Episode 35
Transcript
Welcome back to the Fully Nourished podcast, a place to explore where female physiology and feminine energy dance together to shape our life experience. I'm your host, Jessica Ash, functional nutritionist and integrative health coach and I'm inviting you to journey with me through both the scientific and spiritual facets of what it looks like to awaken our feminine radiance and become deeply and fully nourished despite living in a society that is increasingly desperate to erase our female set-apartness. You ready?
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Looking At Patterns
So today's episode, we're gonna chat detoxification. Tis the season, it is spring. And if you don't know why this is the season to support detoxification, we'll get into that, don't worry. I find it funny because fads come and go. And I've had the real pleasure of being in the health and wellness industry in some way for more than a decade now. And it's been really fun to see the cycles of things that pop up and then go away and pop up and go away. And the longer that you're observing an industry or you're in a certain space, you get to start to really see patterns. And I also am somebody that specifically is obsessed with patterns. It's just part of my personality type as a 2/5 projector in human design and a Cancer and just all of my Enneagram and my Myers Briggs, it's like, I have a very specific and unique personality, and I am all about the patterns.
And so if you've been in the JAW community for a number of years, or even since the very beginning, you've probably watched this pattern in me that I am quite the hermit. I go into my hole, my hermit hole for a while. And then I come out and spring forth. And I'm just like, I'm here and I have something new to share. It's a very frustrating way to be in the modern world or in this modern society, because that is not how a majority of people work or have to work but it's how I work. And yeah, it can it can be quite frustrating. But it makes for a fun dynamic in my personal life. Because my husband is very close, we have a very similar profile, we're both Cancers were actually born a day apart, his birthday comes and then my birthday comes a day after. And we're both Cancers. So it's just so much fun to both have such a hermit part of our personality but where I got the like people pleasing leadership gene, he got the DGAF, easy breezy, people person. So it makes for a really fun dynamic.
But going back to that hermit part of myself, part of my strengths and gifts is to be able to sit back and really look at patterns and human dynamics and what that means for people. And I always think in terms of efficiency. So how can things be done better? Or what are some new ways that we can think about things are, how can things be done differently. And you might feel themes of that in my work. And that's just how my brain works. I think that everybody's brain is so unique and gifted in their own way. And that's why I am sharing this because I think it's really important to encourage others to also figure out how their brain works and where their giftings are, and how they can show up in the world and create their own type of change.
The first piece of work that I was exposed to that really hit this home for me was Alan Watts’ work. There's so many different ways that you can get exposed to his work. If you like videos, there's so many like Alan Watts’ videos on YouTube that you can just listen to some of his lectures, if you'd like to read I love his book "Become Who You Are", but he has many different books. And pretty much for me, I've shared about this before and I'm always on a spiritual journey. I'm always learning more about God and the universe and, and really how things work. I study creation and in that I find the creator and I find hints of his personality and facets of who he is. And of course God is bigger than I can ever imagine or see or explain or even understand, especially in my physical state as I am right now. But for me, I have learned that I find God when I am doing my creative work that's where I am closest and that's where I can actually meet the Creator and He can reveal himself or herself to me. God is both Lord of wisdom, Lord in the masculine, wisdom is feminine, two halves of a whole. Often we think of polarity as different and two sides, but we forget that polarity is harmony, polarity is balance, polarity is order and you cannot have one without the other. Too much of one leads to imbalance and disharmony, dis-ease, too much of the other does the same.
And so we often think of polarity as separate or different, but we have to remember that in learning about the separate and the different we're actually learning about the harmony and the balance and the two sides that need to constantly be balanced to create a type of harmony. And this can be quite difficult to wrap our heads around because we live in a society that is really focused on excess of society of consumption, and destruction, creation through destruction. Because our whole life we have been exposed to this mis-creation is what I call it. Because true creation works in harmony and works in balance, there's not too much of one not too much of other, you take what you need, and you leave the rest. Nature works in this type of harmony, right, it doesn't move to excess, it doesn't say I need more and work off of power and greed. There's just hierarchies, there's orders, there's balance, everyone gets what they need and takes what they need, and then expects nature to replenish it and doesn't take more than it needs.
The Importance of Language
But in our current society, it's built on very specific foundations. One of them is constant consumption, and constant mis-creation where you have to break something down, you have to actually usurp something, there's an expense. And as of now, most of our excess comes at the expense of nature, and also human beings, specifically, women and children. And through that men are being harmed, all human beings are being harmed through this process. But you really see a society that has to break down the family structure, and especially the mother-child structure. And in doing that, you actually end up hurting the men as well as because we've been born into the structure of the system, it can be very difficult for us to use our imaginations and think outside of it, we think in very black and white terms, we even speak a very black and white language, right?
At least if you speak English, or English is your native language. It's built upon the Roman language or Latin. And it's a business language, there's a this means this and it doesn't mean this. Whereas there are many other languages on the earth that are more beauty languages, they have multiple layers of meaning, right? There's meanings within the number of letters that are being used. And there's a meaning within the tone that's being used and the sound and the vibration that's coming from the words, and the structure of the words, there's many layers of meaning to words. Whereas if you speak English, right, as I do, it can be sometimes hard to find the beauty in things because we don't learn language as an art or harmony. And as a teacher, I find it incredibly hard because I think the meaning behind certain words gets lost, especially if you're speaking to people that don't have a love for literature, or don't have a love for definition, like I'm very careful about, you probably noticed that I'm very careful about the words that I use. Because I think words matter I actually believe that words are spells. And so when we speak the language that we use, the tones that we use, the types of words that we use, actually cast spells on the people around us and cast spells on ourselves. It's that idea that the tongue is sharper than any two edged sword, it can cut like a knife, it can cut like a sword.
Detox Fads
And so now that I just went on like a five minute tangent, I am bringing it back to detoxification and the patterns I have observed over the past a little bit more than a decade now. And one of those is how detoxification and detoxes specifically have come and gone: parasite cleanses, heavy metal detoxes, liver detoxes, these kinds of fads have come and go. And in most cases, the language that is used around this activity that's described as detoxing is very like fad language is very kind of cheap language. I love reading Dr. Ray Peat’s writings, because he has so many writings, a lot of people don't realize that he's written so many different books and articles. And if you look over his lifetime, there's just so much to read. There's, you can never get it conquered, like my life's goal is to get through all of his work. And one day I will I work through it bit by bit. But one thing that he said at one point, I thought was just, it's such everything that he says you're just like, Wait, why, rewind, reread, so much wisdom there. Whenever I hear him speak or read his work, I say that this man has lived many lives. Absolutely. Like he has gained wisdom that is far beyond just this lifetime.
But one thing he brings up that I think is a really good lesson for all of us is that we need to remember not to confuse education with marketing. There are people who might pose their marketing as education, but it's not true education, right? It has a transactional nature to it. It's like I have to move someone's brain in this direction to get them to do this. Whereas true education is just truth that is shared with no expectation with no underlying motive. And so that is the one pattern that I have seen change and shift over the past 12 years is when previously, people would share information and education through writing articles and blog posts or doing more long form content books and things like that. Now, there's so much information being shared all the time, this kind of short form content, but it's very difficult to wade through who's actually trying to just tell you something to sell you something, right? There are true authentic, and genuine and ethical people out there. But you have to wade through a bunch of people that are not. And so what you find is, so much of the education around detoxification is underneath all these layers of like MLMs and certain protocols and this and that, and by this whole system, and this whole unit, and it can be really overwhelming and turn people off.
And so you've seen this, the pendulum always swings from side to side, right? People become obsessed with detoxification are obsessed with XYZ thing. And then of course, it’s natural that we always are thinking in terms of extremes, always thinking in terms of access because of the society that we've been born into. And so we swing to the other end of the pendulum. And so you are seeing this uptake of people who are like detoxification is a scam, detoxing is a scam, your kidneys and your skin and your liver are always detoxing. You don't need to detox your body. And I would, I think this is where language really matters. To say that you can ‘detox your body” almost has this idea of like you are in control, you are forcing detoxification to occur. And I personally do not look at detoxification this way. And this is born out of my own, I wouldn't call them mistakes. But my own lessons that I've learned, I think most people who deal with some type of chronic illness or deal with some type of health issue or multiple health issues that are really impacting their quality of life, there's these like levels of phases. And if you have ever studied numerology, there's a very unique life cycle that happens every nine years, or it's like this hero's journey, where a year one of something is like a beginner year and your two is a little bit different. In year three is a little bit different. Year four is a little bit different.
And even if you're skeptical, and you're like oh my gosh, numerology is Satanic, it gets New Age, oh my gosh, remember that all these things exist to us as a tool. I personally believe that God sent us here for a specific purpose, or even actually, I believe that we chose to be in this life right now for a very specific purpose to learn a specific thing to do a specific thing. And we have the responsibility to learn about ourselves as much as possible to learn who God created us to be, so that we can do what we were supposed to do. So many of us are floating around bumbling around thinking, I don't know my purpose, or not having a deep sense of fulfillment, or really understanding who we are getting slapped with labels and identities that don't serve us.
But going back to that idea of there's a certain kind of process you go through when you first are starting to experience symptoms. It's very scary. And so usually the first place you turn is medical doctors, right? So you go and you get diagnosed. And so they slap these identities on you, they take these labels, they take these groups of symptoms, and they say these groups of symptoms are called this XYZ thing. And this kind of goes back to like words being spells, right? Like, the minute you hear that thing, boom, click, there's a spell almost cast over you. And oftentimes it induces a lot of fear and desperation. You see this happen very quickly, where people make decisions that they wouldn't normally make, when they hear that thing being told to them that you have this, there's something very powerful in saying that you have XYZ. Having something immediately almost speaks of burden, or it's like a backpack that I just put on, like I have it now it's mine to carry.
So a lot of us early on in our health journey, we are definitely impacted by this desperation and fear that we feel. And so we do this thing where we just start to throw the kitchen sink at things where it's just like anything and everything that I can do to fix, I got to fix it. And I think a lot of times, there's deeper underlying patterns going on where there's something deep down in us that believes that there's something inherently wrong or something inherently broken, that needs to be fixed. And so if we believe that about ourselves, and then somebody tells us or confirms that for us, it really I don't know, it rubs us up and points us in a specific direction. And so I have learned over the years as somebody who went through this myself, I did many like really harsh detoxes, very harsh protocols and things with naturopaths – water fasts, IV chelation therapy and really harsh parasite protocols and things like that. I have learned over the years that it is not how the body works. You cannot for something to happen before the body is ready, the body is very wise, much wiser than we are. And there's so many opportunities within the natural cycles of life for healing, every cycle of life is a healing cycle.
And what I mean by that is, we have our menstrual cycle that has layers of healing to it. We have the seasonal cycles that have levels and layers of healing, we have them yearly, monthly, cycles as we move through the different constellations, certain parts of our bodies are being impacted by the shifts, it's all connected. And so there was a certain point in my education where I wanted to go back to these lessons found in nature, and go back to the wisdom found in the East. And what you find in practices like Traditional Chinese m=Medicine, or Ayurveda, or Unani Medicine or even my roots, Russian folk medicine, obviously, a lot of herbs are used. And that's often focused on because it's something that can be marketed. But what people forget, or what kind of subtly gets passed through is this respect for the harmony with nature and the body and how there's a time for everything, there's a time to release, there's a time to hold on, there's a time to detoxify, there's a time to nourish, there's time for everything under the sun.
Transitions Through the Seasons
When you look specifically at Traditional Chinese Medicine, which I like because they add that layer of yin and yang or almost like feminine and masculine or the polarities to the seasons and to the harmony is that each season brings with itself a purpose. And I love to see the kind of mirror to the menstrual cycle, which is often seen as the four seasons where when you're bleeding or you're menstruating, it's often referred to as winter. And then as energy starts to pick up, the second half of the follicular phase leading towards ovulation is usually considered spring and it brings that kind of spring energy than ovulation and around ovulation time is often referred to as summer. And then that luteal phase especially the last half of the luteal phase is often referred to as autumn. And so we can see this reflected in the actual seasons that we go through where there is a specific type of cycle that the female body goes through. I've talked about this a lot with my Fully Nourished students. But we go through a life death rebirth cycle, but there's actually a period between life and death. There's a waning that begins to happen. There's a losing of that lifeforce energy that begins to happen and as part of that life death rebirth cycle, but to have life, death needs to occur so that rebirth can happen. And we see that in the transitional period, certain things have to be shed, in order for the new phase to take place.
So you're going to see these transitional periods be spring and autumn, the transition from winter to summer, and the transition from summer to winter. There's a wax and there's a wane. We see this in the moon as well. And in many Eastern traditions, you're often going to see certain parts of the season associated with certain types of polarities. So for example, Yin and Yang, Yin being the feminine, and Yang being the masculine. And I like yin and yang, because I think sometimes when we talk about feminine and masculine and only use those words feminine and masculine, like I mentioned before, those words can be wrapped up in so many connotations of black and white viewpoints. And because words can be so powerful in shaping our viewpoint and shaping our vision, sometimes when we remove a word and replace it with another this is how I often if there's something that I can't quite wrap my head around, or I can't quite understand, sometimes what I'll do is I'll look for a synonym that I'm more connected to, or a word that kind of has no meaning to me and replace it and it really helps me wrap my mind around something. So sometimes when we have problems with the feminine and the masculine, and we're getting a little bit confused, I like to replace feminine with Yin energy and masculine with Yang energy and can sometimes help almost clarify some some things and bring clarity.
And so Yin which is soft and slow and nourishing, and restorative is often associated with winter, whereas Yang which is explosive and active and creative and just it comes in like a bright beam of light, Yang energy is often associated with summer and so the winter to summer transition or spring is pretty Yang with a little bit of yin leftover and we can see this energy show up in many different ways, right? The mushrooms sprout from the earth and the and the weeds and the plants come forth from the earth they burst through a lot of times after winter we feel like we are also bursting forth we have more energy we want to move, we feel a little bit more restless, our tastes start to change, right start to move away from these like very warm, grounding, nourishing like stews and soups and we start to crave maybe a little bit more greens or a little bit more vegetables a little bit more fruits like we're starting to really almost feel that heat. And so we're gonna, we're switching from a cool time where we need to be warmed up by our food to a warmer time or we need to be cooled down by our food. And then the opposite occurs when the transition goes from summer to winter. In autumn, we start to see it be more Yin, you start to get a little more chilly. We want sweaters, you want soups and stews, we want to slow down a little bit like leggings and sweaters all the way, right? There's a level of comfort and then developing and slowing down and nourishing that comes from that transition into Yin or winter.
So in Eastern traditions, these transitional times are seen as a shutting period or release period where you're either you're shutting begin coming into Yang or you're shutting the Yang and coming into Yin and these transitional periods are often thought of as some of the best times to support your body's detoxification because your body is already moving through this detoxification cycle with the season right? We often see like an uptick in allergies, an uptick in histamine because histamines are obviously these kind of bouncers that carry things out of the body. So that's why they give you hives and it should your it's asking you to scratch your skin so you can bring that to the surface and possibly even bleed or move your lymphatic system. Your nose is running, your eyes are watering your ears might be itchy, your body's trying to remove things from every which direction, and it goes back to these life death rebirth cycles have to become something else or to move into a new place, we have to shed something old, there's a shedding or release that often takes place. And in Traditional Chinese Medicine, specifically, spring is usually associated with a liver time. And the liver is often associated with an emotion which is anger. And so a lot of people when their liver is detoxifying or need support, they will often struggle with a lot of anger and bitterness because bitterness is often coming from the gallbladder. And anger and bitterness is a release. It's an ask for release.
So we have to remember that everything from the body, whether it be emotional, or spiritual, or physical is a message. And it's a message. Any type of message is an invitation. And we have freewill on what we want to do with that invitation. We can ignore it, we can tune into it, we can fear it, we can do whatever we want with that invitation. But the invitation is there for us to interpret. And sometimes the invitation is just to allow it to move through you. This is a part where society does not understand. We don't have the time or the energy or the focus, or have the ability to sit within discomfort for even a moment's time. So it's very difficult for us to actually allow things to move through us immediately when we feel something that is even slightly uncomfortable. We cannot sit with it. And we have to fix it. It needs to, it must be broken, I must fix it. Not remembering that there's nuance here, there's a time and place for everything. There's a time for nourishment, there is a time for conservation. And there's a time for detoxification and release. Everything has its own divine timing, and you cannot force something before it is time. That does not mean that we don't spend our whole life trying. But there's a time and a place for all things. And detoxification is one of those things.
How to Approach Detoxification
A lot of people approach detoxification by force. And it's because they just don't understand how the body functions. And so going a little bit deeper into the layers of detoxification or the layers of drainage or drainage pathways as they're sometimes called. We need to remember that there's different layers in which “toxins” reside. So I think we can all agree that our toxic exposure in our society is excessive would be an understatement. There are new chemicals being created. And when I say chemicals, synthetic petroleum based, very unnatural chemicals being created all of the time, hundreds of 1000s of chemicals being released into our water supply our Earth, they're everywhere. They're used in farming, they're used in agriculture, they're used in pharmaceuticals, they're used in home repair, they're used in cookware, clothes, furniture, rugs, blankets. I think the latest is that most of us swallow enough microplastics every week to make up a whole credit card, and we just like, we really can't escape it, we can absolutely do our best to eliminate as much of this from our environment as possible. But even if we made it our full time job, it would still be quite impossible. And I'm a big believer that a healthy organism and a healthy body absolutely has the ability to be not only tolerant of these things, but resilient, a healthy body absolutely can detoxify and carry these things out of the body. But that is assuming that somebody is very nourished, they can retain their minerals, and they are mineralized, whenever there's spaces, something's going to come in to take that space. And so when it comes to minerals, metals will come and take those places, if there's space, they're not living in a constant sympathetic state of the nervous system, a constant fight or flight where their body is prioritizing survival over regeneration or renewal.
You can think of a survival state or a sympathetic nervous system state as like I'm focused on surviving in the here and now at the expense of my future. And unfortunately, we're living in a reality that even though people are so focused on their nourishment, so focused on eating “clean” and now are so focused on their minerals, there's a huge missing component of where people are afraid of everything. And most women that I need even the quote unquote, ones that are so conscious of their health, they've cleaned out their, you know, their cleaning products or hygiene products, like they've tried to eliminate as many endocrine disruptors and Xenoestrogens from their environment as possible, you're finding them so damn stressed out that their body is burning through minerals faster than they can take it in. Like they can drink all of the electrolyte powder that they want, their mineral status is remaining low, because they're stressed out of their mind, they cannot control their own bodies. And I think this is more “toxic” than anything that they probably eliminated from their environment. But that's just my opinion.
So when you go back to the layers of detoxification, or the drainage pathways, you start to realize that there are many different layers to detoxification. And the reason behind this is actually a protective mechanism of the body, the body is trying to protect certain organs such as the brain, certain organs that are very susceptible to storing up certain types of toxins. It's specifically the fat soluble toxins that are a problem, right? The silicones and PCBs and the metals and the Xenoestrogens, a lot of these are fat soluble, which means they're only soluble within a fatty medium, not water soluble. And so it's not something that the body can just excrete via the kidneys, no problem, and urinate out. This is a process that has to go through many layers. And so the colon is that surface layer, right, that's where waste is actually removed from the body. But to get to the colon, there's a level of processes that come all the way from the deep cells. So you'll often hear cells used nowadays in the wellness space and tissues. And so keep in mind that of course, everything in our body is made up of cells. We all know that we know that. But when you hear tissues and organs, sometimes you go, Oh my gosh, what's a tissue which an organ, and you want to just keep in mind that the deep cells, our deepest storage point, especially the fat cells, because the fat cells are storage cells, that's what they're meant to do. They're meant to be like, if you think of if you're a doomsday prepper your fat cells are your shipping container that you're storing all your stuff in fat cells can expand to usually about 10 times their size, sometimes more belly fat cells can often expand a little bit more, and they don't just store fuel. A lot of people don't realize that fat cells are safe storage containers for metals, anything that's really fat soluble that I mentioned before estrogens, hormones that were exposed to silicones, all of the anything that's fat soluble can also go into a fat cell.
And then the next layer or drainage pathway, like if you're going to, if you're moving something from the deep cells, it's going to then come into the organs and the tissues. So you can think of, to give you a visual, the thyroid tissue or the lymphatic tissue, or the thymus tissue, or the gut tissue, right, the actual tissue or structure of that organ or that tissue and then you have the lymphatic system. So the lymphatic system is its own fluid system. It doesn't have a pump it relies on our movement to move all the interstitial fluid, and a lot of people don't realize but the lymphatic system carries out, there's viruses and bacteria and all types of junk gets moved through the lymphatic system from the cells, the organs and tissues into the lymphatic system and the lymphatic system actually drains mostly where the heart connect at the terminus or the termini, where it's right around your collarbone. And if you actually look at your lymphatic system, you'll and Google a diagram of your lymphatic system, you'll see that there's a specific place where the lymph actually starts to dump into the bloodstream.
The bloodstream, keep in mind, is filtered out by the kidneys, the spleen, and then of course, the liver is filtering the blood as well. And if something is being filtered out of the kidneys, it's going through the urinary tract, right. And then if something is being filtered through the liver, it's going out through the colon, but it first has to go through the liver, and the bile ducts via bile. So bile is actually a carrier for pretty much everything. And it's stimulated when you eat something that is fat soluble or fat digestible, it's required to absorb our fat soluble vitamins and to digest fat. And so you can see how there's many layers of detoxification that something needs to move through. And at every single layer, there can be certain things sitting there accumulating. And when we're babies, for example, we start to accumulate things in the colon that are like first level layer, and then our liver and our bile ducts become a little bit more stressed. And we're seeing more and more babies at this place, having all types of skin conditions and jaundice and issues, their livers, their poor little livers are already overwhelmed. And then you start to see the lymphatic system get backed up, and then the body starts to actually store things away, and put them into the peripheral tissues, to protect the vital organs, tries to store them away in the places that are going to cause the least amount of cloud.
And so for all the naysayers that kind of say that the body is constantly detoxifying. It is absolutely right. These systems are always functioning and oftentimes functioning on overdrive. But there's a lot of things that cause impairment and detoxification, stress levels, nourishment and nutrient status, your environment and how much sunshine you're getting your drainage pathways themselves if they're blocked for whatever reason or impaired. If you have certain genetic mutations, one of the famous ones, MTHFR, that's just one of many, right, just certain genetic snips. There's many things that can impact how the body is draining and detoxifying hormonal issues, estrogen and progesterone and thyroid hormones absolutely impact lymphatic flow. Now that research on fascia is being done, they're starting to realize that it's very possible that we're storing up our experiences and our traumas within our tissues. And they're not actually stored in the brain, but the brain is accessing them from our tissues. And so our experiences and our traumas are stored within our tissues, and that fascia can actually become dehydrated or even form adhesions, which can impair not only blood flow and nerve conduction to certain areas and cause pain, but also impair lymphatic fluid from draining from those areas. Even fat itself, when we get to the point of having excessive amounts of fat on our body can also be causing this problem to get worse, because if we store more and more within our tissues, there's a level of inflammation and hormonal disturbance that starts to take place. The ultimate detox quote unquote, if we have excessive fat on our bodies is to lose fat. But it's a vicious cycle because the people that have the most build up or storage of these toxins that we're talking about, have most likely accumulated it in their tissues.
We've touched upon lymphatic drainage and fat cell detoxification as one of the topics that we've touched on in Nourished Circle a few months ago, if you're not a part of Nourished Circle, it is just my monthly membership. It’s $14 and I usually will cover about two or three hours of content in it every single month, where we deep dive on a specific topic. We've done foundations of gut health, we've done lymphatic drainage and fat cell detoxification. This past month we talked about the high ROI we talked about histamine, there's a lot of really valuable stuff in there. And then we do a two to three hour live q&a to go over the content and ask your questions and make sure that you have clarity before we move on to the next topic in the next month.
Accumulating Toxins
But going back to toxins accumulated within the fat cells, oftentimes people that are what are called accumulators. So there's definitely people that excrete toxins, fat soluble toxins and water soluble toxins very well. And then there's people that don't. So there's people that tend to accumulate them for whatever reason, going back to there's many different factors that can cause someone to accumulate something rather than excrete it. And sometimes it just basically comes down to energy, their body does not have the energy to remove those things, or they're partaking in certain practices that are actually causing them to accumulate. I have heard from many practitioners there's whispers going on right now. But I've also seen it firsthand on different types of scans and HTMAs that even people that are practicing excessive amounts of intermittent fasting are actually storing up tons of metals, because their body does not have the energy to excrete. And when you are fasting your body is actually in conservation mode, it's trying to conserve and preserve as many minerals as possible. And some metals do fall in the category of minerals. And it can be a problem for some people who are also not excreters and are accumulators. And most people who are very chronically ill, or who are struggling with all types of digestive symptoms and issues or like skin issues, it's usually a sign that your detoxification pathways are backed up.
And you're going to often see two types of patterns, you're going to either see that the body is trying to actively and excessively remove something like through excessive sweating, or really bad body odor, or having poop that smells really bad, or tons of like gut issues, things coming through your skin, right, like acne and rashes and eczema and psoriasis, and hives, and histamine, the body's just like doing whatever it can to remove something as quickly as possible. And one of the actual biggest excretion organs is our skin. So there are certain metals and certain pollutants that only can come through our skin and have a very difficult time coming from our kidneys and our colon, and our liver. But also some people's livers are just so backed up or bogged down and kidneys are so backed up and bogged down that the body is just trying to remove things as quickly as possible. And so it's coming through the skin. And so these are going to be people that are excreters and they're trying their body's trying to excrete as quickly as possible.
And then there's actually the opposite end of the spectrum. So this is where it can actually be really problematic. Where you have absolutely no sweating, like people that cannot sweat. That's usually a great sign that you're not excreted and you're holding on to something or people that don't ever have BO. It's normal and natural to have the body excrete or remove something if you get exposed to something, right? Like I want to have the occasional BO. I don't want to never ever smell or people that brag about their poop never smelled - poo should not smell extremely bad and like heinous. But if it has no smell, and especially if you're constipated, and it's just sitting there, you're very slow digestive transit time, remember that there's reabsorption happening in the colon all the time. And so the longer that it takes for waste to move through our system, the more we are reabsorbing and recirculating things. And so being constipated is definitely a precursor to having issues storing up toxins. This is why I've seen this pattern so many times in women, it's actually crazy, like chronically constipated, is leaving them to be like 15 pounds heavier than what they want to be. Constipation and fat storage are definitely related because you're reabsorbing things from the colon. Even like mood imbalances and depression and anxiety and PMDD and stuff like that, of course, like hormonal symptoms can be a sign of something is not right.
What the Body Needs
So there there can be many pointers to the need to encourage detoxification but as a foundational level, it goes back to the three main things that we need to just create some homeostasis, which is nourishment, right like eating enough food and eating nutrient dense food, being thoughtful and intentional about our meals and making sure that our body is getting enough of not only the macronutrients that we need, but the micronutrients that we need.
The second thing is exercise, like moving your body. And this does not have to be intense or insane exercise, but it cannot tell you like how surprising it is that I talk to women in the health space. And they're so concerned with so many different things doing all these whack protocols. And yet, they do not move their body regularly, they can barely bring themselves to walk. And, of course, I'm not talking about people that are like chronically ill and truly don't have the energy. I'm talking about women who are just like it’s not an important priority, or they haven't found the time or the energy to carve it into their routine. Or they think that they don't have the tolerance for it, or it's going to be too stressful for their body. But find exercise that you enjoy. Whenever you have a question on if something is healthy or not just look at children have a much to teach us. Children cannot go more than a couple of hours without moving their body, they have so much energy that needs to move. And that should be us, it should scare us when we can go days and days, just sitting like a sloth or a slug on our couch like that should feel absolutely excruciating to us and make us feel very restless.
And then this next one man, sometimes I think this is obvious, but I guess it's not obvious is you got to be pooping, you gotta at least poop once a day, man, you've got to be clearing waste from your body. And if you are not, this is becoming more and more complex these days, because it's multi layered, maybe I'll do a whole episode on constipation and pelvic floor and holding it and teaching children to hold it and potty training and holding in our emotions and the enteric nervous system and shutting down our processing system and our digestion system. But we as women are in crisis. And it's the fact that our guts are frozen. And sure, in part, it could be microbiome issues, hormonal issues. But for a lot of us, it's that we have shut down connection between us and our gut, we do not trust our gut anymore. We don't listen to it. And we also are just shutting down our ability to process our life experiences, like we are shut down. And it's where we store our stress. And it's where we hold our stress. And it's actually where we hold our resistance. So we are often very resistant to allowing ourselves to feel allowing ourselves to process our emotions, allow it, allowing ourselves to just process what we really truly and deeply desire because we're so afraid of what that's going to mean for us and our own life. And it absolutely is going to show up in our gut. Because that's where more neurons than our brain and spinal cord reside. Our enteric nervous system is the biggest and most sensitive part of our nervous system. It's not just where neurotransmitters are created and made. It's also where we sense things, there's like almost like a sixth sense there. So for most of us who are struggling with chronic constipation, it's like we got to do what we need to do to poop. Like we need to take magnesium, we need to do something to move our bowels so that we can like start to get a handle on it and get some clarity because of that junk just recirculating. We often feel really, really horrible. And for a lot of women, they don't really recognize that their inability to lose weight or their even their acne or their skin issues are a result of their constipation.
But those are kind of the like three foundational things we need to do before we even think about doing any type of detoxification. We have to be nourishing, we have to be in some state of kind of balance and homeostasis, we have to be reducing stress, there's a time and a place. Also like pregnancy and breastfeeding. Those are types of nourishment. Those are not times for detoxification, those are times it's not safe to try to release something because you're building and growing something so there's a time and a place for everything under the sun. And remembering that as we move into a detoxification, it's an invitation. So it's about following the lead of the body. For me, I don't just detoxify like oh, I detoxify every spring and autumn. I kind of check in with my body and see where I'm at and think, you know, this would be a great time to support my body through this and my body's kind of asking for it. So I always believe in following the lead of the body. The body kind of goes through its own waves and its own cycles. And there's no need to force something when it's not the time right just because we want what we want. That's not how we're gonna get what we want. We need to go with the ebbs and flows of the body and so I always follow the lead of my body with a detoxification or supported detoxification.
How I Approach Detoxification
I'm always kind of regularly doing things that support detoxification, you know, I don't have a bath because I live in an RV. So that's the way and downside, like if I had a bath, that would be probably one of my main ways to support detoxification is just doing really hot baths. But I don't have that. So I do have access to a sauna. So I will do a sauna once in a while, you know, every couple of days, two or three times a week, maybe, sometimes, not all the time, I do do the occasional coffee enema. As just kind of like a cleanup, there was a time in my life where I relied on those very heavily for my well being. And then I just support myself with you know, nourishment, like I said, exercise, making sure I'm having regular bowel movements, I'll do the occasional castor oil pack on any area of my body that I feel needs it. I'm very intuitive. But that stuff, I think a lot of people go to balls to the wall, or they get really too serious about everything. And they try to create like a structure or schedule or like I need to do all the things all of the time. And I feel like these are tools that we should accumulate. To me, it's like a tool belt like a handyman, like I have a tool belt, and my body really speaks to me. And I can pull a hammer out of my tool belt, or a screwdriver out of my tool belt or a wrench. And then sometimes I have to pull the bigger guns like a torque wrench out. But I don't always do a torque wrench all the time.
So it's like one of those things where I think we should have these kind of foundational practices that really bring us a quality of life, like a level or homeostasis of a quality of life. And then these tools that we have are to bring us up to a little bit of a higher level, and a little bit of a higher level over time. And our body invites this process, it gives us an invitation. It's not something that we can force or do all at once. And so I think sometimes the best way to share is just through example, and so I'm going to share how I approach my spring detoxification this year. I don't do detoxification, like every spring, and autumn, I'm not like, Okay, this is the time to detox. So I'm going to therefore detox. Like, I don't take a very like science-y and protocol-y approach to my body. I don't try to hyper optimize, right, like I'm always in relationship with it. And I'm always trying to listen to it and learn the signs and signals it's sending me and it's a lifetime of growth. And so, this spring, a couple of months ago, I started to experience like this intense ear itchiness. And I'm not somebody that's like, immediately, oh my gosh, parasites, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, it's this, it's oh my gosh, it's that. We don't have to pathologize everything in our body. Sometimes it's just like our body, something pops up, our body takes care of it and it goes away. And when it doesn't, that's where we really want to pay attention. This is where I think the hormone space having the occasional bad period or the occasional missing ovulation is it's okay, our body is not a robot, it doesn't function the same way every single month, or every single day, right? It is constantly dynamically reacting to its environment, and bringing itself back into a place of equilibrium. If something knocks it out of balance, it brings it back. And usually it's pretty capable of doing so. And the healthier you get over time, the more you find this is the case, like the body is more in tune with these kind of rhythms that can find its own equilibrium again. But people often attach stories to their symptoms very quickly. And then they start to just throw the kitchen sink at it even in the crunchy space like women like what earth can I throw at it? Can I throw at it with that, what can I throw at it. And for me, I'm always just sitting back. I have gotten very good. This has been a practice, right? I was not good at this 10 years ago. But this has been a practice over time to where I don't jump to conclusions. I don't attach stories, I don't jump immediately into fear or overwhelm or I need to fix this or rabbit hole mode. I just sit back and observe for a moment in time. I can sit with the discomfort for enough time to really consider all of the options that I have available to me and what I want to do about it. And oftentimes when I do that, it's so interesting, because the answers always come to me. Or they come back to me.
A lot of people ask me, How do you remember so many things? Or how do you keep track of your research. And for me, there's many things that come and go, I'll forget about them. Or they'll just go from the forefront of my mind to the back of my mind. And they'll always come back around when I need the most. I don't have to worry about hanging on to them because they'll come back when I need it most. I can trust that. And when I started to realize that I actually had much more recall and was able to remember a lot more because it's almost like it puts your mind to a state of rest where you don't have to like force yourself. What was that thing again? You just put an ebb and flow and will come back to you when the time is right. And so going back, like I started to experience a little bit of this ear itchiness was like inner ear itchiness and I just paid attention to it. I thought maybe it's mold. Maybe it's this, maybe it's that, whatever, I'll just keep an eye on it. And it didn't change it. It started with ebb and flow. It definitely was impacted by my hormonal cycles. I could tell it was getting worse when my estrogen started to rise and then wane there were ebbs and flows to it as most symptoms are and that can give you some clues as to what something is. I did think it was maybe fungal related in some way. I've always had a tendency to move towards fungus. I feel like some people are more fungus-y, some people are more bacteria-y, some people are more parasite-y, but I've always tended to move towards like that fungal direction. And so I just sat with it for a while. Winter is a time of dampness. And so that's the time when these kind of damp issues start to pop up. And I thought maybe the spring and more sun will just resolve it. And it did ebb and flow, but it didn't resolve completely. And it did start to get really itchy. And so this is where I start to actually try different things. I've thoughtfully watched and waited. And so I tried, I went with my gut, is it fungal.
I tried some antifungal drops, first and foremost. Then I tried some ear oil that included some mullein and some other herbs that are good for the IRS. I also was doing some like warm salty apple cider vinegar rinses with an ear syringe, because I suspected it was fungal. So I was trying something different things that were antifungal to just see if it put a dent in it. And it did put a little bit of a dent in it, but not enough to make a huge difference. So it kept going. I tried a few other things, nothing really touched it. I did go to urgent care, just double check. I wanted to make sure my ear canals weren't inflamed, or anything like that. Every time I go, I am reminded of how helpless and useless most – and I do say most – medical professionals are. That experience was so hilarious, because literally looked in my ear, said, Ah actually looks okay. And then said, if it was anything, it probably could be fungal infection, but I'm gonna give you antibiotics. And if the antibiotics make your ears worse, then we'll know it's fungal. And I was like, no I'm not taking antibiotics, especially if you already know that it's fungal like what the heck. And so this person would not even give me antifungals until I took the round of antibiotics. And this is how it works. They want you to take one thing and then come back and then take another thing. It's just many, many, many, many, many. And just always a good reminder.
So again, emphasized, okay, I'm headed in the right direction, something is a little bit like deeper, my body needs something a little bit deeper. And so that is what I'm talking about by an invitation for detoxification. I didn't jump to the most extreme conclusion off the bat. I didn't lead with fear. It wasn't like throwing the kitchen sink at it. But it was in the back of my mind thinking like, Okay, I go slow, I go gentle, I go very conservative. And over time I bring out bigger and bigger guns, so to speak. But I also keep in mind that I also maintain a foundation of strength and homeostasis within my body. I'm not extreme, but I am intentional about my nutrition. I am intentional about mineralization, I am intentional about stress reduction. And as time has gone on, I've needed to be less and less intentional about those things because my resilience has built over time. However, those to me are kind of foundational things before adding anything else in, I'm not going to start to encourage detoxification when I'm not going to the bathroom. And so over the couple of months that I was experiencing this itch, I was paying attention to what the ebbs and flows were and the things that made it worse and the things that made it better. And one thing that I really noticed was that when I did lymphatic work, specifically really focusing on lymphatic drainage, and rebounding, my vibration played body brushing, I don't do all those things every single day. But I definitely tried to make sure I'm doing some type of lymphatic work every day. My husband was also really working in on my shoulders and my neck. And we found that doing regular like lymphatic drainage massages on my neck and my like upper shoulders or my traps really seemed to help the symptoms. And so that to me showed okay, there's something lymphatic related going on.
And so you can see how when you're in a calm state of mind, you can start to accumulate clues about something. And so I knew it was itchy, most likely fungal related, and there's something lymphatic happening going on. So again, notes right taking mental notes, I did notice that sweating would make it better. It also was worse at night. So if something is worse at night, oftentimes that means it is micro organism related. Parasites are more active at night, mold and fungus are more active at night and bacteria are a little bit more active at night as well. And so I would start to get itchy around five or 6pm. I also would look at the Traditional Chinese Medicine clock. So around five or 6pm would would be when my symptoms would get really bad. And those are kidney and bladder time. I also started to experience some itching around certain areas. And when I've already experienced itching in certain areas or anything on my skin, or under the skin or anything, certain areas, I'm always looking at the meridians, I'm always looking at reflexology, I'm always looking at the tongue chart, like I'm just looking for clues.
And I prefer to do this over just like immediately jumping to functional testing, because not only is it expensive, but for me, I find that this is how I learned my body better, and how I can better serve her over time. And I don't necessarily like the invasiveness of certain functional tests or the very like black and white like logistical thinking. Like it doesn't tell you everything that you need to know. And I feel like, I like to use them more as like a confirmation of what I already am intuitively thinking rather than just using them to try to find out what's happening to me. And all of this was also coinciding with some of my emotional work that I was doing. I was exploring, I have always struggled with pretty bad skin issues since I was a child, and nutrition, and detoxification and supporting my body nourishment. All of those things have really helped over time, but certain parts of my skin issues ebb and flow. And I knew that there were some emotional and spiritual components that would just come to the surface when it was time. And it wasn't something that I could really rush. And so knowing that skin is really like a separation conflict, and I had experienced something when I was four or five years old that ever since then my skin issues had been particularly bad things like keratosis pilaris, sometimes like some eczema or like psoriasis type, things popping up here and there not all the time, just occasionally throughout the years, sometimes it would be two years, and then it would come back. And for me resolving this conflict and recognizing that, oh, this emotional conflict that I experienced when I was five years old, had instigated this skin issue. And I had been doing some hypnotherapy work along those lines as well. And so it was all coming to the surface.
This is what I again, when I'm talking about this invitation for release, I don't try to force things before they are ready any longer, I have learned my lesson, the body really works in layers. And if you're really trying to get deep within, deep within yourself, deep within your tissues, you cannot force it to come to the surface before it is ready. It's a lifetime. And so I started to slowly implement some things. And this was early spring, or when I started to see signs of spring popping up. And that was very strategic lymphatic work like actually working on my lymph system and making sure that was a priority every single day. And then I also started taking systemic enzymes. There are different types of proteolytic enzymes on the market. For those of you that don't know what that is proteolyticor systemic enzymes or protein digesting enzymes. And they're known for some various purposes. The popular ones that are really studied right now are like nattokinase and serrapeptase and things like that.
A lot of people use them for different purposes in the kind of like inflammatory realm or like inflammation realm, but they're actually really powerful biofilm breakers, and they break down a substance called fibrin. Fibrin is like this, it's almost like you could think of it to oversimplify it as almost like scar tissue that builds up within the tissues from irritation, from inflammation. And it's protein buildup and soy protein digesting enzymes when taking correctly, meaning on an empty stomach not with food because if you take them with food, they'll just digest your protein and your food. But if you take them on an empty stomach they have been shown to absorb into the bloodstream and go throughout the body and break down fibrin but I also liked them for the application of breaking down biofilms. They can be very effective biofilm breakers and biofilms are these kind of substances protective substances that all types of micro organisms built around themselves: fungus, bacteria, parasites all can be hidden behind biofilms. Biofilms are not good or bad. There's a there's a synergistic relationship with biofilms that we have a synergistic relationship with organisms. So not all biofilms are bad but biofilms can definitely protect certain micro organisms that you want to be removed from your bodies.
All About Binders
I wanted to start working and just see if I could break down anything that was maybe accumulating, thinking that maybe that would just take care of it if I could break down some of these biofilms and make these fungi a little bit more vulnerable to what I'm already eating my implemented some powder, Jarkko tea, which is a gentle antifungal tea and implemented some fresh herbs and some fresh green juices and things like that extra sulfur rich foods like extra garlic, extra onion, extra shallot, to see if my body could just handle it and take care of it itself and continue to deal with my lymphatic work. The itchiness did improve, but it didn't completely resolve itself. And so this is where I decided to bring in a multifunctional binder. And my thought process with the binder was that a lot of times when we're experiencing any type of itchiness, it's not actually the microorganisms themselves, but it's actually the mycotoxin, or the microbial toxins that they're producing the endotoxins and the ammonia in the case of parasites, and that's what's actually coming out through the skin or coming out through wherever these things can be removed the ears, the nose, the mouth, the colon, the urinary tract. And so sometimes just implementing a binder can help absorb some of these and take the burden off of the body and they bind and carry.
And there are many different effective binders on the market. They all different purposes, you'll see binder blends, I don't know I think of I'm not sponsored by them, but like Quicksilver Scientific, which has a mixture of charcoal and pectin. So you'll see like a blend of fibers I think it has, I want to say don't quote me on this like apple pectin. And then modified citrus pectin, like parasol see is a really popular product that's used out there right now, for various applications like metals and things like that. You have just old school activated charcoal, which binds to everything. But it doesn't bind very well to fat soluble toxins, metals, things like that. But it will bind to a lot. Good and bad. Doesn't matter what it is. It's not a selective binder. It's not an intelligent binder. And you have things like humic fulvic substances, which have a lot of binding potential, but they're not really strong binding carries. So they can almost like if you're standing in a stream, and you hit the sand and it creates a cloud like it brings stuff to the surface, but it doesn't actually carry it out very well. And then you have something like zeolite, which is often used where certain zeolites not all zeolite is created equal. But zeolite is a little bit more of a selective binder, it has more of a cage like structure. And so there's a mineral exchange that takes place where it will exchange one ion for another ion and it's pretty effective at binding to metals binding to histamine binding to endotoxins, mycotoxins things like that. I wanted something that was a little bit more selective. I didn't wasn't in the mood for doing a really harsh detoxification. I've done a lot of parasite cleanses and microbial cleanses and heavy metal cleanses throughout the years. And so I always take the gentlest approach I possibly can with the body, but I wanted to choose a very like selective and intelligent binder.
So I ended up going with zeolite. And, for me, it would kill you know, multiple birds with one stone and that was my purpose is, if it's histamine related, it'll absorb that it'll lower my itchy symptoms. If it's fungal related, it will bind to some of those fungal toxins. Those mycotoxins if it's metal related metals make us much more sensitive to our environment. EMFs, fungus actually will come in to clean up metal. So a lot of people who have ongoing or recurring fungal infections usually have deep metals stored within their tissue. So I was like, it'll kill multiple birds with one stone. Now, even though I went into this very casually, and didn't think much of it, like I was just looking at as more like a general kind of cleanup tune up. I did not expect it to be what it became. And I don't know why because I haven't done any type of detoxification, that were really structured detoxification in a while, actually, I definitely didn't do one last year. Maybe I did a little something the year before. But there's a reason why my body was inviting, there was something my body needed to get out, and it needed help to get out.
And so when I began to take zeolite, the thing about zeolite is, first of all, not all zeolite is food grade, not all zeolite is created equal. I usually like and stick to two brands, which is Zero Charge by Zeolite Labs and Zeolite Pure by Zeo health, I think it's called. It has like a green label on it. I can't remember exactly what it's called. But I stick to powders not liquids, because zeolite liquids like the sprays, typical, like whatever TRS or even, there's another one like a nano one out there, a lot of these suspended liquid zeolites that our sprays are just such a low dosage that going back to our levels of detoxification or layers or drainage pathways is they might have enough surface coverage to pick up what's laying on the surface level. But when you create space, something's gonna come in and take that space and so a lot of times when you're doing any type of detoxification, especially when it involves metals, if you remove the surface level while the body's Oh, perfect, I'm gonna start to move somewhere In the deeper tissues, and what can happen is you end up starting to feel worse because you've taken only enough to bind to that surface layer and get other things moving, but not enough to pick up and bind to and carry out what's coming from the deeper surface.
I started with just I think two scoops, I usually start with one or two tablespoons. And the level of itch I experienced all over my body, like this conflict resolution was coming to the surface, my skin was resolving whatever had been residing there for so long. And this was the invitation that it required and I had all of these, almost like pustules, just coming to the surface, these hive like bumps that would just travel, and there would be a specific time in which they would start and they would travel. So start on my lower back and then move up my spine, move to my neck, and then it would go to my scalp, and then it would move back down the other side and down my leg into my ankles. And then it would come back up. And it was like there was a specific cycle in a specific time. But of course, I look immediately to see what meridian that is. And of course, the bladder and kidney meridian, the exact same meridian of when the time that these issues start at five or 6pm. So it tells me very clearly what systems are being affected and need to be supported. And so instead of being like, oh, no, something's wrong, I need to fix it.
The thing about zeolite is sometimes you actually have to go up and dose the symptoms become too bad. Sometimes the dose actually needs to be up rather than down low and slow does not always work well, in the case of zeolite. So I kept raising and raising the dose to keep zeolite in my system for 24 hours. And so that there's enough to bind to what was happening and actually took me a dose of nine tablespoons or were scoops to get the symptoms to start to resolve themselves. So whatever it was, that was coming out of my system was coming from so deep within the tissue or was being released so much at once, that I needed a lot of this binder in my system to be able to bind and carry whatever was being removed out of the body. And this lasted for about a week and a half. And then began to resolve itself. And I felt the urge to add in some herbal support. I just went with a general herbal parasite blend, and the thing about herbals that are anti parasitic or anti fungal or antiviral, or whatever it might be anti bacterial, they all tend to be antibacterial, and antifungal and anti parasitic. So you're very rarely going to find in nature, something that should just one or the other. Whereas I've run into a lot of people who take pharmaceutical antibiotics, but don't take antifungals. And what begins to happen is they clear out all these bacteria and then fungus comes in to take the place and then fungus becomes a problem.
And so I like usually approaching it personally with some herbs. And so I took just like a general antiparasitic, a common blend, I get them from one of my local stores, but they're very typically the same. They usually include something like wormwood and clove and olive leaf, something along those lines. And then I also took an herbal liver support and an herbal lymph support. And then sometimes when you take stuff like that you can get really bad headaches, whatever is dying is usually letting off the noxious gasses. And that usually for me, I resolve it with a coffee enema. But sometimes I will resolve it with taking like L arginine or L ornithine. Just depends on how bad the headache is. But coffee enemas usually take care of it. And I usually don't do anything different diet wise, during times like this, the only thing I do different is I don't drink coffee, I usually will switch out my coffee for herbal tea like Moringa or nettle or something that's going to support me in my process. And then I definitely tune into my appetite and cravings a little bit more. And if I am not hungry, I do not force myself to eat because I trust that my body is doing something that I don't quite understand. And so usually when I am in this process, my appetite does wane and I listen to it. It doesn't mean I don't eat or I tried to fast but I try to really listen to my appetite and my cravings. And if I need sugar, I will consume sugar, if I need XYZ thing, I will consume it because I think that my body is much wiser than me. And it's calling for what it needs to complete the process.
I also was doing a foot ionizing bath two or three times a week and I usually will have those in my back pocket. I go through phases with them but I do find that they really do seem to reduce symptoms. So it does take some load off of the body. And yeah, that's pretty much my spring detoxification. So I started really early with systemic enzymes, I use the one by the ones by Mito-life, this time, I don't always use those, but that's what I use. And then I used Co-Charge by Zeolite Labs mixed in a little bit with the zeolite here, and then the herbals that I used was from a local shop.
And you can see that it's not very structured, it's very intuitive. I take a very laid back approach and just listen to my body. But it's been really cool to see the results like the initial things that invited me to do this have definitely resolved. You know, the ear itchiness went away and my skin is now resolving in many ways that I haven't seen in years. But also, I feel so much better, like my skin is glowing, my digestion is better, my outlook on life is better. It really impacts you emotionally and spiritually as well. And it feels like something has definitely resolved within my body. And I've moved to a different layer. And I followed the lead of my body when I was experiencing these kinds of skin eruptions that were just like migrating skin eruptions over the course of two hours out of skin eruptions on my calf and then it would move to my upper arm like it would be all over my body and they would migrate.
I tried to use clay packs and clay packs I feel have gotten forgotten a little bit in the health and wellness space, you don't hear about them too often anymore. You do hear about like people talking about bentonite clay to detoxify their armpits and things like that bentonite clay mask mixed with apple cider vinegar or water because bentonite clay is an adsorber. So certain clays are adsorbers, A-D, not absorbers. So there's a difference between adsorption and absorption. And so adsorption has a pull to it. And there are certain clays that have an affinity for adsorption; bentonite clay is one of them. Kaolin like green clay, it has a little bit of adsorption to it, zeolite has some adsorption to it, diatomaceous earth also has some adsorption to it, but I like to use bentonite clay or medi clay or magnetic clay baths, whatever it might be like a clay blend. And I keep those on hand for like foot baths and things like that. But they can work really well. For anything that's trying to already remove itself from the skin, and you're trying to draw it out quicker. That's what works very well. And if you mix in kelp powder, or you can mix in ground up herbs or ground up spices, for example, coriander has an affinity for encouraging metal movement or flow which can bring blood flow to the surface and can therefore bring whatever is in the blood closer to the surface so that it can be removed.
Clay packs can be really helpful. And I like them for all types of things. And you can layer on the clay as thin or as thick as you want. It's just the thicker it is, the less it's going to dry. And people use them all sorts of ways. I've heard of people, laying them on their thyroid or people laying them on their abdomen or laying them on just pretty much anything that they want to absorb or move something from. And they have a huge affinity for absorbing a lot through the skin and can actually pull out some really nasty stuff. So that was another tool that I pulled out of my back pocket to assist my body and whatever was trying to remove. Just a reminder, I'm not recommending this for anyone. This is not something that I think every single person should do.
But I know you guys like when I share stuff like this because it's good to share information like this, it's good to have this stuff in the back of your mind to chew on it, to marinate on it, to think about it to have it as a tool in your tool belt. Knowledge is power. And if you like learning about stuff like this, or along this lines, make sure to join Nourished Circle in time for this month's live, we usually do the live the last Thursday, either morning or afternoon of the month. I try to mix it up. So everybody from all time zones can make it work. And then of course, the live replays are available. Everything that we've talked about in the past six months since November, is archived, including the live q&a. So there's hours and hours and hours of content in there of what's new. So if you enjoy this stuff, or you have questions, you can always bring them there and we talk about it as a group together.
Episode Links
Zeocharge Zeolite >> https://www.zeolitelabs.com/product-page/zeocharge
Parasite Tincture (Similar to the one I used) >> https://amzn.to/458yp66
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