 Today's episode of the Anthony Anderson show is brought to you by SunWarrior, sunwarrior.com and Mt. Gox, that's mtgox.com Greetings everyone, this is Anthony Anderson coming at you live from New York City and we're here today with a really special guest Her name is Andrea Cox and she is a raw food coach health strategist and a former fitness model Welcome Andrea. How are you? I'm great. Thank you for having me. Thanks so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate it. This is great My pleasure. So you have been you've been in the modeling world You're really well known now. How did you get into conscious eating and and like the whole foods lifestyle the raw food lifestyle? How did that all come about? Well, I was a I actually started out as a pin-up girl before I was a fitness model very young 20 and did that for a few years and then went over to fitness and Grace the cover of over 60 magazines. I got into conscious eating and You know organic and local and things things of that nature because I got very sick eating a high protein diet. I I had a blockage It was it was probably the worst time in my life. I was 28 years old and Just could not get up and down the stairs couldn't work out like I was doing and kind of an autoimmune thing and So that it was that that's what drove you into this lifestyle. So how did you first hear about raw foods? Well, I was reading a raw food book and the author lived in New York and I don't really want to bring up the name because I don't believe in what she has To say now now that I have the knowledge I do because she's kind of a you know You're a hundred percent or you're not not yes And I believe more and no percentages and just listening to your body But my mother actually suggested I fly out to meet her And so I did I flew out to Manhattan and I soon found out that it was her colon hydro therapist That had all the answers and So I went and had a session with him and it was amazing and Basically everything I learned about food I learned from him. He's a plethora of knowledge So after that I came back and I'll tell you what it was overnight. I didn't do a transition I didn't do You know graduating down I cut all animal products out of my diet and I quit cooking my food and I like to call that a section of my life raw done wrong Anthony because It was just a mess. It was a it was a mess I was you know Juicing things like broccoli and eating a lot of things raw that really don't digest well and The gas factor was high back in those days Yes, were you doing a lot of salads as well? Was there a lot of fiber in that diet? You know, I always had done salads one thing I didn't do as a fitness model and a model I I would not touch fruit or any type of sugar. I was miss anti sugar for years I I wouldn't even eat an apple um When I went raw and this is a true story I mean, I actually had to have a friend come over to kind of help me get over that The first time I ate fruit now. I eat fruit every day. It's it's not a big deal to me. I don't um subscribe to the low fat or the you know fruitarian or the either one I I I or the high fat I don't prescribe to either of those notions. I honestly Eat high fat. I eat a lot of fruit. It kind of goes back and forth depending how I feel by the day What is your diet style like at the moment? What are you currently? What what's it like? What's the style? Well, I You know, I think we talked about before as a fitness model. I had an eating disorder I had bulimia for years and um, I really healed myself on a raw vegan diet Uh, you know, I adhere to a principle like I said earlier. I'm not You know high fruit. I'm not high fat. I'm not low fat I really prescribed to the andria cox listen to your body diet And that's basically just assessing how I feel when I wake up in the morning with everything I do um, I'm finding it it has So little to do with what we eat and it's more now about, you know, our relationships with others and and You know exercise plays a role and in sun and getting your vitamin d and So diet is a very small part of it. You know, I'll generally have a green juice I'm a huge proponent of vegetable juice. I've not missed a day of juicing in eight years Um, so I'll have a big juice like 32 ounces. Sometimes I'll have like chlorella or whatever Okay, um today I you know for you know, skip the juice and did a ton of suppotes and um I might have a juice later in a big avocado salad. It all depends on how I feel I definitely eat fat. I definitely eat a lot of sugar with fruit. Okay. And um, yeah And what would you like to put in your green juices usually? What what's the mix? Oh, gosh, you know, it varies. I'm big into medicinal herbs like nettles stinging nettles I mean, you can just pop those right in the juicer. That's personally personally, it's amazing for um, it's so high in omega threes So it's amazing for inflammation. So is turmeric I do, you know, base of cucumber and celery and, you know, put a lemon to cut the green kale beat You know, beet greens great for the liver Parsley great for, you know, a good diuretic cilantro is a great key later Um, so I'm big into the herbs. Very cool. Very cool. Not just in a lot of fruit here I mean, occasionally part of an apple baby, um, you know, lemons, limes, I'm not into uh, I will do watermelon juice If I feel like I need to cleanse Okay, will you juice the entire watermelon or just the inside? Who are you talking to, Anthony? Absolutely. I'll juice that whole watermelon. The rind the rind has so many Nutrients it's high in chlorophyll. Absolutely Are there certain juicers that you would recommend to the audience? The green star is my uh, favorite. Um, yeah, I would say the the green star Okay And I've been working on a juicing book now for the past year where I've recorded all my recipes people kept emailing me Um, after I wrote Rolicious recipes my uncooked book and they said, you know, would you work on a juice book? A smoothie book, but I'm really not into the smoothies I'm into the juices the herbal teas the elixirs and the soups not really a smoothie girl. Yeah. Yeah Well, I have to say you look really radiant. Your skin looks great. Your hair looks great Have you noticed a change with the diet? I mean you were modeling What when you were in your 20s as well and now that you're in your early 30s Have you noticed that I feel like you're looking better than you did when you were in your early 20s Well, you know, if I was there, I'd give you a big kiss and I I feel the same way about you. Um, but I'm not You know, I have noticed a difference. I had horrible acne the whole time I was in high school and as a model I had Terrible cystic acne my skin is amazing now. Um, I've had nothing done to my face No Botox no anything and my skin is really the best it's ever been Um, my hair and this is a true story when I was a fitness model I wore hair extensions for years and this is all my hair It's my beautiful hair and I literally have to get my hair cut at least every three weeks because it grows so fast The same with my fingernails. So I really think um, it's a combination of diet and juicing But the herbs I take the Chinese herbs. Um, I prefer dragon herbs are a huge part of my regime And what would be some favorite ones from that line that you like to? Hoshu Wu, I mean, there's your hair growth right there. Hoshu Wu will Will grow your hair and turn your hair from gray to it's natural color or whatever Um, I like pearl powder for skin. It's it's a beauty It's a beauty herb Yeah, gynastema. Okay proponent of gynastema And with the um, and so yeah with the pearl you're putting that topically on your skin. You're not ingesting it or both No, I'm ingesting it. Oh, okay. I'm ingesting it. Okay. Very cool. I don't put anything on on my skin I mean I make up on today because I was gonna see you. Um, but But um, I don't put I don't put anything on my skin makeup as far as you know, when I go work out or when I run on the beach or whatever Um, I like to actually I live right in front of the ocean So I like to go and wash my face with the ocean water I do use a kengen water system as well. Um and clustered water I also use clustered water so I saw a news piece that you were on and you were telling him about grounding the grounding technology And how long have you been doing that? When did you first hear about that kind of stuff? You know, I first heard about it From david wolf years ago and you I heard you say it um one time I don't remember. I think it was a video clip before I moved to california And so in ohio, I'm a you know native ohioan and I just moved to california a year ago I used to go in the winter stand in the snow or in the summer I'd stand in the grass and try to ground myself that way not on the concrete not on the carpet But you know on real ground and now I just walk across the street and stand on the beach Yeah, that's awesome Yeah, so you've been working with young women with eating disorders. Have you I what's the experience with that like are they really are they open to the ideas of the juicing and the raw foods Or is it is it a little bit more difficult with the younger crowd? well, um The one thing about eating disorders. It doesn't just there's no age discrimination there A lot of women I work with are older A lot of them are are young that have eating disorders And you'll find that women with eating disorders They have such a vast knowledge of nutrition because they read so much about it because they want to get well I think the first thing I would tell any woman and in yes, they are open to juicing and And eating raw living foods The first thing I would tell any woman that's struggling with an eating disorder two things number one have their zinc levels checked Low zinc is such a sign Of binge eating bulimia anorexia low zinc is is what anyone will tell you and number two I try to teach women that they don't cut calories. They don't count carbs. They don't You know watch their sugar they can eat abundantly of living foods To get their bodies back in balance. Don't watch the portions in the beginning I didn't and I still don't I mean I've been been raw for seven going on eight years now And I never look at portion sizes. I mean Big huge shallots should be the norm. It's fine to do, you know, it's okay If you're sitting down to a raw meal and these women are so Um Corroded in the mind from all these images that have been airbrushed. I mean as you know being a model I mean I remember being airbrushed one time in my eyes They had my eyes brown and my eyes are green. So I mean women are so You know jaded by these images and you know in low carb and stuff cut the fat and it's nonsense Yeah, yeah You're also a large proponent of colon hydrotherapy What would you um, how how would you recommend someone get into that? I think a lot of people are kind of scared at first or almost maybe ashamed because Just the art culture and all that kind of stuff. It kind of scares people but What would you say to someone that's looking to get into it? Would you say once a week once a month? Maybe like a few days in a row do some enemas at home go to a professional I'm gonna get slam for this. I know the emails, you know, just let them come Uh I honestly am a huge cheerleader for colon hydrotherapy. I would put it on a bumper sticker if I had one Um, I think when you first start out, especially transitioning on the raw Um once a week is fun. My own personal opinion. You do have to watch your flora I mean you can wash all your good bacteria out. Yes, but we are so Toxic right now. I mean from what we inhale to you know What we're eating what's on our food to everything. I we're so toxic that to just Do it even doing it once a month is beneficial um I really feel like I didn't start absorbing food until I started getting colon hydrotherapy and I don't have to Do it as much now, you know, I mean once a month is fine once every three months is great But I would say you know test practitioners Because you really need a good colon hydrotherapist I think I have the best one in the world But if you don't go to a good therapist, you can get a bad view of colonics Yeah, are there any that you'd like to recommend? I mean maybe the person in new york or the person in california that you're working with Any plugs you'd like to make? um If okay, I'll tell you what dana Um with refresh yourself in san diego She is amazing She would be my pick for san diego. Definitely in ohio. It would be um Betro buck In new york, it would be guilt jacob's That would be it that those would be my recommendations because I've had colonics where I've not um really resonated with the therapist You really have to go to a therapist who knows about nutrition Knows about food can assess what's coming out and and you know, I really think humic and folvic acids are a huge Huge part of um the whole cleansing process. Ah interesting. Okay. We'll get right back to that I really want to talk about those especially Let's do a quick little sponsor break and we'll talk about Our lovely sponsors and the first one would be sunwarrior and that's sunwarrior.com Well-known superfood company. They offer rice proteins really nice green powder Actually, folvic acids a lot of really good stuff They're actually coming out with the warrior blend in I would say about two weeks And that's a blend of three different things. It's the full spectrum of amino acids I'm a huge fan of sunwarrior protein. 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I like to call it You know that I don't push humic and folvic acids on anyone At least not in the beginning nor do I push colonics on anyone. It's really you know about listening to your body But I really didn't get the results until I started Cleaning my system out with humic and folvic acids. Um, I Then developed my own products that are in a base of humic and folvic acids with over 400 Ayurvedic herbs medicinal mushrooms and um, I use those on a daily basis prior to my meals Great great. How long have you had that line? It's been about a year and a half And um, it's it's doing great. I sell them in one pound tubs And it's my breakfast formula my p.m. Formula and I do anywhere from three to six tablespoons Mixed in a little coconut water or coconut oil Uh with a little stevia or honey in it and it tastes like amazing And um, I love it. Yeah, it's great great for hormone balancing. There's nettles. There's alfalfa in there There's hoshu woo medicinal mushrooms humic and folvic acids. I also like ulmaca I do like ulmaca health. They've sent me some products and I like their products as well. Okay, okay, great um Yes, oh, okay. Have you um experience. Do you have a shower filter as well? You know and what's up? What's up with that because I know they have a shower filter omica does Oh, really? Yeah, he told me about that raffi told me about that Um, you actually told me about the shower filter in in ohio. I had a reverse osmosis system and here in california I don't and we have the worst water in san diego. So i'm gonna get on the shot a shower filter I do use kengen water Okay to think but i'm gonna get on that Yeah, I think a shower filter is really one of the the first the first things I recommend for people just because of the steam and everything um Yeah, personally, I went through a needing disorder as well And it happened when I actually got into raw food because there was such a disconnect from what I was reading and what I was still craving And so I was Belemic for about a year and I really didn't tell people until maybe about a year ago because I was kind of Kind of ashamed about it and I was you know telling people You know all this stuff and I it was actually bulimic for a time And I felt like I just kind of wanted to maybe bury that story a little bit Have you come across any young men that are bulimic? Absolutely. Um, I've had several people who have contacted me that are male That and thank you for sharing that by the way because most people don't Um that have had bulimia anorexia binge eating disorder bed. That's a big one Um, yeah, that's what it was for me Yeah, you know, I treated all the same first thing the zinc second thing. I mean, you know Really addressing the emotional aspect of it because a lot of times when we're stuffing it in We're really stuffing down our feelings and I'm sure you're familiar with that So I mean our issues Lodge and our tissues, you know, when you when you that's why I'm such a big proponent of colon hydrotherapy when you clean all that out You're cleaning a lot of emotional toxicity out with that. It's not just the you know The Last week's lunch, you know, it's uh, there's a lot of emotional things that they get bound up as well So, yeah, it goes deep. Do you ever do enemas at home? Of course, okay. You're so transparent. It's awesome come for a week's day I'm such a coffee enema and you know, not all the time you can do too many coffee enemas, but I've experimented recently a lot with um, amino acid enemas. Those are kind of big now and um, especially being Vegan, you know, it's it's hard to cross all your teas and dot your eyes Mm-hmm. Do you have any events coming up? Like are you do you plan in I know you do some public speaking? Is anything going on in southern california coming up? Um, are you traveling around the states? Yes, I'm um, I'm going to start putting on classes at the harvard cooking school in la joya Um, our harvard girl cooking school in la joya. So i'm excited about that BB the owner i'm working with her to put on classes my first one is saturday october 1st from 2 to 4 and um, space is limited so Um, i'm doing that i'm working on getting my second book. I have one book i've written already ralicious recipes My second book juicing for beauty is coming out. I'm excited about that And then i'm working on a second dvd series. I did a dvd series a few years ago And you know the recipes and the juices were great in the series, but it's really not what I represent today Um, so I start shooting that next week and i'm really excited about that So you have you noticed an evolution in your in your raw food diet from when obviously when you started you were doing like The gassy cruciferous stuff and so since that time Have you noticed the change obviously? I mean i'm sure this has happened But can you share with us the evolution that you've experienced in the past five years? You know the number one tip Comes from my mother who I would call her endlessly the first two years. I was raw and oh my gosh What do I do and I don't know what to eat and this gives me gas and my mom Who's not in raw food if she knows more about raw food than anyone on the planet now because of me And she always said listen to your body And and that's what I do because we can get so wrapped up and all there's a lot of people putting videos out there now Giving advice that you know some of them know you know a little bit and some of them don't let's be honest here, so You know you you can get really caught up in watching other people's videos and things like that and You know saying oh well so-and-so does a 40 day juice bath. So i'm gonna do it or so-and-so's you know uh You know works out on an empty stomach So i'm gonna do it or so-and-so won't eat fruit or so-and-so cuts the fat And you know you really have to listen to how you feel because if you're cutting fat And you know your your brain's not functioning right tune into that or if you're you know Cutting fruit because you think it's candida or causes candida or whatever And you're not feeling like you have any energy tune into that Has the right answer You know we all have the right answer within our hearts and I think you have to align yourself spiritually too I mean, you know in my world It's god first family and friends second career third and that's my motto. Yeah. Yeah So on the other side of the coin, um, how about exercise? What do you do to stay in shape besides the the healthy diet? I'm so glad you asked that anthony That has changed a lot over the years I used to really beat myself up and I had a running coach in the morning on an empty stomach for an hour And lift weights for an hour and a half, you know, I worked as a fragrance model During the day at sacks with avenue and nemans and I Right after go to the gym for an hour and a half. It was horrible. I had no energy I looked old in the face. It was awful Um, but now I get up. I'll jump on my rebounder I'll um get my infrared sauna for 20 or 30 minutes I'll do a chi machine anything to move the lymphatic system because it's all about getting the lymph system moving I only work out for about 30 or 45 minutes a day. I take off one to two days a week Um, I you know, I'm getting to the point now And you know just recently where I really want to be around people instead of It all being about my workout schedule my eating and my juicing. I really want to be around people. So Um workouts have taken a back seat. However, I think they're very important I think we have to move our body even if it's just getting out and taking a walk every single day And you can tell you can tell a difference So I mean once you're moving around and I remember when I go back home to visit family and I'm not moving so much My knees start to get a little stiff and it's like when you're in that routine of movement and you stop You can really feel it the body speaking Well, I mean you have a great physique and and I mean I've seen some of your videos of you working out and It's impressive quite frankly. I mean the the crunches and things like that I think women and men are different too in what they need I actually feel that men need even a little more movement than women And the only reason you know as far as weight-bearing exercises But I think it's important for women too because we've got to build that bone mass, especially as we start to age It's really important. Um, however, I I really feel like every day when you get up First thing in the morning 30 to 45 minutes if that's what feels right to you Is great, but we don't need to be pushing it for an hour and a half two hours three hours You know, I mean It's nonsense Yeah, I think and I think when someone sets it up like that How long are they really going to stick with it? You know, I think a method like yours It's so much easier to stick with that routine and then see the long-term results I agree. Yeah Are there any books that you've been reading recently that you'd like to recommend to the audience? Um, you know what? Yeah, there there is um I don't want to get up Sure We you know two of them would be I think the one's called train your brain. Okay, and um Hang on. Yeah, no problem. No problem Um, let me see for me. What have I been reading? Oh, I've read a reading a book recently called smile Exclamation point the secret science of smiling by a land sun star. It's called smile with an apostrophe Check that out. It's amazing changing my life like smiling if you walk on the street smiling It's like you're in a bubble of blue light all of a sudden and like things start coming to you. Anyway, sorry Okay, you're back. That's okay One book it's in my infrared sauna right now. Um, so I can't get it, but um, it's uh, beth more Don't be put off. It's called praying god's word a friend gave it to me years ago and it just has um Little prayers in it from when you're struggling with things decision-making things like that that you can go to so I like that I love evolve your brain I love this book great very good Very helpful Louise hey, you can heal your life. I have my little Markers in there. Uh big thumbs up That's awesome. Uh This is my food bible arnold errant the mucous diet system. Uh-huh We love you arnold And then this one's really good Michael poland food rules and I like it because it's just it has Simple things like buy your snacks at the farmers market. Yeah, you know Just every every page is a different, you know, if it came from a plant eat it if it was made in a plant Don't we love that. Yeah, that's great. I don't love that So, um, can you tell the audience how to get a hold of you online like facebook your website? Anything that they want like youtube it's up to you Um, I have three websites. The main one is the healthy haven dot net It's the healthy haven dot net. I also have alkalis with andrea Um, occasionally I run juice fasting retreats and raw food retreats I've got coming up in january that i'm very excited about that'll be a five-day retreat and where will that be? That'll be in southern california. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that that's really, um, booking up fast So I would ask people to email me at andrea at the healthy haven dot net Or on facebook, um, I think i'm almost to my cutoff, but it's andrea l cox And um, yeah, that's basically it. Great. Great. Well, I want to thank you for coming on the show I think a lot people are going to get a lot from this because Super inspirational. It's good to see a real radiant young woman talking about this stuff because it really it gets people Tuned in and they can just see the results. So I really want to say thank you for coming on the show And it's it's been a real honor like sharing your story here Well, it's an honor. I I look up to you like so many I think men and women do I mean, you've been such an inspiration in so many people's lives including mine. Oh, thanks. You're Likewise likewise. Um, all right. Well, thanks so much and I'll see you online and hopefully we'll see you in southern california pretty soon I hope so. Take care. Bye. Bye. Bye. Thanks. Thank you All right everyone that is episode 12 for the anthony anderson show Thank you for tuning in and remember to check her out at the healthy haven dot net It's a really great website a lot of cool books a lot of good resources You'll learn a lot. So my name is anthony anderson and this is the anthony anderson show and we will see you next time Take care. Peace