The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast - Wellness Hacks Ft. Dr. Christian Gonzalez - Healthy Supplements, Grounding, Cancer Prevention, Lifestyle Improvements, & Ideal Routines

Episode Date: July 28, 2020

#284: On this episode we are joined by Dr. Christian Gonzalez. Dr. Gonzalez is a naturopathic doctor focused on integrative oncology and primarily breast cancer. He is also focused on educating patients on environmental medicine, mindset, and healing the body. He hosts the Heal Thyself Show and on this episode we are discussing healthy supplements, grounding, potential cancer prevention, nutrition, and how to identify underlying causes of illness.  To connect with Dr. Christian Gonzalez click HERE 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 The Skinny Confidential BODY Welcome to TSC BODY created by Lauryn Evarts Bosstick, The Skinny Confidential and her personal trainer Kim Kelly, Kim Kelly Fit. Together they created a complete wellness guide to help you live your best life. Filled with their favorite on-the-go recipes and a week by week training guide, Lauryn & Kim’s guide helps make healthy living easier. The guide also includes exclusive access to TSC BODY Community AND Lauryn & Kim's essential skinny hacks and restaurant tricks. To sign up click HERE This episode is brought to you by GLOSSIER What matters to you most when it comes to skincare? Quality of ingredients? Effectiveness? Glossier believes beauty starts with skin first, makeup second. Glossier's Milky Jelly Cleanser is the perfect way to start your skincare routine. Plus, all new customers will get 10% off their first order on Glossier.com/podcast/skinny This episode is brought to you by Skillshare. Skillshare is an online learning space offering more than 25,000 courses. Join the millions of students already learning on Skillshare today with a special offer just for our listeners: Get two months of Skillshare for free. That’s right, Skillshare is offering The Skinny Confidential listeners two months of unlimited access to over 25,000 classes for free. To sign up, go to www.skillshare.com/TSC.  Produced by Dear Media  

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Like, do we have self-sabotaging habits? What is our sense of worth when it comes to the way that we operate in life, right? Because so many of us have that sense of I'm not enough or there's a lack of something. Welcome back, everybody. That clip is from our guest of the show today, Dr. Christian Gonzalez. On this episode, we are talking everything from healthy supplementation, identifying underlying causes of illness, potential cancer prevention, lifestyle improvements and nutrition, and a lot more. This one goes all over the place. For those of you that are new to the show, my name is Michael Bostic. And across from me, my wife, Lauren Everts. Did you clear that frog out of your throat? I'll do it in a second. Am I a little scratchy right now? A little scratchy. Just a little bit.

You know what is cool is I was actually texting with Dr. G today and he gave me his entire morning routine, which we didn't go over in specifics. So I put it up on the blog. So after you're done listening to this episode and falling in love with Dr. G, head over to the Skinny Confidential because his morning routine is fucking goals. Like Michael, you're going to be inspired. I'm telling you, there is so many little hacks in his morning routine and it's quick and it's simple and it's easy to digest. So definitely check out that blog post. I know after this episode that I am going to be really looking into the Dutch test, which we get into. I'm going to be actively practicing grounding more

and I'm getting you to go to a functional medicine doctor. He already gave me a number. I mean, I'm sold. He sold me on it. Him and Ben Greenfield have sold me on it. These two guys have taught me a lot. I'm proud of you. You're really upping your health game. No, and I've also, I mean, listen, there's so many supplements out there and vitamins. You don't know what to take.

I mean, there's thousands of them. You don't know which brands. You don't know who to trust, who to not trust, how to take them, when to take them. So like, you know, you're going to start to see a lot more of this because now that I'm interested in this wellness subject, I got a deep dive a little bit more.

Yeah, Michael's into wellness. So all of a sudden last week, all these things started arriving, things that I was like, what's going on? So first we got a fridge and I'm like, okay, Michael, are you putting your skincare in a fridge? Like what the fuck is happening? No, it's for my quick silver vitamins, which we get into here. Okay. It's the quick silver vitamins. We talk about that. He also got this thing called the chili pad, which we'll update you guys on. The jury's still out about that. And then lastly, you got all these vitamins that are in little packets that you pour into your mouth and all

these contraptions. You're like a witch doctor now. You're turning into me. Well, I'm learning a lot from conversations like this. And I think a lot of people, listen, you know a lot because you focus on this, but there's a lot of us out there like me that don't know a lot about this kind of stuff and we need to know where to get started. So this is a good one. This one and Ben Greenfield's episode are good ones to get started on stuff like this. Yeah, definitely check out Ben Greenfield's episode after this. If you like this episode, it's on the same kind of wavelength. All right, Michael, introduce Dr. G to the skinny confidential, him and her listeners. Dr. Christian Gonzalez, a naturopathic doctor

focusing on integrative oncology. So studying primarily breast cancer and cancer. Environmental medicine and doing a lot on mindset. He also has a great show, great podcast called Heal Thyself, which Lauren and I just went on. I don't know if that episode's out or not yet. We did a little bit of a swap here. So check him out, guys. Dr. G on Instagram, dr.g underscore on Instagram. He's great. Had a really well-rounded conversation here, and I hope you guys will enjoy.

With that, Dr. G, welcome to the Skinny Confidential Him and Her Show. This is the Skinny Confidential Him and Her. I am obsessed with grounding. I believe in it. I've done it. I think it cures hangovers. Sell my husband on it and our audience. Grounding is powerful. There's actually studies on grounding and sort of like the the earth surface is covered in negative ions right and we are electrical beings so we act like as a conduit with those negative ions so they actually do have an effect on our body we see that it helps especially in inflammation and pain folks and it can be pretty instantaneous the change in the meters when they they measured it and when we put our feet on the ground coupled with sun, it's amazing. It's amazing stuff.

It's become one of the pillars of health for me. Like getting outside, which we were talking about in the elevator, being here out and there's no nature. You have cement. You know, it's hard to find earth surfaces to put our feet on. So if you do your meditation in the morning, are you walking on the ground? Like how do you incorporate it into your day? I'll take a walk around my front yard and there's a bunch of dirt. And in the backyard, it's

sort of like woodsy. So I'll put my feet on the rock slabs, on the grass, on the mulch, whatever it is, earth surfaces. So we stay away from concrete or pavement or even fake grass, which I used to have in Venice. There's measurable effects. There's studies on grounding. I did a whole show on grounding specifically dedicated to to it because it's so easy and it's cheap and and it's real i'm gonna guess that the last time our producer taylor put his feet on the ground was in 1998 so i might like buy you a grounding mat back there taylor that you can just put your feet on it no i think like i think just being in the city you forget right because you know what the one thing that this whole year has pointed out,

it's that when you're stuck in a city like this, and you don't realize how much you take nature for granted. Because you're running around, running around, and then all of a sudden you get stuck in one place in a loud, noisy city. And you're like, holy shit, I miss all that stuff. Like even we were outside this weekend in Palm Springs and Michael's testosterone went off the chart. I'm serious.

There is something different with being outdoors. Yeah. So even without putting your feet on the ground, those Japanese studies, the businessmen who they measured going on their walks versus ones who stayed in the office had reduced oxidation in their body, reduced inflammation in their body. So if you think about it from a testosterone point of view, well, that's going to be a killer for testosterone, the oxidation, the inflammation. Plus, I'm sure you were less stressed. You were getting a little bit more sun, sleeping a little bit better. That's the biggest thing is like,

you know, when I get away from the city, what I noticed even, like one thing that this is pointing out, what I noticed about myself is how much I actually need to get away from cities. And I, you know, you forget that until something like this happens. But every time I get out, I'm like,

oh, wow, I'm not looking at my phone. I'm not stressed. I want to be outside more. I'm not like thinking about anything except like that present moment where here in the city, you're like a little bit more revved up. You're a little bit more stressed. Like you just don't think about it until you're forced to kind of like look at your current circumstances. Yeah. And look how much you're being inundated with artificial light, EMF, right? Pollution. When you're away, you're more in touch with your cycles, your

rhythms, right? Circadian rhythm. When I moved to Topanga, I mean, I'm a night owl, so I would stay up to like 1 a.m., which is, it's not good because I talk about sleep. When I moved to Topanga, all of a sudden it got pitch black really fast. There's frogs out there, there's owls out there, and I'm like, well, there's nothing else to do than go to sleep. So all of a sudden I'm sleeping at like 11 p.m. We get up at like 7 a.m. I'm like, whoa, this is really nice. And I feel better. My brain feels sharper. We are set for these rhythms biologically. And when we live in artificial circumstances, our body suffers artificially. I am ready to move to Topanga, Michael. Cart me over to Topanga. No, or Malibu.

Yes. So I'm ready for something woodsy. No, I mean, like I was just telling you, with, you know, still, we're not under normal circumstances right now at Dear Media, but like when we get back, I changed my whole company work from home policy. Even when we, even if we do get back to normal circumstances, like everybody on the team has optional two days a week work from home, unlimited vacation. Like I, I just, it, it pointed out to me how much we're missing nature and how much more effective people are when they actually get a little bit of a reset. I think we get stuck in these environments and it's like, go, go, go hamster wheel. And what it taught me, what this environment taught me was that my team is actually

a little bit more effective when they're not put in these artificial circumstances all the time. Like hopefully a lot of them are getting out and getting more sunlight in nature and like trying to do that. But, you know. Yeah. Think about you like in Palm Springs, Imagine like, okay, you're out there, you feel good for one day. And then the next day you're ready to go to work. You're ready to do work from home and be really effective. Yes. We need those resets and to get in touch with ourselves, at least for a day. I agree. So give our audience some context on who you are, where you grew up, what you're into now. My name is Dr. Christian Gonzalez. I'm a naturopathic doctor and I grew up in New York City where there's no nature. So I know exactly what you're talking about,

only concrete. And before I really moved out to Jersey in my adolescent time period, I had no feet on the ground. So yeah, I grew up in New Jersey. Initially, I wanted to be a dentist. I thought it'd be really cool, especially an orthodontist because I had really bad teeth when I was young. So I know the effect of what it does to a kid's confidence when they get really straight teeth and have a nice smile. So I wanted to be an orthodontist, but then my mom was diagnosed with cancer when I was in school, breast cancer. And I would go to her appointments when I was off of school and I saw how disconnected the medical community and even the diitians were in true nutrition, right? Because what they were recommending for her was calorically dense foods, but in the form of

she can eat whatever she wants, just make sure it's calorically dense, like cookies, cakes, pizza, boost, ensure nutritional drinks, nutrition, quote unquote. And I was like, this is incredible. Like why are they doing this? Why are they recommending it? Because I can get the same calories. At the time I was like really working out, so I knew macro stuff. I can get you the same calories making you healthier stuff. So I started making you the same calories. At the time I was like really working out, so I knew macro stuff. I can get you the same calories making you healthier stuff. So I started making food for her instead. And once I went back to school, she passed away. So I left school because I simultaneously learned

about naturopathic medicine. I go, what the heck? There's a medicine out there that really targets the root cause of what's going on, treats the whole person head to toe, inside out, connects the mind and the body, and uses evidence-based medicine? How come no one told me about this? So I left and I came to naturopathic school. And after she passed away, it sort of was like the catalyst to jump into

integrative oncology or just chronic disease prevention as a whole and empowering men, but especially women who are predisposed to breast cancer, that we can do things right now, even if you're 21, you can do things right now that'll work long-term for you. So say a 21-year-old woman out there listening, she's in college, there's all these different things happening, like you said, with the artificial light, the foods we're eating, the things we're drinking, the alcohol we're consuming. What are some things that this 21-year-old can do to be preventative about breast cancer? First and foremost, they can, I mean, sort of a byproduct of being in college is eating crappy

sometimes or all the time, alcohol, stress. But taking time out, what I would say is like, take an hour of the day to yourself to reset, you know, and it's easier said than done. But if we can take an hour out of our day and go, all right, today I'm going to get in red, orange, yellow, blue, green, violet vegetables, whether they're in a smoothie or a fruit salad or a salad or something. Today I'm going to meditate. Today I'm going to do some breath work or something. And although I plan on going out with my friends and drinking alcohol, I'm going to drink matcha around it, which is a potent antioxidant that will help negate some of those oxidative effects of alcohol. So just sort of taking some time to be more intentional about your lifestyle. But ultimately, the major change is when you let go of those

things that are blocking your healing, like alcohol, smoking, lack of exercise. Stress is huge, huge, huge for even biological aging, like long-term stress. It's just the killer. Hey, hey, hey, do I have a hot tip for you? Little break to tell you about Skillshare. Okay, the Skillshare class that I am taking has been such a game changer, Michael. You don't even understand. I don't even know which one you've been taking lately. What is it? It is honestly so on brand.

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check out Skillshare. Explore your creativity and get two free months of premium membership at Skillshare.com slash TSC. That's two whole months of unlimited access to thousands of classes for free. Get started and join today by heading to Skillshare.com slash TSC. That's two months of unlimited access to thousands of classes at Skillshare.com slash TSC. It sounds like your mother was obviously a very impactful person in your life now and before she passed. Before she got sick, were you interested in all these things

or was that the catalyst to really get you to dive into all this stuff? Yeah, I was. I was always into a holistic approach to health. And by that point, I wasn't taking really any over-the-counter medication. I was treating myself, my immune system when I was sick with herbs. I thought that was just a safer way and it proved to be much better for me overall. But when she passed away, it was the catalyst to go into cancer because at the time, I didn't want to be around people who are dying and, you know, at the end stage of life, or I wanted to avoid the fact that people die. But being inundated with that, you see like the cycle of life, but you also see that we could do much better in cancer care. You know, people are dying without dignity and they're dying without a chance to go, okay, well, why don't we

even prevent getting here, right? Because once you have cancer, you go right through the ringer, chemotherapy, radiation. Again, I'm not against any of this, but chemotherapy, radiation, surgery. And then they go, go home. You're good. Your scans look great.

You beat cancer without ever truly understanding like, well, what was the cause of cancer? The analogy I give is like, you have a field and we burn it. You know, we burn it. We burn the weeds off the field with, that's like radiation or throw chemicals at it, like chemo or chop it up like surgery. And we never address the soil because we take a snapshot of the field and we go, look, no more weeds, but they're inevitably going to grow back if we don't change the soil.

So this is what I try to educate people on is that the soil is not just one factor, it's many factors and there's so much that we can do for it. But that's a disconnect between conventional cancer care and alternative. There's no integration. No one's talking about how do we connect both worlds. Yeah. I think there's a problem in this country particularly where we are very focused on solving a problem after it occurs. I mean, I think we see this in multiple areas now, not just in medicine, but like, you know, and even if you isolate it down to what we've seen with COVID, like everybody's talking about what to do after you get it, but there's very little conversation about what to do prior to prevent it. We're still learning a lot of things. So why do you think that exists,

particularly in the field of medicine? Because like, you're right. I mean, you always hear about what someone does after they get it, but there's very little conversation about what to do to prevent it. And is that because there's a little conversation about what to do to prevent it. And is that because there's a lack of understanding or a lack of research or just because the system set up in a way to incentivize the latter? The latter, what you said, because we don't have, there's no lack of research on understanding how we can help people preventatively. But the model is such that we are treating the symptoms and that's the medications that we use, right?

And that's what doctorism is, right? Medicine-ism is this. We have something for something. That's it. And even on my side, people will be like, okay, well, I get heartburn. What can I take for that? What's the natural substitute for that? But really never going, well, why the hell do I get heartburn? How long has it been there? When did it start? What are the inflammatory foods? What are the triggers? When is it better? When is it worse? That sort of investigation leads to long-term healing because you identify the root cause and that's what we do for cancer or we do for arthritis. It's all the same mechanism we just look for. I have a controversial question. We interviewed someone that said that cancer grows in acidic

environments. And you could totally disagree with this. I just want to know what your take is on this. So they said to eat so much alkaline food, it takes your body from acidic to alkaline. Is there any truth to that? No, I don't think so. You don't think so? Okay. No. Your normal cells that don't have cancer can't grow in an acidic environment. It's not just cancer. But also there's a misunderstanding of the way that pH balance works. And I can't drink a gallon of baking soda and go, I'm alkalizing my body, right? Really what that's doing is affecting the acidity in my stomach temporarily.

And that's it. Our body's too smart to let buffoons like me just drink baking soda and go, I'm going to alkalize my body, because if we do, then we die. There's a very small window of pH that's allowed in our body. So I think cancer care, of course, those alkalizing foods are actually really helpful because they have those phytonutrients that are beneficial at anti-cancer fighting properties. But you can't just go and eat alkaline foods and alkalize my body. You can't alkalize your body. So you talked about the soil, what we can be doing right now. Are those those pillars that

you said, lowering our stress, meditation, grounding? Is there anything else that you would add to the list? Yeah, for sure. Movement, movement and exercise. So the identifiable risk factors for cancers are diet, nutrition, exercise, movement, and lifestyle, like smoking and alcohol. The stuff that we know. I always add on things like sun, grounding, stress techniques like meditation, yoga, breath work. And then there's an aspect of cancer that no one really talks about. And it's because it's a little bit more esoteric. But for me, it's as important, if not more. And that's the whole mental emotional side, right?

Like what is our connection or social connection, right? We do know social connection is as important as a risk factor, as obesity, cancer, alcohol, smoking, when it comes to just overall health. That's social connection. We look at the blue zones around the world. What do they have in common? Aside, they drink wine, right? They don't have the same diets, but they all have social connections. They're in a big table and they know their neighbors and they yip-yap about everything. And then the other side of social connection and then trauma, right? Emotional trauma, things that we're holding in, you know, never forgiving our dad or brother or best friend. I mean, these are, again, my mental, emotional, esoteric stuff. But what I've seen in cancer care

is I've had patients with the best of the best of everything, but they don't ever address that. And they don't improve the way that they do when they have that release of like- When you say best of the best of everything, what do you mean? Like care, supplements, they're following the best diet that's for them biochemically. They're outside, they're meditating, but they're not addressing the deeper things, right? And trauma is huge for me. Like when it comes to all health, we have cellular trauma, body keeps score like that book. How do you get rid of trauma? Oh man, that's a loaded question. Yeah.

Is there like, no, I'm serious. Like get specific on how someone can even start dealing with trauma. Yeah. So I mean, one thing that I always say is like, where in our life do we identify our habits, right? Like, do we have self-sabotaging habits? What is our sense of worth when it comes to the way that we operate in life, right? Because so many of us have that sense of, I'm not enough, or there's a lack of something. When you have that self-awareness, then you could start looking at yourself and going, well, damn, like, I am, there's a lack of something. When you have that self-awareness, then you could start looking at yourself and going, well, damn, like I am not in alignment. Because when you feel like you're in alignment, that's when you're most free. So then the question is, it's like, how do we access and tap into that? Well, there's people who through mind-body work, through just conversation

and therapy, that works too. But I've seen some people really get into body trauma. And there's something called emotional freedom technique, EFT. There's actually data on that too. Tapping. So I have my healer, we do tapping all throughout the body. And we speak about things that are stuck in our body, like things that don't serve us. And it comes to the surface.

It's pretty crazy. Like I can give you an example that I was talking about when I was young and I was always coming home from school when I was young and I was always coming home from school and I was alone and it was in New Jersey and it was cold and it was pretty sure my house was haunted. I was, it was just not a good time in my life as a kid. But I physically, I felt that visceral coldness in the, in the, in the office. Like I was freezing when I was telling this and we were tapping, tapping.

And then I, he brought me back to revert to like me talking to myself as a child in that space and, you know, saying like, you're okay, you're safe, you're loved and everything. I swear, man, in the snap of a finger, I went from freezing to hot. Like it was a release. It was a freeing part of me. And it's hard to say, like, how can I say, how do we release trauma if we can't identify trauma? What I can say is that there's ways out there.

There's healers out there, right? Emotional freedom technique is one. I've had some people on my show who talk about subconscious trauma and how to release it, but it's major. But I think we all intuitively know what we're holding in, right? Like if we have a shitty relationship with our dad, we can't mask that. If we're triggered by our dad or our mom or our best friend or our sister or brother, we feel that intuitively. And I think that it warrants more investigation to follow through with that. But opening your heart and forgiving, forgiving is number, number, number one. I don't think we've ever talked about tapping on the show or going into the subconscious because I think about all the time. I don't think I have, maybe I probably do, but that's a bad statement. I probably do have trauma deep

down, but I think I'm probably one of those individuals that's buried it so deep that I almost can't remember or know what it is. And I can't isolate it. So like, did something happen to the family? Did it happen to a friend? I don't know. But I feel like I'm the type of individual that if I did, I would bury it. And then the question is, how do you go and find it and get it out if it's there and it's causing problems? Sounds like tapping. Well, because I think there's a lot of individuals. Like I think there's some individuals that are very connected with themselves and know like I need to work through this and they can tap into the subconscious quickly and get to there. And then there's other people that like, you know, bury things. We know these people in our life. My sister had a lot of trauma when she was young and she's done every, she's sober now

for eight years and she's done everything from AA to therapy to everything you can imagine. And she said the only thing that has really worked for her to release the trauma is tapping. Well, the reason I'm asking is because who knows, like part of me is like, if I do have it and I'm functioning right now, maybe I don't want to find it. But the other part of me is like, maybe I do want to find it because maybe it's holding things back. I don't know. Yeah. So the first pillar for me always is self-awareness. Like if we're inundated with the day-to-day and not stopping, like I even said, like with the college girl example, the college guy example, taking an hour off their day and having that self-awareness, the ritual time. And for me, it's very important

every morning to have two hours to myself, period, no phone, no anything. That's ritual time where I get to journal, right? So all of a sudden I'm journaling about, all right, what bothered me yesterday. But then all of a sudden through time, I see myself the pattern of what's coming up. That's the importance of journaling because you're putting tangible words on paper and seeing like, well, damn, I was not happy about this, but now I'm not happy about this. Actually, this is a little bit deeper than I thought. Wow, actually, this has been going on since college. Well, what happened in college? You become your own investigator because you always have those answers. I would say when you when you fall on the floor and you're not you have a cut your body knows how to heal the cut like inevitably

the universe has an intelligence too where it's always trying to keep you emotionally in balance too if we have these wounds that we keep opening up by having these self-sabotaging practices or just these behaviors that keep opening up but the universe is going to keep presenting us with these people places things, things, situations, circumstances to open that up so we see it for ourselves as a mirror. We just have to pay attention. And that's what I'm trying to say. We always have a chance to heal trauma.

And it's a big part of health and cancer. This is what God is here talking about cancer, but trauma is so huge. There's shamanic cultures where they believe that's what cancer is, the holding in of trauma. And it's growing and growing and growing. I'm in the middle, but it's a huge part of it. I need to get your tapping doctor.

San Diego. We'll put you in touch. Okay, perfect. We're from San Diego. So that's amazing. Yeah, that's amazing. You talked a little bit about the... Well, first, actually, I want to ask you one question.

You just said that you write what bothered you yesterday. Normally, people that come on our show say they write what they're grateful for in the morning. That's different. Do you also write your gratefuls down or is it just what do when you're writing are you writing just what bothered you yesterday? No I speak them. I do I do I write but I also speak affirmations and gratitude. So what is and the things that are in front of me that i'm grateful for and then affirmations what i am creating right the thing is we are creative beings we like that's you're super creative guy you're super creative female like you both do incredible stuff but it's from a creative standpoint like you're declaring whether in thoughts words or actions what you want to create so the ability to be more conscious of it every single day like i what you want to create

every single day that's power because you get to put that out, that energetic frequency. Thoughts are energetic. You can measure them. But when I journal, it's anything that I feel off with goes into my journal, right? Like, why did I say this? Why did I act in such a way? You know, what didn't serve me? What served me? What doesn't serve me? How can I open my heart more? How can I be a more forgiving, loving individual? Literally, if you're thinking about this every single day, inevitably you become a more ascended person. You grow much more. And that's just keeping tabs on ourself. And it's hard when you're a busy guy, you're a new mom.

I'm running around all of Los Angeles. But it's still, at the end of the day, if we take an hour or even 30 minutes in the shower or 15 minutes in the shower, 15 minutes after, just find that time, even on a car ride for us, turn off the music. That is the most powerful thing you can do for your health. Rituals. Boy, oh boy. We are going to take a little break to talk about one of my favorites, Glossier. What a voice. What a voice. What are you doing? I'm just excited about Glossier. So you guys know Glossier. I mean, who doesn't? They're known for their skincare products and for popularizing the glowy, dewy skin look that we all love, that you know I love. Zaza loves it. Michael loves it. Everyone's

on board. They have makeup products, body care products, and fragrance. You guys have seen them all over social media. And they believe in the power of self-expression and personal choice in beauty and beyond. So they're always in conversation with their community about the best ingredients, best techniques, and dream products. My personal Glossier favorite that I have found to be very, very effective is the Future Dew. So the future do gives you this post facial glow. And I just feel like it tightens the skin and gives you a really nice sort of layer for makeup. I am all about having a nice layer for makeup. I think it's really important because I always like to do like a tinted moisturizer or a tinted foundation. So how I'm prepping my products is very, very important to me. Their formulas really, really work. And of course they're so beautiful too. You want them on your vanity. They have very, very thoughtful product designs. So some other standout products that

they have is the invisible shield. It's a daily sunscreen. They have the supers. These are three daily serums that are designed to take the guesswork out of your skin's need. Get that glowy dewy look for yourself by visiting glossier.com slash podcast slash skinny. Plus, this is so exciting. All new customers will get 10% off your first order on glossier.com slash podcast slash skinny. Certain exclusions apply. That's G-L-O-S-S-I-E-R.com slash podcast slash skinny. And let's get back into the podcast. I want you to sit down tomorrow and write down how you can be a better husband. No, but you know what I do? I do an element of what you do. Like whenever I get stressed and I was telling Lauren this the other day, we were talking through things and like whenever I get stressed, you know, I just sit down and mentally either write or actually speak

or think like all the things that are, that I'm happy about, all the things that are going, like all the people I'm grateful for all, and I just go and go, I'm like, oh, okay. And like, when you say like, I'm spiraling and I feel like something's going wrong or bad, as soon as you start getting into that process, like, okay, like that's, it's actually not that bad because there's so many good things, but I think so many of us go the other direction and we start speaking the bad and then it takes us down this bad spiral and you can't get out of it. And in my own personal life, if you just take this podcast, for example, there has never been a moment, even since the beginning when nobody was listening and

it was just Lauren and I interrupting each other on a mic, like that whole time I always was saying to myself, like, this is a great show. People are going to listen. Like I love doing it. Like all these things are like almost like speak it into truth where if you go the other way, I think it's very hard to get a creative endeavor off the ground. And so I do agree with what you're saying. I may, she may not think that I do this as much as I do, but I do it a lot. Yeah. And it doesn't like, we can do it throughout the day too. I'm just saying I carve out that time so I can intentionally be in that moment for a while, but you could do it. I mean, like this is exactly what we people unconsciously speak into existence. So long

as they keep speaking and saying, this is going to be a great pocket, man, this is exactly what we people unconsciously speak into existence. So long as they keep speaking and saying, this is gonna be a great pocket, man, this is gonna explode. Like, I feel so good about this. But maybe just some intentional time, even if you do it throughout the day, 15 minutes in the shower, like going 10 things I'm grateful for. It's there. And it's beautiful to think that you can be grateful for your legs to get out of bed. Like, whoa, you know, and then and then things that you want to create 10 things you want to create. Like I like I want to create a place in topanga beautiful place at topanga and with grounding yeah with some grounding and dr g making you guys juices to welcome you into town you know like like that type of stuff is it's it's all there for you and i think seriously it's changed my life it's changed

my patient's life it changed all my friends lives it's something we can do and it's so easy so 10 affirmations every day and 10 gratitudes. And affirmations leading with I am, right? I am is the most power. That's how it gets everything going, right? Like I am a creator of the best podcast. I am a creator of Topanga, beautiful house and mountains around me. Just saying that and visualizing it is really nice.

Meditation is nice. But that's the whole esoteric side of medicine. But it's healing and it's powerful. And all of a sudden, you're not living your life on autopilot. It's sort of like, whoa, I remember speaking this. And now it's here. That's wild. What else can I do?

So you mentioned that you have two hours in the morning to yourself. Can you talk to us about your two-hour morning routine and then your two-hour wind down? I'm sure you have. I'm sure you have a wind down. Yeah. I'll talk about some of the physical stuff I do, too. It's a nice compliment. So I'll wake up and- You have to tell us what time you got to like- Oh, okay. Oh, okay. So we're in it. All right. Okay. She's going to make a good appearance. All right. So I'll wake up around 7.30, 8 a.m. and I'll get up and I have my water

filled up already from the night before. So I'll drink about that much Mountain Valley, which is probably like 24 ounces. We're so dehydrated in the morning. I use minerals and my favorite mineral complexes are Quinton minerals. Oh, it's the best. They're the best. They're the best. By far. Yep.

Yeah. So I'll use the hypertonic one and the isotonic I'll take in the morning. Do you have it? Sorry, I'm going to ask questions as you go on. Do you have it raw in your mouth or do you put it in your water? Because I noticed he puts it in his water, but I wanted to- I do. Today I had it raw, but sometimes I'll put it in the water. I think raw is better. I mix them up. You mix it up. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Sometimes if I'm feeling, I'll take it. I do it raw most of the time, but I'll mix it in water. I think Quicksilver is one of the best supplement companies out there. I've been to their lab in Colorado. They do it right. So I use a lot of some Quicksilver in the morning. I'll put glutathione

under my tongue, which is actually really powerful antioxidant for not only our liver, but also immune health when it comes to our respiratory health. I always say, if you're scared about what's going on right now, really start loading up on glutathione. Ask your doctor to load up on that. I'll take some of their mixes for brain health to make you calm, some B vitamins. So I'm doing the body stuff already. Do you ever mess with hydrogen tablets? I do. This is actually my next thing I do. Okay. I finished. I just started doing it and I wanted to get your take on it. So Quicksilver makes the H2 tablet. So it's an inflammation modulator. So it doesn't just turn off inflammation and we need inflammation in the body. So it puts it right in the middle. So I'll throw it in the

water. I'll take a shot of that. And then I'll make a ceremonial matcha, which I think matcha is one of the most therapeutic medicines on earth. So I'll mix it up. Yeah, there you go. I'll mix it up and I'll do something very intentional. I'll drink the matcha intentionally. And then I make a nice little elixir with coconut water since we're still dehydrated. Lemon and lemon skin for vitamin C, which is important when it comes to collagen. What's the brand of coconut water? Which one? Is it Harmless Harvest?

Yeah, the one that turns pink. Okay. Yeah, that's a Harmless Harvest one. And then I'll just mix it up and put some ice and that's my morning hydration drink. Then comes the esoteric stuff. So I'll go outside, I'll go for a walk and I do a mindful walk. So I utilize all my senses. And when I'm on that mindful walk, I'll come to a place of being hyper-present, now moment present, right? So literally the world could be on fire and all I'm focusing on is just like where i am and

it's it sets everything for the day for my nervous system to be balanced right all of a sudden if you're in that mindful state and then two hours later you get a call and your assistant or one of your co-workers is freaking out well okay that's fine you can go into that place but you're more at peace it's amazing then i'll come back do gratitude, speak out 10 things, affirmation, speak out 10 things. I'll go to the backyard and I'll journal. So journal 10 minutes, whatever's on my mind. And then lastly, I'll talk about the man that I want to create, me. Like a man who's an integrity, who's intentional, who's intuitive, compassionate, nurturing, all the things that are really important to me that I was not. How can I create myself to be a better man? And then I listen to some music and then I start my

day. I take a hot shower and then I turn it into cold. So I do cold showers too. And then my day started. If I don't have that, I'll be a crazy man. I'll be in my ego and I'll be stressed. My hair will be full gray. All those things will be happening for sure. So that is the reason I feel so healthy. I feel vibrant is I attribute it all to rituals and I tell everyone they should be doing it. Will you text me your morning routine so I can put it on the blog? Yes. Because it's a really good one. We ask people this all the time and this is like one of the best ones I've heard. Yeah. So can you text it to it to me? Even like at 7.15, I have my coconut water with lemon. Oh, okay, I'll give you the times.

Okay. Verizon came and did a shoot and they recorded my rituals. Oh, you gotta check it out. Yeah, I'll send you guys a video, but I will do that and it'll be in detail for everyone. And this is what I say, listen to what I do. If nothing resonates, don't do anything.

But if one thing resonates, try incorporating some of that. Or just listen. If it resonates, that's something deeper within you saying, maybe I should try this, you know? So. Was there a nighttime routine? But before you go into the nighttime, because I know Lauren's going to do it, I want to talk about supplementation a little bit, because I think something we haven't talked about here, and Lauren and I, we have supplements all over the place, but what, the more I've gone into this study and researched it and been reading about it, is that, yes, like there's certain supplements that we all need and that we should take. And there's certain supplements that maybe

are better for other bodies and not so good for ours. When you go about figuring out what supplements are right for you, I mean, maybe there's the staples, but like, how do you go and figure out what's right for your body? Because I think there's a lot of individuals listening and it gets so overwhelming with how many brands and how many products and how many vitamins are out there. And, you know, a lot of people bring up like, well, our ancestors didn't get it, but I feel like they were also eating out of the soil and getting a lot of the minerals from the dirt. And it's different. They were getting supplements in a different way than we do. So I think you need to supplement, but how do you go about figuring out what's right for your body?

Yeah. So usually I'll do a yearly test on myself, a nutritional panel where I can be able to see what vitamins, minerals, antioxidants are really low. What's the state of my gut, if I'm in need of probiotics. That's a staple for me and all of my clients that I work with. But also, I'm a vegan, so I take B12 once or twice a week, maybe sometimes three times a week. I'll take omegas. Because of lack of meat, is what you're saying? Yeah, because lack. And that's a problem. If you're switched to a vegan diet and all of a sudden you don't know what you're doing, you will become nutritionally deficient. You have to do it intentionally and with education. And then you have to replenish B12. Because it's hard to get B12 without meat, right? Yeah, it certainly is. So that's what I take. But

then I'll do those things, the extra things. I know that I use my brain a lot. So I want to maximize and optimize my brain health. So then that's know that i use my brain a lot so i want to maximize and optimize my brain health so then that's why i'll use some brain supporting supplements i know b vitamins i work out and i run a lot so i've known depleting a lot of b vitamins so and we all need some b vitamins usually inevitably we see it low on almost every test magnesium and bees are so low for people it's like we deplete it so much. And minerals. One thing is if someone says, what's one supplement to take? I always say minerals because that's what creates the electrical potential in our body. We're electrical beings, right? So in our cells, when we have an

abundance of minerals, it creates that potential. We go out in the sun, we ground. It's like we think about our phones and we recharge our phones. The way to recharge ourselves is obviously good sleep, but then repleting with minerals, going outside in the sun and grounding. That's nature's way of repleting us and getting our energetic charge up because we are energetic beings. If there's two or three companies for supplements that you respect and like and like the research you've seen, which companies? Because I think that's another thing.

You never know what reviews to believe online, because they're so, I think that's another thing. It's like you never know what reviews to believe online, you know, what's being paid, what's not like. So is there two or three companies you like? Yeah, I got something good for that too. So I like Quicksilver because I've been to the,

I've been, any ones that I'm mentioning, I've been to their labs. I went to Quicksilver, seen how they do things, really high integrity company, smart people. Orthomolecular is a really good company too.

It's a professional brand, but they make some excellent products, especially their allergy formula is an amazing one. I've seen it work on kids and I've seen it work on adults. And then Thorne. I think Thorne is a great company. They're really into athletics, but it's great for all of us too. They make awesome supplements. A lot of my supplements are Thorne, just like a vitamin A supplement I'll have around if I'm feeling sick, the Thorin one is amazing. So those are really good ones. I am working right now, it's going to launch very soon, as a co-founder to something called

theswellscore.com. And people can sign up there already. But what that is, is actually doctor, handpicked doctor supplements and formulas. Let's say you go, Dr. G, what's the best magnesium out there? Well, I can't really start recommending, giving medical advice like that. But you can look on this and it'll have the top five to 10 magnesiums. Okay, what about rhodiola? What about ginseng? Everything across the board, but not only that, now we're talking about environmental stuff like beds, bedding, air filters, everything that you can think of will move into like makeup, beauty stuff.

Everything is going to be on there. That is such a good idea. I would use that every single day. We've gone to a place where like, there's so much information that now like, you can't, we've gone to a place where we can't, we don't know what information to trust because there's so much information.

Where before, like, you know, in the past, maybe there's like a few companies. Now there's thousands and thousands. You're like, what the hell do I take? This is the reason why we did this. And we're not selling our own supplements or nothing. There's no incentive other than being like, you know, in the past, maybe there's like a few companies. Now there's thousands and thousands. You're like, what the hell do I take? This is the reason why we did this. And we're not selling our own supplements or nothing. There's no incentive other than being like here, because it's what I do on my podcast. Like I'll review supplements and I have no affiliation with any, and I'll just be like here, like you do better. Let's do better. So now people have access.

They want the best collagen. Here are the top five that provided their third party testing that we read through and that were under propositionosition 65 levels. Go ahead. It's safe for you or your children. Sorry, Lauren. I know you want to go to the other stuff. I'm going on this journey. I told her the other day, I was like, I'm going to spend this next month trying to figure out my health and which supplements and how to get it under control because it's just been such a crazy year. Micronutrient test. Get that tested so you can really see. Where can you get that test? Naturopathic doctor, functional doctor.

You need to go to a naturopath. No, I need it. There's a- I'm sorry, but you'd like to- Heic doctor, functional doctor. You need to go to a naturopath. No, no, I need it. I'm sorry, but he's very like Western medicine. You need to do more Eastern medicine. That's not necessarily true. I just- You're open-minded about it. Yeah, I just got to find the right people.

You can see a functional doctor. And there's a lot of doctors around here who practice functional medicine, and they can do those functional tests where you see your micronutrients. Just see, are you super low in B12? Well, damn, let's get it repleted in your body, not for a long time. Do you want to get naked and do an exam right now? I'm going to get a recommendation. Before we get into your nighttime routine, just really quick, can you shout out your favorite probiotics? I think Klaire probiotics are really good ones. K-L-A-I-R-E. They're one of the best ones that

I've found, but I like the ones by Microbiome Labs too. They're a line of probiotics. Those are two really good ones. So nighttime routine, what's your wind down? Wind down, I turn off my phone about an hour to an hour and a half before bed. No electronics, I always say. So sometimes I'll watch some YouTube videos, music videos or something at night, it's off. And then I'll write a little bit more. Sometimes I'll write like poetry or just something creative. I think creative time is immensely important for us. So can we do something creative every single day? And then that's where I'll meditate. So unless I'm really tired, then I just go to sleep. But

I always try to meditate at night, wind down and then visualize. So it's interesting. Our body doesn't know the difference between when we visualize versus when we're actually having the experience. Like let's say I was an Olympic racer. I can do that visualization, like literally smelling the track, feeling the people next to me, hearing the gun, and then sprinting. And interestingly enough, you will have those neurological firings in your muscles without even activating them.

So this is why I say visualization is super, super important. So let's take the time to like, if we really want something, let's say we really want that house in Topanga, like can we visualize what it may look like, what it may smell like, what it sounds like? Okay, I'll do it.

I can visualize my house in Topanga with my herb garden and strawberries and Meyer lemons. And I go out with my gardening glove and pick it off and make a smoothie for me and Saza. Okay. With the dogs and a pool, maybe. Listen, you are a walking contradiction. Like two weeks ago, you showed me a place in West Hollywood with no land and nothing. You're like, we need to, this is the dream house. No, no, no. I found it. Okay. That is true. But now I want nature. When I got pregnant, I realized how much I was missing out on nature.

I don't know what pregnancy did to me, but it made me like really, really, really clear that I want more nature. She's a Gemini. So it depends which day and which hour, which way we're going. And what are you? Aries. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I'm a Leo.

So Aries and Leos get along really well. I'm drinking matcha. You've mentioned it a Leo. So Aries and Leos get along really well. I'm drinking matcha. You've mentioned it a lot. I have been switching out my coffee for matcha for the last week because I'm trying to lose 25 pounds. This is a two-pronged question. The first question is, why is matcha so beneficial and do you love it much more than coffee? And the other question is, if someone is in the same position as me and trying to lose weight, what would you recommend? Matcha is very powerful. And I have nothing against coffee unless it's crappy quality coffee. And I've done a whole coffee review on my show. And I know I say

coffee like an East Coast. I just realized that. But I did a whole coffee show for that reason is because they can contain heavy metals. But likewise, so can matcha, right? They can contain different contaminants and heavy metals. So when it comes to the data you green tea is super protective against breast and prostate cancer and and we're thinking some other cancers too so matcha is potent in antioxidants right egcg being one of the most important ones that are the anti-cancer ones and it's different mechanisms it doesn't just reduce the inflammation, reduce oxidation, but it also reduces something called angiogenesis, where cancer cells go, give me red blood cell or give me some vasculature so I can grow, feed me. It stops that from happening. It's amazing stuff. But it also has L-theanine, which

sort of counters the caffeine content. That's why people can drink matcha and go, well, I'm not super jittery, because L-theanine is one of the constituents in there that activate alpha brainwaves. We activate alpha brainwaves when we're meditating, when we're ready to go to sleep. And it's very calmative without being sedative. But you also get the effects of the caffeine, right? But you also do get the effects of the caffeine.

So it'll boost you up, but it won't jitter you out. Like I can't drink coffee. Even if it has beneficial antioxidants, I can't drink it because it'll jitter me out. And I feel it. Some people are really sensitive and they can't metabolitter you out. Like I can't drink coffee. Even if it has beneficial antioxidants, I can't drink it because it'll jitter me out. And I feel it. Some people are really sensitive and they can't metabolize it well. But matcha is amazing when it comes to it, but you got to get good quality one, right? You got to get good quality. Do you like the activated matcha from Air One? Oh, yes. They have good quality one. Okay. Yeah. I personally have, and again, no affiliation. I

take Peak, P-I-Q-U-E or Encha, E-N-C-H-A or encha i love cha yeah two companies that are really good they they the peak quadruple test for heavy metals and encha tests but you want to look at matcha and it needs to be vibrant green you know your matcha should never look a dull green or even gray get it get off of that that's oxidized matcha it should be like beautifully vibrant and when you drink it it should look like that too not only when it's a powder, when it's mixed up. Man, for weight loss, that is like- Another loaded question. That is a loaded question because it's so many different mechanisms, right? It can be a thyroid thing, it can be a hormonal thing, but-

It is a thyroid thing. I have a low thyroid. Yeah. So that's one of the first things we look for, but obviously getting your thyroid checked, but also checking things like reverse T3, which is something that's not traditionally checked, but it's important because we'll get to have a better look about how your thyroids function. And even people who have subacute thyroid issues that don't come up, you can see that when you test more sensitively, you do the full panel. But then hormones are so, so, so important.

And I think that conventionally, we do a good job of seeing what estrogen, progesterone, testosterone looks like. But then when you do urinary, dried urinary hormones, you get the full picture of not only how it's breaking down, but also if your estrogen is breaking down to the carcinogenic form that causes cancer, or the one that causes estrogen dominance, or if you're breaking it down in a nice, healthy way. So we all, I think women, what I say for all women, they should get tested, a dried urine hormone test

once a year to have a better idea. And that can give us a lot of clues into weight loss too. One of the first things for weight loss is getting off inflammatory foods. Like how much of your excess weight is water weight that is a function of inflammation, right? Because this is why sometimes people go, I started eating better and all of a sudden I lost 20 pounds. Well, it's because you were so inflamed from trans fats, sugar, processed carbs, like simple carbs. This is

all the stuff that's causing that inflammation. So you've shed out that inflammation and then really working on the internal environment. Weight loss is hard for some people. I've worked with patients with stubborn weight loss. And again, it's not only the thyroid, the hormones, obviously the nutrition and exercise, but also we have to also look at deeper stuff, right? Like, do you not want to lose weight for some reason? Are you holding on to your identity with that weight? And then that's the heart of patients where we have to break through that too. What are some anti-inflammatory foods? Turmeric. Jeez, like turmeric is like one of the king ones out there. Super anti-inflammatory.

I just took my turmeric and cumin. Is that how you say it? Cumin? Black pepper pill. Okay. So always be with black pepper to increase the absorption. Turmeric. Ginger is a readily accessible one that we don't make use of but it's so potent i love that anti-inflammatory effect and then listen all you have to do is red orange yellow blue green violet colors of the rainbow or fruits and vegetables you're already in the antioxidant anti-inflammatory field like that's when you get into making like let's say you have like a salad how do you like how do you consume your vegetables i'm assuming it's in a bunch of different ways but yeah like when you when you start to get into it is it like other

specific vegetables you find taylor what the hell are you doing back there taylor what are you doing back there you're eating something that's completely inflammatory like flaming hot cheetos right mcdonald's oh my god how can you eat that how could how could i be talking to an integrative oncologist and be talking about vegetables and let alone distracting me with my question oh my god taylor anyways but yeah so like when you go into all when when you when you start to build out like is there like one that's your go-to or that you figure out like these are the vegetables that go in yeah yeah so do you know what i do i go to the supermarket and i look at the cart and i when i'm on the line i go do i have all the colors of the rainbow do i have a bunch of leafy greens uh reds, orange, yellow, blue, violet, all the colors.

And that's what I do. It doesn't like, sometimes I don't have red peppers, but sometimes I have raspberries. I'll just change it up, but I usually just throw them in a smoothie or eat them at night. I'll just cut them up and eat them at night. I'm not good at eating vegetables. I just got you a brand new Vitamix, like the amazing one. I just need to be told because I'm not good at, I have a real difficulty like eating. It's hard to get down this.

Sometimes it's just like so bitter and like. You just got to get over it. And it's so time consuming to eat a salad. I don't like eating a salad. It's not efficient. I don't like eating for too long already as it is, even if it's really good food. And like the salad just feels like such a long chore. But if I could just slam it in a smoothie and get it done.

Dr. G, you should just make an IV that you can just inject everything in the arm. Wouldn't that be great? I'm not a big foodie either. If someone could give me a pill and I could take it really quick, I'm out. And then I'm going out. Finally, someone's on the show that agrees with me. I get it. I get it 100%. But smoothies are pretty fast. I made one this morning. I threw in as many colors as I can. What did you throw into your morning smoothie? Spinach. I put in mango. I put a plant-based protein powder.

And I did a lot on protein powder. So they're not all equal. The one I used was NuZest, the original flavor. Because we want to watch out for lead and cadmium in protein powders. And then I just put in nut seeds like pumpkin for zinc. Put in some walnuts. And what else? I put some ice.

And that's it. Very simple. Very simple. Some blueberries. That's it. Michael's protein powder is probably called lead.com. Well, listen, I got it. And Taylor's protein powder is called mcdonalds.com.

That's what I have to deal with. So that's what I have to deal with. Now I know all the stuff to get. I just got to be spoon-fed the information and told, and then I'll stick with it. I have a question. So many of us do. I feel like we haven't talked about this enough is what you do day-to-day with dealing with patients.

I'm really interested because I have vasovasco. What's it called? Vasovagal. Vasovagal. So even talking about this makes me queasy. But I would like to know just because I'm curious because it's so opposite of what I do. What is it like to be working in a hospital? Is it like a five day a week thing where it's all day long and you're dealing with patients? Are you in surgery? Explain what your day is. Yeah. So my residency was in a hospital. I don't work in a hospital anymore. Got it. Yeah. So when I was in my residency, I was seeing the cancer patients, both inpatient, like just visits, I mean outpatient, and then the

inpatients when they just had surgery. And you'd be shocked at the food they give people after surgery. It's incredible. I'm like, what are they doing? I've had a lot of arguments with people on there. And then they're giving them the boost and the insurance. It was just too much for me. But we can do better. That's what I'm trying to say is in hospitals.

But that was my day-to-day, like literally five days a week. Then I moved out to San Francisco. I worked in a practice with a colleague of mine. Then I moved down to here two years ago. And I actually worked right around on Hollywood and I don't know the cross street, but right by the Chinese theater I worked. And that was also four or five days a week, some telemedicine, but some patients. And then I went like this. I felt like I like seeing patients one-on-one. I'm good at it, but I think that for me personally, what I was gifted with was the ability to

educate and teach better. So that's when I shifted towards mass education. That's when I put more intention in my social media, and then I went into more podcasting. So my podcast every single day is on a topic that we need to learn about. Like I could talk about matcha for 30 minutes. You do it daily. I'm sorry, every Friday. Okay.

Once a week. And then the product reviews, which is going over like, all right, greenwashing. All of a sudden, we have these all-purpose cleaners that they're selling at Whole Foods, but are they good? What grade do they get and why? Versus what else can we do better? Can we make them at home? Or what brands are not at Whole Foods maybe, but way better for us and our kids? So this is that i'm more passionate about putting that out there because now all of a sudden seeing eight nine people a day versus like ten thousand that's greater impact yeah it's great like and that's that's what lights my fire so i identify that with that said i work with concierge clients around

here so i'll have people that i see on, I'm on call, you know, and, but that allows me to like put a cap on it, you know, and I get to see as many people as I want, but then educate others. And that's, that's sort of what my day-to-day is. So does it, does the patients that you work with just have to be people with cancer? Can you work with someone like my husband? Yeah, every, no, it's literally everyone. So you could work with anyone. Yeah. I don't just work with cancer anymore. When I was working in the clinic five days a week over here in Hollywood, it was just cancer. But now it's just every, because we can all do better. Like, why would I work with just cancer if we can prevent cancer?

If we can do the things to prevent cancer. What you're doing is, it's truly genius. It's empowering for people. And that's the most important. Well, there needs to be more of it. Because we were talking about this earlier in the show. And I was like, why, you know, when we asked the question is like, why are we only talking about what to do after the fact? And, you know, we need more people like yourself that actually

know what they're talking about to start sharing this information ahead of time. Because I feel like the benefit of doing this podcast is like, you know, if a bunch of people listen to this and they pick up information here that can help them be healthier and it can prevent some of these things, like that is a really noble and good thing to do as opposed to just waiting until a problem occurs. For sure. It's, you know, it's why I have such a problem with like traditional mainstream media is like all you hear is fear mongering all day long,

which is probably causing more issues and more stress and more cancers and more problems. And then after it's like, well, now everybody's sick. This is what you do after the fact. There's like, if people use those platforms to have these types of conversations and promote those to the world, like we would be such a better, in my opinion, we would be in such a better place as a country.

A hundred percent. And we see that. Like we see so much fear-based media in the mainstream that I really think this whole situation has caused people to go, what the hell am I listening to? Like this is too much. It's insane. Yeah. I mean, even if you turn it on in the morning, let's say you turn it on, you wake up at like 9am. Like you can get the sound bite

of what's going on in the world from 9am to 10. But the problem is, is you turn it on, it's all day long, the same thing over and over. Maybe we like as a, like dedicate a couple hours. I think that causes cancer. Yeah. You're sitting there listening to horrible negative things all day long. And that's, to me, that's growing cancer. Well, think about your energy, right? Like you're, you have a, you're, you have to protect your energy and you can't, you have to be very intentional about what you're letting in. I, during this whole thing, I said, can we do a media fast? Like not only just fasting, but can we do a media fast? So I had everyone just turn everything off for a few days, reset, like go outside, put your feet on the ground, be in the sun, be with your family,

breathe, and then come back. We were with a good group, like a really close group of friends. We talked about it in Palm Springs this weekend. And late at night, after a couple of drinks, we were talking about dinner. And we were talking about the news cycle. And Lauren and I shared with them that throughout this entire process, we don't own cable in our house. We don't even have a cable box. So we selectively choose what shows we're going to watch or what media we're going to

But also, every single day, like you said i'm so intentional what podcast do i want to listen to do i want today to be more of like a hustle day where i'm hyped up or do i want to learn more about a certain subject or do i want to listen to someone like glennon doyle who's going to you know talk about emotion like i get to pick what kind of mindset i want to be in by controlling the media i'm consuming but some of our friends were they were so shocked like wait you haven't been watching the news you don't know what's on the news. It's like, no, we're aware because you know, we can go on and read an article or two and see what's happening and like get on Twitter and see for a little bit. But the difference is, is we're not all day long

stuck in the news cycle. And I feel like it's been really beneficial for us, for our headspace, for our family during this time, because we've done what you just talked about, which is this media fast, pretty much the entire time this has been going on. We can be better. We can get off our phones at night earlier. We cannot look at our phones in the morning. We cannot have cords all over our house. We have cords. Him and his cords, I live in an electrical studio. Well, I don't want to do an expose on me right now, but what I'm saying is I agree with you in the sense that so many people in this country, and we've been guilty of this in the past,

and that's why I canceled the cable. You just get stuck in the news cycle and all of a sudden like holy shit this is really like tearing me down and making me feel bad about myself and make me feel bad about the future and outlook and i feel like that is more harmful in some ways than the actual virus itself that's going on because you're stuck in this constant negative headspace where yeah and you're only getting you understand you're only getting a bits and pieces you're not getting the full picture of everything there's very intentional news that's being put out to you by the mainstream media when you look at they don't talk about the studies that show something different right of course not well that would that would that be or the survivors

or the people who've survived how many percent of people have survived the overwhelming majority of people we don't talk about that someone's going to pull that sound bite of me saying media is more more dangerous than the virus and get all mad about it but it's you know it's crazy what they're doing out there i want to play a game with dr g and you can only say one sentence to each question because i don't want to overwhelm the audience this is fun okay best detergent you can't give us too many brands because it'll overwhelm us do it yourself at home or branch basics branch basics okay i i can't like put my clothes on like a with those outside with like a line with the things yeah i don't know if i can

do that you can get your grounding in get some sun intention branch basics yeah okay best hand soap to use puracy or branch basics okay branch basics Basics. That's a good one. It's a really good one. If you have low thyroid, what is the best thing to do? Oh. Work with an integrative functional doctor to get you to lower your dose and support your thyroid. Maybe you don't know this one, but Best Makeup Brand. Any of the...

I don't know the specific ones, but I will say any ones that are Environmental Working Group certified. specific ones but i will say any ones that are environmental working group certified so ewg certified skin deep database where they have graded it and should tell you why and when they have the stamp the certification then you know it passes the test what's what's the not the detergent for the sink dishwash soap dishwashing soap the one i have is branch basics i sound like an affiliate for them but i I swear I haven't seen one that is cleaner yet, aside from Puracy. Those are two of the best overall at home, just versatile. Do you like it better than Molly's Suds? Have you heard of Molly's Suds?

I think I have, but I don't know them well enough. It's not the only good company. It's the good company that Dr. J knows. Best bread company. I'm a bread lover. You are. I like Happy Campers. Dave's'm a bread lover you are i like happy campers dave's killer bread's pretty good i like i like happy campers is one and then there is the ooties okay best kleenex i'm sorry not ooties canyon that was canyon okay canyon best kleenex yeah like just just is there like a toilet paper kleenex we should be using to wipe our butt with or does it not matter? I've never gotten that deep.

Taylor uses his McDonald's hamburger wrap. Best one to three sleep supplements. Because I know there's different people that come on. Oh, Michael wants to play the game? Well, I want to know. This is a very selfish podcast. I'm trying to heal myself. So best one to three sleep supplements.

Okay. Does getting off your phone count as a supplement? Yeah. The blue light is literally the worst thing i just got those so the glasses i got the glasses the glasses are the ra optics what is our optics yeah yeah i know i'm very close with the the owner they make great glasses i mean i look like a complete nerd in them but they're great they're better than like relatively speaking than the other ones out there yeah i look like i'm about to play like badminton in mine the so

the blue blue blocker glasses number one but let's go supplements, magnesium glycinate, which is going to be really important at relaxing your body. And then lavender is great. Passion flower is great. Chamomile is great. Those are great formulas when it comes to herbs. And then this is part of like sleep hygiene and then just breathing, like breath work, like just doing deep breathing to get your body going. And then lastly, L-theanine is great. binaural beats you ever listen to those no that'll help put your brain waves yeah binaural reads they're really good too best essential oils i did a show on this recently it's the last show i did doterra and young living they're mlm companies so i was like okay like how good are they they're actually really good okay yeah those are they're

two really good so check something off your list because your wife uses doTERRA and Young Living Lavender when you're sleeping. You do that for me? Yeah, I do that for you. That's a wife. Yeah, that is a wife. Best milk. Like you could say almond, coconut. What's the best milk?

I don't like the Oatly Oat Milk. I think that's kind of greenwashing. I like the Malk Oat Milk better. So for the folks who want oat milk. I think that's kind of greenwashing. I like the Malk oat milk better. So for the folks who want oat milk, I think Malk is better. That's one of the best companies. Three Trees is a good company out there too. That's almond milks, pistachio milks. Those are the best ones right now. If you're trying to substitute dairy, let's say in a kid because we're taught by a pediatrician, give our kids three, four glasses of milk. You can substitute that with some soy milk.

Organic soy milk has to be organic. And there's good quality ones. You go to Whole Foods and just get an organic soy milk. Best formula if you want a soy milk formula. Really hard one. I did my show on formulas and it was, I couldn't find a really good quality one. The best, relatively speaking, was the Holly one out of Germany, H-O-L-L-E. Overall, that looked the best. And that's soy. That is the soy-based one,

I believe, if I remember correctly. Earth Best is another organic one that we have here. Do you like it better than Holly? No. No. Okay. No, I think Holly was a better formula. Okay. Let's find another one. I had such a... Oh, best condiments. So for instance, like I use Primal Kitchen ketchup. Is there like a condiment that you go to? I have almost like all the Primal Kitchen vegan dressings. So I think they're really good. I mean, look, I'm not a foodie, so I don't cook enough to be big on condiments.

But I do think that spices, Diaspora, when it comes to spices, they make some of the best turmeric out there. Best coffee and matcha. Purity coffee is, I think, the best one I found. I've looked at a lot of lab testing. And then matcha, peak, and encha. Oh, you said that earlier. Yeah, the best ones. Okay, you said that earlier. Best food you can feed your kid. Is there a brand or do you not know? Best foods or brand brand foods brand foods

or you would just say blend something up we're gonna have to do another podcast yeah yeah rapid fire just make just like literally puring the variety of colors of fruits and vegetables like i don't i don't even have i don't work in pediatrics i don't know brands like that but but like literally understand like understanding your kid should get the color of fruits and vegetables at the end of the day. Okay, she's checking that box. Let's round it out with you telling Taylor what's in McDonald's.

Oh, phew. All right, so you have trans fats, you have the fries cooked in canola oil or soybean oil, genetically modified, massive amounts of ingredients, really poor, if you're eating a burger, really poor quality meat. I'm not a meat eater, but I would eat grass-fed or free-range animal products. Bread, processed bread. I don't even think I need to go on. If you want to think inflammatory foods, let's just picture that as like the graphic.

Are you familiar with Belcampo? Yes, I am. A lot of my friends are like, shoot, like paleo carnivores. So they always have events there. And the owner knows me to make me the vegan stuff in the back. So I go to Belcampo. Yeah. Have you had Anya on your show?

She's incredible. Yeah, I'm trying to. I'm going to try to get her on the show. But I know Anya personally. I'm going to connect you guys. Yeah, yeah. It would be amazing. But I think Belcampo is like some of the best stuff out there. Yeah, I was going to say I'm going to try to get her on the show, but I know Anya personally. I'm going to connect you guys. Yeah, yeah. It'd be amazing. But I think Belcampo

is like some of the best stuff out there. Yeah, I was going to say, that's what we're going to do. So if you're going to eat a burger, don't go to McDonald's. No. Try to do your own research. No, and don't eat the Beyonder

Impossible ones too. Like, look, I'll have it once every like month or every other month. But like, that shouldn't be part of your diet because it's not necessarily the best substitute. It's really processed. I just have one more question because I'm on a kelp noodle kick.

Okay. Do you like kelp noodles? I do. I think they're great. They're a really good source of iodine. Okay. Just make sure you're not overdoing it. Like I can't have them every day? Well, if you have Hashimoto's thyroiditis, it can actually aggravate it if you're having too much iodine. Okay. So like let's get that check for you. Let's check your iodine levels. That's what I would say. You are a wealth of knowledge. Come back anytime.

We are going on your show right now. Can you shout it out and shout out your Instagram and where to find you? Okay, yeah. My show is Heal Thyself. That is recorded every week. And again, product reviews, knowledge bombs, amazing guests. The Instagram is at dlctor.g. Not only will I have clips from the podcast, but I also put up graphics and all this information that I care about, both mental, emotional, and physical.

And then the swellscore.com is the upcoming project, which is going to be a big database of all the best of the best across the board. Thank you so much for coming on. It's a pleasure. Thank you for having me. And your morning routine, I'm going to text you. We'll be up on the blog. Give me a couple of days. Send it to me and I'll put it up for everyone too. I'm excited for that. This was selfishly super timely for me because I literally told Lauren Escher I'm going to spend the next month. So now you've got yourself a new listener, a new reader. I'm going to be diving in on all your stuff, man. Amazing. Appreciate it. I feel blessed. Thank you both for having me.

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