 So someone who has say hormonal acne and they like because I've had a few people come to me and they've asked you know like what do you do for hormonal acne because I know that people can't dairy, can't gluten and they said it hasn't worked yeah I'm also like I know cleaning up your diet can help but I was like where would you start with that if you had like cellulite because I know it affects 80% of women yeah but a lot of people say like if you lose weight it can help go away but who often finds it's still there is there a way to help with that? Um is that for uh what's interesting with with cellulite there's a level of so your fat cells actually getting pushed through like a netting like a matrix right so that's what actually what's creating that like pitted look and there's different levels of cellulite too so how do we know if our gut is inflamed and or if we're suffering from leaky gut okay that's a good question so Hey guys today I'll be joined by Dee in this video I'm so excited so just a little background on her now I actually met Dee at an empower you speaking event where she speaks on nutrition and health and I saw her speak there and I'm just absolutely loved and just resonated with all the content that she was sharing and I just wanted to have her on my channel to share some awesome holistic and natural health tips with you guys now Dee's a huge believer in reaching your own full potential for almost 10 years she's used nutrition training and lifestyle changes to help people up level their health and mindset she's also a qualified nutritionist and personal trainer and she studied for three years of a double degree in psych and business at uni and she's now to a motivational and mindset speaker for teens and young adults through the Australian empower you program which is where I met her work like I talked about before that's where I saw her speak at one day events she's traveled the world being exposed to the wellness and beauty trends of many countries through her adventures of being a three-time national beauty pageant winner and has since continued to study nutrition exercise and mindset and how the three interrelate she's combined her knowledge into a super easy to understand online course which you can find through her website sultasoul.com.au and I'll link that in the description below if you guys want to check her out I'll also link her instagram and her youtube channel down in the description below she's only recently started up a youtube channel and she has some awesome videos in there which I highly recommend so if you do want to check them out I rate them so high they're really good and last but not least she is now our mother which is her favorite title of all so I can't wait to share my interview with you all with Dee I had so much fun it was honestly such an amazing experience I learned a lot and I hope you guys do too so without further ado let's get straight into the interview my first question is why is it recommended that we cut gluten and dairy out of our diet so what do they do with the body like in the body so both gluten and dairy for like kind of they have different processes different pathways in the body of the effect but both of them are like really inflammatory yeah and so chronic is kind of a new word in terms of like you know diseases and and issues going on with people at the moment and basically what chronic means is that inflammation as a process which needs to happen has happened but then it hasn't been resolved so it's kind of like two sides to inflammation you get inflamed and then your body resolves that inflammation but with chronic diseases there's an underlying continuation of just the inflammatory side of things we know this is the inflammation response but really all it means is that your body stays inflammatory and it doesn't resolve so then you get like tissue damage and like things and cells and organs and tissues continue to kind of get damaged and deteriorate and like adapt like maladapt like in a negative way um and dairy and gluten especially because they're food with food it's like you're having it so frequently that it can make such a big impact just people don't really I guess realize yeah realize and I might respect the power of food yeah so if you're having it in your diet you know as something that you have normally chances are you're gonna have it at least a few times a week like if you think about the amount of weeks that you're living over a period of time like you're adding a lot your inflammatory burden overall so it builds up over time totally and the thing with dairy that's like sort of specific to dairy is that there's a few different like proteins like you know casein and like that kind of stuff that can create um can sort of trigger like igf1 which is a growth hormone in your body and so when you think of growths that can be related to like you know kind like cancerous like growth like estrogen growths or like fibroids endometriosis things that create inflammation and create growth so like um dairy has been linked to stuff like that and stuff like acne also dairy for a lot of people is hard to tolerate because there's a school of thought about lactose which is the sugar in milk which we as human beings as we grow up and don't breast milk anymore like technically we shouldn't need the enzyme that breaks that down so it fades away yeah it does it does oh wow you can build a tolerance back up to it by like starting to introduce dairy but because it's so inflammatory and because you're also receiving the hormones from a cow or a goat or whatever it is that's also those hormones and then also interacting with your hormones so that's another reason why dairy is kind of an issue so there's a whole there's like all these layers because I've had some people say like raw dairy you know like the untouched unpasteurized what do you think of that look I don't I don't know like if it's less processed I guess it's better um because it's just because it's less processed so it's more nutrient dense more like how nature had it intended um so I get that school of thought but you know that also has a lot of bacteria in it as well so you've got to be really cautious of that and that's why it's usually homogenized pasteurized lots of stuff but then by the time it gets to us in the grocery store it's no good for us anyway it's basically yeah it's like just kind of like sugar very little nutrients left in it hormones from the cows which we know like you know animals get pumped with hormones and we know animals are having antibiotics all the time and if those animals are commercial animals so it's like cold and noisy you're getting your milk from then those commercial animals generally don't live that great lives and so you can imagine like anything that that animal produces is not going to be of a good quality so again if you're assimilating that poor quality to your body it makes your body less healthy and you know your quality of life decreases because you're putting poor quality foods and beverages into you that's fair and then with gluten there's one thing I'll say about gluten with gluten there's a lot of studies that have been done on um how gluten increases the leakiness of guts I've heard that yeah and and it's it's across the board even for people who don't have gluten sensitivity gluten has kind of like the the largest effect of the largest influence on making people's guts leaky and it makes people's um guts leaky across the board like even if you don't react so why is that look I don't know like is it the inflammatory response is that what's causing it is it is but there's but I can't remember exactly where I saw it but I remember saying something about gluten being similar to a different kind of chemical as well which also like and this is just one aspect of like crops you know and grains um gluten being like an issue but but when it comes to specifically gluten yeah it just seems to like it seems to make the intestines more permeable and for people who can't recover well or don't have good recoverability which is again like that kind of resolution sort of phase that's talking about before that's your body's ability to recover if your body's not good at that anyways then having gluten is just going to kind of exacerbate and keep triggering an inflammatory response and like most people aren't good at recovering and most people aren't good at that resolution phase and most people are walking around chronically inflamed as it is and so that's why it's more of an issue now than like for our parents and our parents parents because like my dad says to me all the time like well I've had that in my day and I'm fine yeah and you're like no I'll give them different lives I also heard that like it's because our crops have more gluten in them than they did back in the ancient days because they said we genetically modified dwarf wheat to be more resistant but now it's become higher gluten whereas things like um that's like ancient grains um and things like that can't think of the grains in my head right now but like they don't have as high a gluten like ratio because we haven't dabbled with them as much yeah I mean that would make perfect sense I mean we've done a lot of bad stuff which genetically modified yeah crops and stuff like that so interesting do you have any other foods that you'd say also cause information like not just dairy and gluten sugar sugar is another one do you have yeah and sugar for like so many reasons but it has a direct correlation with insulin so like the more sugary well processed foods also could be a separate category as well but the more processed something is the less nutrients it has and the more or the faster it becomes energy in our body okay now sometimes we need fast energy like Gatorades or those gels where they're running marathons they need fast energy but the average person doesn't mean fast energy you know we're not under that amount of intense demand that we need that kind of fast energy but processed foods and sugary foods are that kind of fast energy like too fast for us to be able to burn it off or to use that energy that it's giving us and so therefore it becomes stored in um you know fat cells where it shouldn't be but also we'll get stored in muscle cells where it should go okay but because there's so much sugar at one time and it's so fast to become you know to sort of break down in our body and need to be put somewhere because that's insulin's role yeah to put the sugar into like out of the blood because it's sort of dangerous to be in the blood it means that insulin gets really high and insulin is inflammatory so then that kind of perpetuates the whole inflammatory response so insulin actually inflames the body to be like when it delivers sugar why would it do that so because it has a again a relationship with like different growth factors in the body it will you know hormones are communicators so hormones will tell the rest of the body okay we need to do this to accommodate for whatever's happening and so the decisions you make with what you put in your mouth is going to determine what that communication looks like down the line yeah it's really it's really interesting oh well i learned this stuff so much so that i can have a really generalized basic easy view but yeah it's like i think that's the hardest bit is to like learn and then to like interpret it in like an easy way 100% because it can be something's can be really complicated like wow how do i wrap my head around my head is it true that sugar is more addictive than cocaine and and what happens if we consume too much of it in our diet through only sweet foods not through only just sweet foods but through carbs as well because i heard carbs get broken down to glucose which is the sugar yeah and so i was that was going to lead me on to is it because with keto that's more high fat and they're saying having too many carbs can be quite inflammatory yeah and again it depends on you feel here the average person these days the average person has all of these process foods available to them and healthy foods are a bit boring because they've got all these cool new foods that they get to try you know which researchers and scientists have sat there per company per product to figure out what's the way that they can make it tastiest to make you buy more you know it's all about taste when it comes to what you're buying in the supermarket unless it's real food um you know we sort of touched on why sugar is not so great um you know because it perpetuates an inflammatory response it's fast it's it's kind of like it's just excessive we don't need that level of sugar and the way that nature packages things is it'll have sugar and it'll have fiber and it'll have the nutrients as well that we need to sort of transport the sugar around whereas when you're taking all of the nutrients out and you're just kind of putting just carbs or just sugar in yeah or mostly carbs and mostly sugar in your body can't it needs all of those other three macro nutrients proteins fats and carbohydrates to work together it also needs the other micro nutrients in there that we would normally get the vitamins the minerals and the other plant chemicals or phytochemicals which we're not getting because we're just taking one aspect pulling that out and then just making it really like tasty for people it's like people just shut for tasty say which is why things are so pumped with sugar and as well the more sugar we have the more sugar we crave as it's like you know to do with the insulin spike um because you know the more sugar you have the more insulin you have to have to push that sugar out of the blood where it shouldn't be going in the muscle cells but where it often goes is the muscle cells and fat cells the stored in the body it gets stored in the body um and you know that's a clever response from our body saying well i've got extra if i go through a famine i better put it somewhere in case i need it that's smart yeah it's just a survival mechanism but we kind of we've pushed it too far and so that's where it's become a problem and because our taste changes we become really desensitized to sugar so we just need bucket loads more sugar to even have something taste sweet that's why like you know it actually takes i think the turnover of your of your tongue cells and your taste buds is like i think it's like two weeks to 30 days i'll just like completely like reset the yeah to like to sort of start again almost so yeah so it's like if you're continuously always eating really sugary foods you're never going to get to that point where you eat a piece of fruit and like oh that's satisfying enough that's sweet enough you know did you like i mean nothing in that totally and this is why like if you if you persist long enough healthy foods become so much more tasty so we like get past the 30 day mark and you just really reduce would you have to cut out fruit as well like really sweet fruit it depends for some people who have like real issues with insulin sometimes it's helpful to do that just to get there faster okay but if you're doing it in a sustainable but sustainable way there's nothing wrong with fruit fruit is amazing okay i'm very good for you um but yeah it is higher in sugar but if you really wanted to go like all out and go extreme to just get yourself to the point where you you know especially like for the insulin resistance or type 2 diabetics and stuff like that um or people with pre-diabetes to just really get you over the line faster it's easier to cut out fruit for a period of time or just have less oh interesting there was a part another part to your question i was like um so is it true that sugar is more than cocaine okay so that to that part of the question um there have been studies in rats um where um rats will like they've this is just like a rudimentary reflection of the studies but i just do remember reading about a study that was like they had rats had two levers they had sugar and they had cocaine and they were pressing the sugar more and more and more which is crazy like you would think cocaine would be more addictive but the the interesting thing as well with um sugar is again you're building up the tolerance to it and it's accessible and it's in everything and it's not regulated so in my opinion it's more addictive because cocaine you can't really get it that easily right um it's much more expensive um so you know sugar you hear a dollar you hear a bunch of lollies you know what i mean so it's like in everything we eat now everything so i guess it that's why it's so addictive because they're pumping our brain with it yeah exactly and i was i was watching um a TED talk about a sugar scientist who was saying that 70 percent of the average grocery store has added sugars like just added sugars not real sugars added sugars and it's foods that aren't even sweet really like they're just savory food brands or like yeah yeah to make it a different yeah and like when you think about it anything you buy in the supermarket it's a business selling their product they want it to be the best that it can possibly be they want you to be a return customer they want it to be tasty because taste will make you choose their product over another that's so true you know until like the recent kind of health evolution where people like you know i don't care if that tastes better that's better for my health we're only dealing with that now because we realize just have that we've been in the past you know with all these health problems popping up now that might be one of the causes of diabetes and obesity at the moment is because like with all this sugar our cells now becoming insulin resistant and dispensatized from all this and also PCOS polycystic ovarian syndrome oh is that from yeah that's driven by an insulin an insulin desensitization oh wow yeah where your muscles become insulin resistant so like you're you're um you've just basically got so many either carbs or sugars um that you've gotten to that point where your insulin's so out of whack and it doesn't you the interesting thing is that you're you could get blood tests and your insulin is not even that high but it's the insulin and then it's relation to the testosterone which then creates PCOS and then and then once you get PCOS diagnosis it's just like a it's just a slippery slope after that because then you know then you might think that you're estrogen dominant but then on a blood test you don't look estrogen dominant it's not there's not a lot of estrogen in your blood but you could be gaining weight and then you know uh it's like a whole yeah so really just cascade your hormones out of balance it does oh because it like has a knock on effect like one hormone has a knock on effect with another hormone with another hormone with another hormone insulin is a hormone testosterone estrogen progesterone there are hormones oh i see so how do we know if our gut is inflamed and or if we're suffering from leaky gut okay that's a good question so leaky gut and leaky brain are the same thing leaky brain yeah leaky brain so that's why mental or like brain function issues can be symptoms of leaky gut oh wow so to start with like symptoms of leaky gut which is also leaky brain can be like mental fog trouble focusing issues with energy issues with like neurochemicals as well so like you might be you know feeling depressed or anxious which are you know those are largely regulated by brain chemicals um but obviously the brain and the gut have such a strong connection so there's that you know there could be those things like you could be experienced kind of like when things are unexplained but you're still having these notable symptoms that a lot of the time can be leaky gut if you're stressed uh that's usually an indication that leaky gut is much you know you're much more likely to develop leaky gut oh wow um hormonal issues can be leaky gut skin issues is a huge one oh so like acne and acnes acnes psoriasis um eczema is a huge one really eczema is a really that's a real telltale sign but things like even like migraines fatigue i mean any any autoimmune conditions as well so if you have i mean look eczema is kind of an autoimmune condition um psoriasis is but like even things like Hashimoto's grades disease um those kind of things where your body creates antibodies to things that it shouldn't be creating antibodies to those are also autoimmune conditions and autoimmune conditions are a symptom of leaky gut because you can once you heal the leaky gut you can stop all those symptoms from occurring oh so you have to go to the root cause totally tested like totally treat all these different symptoms from it because the problem with leaky gut is that um is what you're doing is you're you're creating like the bag let's say that this small intestine is like a bag it's not because it's like a really long tube but let's just say it's like a bag a little toe bag no let's say it's like a bag when you have holes in that bag anything that's inside there is going to then leak out into the blood so that's bacteria like bad bacteria is um environmental toxins and then food molecules that are too big and shouldn't be absorbed yet so like you're instead of like breaking down your food and then getting just the nutrients from that food and the nutrients are the things that go into the blood because you know how you can get like like blood tests of like what's my vitamin D was my vitamin b12 blah blah that's when the nutrients seep out into the blood but what you're getting is entire food molecules seeping out into the blood oh like under justin exactly and that is how like you know in my clinic that's how i can tell that people have had leaky gut before or do have leaky gut because i can do a food sensitivity test with their measuring um their immune system's ig g's so it's an immune cell okay um but i can see is there a footprint of food having entered the blood before and therefore the body has mounted an immune response to that which i can test by just doing like i'll just do a blood sample for people and then i can see does this person's blood have has their immune system or their immune cells developed a response an attack looking for this particular food and that's the way i can tell oh okay well if it's if it's looking for egg egg must have been in the blood before therefore they must have had leaky gut so once you've got like antibodies for these foods does that mean if you do heal the leaky gut will that go away eventually okay eventually oh gosh yeah that's crazy i know it's not cool yeah doesn't mean that you can find that through the blood test yeah even if they've healed it yeah you can see from before and there are other tests you can get like things like zonulin will tell you if you currently have leaky gut um which is not what you get on a like a food sensitivity test necessarily unless you ask for zonulin but zonulin is and don't ask me how i think it's something to do with when the tight junctions of the small intestine actually separate i think that they might kind of leach off these like little zonulin okay yeah like zonulin and then if your zonulin levels are high that can indicate that the cells are leaky and there's lots of holes that's interesting between the cells yeah i'm kind of curious to see what i have like yeah yeah so how do we heal the gut and reduce inflammation like what's inflammation yeah inflammation yes i've got foods would you recommend consuming for that yeah so to just to just set the steps sort of before that question i think is when you have leaky gut it can create inflammation in your body because you get immune cells again kind of like malfunctioning not that they're malfunctioning but they're just responding to something they don't need to respond to like your body shouldn't need to respond to food chemicals yeah you shouldn't have an antibody response to food to foods yeah because that that process should be contained in that bag there should be nothing getting out of the blood before it's ready to so that's what's leading to inflammation the IgG the cells the immune cells and the food they kind of create this like disastrous little chemical that when it gets around into the body through the blood it then can create inflammation wherever it kind of lands oh really yeah like an endotoxin kind of yeah yeah like that um oh well i guess it's yeah i mean it becomes an endotoxin i guess because like endogenous means like it's from us um but yeah it kind of creates this like toxic compound that then if say that gets say that has an affinity for our shoulder and then we get shoulder joint pain or something like that yeah um so that that's how the inflammation is created because then our body has this response has something that it's trying to find that it doesn't necessarily need to be it shouldn't really be doing that so how we heal leaky gut and it has to always really be like a really kind of targeted approach is um there's a few things so you need to basically just up the nutrients that your body needs okay to glue up the holes and a really important one a really important nutrient which is an amino acid is glutamine and the way that i always remembered it was like glue the holes glutamine oh that's so clever yeah which we use up like we use up a lot of glutamine um when we exercise and we walk you know as we're moving as we're using our muscles we use up a lot of glutamine um but it it also helps to line our stomach and create that like you know that lining of the stomach and um help to plug those holes up so so glutamine's an important one zinc is really important because it's very important for the like kind of regulating the immune system response um vitamin a is really important but then also like there's that and then there's also eating pre-biotic foods to help the gut cells stay healthy enough to keep to stay tight um because you've also then got this like mucous layer like inside the bag you've got like another bag which is like a mucous layer and when that mucous layer is really like intact it's kind of like your like your sort of first defense against um breaking the wall open so like your body has to sort of degrade the mucous layer to then get to the cells to then break those cells apart but if your body has is like has really high levels of prebiotics which are like you know um starchy foods and all that all that sort of stuff good level of prebiotics then you're feeding those gut cells and the gut cells are able to make this really strong mucous barrier to protect your cells from becoming leaky so prebiotic would be more important than probiotic foods or things like that at first definitely yeah because like you could have all the probiotics that you want if you still got leaky gut it's not fixing the problem you're just adding to a pool of um swimmers in the bag you know like you're just adding more swimmers in in the little pool of you know I think it's going well yeah sure um yeah so like I've been yeah if you imagine it like a pool so like the water is like the lumen which is like inside it's like the the sticky substances with all the stuff um and then you have like a bunch of swimmers the swimmers or the people in the pool are all like the the bacterias and so when you're having probiotics you're trying to populate your gut with like better swimmers stronger swimmers and they sort of like knock out the weak swimmers or the bad swimmers that are creating pollution in the pool um which is your bad bacteria um however if you've still got the holes in in the bag or the holes in the pool so now I go switching metaphor um then you're still going to be leaking water out of the pool which is then going to be detrimental so you know you still you you've got a I think in terms of what's the first um you know part of the protocol you definitely have to glue that up first make sure that you're protecting the blood from all these kind of toxic junky dirty you know substances that are going to just create inflammation chronic inflammation and then then look at you know changing the the levels of good bacteria bad bacteria so it's all like the last stage yeah it is it is what do you like is there any other foods other than bone broth for like glutamine and things like that yeah all all animal meats are really high in glutamine so like if you say vegan or vegetarian would there be other things that you could have or some sort of eating um there are very few foods that do have them I can't think of them off the top of my head I I don't know about beans and things like that and lentils and legumes I think that they may have just really low levels of glutamine in them um that yeah that's why that's why it's tough when it comes to that sort of stuff because it's either like just take the amino acid itself as a supplement usually is what I just generally give um vegan clients okay um yeah otherwise it's a matter of um upping your like you know animal meats it just makes you live a good quality they're you know well after and all that sort of stuff okay so for like if you like vegetarian be any supplement if you could yeah and then you just have the bone broth and things if you die choose that one it's committed do you have bone broth regularly and things like that I I will definitely go through phases where I have bone broth like almost every week okay I'll buy it at my markets and then I'll just have that as as my weekly so good and I think it's like good because it's like you're not wasting you know you're you're really utilizing or like you know everything that you possibly can like nothing goes to waste it's I don't know I just feel like it's in my mind it's kind of between like you know as a meat eater it's kind of between um you know no I don't choose to like even I try I try but my health was really tough yeah and I wanted to fall pregnant that was like you know the thing that I wanted more than anything in the world and I found that that really helped me um like yeah any meats again and and not having that restriction as well for me mentally that was hard too um but yeah um yeah I I do like I really enjoy like having the bone broth and I feel like it makes me um I'm not a part of like you know wasting away that like you know beautiful animal that gave us that and I appreciate that you know so you take how you look at it I think and you're right it's so important that we like don't waste it yeah so let's say like have like the other parts of the animal like the awful wind all that stuff yeah yeah yeah and like you know organ all the meats and stuff like that which are just like insanely high in nutrients too I know people just go eat like that's a bit of a waste though isn't it so how the gut and brain connected like how does our diet impact our mental health so in many ways when you look at it in like a leaky gut situation you're going to interrupt the neuro chemicals the hormones that are being created because you've got so much inflammation um so things aren't going to get created when the system's not running smoothly so again things maladapt things change things shift and you're not getting the the required amount of like neurotransmitters which are just brain hormones that you would normally get if you've got stuff like leaky gut going on the interesting thing about if you if you don't have leaky gut going on when it comes to your gut bacteria there are gut bacteria that can like bad ones that can completely block the conversion from some brain chemicals to other brain chemicals so like for example C. diff which is clostridia difficile which is really high they've found in kids with autism oh wow so fascinating crazy change the brain chemicals in their brain to stop them they're they kind of get a dopamine overload and they can't convert their dopamine to adrenaline so the dopamine builds up and they have trouble creating their own adrenaline because C. diff blocks that conversion because it creates these enzymes they're like toxic enzymes and it blocks the conversion and then that's why you know autistic kids can be really hyperactive because when we're doing like you think like adrenaline activity is like it's fast or it's scary or it's like big it's heavy so autistic kids are trying to correct that just intuitively by running or being like you know you know kind of like overactive you know they're trying to create they're trying to push like conversion from dopamine to adrenaline um which is like so amazing so like so there's that when you're when you've got like a good amount of you know good bacteria and your gut health is really good and gut health is determined by diversity so the more diverse strains of bacteria you have the better your gut health and the um evenness of those strains is also important you don't want anything one thing over growing you just want like you know a happy ecosystem a happy rainforest like everyone you know has their place and everyone's kind of working with each other but there's nothing that's like really overgrown there's no one type of tree in the rainforest that like there's way more of than everything else and that's you know that determines good gut health and so when you've got everything like happy like that diverse and even that's when those gut bacterias are creating what's what's called short chain fatty acids which then play a role in the production of brain chemicals and improve brain function um and they're helping to break down and the metabolism of your foods as well so like when you see you know an apple on a plate that apple has to go through a lot of processes to be broken down properly so that you can get the potential from that apple if you have anything that's going to stop the absorption or the um metabolism of that apple you're not going to get everything that you need from it so gut bacteria helps to create these short chain fatty acids and help to actually they have enzymes themselves to help break down parts of food that we can't break down as well so not a little teammate relationship without gut bacteria so we give it resistant starches mostly and like other prebiotic fibers and they give us short chain fatty acids which help in the production of serotonin dopamine you know the brain chemicals exactly so what are some like examples of short chain fatty acids is that like omega three fatty acids no it's like um it's like butyrate acetate propionate like oh yeah yeah yeah so those are like the short chain fatty acids um and you know like butyrate is like probably the most studied and the most um like glorified and it's the one that really seems to make the biggest difference for us and the interesting thing is that people can have like all different levels of you know like different strains even different even strains that people have like really not heard like heard much about or researched much on um however their unique profile still allows them to create a lot of butyrate and still allows them to be healthy it's like you know gut health you know it's it's important that we have lots of different ones and it's important that they're all even but the interesting thing is that you know people from different parts of the world will all have like a different ideal microbiome so true yeah because of the diet they eat yeah oh it's crazy yeah um they said that with like no one diet fits all because everyone has such a different microbiome so it's totally if someone had vegan maybe someone else wouldn't go well for you but they'd go well with like vegetarian yes esketeria yes like that it's crazy yes i was going to say is there any foods that have short chain fatty acids in them that you could like um or any bacteria that produces yeah it's bacteria that produces oh well so you knew you knew time for your prebiotic foods yeah so just so prebiotic foods is anything that feeds bacteria i heard green bananas are like very high resistant starch yeah which is like resistance the more resistant starch we have it's almost like having a carbohydrate without having all of the calories or all of the carbohydrates from that food okay when things are processed the resistant starch breaks down i'll see it less and less that's right so that's why you want to have things in their most natural state so that you have the biggest potential to be able to feed your gut microbiome because again it's like a tag team they're helping you you're feeding it it's feeding you you know to help you create what you need to create so they love resistance starch okay yeah is it like um asparagus i've heard like durian a lot of tricks yeah yeah like resistance yeah i do yeah so there's like quite a few foods meaning like vegetables there are yeah yeah it's um yeah vegetables it depends on it depends on what it is like um even like rice has higher resistance starch um that actually an interesting thing with that is like you can actually get more resistant starch from foods if you cook it and then you let it cool really so foods that are already starchy like potatoes as well um if you cook it and let it cool it'll actually increase the resistance starch over time oh like let it go completely cold oh you can even put in the fridge and like cool it down for a bit and it increases the resistance starch which is even better for your gut health i don't know i eat like it used to be cold taste after a while yeah yeah it's my resistance starch yeah it's like i'll do resistance starch oh that's what you call tea and i like that you're welcome thank you that's mine what are some foods and supplements that can help with hormone imbalances um so that's a load of question because there are so many reasons why people have hormone hormonal imbalances in the first place so it kind of depends what the root cause is so someone who has say hormonal acne yeah and they like because i've had a few people come to me and they've asked you know like what do you do for hormonal acne because i know that people can't dairy close gluten yes it hasn't worked yeah i'm also like i know cleaning up your diet can help but i was like where would you start with that like so like for me the the basics are so important so for people depending on like someone can have a dairy-free gluten-free diet but it's not that nutrient dense or it doesn't match like you're saying they're microbiome or their individual profile so someone might have again vitamin D deficiency vitamin A deficiency you know maybe i can pick up signs that their liver is not working that well usually when it comes to acne liver is a huge player and also when it comes to hormonal imbalances liver is a big player as well why is that because the liver has to digest well no digest the liver has to detoxify and metabolize all of your hormones plus all of your toxins everything every food item every toxin everything goes through the liver it's a huge part because it's almost like it's the filtration system it's like is this okay yep okay go into the body is this okay well no go over here is that okay go into the body so your liver is like really overloaded with stuff especially when it comes to like environmental toxins we have more environmental toxins now and chemical pesticide exposures and all sort of stuff than we've ever had before because of technology and genetically modified you know foods and all sort of stuff and our liver has the very hard job of having to sort through all of that things that it's never seen before and things that you know that it knows what it is but things that it's never seen before it's kind of like well there's so much of this what do i do with it it gets overwhelmed this is why people are putting on weight so easily because fat uh fat houses toxins it will take it to protect your body from it because when fat cells like fat cells can be really nasty like they can basically just become little estrogen powerhouses by themselves where they're just like yeah they just hold on to toxins they create all this estrogen and then the liver has all this extra stuff to deal with not only toxins in the body but also extra estrogen on top of whatever your body is already producing on its own then you add something like the pill or or you know could be any kind of medication that people are on or people are having a lot of bread organic like you know not eating organic and having pesticides and herbicides maybe they have heavy metal exposure you know maybe maybe their um you know maybe they've got copper pipes at home because they're so old so maybe whenever they drink water they're having all this copper that those heavy metals are gonna gonna be detoxified by the liver so you've got like this huge burden on the liver for liver for liver but i find that it's it's when the liver's not um when the liver's not working as well as it could be that's when i find a people get hormonal imbalances the most and b they get acne the most so how would you go about like helping liver i guess it's due to detox yeah you do like so bitter foods are great for the anything that tastes bitter what's like a like dark chocolate or something um yeah like a true dark chocolate yes yeah that can definitely be it olives ah rockets you know there's like not nice yeah you know there's like shitty like red like leaves and salads everyone's like with that those those are really helpful um and there's also this whole there's also a whole category of herbs called kologogs which are bitter and help to stimulate the liver so anything that's anything that's bitter is going to help the liver create more bile to help the body break down fats really well um because essentially it then comes down to your body's not breaking down fat that well and then it comes back to omega-3 fatty acids like you can have all the good fats in the world that you want but if your body's not breaking it down the barrier like the acid mantle of your skin then gets affected oh so you get acne exactly and then it's like it gets it's so easy to get irritated and sensitive because you don't have that omega-3 fatty acid layer of your skin you know which is stopping things from entering in and stopping water from leaching out so then it's like your skin becomes more dehydrated and it has all these toxins that it's getting irritated really easily so it's like this whole you know it's a whole cycle and that's just like we're just talking really about hormonal acne like you can see there's so many other things wow so for hormones it's really about addressing the whole person rather than spot reducing things but it depends on exactly what the hormonal condition is you did have hormonal acne a good place to start would be maybe like looking at the liver yes and like dandelion tea is an amazing liver this is yeah yeah this is something i really i that's probably my go-to for people when they want to start helping their liver it's the most gentle it's just a tea it's really cheap it's really easy to do um easy to you know incorporate into your diet um and it's you know even though doesn't taste the best you know you can kind of make it taste better i guess with like honey or whatever not that i encourage that's fine i want it to be really bitter tasting but people can usually hack a drink that tastes bad as opposed to like having to eat foods that they don't like that a bit yeah yeah i was just down it and exactly exactly like oh good i've done it out of my way and so they can enjoy their food they're new so that's definitely a place i'd start okay um and with the fat storing toxins and things does that mean if you were to start losing weight you'll exacerbate all these symptoms on your face yes yes yes so as you start to shed weight this is not really well known right um this is what always worries me about like you know in the right here like the biggest loser oh you know people get sick and this is this is what i think the keto flu is tied into so as people start to move to to keto diet they start to get really sick and i think it's because when their body starts to adapt to using fat as a fuel source they start to burn fat and then the toxins from their fat start to get liberated into the body yeah if your detoxification systems are not open and helping you drain all that stuff out then you get this overload of toxins at one time oh wow because your body is finally releasing them and like uh like opening the floodgates like letting it circulate so is that a great question oh thank you i just wanted is that a good thing to let it out because now it's circulating through the body only if you have the capacity to deal with that so if you didn't it would just make you sicker yeah um and then you have to adjust the whole detoxifying so like if it's if it's within the range of it's your body is able to to detoxify it then it's okay you won't notice the symptoms as much like you might you might be like oh a little bit of a itchy nose or a bit of a sore throat but it's nothing that eventuates you know to like feeling really horrible but then say for example for example something like the keto flu you might be knocked out for three days with full on flu-like symptoms because your body is trying to flush out this high load of toxins which have come from you you know it's like where's it come from exactly yeah from you oh so will that happen the whole time you're starting to burn all this fat or was it like a week and then it will start to settle down it depends again on your body's ability to um deal with that level of toxin exposure gosh yeah oh if i do this to shen fen i hope i'd be able to like yeah yeah totally totally well that's why if you do it in a sustainable way you don't normally get those effects people who do things really drastically they will usually be the people who get those those effects so sustainable way would be like to do it like a half a kilo like maybe yeah yeah yeah half a kilo yeah yeah so you don't just oh so i'm just releasing it exactly i mean i'm just doing it in a way that gives your body the nutrients that it needs in order to detoxify things properly again you're going to improve and support your detoxification pathways as it is so it's you're going to sort of feel those that toxic burn even less oh that's so good so having a bit of foods and things like that yeah i'm like real whole foods that's going to help oh we already talked about this let's go say what would you would for someone taking like harmful medication like that would be like you'd have to switch to then addressing the whole like hormonal acne that you switch to then address the liver problems and things like that yes so are you talking about like ricketyne yeah being a harmful medication yeah i was on ricketyne you had i was on ricketyne when i was in year 12 and i think my first year of uni and boy oh boy did that now when i look back i'm like wow that explains the whole my whole liver situation what happened so like that's really it's a personal experience that i realized how important delivery is but my acne went away for a little bit my vitamin a levels must have been so toxically high that that affected my liver because then after that i just have rebound acne and i could never get rid of it and i always had that like extra bit of like weight like i was always strong and i was always like healthy looking but i knew from my body i was like i feel like i'm puffy i feel like i'm inflamed i don't feel quite right i don't i don't feel as healthy as i look it's very easy to look healthy you know very easy with all the products and stuff we can use so easy to look healthy that's very true um you know when you use like real products help like you know natural products you feel different you feel different and and you're showing your true level of health by doing that that's so true you're not covering up with like putting like tanning on you to make you look more tan or make up with you exactly or you know using really like really extreme like chemicals to just make you look like you have a glow for 24 hours but really unless you had makeup on it your skin looks horrible or it's patchy or it's whatever you know what i mean so and like your hair as well like you know people do so much stuff to their to their hair like i mean and the whole body really and like you know this fat cavitation like those suction like you can look healthy this day and age for not like you know for not very much you don't have to spend that much to look very healthy but are you truly healthy i don't think so i love people i'm actually a good point and this is like that that's like the kind of the balance i'm always trying to look at um maintaining for people it's like yes people have aesthetic goals people come to me aesthetic goals all the time i want to look like this i want to look like that i want this shape here and i want smaller this or bigger that or whatever it is and i have to figure out all this stuff basically that we've been talking about for this one person and go okay how do i get them that or as close to that without sacrificing their health and how i actually like improve their health to get to that point or at least allow them to get to a point where they know how to recover or the body has the ability to recover should they go too far yeah it's really kind of finding a balance of course yeah it is it's totally a balance if you had like cellulite because i know that affects 80% of women yeah but a lot of people say like if you lose weight you can help go away but you often find it's still there is there a way to help with that um for uh what's interesting with cellulite and i haven't looked i'm not an expert on cellulite i definitely wouldn't say but with cellulite there's a level of so your fat cells actually getting pushed through like a netting like a matrix right so that's what actually what's creating that like pitted look and there's different levels of cellulite too so for one thing it's to do with dehydration for another thing it's skin integrity so like things like collagen elasticity vitamin c vitamin a all of zinc all of those micronutrients that are really important for good skin health also play a role but the lymphatic system plays a huge role and that comes back to toxins and then that comes back to detoxification so that's a sign of like detoxification yeah problem and i noticed as well when i so i used to have gorgeous skin like i mean i'm half Lebanese have this beautiful olive like glowy skin it's taken me so long to get back to a point where i feel like comfortable with my skin because it's still always on the dry side even now but it was real i've contained that made the difference for me for the worse oh and i remember when i came off for nicotine and i only did it for four months you know you meant to do it for six of six months stint well yeah you mentioned for a six month stint um but i only did it for four months and after that four month period i got cellulite that didn't go away for years and again it was linked back to that whole liver detoxification um and so i was able to like pinpoint the exact moment when my cellulite began so would you say like vitamin a vitamin c yeah and zinc so zinc is a big one that vegans can easily become deficient in or have low levels in um and zinc is very important um you'd probably be getting a decent amount of vitamin c as long as you're a vegan that's a whole food vegan a lot of people are just eating packaged crap that looks like looks like the food that you see which is just not healthy at all um but zinc can be a huge like can play a huge role in that too but then so can you know your lymphatic system so you know with a vegan diet it's it's carbohydrate heavy carbohydrate heavy foods can change the pH of your stomach acid um it can change the pH of your mouth um and it can change your your bacterial profile um you know obviously it has the potential to drink all those things for the better but a lot of the time because people aren't eating they're they're macronutrients are not well balanced enough um that then it creates all these other problems that then down the line create these kind of end products being things like cellulite and stuff like that so you know it decrease it like when your pH changes and when your um detoxification isn't as good because you kind of become a bit more inflamed from the carbohydrate in your diet that changes your body's ability to detoxify it changes your body's ability to um you know break down fats which again is really important if you're looking at liver health and detoxification because lymph needs blood to circulate but it's but lymphatic tissue is carrying all your fats um so you know it's it's in relation to you know fat absorption fat breakdown um how well you know you move your body how well your how good your circulation is um you know so I mean there's a lot of things at play because then like even now what popped into my mind was thyroid function too um thyroid function means a lot of zinc it means a lot of iodine again both of those are very minimal in a vegan diet where would you get them from? Meats so I mean look you can find zinc in other foods like your lentils and stuff like that and some nuts and all that sort of stuff but zinc is very high in meats iodine is very high in fish and seafoods so even if you have seaweed seaweed is a good source of iodine but then so you so potentially you'll lower on those and especially if you're an active vegan it's really hard to top up what you're using as well because then you're you're putting a lot of pressure on your thyroid for a lot of output because you're so active because thyroid uh governs your metabolism is known to have this yeah so it's going to happen yeah I think I think as a as a vegan definitely be 12 and zinc I think those are the two most important ones you can tell with your nails can't you if you get the white on your nails that white spots is usually related to zinc yeah so it's a deficiency yeah okay yeah fill your three top influencers you'd recommend following for more practical tips and info like on holistic living and things like that yeah I love Dr Mark Hyman I think he's so great I love him for hormones which is where like my journey began with hormones because I had PCOS myself and then I was researching a lot with hormones I love Elisa Vitti she shows people how to eat or shows women how to eat for their cycle to match the hormonal fluctuations in their cycle that is so cool and even to a level of like work productivity to match the hormones and how your brain changes during each week of your cycle like it's fantastic um so Elisa Vitti who who wrote the book flow living and um the woman code which is her second book um and Dr Sarah Godfried so she's um she's awesome I mean they're planning why they're heaps but those are the three that like I really you know I always kind of go back to them and I love their information um Dr Sarah Godfried is like a real she's a really experimental like a little biohacker and I love that about her yeah and sell to soul like my business name really came back from something that she said once and she said you know from health like health from yourselves to your soul and I was like ah sell to soul I know that's brilliant that is so brilliant it was just like a passing comment that she made and I was like that I like that for me sums up exactly how I understand nutrition to help the body that's awesome yeah I'm going to be following these people yeah totally yeah make sure they're awesome oh that's so cool I really love that idea of eating two cycles I've never heard that yeah that's really cool that was like one of the first the first things that sort of started to open up my mind about how different functional medicine is so like just conventional medicine I was like huh I don't know woman for how long and not I don't know one other girl who's ever known that this is a possibility like that it's it was so it was so groundbreaking for me and I even I trained differently according to my cycle interesting so yeah so you kind of have your not only are you much more social kind of mid-cycle but you also have more energy so you can do if you're a person who likes to hit that's the better time to do hit classes that's the better time to do intense cardio workouts that's the better time to do heavy weights because your body can deal with that intensity oh yeah um because you're kind of like leveraging off the increased progesterone but then in the second half of your cycle the week before you have your period and the week that you have your period your body does better off low intensity exercise and like more moderate or low intensity you know things that are really restorative like yoga and Pilates and maybe lighter weights or lighter aerobics um like still doing what you enjoy and still getting the most out of life but not ever feeling like you're depleting yourself in order to just tick a box to say you didn't exercise it's such a different way about looking at exercising as well to like exercise to your body because I know it was like intuitive eating but like intuitive exercise yeah it totally yeah it is well thank you so much for joining me no worry I was like doing this interview it was so grateful oh no worries at all you're the best talk ever and that pretty much sums up my interview today I hope you guys enjoyed today's video thank you for sticking out the whole hour long interview with me I hope you enjoyed it I hope you guys learned a lot do share in the comments below your biggest tip or biggest lesson or biggest like takeaway that you found from this video I found the bit about like hormonal acne and just how detoxing plays such big role in cellulite and the overall wellness of the body was my biggest takeaways from my interview but as I was editing it and just watching over the footage I was like oh my gosh that was such a huge takeaway oh my gosh I remember that like so many different things that took away and every time I watch it like a different like lesson I'll take away 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