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14 | Regenerative Health With Ahna Mikl
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On this week’s episode, we have Ahna Mikl, professionally trained Doula, Certified Regenerative Health Practitioner, Clinical Iridologist, and Detox Specialist. Ahna believes that when you begin to truly listen to your body’s communication tools, you can begin to understand how your symptoms are connected to deeper patterns in the body to facilitate much deeper healing and empowerment at the root cause level.
This podcast offers a wealth of information ranging from women’s health and being in alignment with your soul's purpose, to detox and regenerative health, to how most of us are undernourished due to the state of our nutrition and soil health and more. Enjoy!
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Introduction and Reconnection with Anna
00:01:01
Jacob Oak
All right, welcome, everyone. Today we have my friend Anna on the podcast. Thanks for coming on, Anna. It's awesome to have you here.
00:01:08
Ahna
Yeah. Thank you.
00:01:11
Jacob Oak
Thank you. So Anna and I actually go back to elementary school. um We both lived in Chisago Lakes for a bit and met there.
00:01:23
Jacob Oak
And then you moved away for high school. So we didn't graduate high school together and kind of like I feel like peripherally followed each other for a while until a couple of years ago when you reached out and we reconnected and now have been friends and colleagues, which has been very exciting. I feel like sharing our passion for health and really getting to the root cause of what's going on in people's bodies. And I'm just really connecting over that. And I feel like I've learned so much from you.
00:01:58
Jacob Oak
And it's been so much fun watching your journey over these last couple of years and kind of as things have evolved.
Anna's Journey into Regenerative Health
00:02:05
Jacob Oak
And I was excited to have you on today because you have your own practice in business and I just love the mission and vision that you stand for. And I feel like you have a wealth of knowledge that just feel like our listeners needed to hear what you have to say. So I would love to hear a little bit more about you and what you do. and
00:02:28
Ahna
Thank you, thank you, thank you for having me on. I'm just, ah one, I love that you two are doing this podcast and I'm yeah super honored that you asked me to join. um Yeah, so i'm I'm also based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, for those of you listening. um And what really got me into like my ah my work and also ah just what I do now to support women and help women was my own healing journey.
00:02:59
Ahna
And um so currently I'm a certified regenerative health practitioner. I'm a detox specialist and also a birth doula, recently a birth doula, and um have really niched down into women's health and the healing of the womb space because this is a space in women that is often, right, we're not really educated on it and um it's not talked about enough when that really is actually most oftentimes part of the core of what's going on when us women are experiencing hormonal imbalances, um when we're experiencing ah just, you know, poor gut health and all all of the other things that we're told are just, you know, normal.
Turning to Alternative Medicine
00:03:51
Ahna
And so what got me into this space of root cause healing and really just trying to help people
00:03:59
Ahna
get the body to a space where it can heal, again, was like my own journey that kind of like slapped me across the face and forced me to look at my own health. And just, you know, to kind of share super briefly a little bit about my background, when I, you know, ever since I was a young girl, I struggled with IBS. And I know that many, many, many people not just women, right? So many people are dealing with digestive distress. And so I will talk a lot about gut health and just like the gut injury that many of us are experiencing in the world today. So I can definitely go into that later. um But yeah, from a very young age, dealt with IBS, you know,
00:04:42
Ahna
gas-bloating, constipation, um chronic lower back pain, hair loss, hormonal imbalances. and the the most The thing that really hurt me the most was my severe periods.
00:04:57
Ahna
and you know For any women listening, you know if you've had really severe pain um and have had irregular periods or missing periods or just your cycle has not been something that's been pleasant. um I can completely relate and was put on birth control at the age of 14 to basically write put a band-aid over what but the underlying you know thing was. And I was on birth control a lot of my life. And you know I realized now, being off of birth control, what birth control was doing to my body. right it was like
00:05:40
Ahna
It was suppressing so much. Not only was it a band-aid for a lot of my health symptoms, but it made me feel dull, right? It gave me and made me lose all of my sex drive. It made me feel depressed. um there was just There's a lot to that that I can even go into later on as well. But being on birth control for a long period of time and then going off of it,
00:06:10
Ahna
um I went off of it about five or so years ago, and when I went off of it, that's when my health really started to kind of spiral. I started to get a ton of hair loss, and inflammation went crazy. And as a woman, when you start losing your hair, you really start to freak out, or at least I know I did, and I just remember staring in the mirror and just thinking, oh my gosh, what am I gonna do? Like I i would buy all these random shampoos and I would just you know be doing all this research to try to figure out how do I grow my hair back? Why am I losing it? And um I could never really get to the bottom of it. And um my severe periods were back, like I was passing out and I remember going,
00:07:01
Ahna
the Western medicine route. And I started, you know, I was just begging for answers and solutions, like why is this happening to me? You know, I was in my 20s and I was supposedly healthy, right? I was apparently doing all the right things, working out and, you know, eating what I thought was healthy at the time. And um they just kept pointing me back to birth control. So that's when I really started to look into um, Chinese medicine. I started to get acupuncture. I started to, you know, go to the chiropractor more regularly. I started to really take my health into my own hands. And I love the saying, when the student is ready, the teacher appears because I believe this is just so the case for all of us, right? As we like live this life and we're constantly, right? Constantly learning lessons, constantly learning new things and
00:07:59
Ahna
always have to be open to new things and new perspectives. and um And when detoxification came across my path, this is when my entire world changed. When I started to learn about soil health and like truly the foods that decrease inflammation in the body and learned you know why we have to get pesticides out, why we have to get heavy metals out. I started learning about parasites in the body, right all of these things that are not often talked about, especially not you know in in the hospital system.
00:08:40
Ahna
i It really opened my eyes. And, and so I decided to give it a shot. I started, started to cleanse my body and I kid you not within like 60 days, I started having symptoms reverse that I had struggled with for years. And this was kind of like a light bulb moment for me. I was like, this is what's missing. Like this is what, this is the work that I'm supposed to teach people.
00:09:09
Ahna
Like there is a way, right? We don't just have to go back to birth control to regulate our hormones and, and not have painful periods. Like there's a way to actually do this naturally.
Career Shift to Detox Education
00:09:21
Ahna
And that was really the very, very start of my, my healing, journey my true healing journey. When I started to get all of the gunk out of the body.
00:09:32
Ahna
that was putting roadblocks in my healing. And from there, you know a lot of a lot of things transpired. I was on that journey. um you know I was still working my corporate job at that time, um but I was going back to school for regenerative detox to learn how to teach this to women. And
00:09:57
Ahna
And so I ended up working my corporate job and also doing, you know, regenerative detox. I was doing it. I was working probably 60 hours a week. Um, and when I decided, okay, I think it's time for me to let my corporate job go. Um, then another layer of deeper healing, uh, kind of started to happen and I started to recognize that.
00:10:25
Ahna
Okay, healing's not just about eating the right foods and exercising. There's a huge emotional component to it. And it's about the way we live our lives. And if we're not living in our truth, and we're not happy what with what we're doing, right, or we're not in alignment with our soul's purpose, we will plateau. And we won't continue to get better. And we have to address the underlying emotions.
00:10:53
Ahna
which are usually the root cause of almost everything. And so when I quit corporate, I started to right question my worth. Like I was living so in my masculine my whole life that when things started to slow down and I didn't have someone telling me, Anna, you're doing a good job, right? And I didn't have a thriving business right off the bat. It was like a big wake up call for me.
00:11:22
Ahna
And I started to.
00:11:24
Jacob Oak
you and I are both firstborns too. And I feel like a lot of females can kind of relate to that.
00:11:26
Ahna
Yeah.
00:11:30
Jacob Oak
I mean, anyone, but just the kind of like having that overachiever attitude and the go getter and yeah, hearing that you're doing a good job, like you said, like that's what we thrive on or always have.
00:11:31
Ahna
Yeah.
00:11:34
Ahna
Yes. Yes. Yeah.
00:11:47
Ahna
Yep.
00:11:47
Jacob Oak
You know, you want to make your parents happy. You want to be there for your siblings and you want to do well in school and for your job and
00:11:50
Ahna
Yep.
00:11:54
Jacob Oak
So.
00:11:54
Ahna
Yep. 100%. And, and like, when you realize, you know, no, I'm actually just like, I'm worthy just as I am.
00:12:04
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:12:05
Ahna
Like, I'm worthy just because I, yeah.
00:12:06
Jacob Oak
Yeah. yeah
00:12:08
Ahna
And, um and so that caused me to kind of dive deeper into other alternative modalities for like, trying to get these stuck emotions out of my body. And I started to you know do more acupuncture, and um which is always like my number one tool that I tell tell people, you know in combination with this work that you're doing with me, you've got to do acupuncture. It's so powerful and um sound healing. And you know i would I dove into more energy work and other plant medicine and just other things to try to work
00:12:48
Ahna
work this stuck stuff out of my body. And I started to realize we're we get the physical symptoms when we have these energetic blocks in the body.
00:13:01
Ahna
That's all that it comes down to. It's energetic blocks, we're full of toxins, and we're undernourished.
00:13:10
Jacob Oak
ye
00:13:11
Ahna
and And if we're not living in our truth. if we're not following, right, our intuition and our gut and where it's calling us to go, we will stay sick.
Holistic Health and Emotional Healing
00:13:23
Jacob Oak
Right.
00:13:23
Ahna
And um yeah, and so that started a deeper healing of, you know, healing childhood trauma and, you know, I'm still working through a lot of that. um But then I started to, you know, really think about the womb space and and just how how deep
00:13:45
Ahna
deeply rooted wounds in the womb are as women. And so, um yeah, this is kind of a long story to basically say, like, um I help people really get to the root cause of what's going on. And where I start women is with detoxification. And recently, um became a birth doula.
00:14:15
Ahna
um
00:14:16
Jacob Oak
Congratulations.
00:14:17
Ahna
Thank you. Thank you. I'm so excited about this because it's, you know, another way of helping women step into their power and remember what our bodies are able to do. Our bodies are able to heal. Our bodies are able to birth babies. Like this is how we were designed. And and so it's like, how do we remove all the interference in the body that might be preventing these things from happening?
00:14:44
Ahna
naturally. um And you know, we do that through education and and detox. And so my biggest thing is helping women understand their bodies. Because when we are empowered and understand our bodies and how to heal, it's unbelievable what can change. So yeah, that was a long answer, but yeah.
00:15:08
Jacob Oak
No, thank you. I love it. And I feel like there's so much to unpack there. But just thinking of, you know, even the wounds in the womb and just how that goes back for generations of women.
00:15:22
Ahna
Yeah.
00:15:22
Jacob Oak
And like, it's not just us. And I know we've talked about this in our friend circle before too, about how I feel like our generations finally like starting to unpack a lot of these things that have been passed down for a very long time and choosing to empower ourselves and educate because even related to like your menstrual cycle, those are just things that I feel like we didn't learn growing up, even just basic things.
00:15:51
Ahna
Yeah.
00:15:52
Jacob Oak
We just don't learn that stuff.
00:15:54
Ahna
Yep.
00:15:55
Jacob Oak
and you learn that you know the normal trajectory is to go on birth control once you hit a certain age, you know especially if you have heavy bleeding or cramping or acne, yeah that's just what you do.
00:16:01
Ahna
Yep.
00:16:08
Jacob Oak
And then you might still have a lot of symptoms, but deal with it because everyone else does too.
00:16:13
Ahna
Yep.
00:16:15
Jacob Oak
And I feel like even you know menopausal women too, it's just you're just kind of, at least for my patients, they come in and they're like, yeah,
00:16:18
Ahna
yep
00:16:23
Jacob Oak
you're just told that we're go to just gonna be you know living with hot flashes and night sweats. And it's like, i what I love about your mission and my mission is just like teaching people that there's another way and that it doesn't have to be like this and that we don't need to live in suffering.
00:16:28
Ahna
Yeah.
00:16:40
Ahna
yes
00:16:41
Jacob Oak
And I mean, a lot of people that I treat are primarily athletes and so many women come in with you know so many menstrual issues and hormonal things.
00:16:51
Jacob Oak
and it's like especially if you're an athlete from a young age and you know, we're getting that pressure from coaches, teammates, family, whoever it is. And I feel like a lot of it just continues to get suppressed.
00:17:05
Jacob Oak
And that's where, you know, the emotions come into that too. And emotions play such a huge part in that.
00:17:10
Ahna
totally yeah because it's it's it's not the healing journey isn't like a take a pill and we're better and we've been so conditioned to believe that
00:17:12
Jacob Oak
And there's no pill that can help unblock emotional blockages. And I think that's the hard part for people is learning that.
00:17:35
Ahna
You know, and I was this, I was this way, right? I was like throwing hundreds, thousands of dollars at random supplements and random things, always trying to like, Oh, I have this symptom.
00:17:47
Ahna
Well, I'm going to write, Oh, I have hair loss. I'm going to buy this shampoo.
00:17:51
Jacob Oak
this external thing, you know.
00:17:52
Ahna
but well Yeah. know And, and it's so much deeper than that. And what I always explained to my clients is like the healing journey really is like this.
00:18:03
Ahna
It's, it isn't linear. And it's also, you know, when we start making changes, sometimes the icky stuff that we don't want to have to face has to come out before we start to feel better.
00:18:17
Jacob Oak
Right.
00:18:17
Ahna
And, and so when I talk about detoxification, a lot of people think, Oh, well detox, I don't drink or I don't write, I, my liver, you know,
00:18:32
Ahna
detox is my body for me, things like that. But no, it's it's actually so much more than that. Like when I speak about detox, I really I really mean like mind, body and spirit. And our world is is inundated with toxins. And I can kind of go into that. But, you know, we have to keep our physical vessel clean. Like we have to clean our bodies so that we have access to more of our light, like to more of who we truly are. and And then when you start really removing those roadblocks and you start to clean the body, the old emotions, right, the suppressed stuff starts to come up too. And so it really is like, when you start eating better and you start incorporating the right herbs and you start moving metals out of the body and parasites out of the body, like old emotions
00:19:28
Ahna
lower frequency things attached to parasites, they attach to metals, they're attached to those lower frequency things in the body.
The Role of Introspection in Healing
00:19:37
Ahna
So then when you start to detox, you start to remove all of it. And um
00:19:46
Ahna
Yeah, it's it's it's so worth it. It's so worth it. like you know From the beginning of where I started to where I am now, like I'm an entirely different person.
00:19:59
Ahna
Have I been through challenges in crappy times?
00:20:00
Jacob Oak
Mm hmm.
00:20:02
Ahna
Yes. But like I'm so much happier now than I've ever been. And so it's like it's so worth it to to face your stuff because it's
00:20:17
Ahna
it's It's all a journey of us evolving and learning and um becoming the best version of ourselves that we can be.
00:20:27
Ahna
And I believe that's why we're here on Earth, is to become the absolute best version of ourselves.
00:20:30
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:20:33
Ahna
And that doesn't always mean easy.
00:20:36
Jacob Oak
Right. Well, and like you said with evolving, I mean, that is human nature is to evolve. You know, we've evolved over millions, many years, right?
00:20:42
Ahna
Yeah.
00:20:46
Jacob Oak
And we will continue to evolve. So why not make ourselves the best version that we can be so that then we can pass that down to future generations.
00:20:55
Ahna
Yep.
00:20:57
Jacob Oak
And I think it is, it's very scary for many people to be in, in their thoughts and in their feelings.
00:20:57
Ahna
Yep.
00:21:04
Jacob Oak
And I think that's why a lot of people will avoid it. And I mean, that's why I think people turn to substances, you know, drugs, alcohol, because it's a great way to avoid what's going on, you know, with emotions and in your body.
00:21:12
Ahna
ye Yep.
00:21:20
Jacob Oak
And even like my runners, you know, a lot of people run with music, which I run with music, too. It's great. But it's a great way to not be as connected with your body and what's going on.
00:21:29
Ahna
you Yeah.
00:21:30
Jacob Oak
And not to call out my sister here, but she you know it doesn't, what was it?
00:21:32
Ahna
Yeah.
00:21:37
Jacob Oak
She was talking about running, how she doesn't like to run, especially without music, because it's scary to be with your thoughts. And I think that goes for so many people, is that is scary to do that work.
00:21:47
Ahna
Yep.
00:21:50
Jacob Oak
So do you have many people that, like especially once they're getting into the work with you, that you know that stuff is coming out, and how do you help those people through that.
00:22:01
Ahna
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Good question. I thought of a lot of things that when you were just talking. um So like, I will say, for one, like, this was me. This was me. Like, I was so sick, I had rap had the back pain, had the the gut issues, right? Had the constipation, all these things, the severe period pain, because I wasn't, I didn't want to sit with the uncomfortableness of right of things that I needed to face and move out of my body.
00:22:36
Ahna
And so there's a, yes.
00:22:36
Jacob Oak
So it's like period pain is uncomfortable, but there's a whole nother level of uncomfortable.
00:22:42
Ahna
And and um and so i right I drank a lot. I drink a lot and that was actually one of the hardest things for me to give up. And now I don't, I really never want alcohol just because I noticed what it does to me now because I'm in such a different place. But that was my, you know, I did a lot of things now that I see, like I look back and I, like you said, I avoided it. I didn't want to sit with my thoughts. I didn't want to sit with discomfort. I kept myself busy all the time.
00:23:18
Jacob Oak
Mm hmm.
00:23:19
Ahna
I always, I couldn't even sit and read a book because I felt I always had to be productive, right? and Well, no, that's actually me like covering up something. I can't, I couldn't sit with myself.
00:23:30
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:23:31
Ahna
And it's been a journey of like learning how to love myself again too, because, you know, there's a part in that where it's like, for me, there was like a lack of self-love and that that's still an ever evolving journey for me is like learning how to truly love me.
00:23:48
Ahna
And, um and so this does come up for a lot of women that I work with that, you know, because I teach for the listeners, um I teach like group detoxification classes. um I have one coming up in January, actually. um But it's a like a 10 week class that you know, I go through and I teach you, okay, what are, what are all of the different detox tools? What are all of our, what are the different um biohacking tools and and how do we really eat to cleanse and what are the herbs to take to start to rid the body of parasites? And so when I'm like guiding my clients through these classes, stuff will start to come up.
00:24:32
Ahna
Right. Sometimes for some people, old traumas come up or there'll be times where it's just like, I'm feeling, they're like, I'm just feeling depressed and I don't know why. And it's sometimes we don't even have to know where it came from. We just have to like sit with it, allow it and let it move out of the body and to like have it be okay to not be okay. Like it's okay to not be okay all the time.
00:25:00
Ahna
And we don't always have to put on a face or a mask. and i And I say this from experience because I've done this my whole life without even realizing it right unconsciously.
00:25:12
Ahna
and um And so there's you know different tools that I guide people to. um One thing that can be super helpful for people, especially for um you know people like you and and me that like work with a lot of clients, I always say, like take a sea salt bath.
00:25:31
Ahna
take a pound or two pounds and that's a lot of sea salt, but a pound or two pounds of sea salt with lavender oil and like let it clear your energy field because sometimes like we're feeling off just because our auric field is just dirty, right? We've acquired not only, we're not only moving through our stuff, but then we become more sensitive to other people's stuff and we're like taking on other people's stuff. And so that's like a cleanser. Um,
00:26:01
Ahna
Other stuff too, um I always recommend, so there's something called emotion code. I don't know if you've heard of emotion code before, um but it's like a form of, I don't know if I would say it's like energy work, but um essentially motion code practitioners are able to figure out where different emotions are stored in different parts of the body and then actually help you move those out.
00:26:29
Ahna
So like, I actually have an appointment every month with an emotion code practitioner, and she's able to tell me, oh, okay, you have shock, right? Shock is stuck in your pancreas. Or, oh, you have depression stuck in your bright fallopian tube. And just like different energies and emotions, and then we move those out of the body. um Because, ah you know, in traditional Chinese medicine, right? Like we know that different glands and organs are tied to different emotions. And so we could be eating perfectly and doing all the right things and still not getting better or still you know kind of plateauing. And so have to address the emotions. And the other piece is um meditation and spiritual practice really is like is so important. If I wouldn't have been meditating
00:27:25
Ahna
through like a lot of the life changes I've been through in the past year and just like working through my trauma. Gosh, i wouldn't I would not be where I am. like We have to allow ourselves to get quiet.
00:27:40
Ahna
um And we just have to sit with it. We have to let ourselves cry. We have to let we have to let that stuff move through. um But yeah, I would say like the biggest one for me has been meditation.
00:27:56
Ahna
And I urge all my clients to meditate, even if it's starting with just two minutes.
00:28:01
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:28:02
Ahna
Yeah.
00:28:02
Jacob Oak
I think people get stuck on, I know I have to have this long meditation practice.
00:28:06
Ahna
No.
00:28:06
Jacob Oak
And if I don't do it every day, it's bad. It's like, no, like, even if it's sitting in your car at the end of the day, and just like, instead of scrolling on your phone, which I'm guilty of, like, the sitting with yourself, you know, and reflecting and just, you know, just being is so important.
00:28:17
Ahna
Me too.
00:28:21
Ahna
Yup. Yeah. yeah
00:28:25
Ahna
and and And the other piece too is, you know, many of us specifically for women, we live in a world that praises masculinity.
00:28:38
Jacob Oak
Yeah, can you talk a little bit about that? Because I feel like people don't, I know it's the term we've been using a lot more with like being in your feminine versus masculine.
00:28:42
Ahna
Yeah.
00:28:46
Jacob Oak
I think there's negative connotations to both.
00:28:47
Ahna
Yeah.
00:28:50
Ahna
Yeah. And you know, and I'm still even learning how to do this myself, but it's because And when I say praises masculinity, I mean, we, we feel guilty for not being right. Go, go, go, do, do, do, action, action, action. Like the feminine biologically, right? We are meant to sit back, receive, rest, nurture, like just be.
00:29:26
Ahna
and And so many of us have right hidden hidden traumas, you know, things in the body that have put us into protection mode, right, to
The Importance of Gut Health
00:29:38
Ahna
protect and and be, you know, kind of always feeling like we got to be like doing the next thing. That's very masculine.
00:29:47
Ahna
And where I believe the world is headed and where where relationships are really going to like actually thrive is when women can be in their feminine and men can be in their masculine, like how we were actually biologically designed.
00:30:04
Ahna
and so um
00:30:07
Ahna
There, oh, there's a big eagle coming up.
00:30:11
Jacob Oak
Voila, just bye.
00:30:13
Ahna
Uh-huh, always. um And basically, I just feel there's a like a really big imbalance in the world right now.
00:30:25
Ahna
And um as females, and as we think about healing, healing is very feminine. Healing requires us to rest. It requires us to just be and to receive.
00:30:39
Ahna
And um when we're more in our feminine, and we are just, we we take things slower, right? And we enjoy the pleasures of life, which so so many times, right?
00:30:51
Ahna
We're like going so fast, doing, doing, doing. And we, yeah, like we aren't,
00:30:55
Jacob Oak
trying to prove ourselves very
00:30:59
Ahna
we aren't even really thinking about like our pleasure. and And that goes into a whole other conversation of like some other of the work that I'm you know kind of diving into, which is like um like pleasure for women and um how many how many women right have gone like their entire life without having an orgasm.
00:31:20
Jacob Oak
trying to prove ourselves.
00:31:27
Ahna
Um, or just having no sex drive at all, or even just this, you know, when we think about pleasure outside of that, it's like, do we sit and smell the flowers? Do we sit and allow ourselves to just like have a dark chocolate and just sit there and truly appreciate it or get into the tub for an hour and not feel guilty, right? Take that time for ourselves.
00:31:55
Ahna
in order for us as females to heal, we have to step it we have to lean more into our feminine.
00:32:05
Jacob Oak
Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
00:32:06
Ahna
um Otherwise, our nervous systems are just we're we're not going to heal. So um yeah, I don't want to get too off topic, but but
00:32:18
Jacob Oak
Well, thanks for explaining that. And I think just for people listening too, like that doesn't mean, I mean, you and I are both entrepreneurs and business owners and like it doesn't mean that, you know, you're like, I think this can just be taken a lot of different ways, but it just means that it doesn't need to be the traditional nine to five Monday through Friday.
00:32:27
Ahna
Oh, yeah.
00:32:37
Ahna
Right.
00:32:40
Jacob Oak
We're working at the same high speed at all times because if women do live more on a cycle every month.
00:32:44
Ahna
Right.
00:32:48
Ahna
Exactly.
00:32:48
Jacob Oak
Our cycle, our hormones change and are different. And women need more sleep than men. Like it's just, that's, you know, science and everything is also proving that.
00:32:55
Ahna
ye
00:32:58
Ahna
Yep.
00:33:02
Ahna
Yep.
00:33:02
Jacob Oak
That we've already known, but are now, you know, showing in studies. And I think it's okay to combine both of those things and do what feels good to you.
00:33:12
Ahna
Yep.
00:33:15
Ahna
Totally.
00:33:15
Jacob Oak
yeah on you know the days that feel good to you, the times that feel good to you, and to not feel, again, like you constantly have to be producing or be productive in order to be worthy.
00:33:18
Ahna
Yep.
00:33:26
Ahna
Right. Yup. Yeah. Yeah. That was me.
00:33:31
Jacob Oak
Yes, it's a lot of us.
00:33:31
Ahna
That was me. Yup. Yup. So it's like now, you know, I tell, I tell my clients like, take the time in the morning, like ah allow your like, you know, sit there for 10, 15 minutes ah before you start your day, right?
00:33:34
Jacob Oak
Absolutely.
00:33:47
Ahna
Like, right. Like you said, it doesn't mean that we can't work and like have our own business and all of that. No, like I, I love that. Like, you know, that's so
00:33:56
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:33:57
Ahna
fun and like that yeah yeah ah yeah um look up yeah yeah yeah yep yeah
00:33:58
Jacob Oak
But it's work that brings you joy, you know, versus the corporate life. And I was there when you were, you know, debating, like, going back and forth on whether you should leave or not.
00:34:08
Jacob Oak
And they're huge decisions, you know, and everyone has their own journey with this. And like you said, you've been on a big path these last couple of years.
00:34:20
Jacob Oak
I mean, we all have. But yeah, it's what what brings you joy and what brings you pleasure and like makes you feel best in your own body.
00:34:28
Ahna
Yep. Yep.
00:34:32
Jacob Oak
And I think sometimes we just don't even take the time to figure out what that is because we're always doing things for others. I think a lot of people people can relate to that.
00:34:39
Ahna
That's, yep. That's a, that's another whole other thing. Yeah.
00:34:45
Jacob Oak
yeah
00:34:46
Ahna
Yep. So it's like, it's also following your, for so many years, I ignored my intuition. right, I ignored, I reasoned with the voices, or the, you know, the voice in my head that said, I don't think this is for you, or you might be happier over here, or, you know, and so many of us do that. But one of our like, greatest gifts to this world is like our intuition. As women, right, we're all intuitive beings, men and women, but as women, we're really connected that way. And so, when you're
00:35:26
Ahna
you know, feeling like, Oh, you know, this relationship but I don't think is right for me anymore. Or, Oh, this friendship maybe is, ah you know, not serving me or this job just isn't, I just know it's where I'm not supposed to be. You know, little things like that. thought That voice inside is like your higher soul, like trying to guide you to your best life.
00:35:51
Jacob Oak
Mm hmm.
00:35:52
Ahna
And so um the more we ignore that, the more out of balance we end up feeling. And over time, we end up feeling like, right, just something's missing, right?
00:36:04
Ahna
Something's missing in our life. And it's because we're not, we're not following our, our, our truth.
00:36:12
Jacob Oak
Mm hmm.
00:36:13
Ahna
um And so there's that piece too. But yeah, I always tell, you know, tell women just little practices that you can add in. especially when like back to that, we were talking about emotion start coming up, things that bring you joy and and things that can help you slow down like a bath or a walk or, um, having chocolate or sitting with a warm cup of cacao or whatever that may be to you.
00:36:42
Ahna
For me, it's meditation and it can just help bring you back to your center.
00:36:48
Jacob Oak
yeah Absolutely.
00:36:49
Ahna
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:50
Jacob Oak
Do you work with males too with like detox or are you primarily focused on with me?
00:36:56
Ahna
Yep, yep, I help males detox too. i my My belief is everybody in the world needs to detox. um And, well, for males right now, um low testosterone.
00:37:05
Jacob Oak
Because what do you see coming up with males then? I'm just curious.
00:37:18
Ahna
um And got issues.
00:37:21
Jacob Oak
yeah
00:37:22
Ahna
And what I'm seeing in, A lot of couples, right, is a lot of unexplained infertility or so couples struggling to get pregnant. And this is part of like why I've, you know, kind of, I guess it's not even a choice. It's just where like the universe is guiding me of like really getting into the birth space and the fertility space and teaching teaching couples how to, how to detox, right? How do we bring in the healthiest baby possible? How do we get ourselves right to our best place possible so that we then can bring in the healthiest child? And how do we, yeah, how do we cleanse? How do we eat? Then teaching mom how to eat for proper nourishment for, for baby development, right? Like,
00:38:14
Ahna
there's so many things. And and yeah, I help men, I help men all the time. um Because in my opinion, we just don't have a choice on whether or not we detox.
Impact of Farming Practices on Health
00:38:26
Ahna
um Our symptoms are just going to kind of continue to linger or like start to get better than than not or start to get better. And then we plateau if we don't address toxins. um And we've what I'm seeing in men and women right now, and I can kind of go into the gut injury thing, gut health, is um just right you think almost think about everyone you know, there's some sort of digestive issue going on.
00:38:58
Ahna
and And we think about, okay, well, the gut, I would like to say it's the first brain.
00:38:59
Jacob Oak
Thank you.
00:39:05
Ahna
Our brain isn't our first brain, our gut is our first brain. It's where 80% of our hormones are made, right? You think about all the dopamine, the serotonin, melatonin, like all of this is created in your gut. And we're not only dealing with a bunch of digestive issues and physical symptoms, but we're seeing, like I said, huge spikes in infertility, inflammation, anxiety, like we're depressed. A lot of us are like,
00:39:34
Ahna
Right. High functioning, depressed. I was.
00:39:37
Jacob Oak
yeah
00:39:39
Ahna
I didn't even know it. And the reason for this is because we're lacking healthy gut bacteria and the gut is damaged, right? Many of us are walking around with leaky gut.
00:39:50
Ahna
And, um, part of the reason for that, and now I'm happy that like this is, there's more conversations being had about this, like at a higher level, like there's,
00:40:03
Ahna
finally attention being brought to our food system. But when glyphosate was introduced in the 80s, which is the main ingredient in Roundup, ah we started to see, you know, if we look back from the 80s until now, like what we're seeing as far as like disease, you know, you think about autoimmune, cancer, um autism, all of this has gone dramatically up.
00:40:30
Ahna
And I believe it's because of this chemical that was introduced into our existence that sprayed on all of the food here in the United States. And yeah, so for those of you that don't know, glyphosate is a pesticide. And um it was introduced to, right, to keep weeds away, right, to keep, you know, I i think that was the reason it was introduced. um But what they really,
00:41:00
Ahna
didn't think about is like what this is actually doing to the plants and how, how meaningful of a relationship plants and humans, right? Food and humans have. Like we are what we eat. So if we're eating stressed out plants, well, then we're going to be stressed out. We just simply don't have the nutrition that we used to. So when glyphosate is sprayed on the crops,
00:41:30
Ahna
it it basically blocks something called the shikime pathway. And the shikime pathway in plants is how plants fold their proteins. It's how plants um create their micronutrients, right? The things that we have to get from food. And if it's destroyed the plant's abilities to make amino acids and micronutrients, well, then when we're eating an apple, even though it looks perfect, right?
00:41:58
Ahna
It's, we're basically not even getting anything from it. And so on a cellular level, we are stressed out and starving. And that's also why we have a ton of cravings. And, um, you know, I used to, I used to like eat a huge dinner and then I'd be like in the fridge, like still like grabbing for stuff. And I then didn't even know why it was like an unconscious thing. And.
00:42:27
Ahna
It's because on a cellular level, I was starving. On a cellular level, I was inflamed. And the other thing about glyphosate is it tears holes in the tight junctions of the gut. And so we're walking around with leaky gut. It's patented as an oral antibiotic. So right, you think about what antibiotics do. It's wiping all of, it's it's wiping everything. And we're made of more bacteria than we are cells. So.
00:42:57
Ahna
The body is, is struggling to heal right now on like a collective level because of we're malnourished. Our food is not what it used to be. Even if we're eating, right? All the things. And so, um, yeah, that's why I've brought in certain tools into my practice that, you know, I know you've also brought in that like deeply nourish on the cellular level. Like we have to look at the way things are farmed.
00:43:25
Ahna
we have to We really have to start making relationships with local farmers. right Get get your your meat from a regenerative farm. Get your vegetables from a regenerative farm. like start to make Start to really know where your food comes from. um
00:43:47
Jacob Oak
in the soil that it's grown in. I think like that's the biggest piece I learned in the last few years is if it's growing, even if you're not using chemicals to grow your food, how's your soil?
00:43:49
Ahna
Yes. Yes.
00:43:59
Ahna
Mm-hmm.
00:44:01
Jacob Oak
You know, if these crops just keep getting grown in the same soil year after year and just constantly and it's like, it was never like that before.
00:44:02
Ahna
Yep.
00:44:06
Ahna
Yep.
00:44:11
Jacob Oak
Like it just, that's not how plants were meant to grow.
00:44:15
Ahna
Yep.
00:44:16
Jacob Oak
So then, yeah, the mineral depletion, the nutrient depletion.
00:44:17
Ahna
Yep.
00:44:19
Ahna
Mm-hmm.
00:44:21
Jacob Oak
And it's like, it makes sense, like when you think about it, but like you said, like in a grocery store, and you you know, you see this big juicy red apple and it's like, oh, this must be good.
00:44:32
Ahna
Uh-huh.
00:44:33
Jacob Oak
When really it was grown in, you know, top soil that was completely like nutrient deprived and grown quickly, probably, you know,
00:44:42
Ahna
Yep. A thousand percent.
00:44:46
Ahna
Or picked unripe. Like that's the other thing is like many, it's like you think about pulling a baby away from right the placenta too early. Like that's what we're doing with plants.
00:44:58
Jacob Oak
right?
00:44:58
Ahna
And, and so a lot of, it is important to like also yeah like eat in season, try to get as much as you can from like where you live because a lot of the things in the store, right it's coming from different countries, things are picked unripe so that by the time it's in the grocery store, it's not overripe or it doesn't have to be thrown and the the the nutrient value is so much lower at that point. so Yeah, whenever I'm working with my clients, it's not only a process of, okay, let's get the parasites out.
00:45:34
Ahna
Let's get the metals out. Let's, you know, eat to decrease inflammation, but it's also how can we like flood the body with nutrients and minerals? Because when your body has the proper amount of nutrients and minerals, even if you don't change anything else, sometimes symptoms start to go away.
00:45:55
Jacob Oak
All
00:45:55
Ahna
Like sometimes it's only malnourishment.
00:45:58
Jacob Oak
right.
00:45:59
Ahna
So it's like it's that important. um And when when we actually are nourished on a cellular level, the body finally starts to feel safe again.
Investing in Health Through Nutrition
00:46:10
Ahna
so And that, I believe, is really the key to healing. It's like, how do we make the body feel safe again? And when the body feels safe, that's when we drop inflammation. That's when weight starts to leave. And there's just, yeah.
00:46:28
Ahna
it's even just like the weight loss thing and and the, the um you know, osempic is like a big thing that but is just apparently more common than I really realized. And I'm starting to get guidance on like what this is really doing to the body and the minds of.
00:46:48
Jacob Oak
and kids are getting it now.
00:46:50
Ahna
Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it's um I say excess weight on the body is nothing more than excess waste.
00:46:51
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:47:01
Ahna
So once you just start nourishing the body properly and getting the gunk out, getting the pesticides out, right? Getting, getting the heavy metals out. I mean, I was just talking about this the other day with someone, you know, if you remember like being in school and was just like not being able to like,
00:47:21
Ahna
sit still or like you just couldn't grasp a subject or you felt like certain things were like hard, right? And it just, you felt kind of slow at times. It's not that we're just slow people, okay? We're like divine beings. We are intelligent, intelligent, intelligent.
00:47:43
Ahna
That's not the problem. The problem is the stuff in the way. So, you know, I'm looking at children nowadays, right? They're being diagnosed with ADD and all the right, all these things when If they just changed their diet, if we just didn't have all the crap in our food and all the dyes and all the pesticides and the heavy metals, right? So many of us are, have, you know, underlying like mercury poisoning and we don't even know it.
00:48:15
Jacob Oak
And the plastics.
00:48:17
Ahna
Yeah, and yeah the plastics, like and this is what's causing us to feel slow. This is what's causing us to have brain fog, to have slow digestion. to There's so many so many things that can be solved just by simply eating real food, knowing, of course, making sure that it's organic or even better if it's coming from a local farm.
Personal Transformation through Detox
00:48:44
Ahna
and getting getting the toxins out. We are just, the body is overloaded with toxins, even if we are doing everything right. um And so, yeah.
00:49:00
Jacob Oak
Well, and the other thing too is I get a lot of people that talk about cost, you know, and it's so much more expensive to buy organic foods, things like that.
00:49:10
Ahna
Yeah.
00:49:10
Jacob Oak
But, you know, Jacob and I went to the St. Paul farmer's market this summer, and he was like, I think we were getting like a thing of carrots or something. And and it was like,
00:49:22
Jacob Oak
two dollars for like this huge thing of like organic carrots and he's like seriously two dollars and just like everything we were getting he's like are you sure it's like not more than that so in Costco like there's yes it can be more expensive but do you want to pay now or pay later and I think going to your local farms and you know getting in a co-op or
00:49:33
Ahna
Yeah.
00:49:49
Jacob Oak
becoming friends with the farmer, like you said, and like sharing an animal with others. like You can make it more cost-effective than going to your conventional grocery store.
00:50:01
Ahna
Totally. And, and I will say like Costco is the largest organic retailer out there. So, you know, yes, the organic label doesn't always mean everything, right? Because again, like we were talking about it, the soil matters, all that matters, but you can really get stuff affordably at Costco. Like they're, some of their organic produce is like far better in price.
00:50:28
Ahna
than anywhere else that I can find. And you can, you can find really clean stuff at Costco for really good prices. And, um, Oh my gosh.
00:50:37
Jacob Oak
Even their frozen berries. I mean, I tell people use by the frozen in organic berries and fruits and veggies because they're way cheaper.
00:50:41
Ahna
Yeah.
00:50:46
Ahna
Yes.
00:50:47
Jacob Oak
They last longer, so you never are going.
00:50:48
Ahna
Yep.
00:50:49
Jacob Oak
You don't have the waste of it.
00:50:52
Ahna
Yep.
00:50:52
Jacob Oak
And then I'll warm it up and put it, you know, in my bowl of yogurt or something like that.
00:50:57
Ahna
Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:57
Jacob Oak
You know, same thing.
00:50:58
Ahna
Yep. Yep. They're, oh yeah, they're organic fruit. Like I stock up every single week because I, I tell people I'm like, in the morning I make my $30 smoothie, which is just, it's ridiculous. Not actually $30, but it's like, I, you know, I put a lot of stuff in my morning smoothie because I am, you know, doing everything I can to like work this certain stuff out of my body. And like now I know what it feels like to feel clean.
00:51:28
Ahna
to feel like vibrant, to feel nourished. And, um, and so there's, there are so many tools that we have at our fingertips. And, and although, you know, a lot of it right comes out of pocket versus like being able to, you know, get a pharmaceutical and have it come out of insurance or whatever. It's so worth it. And you do overall pay less at the end.
00:51:59
Ahna
like, it is so worth it to feel your best self, and to have energy and to sleep well. And um when you start to heal on a deep, deep level by doing this sort of work, right, like by going to acupuncture, by detoxing, by exercising, like, and moving your body, you step into your purpose, your God given life purpose. And
00:52:30
Ahna
your life just gets better and better. If if you know if you follow the call and and it does require like facing your stuff, but there's there's nothing better than being able to like step into who you like really are and remember who you are. Yeah.
00:52:55
Jacob Oak
I love it. I think that's a good place.
00:52:57
Ahna
but
00:52:58
Jacob Oak
It has a lot to sit with right there.
00:52:58
Ahna
Good place to end. ah ah ah Yeah.
00:53:02
Jacob Oak
And on that note, no, I love it. and Um, kind of something that Jacob and I are starting now, um, sort of on these lines and becoming, you know, who you are and everything, but we're starting to ask everyone, what's your, we get to do this moment.
00:53:21
Jacob Oak
You've done ah so many incredible things, especially in the last few years, but over your entire life.
00:53:26
Ahna
yeah
00:53:27
Jacob Oak
And I'd love to know like, what's one moment or, you know, time that comes to your mind when you kind of just looked around, you're like, wow, like I get to do this. Like how lucky and how grateful am I?
00:53:42
Ahna
I have a couple thoughts that come to mind. So like the, so ah just ah an experience, I guess, at first comes to my mind. Like when I went on this big, long hike and I hiked, it was right. It was like super hard uphill hike, but at the top of the hike, it was this, it was in Montana and it was like this lake.
00:54:05
Ahna
but that you know was surrounded by mountains and I just like couldn't believe my eyes and like that moment right there is like a I get to do this right like I get like my body is healthy enough right that I was able to like how grateful that I was able to actually like climb up this mountain and see this like I get to do this oh my gosh right like And it was just like,
00:54:40
Ahna
yeah, in that moment, I just remember like looking around and like, it makes me tear up, but it's just like, got yeah, like just like God is everywhere.
00:54:46
Jacob Oak
I'm getting chills because I that feeling. Yeah.
00:54:51
Ahna
And um it was just, yeah, it was amazing. So definitely that, like I get to do this. And the other piece now is like supporting women through birth. Oh my gosh, I get to do this.
00:55:06
Ahna
like
00:55:06
Jacob Oak
Yeah, it's pretty incredible.
00:55:10
Ahna
And just just thinking about a woman's body, like how miraculous. like We create life. like As women, we get to do this.
00:55:22
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:55:22
Ahna
How beautiful.
00:55:24
Jacob Oak
Yeah.
00:55:24
Ahna
Yeah.
00:55:25
Jacob Oak
I love it. Thanks for sharing. and I think again, it's just take the time to slow down and just truly appreciate life because not to get all, you know, esoteric on this, but it's like, it's pretty incredible that we're here on this earth and in this perfect Climate on this perfect planet to be able to live and be here for you know 80 200 years like it's pretty miraculous and it's something that I don't think we should take for granted
00:55:57
Ahna
It is.
Connecting with Anna for Guidance
00:56:01
Ahna
I love that. I totally agree. Thank you.
00:56:01
Jacob Oak
so Thanks so much for joining me today Anna and I
00:56:09
Jacob Oak
Jake will be back on again next week for listeners, but I'm really glad that I got the opportunity to be with you today. And hopefully, well, I'm sure people took away many things from this conversation. Every time I talk to you, I come away with a lot and just a lot to think about. So.
00:56:30
Jacob Oak
If you guys have any comments or questions for me, feel free to drop those in the comment box or email us. And how can listeners follow up with you, Ana?
00:56:41
Jacob Oak
And how can, like, if people are interested in detox and they talked about a program in January, how, where can they find you?
00:56:47
Ahna
Yeah. Yeah. So you'll see all of my detox information. And then also, um, you know, if you're pregnant or know someone who's pregnant who needs a birth doula, um, all this information's on my website, um, regenerativebirth dot.com. So regenerativebirth dot.com is where I have like everything. And then I like to do a lot of free education on Instagram. So, um, a lot of my, a lot of the things I've posted so far have been very detox focused teaching you about your body.
00:57:16
Ahna
um And now it's going to be shifting into some more stuff about fertility and um the birth space. So.
00:57:26
Jacob Oak
I love it. And we'll drop those links in to the comment section too, so people can see those things.
00:57:32
Ahna
Perfect.
00:57:32
Jacob Oak
But thanks for everything you do and for sharing your work, Ana. Really appreciate you.
00:57:37
Ahna
Thank you.
00:57:38
Jacob Oak
This was the week you get to do this podcast. See you guys next week. Bye, Ana.
00:57:43
Ahna
Bye.