EP 07: WTH ?!? Detox Thriving in the World Part 2

Hello. Hey. Sorry about that. I've been having problems getting into Zoom today. Ah, yeah. So anyways, you ready to go? Yep. Okay, stand by. Here we go. And. God. Okay, here we go. And you're live. All right. Well, welcome back, everybody. This is what the health and I'm Dr. Greg Eckel. We've got part two, two of our detox series here. Super excited to be here today with you. So where we've been, we've covered quite a bit of ground, and I'm going to catch up. If you've missed it, please tune in to naturecuresclinic.com and you can check out these episodes on the Contact talk radio as well. We started out by talking about diet and nutrition and how that's a big starting spot. Food is your best medicine, and by reducing your overall body burden, by reducing on how many toxins come into your life via your mouth, you are way ahead of the game. Then we talked about clean air and clean water of looking at your home environment. Start at the home environment. Looking at your bedroom is a great starting spot. You know, getting your bedroom clean, you should be in there about six to eight hours a night. So that's a big portion and chunk of your day. Air filters, furnace, filter, clean the filter, clean the ducts, cleaning the air. Air pollution is a big cause of illness in us as humans and then water as well. You know, we look at. It's not just Flint, Michigan with lead in the water. Vox.com has done us all a favor. You can go there and check your water sources. Feel like here in the Pacific Northwest, we've got a really great source of Bull Run water, but it's got to get to our homes. And so, you know, there's leaded solder and pipes that it is changing coming up into your house. So you want to look at water filtration systems on your water. Physical exercise. So this one is on. You know, this is my recap from our first episode. Physical exercise is really looking at circulation, muscle building, getting blood flow up to your brain and helping to filter through the liver. Psychological influences. Right. This is a big one that people don't think about on detox, but, you know, the news is set up to sell us negative stuff. We're tuned. Our limbic systems and amygdala are tuned for survival. And so we're 10 times more likely to tune into negative. And so that can have. That drives our hormones, creates hormone imbalances, and leads to early aging. So when we're talking about detox, you got to look at those psychological influences. There's traumas, physical traumas. Mental, emotional traumas. Physical traumas on, you know, getting circulation going. Mental, emotional traumas is dealing with unresolved emotions and, you know, clearing those, experiencing your emotions, not stuffing them, not pretending that they don't affect you. You know, we don't need to have total non attachment here. And in fact, I find a lot of people try to do a spiritual bypass with their traumas and, or emotions and pretend like they aren't there or oh, this shouldn't bother me, so I'm going to put on a happy face. No, you got to lean into and go through and express the emotions. You know, you're human. Of course, you know, we're intelligence expressed as the outer representation of the creator and creatives. You know, it's perfect the way it is and that includes the traumas. It's very. That's a hard one to take in for me on some days and for most people. But, you know, our greatest adversities, just on the other side of that is our greatest superpowers and our greatest insights and basically our gifts for the world. And so I want to just encourage you to lean into those and bring them forth because, you know, in human, you know, existence on the planet, pretty much all of the stories have been written different, different genres, maybe different backdrops, obviously different eras. But all of the things that you could think of happening to humanity have happened. And you know, we're just playing them out again and again and again. And once we realize like, you know, that story, we don't need that story. We could actually have a story of abundance, of wealth, of love. Like that's the new story and that's the one that I'd love to see come to fruition on the planet now as we speak, xenobiotics, microorganisms and radiation. So that got us caught up there. So, you know, when we're talking about detoxification for thriving, there are so many fronts and levels to this discussion trying to incorporate all of these in. So we're going to go through the last three on my list and then we're going to talk about what to do about them. Right. So some of the notes that I've taken for you today really are around. I'm looking at longevity diets, I'm looking at Dr. Pizorno's toxic solution book and xenobiotics. So we left off with traumas, now we're going to talk about xenobiotics. Xenobiotics. Well, what are they? One it is a great Scrabble word, right? But pops, these are persistent organic pollutants. These are the things. There's 80,000 chemicals that have been released in the United States since World War II. Really, only about a quarter, less than a quarter of those have been tested on human populations as far as safety effects. So the burden of proof has now been switched to us rather than vice versa. These things shouldn't have been released on the market without proper testing. And so they're so ubiquitous in our environments that, you know, I will recommend annually for everyone to do a liver detoxification, liver cleanse. And I've got a couple different ways of going about that, but. And we're going to talk about that today. But these things, these are organophosphates, like nerve gases. This is the ddt. The Agent Orange in Vietnam, you know, have a lot of patients that played in the smoke clouds from DDT in the farmlands. And as the, you know, the planes would come down and drop DDT to, you know, get rid of the pests and the kids would go play in the smoke, fog, cloud of it. And wow, you know, we've banned that in the United States, but we still export DDT around the globe. So it's coming back to us in our food. This is why I started with nutrition and diet. You know, we don't want to be concerned consuming this stuff. Other examples of xenobiotics are dioxins, PCBs, which are the fire retardants. So in mattresses, in clothes, you know, we're exposing. There's a kind of compelling argument that sids, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome could be as a result of this PCBs in the mattresses. I have a lot of families here in Portland, Oregon. They asked me to write a doctor's note so that they can get a mattress that is not doused in the PCBs. Aldrin, Chlordane, DDT. These are the big heavy hitters in the xenobiotic front. Known cancer causing agents in this category, definitely neurotoxins, definitely affecting our organs. And these are things, these chemicals we're exposed to, like, you know, air fresheners. I was recently just at a conference and taking a Lyft ride and all of the Lyft drivers have these, you know, air fresheners in their cars and just makes me nauseous. And, you know, having those little Febreze or the little plugins in the walls, they're releasing solvents into your environment and then that is getting trapped in your body and potentially causing you your illness. So we really have to look at these facets of care for folks detox this. So that sauna has also come into handy here with sweating the exercise as well. Microorganisms, we don't really think about these so much on a detox front. I do think about it. I traveled to China back in the late 90s, was going over there to study Chinese medicine. We went into University of Chengdu and then had the honor of studying with my teachers, herbal teachers, and then also doing about eight hours of qigong work a day, went into Sichuan Province and then up into the region of Calm and Tibet. And you know, you know, you get educated about going over. Don't eat the pickled vegetables. Don't eat the vegetables. They're grown in night soil, which is human waste. And so parasitic infections are definitely something to consider traveling abroad. They are also very common in the United States. If you're eating raw fish, sushi, you're getting exposed to parasites, certain pork products as well. And you may not even know that you have a parasite. So on. This is the microbiome and the immune system, right? So 90% of our immune system is in the galt, the gut associated lymphoid tissue. This is the lymph glands that surround the digestive tract, which makes sense. You know, you can eat a food, but it passed the whole way down through your colon, small intestine, sigmoid colon and anus and out. And it never really officially made it into your body. It was just inside, in the gut. But it didn't get absorbed in through so the microorganism. So parasites are there, the whole microbiome discussion, which is getting more and more sophisticated. I'm going to return to the parasite discussion here. Parasites can live symbiotically in your gut. So when I went to China, I was adventuresome. I did eat pickled vegetables. And about three years later, I had the flu and had a spike to fever of 104. Allowed the flu, you know, allowed that fever to really run its course. And then the week after that, lo and behold, passed like the grandmother of parasites out of my bowel. I had no idea, you know, I didn't have symptoms of it per se for two or three years, but the fever was the cure. So running high fevers actually can be very detoxing for the body. And it was for me in a kind of a healing response. So having that healing response killed the parasite. Of course, at that time I was a student, shared that story with my Chinese professors, and I love their response to me was like, oh, geez, Greg, it sounds like you got the grandmother. It's like, oh, really? You had to say it that way. That means there's still parasites in me. You can test for these, looking at complete digestive stool analysis. There's different parasitology labs that you can send your stool samples to, but this can be a major, it can wreak major havoc with your immune system response. These parasites are in there, flying beneath the radar of your immune system and causing basically a slow drain out of the bucket. It's kind of basically like a hole in your bucket that you don't even know is there. So you can maybe your energy's down or brain fog, gas bloating, digestive issues, maybe that stuff is going on for you and you just don't know what it's from. So you're putting great nutrients in, you're focused on your diet, maybe doing some IV therapy, etc. And just not really getting any results. So if that is the case, then you want to really look at, at some parasitic testing, especially if you have any gas or bloating along those lines. The microbiome was just down at a conference talking with some experts about the microbiome. And again, it is getting so sophisticated. I mean, one of the biggest things, a lot of people will just throw probiotics at it, but all of the research shows if you're eating a varied vegetable, high fiber content diet, you're going to get the right bugs that you need in your gut. Your gut, you know, they're already in there, but you're feeding the right gut bugs versus if you're drinking alcohol, eating sugars, simple carbohydrates, these things feed the bad bugs or the wrong bacteria of your gut and you get into small intestinal bacterial overgrowth situation. Sibo Crohn's, colitis, irritable bowel, all of these things kind of can relate definitely to gut health. I've got the yellow on the wall here again as a reminder. That's the spleen and stomach camp in Chinese medicine. And you know, it really is the overlay of how I practice medicine is really get in on that digestion. Food is our best medicine. So that's the microorganism component there. And then the bigger category here is radiation. And I think we're going to hear a lot more about as we move to the 5G technology in the United States. This 5G technology, you know, waveform and frequency really is the future of medicine. And you know, we have particles and waveform and that the particles are, you know, basically the, you know, frequencies that have slowed down so much that we can see them, we can actually even feel them. So particles to frequencies, all particles exist as frequency. I think that's when we leave our bodies, we just return to our frequency. So I know very esoteric concept. We might dive into that a little bit later also. If you want to learn more of that, please contact me at dreckelatureaturecures with an s clinic.com, naturecures clinic.com and you know, submit your questions and you know, you might be pleasantly surprised I actually respond to my email. I also want to hear from you all out there listening, different health concerns, questions about your health, different therapeutics, you name it, we're going to cover it here on what the health. I want to take a quick station break. This is Dr. Greg Eckel of naturecuresclinic.com this is contact talk radio. So we are here Every Tuesday from 2 until 3. Thanks for tuning in. I also want to encourage you to share this with your friends and family members. I really want to be the go to person for you to be in service, giving you the truth, letting you know what's working clinically and really how to make a difference in your life. There's nothing more rewarding than to hear from a patient and or, you know, friend, colleagues, follower, whatever is happening out there that, you know, oh, that thing that you talked about, Dr. Eckel, it really did X, Y and Z for me. And I love getting those stories and hearing them and hearing that kind of feedback loop of the impact that I'm having in the community. So please reach out, give me your questions. I'm sincere in that I want to hear from you. So radiation, you know, we get a lot of radiation. There's solar flares, the sun, if you've ever flown, you're going further up in the atmosphere. So you're getting higher radiation in the air than you do at the planet surface. But you've got to watch it, you know, you know, taking antioxidants is one of the best support things that you can do to prevent illness from radiation. Now sometimes like I grew up in western Pennsylvania, Three Mile island, you know what we're talking about. There is ionizing radiation, Chernobyl, Fukushima. It drives me batty hearing environmentalists arguing for nuclear power. It just is not safe. It doesn't have a great track record. It's not free energy. If we had hydrogen fusion, perhaps our solar power we're getting better there still have to deal with some of the toxic waste products of the photovoltaic panels and batteries, etc. But I think it's better than our coal fire program that we've got going on now. It's just not sustainable. That releases a ton of mercury into the environment. Not to mention that we're pillaging the land. One of my favorite songs on that is paradise by John Prine. If you ever see me in person, I can play that one on guitar. So that one's in my repertoire. So radiation, there's two different varieties. There's ionizing and non iodizing radiation. I have not seen the negative information on microwaves. You know, oftentimes in complementary alternative medicine and or naturopathic medicine that there's a lot of negativity around the microwave. And you know, I'm not into cooking your meat long term in there, but to warm something up, all it's doing is vibrating molecules and you know, maybe giving a slight different confirmation to CIS or trans form of the molecule. But at short levels, short periods, not, you know, even 80% efficiency, you're going to get a very hot meal in a very short period of time. And I don't think we have to be anti microwave. Now you can correct me if you feel like I'm wrong. I'd love to hear from you, but you know, maybe a little bit of a heretic statement, but you know, I've got a microwave, I've loved my microwave. Not to cook, but to warm stuff up. And I don't think we need to fear that. If we're walking around with fear in our brains, it's 10 times worse. And so you really want to check your thought process. There's other interesting factoids on radiation. So it's about a 14 Hz frequency on the planet. Astronauts that go into orbit and or on big missions actually need that 14 hertz like we are meant to be here on the planet. You know, I was asked on the Future of Medicine podcast, where do you think we're going? Would you like to upload your consciousness onto the grid? And you know, my answer was very quick and it actually shocked me was, you know, I'm not interested in that. You know, they call it the singularity is near. Ray Criswell is a big futurist predictor. But I don't, you know, immortality. I'm not so much looking for that because, you know, I don't know what the next space holds or what's in the cards for when this all goes down. But I will tell you, after losing my wife Soraya last year and not really having a plan like you don't really plan for that contingency, you know, I'm taking it as a gift. I would not wish this on anybody. But to have the perspective, to have the veil lifted once again of reality and what we're actually doing on the planet and where we're going was so, so, so helpful for me and it really solidified some thought processes in my heart in the process of serving you and serving others. So again, if you like the show, please share it with your friends and family. And let's get the word out that there is a healthcare revolution happening and we're going for thriving status because that is so exciting. Radiation. So what do you do about it? Like if you're a pilot or fly a ton, you definitely got to be taking antioxidants, vitamin C, bioflavonoids, the color leafy greens and vegetables are rich in antioxidants. Well, why are those important? Those are important with regards to squelching free radical damage. And that's the issue with radiation is it will damage your tissue, damages your tissue, it's going to damage your brain and then, you know, you, you part quickly from the planet when that's happening to you, for you or with you. So ionizing versus non ionizing. Not all radiation is bad. The 14 Hertz that going up in the planet, what they discovered when, when pilots didn't take that sound frequency up with them, they were getting sick and fatigued and you know, go figure. We're basically, you know, as, oh, I'm going to blank on his name. How can I do that? Dr. Bill Mitchell, Co founder of Bastyr University, once told me he felt that naturopathic physicians are Gaia's immune system. And well, what does that mean? Well, we address health on all of the levels. So if there is environmental toxicity, we're going to address that. It means writing letters to those companies and getting the lawyers on board to kind of have them cease and desist. You can look at your overall body burden. There are some simple laboratory tests. Ggt, ast, alt, those are all measuring liver function. The issue with a functional lab test is occasionally the patients you won't know, occasionally you'll, you'll not have any, you won't have an idea of, of what your exposures are. So we will, what you got to watch, you know, total body burden of where, where stuff's coming in. All right, so we, we covered out so There. I mean, those. What do we got? We got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 areas of detoxification. So now we're going to talk about what to do about it, right with our next half hour. So here's some just simple practices of what Dr. Eckel puts in in his own life and incorporates in with his own patients. So two great books that I would recommend, the toxic solution by Dr. Joe Pizzorno. I hope to have him on the show in upcoming sessions. Another one is the Longevity Diet by Valter Longo. These things are just great resources to have on board for longevity. That's one of my health hacks. And I think detoxification is really crucial to help us make it through, to make it through this life in one piece and actually thrive at the end of it. So when I bring up detox to my patient base, most of them just look at me a little bit cockeyed and say, you know, I work, Dr. Eckel. I don't want to be running to the bathroom every five minutes because of the explosive diarrhea that I'm going to have. And colon cleanses are kind of all of the rage out there with colonics. Colon cleanses, when you go to Whole Foods or the natural food store, it's all about the colon. Well, why? Number one, I think why is because we don't eat enough vegetables to scour and clean our bowels out. So, you know, it comes back to diet, nutrition. But two, if you're not getting enough of that fiber in there, you're not getting movement, and things are getting backed up, and our bodies are great recyclers, so you're just recycling these toxins that should have been eliminated in your waste. So I don't recommend those to start, though, because that's the end of the process. The colon, once it's in the colon, you know, by adequate hydration and changing your diet, that really should jumpstart that. But that's why they're all so dramatic. You can see like, oh, I've got to go to the bathroom yet again. So you get this kind of psychological hit on a colon cleanse around that I like to focus upstream. So before it gets into the colon, it has gotten filtered through your liver. So in simpleton terms, like any filter in your life, you've got to change the filter. There happens to be a very sophisticated detox pathway in there called the cytochrome P450 cycle. And there's a phase one, a phase two, and a phase three route of elimination. All of the blood gets filtered through the liver. Cholesterol gets manufactured and put together in the liver. Your hormones, some of them get put together in the liver. So the liver is a crucial, crucial organ. It also has a very high turnover. I think it's like every seven days you have new cells, you have a new liver. So you know, cheers on the waterfront here. So we're going to talk liver detox here and if you know one, if you're just tuning in again, this is what the health Dr. Greg Eckel of naturecures clinic.com you can tune in every Tuesday from 2 to 3 and we're going to be talking about increasing your health span, what to do about your health and kind of the nitty gritty and the truth about what's happening in healthcare in the United States. You can also check out the contact talk radio with the whole cadre of presenters and podcasters on there to enhance your health and longevity on multiple fronts. And also check out the past episodes. If you've missed any, please go back and watch them. So liver detox. So this is Basically it's a 9 to 11 day program that I'll run people through and I recommend one to three of these a year because we are exposed to so many environmental toxins and the liver just takes a hit. If you've got brain fog, fatigue, trouble losing weight, hormone imbalances, even up into cancer, the liver prevents cancers from being caused. A lot of cancers are triggered by environmental toxins. It's good to care for your liver. The emotion of the liver in Chinese medicine is anger. So anytime you're angry you can say that's liver fire rising in a Chinese medicine fashion. But we want to detox the liver. Give it a break, let it rest a little bit. This is where intermittent fasting comes in big. And the fasting mimicking diet. That was the second book that I raised up there. Well, when you limit your calories in what that shows on the body. Well one that is a longevity measurement. When you look in nature and animals that have caloric restriction, whether it's a feast or famine issue or you know, they're hibernating in the winter, you know, whatever those things are, those animals have a longer longevity, a better quality of life and a longer longevity than other animals that don't do or employ those things. And so there's always a caloric restriction on a liver detox. And I'll typically do like two pre warm up days, which is the starting of the cleanse where you'll Do a, a shake in the morning, a meal for lunch and a shake at night. It's about the equivalent of a 6 to 800 caloric intake every day. Most patients will lose about 9 pounds on average and actually keep that off after the cleanse. So it's a great way to jumpstart any plan or program that you may be contemplating with your physician. There are so many liver detoxes and cleanses. So there's cellular detox, there's nutritional deto, there's biochemical detox. We try to incorporate all of those in together. Two great herbs that I think you should know about are milk thistle, which is a liver protector. So if somebody comes in with liver enzymes raised. So AST or ALT or ggt. GGT is specific to alcohol content or intake. And then ast, ALT or just liver enzymes showing, you know, how the liver is functioning. For men, I want to see those below 25. For women, I want to see those below 15. So definitely get your liver enzymes checked there. They come on a, just a general, general comprehensive metabolic panel. So there's nothing, you know, out of the ordinary with testing for those. So you can check that on your just general annual exam. I'm guessing that they. So they should have put those on there just to see what's going on with the liver. The liver detox, milk thistle is liver protective. Dandelion is also, it's a great driving lipophilic. It loves fat. It'll take toxins out of the fat, drive them to the liver. Why is the filter important to change? You know, look at any other filter in your life. Air filter on your car, air filter at home, the filter on your vacuum bag. Like if you didn't change that thing, it just recycled thethe pollen and the dust and the toxins back out into your environment if you don't change the bag. So the liver is your proverbial filter. And so you gotta change that filter because if you don't, you run into all kinds of problems. So we've got liver detox there preventing cancers in general, helping manufacture hormones in a healthy way. Dandelion root, which is a diuretic, it helps you urinate. So you're going to drive those toxins that got filtered from the liver into the microtubules of the kidneys, down the ureter and then out through the urethra and then into the toilet bowl or wherever you're urinating these days. So that's why, you know, I really do stress drinking water throughout the day. One to stay hydrated. Helps with energy, helps with mood, it helps with pain. But it also helps move things, you know, into the bowels and out the body, but also, you know, filtered through the liver. So that's the liver detox. We talked a little bit about colon cleansing. Some of the bigger things on colon cleansing. There are some colonic shops in town here in Portland, Oregon. I refer out all the time to folks that are having constipation because sometimes it is necessary to get some support to get that reset button. Do not just run out and get Cascara Sagrada. Cascara Sagrada is a irritant to the bowel, and it helps people go to the bathroom. But people can get stuck on that. The first time I was introduced to Cascara Sagrada was at the Living Enrichment center here outside of Portland, Oregon. And I was a second year med student. And all of the other practitioners were. They started getting shifty in their seats. And this was Dr. Bill Mitchell, one of my main mentors. I mean, this lecture is just locked in my brain. They started getting shifty and he was doing drop doses of botanics tied to their musical theme and kind of giving the gestalt picture of each of the herbs. And as a new student, I just asked, I was like, why is everybody feeling like there's a lot of nervousness in the room? What's going on here? And herbalist next to me said, oh, this is a. It's a cathartic. It'll make you have explosive diarrhea. I was like, o, okay, then we're going for it here. It did not in drop doses. It didn't do that. And, you know, and the teas that you're taking, you know, it' sit's probably not having that effect. It's loosening the stool. It's an irritant to the bowel. So that way it'll keep you regular. But you know, that Cascara Sagrada going on this talk about detox and the energetics of botanics. So having having that done in, in that herbal conference of, you know, around colon cleansing, it didn't have that effect, but it definitely had the energetic effect of botanics, of cleansing and detoxing the body. So, you know, there are different ways to use these herbs. I'm not saying run out and get these. I just wanted to highlight those two. Dandelion and milk thistle. Give a little bit of a caution around Cascara Sagrada on the colon cleansing, because that's in most of the colon cleansing products at High doses. I just took it in like a micro dose before microdosing was cool. So it is just some, definitely some western botanics to think about. Of course there's a whole pharmacopoeia in Chinese medicine and with the herbs there, another big route of elimination is the skin. The skin is our largest organ. And doing dry skin brushing, I do have people incorporate that into their day to day. You do dry skin brushing before you get in the shower and you brush towards the heart from the legs up to the core, from the edges to the heart. It's really a lymph stimulator. So the lymph travels with the blood. A lot of waste products get put into the lymph. So you need to get the lymph out, get that moving. So exercise, contraction of the muscle makes that lymph move its stuff back. That's where the immune system takes viruses, bacterias and others to be held in captivity. They kind of want when your body notices things that shouldn't be in there, it goes and scavenges those out and then puts them into your lymph nodes. Oftentimes I'll find, you know, somebody. Patients will have a chronically enlarged lymph node. Not that they have an active infection right now, but that it just never goes down and it's very hard, hard lump. I'm feeling mymy neck form because there's some here sub just in the throat and then you got the cervical chain, pre cervical chain, post cervical chain up into the shoulder region. These are things to check out if you have chronically inflamed lymphs. You can do some lymph massage. The dry skin brushing though really helps on helping the skin breathe. Also debriding the skin and getting the lymph glands flowing and working at 100%. You know the craze on alkaline, alkalinized water and alkalinizing the body. Right. There's a book by Acid Base book of looking at how foods affect your body. Do they make it more acidic, which is cancer causing or more alkaline which is not. Another way to alkalinize the body is to take some deep breaths getting the CO2 out of the bloodstream. So you know one way that I will explain doing this, doing you know, five minutes in or five minutes in, five breaths in, six breaths out. So you elongate the out breath, nice deep belly breath and then let that out. Nice, deep belly breath, let that out. Nice deep belly breath, let that out. Nice deep belly breath, let that out. 5. So what that does, you're expressing carbon dioxide and honestly you should have a count of five in, count of six out or just one extra count out. So you're expelling CO2 out of your bloodstream and that alkalinizes your body. So macrobiotic diets are all about making the body more alkaline. The Kangen water, alkalinized water is another big thing, almost a flavor of the month for me. And I'm sure there's tons of anecdotes and people love that water. Keep doing it. It's not something that I recommend out of my practice, but if it's working for you, you are the best intuitive treater for your body. So you got to filter everything through your apparatus and so just keep, keep doing that if that is the case. But deep breathing will also get you there with regards to alkalinizing the body. So you know, mindfulness meditation, this aspect of taking a break from the media, from the negativity, you know, I have the fortune I see, you know, 12 to 20 people a day. So if there's a, there's a news item that I need to hear about, it's coming up. And so some people will say the darndest things, you know, and they're totally tuned into the corporate media structure and living in fear all of the time, doom and gloom, it's all coming to an end, etc. Well, what do you think? What kind of impact does that have on their health and well being? It is super detrimental. You know, you can't get into an active or proactive state of having, you know, doing something about it. But in the grand scheme and the dance, you know, we all do our part, play our part, so keep doing what you're doing, but try not to get too emotionally hooked to it, right? That, that component of our, our emotions. So I didwe did liver detox, colon cleansing, dry skin brushing, deep breathing. Now we're going to talk about nature walks. Of course, coming from the naturopathic physician. We want you to get out into nature, get your feet on the planet, get grounded, feel it, feel the dirt, smell the roses, watch the hummingbird. You know where I was over the weekend, saw hummingbirds galore. Those are the animals of the heart, right? And I was hanging out with this tribe who are so heart centered, light beings. You know, it's really great support when you get out here in the grind and you get battered down by the system. It's nice to get re energized by your community. So having Good community, making the time, taking the effort to establish that is really important. So nature walk. So a component of community and then nature walk. So getting out into nature, even viewing pictures of nature. So sometimes I'll just post pictures of nature because looking at a picture of nature for 10 seconds or more has actually been shown to lower your cortisol response. So if you have any hormone imbalances, autoimmune conditions, anything in that endocrine triangle, adrenal gland to thyroid to estrogen, progesterone for women, or testosterone for men, we want to look at that. So we'll do assays on urine. We use a Dutch test. It's very reliable. It gets four samples throughout the day. And to look at what is your gradient? How are you doing? Are you getting adequate sleep? Is it restful? Are you waking with energy? Those are big, big questions to know the answer to because that really is you paying attention to your body. And your body is the best guide. That vibration and the frequency that's coming out of you. We need to wake up to that and listen and be patient and having the wherewithal to take action when it says to do something. So nothing worse to get into this and you're doing a cleanse to lose weight maybe and then, you know, something comes up or some social engagement, say, oh, I do this next month or whatever. No, pick a time, draw a line in the sand and get to work because it's that important. So nature walking, this is not a loaded term. It could be just walk 10 minutes from your house in the woods at 10 minutes back, see what you notice, tune into what you are noticing. So all too often this, this sphere of detox, like people will get in on this and think themselves dirty and detox forever. And that is a really toxic mindset to get into because you know, you're not dirty all the time. You don't have to detox all the time. That's why I set up, you know, just small programs, nine to 11 days. With the detox or liver detox program, it's five days of the fasting mimicking diet, which is super caloric restrictive. It's 1,000 calories on the first day, 800 the next four. But they have it set up that you're hitting satiety center in your brain. You're not hungry, you are fasting. So you know what I tell my patients is, look, this is a five day fasting, mimicking diet, meaning you are fasting, you're going to have less energy, so go easy on yourself. So that's nature bathing concept of detoxing all of time. And then we're going to talk about hydration. So being well hydrated. Right. We talked a bit about that in the water section and the quality of water. So hopefully you're getting, you're getting filtered water or you know, the source of your water. Of course that old hippie adage of know your source, you want to know where it's coming from. Is it well water on your property? Have you had that well water tested recently? Because you're getting leaching chemicals from your neighbors. If there's anybody growing conventionally in that land, you're getting drift between the fields. And so, you know, just because you're saying it's organic doesn't necessarily mean it is. So definitely get it tested, get it checked out. Hydration. We talked a little bit about about half your body weight in ounces of water. So we talked about source here in Portland, Oregon. So about eight cups a day is the, is the guiding principle. Now you know, unfortunately there's not enough data to support this. We don't have Coca Cola funding research on drinking water. And so we have to just use some of our common sense. We, our bodies are 80% water. Of course we need well structured water to help aid it in its ability to heal. I mentioned Batman Jolly, I think the last week or the week before Dr. Batman Jolly wrote the book the Body's Many Cries of Water. It's a great read. And he went in there case after case that got results for him and published them. So we have that to go off of, which is awesome. Again, we're at quarter till the hour. I want to just check in with you all. This is Dr. Greg Eckel of what the health and this is healthcare to promote thriving. So on this one you can tune in naturecuresclinic.com look for the beginning of the episode and or contact talk radio and find the other episodes that we've got. This is episode seven, part two of our detox talk, Liver cleansing. So I want to come back to that. So we talked about dry skin brushing, breathing, movement. These are simple things that you can incorporate into your detoxes and baths. Turning off social media, getting off of the electronics, radiation getting into nature because of the frequencies of the mitochondrial disruption disruptors of WI fi and the radiation. It'll be a great experiment to see what 5G is going to do to us. I think that there's a genetic platform of individual that that's not going to be very kind to. We already Know that from in California they put on the electric companies, they gave little, not wi fi, but little radio, radio frequencies to report back your usage of electricity. And there was a whole slew of folks that were getting sick as a result of that. So, you know, you can get by a rather affordable meter. Look at the frequencies of your house again, start in your bedroom. I've had patients with years and years of insomnia discover, oh well, at the head of my bed is an outlet. And I had about umpteen things plugged into that. And all we did is have them rotate their bed, get their head away from the outlet and also stop charging their phones and their computers in there. And their energy and their sleep, their sleep improved tenfold. Their energy went through the roof because they were actually able to sleep. So when we're talking detox, it's not just at an organ level, but I'm going to focus there first because there are a lot of co factors that you can give for phase one and phase two route of elimination. One telltale sign is if you need to do one of these one, I'm telling you, you should be doing at least one a year. However, if you cannot drink caffeine after noon, we use caffeine as a clearance test on phase two route of elimination. So we can tell if you're having trouble sleeping after drinking caffeine in the afternoon. Well, that's a sign that you are indeed need for a liver cleanse or detox. If you're having hot flashes or hormone imbalances, not just going through menopause, but if it just seems way more significant than others in your life that you're seeing go through the same change, well, then we got to look at liver function and there's some great testing that you can do on this. I don't put testing in on everybody because I'm a firm believer in liver detoxification. What's it look like? So we start, it's a, it's a nine day process. We'll do a meal, a shake and a meal to start. So it doesn't really change your diet so much. You just have a little bit more calories on the road when you're traveling and, or around lunchtime, you can just have the, the smoothie and then we'll switch that to one meal, two smoothies, and then we'll ramp it up to three smoothies a day. Then you ramp it back down from three smoothies a day, then down to two smoothies a day with one meal. Then you go to Two meals and one smoothie. So get basically a bell shaped curve up and down. There's a caloric restriction in there. You're drinking a pro Greens beverage and also taking some detox nutrients to help protect the liver. But also it's lipotropic. It'll take toxins from the fat and bring those in to the liver to be detoxed. And so you want to make sure you have adequate hydration, simple movement. We'll ask people to take a break from media and TV and their phones. So you're really detoxing on multiple fronts. There is this syndrome of screen time syndrome that you may have witnessed out in public with children, but it also happens with adults. If you're excessively checking your phone means you're craving a dopamine hit is what is happening with that. And that is truly addictive. So we've got to watch what we're doing with our media consumption, social media, phone, et cetera. Not just the media. So that's the liver detox. The other one that I'll run is the fasting mimicking diet. This is a five day detox cleanse stem cell stimulator and it's 800 calories on the first day and 600 calories for the next four. This one seems to be more doable for most people because it's only five days rather than nine and we get some really good results. There's just nothing in there to support the liver and, or the fat. So you're losing weight, right, because you're on a caloric restriction. And all of the longevity research shows that people live longer with healthier diets. So they've. It's all prepackaged, it's plant based. You don't have to be a vegetarian, but that's how they made it. It's not food sensitivity friendly though. They have nuts and a nut bar for snacks and a little bit of a. Yeah. So just in there they're covering the bases. They put you into ketogenic fashion with some fats and so that way it hits the satiety position in your brain. I don't recommend like playing hockey, working out big time because you are fasting on this so you don't have as much energy and so you've got to just watch yourself physically on there. What it does show though, it does reset the gut microbiome. So if you're having digestive complaints or issues, sometimes it's good just to give your gut a break. So doing intermittent fasting, which is not or time restricted eating. So let's say you start eating at 8 o' clock every morning. So for the next eight hours you can have calories and then after that close it up. No more food. You can have water, tea, just no caloric intake. It's awesome for jump starting weight loss. It's also anti inflammatory patients love it for their bowel health as well. Those are the current the two big platforms that we're using now to detox the body. Saunas is something that I haven't mentioned, but we do like the Far Infrared Sauna and Near Infrared Saunas. We will have a resource page coming up on our website@naturecuresclinic.com in the near future because I want to make this easy. I don't want you having to do research all over the web. I want you to find products that are tried and true. They get my stamp of approval. I will recommend items that I've used or am using that I like and that I believe in. So look for that resources page coming up on our website naturecaresclinic.com we are winding this one up. I really appreciate you for tuning in. Please share what the health with your friends and family and community. Really out here doing service for you all. 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