The Bossticks - Shauna Reiter On Healthy Supplements, Health, Wellness, Diet, & Morning Routines

Episode Date: July 12, 2019

#201: On this episode we sit down with Shauna Reiter, the founder of Alaya Naturals. Shauna was born with an autoimmune condition that suppresses white blood cells. After years of battling ailments and having children she founded Alaya Naturals. On this episode we discuss healthy supplements, health, wellness, diet, and morning routines. To connect with Alaya Naturals click HERE For 20% off your entire order at Alaya Naturals use code SKINN20 To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) This episode is brought to you by one of our favorite skin care lines of all time ELEMIS. Elemis is offering all TSC Him & Her listeners the opportunity to purchase the Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm travel size for just $5.00 to cover shipping and handling. Visit www.elemis.com/skinny to get your balm and 15% off additional items at checkout using promo code skinny15 at checkout. This episode is brought to you by Function of Beauty. Function of beauty is individually formulating shampoo and conditioners for every hair type, hair goal, and preference. Listeners will receive 20% off their first order. To redeem, head to functionofbeauty.com/SKINNY and take their hair profile quiz. Produced by Dear Media   

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And so I think that to kind of slow down for all of us is as information as educational. Did you clear your throat? My throat's cleared. Thank God. I mean, that took 45 minutes. Welcome back to the skinny confidential him and her show. That clip was from our guest of the show today, Shauna Ryder. On this episode, we discussed supplements, health, wellness, diet, and routines.

So for those of you who are wellness fans, this episode is for you. So Michael just text me. What did you say to me? I said, I'm going to hold my piece. And I spelled it P-E-A-C-E. And I said, no, Michael, it's actually spelled P-I-C-E. and you need to go back to reading. Well, this is one of the first times

that you've corrected me on grammar. Michael just said, guys, before we started, that this was one of the first times that I've corrected him when he was confused. And I said, this is not one of the first times that I've corrected you. I bet there's a lot of people that are out there that, you know, just forever hold your peace.

That's different because it's P-E-A-C-E. So I was correlating it the same way, because, you know, the definition of peace is like freedom from disturbance, tranquility, you know? And so that's what I was saying. But I guess when you say forever, I said my piece, you have to say P-I-E-C-E, which I actually didn't know.

All right. So that's a peek into our text message conversations. You know what else is a pain in the ass? What? Well, you know, listen, I'll give you the credit there. Grammar, you got me. I'm a stick-loan grammar, so I'm happy. I learned something new.

Hope the audience did. I was on a run this morning early, and a piece of pollen flew into my eyeball. Oh, God. I've done with the eyeball conversation. And it mess me up big time because it's like, do you stop the run and get it out? Or do you just like blink it out? You stop the run and get it out. Honestly, I can't with the eyeball.

talk. Sometimes you gross me out with the eyeball talk. What happens with the eyeball? I blinked it in and I think my eye just digested it out. Maybe that's something else I could know. I'm not an eyeball person. You're going to have to go tell those tails to tails you die. I'm telling the tails of my eyeball on the podcast. Okay, so there's pollen in your eye. All right. So I wanted to go around the table, Taylor, hopefully your mic's on so you can be included and talk about one healthy thing that each of us are doing. Okay. You're not going to like my thing. Why? It's summertime, ladies and gentlemen.

Let me give you an ad about summer. Let's talk about summer. No, it's summertime. You know, Lauren and I, we don't get a lot of sun. We don't go in the sun that often. She's definitely pushed that on me. So I'm not in the sun very often, but recently, I was like, listen, I'm going to go out there and I'm going to time it. I'm going to time 15 minutes in the sun, 15 to 20.

I've gotten a nice tan now. I'm looking real good. And so I can do a little bit longer, maybe 20, 25. And so I told you you're not going to like this. But so there's 15 minutes for the last few days. Taylor, you've seen my tan. You've seen my tan. Is his mic not on? His mic's not on is it. God damn it. God damn it.

He's just waiting. God damn it, Taylor. And I feel really good. My vitamin D levels are skyrocketing. I feel better than ever. A little bit of sunlight, Lord. I know you don't want to bake in the sun and your whole thing stay out of the sun, which I get that.

Don't bake. But a little bit of sun is nice. You look like Magda from something about Mary right now. And you were sunburned all weekend. and the vitamin D isn't helping because you had a bad personality this morning. Listen, Magna was killing it. She was fine. She was like sipping a cocktail.

She was a little crispy, but she was fine. I feel good, guys. Get a little bit of sunlight. It's summertime. Get out there. Don't bake it. Don't ruin your face. Don't get leathery, but get a little sun.

I'll save the best for last, which is my tip, and we'll go straight to Taylor's tip. Is your mic on now? It's always, it's been on. You don't respond or what? Those rhetorical questions you were asking. Okay. All right. So what's your healthy tip?

I can't wait to hear. Is it that you're masturbating more than one? once a day every week. You're at yours first. I'll go after. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to put you right on the spot. You're doing the best for last. Which is me. So go. Oh. Okay, so.

You thought you were the best in that equation? Well, the way that she said it was a little bit confusing to me. Self-awareness is still not here. I'm trying to think of something healthy that I've been doing that I usually just don't normally do it because I usually always try to live a life of health and wellness. Since when? The Hawaiian barbecue chips every day fooled me. I always put my good foot first or good foot forward.

Yeah. I would say this. You know what I've been doing to eat healthy is I've been packing my lunch instead of eating out. That's true. That's the truth. Wait, hold on. What's the routine of how you pack your lunch? Can you get specific care?

Well, again, it's not in the scheme of healthy lunches. It's healthier than eating out of the time. But I've just been making sandwiches, which is that it's easy to control. You know what you're getting. You're able to control the actual what you're eating every day. instead of eating out and you eat at different places and you're not really certain what sort of what the calorie intake is. So it's something that I can monitor. And number one, it saves you money. Number two, I know what I'm getting. And I think that that's a healthier way than just eating

out all the time, which I've been doing a shitload. What's on your sandwiches? Like what kind of sandwich person? Are you a pastrami person? I feel like you are. Fuck no. The reason I, so I was raised a vegetarian. So I never really got into those really aggressive meats like the pastramis, the bolognies. I could see you having like an elk sandwich. No, I have. I have eaten elk and I've eaten deer. In Sweden, that's the thing they do. Okay. You guys ate elk and deer when you guys went on you.

I didn't eat elk and deer. Michael did. I slurped it down. That was not me. I did not know that it was reindeer until a little while through, but you know, I got to say it wasn't bad. No, no, no, no, no. I did not eat elk or reindeer. It was a little morbid because earlier in the day we were petting them and feeding them. Yeah, I'm not into that.

You could have most likely insulted everybody there, their culture. I have to just be honest. I'm not the biggest meat fan. Like, I'll do a melanin and prosciutto moment. and perhaps maybe like a spaghetti bolognese once in a while if I'm in Italy, but I'm just not a big meat person. You know you like those corn dogs, those cured deli meats? A corn dog at Disneyland is really good with like a cold lemonade and a doll whip. No, the red wagon corn dog at Disneyland.

You got to distinguish that. All right. Sorry. Okay. Let's move to my healthy tip, which is not that I'm packing elk sandwiches for lunch. Lately, I've been doing this smoothie. The inspo comes from Melissa Woodhelf on Instagram who's been on this podcast twice, because Michael is going to Google what the episodes are right now. She's amazing. If you haven't listened to her podcast and you like health and wellness, you'll love her. Anyway, so she makes this smoothie every single morning when she wakes up and I've been doing it. And I just feel like I have so much more

energy. It's so easy. It sounds overwhelming. But if you have all the ingredients on hand, it's super seamless. I'm all about optimizing my life in every single area. And when it comes to my smoothie. I have like a smoothie cabinet with everything ready to go. So what I do is I do ice, tons of ice, tons of ice. I like a lot of ice. Then I do water. I don't like almond milk in my smoothie. It hurts my stomach. So I just do tons of water. And then I fill it with spinach and kale and like squish it in there so it's so much spinach and kale. And then I do berries just so it doesn't taste super bitter. I do lemon. I do one date. I love a date. You guys know this. I get my dates from Thrive Market. But anyway, And then I do, this is the secret ingredient. Hawaiian, Spirulina. It needs to be Hawaiian, okay? This is the one Melissa

recommends. It's this awesome one. We'll leave it in the show notes. Hopefully Taylor's taking a note to do that. And then I'll do like a little bit of asaie powder. You could throw in whatever you want. You could throw in in in aluminum, you could throw in a magnesium, whatever you want here, just to get it all in. You know what I mean? So you feel like you get those nutrients in. I pack it in. I blend it up. It's delicious. I'm drinking it now, Michael. You want to try it? 86 and 121. 86 and 121.

Those are Melissa's episodes. And they're still to this day some of the highest downloaded episodes. So I suggest for new listeners that haven't heard them or even old listeners that just want to go back. 86 and 121, listen to number 86 verse than 121 with Melissa would. She really opens up about her eating disorder and how through that she went on this total wellness journey. And her smoothie is bombed. It's freaking good. I feel like I need to do a blog post on it.

Anyway, it's a spirulina smoothie. You get it all in. efficient, you pack the greens in, and you're good to go. Who's tip one, Michael? Well, you know, yours overtook all of ours. Not Taylor's reindeer sandwich. I read an article earlier or yesterday about a influencer that she has gone on a health spurt where she's only drinking juices and she says she gets her nutrients from air.

Huh. So that's a thing. All right. Well. You know what? You do you. Yeah. If you want to get your nutrients in the air, then my all means. I had Eataly pizza yesterday, which is so good. It's the best pizza in LA. You've got to try it. We're going today again. All right. Anyways, let's introduce Shauna Ryder. Shana is the founder of Alia Naturals, which is so interesting because I've also been adding a scoop of their green superfood to my spirulina smoothie. She was born with an autoimmune condition that suppresses her white blood cells. She spent years and years battling tons of ailments. When her children arrived, they brought so much joy into her,

life, but her immune system still had its own agenda. So she had sleepless nights, depleted energy. She knew that her body needed healing. So she began her journey into the world of superfoods and the creation of Alia Naturals. It's been a long road, as you guys can see, but the effort was obviously worth it because today she's stronger, healthier, and more present in all areas of her life. With that, let's welcome Shauna to the skinny confidential, him and her show. Loanne, you know what I'm doing right now? What are you doing? I'm taking a hair quiz. I did win best hair in seventh grade. So you did. It's going strong. Your hair line is for. Your hairline is, it's battling treatise of judaices.

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slash skinny. This is the skinny confidential him and her. Talking about shit and stuff and intimacy, welcome to the skinny confidential him and her show. We're happy to have you here. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. So can you give the audience a little bit of backstory on you where you grew up, how you got into your business? Give us the spiel. Sure. I grew up here in Los Angeles. and health and nutrition has always been sort of at the forefront of my mind since being a teenager. I had some health struggles when I was young. I actually had ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease and parasites and all of these different kind of inflammatory conditions that coincided in my early teens.

For those that don't know what, how do you say it, ulcerative colitis? Ulcerative colitis. What is that exactly? It's a lot of, I had ulcers basically in my stomach and my stomach. my large and small intestine. And what's the cause of that? For me, it was probably emotions that weren't healthily released. I was definitely a person who was uncomfortable expressing myself in ways that would potentially

make other people uncomfortable, which is something that I've gotten really good at doing now, like later on in my life, is not worrying so much about other people's comfort when mind is being sacrificed. That's a big, I mean, that's a big struggle for everybody. I don't think a lot of people get to the place where you are where you can make other people uncomfortable. Yeah. Well, I think it's, you know, it requires almost kind of getting to places in your life where you're

forced to learn how to communicate differently. I think illness is one of those situations, right, that forces a breakthrough. It's unfortunate that sometimes life requires us to be pushed to our limits before we're willing to make change. But for me, that was the case. I was very stubborn. And also kind of wanting the people in my life, you know, to be supported and sometimes at the risk of supporting myself, which is another trap that we fall

into as parents. Can you kind of give us an example of exactly what you mean? Like a circumstance that you look back to when you pinpoint and you said, oh, you know, when I was 13, this happened. And I think that's something that contributed to me, you know, making people feel comfortable at the sacrifice in my own self. Sure. Well, my parents divorced when I was trying this was becoming a really heavy conversation really quickly. No, we love to get in. Welcome to the show. By the way, Sparolina is excellent for help. My parents divorced when I was a little over three. And so at three, I was packing a bag and going back and forth between homes every week.

And I think there were times in my life where I would have preferred to stay with one parent over another, for instance, or stay a little bit longer at someone's house. But I was really concerned about hurting people's feelings. And so those experiences were never expressed. I think Lauren can relate to that because you had to spend a lot of time. going to go back and forth. And to this day, you still, like, you don't like moving. The moving process is not something that my wife enjoys. But I didn't, I didn't feel that I was, it was different circumstances. I was fine to leave and come back. I was fine with both parents. So that's, that's interesting that you wanted to spend time with more, with one parent more. I think I

always felt like I was missing someone and I alternated preferences, just depending on the stage of life I was in. But my parents have such different personalities and their households were so, there was such a dichotomy between their households. The whole nature and culture of their homes were so different. But I think depending on where I was in my development, you know, there were aspects of one home over the other that felt more synchronized, you know, with where I was and in alignment with where I was. You know, I would never have expressed that. I never would have said, oh, I miss dad today. Or, you know, I really want to be with mom. I mean, that's just one small example of feeling like, you know, I wanted people around me to be comfortable and I was really afraid of hurting feelings.

And so I learned through having ulcerative colitis that, you know, anything that goes unexpressed finds a way of growing its own entity almost. It develops its own mind and brain that kind of takes over. in some capacity. See, Michael, it's like when I tell you not to talk about work when we're at home and I'm in my Zen place meditating and you talk about work. Well, just like recently, I mean, I think we all, we all know how damaging stress can be, especially internalizing stress, but people don't realize that it's not just damaging mentally, but it can present itself physically. Right. And like a certain amount of stress is really good. Like, we're not intended as human beings to be comfortable all the time. Stress is how we grow and evolve emotionally and psychological,

and physically, just like we're not really intended to be in California weather conditions. You know, the 72 degrees every day doesn't really ignite and spark in our bodies, the kinds of reactions we're supposed to grow accustomed to, which, you know, creates adaptivity and all these other ways in which we learn how to be stronger and survivors. And so, you know, we all know that there's a certain degree of stress that's healthy, especially when we have coping mechanisms to respond to it, but without tools. stress becomes overwhelming. And I think, especially as young people, we're not really given tools, you know, anymore. At least I wasn't really, you know, my parents did their best. I mean,

I had really lovely parents and they were beautiful in their efforts. But I think when you were a sensitive soul in such an over-stimulating world, you know, you can drown without tools. And so stress can become, you know, stress can really dilute the natural joy of being, you know. So you end up in the hospital and what sort of happens next? Well, I ended up on really heavy-duty steroids and when that became almost paralyzing to my body. I was basically incapable of doing, you know, any of the functional things required to be a normal teenager. And so then doctors took me off of steroids and put me on lesser intense drugs, but still very kind of westernized prescriptions. And finally, when everything was making, me worse and worse. I got off of everything and I started seeing an herbal healer, a Chinese practitioner

who was just so acutely aware of the way in which you have to look at an entire person's being in order to diagnose and understand really what the root cause of a person's issues are. And I think, and I'm a huge believer in Western medicine, I think there's a place for everything. But I think where sometimes there's a little bit of a lapse is in understanding what the root of a problem is and sort of bandating things with medication. Yeah, the best doctors that I've come across in my personal life is the ones that marry Western and Eastern together and they kind of look at both because I think, you know, it gets dangerous when it's one way or the other.

Sure. There is a time when you need medication and modern medicine and there's a time when you say, okay, wait, is that really the answer here? Right. Can you describe some of the, when you started seeing like someone that was practicing Eastern medicine, like what some of those practices were that help? Is it like an acupuncture? Was it? Yes. Yes. I did acupuncture with this Chinese herbalist. He was, he was a brilliant kind of genius man. He ran a lot of hospitals in China that were doing groundbreaking research there, mostly with cancer issues, a lot of autoimmune related conditions. So he put me on herbs that just tasted. You just wanted to scream. I mean, I was like monkey brain. Like the craziest things of roots and tree barks and stuff. I'd brew it all up and drink that.

I did acupuncture with him. So it was a combination of the herbs in acupuncture. Simultaneously, I was seeing a homeopathic practitioner who gave me a bunch of different kinds of homeopathics, mostly to kind of calm the nervous system so that I was receptive to the anti-inflammatories. Are these two people still around today if people want to go see? They're not unfortunately, although the predecessor of and sort of the apprentice of the Chinese practitioner is. His name is Neil Miller and he has a practice in the valley. He was trained for like 20 years.

Okay. He's a white guy. You know, he's not, you know, Dr. Wong was the man who, you know, sort of like clinically healed me. And now it's Dr. Neil. And now it's Dr. Neil. Yeah, very different prototype, but like, you know, the soul of a healer and really absorbed all of those techniques and modestly. realities and just super insightful and experienced enough now to look at someone and go, yes, this is what you need. Just by looking at your tongue, you know, these guys know everything. By looking at your eyes and the reflection of your eyeballs are like, you've got this, you know. Let's go see him.

Dr. Neil Miller. Dr. Neil Miller. We're on the way. I'm going to inspect your tongue with her tonight. Hopefully you scraped it. So how did you start to really get into health and wellness? Well, the nutrition piece of that particular time my life became paramount as well. So I saw a nutritionist for the first time. I mean, I was a teenager. I was very lucky, very fortunate to have a fast metabolism, never really thought about what I ate. So I ate what tasted good and felt good, which was like cinnamon buns and pizza and baked potatoes. And I ended up seeing a nutritionist during that period of time where I wasn't well.

And she was like, you got to change everything. Like we got to take out gluten. That was kind of before being gluten-free was super hip, so I didn't even know what gluten was. You know, she said we need to definitely minimize sugars and process foods and refined foods. And that became a huge education for me. And so with the help of these individuals, which of course is a luxury, I mean, very few people in their lives have access to these kinds of healers and practitioners who are so schooled in these kinds of. of, you know, ancient ways of doing things and these remedies that seemed a little bit more out of reach. But I was so blessed to work with these people who were able to show me how to

eat and how to live. I actually ended up, like, dropping out of high school mid-year. I started doing homeschooling, and that allowed me to also kind of find my rhythm in life because I think we're very rushed as children. I think we're super rushed as adults. I think we're super rushed as adults. one of the biggest pieces of stress people have today is feeling like they don't have enough time, which is, to me, feels crazy because there's plenty of time, but we're so, we just overbook our lives to such a degree that I think we tend to feel stressed and rushed about it. And I definitely felt in high school, like I went to a really intensely academic, competitive high school that was Ivy League prep. And it just wasn't in alignment with my soul. I did really well, you know,

academically. I was getting high grades and, you know, I was playing soccer and singing and doing all this stuff. But I felt very out of sync with my natural rhythm. And so I think part of feeling good eventually was putting all of these pieces together, the nutrition and the herbs and then feeling like I could find my way through a day organically and figure out what felt right at any given moment. And that's not to say, like, we don't have obligations in life that demand us to be in certain places at certain times and we can just kind of mosey through the day intuitively.

I work. I have side projects and hobbies in two small children, so I know more than anyone how important it is to manage your time. But I also feel like we sometimes don't understand the natural biological rhythm of our own individual bodies. Do you think some rhythms are quicker than others? Absolutely. My husband is 10 times faster than I am.

I mean, he talks faster, he thinks faster in certain ways. He moves fast. I mean, he's galloping through our house, and I'm meandering and sauntering at all times. Like, I crawl and he runs. You know, he sprints, and I'm like, hey, you know, and it's not because I can't. It's just not what I'm designed to do, right? And so there are times where I push myself outside of my comfort zone because it's kind of a fun game for me to see how fast I can move or how fast I can get something done. But that's a choice that I'm making consciously in a moment to transition myself out of my comfort zone.

I think it's always healthy to do that. But I think by and large we kind of have to go through the day. At least I shouldn't speak for other people. I feel like I need to go through the day understanding where I'm holding my breath. where I'm rushing down the hall and I have three extra minutes where I could be moving slowly and thinking through something or where I could just be more conscious in how I feel as I move through the day. And sometimes if we're moving in a little bit of a faster clip, we don't notice the shoulder pain or we don't notice the fact that we're slightly dehydrated or hungry.

And so I think that to kind of slow down for all of us is it's information, it's educational. I completely agree with you. And it's funny because that energy in the morning or at night is very different with Michael and I too. And so it's hard sometimes when you wake up and you have things that you like to do before you get into the day. Whereas he just wakes up and he's like ready to go, ready to talk about work, ready to talk about. I'll tell you this. I really agree with, here's the thing. I agree with a lot of what you were saying, almost all of what you were saying. But for me personally, like so we were just. We were just. in the south. We were in Charleston. It's a beautiful city. I love Charleston. It's really pretty. And the south in general is pretty. And I was there and I was like, you know, I love this place. It's really pretty. Enjoy it. Could have a great time here. But I could never stay here. And the reason being it's too slow for me. Like I need to be in a place that's quick. I just, it's my natural tempo. It's my natural energy. Yes. I'm one of those people. If I wake up in the morning, I'm going. It's not, I don't need like a wind up period. I get up five and running to the gym.

You're a man. Yes. Basically in short. But I, but I, but I know some men. And that like to kind of like, you know, one of the guys I was there with, a good friend of mine, and he's, he's as much slower pace. So I get what you're saying. But for me, it's not that I'm rushing to something. I just don't like, I just don't like a slow pace. For you, you're not, it doesn't feel like a requirement for you. Yeah. Whereas like there's, it sounds like with your wife, there's kind of more of a methodical way of approaching things and perhaps more like ritualistic. And that's just very individual. And you don't, need what you don't need. So if you're not built that way and structured that way, hallelujah, it's a lot more free time for couples and individuals to understand that about each other. Like if I understand that about her and you understand that. You do? And you think that's important. I do. Well, when I hear it spoken back, I'm like, oh, that makes sense if that's your rhythm and that's your pace and that's your ritual thing. So I need to adjust to that.

Well, I think it's also important to differentiate between rituals that are built in to make us feel safe, where we can sometimes become married to or tied to rituals that are sort of outdated, but we've become so accustomed to doing things a certain way that we feel like we can't live without them. I feel like I have, there are certain things that I do every day, and I have a certain check-loss through that. Okay, I will. Just one quick second, just to wrap up this particular thought, I feel like I'm not married

to anything I do in the morning. Like I would like to do all these things or at any point of the day for that matter. I would always like to do the things that feel important to me. But if I don't, I've gotten to a point in my life where I feel like I have enough internal resilience to calibrate regardless of what goes on or what doesn't go on. Does that make sense? Yes. And I would agree with you too.

I'm not married to it, but I really would like to do it. Yeah. To get a personality. If you know what feels good and that makes you feel good. I just know I'm going to have a better day. And that's maybe bad to eat. even say that. I just feel like I have more of a foundation for the day. It makes so much sense. I'm exactly the same way. And the other, like, there have been a number of days recently where my kids

have really thrown me for a loop waking up at all hours of the night. I have a daughter with molars coming in and a son who's learning how to use the potty in the middle of the night. And so there's been a lot of disruption. And on the days where I feel tired, I've been specifically telling myself, I'm going to have the best day I've had in so long today. Because otherwise, I just get cranky about it. and I'm like, oh, my whole routine is off. Lauren, let's think about that. Quick little break here to talk about one of my favorite skincare brands, Elamis. Guys, if you have not tried the buttery cleansing bomb, what are you doing?

I'm telling you, this is TSC Masterless approved. I have Michael hooked on it. I have my friend Weston hooked on it. Taylor's hooked on it, Mimi. Everyone is on board. And I keep hearing the same reviews from everyone. They are obsessed with the pro-college and cleansing bomb. A lot of people out there have been trying to figure out my skin.

care routine and I got to come on here and talk about this is one of the secrets to it. Yeah, that's true. So here's the thing. This buttery cleansing bomb is perfect for so many things. It's insane for facial massage. But the real hack here is the makeup remover hack. So what I do is when I have tons of makeup on my face, I rub the pro-colleging cleansing bomb on top of that and do facial massage. And I usually do it for like five minutes and then I let the bomb sit on my face for another five minutes. So it's on my face for a total of 10 minutes. I'm walking around. I'm getting ready for bed, turning on my salt rock lamp, maybe putting my white noise machine on, getting my barefoot dreams blanket ready. I have my collagen cleansing bomb sitting on my face. Then I go and wash it off.

It rubs off makeup so nice, you guys, and it doesn't. You know how when you use a makeup wipe, it rips your skin. The bomb softly and delicately removes your makeup while also smoothing out those fine lines. I'm telling you, once you start using this, you'll become obsessed. And once you start using it, your boyfriends and husbands are going to start stealing it as well. That's exactly what happened to me. Elemus was one of my first introductions into skincare. Still use it to this day. Have all the men's lines in the shower, the cleanser, everything.

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shipping and handling. What you do is you visit lmus.com slash skinny to get yours. And remember to use the promo code Skinny 15 at checkout. And you can also get 15% off your first order at Elimus. So you kind of can do everything in one. You're going to pick up something else. Definitely get the superfood oil. That's LMS.com slash skinny and use promo code Skinny 15 at checkout. You know, there's one thing you said, though that I completely agree with them that I do. Like, whenever I'm going too fast, I think it's extremely important to stop and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it. I take a lot of time to do that.

So even in a fast-paced world, if I'm running around, it's like stop for a minute and to think about why am I doing this? Why am I going so fast? I think that's where there's the distinction that people that are at a living fast pace stop to do, they don't stop to do to think about like, why am I going so fast? I kind of, I know why I like that pace and I'm doing, but it's because I take the time to sit down for hours sometimes and just like think about it, we fly. And also, you're probably not unable to slow down, right?

So, like, if you're tied to, if you're married to moving quickly because you don't know how to slow down, that's very different from just kind of following the instinct of your natural rhythm. And to your point, I lived in South Carolina for four years. I've also lived in Manhattan and London in San Francisco. Very contradictory. Yeah. And, you know, I think through living in these different places, I've learned how to find my rhythm anywhere I am. and be true to myself in any of those conditions. Like I love being inspired by the energy of Manhattan.

I also love oozing into the sort of indulgent, sultry, thick air of Charleston. You know, and so if you can sort of transition yourself from world to world seamlessly, I think you know you've got a pretty good grasp on your body's natural rhythm. I think that's wise. I mean smart. I still need to hear your checklist, your specific checklist. I love details. Okay, good. I wake up in the morning without an alarm. I think that's really important. If people can get to bed early enough to wake up on their own, that for me is number one. Like above anything, probably even nutrition, and nutrition is a huge part of my life. I just, I try to pace myself, like, by going to bed, when I know that I will need to to get the amount of sleep that I feel is required from my body to wake up.

up naturally. And what times are these? Shamefully early. And earlier and earlier the older, I guess. That's okay. What time? Like, are we talking my language? Are we talking nine? Are we talking six? I'm talking nine. Okay. I'm talking six. Yeah. Six. I'm serving dinner. Okay. I, I, last night, I got into bed at 8.15 and I was asleep by 845. My daughter was up at 1.30 and my son was up at 4. And so for me, I always build in like a buffer. Knowing that I'm going to wake up to go to the bathroom or have a drink of water or maybe have a thought that takes me a little bit of time to unpack in the middle of the night or have a child wake me up. So if I go to bed at 830, like really I try to get into bed by 8.45 so that by 9.30 I'm like in a deep sleep. And then by 4.30 in the morning, if I'm awake for the day, I'm cool.

I really, like my kids wake up between like 6 and 645. So I like to wake up before they do, so I have a little bit of time to myself to kind of like... Get a little jump on them. Get a jump on them. Exactly. You know, brush my hair and put a robe on and have a glass of water and just actually just be still in my bed for a few minutes and kind of just process the morning without noise. We just started talking about kids and it's nice to talk to people like you because that have kids. Yeah.

Because we're wondering what chaos we're in for in the mornings. A lot. I keep hoping someone's going to say not much. Wait, you mean what chaos you're in for in the morning? We'll see, Lauren. Yeah, we will see. You know, the beautiful thing about, you know, co-parenting is that you figure out what each other's strengths and weaknesses are and you run with it and you delegate. Like, my husband takes my son.

He's been taking my son camping since he was one and a half. And, like, they go out there and they do their thing. It's like, that's his thing, right? Like, so if your thing is not waking up early in the morning, like, that's Michael. time. Yeah, Michael, that's your fucking time. You and the kids will be there you'll be. It's six in the morning. I'll be sleeping on my silk pillowcase. It's a very bonding time. Listening to my white noise machine with the salt lamp on. I've been getting some practice and we have these two little chihuahuas and that's what I do with them right now. He does. He does in his defense. So are there any other things

that are on your checklist? For the morning. Yes. I have lemon water first thing. And then I have some type of like bone broth usually or a macha latte, some other kind of warm. beverage. I make my own macha, which I'm completely addicted to. I put like 10 things in it. And then I have breakfast. I eat breakfast with my kids. And then usually for a snack, I do a smoothie with the powders that I've created. So I throw collagen in there. I use the plant-based vegan protein. Let's talk about what you've created because while we're going through it because I think it makes sense to segue into it. Tell us what should these you add to your macho latte because you said there was 10 ingredients and tell us what you add to your smoothie.

Oh, so the matcha is, I do the organic ceremonial grade macha that I just buy online. I'm not actually married to a brand. I alternate. And then my husband drinks this coffee. It's called 4-Sigmatic. Oh, yeah. It's right here on the TV. Oh, that's our favorite.

Oh, that's so funny. Wow. Four-sigmatic's been the best. Isn't it the best? So I saw, so he bought this cacao, mushroom blend the other day. And it was in the cabinet where we keep all of our yummy, delicious drink goodies. And I was like, what's this? Because everything with chocolate I'm a fan of. So I dumped it in my matcha. And then I was at, I happened to be at the farmer's market,

and I found this Vietnamese cinnamon, turmeric, ground ginger blend. So it's like all of the anti-inflammatory stuff. So I dumped that in my matcha as well. So that's kind of the matcha situation. For my smoothie, I do the vegan plant-based protein powder and do the collagen. Those are the two staples. And then I usually take my vitamins after, like after I've eaten something. Do you add any berries or almond milk to your smoothie? Yes, I do. Okay. I add almond butter. Yeah. Or peanut butter. My kids also love the smoothie. So we do peanut butter, almond butter. We have all the butters, you know, basically sunflower seed butter. I do date sometimes, like frozen wild blueberries, banana. We usually use macadamia nut milk because it's a

little bit creamier or coconut milk. You can just throw anything in there, spinach. I vary it just depending on what's in the fridge and what's in the freezer. When I knew you were coming on today, I wanted to talk to you. So you know a lot about supplements and what to take, and I'm novice, and I'm trying to figure out what's right, what's not like, are there any staples that you think every man or woman should have. I know it's very individual to the individual person, but other things you say, like, this is something that's really beneficial to add to your diet or your routine. I think you can't go wrong, man or woman age demographic with curcumin. Okay.

With a probiotic. And if you're feeling like you need immune support, probably the olive leaf extract. Okay. If I'm getting sick, the first thing I do is take the olive leaf extract. What are the benefits? It's basically like a natural. antibiotic. Okay, we're going to try the olive leaf and we're also going to try the tumourics. Can you mix them together? You can mix them. I mean, I wouldn't put too much, if you're not used to taking supplements, I wouldn't do them all at one time on, you know, the first round of life. Like, I mean, the first round, like the first time you're introducing them to your body. But you can just, you know, start with whatever you feel the most drawn to, like the curcumin maybe, or the olive leaf extract,

see how it works with your system. And then maybe the next. next day add on something else. You know where I think a lot of people, including myself, have trouble, is there's so many supplements on the market and so many different things. And it's almost like, you know, you go online and say, like, what supplements should I be taking? And 50 articles pop up. People are overwhelmed with where to start and how much to start with, including myself. And so if you were going to start dabbling with supplements, where would you kind of coach or tell someone that they should start? Well, I think it depends on kind of what your particular needs are, which is why it's confusing, right?

Because each individual profile is different. A probiotic, I think, universally supports the gut, which is where they now know our brain lives, essentially. Our immune system and our mood and our kind of outlook on life all live in our gut. So I think a real good, clean probiotic, like the one, you know, that we happen to carry one. Other people may prefer other strands. It's fine.

But I think a probiotic across the board is a great choice. There are also other ways to consume probiotics. can do kimchi or kefir if you prefer like actual food-based probiotics. My friend Ingrid has her own kefir that she makes at home and she does this process that's that I always get scared to do. I tell her, I need you to come over to my house and do it where she crystallizes it or something. Yeah. Sometimes doing things on your own can be informative in ways that can be a little disenchanting

if you're not accustomed to the gritty, raw reality of what food process requires. She's really good at. She makes this beautiful yogurt that has all this probiotics in it that's delicious. That would be so good with like some of your powder mixed in. I would love to say I, we're huge yogurt fans in my family. We do either sheep yogurt or we do the forager. Are you guys familiar with the organic flage? I am.

He's not. He doesn't know. He doesn't know what that. He's like sheep who? Yeah. While she's been talking about crystallizing probiotics, I just been thinking, let's get Taco Night Down before we start crystallizing probiotics. Wait, I have a question.

It's a perfect compliment. So let's just say that you have this friend. And this certain friend is not the healthiest. Like he's maybe ordering from Z pizza at lunch at night. He's probably stuffing McDonald's in his face. You never know. Breakfast he skips sometimes because he's a little tired. And he's snacking on Skittles and Starbursts in the office.

And let's just say my friend is, oh, my friend's actually, he's here. Let's just say that friends. I was going to say, holy shit. That sounds so familiar. Oh, Taylor. Okay, so. I intermittent fasting all the way until like lunch and then eat pizza. Okay, but let's, let's, that's a real clean way.

Can you advise him on air on how you would, instead of taking things away from him, can we try to crowd out the bad? I mean, that's why you want to maybe get the super greens in. Like, so I add a lot of the time. So I mentioned the collagen and the vegan plant-based protein. I also usually put in the super greens because if I've gotten that at the beginning of the day, I don't feel guilty about basically anything else I eat. Like it's got so much nutrient.

So what would you tell him to do in the morning? Like let's say he wakes up at seven. What time do you wake up at 5.45? You do? Hold on. Wait a minute. You slept over at my house and you were still asleep at 9 o'clock. Yeah, well, that's because we're closer here.

When he has to do his long commute, he's up early. Okay. So he wakes up at 6.4. So what's the first thing Taylor should do? Drink water. Lemon water? It can just be regular water to start. Okay.

I always do a glass of regular water and then a glass of lemon water. If you want to do like a pinch of Celtic sea salt, that's also really hydrating. Okay. Because of the electrolytes. But hydrate after your body hasn't had anything to drink for like eight or nine hours or seven hours or how many hours of sleep that you get. You need a hydrate. Okay. And you're like releasing vapor all night as you're sleeping.

I think I've drank one. A lot of detoxing. 12 ounces of water in a week. week. That's it. So for people who don't drink a lot of water, I recommend getting like a liter bottle that you can continue to refill and don't pour your water into a glass because it's really hard to know how much you think you're drinking a lot more when you're just dribbling throughout the day and getting like little sips because you feel like it's this continuous process. But if you fill up a liter bottle of water at the beginning of the day, drink exclusively from

that bottle, you know what you're getting. So at the end of the day, if it's half end, empty like you haven't had enough. We have to hold on. We have to give him nutrition like a hamster. There's just a little like intravenous. I told my husband so many times please get a black chic hydroflask with like a white lid. But water's not my problem. It'd be so gangster. I love, I drink like I've already had

I think two of these today. So whatever. So Taylor, you need a hydroflask or something. This is already a full leader. So I have, this is my third leader today. Taylor, can you get a hydroflask? Yeah, I definitely need Okay. So now we're get, we're through the water. He needs to wake up and drink. Now what? Now he should probably have a smoothie. Okay. Because pizza is a really hard way to break a fast. Like, you know, breakfast literally means break fast, like you're breaking a fast. And so your liver has been

working really hard all night to detox, which is part of why I do the lemon water, because lemon stimulates the liver. It also is alkalizing. But I would suggest a really kind of soft, gentle entry into the day. So if you want to eat junk for the rest of the day, then I'd just put all the good stuff in the smoothie. So I would do the super greens, the collagen, and one of the two protein powders, either the vegan plant-based or the way protein, just depending on your preference. And then you're pretty much set for the day. I'm not saying that that should necessarily give you license.

You're just saying like the foundation is really strong. I'm just saying like you've started your day on a really good note and there are so many nutrients in the super greens specifically that, you know, you're just saying, you know, You're not going to be lacking for vitamins and minerals over the course of the day. The other thing is I have a greens tablets, which I take as often as I can. My morning kind of, I shuffle around my supplements. I'm not a person who does everything every single day. I believe in kind of surprising the body at times.

So I alternate between what I take every day. But for someone who isn't necessarily going to be pounding vegetables all day long, the greens tablets is also a great choice. Okay. So what are some, what are your three? go to lunch options that Taylor could maybe be taking notes on. Yes, because one thing I know for a fact I can say I've never have done is pound vegetables. Have you ever had a vegetable?

I have. When's the last time you had a vegetable? Be honest. Tell us the last meal you had that was not just like a carrot or a piece of broccoli, like when you actually had a vegetable meal. Shit. I don't know if I can think back that far. Are you serious?

You can't even remember the last time you had a salad? Maybe like last week at a salad. When? Tell me specifically where and what was it? It was a Tuesday. Tell me where and when. No, it wasn't a Tuesday. I was here on Tuesday.

I didn't see you eating a salad. Listen, be honest back there. You're honest about everything else. I honestly can't even remember it, to be honest. That's how long. Okay, so here's what I'm going to do. You gave me two of your super greens. I'm going to give him the chocolate one because I feel like I'm just doing the Lord's work.

I can also send you like as many as you want for any more. No, no. You've got so many different things here, you guys. There's this raspberry flavor green superfood that I'm going to share with Michael. But I'm going to give him the chocolate greens because I just feel like that's really kind of. Kind of both of us to be holidays. Happy holiday. Okay, so what are some lunch options that Taylor could have?

Here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking through Taylor's specific profile. Oh, God, I'm sorry. I don't know Taylor that well, but I'm getting a sense of his dietary habits. I think it's really hard for people to sustain diets when the foods they're choosing are such a huge departure from their comfort foods and the things that they're accustomed to. So what I would advise Taylor do is make a list of his go-to lunches and then modify those, right? So if he loves pizza, an easy, like, super, you know, like low-maintenance lunch could be like an Ezekiel muffin, you know, those English muffins that you can buy at the store.

They're affordable with some tomato sauce and, like, an organic cheese or a diet cheese, and you can make your own pizza at home. It's cheaper. It's cleaner. And you can add some shredded vegetables on top of it. and kind of cook it together. That sounds so good, Taylor. Why can't you just bring that into the office? You'd save money, too.

I know. Remember, you just did a YouTube video, and it was to save money, cook at home. I always cook lunch at home. I think that's a great tip. Okay, so now we're getting into snack time. What are some snacks that maybe the audience could do at home or that Taylor can make that are quick and easy and healthy? I mean, smoothies, I think, are the quickest and easiest.

I do a lot of baking. That may not be the choice for someone who has very few minutes. at home. I'm sensing that Taylor is not going to be pulling out tiger nut flour and almond flour to make his own muffins. Is that correct, Taylor? Yeah, that's a safe assumption. Okay. So then the easiest go-toes would be fruit, of course. Like, there's nothing wrong with a piece of juicy fruit with handfuls of nuts or Sancho Inchi or any kind of, you know, superfood seeds. Taylor loves nuts and he loves juicy fruits. So that sounds good, Taylor.

So maybe Taylor can make his own trail mix. So I do that at home and I keep it in bags for my kids and it's super easy. And I put goji berries, mulberries, golden berries. You can do chocolate chips or carib chips. That sounds good for me. I actually love trail mix. It's amazing. Every kind of not.

Hold on. The trail mix he's having is the one with the M&Ms at the gas station. So that's an organic eminem. I mean, it's like a little pricier. But, you know, actually real chocolate is like even, I mean, I know we get addicted to like the brand. And like I was addicted to Doritos like in my youth and I would make nachos out of like the Dorito brand Doritos and then I found Paul Newman's Doritos and I was like yes I can still have it.

I didn't know Paul Newman had Doritos. Well they're not actually Doritos or the nacho cheese cheese. Someone correct me like at one point they were like they're not Doritos. Doritos is that specific brand. They're nach cheese chips. I was like sorry. But you know that's how you know you've done a good job branding when other people when you make the nacho cheese chip and it's like if that's the Dorito of like the Doritos of like the

organic world. The last vegetable Taylor had was the cool ranch corn nuts from fucking 7-11. My husband is not a veggie eater necessary. Like he's not super into veggies veggies either. So I puree soups for him and I freeze them. Like I puree them in giant batches and then stick them in the freezer. So if Taylor has like a friend who has a Vitamix who can just like puree crap like in giant juicer and I think I believe I've, I don't know if it's a Vitamixer, but it's something of that. Where's that thing in the garage with cobwebs?

Just like throw everything together in the Vitamix and make a soup. What are some options? Give us some options. So right now in my house I have a bunch of broccoli, string beans. Can you just throw it all? You can do anything. Okay.

Yeah. I mean, you can also at any point make a vegetable soup that's chunky and not purrayed by just getting like a base, like a bouillon or a bone broth or a chicken broth or whatever you want to use. You can use a mineral based broth. that is vegan and just literally boil your vegetables in the broth and add some seasonings or not if there's salt already in the bouillon and you've got soup that's a really good tip to get a Vitamix we need that and you just throw all the vegetables in the that's how I mean you could

even put some of your your green superfood in there it's such a game change yeah and you just eat anything you know sometimes some of us men and I'll like I usually don't generalize men or women but I think sometimes some of us men need a little help with the vegetables because I'm not good at eating vegetables either right my dad never like to this day I don't know how the guy you don't eat vegetables I wouldn't call you a vegetable guy you know but I've been getting better and Lascala salad with garbonzo beans in it

is not vegetables but Marrows has a really good spinach salad with egg whites and lemon dressing but anyways my point is is that if I'm if somebody has a Vitamix and they're making all this up I'll drink it I'll take it down right and if my wife had this in the house and I will you I'll take those options now it's on her hint hint hint if your wife had a Vitamix in the house you would take these options

I would if you were making this. When you were making smoothies back in the day, I was taking them down. So here's a thing. Freeze batch. Like just do it like make it fun. Turn on some music. Choose two hours on a Sunday. Like make a bunch of batches of things and freeze it in little individual containers

so that you don't have to think about it for like two weeks. Because otherwise it won't really happen. Let's say someone's really busy. Yeah. Is there anywhere you recommend that you can get these situations all ready to go? Situations meaning like soups. Yeah. Like I've heard there's a girl gracefully fed that makes really great soups.

Yeah. There are a bunch of different places. I order from 258, which is the meal delivery service. That's all organic, sustainable, ethical. I've never met the founder, but I know that she's a mother of a young child and created this business right after her child was born. And so I supported her. I started supporting her for that reason and I became addicted to her food. So I order all of her soups.

I also order her snacks and her bone broth. But you can get at Era 1 market a bunch of those pre-made, delicious organic soups. I'm trying to think of where else. Anyway, the farmer's market is where I get most of my soups. But check your local farmer's market. You know, there's always a soup stand. Whole Foods, of course, has soup. I think Whole Foods is kind of hit and miss as far as organic goes.

Yeah, sometimes I turn the label over. We were talking about this on another podcast. and they lie. That's why it's almost better to just make your own at home. Everyone lies. There's like hidden ingredients. And I've noticed there's a lot of sunflower oil and stuff, which I'm not a fan of. Right.

My favorite thing is when people don't actually list things. It's like, you know, they just kind of omit. They conveniently omit things. And you kind of ask like, oh, hey, like I can see that there is an ingredient missing in here because this wouldn't work texturally with what you've, listed? Like, can I find out a little bit more? And then they get management. And it's like, okay, there's like four things not listed. I think the co-op is pretty honest. In Santa Monica, that's where I do most of my shopping is just the co-op and the farmer's market. Like,

between the two of those, they've got a suit bar. It's pretty clean. So what do you guys think the best, because we have a lot of listeners that don't live in California at all. What do you think like the best place to start is with groceries, you know, because there's, I mean, one thing that, one thing I do love about LA is there's a lot of options. There are a lot of healthy around the city. But traveling around the country, it's not always the case. So for people that are that don't have access to like the Arawans or the farmers markets, or I guess there's always a local farmer's where would you suggest they start? I mean, first of all, it's just talking to local farmers and finding out where they get their produce and developing relationships with

farmers who, I mean, like I have a girlfriend who has made friends with every farmer in California, basically, and they just give her stuff. Like they give her stuff that isn't, like isn't going to sell in time or they've got, you know, surplus. of crop. And she's a beautiful entrepreneur doing her own cooking thing. But, you know, I think pretty much everywhere in the world you can find a farmer's market. And so that's usually a sure thing. It's becoming more mainstream now to find organic product in more kind of corporate grocery stores as well. So just go to your local store and say, hey, do you have an organic department or an aisle where I can find organic produce.

It's surprising. I think in most towns you find like a mom and pops shop that's selling fresh organic ingredients. And you just have to do a little bit of research. What's your favorite way to satisfy your sweet tooth? It's with the 258 snack bites and stuff. And you guys, I just tried to Google it. It's not 258. It's spelled out 258.

So if you're going to look at it, it's right? It's all spelled out. Yeah, it's all spelled out. I just ate a tomato. Wow. Where did it even come from? Where'd you get a tomato? I just pulled it out of his pocket. No, I had a little snack from earlier. Wait, hold on. Where'd you get a tomato? I got a lettuce wrap and there was two cherry tomatoes. I saw that lettuce wrap. There was a sliver of a small slice of a cherry tomato. That's what you consider eating a tomato. Listen, when you're behind me and I'm recording, don't ever come in and say you're eating tomatoes behind me. It creeps me out. I don't like to picture it. But I have to say if we're encouraging people to be their best, we have to applaud them for even the smallest efforts. And that's, and that's, and that's, you know, it's. I don't know. I'm going to say, if we're encouraging people to be their best. And that's

another thing. And people, Yay, Taylor. I think that people are trying to make change and they're like, they expect like the, like a one-eat. Like you have to sort of like start with moments and go,

oh, like I just ate. My husband is like I said, he's not a vegetable eater either. So if he eats like a couple bites of Brussels sprouts, like I rub his back. Like I scratch his head. I'm like, oh my gosh, you look amazing. I'm not going to rub Taylor's back or scratch his head,

but I will say good job on eating a sliver of a cherry tomato. I want to encourage you. as long as it's not at the expense of my comfort. Where do you draw that line, Michael? With Taylor, the line is pretty. There's an actual wall. It's a very thin line. Yes.

People asked me when I built this studio, like, why this wall doesn't have a window? And I said, well, because if you met my producer, Taylor, you'd understand why. We don't need to be locking. We don't need to be locking eyes. You never know what he's doing there. It's intense. It is intense. Between eating tomatoes and porn and who knows.

Taylor, I love you. Tomato porn. Is that a thing? Tomato porn. I'm happy you ate it, tomato. So for your sweet tooth, you have 258, and this is sitting here too. I've had paleo cookie dough bites, and they have like a sugar-free chocolate chip cookie situation. That's amazing.

That's, again, also local. I think for people who don't live here and don't, because they do deliver all over Los Angeles, so I order from them. But for people who don't live here, making your own raw snacks is fast. Like there are so many no bake recipes. If you just Google like no bake desserts, you're basically just rolling up like maple syrup and oats and nut butters and dates and, you know, fruit and things of that nature. Fresh fruit, dried fruit.

You can basically roll anything into a ball and eat it. You know, well, so I'll let you take it from there. So, you know, as far as snacks go, like I have a massive sweet tooth. Like my husband is the only person in my life who has. probably an even greater sweet tooth and he's super indulgent in ways I'm not like I'll have like a slice of cake you'll eat the whole thing um but I make a lot of my own stuff too like I make muffins every week I make granola and I make bread for my kids every week so we're always baking in my family and it's something I can do with my four-year-old that feels like kind of a bonding event and then at the

end of it we have breakfast for the week well this was informative and I think it's set taylor on the path to hopefully a little bit better help. Where can everyone find you and your brand and all this great stuff that you're creating? Because there's a lot of stuff here that I got to unpack. On Facebook, we're just Alia naturals and Insta, we're Alia dot naturals. And just so if you guys are wondering where to start personally, where I would start out of all this, just me. This is me personally. Everyone's different. Is the spirulina? I love spirulina and I really like how you put it in a capsule as opposed to a powder because the powder feels like

it's overwhelming and it sometimes doesn't taste so good. I'd rather just swallow it. I would too. That's why I did it this way. Sparolina is incredibly energizing. It's the best way to start the day. If I'm swallowing anything, it's going to be Sperlina anyway. You know what I mean, Michael? Real quick. Real quick, before we go.

Can you tell me what Sperlina does because I've been asking for it in all my smoothies around here only because people like you and Lauren have said it's so great but I actually don't know what it does. I just feel cool. Oriam. It's just energizing. I mean, I think they're doing incredible studies in the algae world right now about actually how it contributes positively to anti-inflammatory and autoimmune conditions. So because the research is so new and not necessarily conclusive, it's harder to make

definitive claims. But a lot of people are claiming that the benefits of Svalina and Chlorola and all of these chlorophyll and all these amazing kind of green products are actually like far beyond the scope of what we've even come to fully understand. So I would take them not only for what we know the benefits to be now, but for what like the cutting edge research is indicating the benefits may be even beyond, you know, our current awareness. Taylor, lunch is Sparolina. I'm bringing you to castles. Yommy. One more time, what's your Instagram handle?

Allia. Dot naturals. Amazing. Thank you so much for coming on the show. That was so informative. Thank you. All right, guys, Shauna is offering all TSC, him and her listeners, 20% off anything on her site. You just need to use the coupon code Skinny 20 at checkout. It's alia naturals.com. That's a laia y-a-naturals.com. I would recommend starting with a spirulina. You can't go wrong. I am a huge spirulina fan. And with that, make sure you're rating and reviewing the podcast. Spread the word. Tell your friends. And we'll see you next time.