#221: Why You Need Iodine to Improve Your Health!

What is the quickest, easiest way to start detoxing? That is the iodine. Iodine helps cleanse the liver. It helps cleanse the blood. And this is, you know, I take people through liver cleanses. I take people through radiation cleanses, just overall making that shift where they get their thyroid up and fat burning and releasing that fat. And I use it through not a keto or low-carb diet, but just very specific foods. And we can talk about those healthy, unhealthy foods that people are eating and not getting results. But the quickest way is to increase your thyroid health with iodine and also detox every cell with that iodine as well.

Hi, I'm Dr. Tabatha, the Gutsy Gynecologist. I'm a triple board-certified OB-GYN and functional medicine physician. I've embraced the world of functional medicine and wellness through my own personal health journey, and I'm super excited to share my wisdom and unique perspective as it pertains to women's health. After caring for thousands of I've come to realize that your gut health determines your gyn health and your overall health. And it's a super gutsy thing for me to go against conventional gynecology practice to bring you the truth. No more Band-Aid medicine, ladies. We're talking root cause resolution on this show. So if you're struggling with hormone imbalance, weight gain, period issues, anxiety, insomnia, you name it, then you've come to the right place. And I want to be your gutsy gynecologist. So welcome. You're my only hope. Oh my goodness, I feel like Obi-Wan Kenobi sometimes because patients say that to me when they finally get to meet me and have their virtual appointments. Like, you're my last hope. You're my only hope. I've tried everything. I'm just stuck. I'm struggling with my weight. I don't have any energy. I'm not sleeping. I'm like, it's severely affecting my mood. I'm over it. And I feel you. Oh my goodness. I've been there and there's a way out, I promise. So I'm glad that you found me. I'm glad that you're here with me. And I want to talk about something really important today, iodine. So recently I did a hair tissue mineral analysis on a patient who was struggling with severe fatigue issues, and her iodine was really low as well as her molybdenum. And then she had elevated aluminum and some hidden copper toxicity. So it was more of a complicated mineral imbalance. But one of the important things that we need to realize is that we need iodine in our lives. So when I was young, starting out probably 10 or 11, I started swimming in the city pool all summer long, and it was so chlorinated that my eyes would burn. You smelled it. It would rot in your bathing suit. You just smell the chlorine because that's really the only way they knew how to keep You know, public pools clean. So I was exposed to a lot of chlorine on a regular basis. And also during when I was little, I grew up in a town that had well water and they would give us fluoride treatments at school every week. So every Friday, the lady would come around with the little cart and give us all these fluoride swishes that we would have to do. They were terrible. But I got a lot of fluoride treatments as a child for years, along with these swimming in the chlorine. And then I had a very high bromine diet. So bromine is a halogen that's added to breads, pastas, soda pop, pretty much all the Frankenfoods that I talk about in Fasts of Faith. I call them Frankenfoods because They're made in a lab. We act like they're food, but they're not really food. They take like pieces of food and they manufacture it and they, you know, change it all up chemically into Frankenfoods. And so these foods are really high in bromine. And here's the deal. If you have ever taken chemistry class, halogens are in a column together. Fluoride, bromine, chlorine, iodine, all the ions, they're halogens. And so in our body, they can bind to the same receptor. And so we have cells, you know, trillions of cells that have iodine receptors, and iodine helps transport things and activate things. But those other halogens can bind to the iodine receptor and get in the way. And block iodine and prevent iodine from working. And so starting at a very young age, I was a setup for thyroid disease. I had so many bad halogens constantly bombarding my body that I didn't have enough iodine, and I definitely didn't eat fish or seafood or seaweed or get iodine enough. You know, we started adding iodine to table salt a century ago because we realized so many Americans were deficient because we really don't eat ocean food, right? Like, we eat a lot of land-processed foods. And so we added in iodine to table salt. That helped for a while, but so many people still struggle. And I was one of those kids. And I ended up developing Hashimoto's thyroid storm after I had my daughter at 17 years old. That was very traumatic. But I didn't know that these halogens were affecting me. And I didn't even really put two and two together in undergrad, in medical school. It took me a while when it finally clicked. Everything shifted because I realized I got to get these halogens out of my life. I need enough iodine. I need to focus on iodine. But when I saw this patient and did her hair tissue mineral analysis, and she told me, you know, I can't tolerate iodine, I don't want to take iodine, that was a big red flag for me because iodine is essential. It's absolutely necessary. for life, for a thriving physical body. And so I'm really excited to have my guest on today, Sarah, because she is going to talk all about iodine and she has a supplement that has been a game changer for so many people who are struggling. So hopefully that you find this podcast episode helpful. It does relate to hormone issues because iodine Like I said, is in all the cells of our body, and so it helps with iodine. I'm sorry, with hormone sensitization and hearing the signals from our hormones. And she's going to go into all the amazing things with iodine. Okay, so let me tell you about Sarah Banta. In addition to being the host of the top 100 health podcast called Accelerated Health TV and Radio Show, she's owner and founder of the award-winning supplement company Accelerated. Health products. Her— she says her goal is to help clients and listeners reach their optimal state of health through quality detox supplements, cutting-edge health technologies and modalities. So she has a long history of hitting rock bottom in her own health. After Western medicine, conventional medicine didn't give her the answers she was looking for, she went on to find the world of health and wellness, kind of like I did. She suffered from Crohn's disease, PCOS, IBS, heavy metal toxicity, and her 9-year-old son actually had leukemia. And those struggles and adversities helped her learn everything that she's going to share with us today. So I'm really excited. She's a graduate of Stanford University with degrees in economics and psychology, and she's a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and the Invincible Wellness System. So I'm really excited for this conversation. I know that you're going to get some golden nuggets, something that you haven't heard before, and hopefully this will take you to the next step in your health journey. All right, here we go. Oh, Sarah, thank you so much for doing this podcast interview. I'm really excited about this conversation.

I am too. And I love, love, love that we are so in alignment that your faith has to be a big part of your health journey because mind, body, spirit, but it's actually body, mind, spirit, right? So That is a huge part of my coaching as well, and I'm super excited to get into this conversation.

Oh, good. I love that so much. I, I can't stress that enough with women. Like, if we are disconnected in any way from our mind, what our mind is doing, because it's playing all kinds of tricks, or what our soul is desiring and what God is speaking to us, or what our body's trying to tell us, like, We just can't get in alignment and actually move forward down the right path, right? We just stay stuck. And that's what I keep hearing from women is, I'm stuck. No matter what I'm doing, nothing's working. So I would love to talk about a couple of reasons why we stay stuck, at least physically. I know that you are so well versed in iodine, and I think we just don't talk about that enough. Why are you even on this mission? I know that you found iodine to be so helpful in your health journey, right?

Not only the health journey. So a short background. When I was at my rock bottom, my mentor who scanned my body with a Skio machine that scans 10,000 items in your body, he goes, Sarah, I don't know how you got into my office. You should be on the floor. You are like dead physically and mentally and spiritually. But literally, my Type A personality just willed me through life.

Mhmm.

And, but I had nothing going on here. Anyway, his first thing he said was, we need to build you physically, and then we'll get to the mental and spiritual part because you can't build, uh, anything without a foundation. But when you talk about the spiritual health, Guess what the number 1 mineral is for spiritual health? It's iodine. It is known. Your thyroid is the bridge from your brain to your body, right?

Yeah.

And iodine is the number 1 thing that is needed for thyroid health. Your thyroid is your master endocrine gland. It is taking care of all those hormones. It's detoxing those xenoestrogens and the heavy metals and the dirty tap water and helping with cleansing your liver. And I know you got Got to love your liver, right?

Right.

Liver health more than ever is so important. But that iodine is also all— so many people are on antidepressants, and this world has just gotten super crazy where the stress is getting to everybody. And you think it's, oh, it's just me. It's just me. Well, no, there's so much going on in the body that it's not really your fault. Well, Iodine deficiency is the number one predictor for depression. So most people on antidepressants, once they start supplementing with iodine and getting their thyroid health on board, they get rid of their their antidepressants. Oh my gosh, doctor!

Thank you for saying that because I was on antidepressants for probably 15 years, and it was because my thyroid was so uncontrolled. Like I see that correlation now, but I didn't as a conventional. I had no idea. And the sad part is I was a physiology major. Like, I learned all this biochemistry, but then you don't put it into practice. You just focus on drugs. So yeah, keep talking about this. It's so important.

And you think about thyroid health, there's actually a thyrostress where you're— you've got hypothyroidism, you're retaining water, you can't lose weight. I was just talking to a poor lady who Honestly, she's been heavy all of her life. She just thinks it's that's the way it is, and she's eating about 800 calories a day. I'm like, you're not eating enough food. How do you even have energy to go do what you want to do? And she's she's taking my Cognoblast, my brain supplement, because she thinks it's all about mental health and and not feeling good mentally. And I'm sitting there going, yes, that's going to help your mental mood. But you need to address your thyroid health. Oh, but my doctor says my thyroid is fine. Because the doctor is testing TSH.

Yeah.

And there's this fear about iodine because there was one study that showed a transient hypothyroidism from taking too much iodine, which was completely debunked by tons of other studies, including Dr. Brownstein's study, and he was on my show. So for anyone who is like, I don't trust you yet, Sarah. Go back and listen to that. And there's articles all over my website about iodine. Can you overdose on iodine? Can you? Well, yes, you can overdose on water. You can overdose on magnesium.

Right.

You can overdose on food, but it is really hard to. And it's also dependent on the kind of iodine you use. And my iodine is the only monoatomic Scalar enhanced iodine, and what does that mean? Monoatomic one molecule of iodine that is looking to find a place to attach to versus a diatomic iodine attached to another molecule where your weak body that is so depressed and low thyroid doesn't have the energy to break apart those molecules to use that iodine, and then most iodines. are coming from toxic sources. We're in a world now with radiation everywhere, with Fukushima and Chernobyl, and a lot of iodines are coming from the Asia where ours is coming from South America. But before we get into all of that, and that is the Acceleridine iodine, we talk about menopause, perimenopause. I'm 48. I'm in perimenopause. I had hypothyroidism. This is my baby. Because literally all of these things in our world, we've got iodine deficiency, number one. 96% of the United States is deficient in iodine because everyone's afraid to take it and it's not in our soils anymore. And Dr. Brownstein talks about that, especially in your area in Michigan. But then you've got the iodine disruptors.

Yeah.

hindering the absorption and the utilization of iodine, and that is fluoride, bromide, chlorine. I laugh because my son was playing water polo up until the age of 14, and he would come home smelling— his pores were smelling of chlorine. Thank God I knew a little bit about iodine back then, but I was so happy when he quit water polo and started rowing. I'm like, let's get out in the sun and stay above the water instead of underneath. But we've got bromide and chlorine and fluoride, fluoride toothpaste, fluoride in the water. Our waters are full of birth control. Even for the men in your lives, they're on birth control because they're drinking that tap water and it's dirty, right? So what iodine does is it is helping with your thyroid, right? It's helping with the T4 and T3 and T2, which stands for tyrosine and 4, 3, and 2 molecules of iodine. So how do you have thyroid hormone? without iodine. That's number one. That's basic. But your cells, all 100 trillion cells in the body, have a cell membrane that has iodolipid value. Iodolipid means iodine and fat, saturated or unsaturated, right? So, if you don't have enough iodine for that cell membrane, you can't get the nutrients you're eating to get into the cell, and you can't get the toxins out. And we need to detox this radiation, the heavy metals, the endocrine disruptors, the iodine disruptors, the, the PFAS, everything that— and the GMOs, all of the stuff that we're eating in our non-food called processed food that isn't real food. We got to get that out of the cells. But if the cell membrane is not healthy, then nothing's going to get in and nothing's going to get out. Short story is that the reason I started my business is that son that was playing water polo, he's now 21 years old. He was 9 years old and diagnosed with leukemia. And when I first saw his cells underneath the microscope in the Live Cell Test, his cells were all clumped together. They looked like donut holes because there was no nutrition in the cells, but there were a whole bunch of cancer cells with these little spikes all over it. And within 1 year of just cleaning up his diet a little bit, because I didn't really know anything, um, and using our accelerated silver, which helps devitalize foreign pathogens and all of that, we cleaned up the cells and they looked better and dark and plump, and all the cancer was gone. This was before I even knew about iodine, but this was also before all of these threats were so heavy on our body. But the The point is, is when the cell membrane is healthy, the cells are going to look dark and plump, and there's going to be nutrition inside of them. And you, even a layman, will be able to tell sick cell or healthy cell. So, that's number one. But number two is once the iodine is in the cell, that is increasing ATP by 18 times.

Mm-hmm.

Okay? And increasing your mitochondrial health. I don't care if you are a vegan, vegetarian, carnivore, paleo, whatever you are, the goal is to increase energy, not just your physical energy and your mental energy, but this cellular energy, because that's where it's coming from. Your energy is not coming from coffee. It is coming from that cellular energy and that mitochondrial health. And we should all be on the mitochondrial diet. And that iodine is the number one quickest way to increase that mitochondrial health. And we now, in 2024, we've got the endocrine disruptors, the heavy metals, the radiation, the stress. All of that is degrading our ATP. It's killing our mitochondria. Just by being on this computer, on the Zoom, without eating a calorie, we are lowering our ATP, which is going to tell the body, body, I'm under a certain level of threat. Let's store fat. Why do we need to store fat? It doesn't know that I'm on a Zoom or I'm on a podcast right now. It might think, oh, you're going to be chased by a tiger or you're going to face a famine. We need to store fat and we need to protect our really expensive organs like our liver, our kidneys, and everything here. That's the visceral, dangerous fat. And then you add in— the processed foods that are causing fatty liver disease. I know you talk about that, where 45% of adults have fatty liver now. 25% of our children have fatty liver. This used to be a disease only for alcoholics, and now 25% of our children have it. It's, it's horrific. And when your body's under stress, it's going to lower ATP because we've got to lower our our energy. We've got to lower our thyroid health, turn that T4 into reverse T3 instead of free T3 because we don't know if we're facing a famine. So we've got to store fat and slow down the metabolism for survival. Our bodies are super smart.

Mm-hmm.

So go back to my client who is on 800 calories a day. She can't lose weight and her mindset is also telling her she's fat and her destiny is fat and she can't lose weight and things aren't working. And I even have a family member who I won't, I won't call him out, but his mental mindset doesn't think his diet or his supplements work. So do you think they're going to work? No, because your mind is super strong and that's where faith comes in as well. What are you seeing is going to happen? But if that person is on 800 calories day and can't lose weight. Her body's in survival mode. Hey, she's only going to give me 800 calories. I better slow down my metabolism and savor every single one. Another example of this is my son who had leukemia at the age of 9. We got past that, and he is a rock star for it, by the way. He's 21 years old, super healthy, runs, bikes, skis, all in one day if he wants to. But During his high school years in rowing, he was working out three to four hours a day, and he wasn't supplementing like he should have been. His heart was stopping, and his heart was stopping, and he literally he would have to pound on his heart to get it going again. But what we found out, and this is God working through through this situation, was that his he was not supplementing with electrolytes enough. And his body— then we were told he needs to stop having salt. I should be in jail because of this, right? So we tried it for a little bit, but what was so interesting is on his blood test, did his sodium go up or down when we stopped the salt? It didn't change because his body's smart. Oh, he's not giving me any sodium. I'm going to hold on to as much sodium as I can. I'm not going to let any go. So then we started incorporating salt back into his diet and his blood levels didn't change because his body then said, oh, I'm getting it. I don't need to let it go. So with that, your body is going to have to trust you to release weight to help with your thyroid. So Okay, where do we go from here? Number one, I also wanted to talk about the fact that with these toxins in our body, our body uses fat cells for survival. So it encapsulates these toxins to get them out of the bloodstream, right? So the more toxins you have, the body's going to say, oh, I just got to put it over here in a fat cell and store it away. So until you start detoxing, Then you, your body is going to hold on to those fat cells. What is the quickest, easiest way to start detoxing? That is the iodine. Iodine helps cleanse the liver. It helps cleanse the blood. And this is, you know, I take people through liver cleanses. I take people through radiation cleanses. Just overall making that shift where they get their thyroid up and fat burning and releasing that fat. And I use it through not a keto or low-carb diet, but just very specific foods. And we can talk about those. Healthy, unhealthy foods that people are eating and not getting results. But the quickest way is to increase your thyroid health with iodine and also detox every cell with that iodine as well. And it cleanses the liver as well. We are in this new world today with the spike protein. Doesn't matter who you are. Doesn't matter If you got the jab or if you didn't. It is in everybody. And for anyone who follows me, they've listened to me talk about the fact that in the last 2 months I was having blurred vision that has been for over a year. But I finally realized what it was. The spike protein has increased or activated viral activity, including the varicella virus. The varicella virus is chickenpox. It's in the same family as herpes.

Shingles. Yeah.

And it is causing, in a lot of people, inflammation in the optic nerve. It's also causing a lot of other issues. So why do I say that? I say that because it could be causing unexplained weight gain in you. It causes water retention. It causes insulin dysregulation. And what does that mean? That means when you ate an apple 5 years ago versus eating an apple now, you might have more of a spike of insulin. Well, what is insulin? It's a fat-storing hormone. And then also it's increasing cortisol in the body. It is depleting the adrenals. So when your adrenals are depleted, you need more cortisol to try to just get out of bed. And with that, that's a fat-storing hormone. So it's also increasing the antidiuretic hormone, so you're retaining more water. It's increasing oxidative stress. It's depressing the thyroid function. So more people than ever are walking around with hypothyroidism, and they don't know why they've put on 5, 10, 20 pounds out of nowhere. They're, hey, Sarah, I, you know, I'm eating the same thing I've been eating, and the weight is just coming on. I don't know why. Well, it's disrupting the liver, that ACE2 enzyme receptor in the liver. And so that's why cleansing your liver is so important on a, on a every other month basis, however many. I used to say like you did or do 3 every 3 months or so. I even say now every 2 months if you really want to be on top of it. And that's even for someone like me who doesn't drink alcohol, and I try to do my very best to eat as much organic food as I can. But the spike protein is also causing hormonal imbalance in our young people and our perimenopausal and menopausal women. So Just in my house. I've got 2 daughters, and their periods and their menstrual cycles are very different. My one daughter gets back pain, and she's okay. But the other daughter, it was like, I really don't want to go to school. But her pain was like a 4. Didn't need Advil, but she would go to school uncomfortable. In the last 2 years, because of this new environment, Her period pain was a 12. She would be on the ground and she would, like, be sweating and throwing up and yelling at me, saying, Mom, will you please hit me so I can pass out? I cannot deal with this pain. I'm never having children.

And yeah, I'm hearing that in my practice all the time. These girls are miserable. I know my daughter's has gotten worse in the past year and a half as well.

Yeah, and I've come up, thank goodness, with a protocol, some Chinese herbal supplements. The iodine is essential. It is essential. And it's also very important to be very specific with your diet because some of those healthy foods could be backing up the liver. And I talk about oxalates, which used to maybe not be a problem for people, but now because of the spike protein, spike protein actually creates oxalates in the body and creates what are called these amyloid proteins. I'll talk about those in a minute. But so the burden is heavier on the body, inflaming the body and causing more issues. The iodine is so key. The iodine has been shown to reverse the damage done by the spike protein, and it is known to be antiviral, antibacterial, antihistamine, anti-everything, essentially. And then you've that extra layer with the Acceleridine iodine where the scalar frequencies, and I don't know if we'll have time to get into what that means, but these healing frequencies are in there to help detox the cells of radiation and heavy metals on top of any other, what any other iodine supplement can do. But these oxalate foods, soybeans, grains, spinach, almonds, these are all the healthy foods that you think you're eating and you don't know why you're gaining weight, but they could be triggering a backed-up liver. They could be causing the depression. They could be causing your UTIs or bladder infections, gout, kidney stones. Then these sulfur foods. Sulfur was— these foods were my very favorite foods that I would eat and serve to my family every single day. Cabbage, broccoli, kale, cauliflower— these are all the low-carb, great vegetables, right? Well, the problem is, is because of glyphosate and GMOs, these foods— our body doesn't have the sulfur detox pathways opened up. So when you eat these foods, they actually back up your liver even more, causing a slow metabolism and weight gain. So with that, there's these new threats that no one's looking at in our new environment. So that's where that unexplained weight gain comes in and that increased estrogen dominance in men and women. Testosterone levels in young men are horrible. They're what, 20% of what they used to be?

Yeah.

And even in our older— in our men that are in their 40s and 50s, they're getting man boobs and they can't develop that muscle tone that they used to. And it's these estrone, it's the bad estrogens. There's the good estrogen and the bad estrogen. Us women, we need testosterone. We actually have more testosterone than estrogen, but we just think of testosterone as the male hormone. Testosterone feels good. It's what gets you out of bed and builds that muscle, burns fat, helps with your drive, right? So we want that testosterone. Well, Acceleridine iodine, or iodine in general, helps detox those xenoestrogens, the excess estrogens out of the body. And we— you don't necessarily want to use that DIM supplement. That is sulfur foods that are concentrated. You can use something like calcium D-glucarate as another way to hold, grab onto those excess estrogens. But Acceleridine iodine is the, is the number one supplement to do that because it's detoxing the cells from the heavy metals, the toxins, the radiation, the fluoride. Chlorine, bromide. We were talking about the fact that I live in Southern California, and here we've got earthquakes and fires. When they have a fire, they put that fire retardant all in our air, right? And I'm breathing it. What is it? It's bromide. Bromide is illegal in Europe for a reason. It's one of the 12 top deadliest chemicals, and they are just putting it in our food, our sodas, And it definitely is part of hypothyroidism and unexplained weight gain. And then you've also— when you use high doses of iodine, and I talked to Dr. Brownstein about this as well, his dosage recommendation has increased to 25 milligrams a day, which is 25,000 micrograms. And I believe the RDA is at 150 micrograms. That's a big difference. But the reason is, is when you have sufficient iodine, not just for your thyroid, but in all cells of the body, they're going to kick out that fluoride and the bromide. There's no place for those toxins to fit into those same receptor sites. And part of the problem is on that periodic table. Let's go back to chemistry in high school. You've got iodine, fluoride, bromide, and chlorine all in that same column. They all fit in that same receptor site. So if you don't have enough iodine there, all of those other ones fit into those cells. And what Dr. Brownstein mentioned is that T4 on a blood test could be actually representative of tyrosine and 4 molecules of bromide, not even iodine. So you could be thinking that your T4 is normal and it's not even iodine that it's testing. So with With that, you've— the iodine's number one. And this is also why I've come up with the Accelerated Thyroid that complements the iodine, and it's the most comprehensive natural thyroid supplement. It has the glandular in it, but an Ayurvedic herb that I've been on for years and years called conchinara that is known to help with water retention, support the thyroid, detox the thyroid, Help with nodules. And then we add in tyrosine, and then also those scalar frequencies. And the scalar frequencies are designed to clear emotional and physical shock from the body, just kind of take us down and, and boost our mood, help with restoring thyroid health, detoxifying the halogens, the heavy metals, radiation, and then balancing the thyroid and the parathyroid gland. So it takes it to a whole nother level. And between the Acceleridine iodine and the Accelerated Thyroid, so many people are getting off their thyroid medications with the guidance of their doctors, of course. But it's also helping with fatty liver. It's increasing that ATP and the mitochondrial health. It's improving your immune system. People think, oh, my thyroid health is all about just weight gain or weight loss. There's so much more. It is your immune system. It's wound healing. It's your bone health. It's elevated mood. I had a teen teenager, she started taking the iodine and the Accelerated Thyroid, and she doesn't like supplements at all, but she's like, Sarah, I'm so happy all of the time. Why am I so happy? And by the way, my PMS was nothing this month. And by the way, my daughter, who was at a pain level of 12, is now back at the pain level of 3, where she's like, I just started my period. I'm going to school. Bye. And that's it. And this is also not just with the young people, but that spike protein and all of these toxins are causing infertility, and they're also causing menopausal symptoms to be worse. So everything's exaggerated regardless of what stage you're in and what age you're in. So it is really important to address that thyroid health for everything else, whether it's your mind, your body, and your spirit. And increasing that ATP and that mitochondrial health. So I, I just went on for a long time on this.

Well, no, that was all amazing information. I want to reiterate a couple things, like our body does have incredible innate intelligence. When we are angry at our body for gaining weight or doing something like that, we have to think, why is this happening? And you pointed out something really important that I want you to hear if you're listening. We're putting toxins in our fat cells. It's protecting our deeper, more important organs like our kidneys and our liver and our brain and our heart. So those fat cells are doing an important job. If you're living a toxic life or if you're being exposed to toxins unknowingly, that fat is protecting you. And And it feels terrible trying to get that fat to be burned and to tap into those fat cells because those toxins will get dumped into your bloodstream. Right. So it feels terrible and you can't lose weight.

Right. I go back to when I was first on my health journey, I was totally loaded in heavy metals and I did a chelation process. We did a urine test before I started the chelation process. One halfway in the between, and then one at the end. And my levels of lead, mercury, and aluminum were off the charts in the beginning, but they were even higher halfway through. Why? Because all of those toxins were being pulled into my bloodstream to get out of my body, and the blood test was showing what was in my blood. So you're exactly right. My cleanses. Are designed to make you feel good day one, have that energy while you're detoxing over here and your body's trusting you. That's the whole idea. And being, you know, it's not about being on a low-carb diet. It's not about being on a carnivore diet. A lot of people are using ketogenic diets, low-carb and carnivore diets to lose weight. Those can work. What they're doing is they're taking the foot off the gas pedal with insulin resistance. Everyone thinks it's all about the sugar you're eating for insulin resistance. Yes, sugar can cause insulin resistance, but that's not the only thing. What else does? Remember, we can, just by being in front of our computer, we're raising our blood sugar, we're raising our stress hormones, we're raising our insulin resistance.

Absolutely.

Fatty liver is Insulin is diabetes at the level of the liver and insulin resistance at the level of the liver. Heart disease is insulin resistance at the level of the heart. PCOS, the number one cause of infertility, is insulin resistance at the ovaries. But it's not just about sugar. It is about the processed foods that are lowering ATP. So now think about this, and I have to talk to my kids about this who think they're athletes and they're going to grab— some processed food snack for energy. Well, there's this gap between food and energy. Remember, energy is ATP. You think that just by eating food, you're going to get energy, but there's this gap here. We've got to make sure that there's a translation from that food to energy, and processed food does not convert. Processed food literally steals ATP from the body. So then what's going to happen is you're going to have lower energy and you're going to just keep eating more, thinking that you're getting more energy. But when you focus on the foods— and I have an accelerated food guide that lays these out, and it lays out the sulfur foods and the oxalates and the amyloid proteins, and I'll talk about that in a second— and even the histamine foods, because the spike protein has increased histamine response in everybody. And what's that going to look like? Pain, exhaustion, weight gain, inflammation, right? I've never had allergies in my life, never thought I had histamine issues, and now I have to take a histamine supplement with my foods just because of the response that I'm getting from this new, this new threat that we have. So the other food that you want to be careful with are these amyloid proteins. Amyloids are misfolded proteins, and they are in our chicken, our conventionally raised beef, our pork, our turkey even. It's not the chicken's fault. I used to eat chicken, no problem. But what's the problem is these crowded environments are causing these proteins to be stressed and misfolded. So when you eat them, our liver's job is to break protein apart into amino acids, then to put them back together and make our muscles and our hair and everything else. But these misfolded proteins cannot get broken down, and they then get deposited in our brain, causing Alzheimer's or dementia. They trigger gut pathogens. So even if you don't really have E. coli, you might get E. coli. And then the spike protein is cause— is building up more amyloids in our body away from eating them. So you're just compounding that burden on the body. So these are just things that not necessarily everybody needs to think about, but if you are on a plateau or your symptoms are not going away, these are foods that you want to eliminate and see how you feel. And then you can reintroduce them and say, how's my body like it? And your body's going to say, ah, no thank you, or, yeah, I can deal with that. I eat some oxalates. I eat some sulfur. I will never eat chicken because I just feel so great without it, and I never really liked it anyways. I focus on bison, lamb, deer, elk, wild fish. Those foods are so readily available in our markets now. It's not a big deal. You cook them like you cook beef. And I do eat grass-fed, grass-finished beef. And that is going to help with your ATP, help with your mitochondrial help with your blood sugar and reduce the inflammation in the body. But then you can eat the fruits and the less processed foods that are carby to help support your mood and your brain and your energy without stressing it. And I do intermittent fast, and I know you're big in that, but I also— you don't want to do it too long. Absolutely.

Yeah, I think it's really important to mix things up, give your body diversity, always keep it second-guessing because as soon as you do the same thing every single day, your body's really smart and it finds the homeostasis point and it's like, oh, here's our new set point. And so I see that women plateauing with fasting, they're continually doing this 16/8, they're eating, like you said, 800 or 1,000 calories every day. Why am I not losing weight? Because your body thinks this is all that it's getting, and it's going to hold on so tight. And then especially if you have toxins, it's going to hold on even tighter. So I love that you connected all these dots for my ladies listening because this is really important to understand that we're not going through our grandma's menopause. Like, what is happening now in this day and age is completely different. I Seeing perimenopausal symptoms in ways that I never saw in med school or residency or even my early years as an attending. Like things have shifted dramatically, and we have to get more aggressive, more proactive, and be our health advocate. Do functional testing. Stop relying on conventional medicine. Like they're failing women, and I know because I was part of it. You know, so. Thank you for spreading all of this really important information and getting the word out that you can thrive right in the second half. You can feel amazing. Like, you look amazing, and we can do all the things, but we have to give our body what it needs and remove what's actually deterring us. So hardcore, right?

Yeah, it's not an option anymore. That whole detox fad or trend That's not just an option for January 1st.

Right.

That is mandatory. And your symptoms might be back pain or hair falling out, and your friend might be the weight gain or blurred vision or breaking out in your skin. I mean, it doesn't have to be gut issues, right? I mean, leaky gut is a big part of all of what we have been talking about. And you might not be bloated. I have a friend who has a six-pack, and she does not have any bloat, nothing right. But she's having other symptoms: pain, hair issues. So your symptoms might be different from mine, even though they're coming from the same source. And it is something being you have to be proactive. You can't just sit back about your health anymore.

Yeah, I'm so glad you said that. That's really important. You don't have to have gut symptoms to have leaky gut and the long-term effects of that. And we have to think about cellular health. We have to support our mitochondria to get healthy, especially during these hormonal transition years when we're all just trying to get through and feel amazing. So I really appreciate this. Been super helpful. I'm excited to try your iodine. I think I will benefit. benefit from it. I take iodine, but I want to try this new form. So stay tuned because I'll give everybody an update. I think that'll be good. But thank you, Sarah. This has been an awesome conversation.

Amazing. Thank you for having me. And I'm super excited to have you on my show as well. Accelerated Health TV and radio show.

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