The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - 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 now Lauren Everts and Michael Bostic are bringing you along for the ride. Get ready for some major realness. Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. But that's a choice that I'm making consciously in a moment to transition myself out of my comfort zone. I feel like I need to go through the day understanding where I'm holding my breath or where I could just be more conscious in how I feel. 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, you know, to kind of slow down for all of us is as information is 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 discuss 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 peace. 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 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, it says forever hold your peace. That's different because it's P-E-A-C-E. So I was correlating it the same way. Cause 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 hold, I said my peace, 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 conversation.

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. And it messed me. It messed me up big time because it's like, do you stop the and get it out or do you just like blink it out it was just a whole 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

gonna have to go tell those tales to tales you. I'm telling the tales of my eyeball on the podcast. Okay. So there's pollen in your eye. All right. So, uh, 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 me, let's talk about summer. Um, no, it's summertime. I, 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, um, push that on me. So I'm, 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. Um, and so I can do a

little bit longer, maybe 20, 25. And so I told you, you're not gonna like this, but so there's 15 minutes for the last few days. Taylor, you've seen my tan. You've seen my tan. Um, is this mic not on? His mic's not on, is it? God damn it. I'm just waiting. He's just waiting. Um, God damn it, Taylor. And, um, I feel really good. My vitamin D levels are skyrocketing. I feel better than ever. A little bit of sunlight, Lauren. 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, Magda 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 in 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 been on. You don't respond or what? Those rhetorical questions you're asking. Okay. All right. So what's your healthy tip? 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 once a day every week? You're at yours first. I'll go after you. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I want to put you right on the spot.

I'm 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.

Threesome. I'm trying to think of something healthy that I've been doing that I usually just don't normally do 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 here? Well, I just, I, again, it's not in the scheme of healthy lunches.

It's healthier than eating out all 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 are fuck now the reason i so i was raised a vegetarian so i never really got into those really aggressive meats like the the pastramis the bolognese i could see you having like an elk sandwich no i have eaten elk and i've eaten deer in sweden that's a thing they do okay you guys eat elk and deer reindeer 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 gotta say it wasn't bad 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 i 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 melon 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 dole whip no the red wagon corn dog at disneyland you gotta 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 wood health 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 um 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 acai powder. You could throw in whatever you want. You could throw in inulin. 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 first, then 121 with Melissa Wood. She really opens up about her eating disorder and how through that she went on this total wellness journey. And her smoothie is bomb.

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. It's 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.

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 I had Italy pizza yesterday, which is so good. It's the best pizza in LA. You got to try it. We're going today again. All right. Anyways, let's introduce Shauna Ryder. Shauna is the founder of Alaya 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 Alaya 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. Lauren, 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. You did? It's going strong. Your hairline is flowing. Your hairline is, it's battling true use of judaism. Would you say it's wavy or straight? Oh, it's kind of a medley.

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off your custom formula. Again, functionofbeauty.com 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 large and small intestine. And what's the cause of that? For me, it was probably emotions that weren't healthfully 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 bit, 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, 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, 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 of my own self. Sure. Well, my parents divorced when I was pregnant. This is becoming a really heavy conversation really quickly. No, we love to get into it. Welcome to the show.

By the way, Spiralina is excellent for helping. 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 going 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, um, 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. find 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've all, we all know how, how damaging stress can be, especially internalizing stress, but people don't realize that it 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're a sensitive soul in such an overstimulating 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'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 band-aiding 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. There is a time when you need medication in modern medicine and there's a time when you need to say, okay, wait, is that really the answer here? Can you describe some of the, when you started seeing someone that was practicing Eastern medicine, what some of those

practices were that helped? Was it like an acupuncture? Was it? Yes. Yes. I did acupuncture with this Chinese herbalist. 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 like you just wanted to scream. I mean, I was like monkey, like the the craziest things, roots and tree barks and stuff. I'd brew it all up and drink that. I did acupuncture with him.

So it's a combination of the herbs and 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 unfortunate, 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 modalities 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, they're 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 later 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 of my life became paramount as well. So I saw a nutritionist for the first time. 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, you know, 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 refine 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 kind of, you know, ancient ways of doing things and these remedies that seem 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 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 and 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? 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, I 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 in the South, we were in Charleston, it's a beautiful city. 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. Yes. 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 know some men that like to kind of like, you know, one of the guys I was there with, um, good friend of mine and he's, he's as much slower pace. So I get what you're saying. Um, 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. You're not, it doesn't feel like a requirement for you. Yeah. Whereas like there's, it sounds like, um, with yeah whereas like there's it sounds like um with your wife there's kind of more of a methodical way of approaching things um 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 i think it's important for um couples and individuals to understand that about each other. Like if I understand that about her and she understands that about me.

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 checklist. Walk us 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. 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 to get a personality. If you know what feels good and what makes you feel good, it's like, why not do it? I just know I'm going to have a better day. And that's maybe bad to 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. Let's think about that. Quick little break here to talk about one of my favorite

skincare brands, Elemis. Guys, if you have not tried the buttery cleansing balm, 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 Collagen Cleansing Bomb. A lot of people out there have been trying to figure out my skincare 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 collagen cleansing balm 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 balm 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 balm 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. Elemis 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. iPads on the plane, you know. Keep your man looking good. And guys out there, this is the best way to get your skin taken care of. All right, you guys. So I'm super excited because Elemis is giving like a very unique offer. So they're offering all Skinny Confidential, him and her listeners, the opportunity to purchase the Pro Collagen Cleansing Balm travel size for $5. Okay. You got to try it. $5. And this is just to cover shipping and handling. What you do is you visit elemis.com slash skinny to get yours. And remember to use the promo code skinny15 at checkout. And you can also get 15% off your first order at Elemis. So you kind of can do everything

in one. If you're going to pick up something else, definitely get the superfood oil. That's elemis.com slash skinny and use promo code skinny15 at checkout. You know, there's one thing you said though that I completely agree with and 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'm, why I like that pace, but it's because I take the time to sit down for

hours sometimes and just like, think about it. And also you're probably not unable to move 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 and 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. 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 naturally. And what times are these? Shamefully early and earlier and earlier, the older. That's okay. Are we talking nine? Are we talking eight? Are we talking six? I talking 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 8 45 my daughter was up at 1 30 and my son was up at four and so for me i i always build in like a buffer knowing that

i'm gonna 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 845 so that by 930 I'm like in a deep sleep. And then by 430 in the morning, if i'm awake for the day i'm cool um i really like my kids wake up between like 6 and 6 45 so i like to wake up before they do so i have a little bit of time to myself to kind of jump on them get a jump on them exactly brush 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 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's time. Yeah, Michael, that's your fucking time. You and the kids will be there. You'll be at six in the morning. I'll be sleeping on my silk pillowcase. It's a very 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 matcha latte, some other kind of warm beverage. I make my own matcha, 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 while we're going through it because I think it makes sense to segue into it. Tell us what should you add to your matcha 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 matcha 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 Four Sigmatic. Oh,matic and it has oh my god that's our favorite we drink that all the time yeah four sigmatic's been the best isn't it the best so i saw so he he bought this cacao mushroom blend the other day and it was in the cabinet where we keep like all of our yummy delicious drink goodies and. 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 happened to be at the farmer's market and I found this Vietnamese cinnamon, turmeric, ground ginger blend. So it's like all 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 or peanut butter. My kids also love the smoothies. So we do peanut butter, almond butter, cashew. 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, coconut milk. You can just throw anything in there, spinach. You know, 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. Are there any staples that you think

every man or woman should have? I know it's very individual to the individual person, but are there any 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, with a probiotic. And if you're feeling like you need immune support, probably the olive leaf extract. 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 tumerics. Can you mix them together? You can mix anything together. Okay. 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 the first round of life. Like, I mean the first round, like the first time you're introducing them to your body. Um, but you can just, um, 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 day add on something else. You know where I think a lot of people, including myself have, 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 supplement 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 really 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. You 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 or she crystallizes it or something yeah sometimes doing things on your own can be informative in ways that 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 it. She makes this beautiful yogurt that has all these probiotics in it. That's delicious. That would be so good with like some of your

powder mixed. I would, I would love to say 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 forager? He's not, he doesn't know. He doesn't know. 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. The 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 friend's- I was gonna 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- That's a real clean way to- 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 a lot of the time so i i mentioned the collagen and the vegan plant-based protein um i also usually put in the super greens because if i 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 taylor i wake up at 5 45 you do six hold on wait a minute what you slept over at my house and you were still asleep at nine o'clock yeah well that's because we're closer here when he asked when he has to do his long commute he's up early okay so so he wakes up at

6 45 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 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 a lot of detoxing 12 ounces of water in a week that's it that is 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 drink.

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 empty, like you haven't had enough. We have to, we have to give them nutrition, like a hamster, like intravenous. I told my husband so many times, please get a black chic hydro flask with like a white lid, but water's not my problem. Gangster. I love, I drink like I've already had, I think two of these today. So whatever, you need a hydro flask or something. This is already a full liter. So I have, this is my third liter today. Taylor, can you get a hydro

flask? Yeah, I definitely need to. Okay. So now we're getting, 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 alkalinizing. 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 whey protein just depending on your preference um 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 like you've started your day on a really good note and there are so many nutrients in the super greens specifically um that 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 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 real. 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 when.

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, 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. Cause I feel like I'm just doing the Lord's work. I can also send you like as many as you want. No, no, no. You've got a, 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 both of us. 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. 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 the easiest, so then the easiest go-tos would be, would be fruit, of course, like there's nothing wrong with a piece of juicy fruit, with handfuls of nuts or Sancha 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 carob chips. That sounds good for me.

I actually love trail mix. It's amazing. Not the trail mix you're having with M&M's. The trail mix he's having is the one with the M&M's at the gas station. So guess some organic M&M's. I mean, it's like a little pricier, but you know, real, actually real chocolate is like even better. I mean, I know we get addicted to like the brand. 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. I was like, yes, I can still have it. I didn't know Paul Newman had Doritos. Well, they're not actually Doritos. They're the nacho, you know, nacho cheese. Someone corrected me like at one point they were like, they're not Doritos. Doritos is that specific brand. They're nacho 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, that's the Dorito.

You know what is the Dorito of like the organic world. The last vegetable Taylor had was the Cool Ranch Corn corn nuts from fucking 7-eleven that's like my husband is not a veggie eater necessarily like he's not super into veggies either so i puree soups for him and i free 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 a giant juicer and uh i think uh 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 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 in? You can do anything. Okay. Yeah. I mean, you can also at any point make a vegetable soup that's chunky and not pureed 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 you, I mean, you could even put some of your green superfood in there. Oh, it's such a game changer.

Yeah, and you just eat anything. You know, sometimes some of us men and I'll,, and 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, he just is a mean potatoes guy. I wouldn't call you a vegetable eater. No, but I've been getting better. Look, La Scala salad with garbanzo beans in it is not vegetables.

But Morrow's 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 but if your wife had a vitamix in the house you would take these options i i would if you're making this up when you were making smoothies back in the day, I was taking them down. So here's the 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 25-8, which is the meal delivery service. That's all organic, sustainable, ethical. Um, 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 support 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, um, and her bone broth. Um you can get at Era One Market a bunch of those pre-made delicious organic soups. I was 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.

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 it they lie that's why it's almost better to just make your own at home yeah everyone lies there's like hidden ingredients and i've noticed there's a lot of sunflower oil and stuff right 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 um 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 soup bar it's pretty clean so what do you 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, cause 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 options 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 air ones or the farmer's markets, or I guess there's always a local farmer. So 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. Um, 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 selling, like isn't going to sell in time where they've got, you know, surplus of crop. Um, 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 pop's 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's the 25 eight um snack bites and stuff and you guys it's i just tried to google it it's not 25 eight it's spelled

out 25 sorry if you're gonna look at it it's right it's all spelled out it's all spelled out i just ate a tomato wow where did it 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 another thing. Thank you. Yay, Taylor. I think that people are trying to make change and they expect like a one-eight.

You have to sort of start with moments and go, oh, 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 and like oh my gosh you look amazing i'm not gonna rub taylor's back or scratch his head but i will say good job on eating a sliver of i want to encourage him as long as it's not at the expense of my comfort where do you draw that line michael uh with taylor the line is pretty it's there's an actual it's a very thin line yes well 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 we don't need to be locking eyes you never know what he's doing it is intense between eating tomatoes and porn and who knows? I'm just kidding. Taylor, I love you. Tomato porn? Is that a thing? Tomato porn. I'm happy you ate a tomato. So for your sweet tooth, you have 25.8. And this is sitting here too. I have 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? 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. 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 set Taylor on the path to hopefully a little bit better health. 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 Aliyah Naturals. And on Insta, we're Aliyah.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. Spirulina is incredibly energizing. It's the best way to start the day. If I'm swallowing anything, it's going to be Spirulina anyway. You know what I mean, Michael? Real quick, real quick before we go, can you tell me what Spirulina 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. 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 like autoimmune conditions. So because the

research is so new and not necessarily conclusive, it's, it's harder to make definitive claims. Um, but a lot of people are claiming that the benefits of, um, Svarlina and chlorella and all of these chlorophyll and all of these amazing kind of green products are actually like far beyond the scope of what we've even come to, to fully understand. Um, so I w 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 spirulina. I'm bringing you two capsules. Yummy. One more time. What's your Instagram handle? Aliyah.naturals. Amazing. Thank you so much for coming on the show. That was so informative. It was really fun. Thank you. All right, guys,

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