breakouts like I know you're supposed to wait until your skin is clear and all yeah and then all of a sudden like all on my side right here I was getting like cystic acne and like little bumps and I'm just like can I not get a break I know can we just please like for one minute get a break I know it's probably for a better reason for a higher purpose yeah I've also heard when you get pregnant it completely changes your skin and it can clear it up. For the worse? No, it can clear it up. Okay. I'm like, oh my God, being pregnant and oh no. Knock on wood.

Like, don't do that to me. Perhaps that's our clear skin error. Like we just have to wait until we're severely pregnant. But I also break out from microneedling to the point where it's not even really worth it for me. Really? Right. It's just doing damage over and over. It's creating more scarring

because I break out so bad that I can't. And I've heard microneedling with PRP. Yeah, I do that. Okay. They take your blood and they spin it. Yeah. And like put it all over your face. Have you heard of the salmon semen one? No. I know. I just heard about it yesterday. Salmon has semen. Yeah. I didn't know that either. What? Yeah, how does that work? It's one of the Korean facials that everyone's obsessed with. Okay. But I feel like I can't even dabble with that kind of thing because I'll just break out. So I just stick to what I know.

Yeah. And honestly, with skincare, I feel like the less the better. Yeah, it's true. How do you handle makeup? Like, do you use certain clean makeup um honestly I don't really even wear that makeup much makeup day to day unless I'm like filming um but I just use the luminous silk and like I think I don't know if it breaks me out to be honest because I used to wear it when I had no breakouts and I was like fine um but I heard I actually heard on your podcast that

they changed the formula to it and so I was wondering like oh but I heard I actually heard on your podcast that they changed the formula to it and so I was wondering like oh maybe that's why oh not you remembering a fact that I didn't even know from my podcast yeah wow I was like studying that I had like my my browser up like the clear stem one yeah yeah those girls are great yeah really good yeah really really good I use um Illumina I get it on Amazon and it's like the non-pork i use all non-pork logging makeup right still not working but anyways right because i've used it like ilia or whatever yeah yeah aren't they supposed to be clean and like not apparently not anymore makes me break out really bad same yeah same which is a bummer because it has like the zinc

sunscreen that's like better for you. None of us are safe. None. But then it's so crazy because I don't know if you've had this experience like my best friend Fi can eat anything, use anything on her face, do whatever she wants and she has baby skin. Michael's the same way. I know. It's so annoying. It's so unfair. It's so unfair. My husband's the same way. Like what the hell? I know. It's the detoxing pathways I swear and it's so unfair it's so unfair my husband's the same way like what the hell i know my whole life detoxing pathways i swear and it's like your body's like how can i get rid of this and it's like oh there's pores right there let me try to get through that way everyone has something like people have gut issues they have digestion maybe they have psoriasis we just have acne

you know and it could even be all from the same thing. It's just the way our bodies react. Like I personally think, like wouldn't you think that if you have mold, Michael has mold too? No, he does. Oh, he does. I forced him to get a test

because at first he was in denial for it. He's like, there's no way. And in his defense, like there was no mold on the walls or the ceilings or anything. It was all like really hidden. And it's not talked about like mold toxicity like you you looked at like you're crazy if you go into a regular doctor you know and um so yeah he didn't really believe it and then I like he moved you know we moved out of that house and he's like whoa I actually feel better

and and yeah I was like okay maybe I did have really bad fatigue and stuff up nose um but I think it can be like really damaging to your system because he does struggle with a lot of like histamine issues and I sometimes I wonder if like the mold made it a lot worse or like can trigger it same with Greg I think he has certain autoimmune tendencies yeah that I think are from mold from when we like lived in his frat house I think that's where the mold came from wait where was this frat house in Philly oh my god yeah so I was in the sorority next to his frat and when I that is so cute it's very cliche that's no it's cute but I could see him through my window every day stop it's like that oh my god no i know taylor

swift um music video what do you know which one i'm talking about when he's that oh my god love story or something exactly that's literally what i picked and he was like this bodybuilder like cooking all day in his kitchen i was like who is this guy like this is so weird met him became obsessed with him spent every night at the frat and i would like eat in the kitchen there and sleep there and i would like eat in the kitchen there and sleep there and i'm pretty sure i mean obviously that place was probably not taken care of yeah disgusting disgusting and like an old building yeah so i think it's from then and that just shows i mean that was 2014 i think mold is in our system for like a long ass time it's really hard

to get rid of it like i've heard it can take up to like a year, but I'm like, it's been past a year for me. And I feel like, I don't know, maybe it just takes a bunch of time of just healing your body and not triggering it with certain things like, you know, candida loving foods and all that. Well, thank you for sharing all of that.

What are you working on at the moment? Like what's next for you? The real estate. Michael and I just purchased another home and we're going to renovate it and maybe flip it, maybe rent it out or it's kind of going to be like case by case. So yeah, we really just want to start growing our real estate portfolio and kind of trying to build a stable income outside of social media just because like as you know like brand deals and stuff like that like you can't always count on it and you know michael and i want to have a family and still keep up this lifestyle that we live and so we're trying to like plan ahead and start building the foundation to be able to have babies

and a little family of our own incredible i'm obsessed with seeing you garden are you doing your gardening yeah is it you started yeah so so i had these garden beds built yeah built and um the guys doing it i don't think they, but they use like this chemically treated wood. Ugh. And there's no like lining in between the soil and the wood. And so I have, and like they're big planter boxes. So I have to scoop it all out and then like mulch our like front beds with it or something. Yeah. And then put rubber around it and then new soil because the soil they used had like candy wrappers in it.

What? Yeah. It did? Yeah, like literally candy wrappers in it what yeah like it did yeah like literally candy wrappers how like as trash they told me it was organic soil I was like okay my guy like this is not organic I'm dead yeah it's like compost gone wrong they're like oh this this like this girl she they do you she won't know little do they know yeah I'm on your era yeah I've been researching gardening like crazy lately it's so fun there's so much that goes into it what are you planting onions tomatoes um um but you can't do that until like I think fall garlic um ginger turmeric ginger smart yeah that's what's throwing me off is the timing of

everything i know i think i missed the window no you did not yet i mean i don't know how it isn't awesome but it sounds like it's similar to like nashville but you can grow like tomatoes cucumbers berries okay um things like like lemon trees um and that's kind of like what i'm doing i'm also growing a couple herbs um like calendula and i'm actually growing like i'm gonna well i'm gonna grow reishi which i had one last year and then it got stuck in the move and all that um but yeah because i love reishi mushroom same i feel like it yes i feel like it really like calms me and just makes me feel level-headed have you heard of king coffee no but i did on your podcast you need sorry yes i have heard of it but

i haven't taken it you need it it's basically like a coffee dupe for people like us okay it's full of rishi mushrooms you only absorb eight milligrams of caffeine a cup so it's like very minimal caffeine and it works really well like you get like a good it's healing like it's full of mushrooms it's really great i'm obsessed i do a lot of matcha yeah matcha is probably even better so i guess that's really good for detoxing matches oh i need to get back on my matcha grind i even have a matcha product oh my god i just go back and forth between matcha and coffee. Right, right. By the way, I was so hyped when I saw you using Bloom the other day in the reel. I was like, who, who? I didn't even know. It's really good. It's really good. I have a goodie bag for you. I just got the pineapple one. The pineapple's insane. Yeah. It's insane. Okay. Well, Daisy,

thank you so much for coming on the show. Where can everyone find you online if you even want them to? I feel like you're in your real estate era right now no yes guys my username is daisykeach everywhere and where can they find your workout plans everyone was asking about that so I actually that's on hold right now and it's mainly on hold just because I felt like I was going through so much with my health it didn't feel right to go put out a workout program when I wasn't even consistent myself. And so that's on hold right now. But as I'm healing my body and getting my body back to a place where I'm proud of,

I'm building out like a whole new thing. I feel like you need a mold cleansing program. Oh my gosh, I know. I would buy it. I know I need to like partner with my doctor or something. Yes, please. No, we need that. Thank you, Daisy. Really appreciate it. Thank you for having me. gosh I know I would buy it I know I need to like partner with my doctor or something yes please no we need that yeah thank you Daisy really appreciate having me thanks for joining us on the pursuit of wellness podcast to support this show please rate and review and share with your

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