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Chris
Hello and welcome to the ending Body Burn Out Show. We are your host, Chris and Filly co-founders of a multi-award-winning winning functional medicine practice, serving busy people with energy, mood and gut issues.
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Filly
While busyness, addictive doing, people pleasing and perfectionism might be the norm, it's not normal and it's a major contributor to health issues.
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Chris
Our goal with this show is to give you a holistic root, root cause approach to healing your body so that you don't have to continue doctor or diet hopping or popping a gazillion supplements hoping something might stick.
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Filly
Sorry, get ready to heal your body, get your spark back deeply, connect with yourself and step into the life of your dreams.
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Chris
Let's dive in. Welcome, guys, to this episode of the ending body Burn Out. So we are excited to have you where we go ahead and introduce our topic for the week.
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Filly
Yes. So we are talking all about toxins in your products and also your hormones and detoxing. And this actually comes from a chapter in my book called Low Tox Home. And just a quick little announcement before we dive into the episode next week, I'm going to be in Sydney for our book tour. I'm doing a live book launch event in Sydney in conversation with Lizzie Wilkinson.
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Filly
It's going to be awesome. Lots of fun. And we're going to talk all about the steps to end your body, burn out and find your spot. And I would love to have you there if you are in Sydney next week. Sorry, that's on Monday the 18th. I'll pop in the show notes link there it is completely free, but I do request that you RSVP your spot as spaces are limited.
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Filly
Okay, so let's dive into all things toxins. So when I did my four year training at Kaley's Institute of Functional Medicine, I remember Doctor Kelly always banging on about toxins. He said one of the major reasons that there are so many health issues today is because our world is more toxic than ever. And that was going back about ten years.
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Filly
So I. Have things changed. Now. I know that people are a lot more savvy, but the world is still quite toxic. Now there's some stats around this. So humans emit more than 250 billion tonnes of chemical substances a year, which is huge. I wouldn't even know what that looks like in terms of if it was plonked into air like a lot.
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Chris
Alike.
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Filly
I don't know, 250 billion tonnes.
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Chris
Too big a load.
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Filly
It's just a lot, just a lot people and I'm sure if you are a health seeker you would know by now that toxins really contribute to your body burn out in some way. They disrupt our hormones, they're causing oxidative damage to our cells, they're linked to different health diseases like cancer, heart problems, fertility allergies, mental health issues, and even things like weight gain and obesity, because these toxins really disrupt our endocrine system.
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Filly
And we'll talk a bit more about those body systems soon. So where can these little hidden toxins be hiding in your home? We going to talk about like specifically skincare cleaning products, because there's so many different ways toxins show up in our world. But today, just for a bit more scope, we're just going to dig into skincare and cleaning products and so they can show up in pretty much anything in your cabinet, especially if you're buying them from supermarkets or chemists or just like a general department store.
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Filly
Most of the products in those types of stores are generally very toxic. So in my book, I've actually listed the top 20 toxins in skincare products. I'm not going to read them all, but I'll just I'll throw out a few. So things like chlorine and bleach, very toxic sodium lauryl sulphate, a fragrance, formaldehyde, ammonia, triclosan, citylights phenol, fluoride microbeads l alum aluminium.
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Filly
I can't even say that alone.
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Filly
I love you.
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Filly
I mean.
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Filly
You've.
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Chris
Did you smell the American Way or Australian aluminium?
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Filly
No, I started Australia.
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Filly
Why Aluminium.
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Filly
Aluminium? That is so funny. I was just reading my book and I forgot how to say aluminium. I was trying to say it like an American parabens be okay, so hates heaps of stuff and that is just like a small handful, but they're probably the more toxic ones that you want to really be looking at in, in skincare products.
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Filly
If you're a client who's listening to this, we've done some extensive masterclasses inside our antibody burn out program. So if you want to really deep dive into that, let us know and I'll send you the direct link, because sometimes our masterclasses, you know, we have a lot of content in there. Okay. Let me chat about just a couple of those toxins so you can understand how they actually affect the body.
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Filly
So mineral oil is an interesting one. This is found in something like Vaseline. So everyone remember Vaseline. I'm pretty sure it's still out there. But I was so addicted to Vaseline, I was using it probably from like years six to maybe like my thirties. So decades I was using Vaseline and thinking it was so good. And I remember the adverts of the shiny, sleek woman just covered in Vaseline.
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Filly
And I'm like, Yeah, I want to be like her. Even when I was pregnant with my first baby, had no idea how dangerous dangerous it was. And I was trying to prevent stretch marks. I would just like rub Vaseline oil all over my pregnant belly. Now let's a couple of years later, or maybe three years later, I started actually learning about these toxins and I found that Paraben is actually a really carcinogen.
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Filly
Eek. Which means that it can it is linked to cancer and it's actually been banned in the use of cosmetics in some countries. Australia, we can still use it. But when I started looking into that, it can. It's linked to things like allergies, impaired brain function, birth defects, birth defects.
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Filly
We will be going on.
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Filly
My pregnant belly. my gosh. Sorry. Okay, so pretty nasty. Parabens is another really common. It's often used as a preservative in skincare cleaning products. And there's again, lots of research around how it's linked to cancer. It affects puberty patterns and hormones. And there was a study that actually looked at tumours, so breast cancer tumours and they looked at 20 different samples and they were trying to see is there a link of like similar things showing up in these tumours?
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Filly
And what they found was there was a high amount of parabens in breast cancer tumours, so it can definitely impact your female hormones and cause all sorts of issues.
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Chris
Crazy.
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Filly
Very crazy.
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Chris
Vaseline. So I've never really, ever used Vaseline maybe to play practical jokes on on people. Like I'd put Vaseline on a basketball.
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Filly
But mineral oil isn't just Vaseline. It's in so many other products. Like anything that is kind of a bomb type thing, generally has mineral oil in it. So you've probably had used like bead bombs with mineral oil or, you know, those little stick lip balms.
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Chris
I've never used lip balms, as you can probably tell how.
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Filly
Fragrance is also a really sneaky one. So sometimes I.
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Chris
Do do.
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Filly
That, sometimes fragrance sometimes. And this is where you have to get quite savvy around learning what's inside your products because there can be you can buy a product that looks like it's natural. They usually say it's green and organic and these are now, did you know that people can check the label organic on a product? It doesn't have to be 100% organic.
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Filly
And sometimes there's little short cuts that are made in different products where they use fragrant fragrance ends as a cheap substitute for something like your natural, really healthy, essential oils and fragrance. There's no that could have like hundreds of different ingredients inside that fragrance ingredient to bake it. And then it's just put on the label as fragrance. And so we don't know what's inside fragrance.
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Filly
And a lot of those fragrances, 95% are actually derived from petroleum, which goes back to a mineral oil and Vaseline.
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Chris
Wow.
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Filly
Okay. So I mean, I could talk about those ingredients for ages, but I'll pop them resources down below if anyone wants to dig more into those. Okay. So how do these toxins affect the body system? And I want to talk specifically about your hormones, mitochondria and neurotransmitters. So hormones get a really big hit when it comes to toxins in skin care products, cleaning products.
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Filly
So adrenals all about secreting your stress hormones, any toxic foreign substance that enters your body stresses out your system because your system is in your is specifically your immune system, because your immune system is like, that's not part of us. that's that doesn't feel right. And so it will cause cortisol to rise as a stress response.
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Filly
And then when those hormones rise, they often suppress your sex hormones. And so that's where women and also men can start developing hormonal imbalances in terms of things like PMS, infertility, man boobs, fatigue, perimenopausal hot flushes.
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Chris
Erectile erectile.
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Filly
Dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction. Yep. All of that.
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Chris
Why do you laugh about that? You can say that. You can say the man boob stuff with No, no laughing. I say Yeah, yeah. Wonky willies.
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Filly
You? Yeah.
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Filly
It's funny. I just like, thrown in a few little words here. Erectile dysfunction.
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Chris
I'd love to get my my transcript but what's Chris said today Woody wonkiness.
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Filly
I think now toxins also known as Zino oestrogens so some toxins there are a lot of toxic chemicals out there that mimic oestrogen. And so when you put them on your skin, you're breathing them into your body or even eating them. These are oestrogen toxins can actually confuse your body's own production of oestrogen. And this often leads to what's called oestrogen dominance, where your body's producing too much oestrogen in comparison to, say, your progesterone levels.
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Filly
This is more specifically for a female man can also develop oestrogen dominance too, and that might lead to man boobs or erectile dysfunction. Yes.
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Chris
I'm laughing. This is a.
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Filly
I know I shouldn't laugh because there may be some people listening to this with this with this issue.
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Chris
This is not a judgement free zone right now.
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Filly
Okay. So oestrogen dominance.
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Chris
this. I've got your back. It's there's little steps that you can follow. It's all good that follow the steps.
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Filly
There are little steps. Okay. So toxins. Okay, so you can start developing oestrogen dominance. Now oestrogen dominance is also really common when there's liver or detox issues. And guess what? I think that puts a lot of pressure and stress on the liver.
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Filly
This is just looking at me.
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Filly
Trying to make me laugh.
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Chris
The horse.
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Filly
I get sorry.
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Chris
To.
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Filly
Say, toxins, chemicals, foreign substances that are poison, put a major burden on the liver. And so the live is always going to try and get rid of poison from your body first. But if that overload is just too fast for what you liver can actually handle, then you start burning out really important nutrients like glutathione, iron and acetyl cysteine.
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Filly
Selenium, vitamin C, really important nutrients that help support detoxifying. And then when that happens, you live is now sluggish. So instead of working optimally, it's actually working really slowly and it actually can't get rid of those toxins fast enough from your body. So the toxins get stored in your fat tissues. And yeah, so these toxins putting a big burden on the liver and often cause the detox pathways to burn out anyway, then you can have things like genetic mutations which affect detoxification.
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Filly
you might have heard of something called empty for Jane, which is actually surprisingly common. I think about a quarter of the population have this gene. And if you have this, Jane doesn't always have to express, but given the right environment, such as being exposed to too many toxins that Jane mutation can switch on and then you can start having even more detox issues.
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Filly
And also neurological issues. Okay, so that's your liver detox, hormones, Brain also really important. So toxins, again, they get stuck in fat tissues. Now, your brain is predominantly fat. It's a very fatty organ. And so when those toxins get stuck there, they can literally damage brain cells. So they going to start burning out your neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine, adrenaline.
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Filly
It can show up as mental health issues, inflammation and also toxins really damage the mitochondria. So they're little organelles that live in your muscle tissue and they converting food into energy. And so if these toxins are coming along and they're damaging the mitochondria, these little organ organelles start shrivelling and then you actually struggle to convert food into energy because by the time the nutrients get to the mitochondria, you might only have 25 50% of your mitochondria intact, which then means that you're not able to produce as much energy as what you could.
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Filly
I liken it to you driving a four cylinder car with only maybe one or two cylinders not going to go very far. Okay.
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Chris
Yes.
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Filly
We are going to say something. No play something about one key release again.
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Chris
You have to put something in the show notes about this trigger warning.
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Filly
Warning. Don't leave anything while your kids are in the car. Okay?
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Chris
yeah, that too. No, nothing.
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Filly
yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. So body system.
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Filly
So I totally I think we do too.
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Filly
We want to keep these or are we starting all.
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Chris
You guys, We keep going. Let's just keep going. Keep going.
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Filly
All right.
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Chris
Let me comment down below if you are if you're enjoying fairly being uncomfortable. Right.
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Filly
Body systems. So best way to understand where they're at in terms of if toxins have affected them or what body systems are causing what symptoms test, not gas. We love lab testing and we can identify what imbalances are happening inside the body. We do actually have some spots open for a connect the dots experience or initial consult. This is the first step in our ending body burn out method, but we've allocated some time.
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Filly
If you just want to start with the first step and also I'm going to pop in the show Night Links, the Body Systems Assessment quiz, which can identify based on your mixture of symptoms, what body system is more likely to be out of whack and out of balance?
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Chris
Clickity clack go do the quiz.
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Filly
Okay, so why I got into this quiz. I had my first body burn out episode when I was I don't know, what's that like almost 12 years ago now, after my first baby, things got better after really tidying off and focusing on good nutrition. And then after LC second baby came along, all the symptoms flared up again. And I remember this time just really developing quite a lot of chemical sensitivities.
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Filly
Sorry I couldn't clean the bathroom without feeling nauseous and like my heart was pounding, very anxious. Even things like electromagnetic fields are using electricity, electrical devices started causing issues in my body as well. And I remember LC was three months old and I got really nauseous. And this kind of just like came out of nowhere. And every day I was just, sorry, nauseous.
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Filly
And I did a million pregnancy tests. I'm like, No, I can't be pregnant again. No, I'm struggling here with this three month old and a toddler and feeling crappy. They all came back negative. I went away on holiday for two weeks. The nausea completely disappeared. So then when I came back into our home, the nausea back on straight away, as if I had morning sickness.
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Filly
And then I realised that I had this little fake candle's sensi type burner in my kitchen. And I had that going all the time because it's now so lovely. But it was literally causing me nausea. So my body had developed a fight or flight response basically to the scent as a toxin poison. And it was giving me some really clear pain signals that my body was not happy with that exposure.
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Filly
And so that's where I started ditching toxins as well. I'm like, cool, got my nutrition under order. Let's clean out all the cupboards as well. Skincare hygiene products, cleaning products. As I finished one bottle off, instead of buying the same toxic product again, Swap swapped it over for good products and also got so into it that I started just making all my own products.
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Filly
And also we have our second.
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Chris
Coming plug.
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Filly
Heavy bio and so I developed to.
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Chris
Thank our sponsors for this video.
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Filly
Will actually have if I was a sponsor for the book. Yes, sorry, Happy Balm is the other business that has beautiful skin care cleaning products, organic, handmade. If you're someone who doesn't have the time or you don't want to make your own stuff, but you want reputable brands that you can buy from, happy by them is awesome. There's also heaps of other brands as well out there now.
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Chris
Where the best.
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Filly
You just have to learn how to how to read the ingredients. Okay, sorry. Next look, let's look at how to actually detox from toxins and the first place to start is just cleaning out your house first. Before I move into that, if you're noticing that Chris isn't coming up with, like, random one liners, it's because he's actually gone.
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Filly
This is real life, guys. We had a discussion that we were running over time with recording this podcast, and one of us needed to take our daughter to the hairdresser. And so rather than redoing this whole episode, I just said, You go, my love, you go, I have got this covered. Because all you're giving it in this episode is like wonky wheelies.
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Filly
Anyway, so I like goodbye. All right, so you just got me so professionally. I'm all right. Sorry. So how did detox from Toxins? So first, you want to swap out those natural products. And if you're someone who wants to continue buying products, then there is some really cool resources that I love using. And I talk about these list, these in side.
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Filly
My book Ending Body Burn Out and some great websites. EWG dot org is great. There's also an app called Think Dirty app dot com and also Chemical Maze is amazing. They have a book as well and additive free lifestyle. I actually had joined Tracy from additive free lifestyle on the podcast last year. Awesome party. If you want to listen back to that.
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Filly
That podcast was more about additives in food and their app is more specifically about additives in food. But there's lots of handy websites, books, apps that you can now use to look at the ingredients on the skincare cleaning products that you're using or even like food. And then you can search them in these websites or the apps are great because the apps you can just scan the barcode of the product you want to buy, and it's going to come up with all the ingredients in the product.
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Filly
And if those ingredients are safe or not, okay. And then if you're someone who loves DIY dying, actually one of the resources, a free resource that you get when you buy my book, we have given away a whole heap of bonus resources that help people implement the things in ending body burn out and I did actually include the DIY e-book.
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Filly
If you want to create your own products using natural ingredients, it's so quick and easy and actually really cheap. If you have more time. Sorry. So I cleaned up my house and I've been living low stocks for a few years before I did my own lab testing and when I did my own lab testing to look at my body systems and the reason why I looked at these lab tests, the reason why I started doing the lab testing is even though I cleaned out the products from my home, I was still getting symptoms.
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Filly
They weren't as intense in terms of like the nausea disappeared as soon as I stopped burning the fake candle. But there were other symptoms that still weren't resolving. So I went in and did some lab testing to really look at what body systems are imbalanced, causing my symptoms. And when I did the lab testing, I was shocked at how burnt out my liver was.
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Filly
Even though I'd cleaned up the toxins from my home. I'd also never drunk caffeine, alcohol, cigarettes ever. Yet my liver was so burnt out and sorry. So sometimes you can you can clear toxins from your home, but your body systems still need some TLC to recover from years and years and years of toxic load. Mind you, when I talked about like, you know, I had been living tox free for a while, wasn't ingesting poisonous substances into my body.
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Filly
I did grow up on a flower farm. My dad had a flower farm and he used to use all of the pesticides, all of the round up very dangerous chemicals back then. Didn't know much about it. And so I was probably exposed to quite a high amount of toxins through the farm that we lived right next door to.
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Filly
Okay, so testing, not guessing is really important for many reasons. So look, you could go and do your own detox, feel for your liver. And it's often a place where people start, so they go and do a few fruit juice fast or they will find some supplements from Doctor Google or like a Facebook forum. And it's like, do this and then do that and then do this and you leave.
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Filly
It's going to be all fine and dandy. My caution around detoxing without actually getting some lab testing and also working with a practitioner to help you through that is that it can actually make you more sick if you're detoxing in the wrong way And by the wrong way. When we're working with people and their body systems, we were never like, I will never start with a detox protocol.
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Filly
It's very rare. I shouldn't say never. Occasionally I might, but it's very rare that we will start detoxing, even if that part of the body is the biggest reason why someone is having symptoms. And the reason for that is it's really stressful to the system. So if someone's brain is someone's in adrenal fatigue or if you neurotransmitters are really depleted, you're exhausted, you're overwhelmed, you're feeling anxious, putting your body through an intense detox protocol can actually make you feel worse, not better, because your ability to be resilient with the detoxing as the toxins are getting pulled out of your fat tissues, you can end up with what's called a detox crash where your body's just
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Filly
not able to clear it from your system. So this toxins end up absorbing back into your system and it can make you feel worse. Also, I really like to make sure that people's gut's healed before we detox because if there's a lot happening in the gut, so that might be pathogens, leaky gut, gallbladder bile production isn't working very well.
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Filly
It can be quite unsafe and ineffective to try and detox if the gut is very blocked up and inflamed because when you're detoxing you Aleve is actually going to pull toxins from your fat tissues and then those toxins get stored in the gallbladder through the body, in the bile and in the bile squirts the toxins into your small intestines.
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Filly
Now, if you've got SIBO or leaky gut or some other imbalance happening in the gut, instead of you being able to eliminate those toxins nice and freely through your bowels, those toxins actually end up getting raves or back into your system, putting even more pressure on your liver. So when it comes to like detoxing from these toxins that might be stuck in your body, it is best to work with a practitioner.
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Filly
It's also best to test, not guess, because then you can actually identify other body systems that may need to be addressed first before your detoxing. And also what I love about lab testing is that it can also look at what liver pathway needs support. So liver actually works on three different pathways. Phase one is taking is converting fat soluble toxins into water soluble toxins and it uses different types of nutrients to do that.
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Filly
Phase two breaks down those toxins ready for excretion, and that one also uses different types of nutrients. And then phase three is how well is your lymphatic system working and are you clearing it out of your bowels or through your urea cycle, out through your kidneys in urine, or are you clearing it out through your pores? So phase three is really all about how well you actually eliminating those toxins.
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Filly
And so the lab tests can actually identify where in those pathways do you need support? It's very so much more effective when you can do that and also way more safe. Okay. Finally, I want to talk about fear, because when you start learning about how toxic the world is and how toxins are kind of like hidden everywhere, it can actually produce quite a lot of fear and anxiety for people.
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Filly
And I want to lean into that because I don't when you and listening to this podcast and being like, my gosh, I'm going to die if I use the Vaseline and parabens and I'm going to get so sick and the world is so toxic, what can I do? I don't want you to leave this this episode feeling like that.
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Filly
I want you to actually feel really empowered and in control. And so toxin fear is a thing and it's actually can become worse than the toxins. The toxins themselves. So I was there. So when I, I was there even before I started learning about toxins, actually. So I had developed quite a lot of food fear as well, where it's just like, gluten is bad, sugar is bad, processed food is bad, it's going to make me sick, or there's additives in food.
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Filly
Terrible, bad, bad, bad. I'm going to get cancer. I'm going to get so inflamed. And so although I was eating really healthy, it came from a lot of fear and a lot of force because I was too scared to eat off plan in case I would get sick or symptomatic. So there was lack of trust with my own body's resiliency.
00:31:04:18 - 00:31:29:21
Filly
That and also lack of trust that I could choose to leave in a way that was going to be supportive for my body anyway. So I already had that fear happening. And then when I found out about toxins and also the dramatic improvement when I stopped burning that sensi candle, then all of a sudden that she showed up again so she can create a lot of stress.
00:31:29:22 - 00:31:58:16
Filly
So it's going to impact your adrenals, which are the Achilles heel to everything. If you're in a stressed fight or flight response really hard for any of your other body systems to heal or function properly. So detox pathways that actually trying to clear the toxins bombing out as well, being fearful of toxins too. It creates a lot of paranoia and conspiracy theory ness, which can be really stressful and definitely health anxiety.
00:31:58:22 - 00:32:42:17
Filly
So people who I have worked with, clients where they have so much paranoia, so much health anxiety around toxins and other harmful substances that their body, even before they enter a supermarket down the chemical aisle, the body's already too reacting to that and sorry, this is really interesting because although the toxins can show up as symptoms because it's affecting your body systems, what actually happens over time when you're developing anxiety, paranoia around the toxins, too, is that your brain is reacting to the toxins, not because they're toxic, but just because you're fearful and scared of them.
00:32:42:19 - 00:33:07:23
Filly
And so the brain is phenomenal. It will look for more evidence of toxicity. So it's experienced this little symptom where, when I smelt that candle, I got nauseous and I felt nauseous for a long time or for, you know, a short period of time. And then the brain will say, okay, So every time I smell something toxic, that's how we respond in the body.
00:33:08:01 - 00:33:24:15
Filly
And that's where your brain, your limbic system, which is part you have the amygdala, part of your brain, which is always looking for danger. It's like it's there. It's kind of like the monkey part of the brain, or it's like, are we are we safe? Are we safe? Where's the danger? Go to make sure that this person is safe.
00:33:24:17 - 00:33:51:22
Filly
And when you get stuck in this health anxiety, toxin, fear, anxiety, then it develops this limbic system trauma loop where the brain is always looking for more evidence of toxicity. And even the smallest exposure will cause a reaction to your body, which is then where people are getting like a lot of sensitivities. And where is the next person walking down the street?
00:33:52:01 - 00:34:32:04
Filly
Totally fine. And so in this case, brain retraining is needed. And this is a big part of what we do in our antibody burn out methods. So, yes, we're testing and treating body systems and educating coaching people on how to create a healthy home, a healthy lifestyle. But a bulk like a big bulk of our work is really rewiring our system so that it feels safe, so it feels safe to be in the world and so that you create these beautiful identity beliefs about yourself, that you are strong and resilient and healthy and whole and healing and healed.
00:34:32:05 - 00:35:26:02
Filly
Because then that's going to switch off the limbic system. Trauma life in the brain so that you can then go to the supermarket and walk down the cleaning all without having symptoms or walking past someone with perfume, without having symptoms. Okay. A big part to an unconscious rewiring of deep beliefs is the underlying fear about yourself. So if you lack trust with self, if you lack the trust that your body is strong and capable enough to detox, that it's resilient, that it's designed to clear toxins from the body, if you have deeper hidden, unconscious core beliefs that you're somehow defective or broken or even unworthy or undeserving of being, well then these beliefs really keep
00:35:26:02 - 00:35:53:16
Filly
you stuck to you that will keep that limbic system part of the brain in a trauma loop because it's like it's not safe to be me. It's not safe to be in my body and so when you can rewire that, then, my gosh, your health improvements just accelerate so fast. Okey dokey. Hopefully you've got some little nuggets from this.
00:35:53:16 - 00:36:23:23
Filly
If you want to learn a bit more about going lay talks, definitely checking out my book, Ending Body Burn Out. If you're a client, shoot me an email and I'll send you some masterclasses that you can look at. Also, I mentioned the scorecard, so if you wanted to really understand where your body systems are at based on your symptomology, the Body system scorecard is a great place to start that will direct you to what type of lab testing might be best to look at.
00:36:24:01 - 00:36:49:03
Filly
And also I'll pop in the link to our main ending body burnout assessment quiz as well that looks at rates, your symptoms and your body, mind and environment. So from an environment point of view, which is what we've been talking a lot about today, you can have a look and see how you write in terms of how healthy your environment is.
00:36:49:05 - 00:37:11:22
Filly
All right. Also about the book, don't forget, next week I am running my book launch event in Sydney. So our book tour is coming to Sydney. If you're a Sydney Ionian, I would love to have you there. It's on Monday the 18th and yeah, it'd be awesome to have you there. Celebrate, learn the steps to end your body, burn out, find your spark.
00:37:11:22 - 00:37:41:00
Filly
It's going to be lots of fun. And also if you're someone who would really love a deep dive into what we've been talking about today and healing your whole self, not just sections of yourself. Our ending body burnout method is opening in May, so not too long away. All right, awesome. Thank you so much. Chris says goodbye as well.
00:37:41:02 - 00:37:51:04
Filly
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00:37:51:05 - 00:38:09:12
Chris
You can also write your own state of burnout and the root cause contribute is by taking out ending body burnout assessment on our website. And if you're interested in learning about our group one on one ending body burnout programs, shoot us a DM via Instagram or Facebook. Have the best day ever.
