The Tummy Whisperer

The Gut-Skin Connection

• Renee Barasch

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The missing link in your skincare routine might be hiding in your gut. This eye-opening conversation reveals how your digestive health directly impacts your skin's appearance and overall radiance.

In this episode, Renee and Janine dive deep into the gut-skin connection, sharing personal transformations and professional insights. "Your skin is your second mouth," Renee explains, highlighting how this often-overlooked organ absorbs everything we put on it—including harmful chemicals found in most conventional beauty products.

The discussion tackles a critical industry secret: most skincare products contain water as a primary ingredient, requiring chemical preservatives that disrupt hormones and overburden your liver. These toxins create a cascade of internal problems that eventually manifest as skin issues no expensive cream can fix. The solution? Waterless beauty products that deliver concentrated, therapeutic ingredients without the harmful additives.

Both women share their transformative experiences with clean skincare. Their excitement is palpable as they describe products that don't just sit on the skin but truly absorb and heal from within.

Beyond skincare, this episode offers practical steps for cleaner living—from filtered water and air purifiers to gentle digestive support. The conversation emphasizes that small, consistent changes yield significant health improvements over time. Whether you're dealing with acne, melasma, or premature aging, this episode connects the dots between your internal health and external appearance.

Ready to transform your skin from the inside out? Discover how small changes to your gut health routine and skincare products can create visible, lasting results that no conventional beauty treatment can match.


Get to the root cause of your Gut Issues!  Watch the Gut Restoration Masterclass at https://learn.digestivehealthsolutions.com/

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Speaker 1:

Hey Janine, hi Renee, how are you? I am great, it's so good to see you. It's been a while no kidding, right, it's been a minute. It's been a minute, it's been an hour, it's been months, but I am back and I'm so excited to talk to you guys today. I'm sorry for being missing in action, but I've got a lot to share today and I think everybody's going to be super interested in what the topic today is going to be the gut skin connection. So we're going to be talking today, we're going to be kind of diving in into the gut, as always, but we're going to talk about how it translates into the skin and vice versa. But before we do that, before we dive in, I just want to welcome everybody back as well too. I hope everybody's been staying cool. It's been a really weird weather summer. I'm in Illinois, as you guys know, and we've just had a sauna here for weeks. The weather's so weird and I can't even imagine how you're not, how you're still alive in Florida there.

Speaker 2:

You know I'm a glutton. I love the heat, you know.

Speaker 1:

I do.

Speaker 2:

I love it. I got to tell you I I like sweating, I like humidity.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I don't mind it. You know, the thing for me is like I'm going through menopause, so the hot flashes are real, so I'm just like in one constant hot flash. It's okay. I can't tell if it's like a whole day hot flash or if it's just the weather. Yeah, so it's interesting. But sweating is good for you. It's a form of detox. So, yes, we got to appreciate that for what it is for sure. But, yeah, how have you been Catch me up on anything that's new with you before we jump into the very exciting topic of digestion and skin and beauty?

Speaker 2:

So I just for the last eight months actually, I found out last week I've been, I applied for a new studio space downtown and I just a word that I got the space. So now I'm gonna have this big studio and I'm super excited about it. I haven't publicly said anything yet on my page, so if people watch this, they'll be able to you know, see that. But oh, that is so cool.

Speaker 1:

So just an easier way for you to do your work, with more added features in terms of what MacGyver can do for your videos and all that right.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely, and more opportunity for my clients. I'm going to create two different types of spaces in there, so it'll allow clients opportunity to choose, maybe what set they'd like if they come in to record, so I'm really excited about that. That'll take place within the next two months, so that's what I've been up to, and just recording clients. It's been great.

Speaker 1:

Oh, that is great. I I don't know how we dropped off, but it doesn't matter because I'm back. I can't wait to share some insights with everybody. And you know, I was joking around with my husband the other day because you know, everything's AI right. I was joking around with my husband the other day because you know everything's AI right and I said, honey, you think I'll ever be replaced by AI? There's not a chance in hell. People still want that communication, they still want your knowledge, they still need your support and there's so much information that you can Google. I still Google stuff just for fun. You know kind of I sometimes have to Google medication interactions or things like that, or just stuff that is. Google can be very helpful. But you know, ai is that's a whole, nother animal. And I'm, you know, while we're all still human so far until Elon makes us robots Right, until Elon makes there you go. I always feel like the Jetsons. You know, like we'll all be rosy at some point.

Speaker 2:

It's amazing. I wonder if I could forward fast forward in time in the next 50 years and see what AI has replaced or is able to do.

Speaker 1:

I mean, I'd be happy if it replaced cleaning and cooking. I'd be all about that.

Speaker 2:

Laundry.

Speaker 1:

Laundry, I don't mind, but the cooking part, you know, open up the refrigerator and you've got like a nice meal and you're like, oh, you sit down and then wiggle your nose like bewitched and then the dishes are done. So I'm going back, I know the Jetsons Mix Samantha with the George Jetson and you've got like the perfect scenario anyway, okay, enough of this nonsense, so all right. Well, janine, it's so great to see you. I'm just going to dive in. I am so excited to share with you guys today some insights into your health. Everybody's got I would say, not everybody. Most people have some kind of health question mark, right, whether it's your sleep or menopausal weight gain, or maybe food doesn't just feel right when you eat it and you're not sure what to eat, or you have high blood pressure, or you have low energy. You have skin issues, which is going to be the highlight today. So I'm really excited to bring you guys spoiler alert an amazing skincare company that is the super cleanest, most therapeutic skincare company out there, and we're going to get there shortly. But everybody has something that they would like to work on in terms of their health. I would say, for the most part, if you feel good, you feel great. I'm psyched for you, that's great. This is still a topic for you anyway, because what are you putting on your skin, right? That's going to end up kind of, you know, muting your health and causing some hormonal dysregulation and all that type of thing. So let's go back to the basics with your health.

Speaker 1:

Where does good health start? Good health starts with having a good, positive outlook. It's hard to have a good, positive outlook when there's so much stress in the world. There's news, there's politics, there's kids, there's spouses, there's job stress, there's financial stress. Nobody is unscathed, nobody. So we have these stresses. And what happens when we have these stresses? Your digestive system starts to shut down and it can happen very slowly and over time, that slow progression mutes enough of your digestion, your absorption, to start to cause symptoms.

Speaker 1:

This is where I come in terms of being able to help people connect the dots for their health. So when we look at a short-term stress or a long-term stress, and remember the stresses are emotional, nutritional or chemical, right, or nutritional and chemical are together Emotional, nutritional, chemical or mechanical. Mechanical is tight shoulders, crunching down the neck, pressing in the rib cage and not allowing for good bile flow from your gallbladder because the diaphragm is squashing you right. So those are mechanical stresses, nutritional stresses. Maybe you're eating something that's inflammatory, whether it's gluten or dairy or pickles or whatever it is that causes you an issue that you may not know is causing you an issue. And then the emotional part. Most of the time and there's a lot of research out there now and it's just coming into fruition. I'm so excited about it the emotional part, the brain part.

Speaker 1:

How does our brain stay healthy and strong? The very first order of business is through our gut and through eating and living a clean environment to the best of our ability. Our brain relies on our gut for all the neurotransmitters, the uptake of absorption, for vitamins and minerals. It's just, it's everything your microbiome. There are studies now that are out that are talking about certain brain diseases that are completely a cause of a low functioning microbiome. So the microbiome is your tummy, it's your garden, it's what's happening in your garden, and we always need a lot of good fertilizer in the garden and unfortunately we have more shit than fertilizer. Right? There's more toxicity, there's bacterias, there's biofilms, there's these overgrowth, there's candida, there's all these things that, like a wetsuit, impair our ability to absorb our good nutrients. So we start bolstering our microbiome, improving digestion. That's where we can start to see improvements in our health. So what does it mean to improve our microbiome? Well, it means that it's not just taking probiotics, it's actually eating foods that are beneficial for our body. And remember, everybody is different. There is no one size fits all.

Speaker 1:

I just received some test results back from a young girl in her mid-20s lovely girl. Her and her mom are working with me. She went vegan for ethical reasons and health reasons about in 2018. She felt better initially but then she kind of developed some more tummy issues over the years, got testing back. She's so deficient all over the place, but then she kind of developed some more tummy issues over the years, got testing back. She's so deficient all over the place, even though she eats plant based vegetables you know some soy but she has some overgrowth and her gut is not where she wants to be, which is why she hired me in the first place. But you would think with a good high vegetable diet she'd have great calcium absorption, good vitamin C, good minerals. She was deficient on the whole test and I had to have that loving, tough conversation with her which I actually had with her mom. First I said what do you think about telling her? Do you think she might be open to having a little bit of goat cheese and maybe some eggs? And she's, oh, be open. So we had the conversation yesterday and I think she was really grateful for it because she doesn't feel good. So again back to how do we help our gut? Well, again, no one size fits all is different for everybody and while I love vegetables for some people, vegetables bother them. It depends on their level and their load of bacteria. So the gut is the part of the body that feeds from the internal to external. And here's my segue into the external, into the internal.

Speaker 1:

I, for about the past eight to nine months, have been working with a wonderful skincare company and I will say my whole career I've been looking for a clean skincare that checks the box on organic and therapeutic or talking shampoos and soaps, because all that stuff has water in it, right, and water is an unstable molecule and it needs stabilizers and preservatives to keep that water from growing mold in the products. So when you look at something like a, pureology is a I hope they're not listening. You know it's a clean-ish shampoo and they top themselves with a clean. There's a lot of crap in there shampoo and conditioner and one of the first three ingredients is water and if you're using water in any kind of cosmetic, you run that risk of having the preservatives and the stabilizers in there People don't realize that at all?

Speaker 1:

actually, no, you don't. I mean I'm not going to say I didn't either, because I'm an advanced label reader and I want you guys to be that too. You guys should be questioning everything, looking at your labels and making sure your skin is your second mouth, guys. It's your second mouth. This is your eating mouth. This is your other mouth of detoxification and absorption. Your skin is designed to help you eliminate excess waste, and so what you put on it has to be clean, right? So when we're talking about a million other products and it's funny when I ask my clients what they're using, I do that on my questionnaire. Now, what are you using for soap in the shower? Oh, dove. Dove is like almost the number one answer, and you think it's like clean, because it's one quarter cleansing cream. I'm like dating myself with commercial hair showing my age, but marketing is everything right.

Speaker 2:

You've been lying to us for decades about what is healthy and what to use. It's really sickening what's going on.

Speaker 1:

You know what it's. I mean, they put cheap ingredients in because it's cheaper. That's one of the one of the things that they can do to make more product and have more profit. It's all about the almighty dollar, and you know this as well as I do. I don't know when it was, but they lost the priority of above all. Do no harm health first, it's money first.

Speaker 2:

Correct Big food and big farmer in bed with each other.

Speaker 1:

It's awful. So for my 20, almost 22 year career, I used to dream about a skincare company that had organic ingredients that were therapeutic. I'm 59 years old, guys. I'm going to be 60 in October. It pains me to say it. Definitely a liar.

Speaker 2:

You don't look a day over 35. Oh, I love you, baby. I'm sick from you.

Speaker 1:

What. So I started on two of these internal products from my colleague and functional medicine buddy, dr Jordan Leisure. She's got to look at this. I'm like, oh, look at, I trust her, I love her, you know, and I. The two internal products are the IO one and the I 70. And they're gentle cleansing for liver, lymph and kidney. They're nice. High auric powerful antioxidants which support bioflow, help with detoxification. Gentle cleansing for theC powerful antioxidants which support bioflow, help with detoxification. Gentle cleansing for the organs.

Speaker 1:

Not big pushes with detoxification programs which are appropriate at the right time after digestion is fixed. You can't start detoxing somebody if they're still eating crap. So I started on the two internal products and I really liked the way I felt. I was like they're all, everything's natural. There's turmeric in there, elderberry, you know, they're olive tree products, you know, very clean. The high OREC vitamin C is their camu camu berry. Everything's organic, super clean.

Speaker 1:

And I really fell in love with the internal stuff. So I said I'm going to try the face wash and see right away. I loved, I got the face wash and I got the serum and I started on it and I literally, you know I had some crow's feet kind of go and I was like, oh, you know, we'll just see. So I got the eye cream too and I had it sitting in my bathroom for almost three weeks and I gave some to my dog walking friend. I gave her a little packet to try and we both tried it on the same day. I didn't realize she was going to try it the day I gave it to her, but I'm like, oh, I'll just put it on. And I literally woke up the next day and I was looking and I was like, oh, the crow's feet are crowing back in the right direction. They started to really be smaller and I was like and I, not only did I feel good putting on a clean product, right, but I felt good knowing was actually doing something again For years.

Speaker 1:

The organic stuff is fine, it doesn't. It's not therapeutic. And the therapeutic stuff has all the crap in it that disrupt the hormones. Endocrine disruptors mess up digestion. Via messing up the hormones, toxify the system because some of them are forever chemicals.

Speaker 1:

And the liver is already overstuffed, right, the liver is like the vacuum cleaner bag that never gets changed. It's an organ of detoxification and digestion. People don't realize that all your hormones are made in your liver, right. So the liver's already like how are you going to have room to make good hormones, how are you going to have room to detoxify and how are you going to have room to digest and help the liver get rid of this waste from either a great diet, if you're eating it, or a really crappy diet, because that's where you're at. It doesn't really matter, and it's not, you know, for me to judge. I'm here to give you guys the hard, cold truth and the information about how you can help yourself be healthy and move into a place of cleaner living. People want that. People want to. They don't want toxins in their house. They don't want plugins. They don't want.

Speaker 2:

I'm not going to go through that you and I you and I was good on. The people that are uneducated unfortunately want whatever smells good and not what they don't know is bad for them. If you think of yankee candle and bath and body, you know we go down a rabbit hole on that. We did that already like right but it's all chemicals.

Speaker 1:

It's gonna kill you. Chemicals, it's gonna kill you. I literally just put a post on my community facebook page for my subdivision, just very loving post, saying hey, you know, not only are you guys breathing this, but your pets are breathing in too. You know, I just I don't think people know so I'm, we're just here to educate and share information. But cleaning up your environment helps you live longer. Cleaning up what you're using on your skin your second mouth, largest organ of absorption, detoxification helps you live longer. Cleaning up your diet, digesting an anti-inflammatory diet, so your immune system isn't sparked to hit this response of some kind of issue of inflammation, whether it's a digestive issue, an autoimmune issue, you know dysregulation in any one of the pressures of your system issue. Cleaning it all up and slowly but surely, is a nice insurance policy for you to stay healthy and strong as you move, you know, down the road of your life. So, with that being said, I called Janine about a month and a half ago to let her know about the amazing Alveda company.

Speaker 1:

Been that long? Yeah, probably a month and a half roughly Wow. And she was right away in. She was like I gotta learn more about this. I mean, I love skincare but I don't even know what to use. So we got some products to start her on. And right when she got the products and I'll let her take it from here she's like I'm going to kill you. I am just obsessed with these products. As she said, I'm like I think I cursed at you. You did I'm going to fucking kill you. You said I'm like good. So if you want to jump in and share a little bit about your experience with the products or anything you want to share, I'm sure the listeners would love to hear, because people are looking for the good, clean stuff and it's a good price point too.

Speaker 2:

You know I hate promoting products because I don't want to be that person. That's everything that since I've met you. Everything that you've recommended, I trust because it works.

Speaker 1:

Oh, thank you.

Speaker 2:

Cream, all that stuff. And if you hear my dogs barking, they're very cute, but they're Rambo. Oh it's okay, hi Chalupas. Yeah, yeah, the baby Chalupups. That's right. And honestly, I haven't been that health conscious until I met you, when I had my whole panel done and I have lost now 55 pounds and.

Speaker 2:

I'm when it comes to gluten, I am I as minimal as I can. I'm not going to do it anymore, but I try as least as humanly possible to actually eat gluten. Good, I think if I hadn't and correct me if I'm wrong if I hadn't done all the back work ahead of time and then tried the skincare products, I don't know if I would have had the best result with them so far, because I had to clean myself from the inside first right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and you can do it simultaneously. Just cleaning up the environment simultaneously is great.

Speaker 2:

You're unburdening the body and you're starting something new and a new routine, and when I got these products, I'm like all right, this is cool. What grabbed me was the no water, because every time I buy something whether it's Sephora, ulta and it's skincare, and it claims to be the end-all, be-all there's 30,000 ingredients in the product. I'm like that sounds great.

Speaker 1:

That you can't pronounce Right.

Speaker 2:

I don't even know if this is, they're 85 syllables long yeah, yeah, if this is, if they're 85 syllables long, and yeah, yeah, what am I putting in? If your skin is your largest organ? What are you actually putting on your face, right? What are you putting in the organic? Really, really, what's the word I'm trying to look? Mirror spoke to you in terms of it. It excited me, and also the packaging, because anything organic is not going to come in a plastic bottle, in a glass bottle. Well, it's not going to come in plastic, it's going to come in glass, right, right, right. So a lot of people that think they're buying organic or eating things that are organic, if it's packaged in plastic, you're eating those microplastics and it's getting in your system anyway. So it kind of defeats the point. So all of the skincare is in glass.

Speaker 1:

Right and which is so. I mean it's so great. And I mean you and I are crazy because we just love our products so much. I have never felt such delicious products for my skin in terms of nourishing my skin, helping it feel like don't you feel, when you use the corrective cleansing oil, that you feel like you got a facial? I mean there's no dead cells. I mean I love it too. He's honey. You're so dewy and glowy. I'm like oh, thank you.

Speaker 2:

And love the oil base. It's hydrating to the skin. It doesn't make your skin feel dry when you put certain products on and it doesn't sit on your skin either.

Speaker 1:

It absorbs't make your skin feel dry when you put certain products on and it doesn't sit on your skin either it absorbs, it absorbs and it exfoliates. It's they're amazing products. You didn't get their olive oil yet did you?

Speaker 2:

No, I don't have that. But I have everything under the sun that I can think of and I use it. It's my favorite time of day, I tell MacGyver I'm like my favorite part of my day is my skincare routine. I have my morning set that I use and then I have my evening set that I use and I'm obsessed Like I. I've had melasma, I've had skin issues, but a lot of it was due to poor gut health, all my fermentation dehydration, which I've been most of my life because I'm not a big fan of water. So a lot of things played into my acne, into my poor skin, sure, so I had reasoning behind it. It wasn't just oh, I have bad skin.

Speaker 1:

No, Right, it's not just a genetic thing, it's just all this stuff compiles to give you what you've got. So, yeah, yeah, and I feel like my pigmentation's looking more even, I feel.

Speaker 2:

As soon as I put these products on the absorption, instead of going on, it goes in, which is something I've never really felt before tyrosol from the olive leaf tree.

Speaker 1:

So this is why their products are antimicrobial, because they use olive leaf extract for keeping the products clean and not growing fungus and bacteria, where I mentioned earlier. All the other products have water and stabilizers in them because they have to, and this company is waterless. They are a waterless beauty company. The water that they don't use they build wells for people in Africa. For Everything about the company is so beautiful. They are an amazing company. Not only is their product to liver, but they are about people. They are about humans, they're about cleanliness, they're about just building strength in the environment for healthier living.

Speaker 1:

And I'm so grateful to Dr Jordan for introducing me to the products because they're just great. Like I said, my whole career I was searching for something clean and therapeutic and, like I said, clean stuff is nice. But the crow's feet kept crowing in the wrong direction and I literally guys I'm going to be 60 in October. You look amazing. I mean I haven't had. I have a little highlight in my hair trying to cover up some of the gray, but that's about it it really feels good.

Speaker 2:

I'm very happy with it overall. Yeah, to try more, and there's so many different products. And then if you want to talk about the skin quiz, like how to tell which products because there's so many of them, it could be a little bit overwhelming, but yes yes, they have the olive brain quiz.

Speaker 1:

So, yeah, if you're not sure what you need, you could take it and then you can talk to either Janine or me about you know what products would be helpful and what you really need. I mean, they've got an olive oil that's so delicious. They've got a coffee alternative for people that love coffee but can't do it. It's a mushroom coffee. I haven't tasted it yet, but the people that have my clients love it, love it. Yeah, so there's a lot of stuff that they have. I know in the winter my feet are like lethal, you know. So they have a nice foot balm. They have a hand soap. Anybody out there get like the cuts on their fingers in the winter because even moisturizing soap, but you still get like the cuts on their fingers in the winter because even moisturizing soap, but you still get those cuts. Yep, I was going to be my first winter with their delightful hand wash, which is appropriately named because it smells totally delightful.

Speaker 1:

Speaking of smells, they use only essential oils, no synthetics, no chemicals. I'm so sensitive to that stuff. Right away, if it's in there, I'll have an instant headache. There's nothing in there that causes me anything other than joy in the shower in the bathroom. When I'm using it. It's completely amazing and I will say too, you know I'm taking the pressure off my liver. Everybody's livers work in triple time over time, quadruple time with all the environmental stuff that it has to do, including digestion. So this is a way to ease and let the liver kind of it never rests, but not have it do so many jobs. That's a great point, right, by putting the clean stuff on your skin. And how about? How concentrated the products are? Like you're probably not even a quarter way through your facial cleanser yet yeah, you only need it's so.

Speaker 1:

One or two points. So the the products are a really nice price point too for what they are, and they're really concentrated. So hi, baby.

Speaker 2:

Oh hi, sweetheart, this is the newest edition. This is Lulu Hi Lulu.

Speaker 1:

Oh, you are the most beautiful, lulu. I love you. Oh, I'm so glad you're on the podcast, lulu.

Speaker 2:

Your mom's dog.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I'm so sorry about that yeah.

Speaker 2:

And when she, when Roy's sister, passed, they, the neighbors, took the dog. They were in Alabama, they took the dog and they were having issues, the neighbors with their cats. Oh, they didn't know where the little one was going to go. So they had mentioned if we wanted her and we said, absolutely yes, we already have two other Shih Tzus. Yes, we want her. So my nephew came all the way from Alabama and she's been with us now since June.

Speaker 1:

How do the other?

Speaker 2:

two love. Do they love her? They're getting used to each other. It's definitely a process. It is, it can be a dog.

Speaker 1:

She is so cute she is. She is such a little pickle. I love her. I stop for dogs. Oh, we always have to stop for dogs. Yeah, people that have been listening to me for months know it's all about the dogs. I don't have the doggy in the background today, but he's at daycare playing at Auntie Paige's. You know he's playing today. So so, as I was mentioning, the products for the price point are great because they last for two, three, four and five months. My eye wrinkle cream I got it. It was one of the first things I got in November. I still have half a jar left and it's small Because you don't need that much.

Speaker 2:

No, you don't. You don't. My favorite thing in the world because I wear, wear makeup every day is that cleansing balm.

Speaker 1:

Oh yeah, the green. The green. That's one of my upline. Her name is Eliza. She loves she always does Facebook Lives about that one and I love it because it's a nice makeup remover. It doesn't burn your eyes, it gets the mascara off, it gets everything off and then you feel moisturized after it.

Speaker 2:

It's so pretty isn't it, it's, it is, it's pretty and it does the trick. I was using god forgive me if you're listening, but I was using I'm not going to say the name of the company because there's many out there but I was using those makeup removal wipes. The wipes, they were easy, yeah, they're convenient, they're convenient, convenient, they're convenient, and I didn't want to be bothered with putting my hair up, washing my face, doing the whole thing, but my skin was cracking and my wrinkles were becoming more dry because it's drying, it's sucking, taking everything out.

Speaker 1:

Yes, and you know, the interesting thing is that you were saying earlier that you have a skincare routine. Now I was like if you were to ask me to have a skincare routine a year ago, I'd be like, oh hell, no, who has time for that. But once you start on the products, you just you love to use them so much that you're cleansing morning at night. And did you do the enzyme honey?

Speaker 2:

mask yet oh, I love that. I've done it a few times.

Speaker 1:

Oh isn't it phenomenal.

Speaker 2:

And you take it off and you're just like I just had a 500 facial. I just feel so good. No, I use the retinol every night and it has been a game changer. I've never used a real retinol before. Right, and it's great. And isn't it moisturized? It's not drying, it's fabulous. I look forward to my night routine. Yeah, I hate liking them because I just buying. However, I'm really feeling clean and good about what I'm putting on my body and that makes me feel good.

Speaker 1:

And there you have it. I mean, that's it Again. People know the people that are interested in their health, interested in having clean things in their kitchen, clean things in their home, clean things to eat, clean things in their environment and clean things to put on their body. I mean it's a no brainer. It's a no brainer and it's so wonderful. They have shampoo. They have a million types of serums, three different, four different kinds of face wash, a million types of serums, three different, four different kinds of face wash, cleansers, masks, body toners. They have two toners the one that I we use, the activated cell activated toner, and there's another one that's like a more therapeutic one that I sometimes use. I'm a little hyperpigmented on my arms from years of sun damage and I started using it and my freckles are kind of lightening up, even like my chest freckles are kind of lightening up.

Speaker 2:

I need to do that on my chest, Renee.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, do your like decollete area? Yeah, you know you gotta. I started when I started to put it on. I like do my neck and I drag it down and I do my shoulders and I have to put my hormone cream on anyway, so that goes on over my elevated stuff. But anyway, I know I'm just so excited to talk about this stuff because it's really amazing.

Speaker 1:

If anybody has questions about anything with their health or skincare, I'm here to answer questions for sure. But I want to just bring it back to the whole cleanliness of your body. You know, putting in good, clean food, digesting and if you guys are having symptoms, whether it be fatigue, inability to fall asleep, inability to stay asleep, that's a hormonal issue from digestion and could also be from endocrine disruption and then 10 million other things. My message today is to encourage you to start cleaning up some part of your environment. Whether you buy an air purifier I like the, what's the one I use? There's a million out there. There's air doctor you know cleaning up the air in your house is a great start Making sure you have good, clean, filtered water and not the stuff from the refrigerator, even if you get like a zero pitcher that you filter from your own tap that's affordable for everybody. I think it's maybe $125. You're filtering your own water and then you have that filter for months until you have to change it. That's a good, you know. That's something a good start in terms of you don't want to spend money on a big water purifier or underwater system or something like that. There's many ways to get clean drinking water. Make sure you guys are putting in your electrolytes. I love the Fringe Company. I think you can get them on Amazon and I know you can get them from Thrive. I know a lot of people use Thrive. I just tasted their new raspberry electrolytes yesterday. They're very clean and they have little crushed up bits of organic raspberry in there. So it makes you want to drink more water clean water, right. So that's important.

Speaker 1:

Cleaning up the diet you know if you know you love fried foods. You know I love this because it just tastes good and I know it's bad for me. It's almost hard to really kind of manually make that change. That's really where somebody like me would come in to really help you change the chemistry of the gut brain, where your hypothalamus, which is your air traffic control, is telling your tongue to go get that donut and you're like I'm on it. We start changing the terrain of your digestive tract. Start digesting your food better. That air traffic control center tells the tongue hey, how about an apple and some sunflower seed butter and that's a great snack. You can put a few little you know the enjoy life chocolate chips on there If you want to get really decadent or something. There's a way to eat so clean and so healthy and so delicious that you're not missing anything.

Speaker 1:

So, my message to you guys out there is if you're struggling and you feel like you can't do something, you don't even want to make the move over. And he's going to have me go gluten free. I'm going to eat bean sprouts and tofu. I can't fricking do it. No, my job is to help you take little baby steps forward to have.

Speaker 2:

Bean sprouts and tofu are really good and a good you and I would like it, but whatever.

Speaker 1:

But anyway, you know my job is to help you guys baby steps forward. To have Beansprouts and tofu are really good. You and I would like it, but whatever. But anyway, you know my job is to help you guys make baby steps forward for big wins. Right, your body will thank you, your environment will thank you, your dogs will thank you. Don't put plugins in your house, please. Your cats, your goldfish, everybody's relying on clean environment and there's a lot to do with how toxic the world is. So, janine I don't know if you have you can put your Oliveta link, if you want, into the comments, if you want. Do you still have your link?

Speaker 2:

Believe, so yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1:

You put your link right in there. If you want, you can put both of our links, it doesn't matter. This is a direct sale company. It's nice. There's no monthly obligation and, like I said, you just order what you want when you want. But trying the products is great. And the other thing I forgot to mention they have a 365-day money-back guarantee. So even if you use the whole bottle of something and run over it with your car and break the bottle, they're going to, they'll refund you. That's another wonderful thing about this company and why I love them and why I chose to add them into my practice for sure.

Speaker 2:

So so yeah, coming back at you guys, there you go, and all of the tree people, or my yeah, it's your own personal link.

Speaker 1:

Do you have it?

Speaker 2:

on there. I think I have it here. I'm going to put it in. Tell me, put it in, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I'll see. I mean put my glasses on, See here.

Speaker 2:

I'm adding in the comments Okay, get over here. Oh, I'll flash it on the screen.

Speaker 1:

Yes, get obsessed. You got it, that's perfect, love it. Yeah, people can use that link. That's Janine's link. She's a consultant for Oliveta as well and she can answer questions, and whatever questions she can't, I can answer because I have more experience with the products.

Speaker 1:

But I think next up for Janine is probably going to be the two internal detox products for her to help her maintain what she's doing and just keep a nice gentle cleansing and with the liver, lymph and kidney. The I-1 and the I-7 are just phenomenal. So so the in closing, guys, if you can do one, something to clean up your environment, whatever it is, give it a whirl, starting with what you're eating, your skincare, get rid of the dove. Cleansing ivory, get rid of the dove. Get rid of the dove and look at yourself. If the first ingredient is, or yourself If the first ingredient is aqua or beagle.

Speaker 1:

If the first ingredient is water or aqua, you're going to have chemical stabilizers in there and you're asking your body to do more than it can because it's already trying to deal with everything else in the environment and what you're eating, and not no judgment on what you're eating, because even if you're eating a clean diet, it doesn't mean it's the right diet for you, especially if you guys have symptoms and I like to spell symptoms with, instead of two s's on the ends, two dollar signs, because that's how the doctors get their money so many ways.

Speaker 2:

I mean do it now so you don't have to deal with. You know, poor liver function 10, 15 years from now, because once the liver goes, it's really, it's a it's down.

Speaker 1:

Well, even just that, even before the liver goes, you get a trillion other symptoms, from hormonal dysregulation to skin issues, to eczema, psoriasis, which didn't even touch on today. Which how do you get that clean stuff on and clean that up? It's everything that we mentioned for sure. So, and you kind of stole my line. You know I always tell clients like, oh, this is expensive, pay now or pay later, because later looks like doctor's visits without any answers, medications that don't work, that cause more side effects and more symptoms, when you can be proactive now and do just a little bit or a lot bit, whatever you want to step into to help your body be strong, healthy and beautiful. I am Renee the Tummy Whisperer. You can find me at thetummywhisperercom. Please reach out with any questions. I'm happy to help you in your health journey and I will be back in a couple of weeks and we're going to talk more about some more fun, good, healthy stuff. How does that sound?

Speaker 2:

Sounds great and remember to follow share. Leave Renee a five-star review on Apple podcast with the tummy whisperer podcast and some links will be in the show notes so that way, if you want to follow up or, you know, take your journey into Oliveta products, we can help you.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. Thank you so much, everybody. I hope you guys have a wonderful, healthy day. Bye for now. Music.