The Toxicity of Personal Products and Hormone Imbalances

hello hello everyone welcome back to our modules here for August I actually almost forgot what month it is but August we have been talking all about toxicity so for those of you joining on Instagram live we are live on our weekly webinars that we do you can definitely use our registration link that is in the bio if you want to access our webinar because I am going to be cut off in one hour on Instagram live but for those of you that are here with me either on the webinar or also an Instagram live definitely feel free to populate questions into the chat box or the comments area but today's topic is piggybacking off of some of the things that we talked about last week which was in relation to toxicity so today specifically diving more into toxicity and how that is actually coming from a lot of the things that we are using on a day to day basis in the world of personal and beauty products so I know that this is something that is getting a bit more press these days primarily because there's so many conversations about all of these different brands that are coming out and there's a lot of lawsuits that have been happening against different types of products everything from you know baby products to different types of powders makeups etc so I think people are starting to think a bit more about the products that they're using in order to best equip themselves to know what's good what's bad and also what is obviously going to be the most beneficial for their kids and this is really important for us to take into consideration because we are living in an epidemic of cancer there are so many different types of cancers that are happening at younger and younger ages and this is everything from breast cancers to lymphoma lung cancers and lung cancers in people that were never smokers and one of the things that you know really tonight is how there are a lot of different chemicals that are in these personal products that we are using that are classified as carcinogenic meaning that they are known to cause cancer so you might be thinking you know why the heck are these things allowed to be in our personal products and I don't really have an answer to that because there is a lot of issues with how we regulate things here in the US there is a lot of controversy as to you know what is going into these products how they being tested and you know how are we necessarily deeming them to be safe there is a lot of gray area and there is definitely a lot of issues with how these things are being tested and what it takes for them to get approved to be put into the products that we're using on a regular basis so as we dig into this information I want to just kind of tell you a little bit about who I am so for those of you that are new here but I'm dr. Nicole I am one of the head physicians at integrated wellness group in Belmar New Jersey and I do these webinars every week because I think that there is a lot of misinformation out there about a variety of different topics and we have been doing these webinars since December and we have uncovered information this is to mold boxes the AHS and we're talking about toxicity in August and I feel really passionate about talking about toxicity because for a very long period of time that was something that I didn't necessarily understand completely as a physician and it's not something that I was digging deep enough for and you know what I mean by that is some of the testing that I did very very early on in my practice was actually heavy metal based testing and with the heavy metal testing what I realized over time is that heavy metals like aluminum and mercury barium and cadmium these were just one of chemicals that many people are dealing with as a burden to their body these are chemicals that they do not have a congruent set of symptoms toxicity can cause immune issues toxicity can cause autoimmune issues it can cause gut issues it can cause headaches it can cause there are logical issues seizures like literally the sky is the limit with how it can affect someone so if we're looking to say cadmium causes this or you know aluminum causes this it's not necessarily how it works because these toxins can affect everyone in an extremely different way and one of the examples I can give you about this is that you know if you have a person who drinks a cup of coffee and they're wired for three days you know you have other people who drink coffee and they can drink a pot of coffee and go to sleep like it doesn't affect them so that really comes down to genetics and it comes down to how well that person metabolizes that specific compound which is caffeine so the way that we metabolize different types of chemicals and different types of heavy metals it varies person to person so if someone has a really strong liver but really weak kidneys they might actually have a lot of issues with these toxins affecting their cardiovascular system or even affecting their neurological system but if there's a person who has a weak liver then they might have these different toxins affecting their gastrointestinal system more so so again the point of me saying this is that you know you might be here listening but it's not that I can give you this cut-and-dry that expect this this and this in this symptom because you have this toxicity because it can definitely manifest differently across the board so for myself in my practice you know we have always thought about the body in a very different way and we've always chose to look beyond segregating out the systems so we've always looked at the body as being an integration of systems and we've realized that you can have a variety of different symptoms going on but it doesn't necessarily mean that there's a million things wrong with you usually there is one to two foundational problems that are causing the myriad of your symptoms so sometimes the the root or that foundational issue can be a toxicity problem so again when it comes to toxicity there is a lot of limitations with how to test for it and there's also a lot of issues with how how much physicians understand about toxicity and how it affects the body so for myself I am classified as an integrative physician and you really when it comes down to is it's about looking at everything it's about digging deeper asking better questions and using better testing to really decipher what are those root causes what are those select few foundational problems and because of that type of approach I work with a variety of different types of patients because it's not really about the diagnosis it's not even always about the symptoms it's about what's causing it and when you use the right testing you can actually really uncover what is causing most of the symptoms that are going on so it's really cool about this is that outside of getting all these webinars and teaching everyone about the different things that are happening behind the scenes at iwg I have also launched my Institute for Integrative wellness which is my way of helping to advance how healthcare is being done by starting with the physician because it's really really important for physicians to understand the bigger picture about why so many people are struggling with chronic illness and how they can best help their patients cuz most doctors got into this for the right reasons but they're working with limited tools and also with limitations and testing so some of the things that we'll talk about tonight is what are some of the tests we're using in order to figure out you know what is what is the toxic burden on the body and how is it affecting the person so just a side note about myself and kind of why I got into this in the first place is that I relate to this toxicity conversation very very much so and I relate to it primarily because I was extremely toxic and I had no idea I didn't get into this field necessarily because I had all these problems and I was really sick and then a functional medicine doctor you know was able to finally figure out what was going on with me and help me get back to health I primarily had a lot of miscellaneous symptoms that I really classified as my normal and with that being said I primarily just settled for poor sleep I settled for hormonal imbalance I settled for occasional stomachaches I settled for brain fog I settled for all those things and I know that many of you that are listening right now have also settled for those things and you've settled because you think it's genetics or because you think you're getting old but if I hear one more person under the age of 30 say oh I have all these problems because I'm getting old like it drives me nuts because I'm like this is a terrible mindset for us to be in because if you're in bad shape at 30 years old where are you gonna be at 60 years old are you gonna be the person with dementia and Alzheimer's because you cheol chose to classify those things as your normal so we need to get out of this mindset of thinking that everything is very normal just because everyone around us also feels like crap everybody complains about sleep everybody complains about their stomach everybody complains about headaches and it's so interesting because I always manage to go to restaurants and sit next to the people that are complaining about their health and I'm like oh check your mouth Nicole shut your mouth shut your mouth because I don't want to be that creepy person but you know I feel I feel for these people because they don't know what they don't know and many of you listening today don't know what you don't know and you don't know how many toxins are being exposed to on a day-to-day basis just simply by putting lotion so again we're gonna talk more about this so that you have a better understanding that you can walk away and be empowered but also have some really amazing tools for how you can actually you know start to switch out some of the products that you're using so I know that we are ten past seven right now there is a lot of things going on in our house there are probably emails you need to answer there are kids that need to be fed they're dogs that need to be fed give yourself the next 20 minutes to really hone in and sit with me and learn about this content because I'm not giving you your run-of-the-mill information I am actually giving you information that you potentially have not heard before and in addition to that I'm helping you to understand real life stories of the types of people that come through our doors that end up having all of these different symptoms and toxicity is the root toxicity is the core for them and once they're able to resolve that toxicity they're actually able to get their health back so first and foremost as we go through this information and you go oh my gosh I never knew that holy crap have I been poisoning my children it is not your fault it's not your fault that you knew these products were bad or you didn't know these products were bad it is not your fault that you've been using toxic products on your children is that your fault now we were here to learn this information you can take this information and you can make a change from here on for those of you that have already developed a lot of symptoms you might want to consider you know what type of detox is best for you and how can you get better testing in order to figure out how you can detox but don't sit here and feel guilty and don't sit here and think like oh my gosh I'm a terrible mother because you don't know what you don't know so a couple of basic principles that I want you to understand as we talk about this topic and number one is that you know my personal opinion and one of the reasons why I do what I do for a living is because I was very tired of the way that the system has been set up and what I mean by that is we look at the body as a bunch of separate systems we assume that the brain is not talking to the gut and the gut not talking to the heart and the circulatory system is not communicating with the neurological system and we assume that everything is literally just working independently so we go and seek out the specialists that are going to give us information about our skin or give us information about our immune system or information about our gut and nobody talks to each other and nobody is actually really taking into consideration basic physiology so an example of this is if you have irritable bowel syndrome but you also have depression you might be treated for your depression if through an antidepressant us for anybody to do anything proactively for it so they're saying well you have a low-grade irritable bowel syndrome you know there's not much treatment available until it gets worse so you know we're just gonna leave that be and then you work with your psychiatrist who's treating you for your depression and we're literally ignoring the fact that 90 to 95 percent of your serotonin is made in your gut so you're easily treating and effect and not a cause so this is the sis the system that keeps us sick that keeps us disempowered and also keeps us thinking that our choices and our lifestyle play zero of a role in our health which if you really think about it if you go to a gastroenterologist and you say my gut hurts my stomach hurts I have bloating I have diarrhea and when I don't eat gluten I feel a bit better and they look you in the face and they say that doesn't matter because nutrition has nothing to do with your irritable bowel syndrome how the hell does that make sense that doesn't make sense at all so I think that you need to understand that regardless of their expertise in training you also have to go back to common sense it's very very very important for us to understand that we know our body's best and don't ignore it and don't ignore it based off of the research and based off of the opinion of a health professional because chances are you know what's right for you and if the gluten makes your stomach hurt stop eating it so anyway there's my rent but the biggest thing is is that I find when we overlook toxicity we easily do not find the root cause and we're we're drawing at straws and we're trying to deal with symptoms symptoms symptoms when really at the end of the day we need to get the toxins out or we need to stop using the toxins all together so when it comes to toxicity today we're talking about personal products but you're getting exposed to toxins all the time from a variety of different places there are toxins on your food there are toxins on your lawn there are toxins on your neighbor's lawn there are toxins in your water including the tap water that you don't drink but you use to cook your food because when you boil tap water it doesn't boil out heavy metals it only boils out bacteria there is toxins in your personal products in your baby products in your furniture in all of the building materials if you live in an old house you deal with your lead and asbestos if you have a new house you deal with the off gassing of all the new fancy cheap materials that they use then you have dental fillings breast implants cosmetic surgeries and the list goes on there are a million different ways that you are getting exposed to toxins but today we will talk all about personal products if you're looking to understand more about food that was last week so you can check out our replay which is available on our website but funny thing about this is that most of the lovely chemicals that are in our personal products here in the lovely US are banned in Europe so when you go to Europe this is congruent with food as well as personal products you can go and buy a Kellogg's cereal in Europe and the ingredients are completely different than the same Kellogg's cereal here in the US in addition if you go and buy Chanel makeup in Europe that is completely different than the Chanel makeup in the u.s. so the point is is that you have to be your own advocate you need to understand what these chemicals are and you need to have resources so one of the absolute best things that you can do is get familiar with an app called think dirty and you can also leverage a different database called skin-deep these are two different ways that you can start evaluating the personal products that you are using and understand are they toxic and if there are toxins in them what are these toxins actually doing to you because one of the main things that you are going to see in most of your products everything from makeup to shampoos conditioners dyes etc is going to be parabens there are proven parabens there are methyl parabens there are ethyl Bourbons there are many many many many parabens it doesn't matter if they're all toxic so if you see paraben please stay away from it secondary to that there are tons of derivatives of petroleum petroleum is the byproduct of gasoline yes what we put in our cars so when you see very tricky things like mineral oil that is actually a byproduct of petroleum it is carcinogenic it is toxic it causes cancer so when we want to talk about the level of skin cancers and we want to sit here and blame it on the Sun guys think about it we had hunter-gatherers Indians you think sunblock existed back then these were people half naked running around under the Sun with no shade that didn't have epidemics of skin cancers but now with all the sunblock in the world we all have the most skin cancer in you know ever so we need to start rethinking what we're being told we have skin cancer because while the toxic crap that we put on our bodies in addition to the fact that we're constantly blocking out our absorption of vitamin D through the Sun so it starts to you we need to start looking at what are you putting on your body the other really interesting thing about this too is for those of you women that either have done hormone replacement or you have done bioidentical hormones I'm coming off of literally I've been working since 5:00 a.m. so when I stutter please forgive me coming buds when you are talking about bioidentical hormones or hormone replacement most of this is in a lotion so when women are sitting there and they don't want to hear it about their their personal products because you know their personal products are what make them beautiful and make them feel good about themselves and then they're like oh yeah well you know my hormones are really off and I went on bio eat apples and I felt great I'm like well how did you administer those bioidenticals and they're like well it was a cream and I go so you clearly put that cream on and you felt a significant difference like yeah I definitely did okay so that shows you that that is getting absorb directly into your bloodstream because obviously it made you feel differently so when you put lotion on and you put your gel nails on and you put your makeup on that is absorbing directly into your bloodstream so it's not that some of it absorbs and some of it doesn't it all absorbs so if you're putting things on that contain chemicals that are carcinogenic and then we're wondering why there are so much cancer we need to stop wondering we need to start thinking about what are we actually putting on our bodies so parabens are one piece of the puzzle then we have formaldehyde for all of you women getting your lovely keratin treatments hair straightening Brazilian blowouts whatever dyeing your hair all of it contains for mel by in addition to that most of your furniture contains formaldehyde as well my lovely friend Brittany if she is listening I love her to death but she kills me because she calls me the other day she has kids now and she's like can you believe that there is formaldehyde in my crib can you believe it and I'm like Brittany you work in a salon you deal with formaldehyde all this hay and she's like yeah but this is my baby and so it's interesting as I know that it's like we disregard ourselves and now we obviously put someone to worry on our children but formaldehyde is something that it's all around us it's in a lot of the personal products that we are using but we also need to be aware that if we as a mother are toxic what does your amniotic fluid what is that going to look like amniotic fluid is what your baby floats in for nine months your amniotic fluid is going to carry all of those toxins so your child is going to be toxic straight out of the gate so it's not just about a worry about your kids you also need to worry about yourself because if your body is healthy then you're going to obviously path not pass these different toxins to your baby because yes that is how the body works so in addition to that we always get tricked by this idea of fragrance so fragrance can be anywhere between 10 to 300 different types of chemicals most of these chemicals are hormone disruptors these are chemicals that are screwing up our estrogen levels so we live here at the beach New Jersey and it's always fantastic people watching but it breaks my heart because there are so many young men that are having very interesting body shapes they're having female figures like they're literally having fat deposits in their chests you know we can call it van boobs they're having very large abdomen and they're even having like fat deposits in their hips making them have the shape of a female and these are kids that are probably super self-conscious their parents are putting them on diets making them go to the gym and trying to like you know be proactive in this weight gain when really at the end of the day half of it is estrogen dominance from the these kids are you thinking so boys are obviously not using the level that females are you know they're not like wearing makeup and things but these are kids that are using acts you know they're they're using shaving creams they're using shampoo candy son blah-blah-blah-blah-blah so these are all things that are disrupting hormones in our children so we're seeing young females getting their periods at you know eight years old we're also seeing females that are eight years old with brass looking like they're 18 years old and then we're seeing these poor young boys that are you know look overweight with female shape so we really need to start thinking like this isn't about they ate too many hamburgers this is about a complete hormonal imbalance that is also going to compromise them going through puberty as well so we need to start thinking beyond you know is it just about you know food calories ice cream whatever else the other interesting thing that's in literally all of our products is propylene glycol propylene glycol literally is the same exact ingredient in antifreeze so privileged like halt is extremely carcinogenic and it is in everything makeup shampoo conditioner lotion sunblock body wash literally any personal product that you have in your house chances are propylene glycol is in it another thing that's really interesting is coal tar dyes so these are different types of agents that they were using to create pigment in lipsticks and hair dyes and a variety of different types of products but they are extremely neurotoxic aka toxic to your brain in addition to being carcinogenic again cancer-causing so one of the ones that has gotten the most press recently is in the realm of tall powder baby powder guys so Johnson and Johnson you know how many of you that have kids had Johnson and Johnson in your house or how many of you still use it on yourself as an adult so the some of the ingredients in these baby powders is it's a tall powder that literally the constituents or the molecules are very similar to asbestos asbestos you know how many of you see the commercials asbestos is toxic it causes mesothelioma which is a cancer of the mesothelium like this is a huge problem and we are putting this on our babies because it's being advertised as being safe and Johnson and Johnson just actually lost a lawsuit and how to pay out seventy two million dollars to someone who was able to prove that her ovarian cancer was linked to the use of their baby powder or their powder in general it is still baby powder but she was using it obviously as as an adult so guys this is no joke this is not my opinion this is not you know me making something up this is the reality of it the mineral oil I know was always the trickiest because that sounds great minerals oh fantastic I'm getting minerals absorbed into my skin by wearing this makeup so mineral oil again is a byproduct of petroleum and this is a known carcinogen so this is found in most of our cosmetics in addition to our lotions the other thing too is Dior I should rephrase antiperspirant for those of you that don't know antiperspirant and deodorant are different antiperspirant is designed for you not just sweat deodorant is designed to just help you smell better without necessarily blocking your sweat glands so when you deal with an antiperspirant you get two problems you're blocking your sweat glands aka you're blocking your armpits ability to detox which by the way neurologically your limp goes all the way from your neck all the way down into your armpit so your armpits technically are a drainage mechanism for your brain so if you're blocking your sweat glands you're not getting toxins out secondary to that 99% of your antiperspirants contain aluminum aluminum is a known top neurotoxin aka it is toxic to your brain and they have actually found a massive connection to dementia and Alzheimer's disease when it comes to aloo and this is something that we are all putting on our armpits for years upon years upon years on a daily basis and for those of you that are listening like I gave that up five years ago if you used it for 25 years prior chances are you still have traces of aluminum in your body unless you have made an effort to detox so it's not just about giving it up sometimes it's about actually helping your body to detox another one sodium laureth this is also known as sodium lauryl sulfate you guys have to be careful because they have a bunch of different ways of labeling now because they know that people are starting to look at these ingredients so it could be sodium laureth or sodium lauryl sulfate but virtually they are the same thing and this is one of the products that causes your I'm gonna use the wrong word it aloud oh it allows your shampoo to lather so you get all the bubbles and I know that everybody loves that because it makes you feel clean but anything that gives you that lather and those bubbles is going to contain this sodium lauryl sulfate which is actually known to be extremely toxic to your liver and your kidneys so this is something that you really need to keep your eye on but I will promise you this is in every single one of your shampoos and conditioners so the other big one is going to be your BHA and BHT these are known to be human carcinogens they are also known to create massive disruption to the reproductive system and thyroid issue or thyroid system and this has also been linked to gut issues as well this is found very regularly in a lot of our moisturizers and our makeup as well so this is just going in a little bit more and breaking this down for those of you that want more of this information but another thing with this dioxin dioxin is not just something that is found in shampoos but this is also in tampons so when we want to talk about tampons there are so many chemicals that are in your tampons your tampons are going in tract which is a mucous membrane which is one of the most absorbent parts of your body so your tampons contain everything from dioxin to bleach to fiberglass to mold in addition to other things that can cross contaminate with cotton so one of the interesting things this actually came up a couple of weeks ago is that tobacco was coming up as a massive irritant for this woman cervix and vaginal tract and this was a person she was dealing with a lot of reoccurring yeast infections and we were kind of making a joke and we're like oh man really got to be careful with with your vaginal tract being allergic to your smoking and she was like woman so the thing that you have to understand is that cotton is the primary the primary ingredient in a tampon cotton fields and tobacco fields are usually side by side with each other so you can easily have a cross-pollination at cross-contamination when it comes to the way things are grown which can then create very odd allergens within the body so this is not necessarily about this person being a smoker or being around secondhand smoke but it was a fact that she was using tampons that are cotton that were cross contaminated with tobacco can you list the stuff you use like makeup and [ __ ] yes I'm gonna do that so we're gonna go through some of my favorite brands so we'll definitely be able to give you guys that information so another big one that I see really really often is actually toluene toluene is one of the primary chemicals that is extremely toxic to the respiratory system and it's very very common in hair treatments nail polish as well as was the other one Oh paint thinners as well so paint thinners obviously is more in a different realm but toluene is very very toxic to the lungs as well as the nervous system I see toluene come up consistently and a lot of my patients another thing too is triclosan triclosan is in toothpaste it's in a lot of toothpaste this is actually extremely harmful to your thyroid so think about it guys you're brushing your teeth think about the proximity of your mouth to your thyroid so all of the glands in your mouths can absorb the try close in that gets into your glands and then moves along your lymph nodes and then starts to affect your thyroid so how many women are struggling with a thyroid issue and we're not necessarily being told that it could be related to our toothpaste it can be related to how many dental person company still infections have we had do we get cold sores do we get canker sores nobody is necessarily connecting those dots but doesn't it make sense that what's going on in our mouth or what we're using in our mouth can affect our thyroid just based off of how close it is and proximity so we need to start thinking about anatomy like how are these things connected so I wanted to make note of like some of the professions that are the most at risk because all of these products we're obviously using these on a day to day basis but then think about these people that are working in hair salons they're working in nail salons they're working as aestheticians they're working as lifeguards and makeup artists so I threw in lifeguards because it's very weird as I had embarked this month I'm talking about toxicity but I've had two people in two weeks come up for sunblock like toxicity they literally came up for a variety of different chemicals zinc oxide being one of the main ones as toxic levels in their body so they're coming up for literally toxicity from all of the ingredients and sunblock and it turns out both of those people were lifeguards when they were younger so definitely when it comes to lifeguards you're not only dealing with the sunblock but you're also going to be dealing with a lot of the chlorine that is in the pools especially if you lifeguard at a pool but I really wanted to shed light on these professions primarily because I just specifically saw that an acquaintance of mine was just diagnosed with lung cancer and primarily this was a huge surprise because she went in for an issue with her shoulder blade from this is just based off of what I was told went in for her shoulder blade and they told her that it was a tumor and it was actually coming from it started in the lung and now it has spread to a different part of the body and this is a person that actually works in the beauty industry and is working as a stylist and you know I know that you know cancer is very scary but nobody is necessarily having a conversation about how her profession is potentially been the culprit behind why she has developed the condition that she has because when you are constantly inhaling different types of sprays and you are constantly having your hands in Bleach shampoos conditioners formaldehyde based compounds like these things are absorbing into your skin and then there's a ton of things that you're inhaling and I know this because any time I go get my hair done I'm like thinking in my head I'm like how do these women breathe this in all day between all of the different products that they're using on women's hair so it's very very important for us to take that step back if you know we are dealing with some type of respiratory issue or are we dealing with a diagnosis of cancer of are those things that are happening on a day-to-day or is there something in our lifestyle that could potentially put us at risk for this coming back because the last thing you want to do is through the hell of chemotherapy radiation and variety of other interventions and then nothing has changed about your lifestyle and then you get re diagnosed five years down the line with cancer coming back and it's not because of bad genetics it's because there was potentially some other piece of the puzzle that was completely missed so I wanted to list out some of the most common things that I see in my practice and definitely we've covered a good portion of them but some of them we haven't so one of the things that I see very often is the zinc oxide which is the primary ingredient in sunscreen another one is called Maine manganese peroxide which is in a ton of our cosmetics another one is anthraquinone anthraquinone is super super super toxic and it does a lotion or it's in a lot of our lotions or blemish creams these are like different types of face creams that are geared towards reducing blemishes or reducing freckles or balancing our complexion if anthraquinone is the primary ingredient stop using it it is super toxic it is neurotoxic and it is also carcinogenic another big one that I see is dichlorvos dichlorvos is actually technically an insecticide but for whatever reason they have actually found traces of this insecticide in tampons as well another big thing is benzene's benzene zannara are in a lot of our like hair coloring and makeups but it's also in our dry cleaning agents so for those of you that are like you know what I don't use any of those personal products or I switched all my personal products but you still get the majority of your clothing dry-cleaned you could still be exposed to these different chemicals chloroform I see constantly chloroform is actually coming from tap water primarily because when they take chlorine and ammonia to clean our water supply it creates a compound called chloroform and that chloroform becomes a vapor when you take a hot shower so you are breathing this end so this is something that is really important to just get yourself some type of shower filter so that you're not necessarily dealing with the absorption of the chloroform methyl methacrylate that is another one that I see very often comes from cosmetics acrylic esters that is going to be your gel nails your acrylic nails and a lot of the different ingredients that actually are in nail polish another one too is for all of my nurses or people working in you know the health care industry and you're constantly using hand sanitizer a hand sanitizer a hand sanitizer propyl alcohol is one of the primary ingredients in hand sanitizer also can be very toxic to the body and then we've already talked about formaldehyde being part of keratin treatments and hair dyes as well so these are all very very important to take into consideration for the exposures so the interesting thing is the European Union has banned over 1,300 chemicals down in cosmetics and the FDA has only banned eight and restricted three so we have a serious issue on our hands here and we need to be educated and we need to be our own advocate and you need to be using the resources like think dirty that application that I mentioned earlier on and we also need to be using the skin-deep Act by the Environmental Working Group these are great great resources that you guys can use in order to figure out you know am I getting exposed to these different types of toxins so an interesting thing is that we had a patient she was presenting to us with memory loss brain fog she actually was dealing with an autoimmune thyroid issue as well and she was a hair stylist so obviously we wanted to look at the whole picture make sure that there was you know we wanted to rule in or out if there was infections but we obviously wanted to make sure that we took into consideration were there any types of toxicities so it was very interesting because what was happening is she went through a course of care with us and she did really really well but throughout that duration we were obviously doing detox detoxification and we were we gave her different topical agents to detox her glands and her lymph nodes to really help the thyroid and help her neurological system so as we were monitoring her like all of her levels were really well her thyroid was healing her her thyroid antibodies were coming down things were really looking good so then she was feeling great she ended up going on a vacation and she came back she went back to work and at this point we put her down to a maintenance plan so she was only coming like once a month and she went back to her endocrinologist and her antibodies skyrocketed so then we were I was like okay that's interesting so then she went on another vacation and her antibodies dropped when that to work her antibodies skyrocketed so the point of me saying this is that there was clearly something that was a trigger and what we've realized is that the big trigger for her was everything that she was inhaling through her profession and this was everything from the hair sprays to the formaldehyde and the keratin treatments the hair dyes etc so this is you know this is a difficult thing because this is this person's profession and what are they gonna do are they gonna wear masks as they work or are they going to continue to compromise their health by staying in the industry so this was a person that you know she realized that she was going to just continue continue to spend a lot of money on her health in order to keep her her symptoms at bay or she was gonna have to choose a different route for her profession and I'm not saying that this is the case for everyone but this was a person that became immune compromised and once she crossed that threshold that her body was reacting very very severely to all of the different chemicals that her body tolerated at one point so it really gets to a point that you know sometimes that tolerance goes down and it's really a matter of you really have to change your environment and that you don't continuum so the biggest miss that I think that we've touched on already is that your baby products are safe they are not because all of the chemicals that we talked about tonight are also in the products that are being geared towards your children everything from your baby oils to your baby powders to your your diaper rash creams all of those products have to be evaluated you need to use those apps in order to figure out are these baby products safe and you know if you think that by you know you are excluded from this conversation that these products are not going to affect you or you know you where you know you get your hair done and you have tons of makeup and you know you you do yourself up all the time and you don't have any symptoms you do you just are ignoring your symptoms or your symptoms are your normal so it's very important to understand that these products and chemicals will catch up with you sunblock is safe guys it's not safe there is so much crap that's in sunblock what kills me is that we talked about sunblock being the thing that's gonna protect us from skin cancer when 50% of the ingredients in your sunblock are carcinogenic they're cancer-causing we need to stop using crap sunblock and start to really educate ourselves and start using better options that are actually safe and not carcinogenic the other thing too is technology one of the interesting things is that they have actually now connected the blue light that come from your devices to actually be damaging to your skin so all of you women out there that are spending tons of money on your facials you're spending tons of money on your laser treatment tons of money on filler Botox blemish reducing I don't even know I don't do any of this stuff so I don't know if you about it but whatever all things that people are doing you're spending all this money and you're literally you're addressing an effect literally the blue light from the phone being attached to you all the time use your taking your selfies and you're doing all the things and you can't get off social media that is damaging your skin and then when you fall asleep with your phone attached to your face that is damaging your skin it's all damaging your skin literally look it up don't take my word for it it is damaging your skin the blue light is accelerating the aging process so you need to understand that this is not even just about personal products it's also about your screen time the other thing too natural does not mean it's safe don't fall for it don't fall for natural sunblock natural shampoo natural ingredients they are slapping natural and everything it doesn't even mean anything anymore you actually need to bust out your app you need to look at the ingredients and you need to then figure out what you like what you don't like and then be able to just feel like okay these are my set products side note we I had a paper a person they told me about a company was called pure ology they were like pure ology great fantastic shampoo conditioner it's so good it still is like you know you're gonna make your hair really nice it's not like those natural shampoos that make your hair you know not so nice I was like okay great so I got the pure ology and the only reason I questioned it is because when I got the shampoo it was purple so I was like that's really interesting how um how great can this be or how non-toxic can this be if it's purple so I pulled up my think dirty app and what I found out is that the pure ology hydrate shampoo was an 8 out of 9 toxicity but the conditioner was a 3 out of 9 toxicity so 3.95 safe really was odd to me that the shampoo is toxic but the conditioner was fine so the point of me telling you this is that you cannot take a brand and assume that everything in that brand is safe and that actually is gonna fall for all of these products that I'm telling you about on this next screen so I'll say these out loud for those of you that are on Instagram but the same thing goes like Beauty counter beauty counter is a fantastic line for natural makeup and they do a really good job their makeup is really you know trying to compete with your Chanel Bobby Brown you know all of these higher end brands but beauty counter I think it's actually the bronzer that is actually not super great it's not it's not it's definitely not super toxic but it's not clean at the same time so I would definitely say as you explore these different brands and these different products do not assume that everything in that product line is safe so some of my favorites is going to be this is definitely more in the cosmetic realm vapor VAP oh you are Zuzu cosmetics new and you cosmetics are and ask guys on instagram if you want these resources you just need to DM me your email address and then I can actually send you the replay of this webinar and you guys can see this full list but RMS Beauty that's actually one of my personal favorites they have beautiful makeup beautiful lipsticks they're all very safe so RMS is definitely one of my favorites beauty counter is one of my favorites Tarte is definitely one that I like a lot as well and then when you get into some of these other brands this is going to be everything from your shampoos your conditioners your lotions your makeups these are a little bit more broad spectrum lines but beauty counter is one of those badger is a great sun block option beauty counter also makes sunblock Burt's Bees has definitely really stepped up their game from chap sticks to cosmetics solutions I think they actually make baby clothes which is crazy um Tara Mayer if I'm saying that right ter re M e re another one is called a hundred percent pure cocoa kind super goop guys there's a lot a lot of options there's a lot of companies that are coming out providing really really good quality items so again for those of you on Instagram just shoot me a DM and I can get you this resource so I don't have to bore the people on the webinar that are actually listening to this or actually visually can see it so if you haven't realized this by now you don't know what you don't know it's impossible for you to know about all of these different chemicals and what they are potentially doing in your body but I am here to be that resource for you guys because I cannot bear watching a mom put chemicals on her her baby without knowing no woman knows and intentionally wants to harm her child but we're literally being marketed these products that are extremely toxic and extremely harmful so we need to really be better equipped to be able to navigate around this and to choose that our options look for better brands and we really need to stop accepting that cancer is in our future that dementia is in our future Alzheimer's is in our future skin cancer runs in my family we need to stop thinking that these things are normal we need to stop thinking that it's just based on genetics it's based on bad luck you know bad things happen to good people that's not how this works there are so many things that nobody is talking about nobody is talking about the crap in our food nobody is talking about the crap in our products nobody's talking about it and this is what is keeping us disempowered and it's keeping us in this fear-based mode of when am I gonna get the diagnosis every time I get that mammogram oh my gosh is this gonna be the time when they tell me I have breast cancer and it's sad because I see it every day I have conversations with people every day how they have just been living in fear and we need to know that that does not need to be our fate that doesn't even need to be our reality and we also need to understand that this is literally not about everything looking like a textbook like you don't get you know formaldehyde toxicity and you're you know doubled over and you can't function and you have a fever and you know like you're presenting like you were like poison it doesn't look like that it could look like brain fog it could look like a bad respiratory issue it can look like memory loss it can look like I have to read this this page three times because I can't comprehend it because my brain is so foggy so I want you to understand that you are probably already feeling the ramifications of these toxins but you don't know what it is you're just thinking that it's just oh I'm getting old I'm getting older well my mom has memory loss or all my friends are talking about memory loss so this just must be it for me so another big thing too is like okay how do I get tested hey detox so nobody can give you the blanketed detox for formaldehyde or for aluminum because that's just not how it works the same example that I gave earlier today about the the coffee so one person drinks a cup of coffee and they're wired for three days another person drinks a pot of coffee and has not even faith they can go right to sleep so that actually is a true representative of your genetics so some people over metabolize the coffee some people under metabolize the coffee the same thing goes for chemicals for different types of foods for medications etc so same thing goes like the woman who takes birth control but gets pregnant while she's on birth control that's because this person is older metabolizing the birth control so it's actually not even able to do its job does the liver is chewing it up and spitting it out so when it comes to these chemicals you might need more liver support to get them out of your body some of you might need more kidney support to get them out of your body okay everybody is extremely extremely different so when it comes to how do we figure it out and how do we help I call functional medicine the old model and I call integrative medicine the new model and I do that because social medicine is where I starting and it's fantastic tons of of great testing gives you a ton of information really allows you to decipher you know is this person toxic does this person have you know formaldehyde or aluminum or heavy metals in their body but what I found is that the functional medicine route was limited tools in the toolbox so there were a lot of issues with you know is there look what can this person do to actually help their body get better because functional medicine is very focused on diet and supplements so if you have a bunch of toxins that are built up in your tissues or in your lymph nodes or in your kidneys you might need more strategies outside of just using supplements and an elimination diet so that's really what Integrative Medicine is is it's all about expanding upon that and using more tools in order to help your body to get better so the ways that we do that is we take time we do way better testing and we ask a boatload of questions so because we get off or we do a variety of different types of tasks and in addition to that we spend a lot of time with you we choose to serve you we do not serve insurance providers because people always want to know how does this work like how do I get the testing how do I figure out what's going on with me and you know with that being said most people will use they're out of network coverage but when it comes to being in network we would not be able to do what we do so that is definitely one of the reasons why we choose to be out of network with insurance providers because it's about you it's about spending time asking better questions leveraging better testing and really being able to provide you with the route of care that is best for you and not is what is medically necessary according to some person sitting behind a computer looking at your insurance policy so that is why we choose to do it the way we do it and I think it's really important that we start to remember that healthcare is supposed to be enough without answers and solutions this is not about oh we don't know what's wrong with you your blood work looks good so it must be in your head it must be you're depressed you should probably go to a psychiatrist and get an antidepressant no it's because you work in a salon and you're inhaling chemicals all day and that's why your brain sucks so it's important for us to not just be like oh well you know I must be depressed because my blood work looks good because that is just a linear test that's only like that a snapshot in time it's not even giving you close to the amount of information that you need and also we need to stop settling for thinking like oh well you know we don't really know why and there's really nothing you could do about it so we'll just wait your symptoms get worse and then we'll go from there so we have actually just amped up how do we work with our patients so with that being said we actually have when you become a patient and go through all of your testing you not only get designated a doctor so either myself or dr. Nick or dr. Phil you also get a designated health coach you get a designated nutritionist and then you get a variety of different tasks that fall under our onboarding bracket so you get everything from a DNA pace based test called the bioresonance you get a task evaluating chemical allergies food allergies environmental allergies we look at heavy metals mineral deficiencies we do comprehensive blood work and then we also do something called autonomic response testing so this is actually my favorite test the reason why we do this thing called autonomic response testing is because we do not guess we test so when you want to know what should i eat what should I not eat what supplements should I take how can I detox what's best for me what's best for my body we test all those things there's no guessing there's no like cookie cutter protocol this is how you detox from aluminum we actually figure out how does your body detox from aluminum so everything is extremely customized to you which is pretty amazing so we do this really unique onboarding process and we primarily do this because I really really did not like having someone come in for an initial consultation and then saying okay here's your initial consultation now here is your three four five six kits for stool sample urine analysis blood were blah blah blah and now you need to spend you know two three grand on how to to fix oh we can figure out what's wrong with you I really didn't like that I didn't feel good about it I also felt that all of those tests had a lot of limitations so we have worked and evolved and customized onboarding process in order to really be able to give you the most answers in the shortest amount of time but also to I wanted to set it up in a way that you have the ability to spend money on the most important thing which is getting better because the last thing you want to do is spend four or five thousand dollars I'm figuring out what's wrong with you and then you don't have the funds to actually heal the other big thing to that I want to say is about this healing process so when you come in from a detoxification perspective and say like we do find toxins you a lot of people want to go from like chronic symptoms to healed yeah some people it might be the case but in a video game you have to master every level you don't go from level one if you like a skirt I'm gonna skip to level 27 because you have to master and complete each level it's the same thing for your healing process is you have to really kind of figure out what are the layers here and then be able to work on those layers to really peel back and get your body to a good place so when it goes when you go from the chronically ill person with 35 symptoms and then you say you know I should be cured in two weeks that's not really how it works we're very good at what we do we usually get resolved most people's symptoms within three to six months but I'm making this disclaimer because I do feel like there's somewhat of an unrealistic expectation for some people because they're used to the instant gratification we are all programmed the same way you take a pill your problem to solve you find the magical vaccine or medication and then all your problems are gonna go away that doesn't work that way all you're doing is really covering up a symptom when you're really trying to fix the root it's going to be about peeling back those layers in a really really really strategic manner so some of you are here because you don't know what the heck is wrong with you you feel like crap you can't think you you know you're wondering is toxicity maybe part of the puzzle but you have maybe been on around and you've been to a lot of places a lot of doctors you're not getting any answers maybe you've gotten some answers but you haven't had many effective solutions you know really what it comes down to is depending on your journey depending on your goals what you can achieve once you actually know what the problem is and you have specific testing that tells you your exact strategy I don't know if you can really put a price on that it's really what it comes down to because so many people go months years without knowing what the heck is going on with them and they spend a lot of time and a lot of money on wasted protocols that do not get them to where they're trying to go and this is honestly sad to watch because people get exhausted and they give up because they just are like I just can't do this anymore I'm so tired so with the right tools the right testing you can easily eliminate out that level of heartache but of course there is always price so when it comes to our specialize on burning price that includes all those lovely things that I just told you about doctor health coach nutritionists all of your testing in addition to your report of findings when we review everything that falls under 1994 view the new to this bro met it I promise you you will never get more information and you will never feel more confident on knowing holy crap this makes sense I know exactly what's going on with me and I have a clear roadmap of exactly how to get better so literally it's you know it's almost like you have to experience it to understand it but you truly will not get any more specific than this in addition to that family members if you bring in additional family members they actually come in at 50% off but um we always ask you to apply and we do this primarily because we want to make sure that you are a fit for us as we are for you because this isn't for everyone and we totally get that and we totally honor that we want to make sure that we are gonna be able to meet your expectations and that obviously we have the ability to you know help you meet your goals because that's really the most important thing is that you know it's a it's a mutually beneficial relationship is really what it comes down to for those of you that are long-distance you can actually do all of your testing from a distance and it's primarily because you have DNA in your hair by simply sending us a hair sample we can actually run most of our tests from a distance if you decide that you want to continue to work with us it's because you can actually come and do a an immersion week so we do offer that as well so just the kind of side note that I find come up all the time is that when you have you know different people in your ear that are you know telling you to quit or telling you to not invest in yourself or telling you that you know going this route of integrative medicine is quackery or bogus or whatever people say I just want you to understand that people's hearsay is about them getting to the end of their skill set so what I mean by that is if someone is not necessarily like they have always resorted back to a pill they've always resorted back to that quick gratification that quick fix and you talk to them about you know I really want to try and greeted medicine I really want to try something different but that's gonna definitely in tell me potentially changing my diet and maybe taking some supplements and maybe detoxing and they want to sit there and poopoo on that that's because that's the end of their knowledge that's the end of their skill set so just because it's the end of their skill set doesn't mean at the end of yours so it's extremely important for you to understand that number one the common belief is not always true we need to trade trade truth for facts because we have people come through our doors that we see miraculous changes with and they can go out into the community and they can talk about what they're doing and people can be like wow that's weird and I don't get it that can't but that can't be possible that can't work all that it matters is that person's getting better and the truth or the proof is in the pudding I guess is what they say but really overall it's just because it's the common belief does not necessarily mean that it's true so if the common belief is you can only hear through medication heal through medication that's not always true there's many people that fell flat with that strategy so I want to check to see if there are any questions ah no questions all right guys so you have a minute or two to pop in some questions but I just want to let you know that I really appreciate you guys being here I love doing these webinars because really education is key it's power it helps you to take action in your life it helps you take that first step into the healthier you or making positive changes for your family obviously you know when you have the ability to get testing and figure out exactly what's going on in your body and what your body needs that's when this shifts from being an educational experience to a breakthrough experience so you know especially if you're someone who's been struggling and you've been dealing with symptoms that nobody can figure it out it's really really important for you to know that there are options out there there are better tasks there are you know better strategies that will help you get to your end goal so just know that integrative practices exist we are here for you we have your back and you know the answers are really right around the corner so if you want more information about who we are what we do if you want to listen to some awesome podcasts definitely check out our website integrated wellness group comm need tons and tons and tons of information there and also you can also access a strategy call through our website as well we have tons of information there as well oh we have something here where did it go where did it go yes so if my husband and I plan on having a baby soon should he start detoxing I know it's important that I do as mother but how much does the male contribute to the development of the baby so toxins compromise your DNA they damage your DNA so if a male has damaged DNA that is then going to in turn affect the baby so it is equally as important for the father or the the male to detox as much as the female so the female the you know the difference is obviously we have the DNA factor but then you also have the amniotic fluid factor and I think that the last time they released research they found 172 chemicals on average in the amniotic fluid so yes mom it's important to to detox but it is equally as important for the male to detox I've actually had a lot of family dynamics that have come through the door and they have come like the child's mother and father have gone through our testing and mom was actually in pretty good health but the child was dealing with some issues and then when we did the husband fathers testing it actually turned out that most of the issues actually came from some of the the DNA changes from the male because they were actually exhibiting very similar issues and symptoms so it's definitely important for the male to know that he is equally as responsible to to detox as well so I hope that answers your question all right guys I really appreciate you being here with me we're going to be talking more about toxicity for the rest of the month and then actually next month we're gonna be talking about allergies as well so so I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you next week