The Bossticks - #65: Niki Connor, The Holistic Vegan Chef - Inflammation, sleep routines, holistic recipes, and candida

Episode Date: June 6, 2017

Holistic Vegan Chef & Health & Nutrition Counselor Niki Connor, joins Lauryn & Michael to discuss tips for preventing exhaustion & inflammation, why you should cut out chemically processed foods from your diet, the importance of creating a sleep routine, and Niki shares a recipe for making an at-home holistic smoothie. We also hear the trio talk about what candida is & the affects it can have on your body and Niki breaks down the basic science behind ayurveda and how it holistically relates to diet, the mind, body, & soul. To connect with Lauryn click HERE To connect with Michael click HERE This episode is brought to you by The Skinny Confidential Bombshell Body Guide and Meal plan.  tired of combating inflammation & bloat? Want to feel lighter and sexier? Check out lauryn's latest 7 day meal plan. In this simple & super effective plan you'll find: + tsc grocery list with every ingredient you need for the 7 days. + what the f*ck to do when you love carbs guide. + quick and delicious recipes: breakfast, snacks, lunch, dinner and dessert. You will also find 28 weeks worth of fat burning, muscle toning, 27 minute long, effective workouts you can do at home with no equipment. USE PROMO CODE: HIMANDHER at Checkout for 20% Off

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And he's a serial entrepreneur. A very smart cookie. And now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you alone for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. It's Tuesday. We're live. We're bright-eyed. We're bushy-tailed.

We are back with a skinny confidential, him and her podcast. Happy Tuesday, happy Tuesday, here to bring you home, rock in the morning. And here we go. Michael. Michael's adapted this new accent that he's doing on Snapchat. Kind of makes me want to stab my eyeballs out. If I'm being honest, it's like this crazy, I don't, I don't, how would you describe your accent? Maybe do it for everyone.

Well, I'll do it in a little bit. But the whole thing is I really, like I consider myself like a method actor, you know, I go, I change, I go into character. and I just really embrace these things. And I invented this character. I don't know what he is or what it is, but he lives in the swamp in my mind down in the bayou. And he cooks up gumbo and crawfish. And then I just go into a really kind of dark place of it.

And that's, I don't know, I developed his character. So that's what I have to live with. We're back. For those of you who don't know us, or this is your first time listening to the podcast, we wanted to go ahead and kind of reintroduce ourselves. so if you're a listener, maybe turn it down because you already know all these fun facts. Michael and I have known each other since we were 12.

Yeah, and she's been chasing me that whole time. He likes to think that, but just like his accent, that's imaginary. We weren't dating the whole entire time. No, I don't know if we would have made it if we were. No, we weren't dating the whole entire time. We actually, I think you were my first boyfriend when I was 12, 13, and 14. You were my second because I was a player. Okay, you were 12.

So we broke up. I went for an older guy and kind of left Michael in the dust a little bit in high school. So I had to fend for myself. I had to get out there in the dating world, fend off some wolves. Maybe I shouldn't call my exes wolves. And then we got back together in college when we were 21, reconnected. Michael took me to Vegas. And the next thing I know, I woke up next to Michael without a top on.

And I was wearing a tear on my head. And I was holding a bottle of champagne. Well, I wanted you to feel classy, you know? Oh, I felt classy. So I wanted to get you that crown, bottle of champagne. You wooed me. I wooed you. I wooed that top right off.

Kevin, our producer, is dying laughing because I feel like he can just imagine this situation. Okay, so let's start with you, honey. Why don't you tell the audience a little bit about yourself? So traditionally I'm a businessman. I never thought I was going to be doing a podcast. I have a couple brick and mortar businesses, one being a company called Jetbed, which I run with my father. It's been a family business that we started 10 years ago.

And then I have a marketing agency called Bostic Media, where we help other brands and businesses and personalities grow and market themselves and brand themselves, particularly on the internet, not so much on like print or TV. So I've been doing that for the last 10 years as well. And then I'm an investor. And I invests in small businesses, particularly startups. And then we help them grow and brand as well.

And so a lot of people have the misconception. They hear the Skinny Competential and they think that it's Lauren and I and that we're full partners. The Skinny Competential is Lauren's business. It's her blog. It's her brand. And it wasn't until, I don't know how many years, five, six years in that you brought me into your brand. And I really didn't have much of a choice. You know, I just wake up in the morning and the Snapchat camera would be on me.

So when Lauren brought me into the brand, we started getting a lot of different questions on relationships, on business, on branding. And we're primarily on Snapchat and Instagram. and we just figured, hey, like, we're getting a lot of these questions, and it's helping people on an individual level. But maybe we can create a medium that could reach a lot more people. And so we decided to do a podcast together. Well, let's be honest. We were in Mexico drunk off ginger margaritas,

and you thought the podcast would be a good idea. I jumped at it. I always just really wanted a radio show. So I thought this could be good. Okay. Well, to be honest with you, I was really excited about being in my pajamas, not having to wear makeup,

shoot photos and be able to just talk because I do love to talk. And then we used your brand as a springboard because nobody was going to know what the hell the Michael Bostic show was. No, no one was going to know that. They do now, though. So I might, you know, you've never know. You've got to be careful. I might have a solo act coming.

I'm not threatened by it. I'm not going anywhere. I'm just kidding. Okay, so I'm Lauren Everett. I'm the creator of the blog and brand, The Skinny Confidential. Now I'm a podcaster. I started The Skinny Confidential when I was at San Diego State. I was completely bored, unstimulated.

going to school, in and out, come with my briefcase, leave with my briefcase. I was bartending, teaching Pure Bar, Pilates, kind of doing everything, and I just wasn't feeling it. I was bored, bored, bored. So I wanted to be able to create some kind of platform where I could connect women from everywhere, mostly starting at San Diego State in one spot. So I figured a blog was the perfect place to do that. I wanted to share my tips and tricks for health, but also I wanted to hear other people's tips and tricks. So I figured a blog, we got to do it. I met with a web designer and it all kind of

went from there. I was blogging for two years and then I wrote a book that's on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. And the rest is history. I've been blogging every single day for the last six or seven years. So here we are with my husband who's not wearing serum on his forehead. And we just wanted to kind of just introduce ourselves to anyone that hasn't listened because we were on two podcasts this week, The Lady Gang and The Bitch Bible, two of our favorites. So maybe if there's any new listeners, that just gives it a little bit context. And I can't remember which episode number they were on. But we had the Lady Gang on a couple weeks back, and they made me extremely uncomfortable

talking about childbirths and female issues. Marbles coming out of buttholes. Yeah, things that I should probably have never learned about. And then Jackie Schimel, who runs the podcast, The Bitch Bible, she's been on two episodes. episodes, both titled The Bitch Bible. Actually, if you just look up the Lady Gang and the Bich Bible, you'll find both episodes. So we have a lot of fun with them, like going on their shows, even when they completely gross me out. I feel like you liked it in a sick, weird way. I like some of it, but I don't want to hear about marbles coming out of girls' buttholes.

I feel like you're actually inquisitive. I'm not inquisitive about that. Nobody's that inquisitive. Are you sure? I'm 100% positive. Okay, I have grosser stories than marbles coming out of buttholes, so we'll have to have the lady gang back on again and get really, really gross. And then, when Cletus gets here, he wants to know all sorts of things. So that's the accent I've been having to deal with all weekend, just so everyone can get a little taste of that. He's down making butthole gumbo and crawfish and all sorts of things. Michael, I can't with this.

It's too early for that. All right, so it's been a crazy, busy week, and I just want to kind of go over what's been going on. Well, it's been kind of like a shitty week, literally shitty week, because, so Lauren and I have a condo up here in L.A. that we use when we're up here working. Primarily, we live in San Diego and we're down there, I'd say 80% of the time, 75% of the time. But the other 25, 20% of the time we're up here in L.A. in a condo that we have. And we're not there a lot. So when I say it's been a shitty week, this week we came to our condo, got to L.A. was ready to set down. We had our two Chihuahuas with us, and we had our, sister Mimi with us, or Lauren's sister, who's now, I guess my sister since we're married, and we were ready to settle in and get to work. And I walk into the place. And he literally screamed, shit! Because there was like shit water from the sewer everywhere. Over flooding the bathroom. I didn't know about it. Lauren and I were traveling in New York and in France for the earlier portion of the month. And so we haven't been in the place in like three weeks.

So I don't know how long this flood of a sewer flood was lasting, but the whole place was a mess. And I do this thing when stuff like this happens where I don't go in the area that he's screaming about. I just kind of like disappear into the walls so I don't have to deal with it. Like I'll be like, oh, it's time for my conference call and walk out and walk across the street and get a green juice. Or you'll sit there and complain about it. Like I wanted it to happen. Like, yeah, like I'm the one that decided to place a bunch of shit water into our bathroom. I feel like it's really strategic of me, though.

So apparently what happened is the pipes were backed up, and the neighbors, every time they were using their bathrooms were just flooding into our unit. And since we weren't there for weeks, we didn't know about it. So basically, I had to get insurance involved, had to get us out of that place, get a cleanup crew in there. Then I had to check us all into the Beverly Hills Hotel with the dogs. We roll in looking like a bunch of bums, you know, with shit water everywhere. The Beverly Hills Hotel, the reason we picked this hotel, by the way, is because they let dogs walk around the proper. and they had these little bones that said Pixie and Boone on them, our two chihuahuas. They had a huge plush pink bed and two little bowls for them that were striped and really branded to the Beverly Hills Hotel.

The dogs loved it. Everybody was in heaven but me because I'm sitting there dealing with this situation. The dogs are eating bones. Lauren and Mimi are out by the pool and getting their nails done. And meanwhile, I'm just having a meltdown dealing with this, dealing with contractors. Lauren's complaining the whole time. I was disappearing into the walls still, right into those Beverly Hills palm print walls. All in the meanwhile, trying to get our meetings done and get work done. It's just a mess.

It actually wasn't that bad. You, I mean, you just over-exaggered. It was fine. It was not bad for you because you guys just got pampered the whole time. I had to go in and out, back and forth to the unit. Anyways, I'm not complaining. I've decided on my tombstone, like, when I die, I wanted to say it's fine. Because that's everything that he freaks out about, I just say, it's fine. And then I disappear into the walls. What do you think my tombstone would say? Shit, damn it. It's not like every time. You know it too.

That's why you're smiling. It's just a reactionary thing. Like something happens when I remember something. Like, oh, shit. No, I'm going to tell the whole audience why I have a problem with the word shit. So Michael does this thing when we're asleep, like dead asleep. It'll be like seven in the morning. And he springs out of bed like a cat.

You know when a cat springs out of bed and screams, shit? And I'm like, what? And he's like, oh, I forgot to get water bottles last night. Like it's the most stupid thing you can ever think of. Like, you don't need to say shit. So Mimi and I always make fun of Michael when he says shit, because he'll say it for reasons that are just not a big deal. I mean, it's not that I'm, I know it's not a big deal.

It's just one of those things where it's like, it's just a reactionary word. I got to work on it. I got to like do something that to replace the word. I might do one of those like buzzer things that like hurts you every time you say. Like a dog shot color? Yeah. I would love a shot collar for you.

Speaking of cats, I did a good job this morning waking you up. Lauren does this thing where she makes me wake her up like a cat and I've I really don't really I never really understood what that meant. You're getting it. I'm getting it. But I think it's like you've got to give like a little pet, then like a little pat and then you got to exit the room. Yes. And then you got to come back in and do like kind of like a little bit harder pet. And then like you can't, but there's a formula to it.

And I haven't quite figured out the exact formula. You did good today. But if you, but let me just tell you guys something. If you mess up the formula, you're going to have hell to pay. You messed it up the other day. Tell everyone what you did it. It's like Medusa Rising. from the dead when you do it the wrong way.

I will literally cut him if he wakes me up the wrong way. Because sometimes the way you wake me up is too heavy and masculine. I need like a very feminine way to be woken up. I've learned for any men listening that you can only ask maybe one to two questions in the morning before 10 a.m. That's one or two too, too many though. I just, I can't be asked questions in the morning. I would say like, hey, how did you sleep?

That's a no-no. Don't do that. because then she's going to be reminded that you woke her up out of the sleep. Okay, so when we first started dating, he would wake me up and ask me 400 questions before noon. And at first I wanted to be like the polite, cool, chill girlfriend. And then I decided, no, that's not my personality. I really need to like let this guy know that I don't want to be asked questions before 10. No questions.

Who was it? I learned this actually. Was this on the lady gang or the bitch bible where they said don't ask questions? Every single girl in the world doesn't want to be asked questions. The bitch Bible, no, because you call with a. questions that you can answer yourself. You got to answer your own questions. I can't answer. I'm I want to do a poll. I'm going to do a poll on Twitter when this episode launches and says, how many questions can I ask in the morning? And I'll ask all the women out there. You did

learn, though, today he came in. He did a little tap, like he said. He exited the room. He came back and he did two little taps. He exited the room. Then he came in and he whispered as softly as he could. And then I started to- Your whisper is creepy. Not as creepy as your accent. I feel like I was about to be hurt. And you just like pat me really slow. That was like a really breathy whisper. Yeah, well, that's how it feels when you're waking you. Okay. Oh, my God. Yeah, so you woke me up in an okay way. I'd give it a B. I would have liked a cup of hot tea and you told me when we got married that you were going to buy me a coffee and tea warmer for by my bed so you could put a cup of tea there and I haven't seen that come to life yet. You told me a lot of things when we were going to

get married. A lot have not come true. I told you I would itch your back even if I had a manicure. And that's never come true. Yeah, that was a fucking lie. But what can you do? Their vows, Lauren. They're vows for a reason. It's a holy promise to your husband, to your king.

Oh, my God. Kill me. So I'm excited for the show today because I am not doing well in the health department. I'm not feeling good. I'm not looking good. I was doing good for a little while. I was doing vegetables and working out a lot. And, you know, over the last, I'd say six days, ever since the shit

water situation. I have been letting myself go. My skin looks like sandpaper, not doing hot. You do need to really, really start paying attention to your skin. We're going to get into that in another podcast. Today, we're going to talk about your health. So Michael and I, over the next month and a half, are going to cut alcohol. We're going to cut dairy. We're going to cut white carbs, and we're going to go really, really soft on red meat. So I'm excited to have a holistic chef, our friend Nikki Connor on the podcast today to really kind of kickstart this thing that we're doing.

There's been so much socializing with alcohol and dairy and meat that I'm ready to cut it. And when I cut something, I get gnarly and I get intense. So I'm going to make you do it with me, honey. Well, you're good because you know, like all the stuff to do. And I, you know, I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable, but I have not really, I've done a little, like I've always consistently worked out and been somewhat healthy.

I consider myself a moderate person, but I'm really trying now to dive into my health as I'm getting older. I just hit 30, which means I feel like I'm on the other side of my life now. And I need to figure out how to stay healthy. I need to create habits and behaviors that are going to make me consistently healthy because I feel like I have a lot of things that are counterproductive. You know, I work out hard and I work hard. But when it comes to eating right and being healthy, I know I need to step that up.

You don't say. All right. So we're going to get Michael on a health kick with Nikki. and then hopefully one of these days we can bring a skin expert on and you can get some skin tips. Yeah, so I'm hoping that she's going to come on and we're going to get a lot of value for the people listening. Maybe we could help change some other people's lives, help them get some healthy habits. You know, people like you that really take a lot of time to study this stuff don't, I think sometimes you don't understand for people that don't do that and don't make it a priority. Like sometimes it becomes overwhelming when you're listening to all the experts and you kind of just want a starting off point where you can say, okay, these are some things that I can start doing.

to change my habits and to start trending in the direction of being healthy. But, you know, when someone comes in and they're saying, like, you need these lima beans or you need these vegetables, you need this dressing, or you need to have these vitamins, like, it becomes so much and it's so overwhelming to somebody that's a novice that people, you know, you're kind of setting yourself up for failure. So I'm hoping today that Nikki is going to give me the starting point of what I can do to get my stuff in order. Okay, you guys, so I have some questions for Nikki about Candida.

I think it's something that people really need to hear. and I also have some questions about salad dressings. I want to know how to make a bomb-ass salad dressing. I'm just going to kind of sit back and listen. I'll jump in when I can, but I don't even know what Candida is. Never even heard that word in my life. Well, let's not do it in your accent because I can't imagine how that would sound. All right, all right.

Here we go. With that, we want to tell you guys about Blue Apron before we get into the interview with Nikki. So, Blue Apron. We love it. Who's ready for some home-cooked meals, boys and girls? I am cooking up a storm, and I got the trick for you. Well, Michael did make me the spiced zucchini enchiladas with creamy lime and tomato rice two weeks ago, and I am hooked. Listen, I am no joke the weeks that we've been working with Blue Apron, I have become increasingly more proficient in the kitchen. Well, it certainly helps that all the ingredients are completely laid out for him.

Are you telling me that you're not impressed when I whip up a peach honey glazed chicken with mashed potatoes? collard greens, and Thai basil. I'm impressed. I am. So Blue Apron has established partnerships with over 150 local farmers, fisheries, and ranchers across the United States, and as a result, Michael is now an at-home chef. Yes, ma'am. So for less than $10 per person per meal, Blue Apron delivers seasonal recipes along with pre-portioned ingredients to make delicious home-cooked meals. I love this because I hate going to the grocery store. I don't know why. I'm just one of

those guys that I just don't like it. I don't like trying to measure out portions. I don't like trying to figure out how much to buy either underbuy or overbuy. So what I like about Blue Apron is they just deliver exactly what I need every time. There's no mess. I have everything that I need. Once it's done, I just clean up the mess really easily and move on. It's really simple. I actually clean it up, but you cook, but let's get real on that. It's flexible. It's easy. It's guaranteed. Check out this week's menu and get your first three meals free with free shipping. Go to blue apron.com slash him and her. You will love how good it feels and tastes to create incredible home cook meals with Blue Apron, so don't wait. That's Blue Apron.com slash him and her, Blue Apron, a better way to cook.

All right, guys, don't go anywhere. We will be right back with Nikki Conner. Hey, everyone, it's Caitlin Bristow. Starting May 30th, you can listen to my show Off the Vime with Caitlin Bristow every Tuesday on Podcast 1. Hear me take on taboo topics and unfiltered advice. I'll also be dishing with some amazing celebrities. Oh, and did I mention they'll be wine? So grab a glass and join me every Tuesday on Podcast.com, the new Podcast One app, or subscribe on Apple Podcasts. This is the skinny confidential, him and her. Okay, guys, we are here with a super exciting guest. She's a holistic chef, health and nutrition counselor whose mission is to heal people.

She also brought us homemade spinach art of choke dip, basil pestil hummus, tumouric hummus, all which are very anti-inflammatory. Welcome, Nikki Connor. Hello, thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. Welcome to the show. I'm a little nervous because I feel like Michael needs to be taking notes of everything you're about to say. I'm going to drill this into my brain. Please, please.

Like, I'm trying to nonchalantly manipulate him into hearing everything you're saying so he can start eating more greens. Okay. Start off telling the audience all about you because I've interviewed you on the Skinny Confidential before, but I just want to hear, you know, your kind of story. and how you got to where you are now as a holistic chef. Yeah, it was quite a journey. Actually, I grew up with a very healthy lifestyle. My mother was a model.

My dad was an athlete. And I've been going to the gym since I was like 10 years old. Probably not very safe. But I enjoyed it. And I was lost for a little while wondering what I really wanted to do with my life. I doubled a lot of things. I was an athlete. I did some modeling.

I moved to New York with no plan. and was always around people who hated their jobs. And I thought, okay, I'm working a nine to five, but I'm miserable. I don't care if it pays bills. I'm miserable. So I was on a run one day and I was like, what makes me happy? Helping people and being healthy and fit. So I dropped everything, put myself through nutrition school, got my degree, and then I started

my business as a health counselor. That led into cooking because my clients didn't know how to cook healthy. They were all coming to me saying, I hate the food in my office. I don't know how to cook healthy. I don't know what to do. I'm constantly dining out for work. And so I thought, you know what? My friends and family like my food, I'm just going to fake it and just become a chef.

Fake it until you make it. Fake it until you make it. So I became a personal chef cooking in people's homes. My sister happened to be an editor at Vogue. And so she started bringing my food to her office. People started asking for it. And I started charging. So I was delivering healthy foods.

all around Wall Street and Kandai Nast offices, and it was doing really well. And I didn't have the confidence, though, because I wasn't a professional chef. So New York is a very intimidating environment in the food industry, as you know, whether you go to, you know, the restaurant's competition alone. So I decided to go to culinary school, but all the schools in New York were tailored towards people who don't have to have a job outside of school full time. So I moved back to California, found the right school, moved with the Bay Area, had no life for seven months, put myself through a two-year program in seven months. Wow. And became a chef. And ever since I've become an official chef, I guess you could say, it's been great. What I do is I work as a personal

chef. So if someone just wants healthy, delicious food, I'll do it. Dinner parties, catering, private dinners. But if they have a specific health condition, whether it be an autoimmune condition, cancer, things like that, I know exactly how to do a diet for that. That's so cool. I want to start with something that we were talking about with at dinner, which is a lot of people struggle with Candida. Is that how you say it? It is. Okay.

I just want to make sure I'm saying it right. Wait, what is Candida again? Because, so, you know, I consider myself somewhat informed and educated, but when it comes to the health subject, no, when it comes to this subject, not so much. And so I'm going to be, I'm going to be jumping in a lot trying to figure out, ask questions. this, what's that. And in the same time, I'm going to see, maybe we'll go through a lifestyle shift here and I'll get my life in order.

Hopefully. Okay, so tell the audience and Michael what Candida is. So Candida is yeast overgrowth in the body. The reason it's become more well known now is because we're overdoing it with medications. We are killing all the good bacteria in our bodies, which is why now all of a sudden you're hearing about how probiotics are so important and yogurt and things. You can't cancel it out. The problem is we're masking all our illnesses with all these antibiotics.

I mean, I used to do it too when I was a kid. Who wants to be sick? You get a cold. You go get a Z-Pack from your doctor. The thing is we're becoming immune to that. And we're needing stronger and stronger antibiotics. The problem with that is it's killing the good bacteria in our body, so we're not able to fight disease on our own. So we keep relying on medications.

And if you overdo it with antibiotics for too long, I've had this. with a few clients, you get candida overgrowth, which is yeast overgrowth throughout your body, interior and exterior. So it's everything from like your starchy deodorant is feeding the yeast. Like it's, it's terrible. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So you're giving me an excuse not to wear a deodorant and then I needed one? I wish.

No, no. Let's, let's edit that part out. No. Okay. When you say that, what do you mean? Like, you're a starchy, a powdery, a powdery deodorant. can feed the yeast feeds on sugar, starch, and vinegar as far as what's in your diet and what's in your cosmetics. So if you're using like a good natural deodorant, you're okay.

What if you're not using deodorant? Then I'm dying over here. Who cares if you die? We're just talking about me and my candida growth. You're good. So how do you feel like, okay, so take me for example, how would I figure out if I had something? Or am I just going through, like is maybe ignorant? Francis Bliss here in this situation? Well, unfortunately, a lot of people come to me don't want to fix anything until it becomes a problem. So a lot of people just overdo it.

They go hard at life with their diet and their lifestyle. And then all of a sudden a disease occurs and they don't know how it came about. I think it's about living a preventative lifestyle. Amen. And I personally, I have an autoimmune disease. I have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism. What is that?

I have an underactive thyroid. And for most people in my case that I've worked with, they have weight issues. Their symptoms are very extreme. So I ignored mine for a long time because I never had extreme weight gain. I never, you know, had major goiters or anything like that. And then all of a sudden, my hormones went completely crazy. I actually went to the gynecologist and was like, I'm not pregnant. Like, why am I not getting my period?

What is going on? My hair's falling out. And then my eyebrow guy was like, I think it's your thyroid because your eyebrows are falling out. And I was like, I don't know if I should take advice from you, but I will check. He was right. Wow. I got my thyroid checked. And I refused to take medication.

So I monitor it with my diet alone. So I have a few flare-ups a year where I'll just have PMS for like a week. I get goiters. What's a goiter? Like swelling in your thyroid. Like your thyroid controls your metabolism, your hormones. So it's very, very important part of your body for men and women. But usually it also controls your metabolism.

So hyperthyroidism is when like, I mean, I'm kind of jealous of those people. Like they have no, they can't gain weight. They have a hyperactive thyroid. Mine, people always ask me, they're like, how do you stay lean? Like, because I make an effort. Like, I work hard at it. Like, what are some things that? you do at home that people could do that would help with candida and help with what you have

i have to you work you got you've got to give a shit about your body like i'm sorry that's the bottom line is you've got to love yourself you've got to want to make yourself feel good because i'm not a doctor i can't take your blood but i'm very intuitive and i have had so far i've not i've had 100% success rate with my clients because i know what it is and i tell us and i tell them, I'm like, this is what I think you're dealing with. If you want a marriage, Eastern and Western medicine together, no problem. Let me help you with what I can do. And then you can go to your doctor and get blood work done and confirm that if you want. Every single time, it's exactly what, you know, I've thought it was because with candida, a lot of people, it starts out with like a yeast

infection or something like that. And then all of a sudden, you know, and unfortunately with things like Google, people go into like, you know. Oh, that's me. That's me. That's me. At Cahill, where they're all of a sudden, like, I'm dying. 100% that's me. I have cancer. What am I going to do? From the yeast infection, where does it go? Does it go to something yeasty in your body?

Like, how do you know that it's like can be that? So what you're consuming in your body, it's just nonstop. So it's, you need to go on a completely preventative diet for at least a couple months. I've reversed it in 30 days for people before. So I want to back up a little bit just to get a little bit of understanding. What do you see as the most common, like, When someone comes and sees you, I know you get varying cases and varying different things going on. But what is the most common issue you see with people when they come to see you?

Like what is the number one thing people are doing that's causing some problems in their life? Inflammation and exhaustion. Oh, let's talk about it. Okay. And so exhaustion, just meaning like they're overworking, they're not sleeping enough. Fatigue probably. Yeah, fatigue. And then inflammation is caused by what? I mean, it's a bad diet.

Okay. Yeah. And so. Do you think fatigue's caused by bad diet? Certainly. Okay. So what I want to break down each one. I want to start with fatigue.

Okay. What can someone do right now at home if they're feeling fatigued? For instance, you said vinegar wasn't the best and I wanted to ask you about this later, but can they take a shot of apple cider vinegar? Apples cider vinegar is so good for you. Okay. I recommend it for everyone. Okay. Take a shot every day.

Even if you have, that's great. I even make dressings with it. There's a lot of great things you can do. Even if you have Candida overgrowth, apple cider vinegar. is safe. Okay. That's, I was wanted to ask you that. Okay. But like balsamic vinegar, things like that, you need to take a break from that for a little while until the inflammation really comes down in your body. Okay. So they have fatigue at home. What can they do? What are like three tips that they can do or something they can go by or eat? Like what, I mean, to break it down even more.

Okay. What can you, is it just, I mean, obviously sleeping more would obviously help. But how, like, for people that have trouble sleeping and getting to sleep, what can they do? What can I, what can they put in their system or in their diet to make them sleep more? I, for I normally believe in a routine. Create a sleep routine. Like, shut yourself down slowly. You can't just, like, lie down and say, sleep. I, for one, cannot do that.

I have a routine I do. I'll meditate or read a book. Depends where I am. I drink Valerian root tea, which melatonin doesn't work for me at all. Valerian root tea is a great. Valerine routine is great. And just shut your phone off and put it in the other room or put it across the room.

because that's the worst. All of a sudden, you realize you're in, like, an Instagram K-hole two hours later in your bed, and you're like, uh-oh. And what about diet? What are things like they should avoid if they're feeling fatigued? Oh, man. Simple carbohydrates. Okay.

I would say that and chemically processed food. It's just making people sick and exhausted. Greens, greens, greens. Like, hide them however you can. The more leafy greens you add your diet, you're going to have energy and vital. you're going to look better, you're going to feel better, whether you're blending in a smoothie or eating more salads. Like, you need to eat live foods to feel more alive. Like, I, I, from, I don't believe in one, like, quick fix diet for everyone. I believe a plant-based diet is beneficial for

everyone, but I work based on bioindividuality. So I analyze someone's specific body type, their specific needs. And I'll add more goodness to their diet. I don't go to them and say, this is wrong and bad, you better throw this all out, that can freak someone out because this is an emotional experience. Like changing your life for the better, it's a process. It's not like, you know, of course, in the first 30 days, you're going to see a big change. But if you want to maintain that, you've got to get into the right mindset with it. You've got to think to yourself, like, do I care about myself? Like, do I care about my diet? I had a client who came to me after having a heart attack and becoming a grandfather. And he thought, oh my God, I have another.

reason to live. Like, I care about myself. Like, I want, and he, he has a cattle ranch and realize, like, okay, maybe I should eat a little less red meat. Maybe add some more greens. He would write me emails after I gave him all the advice that, like, made me, it inspired me. Like, this guy's attitude change. Because when you start caring and you realize, wow, I feel so good. Like, why would I want to eat crap? Like, today, coming here today, like, it's National Donut Day. that sounds awesome but don't just make me feel like crap I don't want to eat stuff that makes me feel like crap

okay so are you noticing I feel like dairy makes me feel fatigued is that a weird thing oh no that is very common we're the only species that consumes the milk of another animal which I think's creepy I've always thought it's creepy it is very creepy

you know what I mean there's that old joke about the guy that first figured that out like what was he doing you know right exactly like might as well just go drink might as well just go drink like monkey milk you know what the hell I know. So dairy makes me feel tired and so does simple carbohydrates, of course. That's just heavy. And then sometimes red meat. Is that normal? No, that's very common. And do you know what else? We're sugar addicts. I know. And we're constantly, we're jolting and crashing ourselves every day. I mean, the thing is, if you think about when you go out drinking, okay, you're having like a sugary cocktail and then you're like, God, I want a pizza. You think that you're just craving carbs.

what you're craving is more sugar because you're coming off of the sugar. Simple carbs have sugar. Sugar fires off the same receptors in the brain as cocaine and we're addicted. So I don't believe in like a zero sugar. I believe in balance. Like I eat fruit. I love my life. I love chocolate. I just, it's about preparing it in a way that your body isn't going to go crazy, you know? Speaking of drinking alcohol, you decided, it's been a few years now that you decided to cut alcohol completely. It's been almost four years. I haven't had a drink. And I will say this about Nikki. You're one of the, you don't, it doesn't, you don't notice that you're not drinking.

You know what I mean? Like you can be, like you're out partying. Oh, yeah. With the best of them. I get water wasted. Yeah. Well, some people, you know, when they're not drinking and, you know, I don't, I'm not condoning drinking one or the other. But I'm saying some people, I can't go out without doing this or I can't go out without having a drink.

That doesn't seem to be an issue for you. No. I just, I firmly believe that my body sees alcohol's poison. It doesn't make me feel good. even for my birthday last year we went wine tasting in Napa and I was a designated driver everyone loved it I had a blast

That sounds fun Yeah I went olive oil tasting Olive oil's amazing right That's a thumbs up Yeah Oh big time So what are thumbs up Like give us a couple foods

At Trader Joe's that anyone can get That you like I mean like for instance I know you think Tumorix amazing Yeah Like give us a couple hot words That we can go by I would say

turmeric nuts and seeds especially in raw form I mean when I'm cooking for people a lot of times I'll toast nuts but I never buy it that way I always buy raw I prepare everything from scratch by myself I don't even toast nuts I'll show you

oh okay there's different methods you use for different nuts because like walnuts are larger than say you know pine nuts things like that berries leafy greens sweet potato Contrary to its name, sweet potatoes are actually not a potato.

What do you mean? So if you have a nightshade allergy, you can still have sweet potato. Oh. Yeah. So it's still a starchy vegetable, but it's not the same as it's so, and it's very high embedded carotene, more so than carrots, actually. So you highly recommend? I highly recommend.

I eat sweet potato almost every day. Okay. Yeah. And there's different ways. I mean, you just like steam it and blend it and stuff. I mean, I even, I make it with sauces. is. I love it. What about grass-fed butter? That's great. If you're having any dairy, it should be grass-fed, always. Okay. So what are the nose? Because I feel like I'm doing a lot

of the nose. How much time do we have? No. Look, I have a lot of people who come to me and are like, I can't afford an organic lifestyle and say, look, do what you can with what you have. I mean, if you don't have a farmer's market nearby or you don't know a trusty farmer, just buy organic as much as you can. And the problem is the word natural and all natural, you can legally call any product that and it could have 1% of that product is natural. So it's all marketing gimmick. So annoying. I know, right? We're being lied to on a daily basis. So I would say, just think about read the ingredients. If you can't pronounce it, I mean, there's people who can't pronounce asai, quinoa, turmeric, things like that. But if you, if you're

you can't pronounce it, it's probably not a food. Okay. Did you guys hear that? If you can't pronounce it, it's probably not a food. Eat real food. So look at the ingredients. Yeah, look at the ingredients. I always say if it's over five ingredients, like, I'm probably not going to have it in my house. And even if you look like in my, like, I'm a vegan, but in my job, you know, I get, I get paid to cook meat for people to. Luckily, I temperature control. I don't taste anything. I don't eat any of it. I just, I go by my instincts. And it works. I mean, they think that I ate the chicken I bake for them, but I didn't even touch it with my hands. Wow. But I have my ways.

But I would say, you know, working on what makes you feel best because a lot of times people do, they're obsessed with cleansing all the time. All these, oh, let's go eat like crap and those do cleanse. You're yo-yo dieting. You're messing with your metabolism. I do think that like a spring clean and something like that is essential. but if you're constantly going back and forth, like your body's having a battle within itself, I think you should just be on a detoxifying diet. You know what's difficult, though?

Like for people like me, and I could, like I said, I consider myself somewhat educated, but where, like, if I'm starting out and I'm like, okay, I want to get my life in order, I want to get healthy, I want to make some changes, I think a lot of time it's overwhelming because you and Lauren are very educated on these topics and you're both very healthy. try to, you know, I try to take orange tips and eat what she feeds me sometimes, even though sometimes it's difficult. But if it's just me and I'm alone and I, what's the, how can I start out? Like, what are the things? How would you start someone like just in a very simple way to start going down a healthy path? Add a smoothie a day. Just start out with that because if there's foods

that you're unsure about, like, I don't want to drink greens. Like, what is this? What is kale? What is that? Just hide it in a smoothie. Like make a smoothie. You can make it delicious. There's so many great ingredients. Give us a holistic smoothie that everyone out in the audience can do at home. Okay. This is what I make all the time. I do one banana, spinach, and then I add like a couple dates, and then I'll add some almond milk. I usually make my own, but if I don't, I just get the unsweet and kind. And then I'll add, it depends on that day. Like, sometimes I'll add, I use an organic vanilla protein powder or I'll use just pure cacao powder. And then I'll add some cinnamon because cinnamon helps stabilize blood sugar. And so if you're having, I firmly believe in like

eating fruit blending vegetables if you're going to juice because you don't want to get your blood sugar spiked through juicing fruit too much. But if you add a little bit of fruit like, you know, and then I definitely add a good fat, like a scoop of almond butter or, um, a peanut butter or something like that. And that fills you up for a few hours. I mean, it's great. And anyone can have it. And I have it after working out. But even on a day that I'm not, I have that. And I don't feel guilty because I know I'm having good fats, protein, leafy greens, getting your antioxidants, all the goodies in there. Um, sometimes I add, like I switch it up. I don't believe in having the exact same thing every day. Sometimes I add some spirulina. Sometimes I add some maca.

Maka is very high antioxidant. It also boosts your testosterone, so it's like a natural viagrafer man. I add that to your smoothie all the time I roof you with Maka, like every day and you don't even know it. Oh, I know it. I knew something was going on. And by the way, I totally like the smoothie, you and I are on the same page. I do mine first thing in the morning. Should I be doing it after I work out?

Well, personally for me, my metabolism works best when I do fast at cardio. I actually work out on an empty stomach. Oh my God, that's so gnarly. I can't do that. It's really gnarly, I know, but for me, like... I do the same thing. Yeah. I don't, I didn't have a...

I will not lift weights on an empty stomach or I'll pass out. Okay, maybe I do a lot of weights. No, I do, I do Pilates or cardio on an empty stomach, and then I make sure I eat within 30 minutes of finishing my workout. Even if you ate before, you should always eat within 30 minutes of your workout, because you need to get a good high protein meal in so that you feed your muscles. It doesn't matter if you're trying to eat. to build muscle or not, you've got to feed your body properly because your body's breaking down muscle tissue when you're working out. And if I'm eating before working out, like if I know

I'm going to go do a workout with weights, I have something light. Like I have, sometimes I'll just have like a spoonful of peanut butter and that's all I have. Or I'll have like a little oatmeal, something that's light that you're not going to feel sluggish. Okay. That's a really, really good tech. A lot of people think they just need to go and hit the gym over and over and over and they'll get in shape. But I would say, speaking of my own experience, I think diet's like what? 80% of it is you're right it's the 80 20 yeah yeah I want to know all about inflammation as you know I had jaw surgery two years ago I still deal with inflammation after I fly yeah if I have a glass of red wine like if I blow up like my face just like is very sensitive yeah and I've done um I do ice

rolling every morning I do a lot of cold water on my face I do lymphatic drainage I jump on a trampoline I bought a fucking small tiny trampoline that's in our foyer that's a that I jump on to get the drainage going, but I just feel like sometimes I don't eat the right things to fight the inflammation. So what are some tips? Have you ever done like elimination? So a lot of times when people come to me and they don't know what's going on, I'll say like, take something that you know you have all the time and take it out for a week and keep a diary and tell me how you feel. A lot of times that's gluten for people or it can, be a nut that they're allergic to.

For you having all around inflammation, I would say adding more anti-inflammatory foods. You should be intake- Like what? More antioxidants. Okay, but like what's a couple foods that are so anti-inflammatory? Timeric. Okay. Berries. Actually, nuts and seeds are very anti-inflammatory.

A good, since I know you eat fish, like a fatty fish like salmon, it's actually really good for inflammation. I find salmon. So boring. I don't know why. I wish I liked salmon. I just find it. What about truffle pasta? I mean, I love.

I would say my two favorite foods the entire world are truffles and chocolate. That sounds pretty good. And it's all about balance. I mean, if you keep telling yourself, no, I can't have that, and you restrict yourself so much, you're probably going to binge on it. So I think have a little bit. Like, if you can't stop thinking about pasta for a couple days, then have some. Then just have some, you know?

Like, if you really want to. want pizza, just do it in a better way for yourself. No, we've talked about it on the show a lot, moderation. I think people go to the extremes and then it makes it difficult because you crash or you take it too far. And you can go the other way with it. You could be almost too healthy. Like you've got to live your life a little bit.

Because then if you have something, your body's like, what the hell is this? Like, okay, I go to the airport and like, if there's a sourdough bagel, I'm going to eat it because I'm at the airport. Okay, what else am I going to eat? The salads at the airport are so bold. boring. And it's like fake lettuce. It's like fake. It's terrible. So I'm like, you know, I'm just going to eat a freaking bagel and live my life. Like if I, the way I live my life every day personally at home, if I live that way socially, I would have no social life. Yeah. You know, because I'm kind of a

freak on my own. I'm like very, you know, my diet is a specific way because I know what makes me feel good. But I still go out and eat French fries. Like, I'm human. I love it. I love it. That's balance. I have two things that I really want to talk about. Yeah. The first thing and I, I want to try to pronounce this without your help. Okay. Are youveda? Ayurveda. Yeah.

Did I say it right? Ayurveda. Okay. I don't want to practice that. Okay. I talk a lot about this on the skinny confidential and things that you can do like, you know, Valerian root or my favorite one. I can't even think of it right now. It starts with Ashwangana.

Yeah. Am I saying that right? Yeah. I love that stuff. I put that in my smoothie all the time for anxiety. Yeah. I really feel like it has helped my anxiety. Yeah, it really helps.

Is that crazy? No, I swore by it too. Okay. So I want to talk about that a little bit and open up the conversation for people that don't know what that means. Okay. So Iroveda is about 5,000 years old. It's basically the science of holistic healing. It comes derived from India.

And what it is, it's about all, what the way I work with it is because it's about bio-individuality. Everyone's body chemistry is different. So I recommend for people to, take a dosha quiz. So your dosha, there's three different types that people can be. Most are more than one. Like I'm Vodaccafa, which means I run cold and people say, oh, it's because you're a vegan, you're malnourished. I don't think so. Vodicafa means like I run cold. I need heat. And I need, that's why I love like spicy foods, things like that. Someone who's a-

So that's me, too. Yeah. So someone who's a Pitta runs hot. They need to cool down. And a lot of times, people can even be on, like, anti-inflammatory diet. But if they're not addressing the Ayurvedic approach as well, they can still have problems. So what's the first one again? How do you say it again?

Vada. Okay, there's Vada and then there's Pitta. And then what's the other one? Kaffa. And that one's just like in the middle? Yeah. Kaffa is like the middleman. And Pitta, I mean, I had a client who was a client who was a person.

Pitta and had gone through all these different healing methods before meeting me. And I said, you know, I really think we should check your dosha and find out what it is. It's literally, you literally take a quiz online. Because if you don't want to pay to see an Ayurvated practitioner, the reason, like, I work with everything with people, because I believe, like, everyone needs their specific, you know, approach to how to heal themselves. So you can just take this quiz, and it's about your personality, not in your appearance, how you process, how your metabolism is, everything.

If you like spicy food. Exactly. Mine would be yes, yes, yes. For me, like Avata, it tends to have cold hands, cold feet, and which is why, like, I... I think I'm in the middle. What's the middle one? Pitta? I just grabbed this hand.

Your hand's a little sweaty and palming. No, no, my hand, no, I'm dry. I'm bone dryer, no. I'm feeling good. Okay, so they can take this quiz online and find that out. I'm going to send you the link so that they can take the quiz. My hands are freezing right now. Mine too.

Lauren's a douche. That's not one. That's not one. Okay, so what are some foods that are, I want to say this right? Okay. I'm Ayurvedic foods. What are you? I can't say that word.

So there's many different herbs and spices that support it. So when you find out what your docia is, a good thing to do is you can find herbs and spices to cook with, supplements to take or teas to drink that can support it so that it, like I had a client who was a pitta and I said look I don't want you to feel like you can't live your life so if you go out and you actually eat spicy food drink this tea when you drink this tea it'll help cool you down just so that you know that you're prepared so you can just feel you want to feel good all the time right so um I am a firm believer in dishes like kichari which is a healing it's sprouted mung bean and bosmati rice dish but like who has time to make that like how do you even like I don't

I don't even know what a mung bean is. So when this is where, this is the part where I start to get overwhelmed because I'm like, I want to do these. I need to get my dosha in order. Don't over mung bean. I need to, I vote. Like,

I just, I go into extreme fear mode because I'm going to say, okay, I'm going to whole foods and I have to walk up to somebody like, yo, where are your mung beans? And I don't know if that's even a thing to ask for. And so this is where I start to get nervous. So why not adding, so you know what, adding, just adding some good herbs and spices that you can cook with like even what you. saute your vegetables with. Like you can just be, you say, oh, I'm going to use

hingvistock. Okay, I know it sounds forward to. That's a little overwhelming. What about like, what about saffron? Oh, saffron's great. Currie? Yeah. Tumric. Yeah. Not ketchup, that is sick. That is a joke. That is a joke. But so, okay, so all these different things, like if you're, okay, seasonings, dressings, what is a very, like, what's a healthy dressing that someone could make? Because for me, I have a, I have trouble getting the vegetables down. I could do broccoli and do kale. But I need to have something to put on them to do it. I need to trick my body, you know?

He wants a dressing. So what I do is to get people to like kale. I like to make a nice nut dressing that's very creamy because you, it sounds funny. You massage the kale. So, you know, when you take like curly kale, it's kind of hard and it's like bitter. It's like sandpaper. Right? But if you take like a creamy dressing, you literally, I mean, I'm sort of safe.

you use clean hands, you massage the dressing and you soften the lettuce a little bit. And once you get the dressing in there, it's so flavorful that anyone will love a kale salad. Okay, so instead of massaging Michael's neck every night like he makes me do, I'm going to start massaging my kale and putting my shirt in that. Fabulous. Yes. So how would they make a nutty dressing? Like, what's a simple, simple recipe?

So. A nutty dressing. So what I do is. I take raw cashews. I blend it with Dijon mustard. Ooh. And then I zest a lemon and I put lemon zest in there. And then I add a little water and garlic, salt pepper.

You just blend that up. It's freaking delicious. That sounds amazing. I could do that. How many nuts should we do? Like a handful? I'm not one to like measure. Like what two handfuls, a one handful?

It depends. If you're doing like one serving size, I would say one handful. but I like that with kale because it's a tough lettuce. You can make a bunch of kale salad at once and then you can have it for a few days and it's not going to become a soggy salad. A lot of times when I'm, because as a personal chef, sometimes I go to someone's house and make them like five days worth of food at a time. I always separate out the salad so that they just throw the dressing and shake it up, boom, it's done. But with something like a kale salad, you can pre-make that and it's going to be fresh for a few days. I am going to make you a nutty dressing and pour it down your throat.

It sounds really, it's phallic for something you're saying. Before we get into the deets about poo-boo-boo-toe, I want to tell you guys one of my favorite things about summer. If you follow me on Snapchat, you know I am absolutely obsessed with Kopari. My two favorites that they do are the coconut melt and the sheer oil. I love to rub the sheer oil all over my face before I put makeup on and use it as like a makeup primer. And then I'll even take it down to my chest and put it on my collarbones to make them really pop. I feel like it gives you the best booby glow. I actually did a post on this. If you guys want to read about it, it's called Booby Glow. Just Google Boobie Glow, the Skinny Confidential,

and you can read about how I use Kopari exactly, but it's so lightweight and perfect, and it has this incredible beach smell. My other favorite is Copari's coconut melt. So basically, this is the ultimate multitasker. It does everything. This is like the ride or die that I bring when I'm traveling. I just throw it in my carry on or bring it in my purse. and you can just like throw it on your arms, you can use it on your legs. You know how like if you're wearing a short skirt and like your spray tan's kind of like, I don't know, crusting off, well you just put it over that and it just really pulls everything together. So it looks like a nice, beautiful sun-kissed tan.

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talk about something that you gave me the other night. It was actually like a gem of a tip. You told me about, Michael, cover your ears. Like a poo-poo-poo tea. Yeah. Michael, I'm going to roof you with a poo-poo tea. And it's been a great show.

Tell all the audience about this poo-poo tea. All right. Well, I'm a very open and honest person, so I'll say that some people have slower digestion than others. And a lot of times when we travel, no matter how much water we drink. I drink, if I'm taking a five-hour flight,

I'm drinking at least three liters of water in five hours. Like, I get a lot down, but you can still, you know, you can be kind of backed up when you travel. So I recommend that people take an aloe supplement, but that can take like 12 hours to work. But if you're feeling like crap, you get to your destination,

you have an event to go to like, what are you going to do? There's certain teas that I will drink for emergency situations like that where you will wake up and go and you're going to be good to go. So what's the tea called? I can leave it. I'll leave the link on my blog if you can't think of it right now, but it was like a Chinese

tea that you showed me on Amazon. It's called ultra slim. And you know all those like fat Instagram model teas? Flat tummy tea. Yeah. Those give you cramping and bloating. They're not organic. It's just, it's terrible.

The tea that we're talking about is like organic Chinese tea. And it doesn't cause any cramping. I don't recommend it on a daily basis because it does dehydrate you. So what I would say is if you're going to like a pool party or you have an event to go to and you're wearing a tight dress or you're just constipated. Or it's like called Fourth of July tea. Right. Yeah.

Right. So you just drink a cup. I drink a cup like during like after dinner and then by the time you wake up in the morning like you're going to clean out and feel great. You need to make sure you drink a lot of water with that. Okay. But I drink it only if I. of like a photo shoot or an event to go to.

I feel like this could be very dangerous. Yeah, I'm going to make it for Michael and I'm going to put the natural biagra. You got to like practice. Oh, my mom drank it as a morning tea. She's a real estate agent. So she was like, you know, at a lot of houses. And it was. Did she like drinking it every morning?

No, she drank it in the morning. She was at work. Oh, she accidentally drank it one morning instead of at night. Okay, I'll receive you at night. This is my worst fear to get on a flight and have this tea. Then I was just, oh my God. I'd be like land the plane land the plane

I'm not going in that bathroom Nobody wants to go number two on an airplane Okay Okay so Everyone that's listening Give them a couple of tips That they can do at home Like before you go a send off

We'll have you on the blog again That anyone can do Okay guys start making smoothies At least one a day Make a great green smoothie I think that it's good to alternate So having like oatmeal one day, a smoothie another day, maybe a sible another day. That's high in sugar.

I would only recommend that like once a week. But a green smoothie is essential because there's different ways you can make it healthy. I'm going to share with Lauren great things you can add to it that are healthy and can make it taste delicious so that anyone can love their greens. I love it. I would say doing that. Also, adding more healthy snack foods is great so that you're not binging on the bad stuff. Like have some raw nuts in your bag. have a good apple with some nut butter,

like little things that can help keep your metabolism up, keep you going, keep you energized. I eat something other than an apple. I can't deal with apples textures. Like when Michael chews an apple in front of me, I want to strangle him. When Lauren is irritating me, I know if I just pull out an apple and chew it,

it's like her, she can't stand the texture. I can't with that texture. Good to know. I will not eat apples. So what's something else I can eat other than apple? Veggie sticks. I love apples. I love a banana.

Carrot, celery, hickama. Bananas are great. The bananas make you fat. I mean, come on. Give me a break. And what about dates too? I love dates. Dates are great.

There's so much sugar, right? Well, they're pretty low glycemic, but they're so high in fiber. Okay. It can actually cause a reversed effect because if you have too much fiber, you're bulking up your body too much and your digestion can be really off. So I would recommend, like, if you're going to have dates, just have like a few at a time. They're delicious, though, so like don't eat it out of the bag because I've made that mistake before. I felt really sick. You know what I do with the date is I cut the date open and then I put raw almond butter in

the date and just eat that. And it's like so satisfying. Yeah, that's a great snack. Okay, sorry, go on with your other tip. No, I recommend that. I got distracted with the texture of the apple. Oh, no, no, it's fine. And also, um, a lot of people, you know, there's, it's great that we've cold pressed juices

out there, but I think people should, um, consider the fact that it's like having a meal. I wouldn't say like drinking a green juice with your meal. it's like having two meals. Okay. And this is my final question. Okay. For someone like me, like, if I want to figure out what issues I'm having or if I have any issues, what is, I don't want to say that because there's multiple tests.

But what's like the one test that you would recommend to get like a full, not like a checkup, like to figure out what you could have, what you don't have, what's missing, what you need? Like what's something that someone can do that's cost effective where they can go and like figure out some things about themselves. There's actually a questionnaire that I send to my clients because I'm, I do free consultations and they share their health history with me as well. And then we go over what the issues are and how to move forward. And I also, what I do with clients and even with my friends, I send them a list of like key ingredients to have at home that you can just add to your diet so that if you're trying to change your life for the better, you don't want to have all this

crazy information. You don't know what to do with it. I just say, hey, here are some things you should have in your kitchen. Just go buy these things and you'll realize you have it around. You can just like throw it like, oh, I'm just going to add some turmeric to this or I'm going to add, I'm going to use Stevie instead of, you know, chemical crap. I'm going to use, you know, a raw nut butter instead of like Skippy, you know, just little things that you can switch out because the more good things you add to your diet, the less you're going to want the bad stuff. All of a sudden, you're going to start looking at Billboard and say, oh, I don't want to eat that fast food because you just feel so good. Where can they find this test? Where can they find you? They can contact me and I can send it to them.

I'm happy to do so. I'm Holistic Chef Nikki on Instagram. My website's going to be up within a few weeks. And you have to spell Nikki because it's only one K. Yes. N-I-K-I. Yeah. So holistic chef Nikki on Instagram, can they DM you?

Yeah, they can DM me. And I'm Holistic Chef Nikki at Gmail. They can email me too. Okay. And you'll send them the quiz that they can take. Yeah. I can send the DOSHA quiz. I can sell in the health questionnaire, things like that.

I love it. Yeah. So we will have Nikki back on the blog to maybe you can make the skinny confidential readers like a grocery list. I would love to do that. Yeah, that would be amazing. And you can include a lot of, are you veda? Ayurveda. Foods. Because I'm really interested in learning more about that. I mean, I'm always trying to learn and research and connect. I mean, I obviously don't know everything. So it's really amazing. Neither do I. There's always more to learn. That's why I'm constantly continuing my education. There's new studies coming out every year, which is what makes my job fascinating for

me and I love what I do and I just I just want to help people. Well, you're amazing at it. You guys follow her at holistic chef Nikki on Instagram 1K and we will have you on the blog. Thank you so much for being on with us. Thank you for having me. I love you guys. The start of a new life for me.

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