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Ep. 10 - Unmasking Hidden Toxins: Implementing Healthy Choices for a Safer Environment and Better Wellbeing

• Renee Barasch

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Ever wondered how the seemingly harmless products you use daily could be affecting your health? That's what we're tackling in this eye-opening episode. Strap in as we unveil the hidden toxins lurking in our environment, food, and everyday products. We'll pinpoint common culprits like pesticides in our foods, chemicals in beauty products, fluoride in water, and even emotional toxins that are impacting our overall well-being. But fear not, we're not here to frighten you but enlighten you and arm you with practical solutions to reduce these toxic loads. Hear our personal experiences and preferences for non-toxic products, and see how easy it can be to make the switch.

An essential part of our discussion focuses on the importance of clean ingredients. We shed light on why it's imperative to scrutinize ingredient labels and choose chemical-free products not just for ourselves, but also for the safety of our pets. We share alternatives like essential oils, and unscented options, and give tips on how to spot toxic seed oils. Remember, your choices can significantly impact your health, so let's choose wisely. And if you've ever been confused about the organic versus non-organic debate, we've got you covered! We delve into this controversy, highlighting the benefits of choosing organic options whenever possible.

As we approach the holiday season, we realize sticking to a healthy diet can be a real challenge. So we've put together some tips to help you maintain a healthy lifestyle without missing out on the festivities. We stress the importance of choosing clean, healthy foods, and discuss convenient ways to stick to your diet. After all, a healthy outside starts from the inside. But we believe that detoxification isn't just about physical health; it's also about mental well-being. We emphasize the energetic aspect of detoxification, urging listeners to maintain a positive mindset. After all, your health is an investment, not an expense. We'll see you in our next episode before Thanksgiving week. Until then, take care and stay healthy!



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Renee:

And we're live. Janine is here with us. She looks great, doesn't she? She's having camera issues today, but she's still here with us. So welcome everybody to the Tummy Whisper podcast. We are on episode number 10 already. I can't believe it. It's so exciting and when I was thinking about what I'd be talking about today, there's just so many topics and so many things to talk about when we're talking about whispering the tummy. But I thought I would branch out a little bit and talk about toxins environmental. What's in the air, what's in our environment, what's in our food? How can we start to lower the toxic load in our body? And there's many ways to do it. So, janine, you and I have talked about this before. Feel free to jump in anytime. I feel like I don't, since I can't see you. You're not really here, but you are.

Janine:

I'm here. I'm here.

Renee:

I swear I'm here. I know you're here, but I thought we would just dive into, maybe starting with some food toxins and then spilling out over into the environment, but just a quick idea about what toxins are, where they're found, how we can start to lower the toxic burden in our environment by what we eat, by what we breathe, the air that we breathe, by what we surround ourselves with. And then, don't forget, there's emotional toxins too, and that's a whole other podcast. But starting with the air, starting with our water, starting with our food our food today is just not grown on very clean soil. There's a lot of pesticide, there's a lot of genetic modification, there's a lot of environmental toxins. There's just dirt in the air and dirt everywhere. So we have to do extra filtering and cleaning to get cleaner products in our body. And I will say Facebook. I'm a target on Facebook because of what I do for a living, but I'm always getting inundated with all these different snacks and oils and products, isn't it fine?

Renee:

You're like this sucks, this is good, this sucks, this is good, and I do my due diligence and I actually I'm going to talk about the cooking oils a little bit later on but I got a paid advertisement from a company called Zero Acres and this guy was talking about cooking oils and I'm always searching for something that's clean, that has a high smoke point and is, and this guy really did his due diligence and created a really awesome product. So I'll get into oils in a little bit, but I want to start with just let's start with some environmental toxins, then we'll go over into the foods. We've talked about plugins before. Perfumes, deodorants, cruise.

Renee:

There's so many toxic ingredients in our beauty products. It is daunting and some of the stuff you can't even pronounce and they use it as preservative, as a way to make things like more sudsy. Even in toothpaste there's fluoride and there'll be dentists on here going how dare you bash fluoride? But fluoride's a toxin and it doesn't help harden the enamel of your teeth. It may do that, but it's also an estrogen mimicker. It's also a toxin. It's also. The body doesn't have a way to really get rid of that stuff. So fluoride toothpaste is. I believe it's a marketing thing. People should probably get toothpaste without fluoride. Now again, I'm not a dentist so I certainly can't make recommendations for you personally, but I personally do not use toothpaste with fluoride in it, and I haven't for years.

Janine:

Don't they keep putting fluoride in our water? Oh, it's in there.

Renee:

It is in there. I'll just send another thing and we can do a whole show on water, but I'll give it just a quick minute excerpt on water. If you are not filtering your water and I don't care where you live, you are the water filter. You're filtering all the toxins out through your own body. So I always love you when you say you've heard me say it before either buy a water filter or become a water filter.

Renee:

You need to clean the water. You can't afford a big fancy system. You can get a Brita or a zero pitcher. That's 46 bucks from Amazon and that will at least clean a lot of the garbage out. We use a Berkey filter here at home, which is great. It takes out the fluoride, the chlorine, viruses, parasites, mold. It takes out so much stuff. I'm on water here where I live out in Fox Lake Illinois, so there's a lot of parasites and a lot of bacteria and a lot of stuff you don't want to be drinking. So we filter all that out. The Berkey filter keeps the minerals intact, so it's a nice system. My system costs about 350 bucks and it's a lifetime system. I have to replace the filters once a year. They're like 46 bucks for the fluoride filters and then for the big black filters. Those are every five years and they're under $100. So it is definitely a money saver.

Renee:

And if you're drinking water out of plastic for females, for males too, it's estrogen mimicking. If you're over 30, you're drinking out of plastic, you definitely don't. There's phthalates in there estrogen mimickers. The body doesn't clear all that stuff out. It was funny. I even took Rook, my dog. I have an environmental holistic vet for him and they did a little swab on his gums to see where he was having any kind of sensitivities to environment or foods or anything I was feeding him or anything. And he was in great shape, this little guy. It made me so happy. The only thing that showed up on his little cheek swab was he had a sensitivity to plastics. So he does love to steal the plastic bags and chew them and shred them and all that stuff.

Renee:

And it was a very low level. Plastics showed up for him because plastic is everywhere. It's probably in our water and I'm not sure if my Berkey is filtering out all the plastics and if the plastics are filtered out of all the food that we eat. His little frozen pucks are in plastic in the freezer. So it's funny. I found an amazing little restaurant about half an hour for me in Lake Bluff, illinois. So if anybody is near Lake Bluff, there's a restaurant called Forest Greens and she makes organic, clean, environmentally friendly soups and this is plastic that's made from, not plastic, excuse me, she used.

Renee:

The cartons are not plastic or Styrofoam, they are paper and the liner is all plant-based. So you have to really open up the soup and let's start to defrost. You have to get it in the pot and eat it within one to two days because the packaging will start to get soft and the water doesn't leak through it, but there's no crap going into your soup that the food is sitting in. So looking at packaging is another thing. Plastic is. You can't go to the grocery store without finding stuff in plastic. So getting rid of the plastics, or getting rid of as much as you can, is definitely a big help. Back to the water real quick. Fill up the water, get some kind of water filtration system for yourself. It's only going to help your health long term.

Renee:

When we were talking about shampoos and we're talking about so I use for bar soap, I use Zoom, the Zoom line. Zum it's a goat soap, goat milk soap with essential oils and there's no crap in it. So all the SLSs and all the foaming agents and all the stuff that you would find in shampoos and soaps and conditioners not foaming conditioner, but there's a lot of stuff in there and there's a lot of companies that have really taken care of trying to get that stuff out and make cleaner products for people who want it, like me and other people who are aware and don't want to put crap in there on their body. Even it doesn't have to be organic. It just has to be not loaded with chemicals.

Janine:

What about no sulfites? Like I know that when I buy stuff to do with hair products, I try to do it as no sulfite as I can.

Renee:

As clean as possible?

Janine:

Yeah, or paraffins. What is it Parabens?

Renee:

Parabens are a big one, yeah yeah, and there's a lot of. It's hard to get all that stuff out. But if you can get it mostly out and you have this a little bit in, if you're getting less of a hit to your body remember your skin is your largest organ of absorption right. What you put on goes in. So if you're putting stuff on, the body's got to filter and clean it out. The kidneys deliver all your organs of detoxification nasal passages, skin part of our detoxification right and urinary bladder and bowels. That's the way we get rid of stuff. But if stuff gets stuck in the tissues and causes issues in the tissues, we're going to have problems, issues in the tissues.

Renee:

Another thing to look at too is not just what we're putting on our skin, but what we're breathing. I know we've talked about plugins before, but even saying those two words together causes me great PTSD. I cannot. I just don't have the bandwidth for the chemicals. Some people can handle them just fine, and again, that's good. Their body doesn't tell them hey, this is a problem. Like me, I get a burning headache when I have an around perfume or Febreze or anything like that. In fact, I just ordered some little poop bag containers for the end of the leash for a row and they always send them with some bags in them and the bags are always scented and I'm like, I hope in the package from Amazon I go, why? Yeah?

Janine:

why would they do that?

Renee:

Even if I get a magazine which I don't get magazines, but once in a while I'll get like a glamour or a logo it's got a perfume card sample in there and I'm like I don't even open it, I just send it straight into the garage, in the garbage in the garage yeah, those kinds of things. In the home, if you're using candles and air fresheners, if you want to use a clean, fresh in the home essential oils, if you have pets, look up what oils are indicated around dogs, around cats. But using cleaner stuff without the chemicals is a long-term help for the body. You feel good now You're in your 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, but down the road you don't want to end up with brain diseases and things that cause issues because the body's full of loaded with toxins and doesn't have a way to release and get rid of them because we keep bombarding the body with the toxic environment. So the air that we breathe.

Renee:

Cleaning products seventh generation there's a bunch of. You can just Google whatever cleaning products there are. Some people like the multi-level marketing Melaleuca. I use some of their products. If you notice that something bothers, you switch to something else, switch to unscented. I mean, everything for me is unscented. How about the garbage bags? Scented garbage bags. Why is that a thing?

Renee:

That is why I have the good point. And what is?

Janine:

in that scent? What is actually in that? What chemicals are in that To make it?

Renee:

smell.

Renee:

I mean, I can't tell you how many times I, when I go to the grocery store and I know which glad bags to buy there have no scent in them. But every once in a while Mark makes a mistake or I make a mistake and I don't check the label and I open up the thing. I rip open the cardboard and I'm bombarded with the toxins. I'm like, oh, I just close it up and then give it to my neighbor. So so garbage, scented garbage bags, things that are scented, is a good thing to start getting out of the environment. And not only is it bad for you guys, it's bad for your pets. It's one thing if you don't care about yourself. Take some care for your pets, your cats and your dogs and your living animals in your home that are breathing in that stuff, that have smaller organs of detoxification than we do and have a harder time getting stuff out because their little livers are smaller, right, their kidneys are smaller than ours Little chalupas, Little chalupas oh, I wish I could see the chalupas.

Janine:

They're right next to me, they're sleeping. I have a tent, I have a little tent for them, and they're snuggling up together.

Renee:

Episode number 11,. Stay tuned for the chalupas, I know.

Janine:

My babies.

Renee:

So, janine, do you clean your house with? Do you use Lysol, or do you use any of that stuff, or do you try to use like?

Janine:

Try to use like Malaluka products or like seventh generation or something that's like less toxic to the. Yeah, because the last thing first of all. Those chemicals are so potent in itself Like even Clorox is just the scent of it. It's awful. So it's super important when you're cleaning that you have things that are safe, especially with you and I may not have children, but we have dogs and they're like kids and they lay on the floor and they're licking their paws and people don't realize what they're doing to their animals when they're mopping their floors or wiping off different surfaces.

Renee:

And it's one thing too if you're gonna use a little bleach, then wash it with water afterwards I know like our shower gets pretty like the mold and diatomaceous earth and apple cider vinegar not apple cider, but like white vinegar or something like that Get some of it. But sometimes you need just a little elbow grease. So if you're gonna use it quickly, get your air purifier going and then rinse it. Rinse it really and rinse it fast. Sometimes you do have to use a little bit of bleach for something or another, but not every week and not all the time. It's definitely something that you can use as a once in a while thing, for sure. And that's another thing too countertops what are you washing your countertops with? Vinegar is a great anti-parasitic, anti-viral, anti-microbial. A little vinegar and water cleans your surfaces. You certainly have to be careful with vinegar on wood, but other surfaces certainly. It's good for that too.

Janine:

My dad's wore by white vinegar Growing up it was always white vinegar in the mop, white vinegar on everything.

Renee:

Yeah, your house was a small like vinegar.

Janine:

It did it did. I have PTSD from that, but it was healthier.

Renee:

But you probably don't have any vinegar in your house because you're like no vinegar.

Janine:

No white vinegar for me. I'm sure, I think I have it somewhere, but I don't use it on purpose.

Renee:

I'm like no, the other thing too I was gonna mention is laundry detergent. Hmm, I found something I mean these health groups on Facebook and I'll just look every once in a while because I don't wanna spend too much time on it but they're these little laundry sheets now, not tied pods guys, not that. But there's something that I have it's a reasonable price, called clean people, and it's a sheet. It's a soap sheet that's got like biodegradable enzymes that are break the dirt off the clothes and I get the unscented because I don't want the scents and it cleans wonderfully.

Renee:

And when you're washing your clothes, one rinse isn't enough on some of those commercial detergents, right, if you wash your clothes, and you probably don't have to put soap in every single time if you're using commercial detergent, because the sudsing agents are. They're just so much in them that if you lift the lid up to the washing machine, you'd see the white suds even on the rinse cycle. So that's why I like this product. Clean people you can get on Amazon C-L-E-A-N. People, clean people little sheets that you throw in, one for a small load, two for a large load, and sometimes I'll use a little bit of Melaleuca oil just to disinfect the underwear.

Renee:

Yeah yeah, from or if I'm washing Rook stuff you wanna get, he's always in stuff and rolling in stuff. So you wanna have some kind of antimicrobial agent in the washing machine. That's not a toxin. A little tea tree oil couple drops into the cycle.

Janine:

Oh, that's a good idea.

Renee:

Tea tree oil Tea tree oil yeah, but that clean people is great. I know Dottara makes laundry detergent that I've used.

Janine:

Oh, I love Dottara products. I love that yeah.

Renee:

I sometimes use their laundry detergent a little bit. With that, just a little bit. If I'm using the clean people, if I have a big load, I'll put a couple of so a little quarter of a cap full in just to give it the nice Dottara smell the essential oils. But laundry detergent is a big thing. And again, Janine, right, I'm washing Rook, I'm drying them off with my towels. Do I wanna be drying them off with toxins? No, you don't wanna dry the tulupas off with toxins. Right, you want your laundry detergent.

Janine:

But people are used to growing up in a society where you watch the tide bear on the television and you watch the yes, the snuggle bear. The snuggle bear. And then you watch the. You're programmed in the 60s and 70s and 80s and 90s to do and buy certain things and it's so crazy the advertising that it's just so unhealthy advertising.

Renee:

And you don't even think about like that. Honestly, the Glade SC Johnson wax, all these days are going to come after me, but their plug-in product is just so horrible and I told you, when I go into restaurants, I use the bathroom, I throw, I take that plug-in out and I throw it out because it's you're just killing people. It's really you're just. You're breathing in that stuff into your lungs. It's no different than vaping. It's no different than vaping and kids getting popcorn lungs. You're breathing in that same stuff, only worse. In my opinion, it is bad. Where were we? Yeah, we were at a restaurant last week and then we came before and there was a plug-in in there and I just went right in the garbage and I washed my hands real well afterwards.

Janine:

That is hilarious.

Renee:

I know.

Janine:

You should start a whole movement where you just go around town in Illinois and just take all the Glade plug-ins out.

Renee:

Yeah, how fun that would be. We could make it like worldwide. It'd be the lunatic where people would be like, oh yeah, the plug-in girl, yeah, and you know how many people are like you had. They'd be like go plug-ins, make me sick, or you know what you could do.

Janine:

We could write to them and be like hey, glade, we should tag Glade in this and be like hey, can you please come up with an eco-friendly alternative for? Your plug-in, because then we would be promoting them as opposed to the alternative.

Renee:

If they made an essential oil and it had none of the toxins in there, I'd be all about it, because brand names are a big thing for people as well too. But yeah, so that pretty much covers the home between cleaning products, your own beauty products, your water, that type of thing. Let's dive into what people really want. Let's talk about food. Let's talk about food toxins. What's in food, what to look for, what to avoid, what to try to start reading the label on things like that. So everybody goes to the grocery store, everybody has to buy things, typically buying your produce and you're gonna shop around the outside of the grocery store because that's where all the fresh stuff is the inside aisles. You do need some stuff. For whatever diet you're on or not on, I would start looking for things that have ingredients that are less than six. Ingredients are less than six. So if you are looking at if you're gluten-free and you get a gluten-free cracker or a gluten-free cookie, you wanna look for ingredients that are things less than six. So there's a specific buckwheat cracker that I get that has two ingredients in it Buckwheat and water. Perfect, it's a gluten-free cracker, it's organic, it's non-GMO and that's one of the crackers that I use.

Renee:

Seed oils are another thing that people are becoming very aware of, and it's something to stay away from. Seed oils are very toxic. Now, I'm not saying sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds in whole form are toxic, because they're not. It's the seed oil that turns rancid in high heat and a lot of these companies use these sunflower seed oil because, a it's cheap and B it's available and you can get it and they can get it in big quantities. But sunflower seed oil and a lot of the seed oils very toxic. So when you're looking at your favorite products, guys look for sunflower seed oil and things like that, tlax seed oil. That's not great either, unless you're actually grinding your own flax seeds and using that for your oatmeal or something like that. So the seed oils are another big one.

Renee:

There's been a big controversy on organic versus non-organic. If what you're buying says organic on it, is it 100% organic? No, it's not. Nothing can be 100% organic, but what it has is less chemicals on it, less crap on it. So instead of getting something that's not organic, you're having a big boatload of toxic waste on it, right, toxic crap, chemicals. You're buying something that's organic, maybe has less than half, maybe hopefully more than that of toxic stuff. That's not in it. There are certain things that companies to label something organic, a food product, it does cost companies a lot of money, so a lot of companies stay away from it, just like that seed oil, that oil that I was talking about earlier. They are organic and free but they don't pay to stay organic because it would cost the company tons of money. I think it's I don't know how much it is, but it costs small businesses a lot of money.

Janine:

I'm not gonna be totally that's the whole podcast in itself. It is, they believe, something as organic or non-GMO or non-gluten-free or like that whole process. Kosher, like that whole process.

Renee:

Yes, yes, vegan yeah, and the company that was mentioning earlier this is what I was talking about was Zero Acre Farms. And here I just, oops, hold on T-t-t-t-to-do. It is so. It's gluten-free and I'm gonna look at the profile real quick. They have no.

Renee:

Vegetable oils are bad. Fat is good. Vegetable oils are bad, bad for us, bad for the planet. This guy goes into Y, I'll send you the little link. But this is a cultured oil, cultured fermented oil, and it really talks about why the way they process their oil and how it's grown in a very specialized region of the world where it's less toxic, is better for you. It stands with stands on high smoke point. You can saute, you can cook, you can fry in it, you can do anything, and it's got a very neutral flavor. You can pour it straight on your salad for salad dressing. All that is very important in terms of where things are grown.

Renee:

And do you know the company Bulletproof Genine Hiver ever heard of doing? I do, dave Appsbury. So he's got a new coffee called he changed the Bulletproof name to I don't know, it's some crazy name Danger that has danger coffee. It's danger coffee. It's so good, it's dangerous. So he doesn't label his coffee organic, but his stuff, his coffee beans are grown in a place in the Robots. I don't know where they are, but they don't use pesticides. But in order for him to stay organic. He's a small business, he's got a big business but it would cost him a lot of money to stay certified organic. But some companies will pay it. But his stuff is clean and it doesn't have the pesticides that we use here in the good old USA that are banned in other countries, which I've mentioned before. Europe does not. I don't know how many places. There's only a few places that allow roundup and we're one of the lucky ones.

Janine:

So Interesting Europe. Europe is a totally it's. You're going to laugh at me and yell at me, but it's the only country, or the only countries in the world were like when I lived in Italy, I would drink a can of Coca Cola because it was actually made with sugar, like then. It's not made with high fridges, corn syrup, like. The actual ingredients are listed and it's a different case to everything over there, but they don't allow certain things that Europe does not.

Renee:

they have banned so many things that we allow here, and we wonder why we're such a sick society for such an advanced country that we are so far behind the times when it comes to our food, and that's not an accident, so I believe that 100% they're. They know money in the care money's in keeping, keeping everyone sick.

Renee:

And this drug, need that drug and sounding like Chris rock, off to it. So you do some of the funniest bits on drugs and doctors off to send you one if you need to laugh. But but back to what's important. So you don't feel great and you think that you would like to start feeling better. Start checking in with your environment, what you're putting on your skin, what you're living within your home, your cleaning products, what you're eating, going with things that have less than five than them. I'm not saying I have some clients, jeanine, who come to me eating very clean salads and grilled chicken and no cereal, vegetables and fruit and still feel poor because part of it is they're not breaking down with their eating. But their organs of detoxification are working really well.

Renee:

And when we're talking in terms of detoxification, we always start with how the body gets rid of stuff. What do we put into the body? Food, right food is if we don't digest what we're putting in. That's the first way we start backing up our detoxification pathways. The first way is by putting in inflammatory things that our bodies can't get rid of, and these foods get trapped in the tissues and can't get rid of the pesticides and the toxins that are on these foods. The term, like you got, we've talked about before. How does the gut leak leaks from undigested food particles that actually pass through the gut membrane, from something called zonulin. So when you eat certain foods on your release, the tight junctions of the GI track that are very tight start to pry apart and then the that opens up. I'm sorry, in the junctions of the GI tracks it's supposed to be very tight when they start to open up, that's when the undigested food particles can leak in to the bloodstream. The kidneys have to clean and filter the blood and if there's so much undigested food in there, it's going to back up the kidneys. The liver's in play there. The liver can hold on to stuff. The bile from the liver makes the bile. The gallbladder regulates it. Bile is a huge organ detoxification. The bile is what holds toxins in as well.

Renee:

So if you're craving a lot of fat and craving a lot of sugar and your body's not breaking it down, you're going to get sludge, you file, you're going to get diarrhea, you're going to get constipation, bloating, gas, all the digestive stuff. So here's a way to use what your level of health is as a barometer How's your digestion Right? Do you have good digestion? Are you bloated? Do you have gas? Do you have poor ball movements? Do you have low energy? Do you wake up in the morning? Do you wake up in the morning feeling like you can need another three to five hours of sleep because you just can't get out of bed? That is a surefire sign that your digestion isn't working.

Renee:

And what you're eating maybe part of the issue, but how you're digesting what you're eating is the second part of it, because, remember, good health is what you're eating, how your body digest it, absorbs the nutrients and gets rid of the waste. And then there's 10 other stuff in between there about what has to happen with conversion and what's the difference to be used for making hormones or making energy or whatever we need for our bodies to perform optimally, which a lot of people just don't feel good anymore. And why is that? It's because our world is fricking polluted. Our food is polluted. I'm on my soapbox, but you guys who are listening I know you guys understand this, because you're like, yeah, I've been thinking about this and I don't feel good, or I already knew about this, and this is great to hear somebody else talk about it, because it's true.

Janine:

It's so true, it's so true and it's people just don't know what they don't know, and a lot of things are. But then again that raises the question can we're all old enough to know better and know how to find resources to know better? So it's like what excuse, to what point can you give someone grace? And when it comes to that, and that's- a great point.

Renee:

It's hard for people to make change because they're so used to what they're used to until they're not feeling good and then they're forced into change or they want to do a little bit of preventative maintenance and not feel crappy as they're aging right. Do some prevention now so that you can age gracefully, not talking without wrinkles or gray hair. I'm talking feeling good every day, which a lot of people don't, and it's definitely important, and we talked about this last podcast. We're entering into holiday season, or as I call it, holiday or food season, because everyone uses the excuse of oh, thanksgiving and Halloween's over now, but Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's and all this other stuff, and it's not really an excuse to eat poorly.

Renee:

You can have a lot of volume of food. You just have to make sure it's good, clean, healthy food. Like I am hosting for Thanksgiving, it's gonna be Rook and Mark and I and hopefully his daughter is coming, hopefully Greta will be joining us and maybe a friend of mine might be coming and bringing her dog too, which will be fun. But we're gonna have turkey, we're gonna have butternut squash soup and we have some garlic green beans, gonna have some sweet potatoes, some mashed potatoes and these delicious.

Janine:

Butternut squash soup is that traditional?

Renee:

Yes, yes, you have you.

Janine:

Yeah, have you ever had butternut squash soup In restaurants? But I've never actually made it, and I love it.

Renee:

And so that four screens and fluff plug. They make a delicious butternut squash soup. In fact, I'm gonna have the owner on with me when she can find some time so we can get more people over to her Cute little cafe. She's got juices, she's got sweets, she's got soup, she's got entrees. Everything is organic, handmade, so delicious. We picked up a. This was grilled chicken on a bed of sprouts with roasted.

Renee:

Brussels sprouts, sweet potato and this cashew dressing. I have a tiny little bit of spice to it. My body loved it. My body loved it. I told her thank you for saving my marriage Because I don't like to cook and you said you have a place by you that you could pick up your little nice entrees with grilled chicken and some vegetables Mixed, some cheese.

Janine:

There's a place it's called Delivery Service, but it's local and you can literally go in there and the chef is in there making gluten-free meals and not only gluten-free if he makes a little bit of everything. But they're healthy, they're portioned, you can go in and grab them and they're really good. I think it's fit foods or something local, yeah that's so nice. That's so nice, so delicious.

Renee:

And that's what people can start looking for a local place near you that you can pick up a nice grilled salmon on a bed of greens and some potatoes or something like that. If you don't like to cook and so many of my clients have included myself something I don't like to, I just don't make the time to I'll make eggs out or something like that and make some oatmeal or something or whatever. I'll grill some chicken or something or bake some chicken or something like that. But to open up the refrigerator and have those soups and have those little entrees, it makes life so much easier and it makes it easier to stick to my diet. In fact, anna Marie is. She's the owner of Forest Greens and she's so kind and I told her that I wanna have some soups made without black pepper, because for people that are auto-mean like myself, black pepper is really an O, and she's more than happy to make some soups for me, some of her soups without black pepper.

Janine:

I didn't know that black pepper can be like a trigger for auto-immune.

Renee:

Yeah, it definitely hits the immune system hard and if you don't have an issue with it, it's fine. But when you have auto-immune, that's one of the things to watch that and the nightshades, of course, for sure, and other things, and we can make a separate show about that we will. But, yeah, finding some convenient ways to feed yourself cleanly, cleaning up your environment, chewing your food really well, is a nice, good way to detoxify. And breathing. I don't talk about it on every episode, but I wanna end today's episode with just taking a minute after dinner and just sitting, relaxing and just opening up your rib cage, taking deep breath in and just exhale out. Open up that rib cage, allow the diaphragm to release and push the contents of the stomach so that the stomach can start digesting better. So your diaphragm a lot of people's diaphragms, myself included just tight and it doesn't allow for it, can impair digestion. So when you can open up and expand your rib cage and give your food room and give your stomach room to break down the incoming load, that is helping to release the contents of the stomach and helping with digestion. So, sitting for a minute and breathing breathing is free, doesn't get any cheaper than that. Guys, it's free.

Renee:

Take a minute after dinner every day, one minute. Sit, relax and breathe in through the nose always that's the only mandatory rule and out through either the mouth or the nose, and expand can put your hands on your belly. I'll stand up just for a minute. Inhale hands, go out, exhale. I think it helps when you actually touch your tummy. You can see your hands push out when you're inhaling, so your hands should be moving out. When you're inhaling, you're filling yourself with air and when you exhale, blow it all out. Be grateful for the food that you eat, and the energetic piece to this, to detoxification, is having a good mindset around your environment, your day, your life, things that you do, being good people, being kind, being helpful and trying to be the best person that you can be.

Janine:

So that was my I was not Renee and I'm standing up right now doing these exercises with you. So I'm literally standing. It just feels so good to open up that diaphragm because I struggle with digestive obviously digestion issues. So a lot of people forget to just do that because if they're sitting and they're not allowing their body to open up, they're not allowing that digestive process to start too.

Renee:

Because physically your rib cage is closed in. But the minute you open up that, you open up your rib cage by giving it that physical room of inhaling, your expanding your rib cage. Drop your shoulders, you can press in, you can feel your tummy and a lot of people who don't feel good. That's even hard for them to do. But start by just changing your mind about what you want for yourself every day. Just wake up. Maybe wake up you don't feel good, but you know what? Do something that's going to give you joy for that day, something that's going to make you feel good. And if you can start helping your mind and your body do things to feel good, your energy will follow that. Remember, energy flows where energy goes. So if you think you're feeling like shit, and you are, guess what? You're going to keep feeling like shit until you start to make some change, and the changes can be very small.

Renee:

You can put some extra water throughout the day. Put some fruit in your water, a little bit of cucumber, a little bit of lemon, if water is boring, so that you can get a little hydration in you, so that your cells can get some water. And, as always, reach out to me with any questions about any of this. I'm happy to help. You guys can reach me at thetummywhisperercom, and if you have any kind of questions about your health, about your digestion, about the environment or anything you're thinking about, please don't be shy. I'm here to answer your questions and, of course, make sure you download and Apple Spotify. Where else? Janine, I wish we got this. This is your cart.

Janine:

Yes, leave a five star rating for Renee on Apple, spotify or your preferred platform and definitely share this with friends or family if you like the episode, because it really goes a long way in the podcast ecosystem.

Renee:

It's the ecosystem. Good job there, janine. But yeah, everybody, you guys, everybody have a happy, healthy Thanksgiving. I don't think we'll be talking before then. When we have one more episode, I think we will have one.

Janine:

Let me see, we will.

Renee:

We have one more, I think so we are going to be. Let me check it real quick. We are going to have one Thanksgiving week. How about that? That's right, we'll make it fun. We'll make it fun, that's right, we'll make it fun For sure. Take care, everybody, be well.

Janine:

Bye guys.