[00:03] Who has been struggling with your thyroid? Put it in the comments because on this video I want to specifically talk about some really interesting talk about some really interesting symptoms of low thyroid and I really
[00:16] want to go into three strategies that absolutely will help you improve your thyroid health uh with that don't cost a lot. This is all about lifestyle. That's what I'm here to do on this channel is teach you lifestyle. So in this video,
[00:32] let's master thyroid. Deal? Want to ready? Let's dive in. So first, I just want to point out that in the functional health world, we talk about the thyroid as being the canary in the coal mine. And I've mentioned it
[00:47] here on many videos. And when we think about a canary in the coal mine, remember they would put the canary down in the coal mine and when the gases got too high in the coal mine, they knew it was because that when the canary dies,
[01:02] it was time for the coal miners to get out of the coal mine. The gases were improving or were increasing. Same thing with the thyroid. When the thyroid goes off, that is like a warning bell that the something in the system isn't
[01:18] working right. And I'm going to give you some really simple ways to get the system back on track, but first I just have to tell you that the number one challenge that is causing your thyroid to go off is
[01:33] toxicity. And if you I can do a whole video on the toxins that affect your thyroid. If you're interested in that, put it in the comments and I'll make sure that I do that video, but what's really important is I'll tell you that I
[01:48] was in clinical practice for close to 30 years and I was doing lifestyle medicine. I was working it nutrition and detox with my patients. And I started to see about 10 years into my clinical
[02:02] practice, I started to see that women were coming in and they were saying, "I don't know what's wrong, but my thyroid must not be working." And so we spent there was about a decade in my clinic where every day I had another new
[02:17] wrong with my thyroid, my thyroid is off." So I got really deep into understanding thyroid health. I understood that point that actually we there about 11 different pieces of measurements in blood work that you need
[02:33] to look at in order to make sure that you're to understand why your thyroid is going off. Um and I learned during that time that most doctors were only doing TSH. So if you want to know those 11 different
[02:48] just we'll leave a link for the to a article I did um that maps out those 11. Okay. Now, the second thing that I learned about the thyroid was this
[03:00] toxicity piece and ironically I will I will put hopefully my team will put a map here that shows you the connection of when glyphosate was introduced into our food system. Pesticides are one of the biggest
[03:14] destroyers of thyroid health and glyphosate um the minute it came into our food system, we started to see more and more thyroid problems and and you can you can literally see when glyphosate was
[03:29] allowed to be sprayed on our food, you started to see the number of thyroid cases go up. Uh we have got about to go into the same challenge with forever chemicals. If you're here in America, the current administration has has is
[03:43] now allowing PFOAs which are forever chemicals to be placed into our sprayed on our foods which forever chemicals damage your thyroid. So, we're going to see another resurgence of thyroid issues. So, from that angle, let's make
[03:59] sure we eat organic, non-GMO foods. But, from from the angle of what I'm teaching you today, I really want you to see that thyroid is so much more than just
[04:11] struggling to lose weight, that you actually there are symptoms that will tell you you got a thyroid problem, and here they are. Fatigue is one. And here's something interesting that I just want to point out. Every
[04:24] single cell in your body has a receptor site for thyroid for a thyroid hormone, for T3 specifically. Every single cell in your body. It's like an energizer. It's like an When you get enough T3 into your body, you get this stimulation of
[04:41] energy, and that cell, whether it's in your liver, whether it's in your gut, your brain can actually get ignited and do what it's meant to do. So, it's like our cells are like an army of of processes that are going to make sure
[04:56] that our body functions normally, and T3, the thyroid hormone T3, is the activator that is going to energize those cells, so all these things can start all these uh normal functioning uh processes will will will go will happen
[05:12] naturally. So, fatigue is a sign that you're not making enough ATP from those fatigued. Okay, we also know weight gain, that's a pretty common one, cold hands and feet, joint muscle pain is another one, dry
[05:27] joint muscle pain is another one, dry skin and hair, um heavier irregular periods, slow heart rate, and depression is a huge one I saw in my clinic was depressed, a lot of times we would run all their thyroid
[05:43] uh labs, and their thyroid was really off. Now, I want to point out that a lot off. Now, I want to point out that a lot of times thyroid conditions outside of a heavy toxic load can happen during huge times of hormonal shifts. So, this is
[05:58] times of hormonal shifts. So, this is why it's very common for over 50% of women going through perimenopause to start to discover a thyroid problem. So, all hormones are like tag team, right? So, when one hormones hormonal system
[06:14] dramatically changes, it affects other endocrine glands. And it turns out when our sex hormones go down, it really starts to affect our thyroid hormones. So, if you're in your perimenopause menopausal years trying to figure out
[06:28] what the heck happened, no note that it was really um and just a change in your your hormonal health. And what's interesting is this makes because we're interesting is this makes because we're more hormonally driven as women, um we
[06:43] know that women are 10 times more likely to develop a thyroid problem. And way back in the '90s, there was a study that noted that it was always at these big hormonal fluctuations like menstruation, pregnancy, menopause that the thyroid
[07:00] problem was triggered. I can tell you after my second child, um my thyroid went crazy. They actually wanted to pull my thyroid out and do radioactive dye. Thank God I didn't um because of through lifestyle, I was able to put it back on
[07:15] track, but it was the second child that initiated a massive change in my So, some you know, sometimes it's not toxic load. Sometimes it's just your to respond and it responded in a negative way.
[07:30] Okay. So, here are the three ways you can start to support this naturally. So, the first is one of my new favorite ways that I just keep saying over and over and over again, which is get more minerals.
[07:42] We here in America are living in a time where big ag rules our government and big ag monocrops. So, monocropping is where they just keep putting the same crop down in the same oils and they keep
[07:56] tilling that oils, spraying those oils. So, those are the those soils so those So, those are the those soils so those soils are mineral depleted. So, if you are eating fruits and vegetables from a conventional farm, they're mostly like
[08:11] likely mineral depleted. So, look for regenerative farms. And what's interesting is some of the research I saw was just like blew my mind like this 2023 study in the Frontiers of Endocrinology, which is an incredible
[08:26] Endocrinology, which is an incredible paper, stated that iodine, selenium, iron, copper, zinc, calcium, and magnesium play a vital role in the function of the thyroid gland. And any violation of their supply can cause a
[08:41] pathological pathological meaning disease-oriented change in the thyroid. Let's get those minerals up. The authors also noted that what they consider a
[08:53] frontline strategy for improving the thyroid is minerals. Get your minerals back in. That's like when they say frontline, they mean like most important thing you should do. So, now you can also get minerals
[09:08] So, now you can also get minerals they're high mineral content foods um that you should know about uh especially if you get them organic cuz remember we don't want them sprayed and these are charred, spinach, broccoli, kale,
[09:21] cabbage, and avocado. Those particular vegetables have a lot of minerals in them. Um so, let's bring those into our diet on a regular basis. Um one of the more challenging minerals
[09:36] to get back into your diet is iodine. to test your iodine before you start taking iodine. Um but the best way to get iodine in is through seaweed. So but make sure it's
[09:51] organic. And um or you can take an iodine supplement. Um I'll tell you a funny interesting story. My my daughter who's now 26 years old um used to be
[10:03] like addicted to seaweed. I mean literally as a kid like if I gave her a bag of a potato chips or I gave her a bag of of seaweed she would always choose seaweed. And I it got me really thinking about does she have an iodine
[10:18] um she have an iodine depletion? Um and it was interesting because she ate seaweed until one day she was like I don't need seaweed anymore. Like she was don't know if you all have gotten like this but I'll get in those modes where
[10:32] I'm eating something regularly like obsessed with it like kombucha. I became obsessed with kombucha for years. I just want to drink it all the time and then one day I'm like I'm done. I've had enough. A lot of times that's because
[10:46] these depletions have come have become balanced or the microbes have changed. There's like an innate signaling we don't need this anymore. Something interesting to think about. Okay, the second thing we can do to improve our
[11:00] thyroid is to load up on antioxidants. Now I don't know about you but I feel like that term antioxidant is sort of a term that just gets thrown around but nobody really knows what that means. So antioxidants are nutrients we
[11:17] get from our food and our supplements that protect us from free radicals. And free radicals are the byproducts of being exposed to stressors, specifically
[11:29] chemical stressors but even emotional and physical stressors. So, anytime we have a high stressor load, we need those antioxidants to load, we need those antioxidants to protect us, otherwise wise depletion
[11:42] So, in this particular moment or or or conversation, is that a lot of thyroid problems are due to an inflammatory condition. And this makes
[11:56] your thyroid start to attack itself because it starts to sense that these free radicals are getting into it. And so, this is specifically with like Hashimoto's, where it just starts to attack the thyroid because it it doesn't
[12:12] have a the protective layer that antioxidants would give, and the free radicals win. And so, the body thinks there's a foreign invader there, and it attacks itself. A 23 study from this Frontiers in
[12:26] Endocrinology found that antioxidants from food, and I'll tell you the food from food, and I'll tell you the food here in a moment, strongly protect your thyroid and prevent damage so that you can make enough thyroid hormones.
[12:40] So, if you have a thyroid problem, how about doubling down on some of these? Are you ready? Now, some of them we got to put some boundaries around. Coffee. So, when we drink coffee, they're high
[12:54] in antioxidants, but this is not your commercialized coffee. This is your organic coffee from a small batch farm. Go to your farmers market, get to know your farmer, but we want a we don't want it sprayed with
[13:08] we don't want it sprayed with pesticides, and we want it grown ideally in regenerative soil. So, like we literally get our coffee beans from a local farmers market. Okay, second one is green tea. Green tea
[13:22] Okay, second one is green tea. Green tea is is proving to be an incredible health additive. So, if you love green tea, uh at add in organic. And what's interesting, I've
[13:34] best in the morning. It's going to give you that burst of energy that comes on quick. Green tea is a little better later in the day cuz it has a slower release of the caffeine. So, if you're looking for when to put it into your
[13:47] schedule, that might be something to look at. Okay, next category of berries. I have yet to have anybody complain about berries. Berries are the hero fruit. Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries,
[13:59] Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, raspberries are rich in antioxidants. I know when I go to the supermarket and I look at the berries, I try to get, you there's red raspberries, there's black blackberries, there's blueberries. I
[14:13] grab them all. Because the color is going to give you a different antioxidant dose. So, if you're a blueberry fan, you might dip into red raspberries. And if you're a red raspberry fanatic, have you tried
[14:26] the white raspberries? Or maybe you need to go into blackberries. So, but berries to go into blackberries. So, but berries are incredible. The next one is soy. Remember, I've done a lot of videos for you on the phytoestrogen upside of soy.
[14:39] Make sure it's organic. The next one is leafy greens. Has lots of antioxidants in them. So, leafy greens with every meal and then brightly colored vegetables. So, this is like your red cabbage, your sweet potato,
[14:55] your beets. Like what I would love for you to start doing is looking at your food from a color palette. And be like, do I What are the colors that are going on here? Maybe I need to improve more get more of color diversity in my food
[15:10] because those are going to have different antioxidants. Okay, third tip. Oh, this is a good one. I could do my I should do a whole video on this. I should do a whole video on it, but
[15:22] because I get so much flak from people for this. And it is intermittent for this. And it is intermittent fasting. Yes, there is research showing that intermittent fasting can improve your thyroid health and specifically 16
[15:38] eight intermittent fasting, which is 16 hours fasted, eight hours of an eating window. And here is the research. So, a 23 study that measured the
[15:50] hormones of people who with low thyroid who fasted for Ramadan. We have some of the best fasting studies from Ramadan from Ramadan because people do it every time. So, the people in this study fasted 16
[16:04] hours a day and this daily fasting led to an and this daily fasting led to an increase in thyroid stimulating hormone. your blood test, go look at it and look for TSH.
[16:19] If it is low, this is going to help you understand that it 16 eight intermittent fasting could help. So, what they found in this study is that during this time the thyroid hormone stayed stable during the fast
[16:35] and it had there was no negative effect of this fast. Um and that there was that there was something they were hypothesizing
[16:47] that perhaps in this 16 hour deficit of calories coming in, the thyroid went into a protective mode. Like cuz you need your thy you would you need thyroid
[16:59] hormones. This is why when they take it out, they give you a medication to take. hormones and the intelligence of your body understands this. So, when you go into a longer fast like a 16 hour fast, the body goes into a
[17:14] protective state of these of your thyroid hormone. I've seen I've done a lot of thyroid and fasting videos here. We'll We'll leave links in the in the notes, but what's really interesting is I saw study years ago that showed that
[17:30] I saw study years ago that showed that when you went back into food when you went back into food after a fast, that T3, the bioactive version of thy of thyroid hormone, actually doubled.
[17:42] So, think about that. You go into 16 hours without food, and then your body goes, "Whoop, we better protect this vital organ, so we need to keep TSH stable." And then you add food back in, and the
[17:57] body goes, "Okay, we don't need to protect this, but we need to because we didn't have food for 16 hours, we need to make sure we upregulate this thyroid hormone, so this system can get up and going." Everything your body does, it
[18:13] does for a reason. Those of you that have been here for a while with me, please tell me you're getting these from all of my videos. It's like I feel like the PR agency for the human body. It's It's always doing the right thing
[18:27] at the right time. So, we can use a shorter Well, I It's a shorter fast. Anything under 24 hours is is a shorter fast. Some of you love 12 and 13 hours, and I'm going to ask you to extend it to 16 hours, but you don't have to fast
[18:42] long. This is like most people I've worked with can't figure out how to fast for 16 hours. But, the important thing is that when you reintroduce food, there is also research showing that in order to keep
[18:57] your thyroid working at its best, you need 1,200 calories a day. So, let's make sure when you are done with your 16 hours and you're opening up your 8-hour eating window that we're eating enough calories. We're getting
[19:10] enough calories in. Make sense? So, the thyroid it's it's like an indicator light. Let's look at it like that. It's an indicator light to tell you that the system is working or not
[19:23] working. We definitely need to look at toxic load. Front line, we learned it from science today, says we need to look at minerals, and we also need to think about things like increasing our antioxidants, which is great for
[19:36] everything, and of course fasting gets another win. I am not backing down on fasting. I promise you, I am more committed to a fasting lifestyle than of your results, but based off of continued science over and over again
[19:53] proving this incredible tool. So, let me know. Like, I'd love to hear what your thyroid and fasting experience has been, if you tried any of the other like an increasing minerals. What did you notice with your thyroid?
[20:06] Um but as always, don't give up on yourself. Okay? Don't give up on yourself. You need a lifestyle that matches the health level you are deserving. And when you start to pair that lifestyle to the health you are
[20:21] that lifestyle to the health you are seeking, you will absolutely love living in this human frame you were blessed to live in. Let's talk about inflammation and the connection between inflammation and fructose. Now, I want to say right
[20:35] that's not going to sound very interesting. Let me rephrase that and say, let's talk about pain and loss of energy and brain fog and trouble sleeping and chronic disease. That all is tied into
[20:49] inflammation and how it relates to what you eat. And one of the most dangerous things you can eat that will accelerate all those symptoms and accelerate inflammation in your body is fructose. And I think we have a lot of confusion
[21:03] on fructose. So, I really want to break it down in the in this video. What's the difference between fructose and glucose? And how do you know if you're eating different patterns in your body? And I want to really unpack a new study that
[21:18] was just put out in September of 2025 that really shows that yeah, we thought high fructose corn syrup was bad, but it's worse than we even thought. And I want to explain why. In fact, I just want to point out if you haven't heard
[21:32] want to point out if you haven't heard me say this, that they identified that me say this, that they identified that high fructose corn syrup was so bad that it needed to be taken out of our food system. And this discovery was over 10
[21:46] years ago. And it they gave the food industry close to 20 years. 20 years, who needs that 20 years to take this harmful ingredient out because they started to see that high fructose corn syrup was
[22:01] high fructose corn syrup was a major if not the most uh significant contributor to cardiovascular disease. So, let's dive into this and then I really want I'm excited to break down fructose and glucose for you. So, you if
[22:13] let's talk about it. Or what the difference was. So, here's what the new study said. It was a study done out of the University of Vienna and they wanted to find out how high fructose affected immune cells.
[22:27] tie this into a lot of pieces of your health here. So, what they found is they they wanted to look and see if high fructose corn syrup
[22:39] affected the immune cells specifically that fight off bacteria, viruses, and other foreign invaders. And the study was design was really collaborative because the researchers split two healthy groups or two a group
[22:54] of healthy people people into two groups. And one group drank a fructose sweetened beverage. This is important. We're going to come back to this. And We're going to come back to this. And the other drank a glucose-sweetened
[23:07] So, this would be like one group had soda pop, and the other group had orange juice. Both of them not great, but they wanted to see what the quality difference was.
[23:20] And afterwards, the researchers measured the participants' immune response to normal everyday bacterial toxins, the kind of things that your body would be fighting off on a regular basis. So, that was really cool. Basically, one
[23:35] group drinks orange juice, one group drinks soda pop, and then they measure then they give them an exposure to a bacteria or a virus, and then they see how the immune system reacts. And here's what they found.
[23:49] they didn't give them exactly orange juice. I'm just trying to make it simple for you. The glucose drinking group, there was literally no change to the immune response. But the soda group, after drinking
[24:03] But the soda group, after drinking fructose, people had a much more intense fructose, people had a much more intense inflammatory response to bacteria once it came in. It was like a hyperactive, over-agitated,
[24:16] highly sensitive immune system once they drank that soda pop. Now, I want to bring this into something that we all went through together, which is the pandemic. And my YouTube channel had already had a really strong um uh robust
[24:31] million followers, something like that, when we had gotten to the pandemic. And then we all were sequestered at home. And my husband and I actually went into trying to understand what made people more susceptible to the COVID virus than
[24:48] other people. And the one thing we saw over and over and over again was poor over and over and over again was poor metabolic health meant poor uh COVID reaction. But, this study takes us even one step deeper and says, "When
[25:02] you're drinking soda, when you're having this highly fructose sweetened drink, this highly fructose sweetened drink, you are making your immune system more which means it's going to have an exaggerated immune response." Which
[25:18] didn't we see that in COVID? We saw the cytokine storm. And we saw people who went into these massive of like hyperactive type immune responses where they were like the symptoms were so bad and came on so quickly.
[25:33] And this explains partly why. Because what we should have been saying is get off the soda. Get off the soda and your immune outcomes, if you get exposed to the virus, will be so much greater. So, this study went on to say
[25:46] that basically fructose that is found in soda pop causes your immune systems to soda pop causes your immune systems to overreact. It drives up inflammation. And was And part of that is it's it's trying to keep itself safe as it's
[26:00] processing this chemical. We also see this kind of immune hyper-sensitivity in autoimmune diseases. So, let's look at that for a second because autoimmune diseases affect over 80% of autoimmune
[26:15] women. So, if we have a hyperactive immune Hashimoto's or you've got lupus or you've got something like that,
[26:27] then we've got to look at getting you off fructose, off this high fructose sugar type drinks. Hopefully, you're not doing soda because it's agitating your autoimmune situation. But, that research did research
[26:40] researchers didn't stop there. They also found that fructose actually increased the number of inflammatory receptors on your immune system. So, after you had exposure to fructose, the immune cells literally literally literally grew new
[26:57] receptors that triggered a your for inflammation. Okay, I want to put this about fasting. So, we talked about the 48-hour fast. In
[27:09] fact, I wrote about it in Fast Like a Girl. And I talked about how when you go without food for 48 hours, your brilliant body starts to create new dopamine receptor sites so that you are craving you you increase the motivation
[27:22] to go find food. So, increasing receptor sites became a a dopamine receptor sites became a really cool tool for me to be able to teach my my my patients and my
[27:35] following that a 48-hour fast is going to help you lead to more happiness down the road because your whole dopamine immune dopamine system gets rebooted sites. Okay, what this study is saying is the
[27:51] opposite. It's saying that this is giving you more inflammatory receptor sites. You don't want more inflammatory receptor sites, and those are permanent. Those are staying there literally forever. Once you have a receptor site,
[28:06] it doesn't like shrivel up. So, you every time you're drinking So, you every time you're drinking fructose in a in a sugary drink, you are conditioning and repatterning and building a body that is going to have
[28:20] more chronic inflammation. And forever. That's how dangerous this stuff was. And the studies lead literally the lead of the study, Dr. Ina Bergam, said that this indicates that even short-term
[28:36] short-term high fructose consumption in healthy people can influence the immune system and increase inflammation for years. Okay. So, how much is too much fructose? What
[28:50] do you need to know about fructose? So, again, I just want to point out she said high fructose consumption. So, in the study, they gave people a drink that was sweetened with a lot of fructose, like a soda. So, it's a lot. A soda is a
[29:03] lot. Um and they were given nothing else to eat. So, there was no fiber to slow down that that fructose. But, what about moderate fructose consumption? Because some of you might be listening to this and you might be thinking, like, "Okay,
[29:17] well, I don't drink sodas, so phew, that's not me." Well, we do know that that's not me." Well, we do know that moderate fructose consumption, meaning not just soda, but maybe we're eating it in actually fruit,
[29:30] that fruit, because it has fiber, because it has antioxidants, because it's not highly processed processed, is actually really good for us. So, there has been an argument that's gone around here on my YouTube channel, it's gone
[29:43] around on social media, which is, "Oh, well, so fructose is bad for me, so that's not what we're saying. We're saying high fructose consumption, saying high fructose consumption, repeatedly drinking sodas over and over
[29:57] and over again has this strong immune response that is leading you to a life of inflammation. But, moderate fructose consumption, primarily coming from fruit, is showing to be highly beneficial. We call them both fructose,
[30:14] but that but they are they come from different sources really, really matters. So, let me give you an example. What's moderate fructose consumption? A 2024 study in the Frontiers in Nutrition found that people
[30:28] who eat fruit three to four times a week are significantly less likely to die from heart disease. That's natural fructose done in moderation. A 2018 review in Nutrients found that eating more whole fruits is linked to better
[30:43] gut and metabolic health and lower body fat, lower cancer risk, longer life, and fat, lower cancer risk, longer life, and healthy aging. Um, that again, moderate fruit consumption. So, we have to make sure that we don't
[30:58] get too obsessed with this word fructose cuz it keeps messing us up. Now, what are the worst sources of fructose? Like, what do you need to avoid right now in this moment? And here it is. The first, I've already said it.
[31:13] And I want I just I if I could if I could jump through your whatever, your phone or your TV or however you're uh listening to this right now and like really sit next to you and be like, "Come on. You can save your life if you
[31:27] just avoid this one ingredient. Just don't ever go to it again and everything in your life will change." It's high fructose corn syrup. And it's extremely rich in fructose.
[31:41] And it's in all of our processed foods, our sweet drinks, our packaged desserts, our ice creams. It's even in some of our commercial breads. So, start reading your labels and check for high fructose corn syrup. Okay, second high fructose
[31:57] uh type food that you're going to want to avoid and you're not going to like this one cuz a lot of you think it's healthy. I fall fell prey to this and it's agave syrup. So, agave is a tricky one. A lot of
[32:11] people think agave is a healthy sweetener. But, the problem with it is that agave might be lower on the glycemic index, so it doesn't raise glucose, but the reason it doesn't raise glucose is cuz it's
[32:26] mostly fructose. And fructose doesn't spike your blood keto heads everywhere were like, "This is amazing. We should do more agave because it doesn't spike my glucose. But, if we do too much agave, where the
[32:42] extra excess of agave goes is around your liver. When these these sweeteners that I'm talking about right now, because they're harder for your body to ingest, what it does is it stores it around the liver and is a number one
[32:55] driver of fatty liver disease. So, we we want to keep agave at a low level, at a minor level. Okay, what about fruit juices and smoothies? Whole fruit is really great for you because it's got so much fiber in it,
[33:11] and that fiber slows down the glucose response. So, even though this study proved that a glass of orange juice that was just purely glucose isn't going to create this inflammatory immune response,
[33:25] what we do know is that it's probably in one glass of orange juice is about 10 different oranges, which is a lot. If I asked you to sit down and eat 10 oranges, you probably couldn't, but you could drink 10 oranges. So, the fact
[33:40] that it's in a a liquid, it makes it a little bit more suspect, and it might having a glass of orange juice every day, they didn't say how long they these people have this, you might find that it gets harder and it creates more and more
[33:56] of these adverse immune response. So, just be aware that one of the problems with these flavored, you know, with with fruit juices is there's too much high glucose. Um smoothies are the same way. I used to
[34:11] be a huge smoothie fan, and I've become really really against smoothies because we start putting too many things in smoothies, and the glucose levels go up. I can tell you when I had uh Chef Leslie who did Eat Like a Girl, when I had her
[34:24] do um the the some smoothies for Eat Like a Girl, I was like, we have to keep to keep that low. So if you're looking for a lower glucose smoothie, go check Now the fourth one I want you to stay away from, this
[34:40] is my nemesis. Flavored yogurts. Now, let me know, put in the comments if you have kids because I can tell you I worked really hard. I have a a 25-year-old girl and a 23-year-old a
[34:53] a 25-year-old girl and a 23-year-old a boy, man, woman grown-up children and when they were in preschool I did in elementary school I was so careful to make sure that all the food that they ate was clean. And then
[35:07] one day one of their friends gave them a Go-Gurt. Remember Go-Gurts? And they like slurp, you like slurp through this plastic like container, this bright blue and bright bright pink drink and then I would pick them up from school and their
[35:22] lips were all pink and blue and their and their tongue was was blue. That's what's in these flavored yogurts. It's chemicals mixed with high fructose corn syrup. So we have this like thought like orange juice is healthy. We have this
[35:37] belief in our culture that yogurt is healthy but when you actually start to look at those different products we start or different food sources we start to see like oh, how you eat them is. And although yogurt is great for you,
[35:50] flavored yogurt's not because it's mostly packed with fructose and colorings and things that will damage your health. So it's better to stick with a non-colored one, with a Greek yogurt that's full of fat, but try to
[36:03] in it. Okay, number five, this is a big one. It's sauces and condiments. So this is your ketchup, your jams, your jellies, even some of your peanut butter, and your pasta sauces. So you've got to read
[36:18] the ingredients and check for high fructose corn syrup because they're in salad dressings. I'll give you a a quick recipe, one of my favorite salad dressings that I make all the time, is a high-quality olive oil, a little bit of
[36:33] Meyer lemon, and sometimes I'll just do a teaspoon of honey, like raw honey, and mix it together in a bowl and put it into a salad. Super simple. And then you mysterious ingredients, including
[36:46] salad dressing. So, if we're back at ultra-processed foods, and what I just wanted to bring to you all here is that how you're feeling, if you're feeling stiff, if you're feeling brain fog, if you're
[37:00] feeling chronic pain, if you're frustrated that your your menopause have you have a relative that has dementia, we have to come back to some basic food principles that we know are not serving us. And this junk that they
[37:15] not serving us. And this junk that they are putting in our foods is causing a chronic inflammatory situation and is changing those receptor sites and giving us an experience with our body where we have more pain, we have more weight
[37:28] gain, we have more brain fog. So, just stay off those foods and get onto healthy foods and mix it with a a good fasting window, and I promise it's the solution to like everything. It's that simple. So, if you've gotten
[37:42] off those foods and you've had a great response, put it in the comments so we can all be inspired by you. And most of all, what I want you all to understand is if you're not feeling well in your body, you have the control through the
[37:57] types of foods you eat to make your body perform differently. And studies keep coming out showing us high-fructose corn corn syrup is a no. It is a bummer. So,
[38:10] let's get off the junk, and let's go back to what nature has provided us, lots of healthy glucose with lots of fiber in fruits and vegetables, and we'll all be healthy together. Deal? Okay. As always, I hope that helped.
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