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Welcome to the Dr. Gundry podcast,

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where Dr. Stephen Gundry shares his

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groundbreaking research from over 25 years

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of treating patients with diet and

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lifestyle changes alone. Dr. Gundry and

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other wellness experts offer inspiring stories,

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the latest scientific advancements, and practical

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tips to empower you to take

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control of your health and live

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a long, happy life. You

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should know that most detoxing

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diets are actually

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causing or releasing toxicity

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into the body. Say

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what? How could a

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detox diet toxify you?

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Well, in many ways. Let's

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start with number one. With traditional

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detoxing diets, you're either on

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a low calorie or

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a fruit juice diet or

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a vegetable juice diet. And

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one of the purposes is,

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is to lose weight.

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Now what most people don't know

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is that we store our

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heavy metals and

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what are called organopesticides, all

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these herbicides, pesticides,

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biocides, in our

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fat cells. An example

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of that is heavy metals. A

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swordfish or a big

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tuna is full of

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mercury. Clearly not

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exactly a healthy

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component of the tuna. But

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that big tuna or swordfish is

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a thousand pounds of

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muscle and that

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mercury or whatever is not

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bothering that animal. That's

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because that animal stores it

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in its fat where it's

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harmless. But what happens when

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we go on a fast,

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a water fast, or a

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detox diet, we start using

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the fat from our fat

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cells. And as that

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fat is used, heavy metals are full

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of mercury. and pesticides are released

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into your bloodstream. They

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go to the liver.

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The liver has two

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sets of detoxifying enzymes

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phase 1 and phase

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2 detoxifying enzymes.

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Unfortunately most of us don't

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have those enzymes very activated. If

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we're on a traditional American

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diet then those enzymes have

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been working overload and are

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pretty much spent. And so

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we can't handle any

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additional load. On top of

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that the liver has no

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system for detoxifying heavy metals.

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So the liver says well I

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don't want these I can't treat

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them. I'm going to dump them

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into the bile. The

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bile will leave the liver and

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I'll wash my hands of it.

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And that's exactly what happens. Only

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one problem. The bile

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then goes into our intestines and

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those heavy metals get reabsorbed

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right back into our bloodstream

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where they obviously don't belong.

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And the longer you

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do this detoxification diet

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the more toxic heavy metals

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accumulate in your bloodstream and

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your kidneys can't filter them

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out fast enough. So

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I see a number of patients who

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have tried a detoxing

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diet where we've actually measured

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their heavy metals before and

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after the detoxification diet

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and their heavy metals are much higher

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than when they started. The

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second thing about detoxing diet is

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that people say well I'm going

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to only eat anti-inflammatory

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foods and

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that will stop my inflammation.

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As you've seen from my

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books particularly in gut check,

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inflammation is

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our body's response. to

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leaky gut. Inflammation does

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not occur because you're

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eating inflammatory foods. It

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occurs because they're

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causing leaky gut.

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So treating inflammation

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by eating anti-inflammatory

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foods is like

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here in California fighting a forest

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fire with a garden hose. It's

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completely insufficient. What you gotta

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do is eliminate the foods

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that are causing leaky gut.

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And of course that's where the

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yes and no list come from,

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from my website. The

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more you take leaky

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gut making foods like

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grains, like beans, like

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the nightshade family, like

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cashews, like peanuts out

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of your diet, then

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you're truly repairing

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your leaky gut and

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then quelching inflammation.

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It's not the other way around.

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I see people who are eating

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turmeric smoothies every day of their

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lives who have massive amounts of

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inflammation. And it's

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not these anti-inflammatory foods

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that are doing anything for

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them because they're still eating

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healthy things like whole wheat

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bread or brown rice. Just

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yesterday I saw one of

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my patients who were treating

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for rheumatoid arthritis and

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lupus and leaky gut.

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And while we're making a little

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progress, it's certainly not as fast

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as I was anticipated because she's

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very motivated. And with someone like

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that, I certainly always go through, okay,

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what's a typical day's eating for you?

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And the first thing out of her

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mouth, she said, well, I start every

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morning with my detox

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shake And I

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buy it on the internet. It's really famous.

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The and I won't tell you the name and

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I so you can me and she said no

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no it's really healthy. And. He

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said, have you ever actually looked at

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the ingredients Assists will know it's really

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healthy, full of your adapted jones and

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all this really good organic stuff. So

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I. Pull. Of Up on

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the Internet package. Is. A well

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if you saying that. Pea protein

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and brown rice. And.

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I went down the list. It is this giant.

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Lectern bomb was actually very

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few. Good things and. Then

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she sent would put this is i

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held to talk drink. And. I

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said now it's of toxification drink

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and your blood work shows with.

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So is that example that we

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well why don't we just do

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a juice cleanse. The

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problem with juices. I'll say it

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over and over again. Fruit juice.

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mostly fruit dose fructose was really

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good. Way back when when we

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ate fruits whole. And. It

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was really good for weight gain.

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Great Apes only gain weight during

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fruit season and fruit season only

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occurs once a year. Even

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in the jungle week and of

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works fruit dose which is on

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mitochondrial toxin or say it again.

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Fruit. Doses of mitochondrial

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toxin. We. Detoxify

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fruit dose in the liver.

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Into triglycerides, which is a

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fat. And into uric

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acid. I'll. Say that again. We

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d toxify fructose in

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our liver. That. Doesn't

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sound like a detox diet

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if what we're drinking is

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the toxin. So what happens?

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Triglycerides raise our cholesterol, raise

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our fat content. These things

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are created or turned into

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another fat called Sarah Mine.

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For those of you who

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interested, there's a wonderful paper

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to read on the internet

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published. In Pubmed. Death

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by Sarah Mites. And.

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If you wanna know how

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to poison your mitochondria to

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poison your heart. Please.

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Read: Death by Sarah

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Minds. Put. It on your

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browser. you'll be shocked. That's

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what Fruit Does does to us.

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Finally, I can't tell you the

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number of patients who came to

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see me after a fruit. Juice

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Clans. Who. Developed a

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cute guy out why?

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Because they rapidly raise

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their uric acid. In.

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Europe acid is what

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causes. Down. So here

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they are D Taxi.

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And actually causing a toxic

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gout crystal formations in their

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big toe. all because they

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are eating anti inflammatory foods

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and I can tell you

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is you on experience information

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I have a case of

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gout. Well. So are

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there any effective detox

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solutions? Well. First of

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all, eating a plant based

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diet that's low calorie that

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select and free is one

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of the better ways to

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do this. But the object

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of the game is not

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to lose weight quickly. Number

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one is I've always said

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weight off Sas will never

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last. Weight. Off slow

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your good to go Doctor

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Valter Longo my colleague at

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U S C. Has

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shown that five days

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of eating a low

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protein V gun die

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That. Dramatically.

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Improves our immune systems

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function for the entire

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month. Even. If you

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only need five days a

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month, he's also shown that

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is actually improves insulin resistance,

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improves markers of pre diabetes,

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But you only do it

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for a limited time period.

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Don't do it for all

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month. You can enhance

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your livers phase one and

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phase two detoxification enzymes. And

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there's many compounds that do this. The

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most famous is probably milk

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thistle. Artichoke extract which is

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a cousin or jokes cousins of

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mouth this on earth this or

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plant. Is. Another really

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good detoxification trick. I

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like de Lima only,

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which is sometimes advertised

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as orange peel extract

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and this is a

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compound that. In

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my way of thinking, takes

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not so an artichoke extract

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to the next level and

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or even make a proud

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of with those in mind.

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Sometimes Milk Thistle is a

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really great. Sometimes. Is

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not enough and yeah Dad de

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Lima mean for extra boost and

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what about all those heavy metals

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that are gonna come out of

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this that when your doing a

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d toxification die Welt. Again,

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the problems that heavy metals are

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reabsorbed once they're put out into

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bar. So what you don't do

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is tap. Sure the heavy metals

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in your gut and there are

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several compounds that have been shown

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to be very effective. The first

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is Cracked Chlorella. Chlorella binds heavy

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metals and won't allow them to

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be reabsorbed. The same

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is true with activated charcoal.

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It. Will buy and heavy metals

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and will prevent it from being

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reabsorbed now. Chlorella you can take

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certainly constantly activated charcoal. On the

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other hand, she door continuously take

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it day in and day at

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night. Because. The why bind

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other minerals that you need

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but when you combine that

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with a proper diet. That's

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a way to get heavy metals

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audio system and we've had really

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good success using Chlorella and Every

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Medals to get mercury and lad

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out of our patients even quite

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I levels without T Lace. I

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