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Speaker: Yes, we back again, Bigger Talks, IG Live edition.
Speaker: We got a new episode.
Speaker: We have a special guest, Dr. Jasmine Talley.
Speaker: She's a naturopathic doctor, and she's going to give us all the information about gut health, hormones, hair loss, and the root causes that cause all these things within the body.
Speaker: And it's going to be a phenomenal interview.
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Speaker: So people, if you haven't heard, if you don't know, this is my guest, Dr. Jasmine Talley.
Speaker: She's a naturopathic doctor, and she helps people with gut health, hormone imbalances.
Speaker: Also, where some of us might be losing hair or hormones are off.
Speaker: she's there to get to the root cause of where it starts.
Speaker: So before we get into like the podcast and the details of what you do, let's talk briefly about you and who you are.
Speaker: How did you get into this space of, you know, gut health, naturopathic as being a doctor, which is just journey start for you.
Speaker: Oh, it's a long story, but basically, um, so I studied poli sci and film and undergrad because I always knew I had a passion for help.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: I didn't realize that politics is not the way to do it.
Speaker: And then kind of went back to school once I realized this is what I want to do.
Speaker: Naturopathic medicine kind of found me.
Speaker: But once I figured out this is what I want to do, nothing in my life has ever felt more right.
Speaker: It's truly a passion job.
Speaker: I love what I do.
Speaker: And then gut health and hormones specifically, just because everything is related to the gut and your hormones.
Speaker: If your gut is off, then your hormones are imbalanced and vice versa.
Speaker: So you can't even, I don't think it's even possible to really treat something if you're not concentrating on the gut and hormones first.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: So the gut is the first thing, is the primary thing that you should focus on when it comes to your health, you're saying?
Speaker: Yeah, it's the first thing.
Speaker: That's how we detox.
Speaker: That's where our neurotransmitters are mostly created.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: like dopamine, serotonin, all of those feel-good neurotransmitters, if we don't have a good microbiome, we don't feel good.
Speaker: If we're not detoxing properly, then our hormones are imbalanced.
Speaker: Every single thing goes back to your gut health.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So for someone who doesn't understand gut health, what is gut health?
Speaker: What's the definition of gut health?
Speaker: I mean, it makes sense when you hear it, but what does it actually mean?
Speaker: We think it is.
Speaker: You say gut health.
Speaker: So it has to do a lot with your digestion.
Speaker: That's a big one.
Speaker: So one thing is, I think when I met you and you asked me what I did, I said I make people poop.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: That's a big part of it.
Speaker: So just making sure that you have daily bowel movements, just so that you're, that's a great indicator of how your gut is working.
Speaker: So digestion, are you digesting and absorbing the foods that you eat?
Speaker: So a lot of people have micronutrient deficiencies, they're unable
Speaker: to absorb certain nutrients from their food.
Speaker: So then it leads to all sorts of things like hair loss and all of that or fatigue, but it all starts with what's going on with your digestion.
Speaker: So in short, gut health, digestion very much intertwined together.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: And so, you know, when you think of the gut health, to have a healthy gut, what is the first thing anybody should have in mind first?
Speaker: What is the first thing to think about?
Speaker: Is it your water intake?
Speaker: Is it your rest?
Speaker: Is it exercise?
Speaker: Is it nutrition?
Speaker: Is it hereditary?
Speaker: Is it your DNA?
Speaker: Like, how do we have a healthy gut?
Speaker: What's the first thing we should focus on or think about?
Speaker: So the first thing is, are you eliminating properly every day?
Speaker: So bowel movements.
Speaker: That's the very first thing.
Speaker: If not,
Speaker: If you need coffee in order to have a bowel movement or anything else, relaxative or something like that, that's telling me that there's something going on with your gut.
Speaker: So that's first and foremost.
Speaker: And it's kind of like the easiest indicator because you don't need to take some kind of specialty test.
Speaker: You just know based on knowing yourself.
Speaker: So that's like the number one thing.
Speaker: And then when it comes to nutrition, that really also depends on what's going on with you.
Speaker: Like what symptoms do you have?
Speaker: I don't think there's like a one meal plan for everyone sort of thing.
Speaker: I think like nowadays people are always
Speaker: eliminating stuff from their diet completely and not eating and intermittent fasting and all of that, that's not necessarily good for your gut.
Speaker: That's kind of just, it's just been talked about on Instagram.
Speaker: People are like, oh, it's the best thing.
Speaker: You should all intermittent fast or you should do this diet or you should do the keto diet or you should do whatever diet just because it becomes popular.
Speaker: Not necessarily your gut.
Speaker: You can actually...
Speaker: hurt your gut many times, but everyone is so different and finding out what is going on with you.
Speaker: So first thing, um, bowel movements.
Speaker: So a question that I always ask patients is what kind of, what does your stool look like?
Speaker: You know, cause you can tell so much from that.
Speaker: Is it pebble like, is it well formed?
Speaker: Is it loose?
Speaker: Depending on that, then we can kind of understand what's going on.
Speaker: Is there a motility pro problem?
Speaker: Is it that you're not creating good guys in your gut?
Speaker: Like the good bacteria, the ones you take probiotics for?
Speaker: Kombucha.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: Do you not have enough of those?
Speaker: Or do you have too much of the bad guys?
Speaker: and that's causing you to feel bloated and gassy and have abdominal pain all the time.
Speaker: So really like finding out what's going on determines so much.
Speaker: And it's interesting because whenever I talk about gut health, it's correlated with so much, so many different symptoms.
Speaker: And I always say like there's, I've yet to see one patient who comes in with just one symptom.
Speaker: I don't think it exists.
Speaker: I really don't.
Speaker: Like that person that has like a gut issue
Speaker: or has bloating or has whatever it is going on.
Speaker: That person might have a headache or is fatigued or has acne.
Speaker: That's a big one skin and your gut or just can't focus.
Speaker: Feels like they have like symptoms of ADHD all the time.
Speaker: And they don't feel productive.
Speaker: That all has to do with what's going on with your gut health.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: But yeah, so there's so much to it.
Speaker: So many layers, right?
Speaker: So many layers.
Speaker: And I want to kind of take it back a bit.
Speaker: So we said gut health, but you said bowel movements, right?
Speaker: So is there some type of statistics on how many bowel movements you should have per day?
Speaker: Is bowel movements psychological?
Speaker: Is it because we don't want to go to the stool and let loose?
Speaker: Is it something we have to think about for some of us?
Speaker: Like, how do we know we're having
Speaker: bowel movements throughout the day to know that okay my gut is healthy how do you depict that how do you how does that work that's such a good question because people give such different answers for this i consider someone to be constipated if they're not having a bowel movement every day other people a lot of other people in the medical field will say no it's okay to skip a day i don't think it's ever okay to skip a day um
Speaker: And why do you say that?
Speaker: Because I think you always have to eliminate things from your gut.
Speaker: You should be regular.
Speaker: Everything should be going out of everything that comes in should be going out.
Speaker: It has a process.
Speaker: We're made this way.
Speaker: But it's so interesting that you're saying you're you asked about the whole psychological aspect.
Speaker: Every single thing.
Speaker: that happens to us that manifests into some kind of physical ailment or whatever it is, it's psychological to begin with.
Speaker: That's powerful.
Speaker: And I think we, one thought, like we, one negative thought can escalate
Speaker: And then it can lead to all these other physical symptoms.
Speaker: And you see that a lot with both constipation and diarrhea.
Speaker: You see that with IBS.
Speaker: Everyone that comes in has irritable bowel syndrome.
Speaker: That's to me is not a diagnosis.
Speaker: That's just like they didn't know what to do with you.
Speaker: So they said you have IBS.
Speaker: That's all.
Speaker: And there are a lot of times it's related to what feelings that have to do with like anxiety or depression or anything like that.
Speaker: It's so tied in together.
Speaker: So a lot of times it's, um, as females, I see this a lot.
Speaker: People don't want to talk about having bowel movements and they don't want it to show that they're going to the bathroom because in our society, it's been, um, looked down upon, like,
Speaker: Girls can't poop.
Speaker: Girls can't fart.
Speaker: You better poop girl.
Speaker: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker: Let loose.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So it is, it's very much psychological because if you are raised in this society where you're hearing this all the time, you're going to have a hard time just letting go and let loose.
Speaker: Um, and then also whenever people feel anxious, you get loose bowel movements all the time.
Speaker: It's very much correlated to your, to the way that your body digest and go.
Speaker: So definitely, huge, huge mood component.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: I had a teammate in high school, and before every game, he went to the toilet.
Speaker: And I was like, bro, how do you?
Speaker: He's like, I just got to go.
Speaker: Maybe because he was anxious and he was nervous.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: But maybe it turned into.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So you said bowel movements, gut health, digestive system, and you know,
Speaker: But here's the thing.
Speaker: We all have lived different lives and different demographics and classes and all these things, right?
Speaker: So how does nutrition play a part in our gut?
Speaker: Like you said it's not one diet or one meal prep or meal plan that fits all.
Speaker: So what should we be consuming the most to have a healthy, not only gut, but powerful?
Speaker: Like from a general perspective, do you have some insights on that?
Speaker: Yeah, I love your questions.
Speaker: They're so good.
Speaker: So yes, so lots of different variety of foods.
Speaker: Like don't stick to one food.
Speaker: Like that is the absolute worst thing you can do is to eat the same thing over and over again.
Speaker: And the reason is because we need these probiotics, these good guys that are from these variety of eating season.
Speaker: Like what's in season is so important because that's how you get all these different nutrients.
Speaker: Another thing is eating bitters.
Speaker: So a lot of times, different cultures around the world, like in our culture, in Persian culture, we have sabzi, which is bitter herbs on the table always.
Speaker: So yeah, what are bitters?
Speaker: Can you say?
Speaker: Yeah, so just bitters are bitter vegetables.
Speaker: They taste bitter.
Speaker: Like, name me some vegetables that are bitter.
Speaker: Radicchio, arugula, dandelion, all of those ones.
Speaker: Okay, got it.
Speaker: They're pretty good.
Speaker: I think they're tasty.
Speaker: It's probably too bitter for some people, but my palate is kind of different nowadays because I like eating these things so much.
Speaker: But yeah, but basically whenever you eat bitters, you should always eat some kind of bitter vegetable with food because it tells your body it's time to secrete digestive enzymes so that you can better digest and break down what you eat and absorb what you eat.
Speaker: So without these bitter vegetables, it actually has a very, we have a very hard time doing that.
Speaker: And then about diet also, it really depends on you as a person.
Speaker: So I see a lot of people that have mold or fungus in their body.
Speaker: Those people should not be having any sugar.
Speaker: Where's that from?
Speaker: Mold and fungus?
Speaker: Where's that come from?
Speaker: So that can be from your environment.
Speaker: that can be from different things.
Speaker: So I see it a lot in people that have breast implants because of like the biofilms accumulating on those breast implants.
Speaker: I see mold that way.
Speaker: But it can be from a lot of things.
Speaker: You can get it from a partner.
Speaker: You can get it from just the environment is huge.
Speaker: You can also get it from if you just eat a lot of sugar all the time, like you were raised like off of sodas and candy, your body is going to develop this fungus.
Speaker: And in order to starve that fungus from your body, you also need to starve it of its fuel, which is the sugar.
Speaker: So those people who have fungus in their body,
Speaker: really have their own diet that they need to consider.
Speaker: And I remember when you were in here, we discussed about like,
Speaker: how like my diet and like typically what I like to eat.
Speaker: And you're like, oh, you need to talk about this because it's like, it's so different.
Speaker: And I was telling you, I, what I eat is based on my cycle, on my menstrual cycle.
Speaker: So like I won't eat certain foods prior to my menstruation and I'll eat those same foods throughout the month and I'll be fine.
Speaker: And it took me a while to realize this, but it's basically what gives my body this inflammatory reaction.
Speaker: So, for example... No, is this just based on you or... So, this is based on me as well as what I've seen in other females.
Speaker: So, you think all women should eat different when they have... They should eat different, but what works for me doesn't necessarily work for another woman.
Speaker: Right, that's what it means.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And, like, for example, like, I'm pretty open about it.
Speaker: I don't eat meat around before I get my period.
Speaker: And that's because it took me a few years to figure out really painful...
Speaker: menstrual cramps.
Speaker: And it was just like the worst thing ever.
Speaker: It was debilitating.
Speaker: I couldn't do anything.
Speaker: So we kind of
Speaker: I kind of played around with different things, different diets, different herbs.
Speaker: And I realized I just can't have meat before my period.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: So I eliminate that completely.
Speaker: Ladies, you hear that?
Speaker: Don't eat meat before your period.
Speaker: Never listen to that.
Speaker: Not everyone.
Speaker: And it's so funny because like growing up, I remember like my grandma would always say, no, you need to eat meat.
Speaker: You need like the nutrients from it.
Speaker: It's so important.
Speaker: Like you have to have it around your period.
Speaker: Like it's the most important thing.
Speaker: So I think, oh, it's so great.
Speaker: I need to have it all the time.
Speaker: But now once ever since I realized that and I don't touch it, I feel so much better.
Speaker: So it's really just depends on the person and like figuring that out.
Speaker: And then like another thing is intermittent fasting.
Speaker: Yeah, I do that a lot.
Speaker: You do?
Speaker: So it works wonderfully.
Speaker: Yeah, I probably don't eat my first meal between 11.30 and 1, maybe 2 some days.
Speaker: But my body doesn't crave food early in the day.
Speaker: I don't know why, but it works for me.
Speaker: Right, so you go by based on intuitive feeling and how you feel.
Speaker: And that's the best way to do it.
Speaker: And that's totally fine.
Speaker: It works wonderfully as a man who intermittent fast.
Speaker: However, it is so terrible for females.
Speaker: I see women come in here all the time and they are fasting.
Speaker: They eat one meal a day.
Speaker: They lose their period.
Speaker: Their menstruate, irregular menstruation, all the time.
Speaker: As soon as they start eating breakfast and they start eating regular breakfast, lunch, and dinner, their hormones go back to normal.
Speaker: They get their period back.
Speaker: They don't need supplements.
Speaker: They don't need all that extra stuff.
Speaker: They just need to be eating.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Fasting completely changes your hormone levels.
Speaker: But that's why also intermittent fasting, guys like it so much to put on muscle mass and all of that because it also helps with growth hormone production.
Speaker: So it works really well for men.
Speaker: Unfortunately, like this Instagram biohacking world is very much male dominant.
Speaker: So we see that all the time.
Speaker: But not so much for the female body.
Speaker: Unless maybe like you're towards menopause or something like that where your hormones are changing, then it's
Speaker: But if you're in your 20s or 30s or 40s, like don't really recommend it.
Speaker: If you're trying to get pregnant anytime soon or anything like that, because it can really, really throw off things.
Speaker: So you're saying women should eat normal meals every day as much as they can.
Speaker: So morning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, at least to have a normal cycle.
Speaker: Exactly.
Speaker: And snacking in between is fine.
Speaker: Like whatever you need for you.
Speaker: It's so, so individualized.
Speaker: And what goes wrong is when we just try to like follow a certain diet and that's it.
Speaker: And so why is it different in men than women?
Speaker: What is it about women that they can't intermittent fast?
Speaker: Like can have that for them?
Speaker: Like what is it about their?
Speaker: So we need, yeah.
Speaker: So basically when I rest our whole,
Speaker: hormones just change and we need the whole estrogen goes up and it goes down and progesterone goes up and it goes down as part of our cycle because we are cyclical beings.
Speaker: It doesn't affect our testosterone as much like that'll be fine.
Speaker: If anything, it can probably increase it because of its correlation.
Speaker: However, just with the progesterone and estrogen, you're decreasing those levels in your body.
Speaker: And that's not too great because if you don't have progesterone, you know, like the whole thing of like people PMSing, like women PMSing, that's because if your progesterone drops, then you get irritable and you get moody and you have like high anxiety.
Speaker: And hold on, what was that word again?
Speaker: What was that word you said?
Speaker: What did I say?
Speaker: You said something drops.
Speaker: I didn't hear you.
Speaker: Oh, progesterone, one of our sex hormones.
Speaker: Oh, our sex hormones.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: Yeah, so that's related to like
Speaker: If you have low levels of progesterone, then you have insomnia, you can't sleep, you have high anxiety, you get irritable.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Well, hold on.
Speaker: Let's unpack this a bit.
Speaker: I want to unpack this.
Speaker: Okay, let's unpack it.
Speaker: I have a friend who literally had every single thing you just said, but I don't know the information you have.
Speaker: So anxious, I guess, can't sleep, skin,
Speaker: And what was that you just said?
Speaker: If you can remember, that was a lot of blood.
Speaker: So irritability, moodiness.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Anxiety, insomnia.
Speaker: So you can't sleep well.
Speaker: And that's because?
Speaker: You have low levels of progesterone.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: And to increase those levels, you have to eat more, you were saying, right?
Speaker: So there are, like, it is helpful to eat because if you're starving your body of food, you're starving your body of creating hormones, basically.
Speaker: That's a powerful one.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: But another thing, hormones, and this is why I love it so much, and this is why I nerd out on these things all the time.
Speaker: is because it's all about the balance of estrogen to progesterone.
Speaker: Everything that you do.
Speaker: So if your estrogen levels are so elevated and estrogen for females, you need it because it causes your vagina to be lubricated and it causes your skin to put on collagen and all of that.
Speaker: You need estrogen.
Speaker: You need it for your bones.
Speaker: However, if it's too high, then...
Speaker: your progesterone drops because it's all about balance together.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: And men, estrogen affects men as well.
Speaker: So men think it's always about testosterone.
Speaker: And I have guys come in here all the time and they just want to be put on testosterone replacement therapy because they think testosterone is the way to go.
Speaker: However, not always testosterone, it's estrogen.
Speaker: And estrogen, if you have too high estrogen, you will get man boobs.
Speaker: You'll get that belly fat that you can't get rid of.
Speaker: Oh, hold on, hold on.
Speaker: You hit the pointer.
Speaker: Hold on.
Speaker: Rewind that, Dr. Jasmine.
Speaker: You'll get man boobs.
Speaker: You'll get the gut.
Speaker: Hold on.
Speaker: So that's because you lack estrogen, you're saying?
Speaker: As a man?
Speaker: That's because you have too much estrogen.
Speaker: And then too much estrogen will lower your testosterone levels.
Speaker: And where do you men get most of that?
Speaker: You just got cut off.
Speaker: Can you repeat that question again?
Speaker: I said, where do men get estrogen from?
Speaker: Where do we accumulate estrogen as men?
Speaker: We don't know.
Speaker: No, we know.
Speaker: So estrogen is huge.
Speaker: I see it a lot in like from your environment.
Speaker: And this is what I mean by this is simple one, plastic water bottles.
Speaker: Ooh, good.
Speaker: I am so not a fan of plastic water bottles.
Speaker: Anytime I go to the gym and I just see, like, these guys working out and, like, trying to be so healthy and they have plastic water bottles near them, I just want to, like, throw something at the water bottle and knock it down.
Speaker: So, basically... Chemicals from the water bottles, yeah.
Speaker: It's terrible.
Speaker: So, it's BPA, and even the ones that say BPA-free, same thing.
Speaker: It's BPS.
Speaker: So, and it mimics...
Speaker: estrogen in your body.
Speaker: So it throws off the receptor of estrogen.
Speaker: And it can either cause too much estrogen, or it just causes kind of like a like little reaction there, and it decreases your testosterone level.
Speaker: So that's one thing.
Speaker: And then think about how much estrogen we're always always plastic where Yeah, we're always being exposed to or chem like anything with chemical like fragrances,
Speaker: like guys that take cologne showers, estrogen.
Speaker: You just know, you can smell them from a mile away and you'll just know that they have low testosterone and high estrogen.
Speaker: That's why they can't get rid of their man boobs.
Speaker: Damn!
Speaker: Let the plastic bottles go.
Speaker: This is so good.
Speaker: Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker: Interesting.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: There's little simple fixes.
Speaker: It's just part of like your lifestyle and it's not always like a drastic diet change.
Speaker: You know, you can totally like live in normal life in society and enjoy your life and just not have those plastic water bottles every day.
Speaker: Get rid of those plastic.
Speaker: So what water bottles should we drink from?
Speaker: Just glass water bottles?
Speaker: I do glass or stainless steel.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Glass or stainless steel.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: You hear that people?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And obviously avoid plastic.
Speaker: Like it's impossible.
Speaker: But if you think about it, you're having water every day.
Speaker: So if you can make just like that one little change, that goes a long way.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Or if you can just use products on your skin or fragrances that are more clean, also goes a long way because these are all what we call endocrine disruptors.
Speaker: So your endocrine
Speaker: system is your hormone and all of these fragrances all of these chemicals they shift your endocrine system and there's also there's actually an app for that that i really like um by the environmental working group it's called the think dirty app and you just scan oh yeah you told me that we gotta what's the name of the app i'm gonna put it in the comment think dirty t-h-i-n-k dirty like yeah exactly
Speaker: Wow, interesting.
Speaker: Yeah, so you just scan a product and it tells you how clean or dirty it is.
Speaker: And if it's dirty, it tells you why it's dirty.
Speaker: Oh, wow.
Speaker: Eat a cologne?
Speaker: Yeah, and start in cologne.
Speaker: It's a life changer.
Speaker: So we need a cheat sheet, Dr. Jasmine.
Speaker: We need a cheat sheet on how we can figure this out.
Speaker: So I wanna go back to nutrition because, I mean, I've been in LA 12 years.
Speaker: I've seen so many things change.
Speaker: All the girls want a big butt now.
Speaker: All the guys want to be in shape and, you know, wear tighter clothes.
Speaker: Fine, right?
Speaker: But what I've noticed is that everybody's on this vegan thing.
Speaker: Everybody wants to be vegan, vegan, vegan, vegan.
Speaker: And I'm like, I get it.
Speaker: I respect it.
Speaker: I understand it.
Speaker: But what are your thoughts on, I don't want to say sophisticated diet, but something like veganism or being vegan, like what is your perspective on that?
Speaker: And I don't think it's for everybody.
Speaker: I've tried it.
Speaker: It doesn't work for me.
Speaker: I highly, highly respect people that are vegan for the right reasons.
Speaker: And the right reasons for me are if you're an animal rights activist, totally understand that.
Speaker: And every time I get someone walking in the store and I ask them about their diet, I ask the reason behind it.
Speaker: If that's the reason you just, you decide to be vegan, it's the whole like philosophical thing, veganism and all of that completely respect it.
Speaker: They should be doing that.
Speaker: That's great.
Speaker: There's probably like certain supplements you can take and fantastic.
Speaker: However, if someone comes in here and they're like, I'm vegan because it's healthy for me.
Speaker: No, that is not correct.
Speaker: Yeah, no way.
Speaker: We see crazy amounts of vitamin B12 deficiency when people change their diets like that.
Speaker: Their fatigue, their hair starts falling out all over the place.
Speaker: Their thyroid hormone changes everything.
Speaker: They're not getting the nutrients that they need.
Speaker: And most people do it wrong anyways.
Speaker: They just eat a bunch of like pasta and tomato sauce and they call themselves vegan.
Speaker: Like they're not actually getting good nutrients.
Speaker: Um, so they're missing out on a lot of things.
Speaker: Like we need all of these, um, nutrients from these food.
Speaker: We were meant to eat these foods for the most part.
Speaker: It doesn't mean it works for everyone, but for most, for the most part, we do need people.
Speaker: We do need to eat all of these different foods.
Speaker: Like eggs provide us with choline.
Speaker: It is so important for your brain health.
Speaker: Um,
Speaker: Fish, fantastic.
Speaker: Fish.
Speaker: Hey, are you fish?
Speaker: Yeah, fish is great.
Speaker: Fish has its pros and cons.
Speaker: I'm a big fish eater.
Speaker: So here's the thing.
Speaker: What type of egg should we be eating?
Speaker: Pasture-raised organic.
Speaker: Fish.
Speaker: Last year, I was pescatarian.
Speaker: And then this year, no, most of, no, in February I changed, I started eating meat again.
Speaker: But what type of fish should we intake or what we should eat?
Speaker: That's, that's good.
Speaker: So I have, yeah, I have very mixed opinions about fish because I am a huge sushi eater and I love fish.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: But I also recognize that it's not the best for you always.
Speaker: And that's why I don't like just the pescatarian diet or just veganism, because you need to have a broad spectrum.
Speaker: If you stick to the same things, it's going to hurt you.
Speaker: So with fish, wild fish is the best.
Speaker: However, and low mercury fish.
Speaker: However, given that there's always like all this waste and stuff dumped in our oceans, is it really the best for you or all this...
Speaker: Or like back in the day when I was an undergrad, I took an environmental political science class.
Speaker: And I remember just watching these videos about all the plastic being dumped into our oceans and our fish are consuming it and we are consuming the fish.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So yeah.
Speaker: So what a wild fish.
Speaker: What's wild fish?
Speaker: Wild fish are fish that are in the ocean as opposed to farm raised that have been treated with a variety of chemicals.
Speaker: So what can you name some of them?
Speaker: They have them for pretty much all fish, but salmon is one.
Speaker: Cod is another one.
Speaker: I'm not a big fan of tuna in general, just because the mercury in tuna is really high.
Speaker: And when we have high levels of mercury, that will shift your hormones completely too.
Speaker: That's an endocrine disruptor.
Speaker: Yeah, so we need to check your mercury levels if you were doing a high-carian diet.
Speaker: Yeah, it's most certainly a vegetarian diet.
Speaker: Goddamn.
Speaker: We're not talking about the plant.
Speaker: We're going to do it.
Speaker: Yeah, so basically, if you have high mercury levels, that causes all sorts of issues.
Speaker: But it's fine to have, like, fish here and there is great, but then you want to, like, have meat one day, like red meat, chicken, anything.
Speaker: Of course, you don't want to have things that are highly processed.
Speaker: That would be a good rule of thumb, actually.
Speaker: No processed foods.
Speaker: Yeah, processed foods.
Speaker: If you don't understand the ingredients, don't eat it.
Speaker: Ooh, if you don't understand the ingredients, don't eat it.
Speaker: Y'all hear that?
Speaker: That's really great.
Speaker: That should be a bar.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: Does your blood type, right?
Speaker: Does your blood type affect your hormones or your digestive system?
Speaker: Does that matter at all when it comes to your gut health?
Speaker: Yeah, so blood type and hormones, I'm not too sure of.
Speaker: I know that there is someone who came out with this whole blood type diet.
Speaker: I know it works great for certain people.
Speaker: Tells you like, oh, if you're the blood type, you should be eating a lot of meat.
Speaker: If you're this other blood type, you should be eating a lot of this food.
Speaker: I've heard great things about it.
Speaker: It's not something that I really like.
Speaker: really go by in my practice.
Speaker: What I do is with the blood, I will do like a food sensitivity test.
Speaker: So you'll come in here and you'll be like, I want to know what foods I have a sensitivity to.
Speaker: Not an allergy.
Speaker: So it's not a life sentence.
Speaker: What's the difference?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So basically, oh, just like got disconnected, but I think we're back.
Speaker: Sensitivity is basically an inflammatory response.
Speaker: So your body is always trying to protect you.
Speaker: So anytime you, this is how like autoimmune conditions happen.
Speaker: Your body attacks itself thinking that it's helping you and it's fighting off a foreign invader.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: However,
Speaker: what is the same mechanism of action.
Speaker: You eat something, your body, you eat an avocado, let's say.
Speaker: Avocado, great food, love it.
Speaker: So many nutrients, electrolytes, good fats, all of that.
Speaker: However, for some reason, when you eat avocados, your body thinks it's foreign.
Speaker: It attacks that avocado.
Speaker: So it creates antibodies, it creates an inflammatory response, and it makes you feel fatigued, bloated, gassy.
Speaker: All of these issues will come up every time you eat that certain food.
Speaker: And that's a sensitivity.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: An allergy is more like an allergic reaction, like peanuts.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: Like if you have peanuts and you have an allergy, and then you get anaphylactic shock, basically.
Speaker: So...
Speaker: That's the big, big difference.
Speaker: And then a sensitivity.
Speaker: So we find out, okay, let's say you are sensitive to avocados.
Speaker: We eliminate that from your diet for a few months.
Speaker: We work on your gut health, making sure that you're eating good foods, you're taking good nutrients.
Speaker: And then we replenish your gut flora, making sure you have the good probiotics in your gut.
Speaker: And then you should be able to eat those foods again after that six month period.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And what's the difference between probiotic and prebiotic?
Speaker: I'm always confused.
Speaker: I love my kombucha, but I've been eliminating sugar and I feel the best ever.
Speaker: I've always thought I needed the kombucha.
Speaker: I do have some probiotic pills, but what's the difference between prebiotic and probiotic?
Speaker: I don't know the difference.
Speaker: So prebiotics create probiotics in your body.
Speaker: Basically, it's like the whole fermentation process.
Speaker: Probiotics are the actual good guys.
Speaker: However, I actually, I like this question because I do want to make it clear.
Speaker: Biotics.
Speaker: You do not need to be taking probiotics.
Speaker: Most people don't need it.
Speaker: Yes, if you have, if you took antibiotics, probably you should be taking probiotics after because antibiotics has been proven to change your gut flora.
Speaker: So therefore you want to replenish your gut and eat these good guys, these good bacteria, get that in your gut so that you can have neurotransmitters form in your body at good levels like dopamine and serotonin.
Speaker: and you don't want to feel bloated after antibiotics or fatigue after antibiotics.
Speaker: So that's why you take probiotics.
Speaker: However, people come in here and they are in all these different probiotics and they've been taking it forever.
Speaker: And I'm like, well, is it doing anything for you?
Speaker: And usually they're like, I don't know.
Speaker: I just take it because I thought it was good for me.
Speaker: That can actually hurt you.
Speaker: And the reason for that is if you are someone that leans towards being bloated or having irregular bowel movements,
Speaker: or just being gassy all the time.
Speaker: It's probably because there's something going on in your gut, maybe a pathogen, maybe fungus, very likely bacterial overgrowth.
Speaker: So you have certain bacteria that are not good for you, and they're probably growing at a high rate in your body, and they're causing you to have these symptoms.
Speaker: So then you're adding other bacteria to it, the probiotics.
Speaker: that's obviously going to give you more and more symptoms.
Speaker: So probiotics, not for everyone.
Speaker: Yeah, so then I think it was three years ago.
Speaker: That's why I went pescatarian.
Speaker: So I think I went on a trip to Mexico.
Speaker: I was in Cancun, I believe, for a wedding.
Speaker: And I h ad a binge or something.
Speaker: And my stomach was like off.
Speaker: But like prior to that, I was eating like a lot of meat and just everything.
Speaker: And I heard this thing that when men get 30 or older, their digestive system change, they become more bloated.
Speaker: So I don't know if that's a thing, but I started to take the probiotics and like it helped me.
Speaker: with whatever i was dealing with in my gut right so that's what got me into the probiotics but i did eliminate the meat because i always felt like bloated but i didn't know where it came from so is there some type of myth or some type of thing that's actually true for men when you get 30 or older you experience you blow that you're bloated more is that a thing or so many things about that it is correct when we
Speaker: The big thing about 30 and older is that your testosterone also drops.
Speaker: So you also just like feel more sluggish in general.
Speaker: However, but you're helping people with that all the time, giving them crazy workouts to do, increasing that.
Speaker: But then also your stomach acid changes.
Speaker: So that's a big one.
Speaker: Interesting.
Speaker: So when your stomach acid changes, you...
Speaker: are depleted of certain nutrients, B12 being one of them.
Speaker: That's why B12 is one of like those anti-aging vitamins, because we're not able to absorb B12 from food as much as we get older.
Speaker: But it's two, we just can't, because our stomach acid changes, our digestion changes, and we're not able to really get all the benefits from that.
Speaker: So yeah, definitely that makes sense.
Speaker: It's interesting that you have experience though, because I think
Speaker: Sometimes our body just needs a break from certain foods.
Speaker: Like we're eating the same foods over and over again, or travel, we get some kind of pathogen or virus in our bodies.
Speaker: And we just need to shift and find out what's going on and change that up a little bit.
Speaker: It's not always probiotic.
Speaker: Sometimes it is an issue creating digestive enzymes.
Speaker: So sometimes like that's why bitters help or digestive enzymes in general, because we need that signal to our pancreas to secrete those digestive enzymes so that you can better digest food.
Speaker: So it really just depends on what's going on.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: And you know, watching, I would say, can you, or do you have any inclination on if two people are in a relationship, right?
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: and they wanna get it on, they wanna have some amazing intimacy, is there some type of meal or something they should think about to kind of, does that make sense?
Speaker: Because like you said, as you get older as men, things drop, as women, things increase.
Speaker: I'm trying to understand
Speaker: our digestive system, of course, how we think, what the food we put in our body, right?
Speaker: Does that affect our sex drive, right?
Speaker: Oh, 100%.
Speaker: And is there some type of regimen or routine or food or balanced diet or way of going to have an effective, you know, sexual experience with your partner?
Speaker: Because I think... Right, and just like, yeah, libido overall.
Speaker: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker: That's a fair question.
Speaker: It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker: So I wouldn't say there's like one food that everyone should be eating.
Speaker: However, it is finding out what is going on with you, specifically what's going on with hormones.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: So that's huge.
Speaker: And a big one is testosterone.
Speaker: So for women and men, when testosterone drops, libido drops too.
Speaker: And you're just not able to have that same kind of arousal and pleasure from all of that.
Speaker: So basically big one is what we talked about before is avoiding.
Speaker: So avoiding certain things I think are actually more helpful than adding in certain things for in this case.
Speaker: And that would just be like, if someone is just always eating processed foods and things that are high in sugar, that's not going to go well with the gut.
Speaker: It's also if someone's having plastic water bottles all the time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or, you know, like anytime I get like a takeout in like those plastic containers and it's like warm food and it's just like melting that plastic.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Things like that.
Speaker: Probably not a good idea if you're doing that every single night, cause that will change your hormones, but eating clean in general, I think you just start feeling better about yourself.
Speaker: There you go.
Speaker: And that's really what it is.
Speaker: And you feel more energized.
Speaker: And you just want to do more things and you start feeling better about the way you look and the way you feel.
Speaker: And it's so psychological when it comes to things like that.
Speaker: So just knowing, like not feeling loaded is huge.
Speaker: Yes.
Speaker: What?
Speaker: It was amazing.
Speaker: Or like I said, beginning of November up until Thanksgiving, I didn't have any sugar.
Speaker: And you know, Erwan, Erwan is like my spot.
Speaker: And when I went in there, the things I usually would have that had sugar in it, I wasn't even pulled to it.
Speaker: I wasn't even gravitating to it.
Speaker: I was like, my body doesn't need it because I haven't been eating sugar.
Speaker: No dark chocolate, no nice sugar.
Speaker: vegan pound cake or no vegan chips you know no kombucha you know all a dry fruit because I'm thinking these are the healthy things but I eliminated those things out of my diet and how I felt was just amazing so eliminating sugar really helps and no processed foods and those plastic water bottles people please get them away so in your business in your practice
Speaker: Say a potential client wants to come and get all this information, data about themselves.
Speaker: Do you guys have a process that you take them through?
Speaker: Do you got to take their blood?
Speaker: Do they got to use the bathroom?
Speaker: How does that work?
Speaker: Somebody wants to throw all this information to have a better gut.
Speaker: So when they come in, it's pretty, it's an extensive intake because I take a holistic approach.
Speaker: It's not like, oh, I just have loading and that's it, right?
Speaker: So they have other things.
Speaker: So it's head to toe questions, really understanding their medical history, what they've been going through, really understanding the person as a whole and spending time to understand that person as a whole.
Speaker: I've never seen a patient just for 15 minutes.
Speaker: It doesn't happen.
Speaker: They really like, I want to give them my attention and really understand what's going on and where they're coming from and what they've tried also.
Speaker: That's huge to see what works and what doesn't work and what their environment looks like.
Speaker: And once I say that a lot, why is environment so important?
Speaker: Why do you say it's important?
Speaker: I mean, I know from my perspective, but I'm saying from because you're in a holistic, you in that world, like why the environment?
Speaker: And when you say environment, what does that mean?
Speaker: The environment in your household, in your cabinets, where you live, the pollution of the air, like what part of an environment are you actually talking about?
Speaker: All of it.
Speaker: So your environment could be the people around you.
Speaker: That's huge.
Speaker: If you're around negative people all day long, that is going to affect you.
Speaker: So that is your gut.
Speaker: That affects your gut.
Speaker: That affects everything.
Speaker: Your gut, your mental state of being, your ability to even sleep at night.
Speaker: So definitely you don't want to be around what we call like toxic people.
Speaker: But like people that are just like bring them.
Speaker: Another thing is
Speaker: is so big part of my practice is seeing patients that have mold.
Speaker: So black mold growing in your home, that is
Speaker: huge that is a big big part of my practice so if you have mold that is your environment your pollution so if you are exposed to pollutants all the time that is your environment if you are eating certain mercury like if you're eating a lot of fish high in mercury or if you have like fillings in your teeth and you have mercury that's yeah and that's part of your environment so your environment is so so important did i get those removed
Speaker: That really depends.
Speaker: Have you, we need to check your mercury levels.
Speaker: You need to come in here tomorrow.
Speaker: We need to do a blood draw for you and figure out what's going on.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: But then just really understanding the person as a, based on that, we determine if we need to do any labs and then we have a blood draw, a lab on site and we do blood draws here, but then I do not collect like
Speaker: poo or urine or anything like that.
Speaker: That is all done at the comfort of someone's home and we send that to a lab and then I look at the results and I see what's going on with the person and then I find, I determine like a plan to treat them.
Speaker: It's all based for me, I do a lot of lifestyle and dietary recommendations.
Speaker: Big on herbal medicine.
Speaker: Love herbs.
Speaker: Yeah, I was going to get into that plant medicine.
Speaker: What's that about?
Speaker: Why plant medicine over...
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So basically because it provides you, each herb provides you with nutrients that help support detox, that help support your gut and your hormones.
Speaker: So I love it.
Speaker: I also use homeopathy, nutrient therapy, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, peptide therapy, a bunch of natural ways to achieve our goal basically.
Speaker: So verbal medicine is the way to go.
Speaker: We got to come.
Speaker: We got to come get that plant medicine.
Speaker: It's the way to go.
Speaker: And what about the medicine that people smoke?
Speaker: Does that help or no?
Speaker: What kind of?
Speaker: Oh, like cannabis.
Speaker: So that works well for people.
Speaker: I don't recommend it in my practice because it's not something that I do a lot of, but I see a lot of people that use it and do well with it.
Speaker: And then I also see a lot of people that have their moles like kids.
Speaker: I've seen kids.
Speaker: Have their marijuana traced with mold and they have mold really related illness because of it What you mean because they're around the smoke?
Speaker: No because they got a bad batch and it had mold in it and yeah and like this kid's mom that I'm thinking about took that bad batch and Took it to a lab and they tested it and found out it had high levels of mold because the kid had constipation ever since he smoked that damn yeah
Speaker: Wow, that's what it is.
Speaker: Yeah, so definitely there's pros and cons to everything.
Speaker: But before I forget, I was gonna say that it's funny that you mentioned the whole, you stopped eating sugar and they didn't eat it anymore.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So basically, I always say if you have a fungus in your body, that's why you're craving sugar.
Speaker: Once you get rid of that,
Speaker: you don't really have that craving.
Speaker: Or like I have some people come in here and they're like, I can't eat bread.
Speaker: I have like a gluten sensitivity.
Speaker: Like, how am I going to live?
Speaker: But you're not going to feel that way about bread once you cut it out and you see how amazing you feel.
Speaker: Your body's not even going to want it.
Speaker: I know.
Speaker: I feel so free.
Speaker: I've always been in shape, but I'm like,
Speaker: I mean, I would get dark chocolate all the time, a kombucha all the time.
Speaker: The vegan bean filled chips.
Speaker: Oh, I'm always eating them.
Speaker: Every time I go to Erewhon.
Speaker: Easy.
Speaker: Not no more.
Speaker: I'm good.
Speaker: So it's interesting.
Speaker: I want to talk before we get on.
Speaker: I want to talk about hair loss, hair loss in your hair is turning gray or different colors.
Speaker: I have.
Speaker: experience drinking alkaline water and actually alkaline water helping hair growth.
Speaker: So what is your research or experience with people in hair loss?
Speaker: Where's the root cause in most individuals?
Speaker: I love this topic.
Speaker: So I see a lot of hair loss, both in men and women.
Speaker: Nowadays, ever since COVID, it's like, it's crazy how much hair loss I see.
Speaker: I don't know if people are paying more attention to their health,
Speaker: or it's just something that happened post COVID, no idea.
Speaker: But it is, I love it because it pretty much pinpoints on every single thing that I like to address.
Speaker: Like your gut, are you deficient in certain micronutrients and that's why you have the hair loss?
Speaker: That would be a gut issue.
Speaker: Have some kind of hormone imbalance.
Speaker: So what I mean by that is your thyroid
Speaker: is a big one.
Speaker: And a lot of times when you go to a doctor, they will only test one thyroid hormone and they say, oh, you're fine.
Speaker: You don't have a thyroid issue.
Speaker: But I like to look at the entire picture when it comes to your thyroid health.
Speaker: So if a thyroid marker is activating into the more active form of thyroid hormone, if it's not, you're going to get hair loss.
Speaker: So huge with hormones.
Speaker: I also like to look at your testosterone.
Speaker: So
Speaker: If your testosterone is low for both men and women, you'll get a bunch of hair shedding and even bald patches.
Speaker: If testosterone is high, you'll get an elevation in another hormone called DHT, and that will also cause hair loss.
Speaker: So you need that middle ground.
Speaker: Do we have some type of cheat sheet or some book that both men and women can utilize to kind of have a balance or at least some awareness of how much testosterone or I can't even say the word in estrogen that we need?
Speaker: Like, how do you, how do you conquer that feat?
Speaker: Like, what do we need to do?
Speaker: Like,
Speaker: Should I lift more weights and eat more steak?
Speaker: I mean, lifting weights is fantastic for building testosterone.
Speaker: There are so many things and it's probably not going to shoot it up so crazy that you're going to have an overbalance and then you're going to have issues with too much testosterone production that causes hair loss.
Speaker: You probably won't have that.
Speaker: There's no, we need to create something.
Speaker: We need to create a pamphlet.
Speaker: Come on, where's the book?
Speaker: Come on, where's the book?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So do you, are you able to take clients virtually?
Speaker: I do, I see a lot of clients virtually.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: And what's the best way for people to reach you if they want to?
Speaker: So you can go to my Instagram and find you.
Speaker: Beverly Hills, naturalmedicine.com.
Speaker: Beverly Hills, naturalmedicine.com.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Oh, and the last, last thing.
Speaker: Yeah, hair loss.
Speaker: I know we're running out of time here.
Speaker: But so your psychological well being.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because we can never conquer hair loss if we don't conquer.
Speaker: stress basically and it's psychological stress and then your adrenals which sit above your kidneys these take the hit anytime you have any kind of life stressor and the reason that's so important to mention is because when your adrenals are affected your sex hormones estrogen progesterone testosterone these all shift wow your mineral corticoids your blood pressure response mess up
Speaker: Your cortisol, cortisol is your stress hormone.
Speaker: It's supposed to go up in the morning.
Speaker: So you wake up feeling refreshed and happy and you feel energetic and it's supposed to go down at night so that you can get good sleep.
Speaker: That's also affected.
Speaker: And then you get hair loss from it because of all of those shifts.
Speaker: So definitely your psychological wellbeing is so, so important.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Someone just asked the question, what causes premature graying of hair?
Speaker: Is that a thing?
Speaker: Grain?
Speaker: Graying.
Speaker: Like gray.
Speaker: Premature.
Speaker: So that's a lot of times it's genetic.
Speaker: Sometimes it is.
Speaker: Most of the time it's genetic.
Speaker: Sometimes it can be a glutathione deficiency.
Speaker: Glutathione is a master antioxidant in your body.
Speaker: Where do we get it from?
Speaker: What can we get it from?
Speaker: We create it, but we can also, like, our bodies have that.
Speaker: It's a supply chain.
Speaker: something that our body supplies when you drink alcohol when you take tylenol when you are just out and about when you're exposed to mold and these plastic water bottles yes then you do deplete your body of glutathione so we do like supplements here we do ivs of glutathione and things like that to really replenish your body with that got it i love that i mean you're amazing i mean
Speaker: balance, the gut health, psychological stress, life stress.
Speaker: And how do we improve?
Speaker: I guess you said how do we improve luda dion levels?
Speaker: I guess IV drips?
Speaker: Is it some type of food or supplements?
Speaker: Right?
Speaker: So yeah, definitely you can do food and supplements.
Speaker: But also you can just be aware of your environment and not go into like maybe like extremely polluted areas.
Speaker: I know sometimes it's hard.
Speaker: But, or if you are, then you take certain supplements to also just support your glutathione levels.
Speaker: Or like if you go out for a night of heavy drinking, then maybe think about that and think about this accident in my body is being depleted and I need to do something about it.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: I love that.
Speaker: So before we get off here, can you just give us five things that come to mind that we should think about or utilize to have a healthy gut?
Speaker: Just want to kind of reiterate some of the stuff that we spoke on, but just five things, you know, I know you said bowel movements.
Speaker: Yeah, you go.
Speaker: Yeah, so bowel movements.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: Healthy gut, healthy mind.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: Okay.
Speaker: So I guess like the people you're surrounded by is huge.
Speaker: And being kind to yourself.
Speaker: I tell my patients this all the time.
Speaker: Be kind to yourself.
Speaker: I think that gets so overlooked so often.
Speaker: We're not really that nice to ourselves many times.
Speaker: And that's huge.
Speaker: That's huge for the way that you process information for how you take in, like how your body accepts signals, stress in general.
Speaker: These are all so important for your gut health.
Speaker: Your environment is important.
Speaker: If you are living in an old home,
Speaker: and you are surrounded by, or if you're in a construction site, so old home, like, and you have mold or asbestos or something like that, figure that out.
Speaker: Invest in finding out if there is mold in your home.
Speaker: It is so, so important because that's a fungus, and that will throw off your gut microbiome.
Speaker: It would completely change the bacteria in your gut.
Speaker: Another thing is don't follow the fad diets.
Speaker: Doesn't work for everyone.
Speaker: Just be aware of eating a lot of different vegetables, a lot of different foods and eat bitters.
Speaker: Eat bitters.
Speaker: Bitters again or what?
Speaker: Vegetables, right?
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: So bitter vegetables like arugula, radicchio, dandelion, things like that.
Speaker: Got it.
Speaker: And then I think the doctor said, how do you be kind to yourself?
Speaker: How can we be kind to ourselves?
Speaker: being accepting of whatever is going on with you.
Speaker: So if there's something going on like health wise, then just be nice about it.
Speaker: Like don't be so hard on yourself or understand that it takes time to make improvements.
Speaker: I like that.
Speaker: Say that again.
Speaker: It takes time to make improvements.
Speaker: That's me.
Speaker: I got to talk to me because I'm hard on myself.
Speaker: Eat.
Speaker: It takes time.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Or like, you know, like a lot of times we're just expected to,
Speaker: Like we have a headache and we're so used to just taking an Advil or a Tylenol and just feeling better right away.
Speaker: But what if, what if we didn't treat it that way?
Speaker: And we were, we were more patient with whatever was going on with us.
Speaker: And we said, okay, I keep getting these headaches.
Speaker: Why do I get these headaches?
Speaker: And what can I do about it?
Speaker: That whole process of being patient and treating yourself nicely and being like, okay, or if I have acne, like there's so much acne.
Speaker: Yeah, can you speak on that?
Speaker: Because a lot of people have experienced that in their lifetime.
Speaker: What is the skin and the gut or your food you eat?
Speaker: How does that correlate?
Speaker: Because I think a lot of people suffer.
Speaker: Right.
Speaker: So this is one of the most fun things I would say to treat because you see the fastest results in general.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Because you change your diet, you find out what's going on with your gut, and you see your skin clearing up.
Speaker: But basically, acne, a few different reasons.
Speaker: It can be like, let's say you have too much testosterone that creates sebum production in your face.
Speaker: creates this and that whole like domino effect and that causes acne.
Speaker: Another reason is because you have this bacterial overgrowth in your gut and whatever is happening with your gut comes out in your skin.
Speaker: And I always tell people, if you have acne, you are actually one of the lucky ones because your body is telling you something and it's saying, stop what you're doing.
Speaker: It's not working for me.
Speaker: Listen to me.
Speaker: Like I, it's a cry for help.
Speaker: As opposed to the person who doesn't experience that just goes on with their life and then later on has some kind of chronic illness.
Speaker: They were never like, they never got those little like other more physical symptoms that people are more sensitive to.
Speaker: So just finding out what is going on.
Speaker: So, yeah.
Speaker: So with acne, just being like understanding that be patient with yourself.
Speaker: Like don't just,
Speaker: Like Accutane is not always the best choice, like things that affect your liver and things like that.
Speaker: There's so much more that you can do to really just help your gut, help your skin, and your body is telling you something and you need to listen to it.
Speaker: And acne is also, is that correlated to hormones as well?
Speaker: It is.
Speaker: So if you have too much like testosterone in your body for both men and for women, then you get acne too.
Speaker: So that is definitely one of the symptoms.
Speaker: And that's why testosterone and that's why I love, love doing like hormonal health.
Speaker: You have to find a sweet spot with everything.
Speaker: And it's not just like, oh, like, you just need to be at this level, or at this level, figure out what level works for you.
Speaker: Wow.
Speaker: Well, Dr. Jasmine, you're amazing, phenomenal.
Speaker: We got to, hey, everyone follow her right now.
Speaker: She's incredible.
Speaker: She has all the information to help better your gut health, your well-being, and get to the root cause of what's causing frustration, maybe, psychologically, internally.
Speaker: But I think you got to do more panels and more speaking on this because more people need to know, you know, I think it's important.
Speaker: I mean, you unpack so much from the plastic water bottles to your environment, to your mercury levels, all these things.
Speaker: And yeah, I think it's good to be positive, to eat healthy and to know your body and your mind.
Speaker: So people follow Dr. Jasmine, tap in with her information.
Speaker: Anything we need to know that you have that we can invest or even seek from your space?
Speaker: You said the website.
Speaker: Yeah, the website is a great, great source.
Speaker: You can send us an email through that as well.
Speaker: And what's the website again?
Speaker: BeverlyHillsNaturalMedicine.com
Speaker: Beverly Hills, naturalmedicine.com.
Speaker: Good.
Speaker: I appreciate you so much, Jasmine.
Speaker: I appreciate you.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: We'll be in contact.
Speaker: I got to come get the mercury test and all these other things, but thanks again.
Speaker: And have a phenomenal rest of your week and evening.
Speaker: Thank you so much.
Speaker: Yeah.
Speaker: Gut health.
Speaker: Y'all see that?
Speaker: We did it.
Speaker: We did it.
Speaker: We did it.
Speaker: We did it.
Speaker: We did it.
Speaker: So follow her.
Speaker: I'm excited because I just got some download on, you know, when you get in your 30s as a male.
Speaker: you know, your stomach and all these things change and levels drop.
Speaker: So listen, people, information changes situations.
Speaker: Get the information to better your situation so you can understand, you can grow, you can heal, you can evolve, and you can feel good inside out.
Speaker: And when you eat clean and you feel good, everything's good.
Speaker: So that's what it's about.
Speaker: Thank you for listening.
Speaker: Thank you for joining.
Speaker: Make sure you subscribe to Bigger Talks Podcast.
Speaker: If you haven't already, follow Dr. Jasmine.
Speaker: She's amazing.
Speaker: And that's all.
Speaker: That's it.
Speaker: It's a miracle season, people.
Speaker: Be great.
Speaker: Treat yourself with love and respect.
Speaker: Have a good week.
