118 | The Dark Side of Artificial Colors

Episode 118_ The Dark Side of Artificial Colors

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[00:00:00] Narrator: How would you like to improve your health and keep your family safe? You are listening to the Healthy Home Hacks podcast where we firmly believe enjoying optimal health shouldn't be a luxury. Healthy home. Authorities and husband and wife team, Ron and Lisa. We'll help you create a home environment that will level up your health.

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[00:00:49] Lisa Beres: Hey everyone, and welcome back. I'm Ron. And I'm Lisa. Great to be with you today.

[00:00:57] Ron Beres: And Lisa, have you ever heard the saying. Eat the rainbow. Absolutely. As vegans, we live by that advice, but whoever came up with that phrase was talking about fresh produce and

[00:01:09] Lisa Beres: definitely not artificial dyes.

[00:01:12] Ron Beres: Yes, yes. Yet everywhere we look, especially in kids' foods, there's an explosion of artificial colors,

[00:01:20] Lisa Beres: which is exactly why we need to talk about today's topic.

[00:01:24] Ron Beres: Is your family dying for color? We're diving into the world of red Ds in our food supply. It's pretty concerning when you

[00:01:33] Lisa Beres: look into it.

[00:01:34] Ron Beres: Absolutely. And did you know that Red dye number three has been linked to cancer and lab rat? I. Ugh.

[00:01:40] Lisa Beres: And while there was a recent FDA ban on red dye number three, manufacturers have until January, 2027 to eliminate it, and drug manufacturers have until 2028.

[00:01:53] Ron Beres: Okay. That's years of continued exposure. And then there's red dye number 40, chemically known as Allura red, a z ugh.

[00:02:01] Lisa Beres: It's a synthetic dye made from petroleum and it's everywhere. Dairy, sweet cereal, juice, soda, even

[00:02:08] Ron Beres: cosmetic. The FDA approved it back in 1971, but it's been linked hyperactivity in children, A DHD, and even allergic reactions.

[00:02:20] Lisa Beres: Yep. And California's taking action by prohibiting schools from serving foods with artificial diets, including red number 40.

[00:02:28] Ron Beres: Well, let's face it, that won't take effect until December, 2027, which leaves a lot of questions about what parents. To do right now,

[00:02:38] Lisa Beres: like what's the real difference between these dyes and what should families know?

Okay.

[00:02:44] Ron Beres: That's why we've invited Amy Elohim to the show today. She's a board certified functional health practitioner and founder of Restored Identity.

[00:02:57] Lisa Beres: Amy helps others reclaim their health through natural remedies, functional medicine and spiritual restoration. She's the author of Back to the Herbal Basics and hosts her own podcast back to Basics.

[00:03:09] Ron Beres: Her company offers biblical based organic herbal supplements and wellness services with a focus. On ancient healing practices.

[00:03:20] Lisa Beres: They even provide therapies like platinum, LED, red light therapy. Now. That's the kind of red we can get behind.

[00:03:28] Ron Beres: Amy, I mean, we are so excited to have you join us today to talk about the impact of artificial dyes on our help.

Welcome to the show. Thank you for

[00:03:39] Lisa Beres: having me. I'm excited to be here. Welcome, Amy. We're thrilled to have you with us today. So Amy, can you explain how artificial dyes like red 40 have been linked to behavioral issues, hyperactivity and attention disorders in children? Yeah, there was

[00:03:55] Amy Elohim: actually a study done in 2007 by one of the most well-known medical journals, the Lancet, and they actually did a study that it scientifically proved that these dyes do affect the brain chemistry of children.

[00:04:12] Ron Beres: Wow. And obviously adults too, Amy, right?

[00:04:14] Amy Elohim: Yeah. I personally can't even have red dye 'cause it gives me the worst heart palpitations.

[00:04:19] Lisa Beres: Mm-hmm. So this takes meltdowns and tantrums to a whole new level parents. It really, Hey, maybe it's not your child, maybe it's what they're eating. Right. And I mean, I'd say that goes, yeah, we see it.

[00:04:31] Amy Elohim: We see it, right. Yeah. We see it time and time again. Especially at, at our practice and at our storefront. We have families come in, I have a whole candy corner that is nothing but. Organic natural dyes. And so when, that's the biggest shift for parents to make is because, you know, they've been given these, their kids, these, you know, fruity pebbles and mm-hmm.

The Skittles and stuffy charms. Skittles, yeah. Yeah. So when you go to transition them out, we have to offer these kids some sort of alternative. Obviously it still has sugar. But they're natural sugars. But in that transition, we need to be able to provide these kids some things so that they, so it's a smoother transition and.

The difference you see from these kids after you remove these dyes. It's life changing.

[00:05:17] Lisa Beres: It's life changing. Yeah. And since you mentioned your clinic, where are you located, your physical? Montgomery, Pennsylvania. Okay, Pennsylvanians. Head on over. Get your kids some healthy candy. Use that red light therapy.

Get healthy while you're getting your kids healthy. That's right. 'cause you know, they'll mimic what parents do. Right. They'll look to you. So if you're eating bad and you're telling your kids to eat healthy, that's not really gonna fly.

[00:05:41] Ron Beres: So.

[00:05:42] Lisa Beres: Exactly. Yeah. Being a good example that lead by example.

[00:05:44] Ron Beres: Mm-hmm. Wow.

I'm curious, so if I'm irritable, is there a chance I had Red Dye 40 and that's why I'm, oh my

[00:05:50] Lisa Beres: God, so much is making sense. It's all coming together very well. Could be.

[00:05:56] Ron Beres: Okay. My serious question is this, what are the long-term health benefits of reducing exposure to synthetic chemicals?

[00:06:04] Amy Elohim: So you have to think, you know, the more synthetic chemicals that you take into the body, the more it damages our DNA causes oxidative stress.

So when you remove these things that are causing that burden on your system, you will notice and relatively quickly too, the difference that your body changes because. Our body's constantly trying to detox, it's constantly trying to renew. So when you remove these things that are causing all of this dis-ease in the body, the body actually restores itself and it wants to restore itself.

[00:06:37] Lisa Beres: Yes. I think that's such a great point, Amy, that a lot of people don't realize. 'cause you know, even if someone's diagnosed with an illness, they get angry. Of course, you know, it's a life changing thing. But realizing that your body is always trying to heal you. Like you said, when you treat it well, and that goes for like talking to it nicely, right?

Your thoughts, the food you eat, the water you drink, the air you breathe, the skincare that you slather on, same with your kid, the bed they sleep in, all of that, it all matters. And in fact, Ron and I are in the middle of a parasite cleanse, which. I'm gonna guess you're a proponent of doing those. Yes.

Mm-hmm. And we hit the company that we had her on the podcast just a few episodes ago and she's like, yeah, not, your body's not craving the sugar, the parasites are, 'cause they feed on sugar. So you know, you're talking about like, let's give them natural dice, but you know, they're still gonna want that sugar.

Right. And sugar and moderation's, you know, totally fine and good natural sugars like you said. Realizing like not just the chemical toxins that we need to get rid of, but these biological toxins that can be actually changing our behavior and our cravings and we don't even realize it, right? Yes. Yeah.

Parasites, the root cause of a lot of dis-ease in the body. Yeah. I'm going down this rabbit hole, I'll tell you, and it's wild. I'm like really down the rabbit hole. 'cause I've been seeing things, I'm doing these footnotes and stuff that's coming out of my footpath is blowing my mind, blowing my mind. So Amy, can you share about the shift you mentioned natural alternatives that you have at your facility.

Things like beet juice, tur, spirulina that we can be using instead of these artificial colors and dyes. And what does this mean for everyday food choices?

[00:08:19] Amy Elohim: I mean, I think we just gotta get used to the fact that everything doesn't have to be bright and colorful. You know what I mean? Like especially if you're trying to spice something up.

There are, I wish I had the name of it. I do carry an all organic natural food coloring in my storefront. I can't remember the name of the company, but there's no preservatives and it's like spirulina and turmeric, things like that. Yeah. But the more. And to remember too, like let's go back to the strawberries, the blueberries, the melons, the things that we know are good for our body.

'cause they're full of antioxidants, they're full of H three O three, you know, it has an extra oxygen and hydrogen in it. And that's what our body really needs to actually restore itself. The things that we're made of, you know, if you're a Bible, believe in, we came from the dirt and dirt don't hurt, so we gotta consume the things.

Dirt don't hurt, come

[00:09:11] Lisa Beres: from the dirt. Right? No, I. I think it's so true. We've gotten so far removed from the natural world, literally like sitting in front of computers all day, faces glued to screens and this artificial sort of world. And now with AI and everything that you know, the getting outside and playing in the sand and the dirt and breathing that fresh air and getting back to shopping at those farmer's markets and growing your own food, I'm gonna guess you grow your own food.

Amy, you seem like you probably have a good garden going.

[00:09:43] Amy Elohim: Well, I'm actually very blessed. I live in a very rural area surrounded by Amish, so there's Amish stands all over. We can stop on the side of the road and get eggs. They have greenhouse.

[00:09:54] Lisa Beres: Oh, I love that. I love Amish country. I used to have to travel there.

I was a design sales rep and I had to there. Had a lot of clients there and I'd be driving down the road and there'd be a horse and buggy behind me and I felt like I was in a movie like, or I step back in time. I thought it was the greatest thing. Yep. And yeah. Well there you go. You're around the Amish, so you know they're very against like too much modern technology crack or any

[00:10:17] Amy Elohim: Yes.

Yep. And we have a lot of local farms. One of my really good friends has her own farm. So all of her beef, no they don't get any vaccines. If they don't get any grain, it's just straight up grass fed beef. And the difference between that beef and store-bought beef is just out of this world. Wow. It's so lean and it tastes totally different.

[00:10:39] Lisa Beres: Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Wow. I mean, you're not dealing with those antibiotics and those hormones and the vaccines, like you said, and the really horrible low quality feed that the animals are being given that a lot of people don't even think about. Right. They're being fed really low just to fatten 'em up as fast as they can and sell 'em at a profit.

[00:10:55] Ron Beres: Yep. So I was curious, obviously a lot of this is based on biblical information. Does it mention certain fruits in the Bible that are like, Hey oranges, strawberries are a great go-to for blank? Or is anything mentioned specifically. Ron does

[00:11:08] Amy Elohim: not read his Bible enough. I just know there's a one story where the Daniel Fest, where Daniel did the Daniel Fest and Yeah, and he just ate fruits, veggies, and grains.

Uh, I believe it was grains for 21 days. And those who didn't do the Daniel fast were, you know, they were just, you could physically tell, I believe it even says like he looked well. Yeah. Wow. I believe

[00:11:35] Lisa Beres: that. We know Jenny Ross. She's a chef and she did at our local church here, she did a whole big thing on the Daniel Plan.

'cause she's a raw vegan and Ron and I are vegans nine years now. Oh, awesome. When we started, yeah, we tried to do the raw thing, but that's like really? That's really hard. That's it. Hard enough. And it's hard enough being vegan. But yeah, I think we felt that when we went vegan, didn't we Ron? We said it was a spiritual journey because you feel different.

Amen. And that goes for, I would just say if you're not vegan or vegetarian and you're listening, just eating things more pure, more natural, organic. Organic isn't a luxury. It's actually how food is naturally. Right? Right. People think it's such a luxury, or you're high maintenance if you want organic, but that's actually how it's designed.

It is organic. It's humans and pesticides that make it. Non-organic, so I love that. Now,

[00:12:26] Amy Elohim: I was just gonna say, it's so wild that we've gotten to a place in time where we have to label food organic.

[00:12:31] Lisa Beres: Mm-hmm. You know? Or chemical free or non gmo, like non GMO. Why do we have to have labels for things that it should be naturally.

Right. I know. It's just mind blowing. It is mind blowing. I love your point about the natural dyes and getting used to the colors not being so bright. You know, we've used the Unreal candy, Ron and I love that brand, and we give it out. It, I, we go out of our way to give that out at Halloween. I'm sure the kids are like, what is this?

It's like six little pieces

[00:12:58] Ron Beres: for like six or seven boxes.

[00:12:59] Lisa Beres: Right? I know. It's not cheap. You get this bag. Halloween is expensive. Party we've ran out before and had to turn the lights up. Sorry. Kids, children, it's too late. And those colors are beautiful. I mean, they have like a pink. And for anyone listening who's never heard of the brand, they do like a.

Healthy version of the Reese's Peanut butter cup or healthy version of m and ms and that kind of thing. And the colors, I think are prettier. Like they have a hot pink,

[00:13:20] Amy Elohim: yeah.

[00:13:21] Lisa Beres: M and m and the green and, and like, if you've ever done natural dyes for your Easter eggs with like you're saying beet juice and things like that, the colors are so pretty, they're like muted, like in muted egg, but they're beautiful.

And so yeah, getting used to everything, not being so artificial, you know, is really good. Yes. That's a good tip.

[00:13:40] Ron Beres: I know we're focused on dyes here, but from a biblical perspective, are there any particular spices? I was so

[00:13:46] Lisa Beres: curious. Yeah, that's frankincense and your, well, I

[00:13:47] Ron Beres: understand that, but I wasn't sure if there's any in particular that were worth noting or mentioning that would be really healthy for you to make part of your daily experience.

[00:13:55] Amy Elohim: His stop's really good just because it's blood purifying. That's what they use to cleanse the temple.

[00:14:01] Lisa Beres: Oh, okay. What is it called?

[00:14:02] Amy Elohim: How do you spell it? Op, H-Y-S-S-O-P. Oh. I've never heard of that. There's a scripture cleanse me with your his hop.

[00:14:10] Lisa Beres: And it's a spice you can get like anywhere? Yeah.

[00:14:13] Amy Elohim: Oh, okay. Um, it's just an herb, so I mean, anywhere that they sell herbs.

Okay, nice.

[00:14:19] Lisa Beres: We're gonna add that in.

[00:14:22] Ron Beres: And not to digress here too, but your background here, I was curious, are there any sort of animals or things they recommend not eating? I know in other religions there are, but is there any mention about pigs or that sort of thing?

[00:14:32] Amy Elohim: Yeah, so Leviticus 11 explains all of the foods that the most high told us not to eat, and that we're very big on that.

In our company, we tell people, avoid pork, avoid shellfish because they're bottom feeders. How are you supposed to cleanse your body when you're consuming the scum of the earth?

[00:14:49] Lisa Beres: Yes.

[00:14:50] Amy Elohim: Wow.

[00:14:50] Lisa Beres: Yeah. Oh, that's a great point. I, yeah, when I discovered, 'cause we used to eat seafood when I discovered that a lot of the fish, and of course like your scallop or your lobster or clams, they are bottom.

They're bottom feeders and I mean, they're not very appetizing looking to begin with. And that obviously the cruelty factor of lobster is beyond, I mean, there's absolutely. No reason to treat an animal like that and kill it living like it's just the torture that lobsters go through. So, yeah, so that's really good advice.

[00:15:21] Ron Beres: Okay. That is, I know you mentioned pigs. I saw something recently too saying one, we talked about parasites, but one of, they say the deeper reason not to eat pigs is because of the parasites that are inside the pig. The pork. Yeah, the pork. And then regardless of no matter what temperature you cook it at.

It doesn't completely kill all the parasites.

[00:15:39] Lisa Beres: Wait, I thought if really, I thought if you were at a high enough temperature you could kill it. You're saying in pork you can't.

[00:15:44] Ron Beres: I'm not sure if it's valid. In fact, I should ask Amy. Amy, have you heard that before? Like no matter what temperature

[00:15:48] Amy Elohim: I have heard it, and you have to think parasites live in stages and cycles too, so it might be killing.

The worm part, but there might be some larva left behind that it's, it's not getting, and the thing about pigs is, so all of the food that, 'cause I'm like scientific about it all. I wanna know like, why did God tell us not to eat this? Well, all of the land animals he told us we could eat are vegetarians. Oh, I love that.

And they all have rumen. They have several stomachs. Yep. And so by the time that the food actually gets, or the nutrients actually gets to the meat of the animal, it's been thoroughly cleansed and it goes through. So when you consume that meat of a cow, you're actually getting the nutrients of it. Now a pig within four hours of anything they eat, it's going straight into the meat.

Oh, that's

[00:16:36] Lisa Beres: really powerful. I've never heard anyone say that. I knew cows had four stomachs. Mm-hmm. A lot of people don't realize they have four stomachs, so that's kind of crazy. What other animals have multiple stomachs besides cows? Goats. Oh, goats do? Okay.

[00:16:51] Amy Elohim: Yeah. Sheep, I believe sheep. Sheep. I had five goats once, so I learned all about love.

[00:16:57] Lisa Beres: Love, I love goats. We did goat baby goat yoga. Oh my God. It's really fun. And they climb all over you and it's adorable. But they will, you know, go to the bathroom 'cause they're baby, I don't know. Right? Yeah. Mm-hmm. At first Ron was like, I'm not doing this, this is disgusting. I don't wanna like go into the bathroom near me.

Right. And the lady explained, the owner of the farm said the pellet, they look like pellets. Like yeah, they're number two comes out looking like little pellets. She goes, they are so clean when they come out. They're not toxic like a normal. Number two, because like you said, they're going through multiple filtration stage.

So then Ron continued with the baby goat yoga after I told Yeah,

[00:17:35] Amy Elohim: it's just mostly

[00:17:36] Lisa Beres: brass and hay. Right? Right. It's brass and hay. Exactly.

[00:17:39] Ron Beres: Well, little fun fact, the reason why I continued too is because the last name Baris back and Hungarian actually means sheep and goat herder, so Oh yeah. I had the confidence to know my ancestors did that, so I can do that too.

Right. Okay. Yes, I want a baby goat. No, you don't.

[00:17:56] Amy Elohim: They're a lot of work and they cost a lot of money, and they're always trying to die. Really? Oh, okay. And you can't just have one goat because they're herd animals. You have to have two, at least two, and then two turns into three, and then you get five, and then, oh, okay.

Maybe not.

[00:18:12] Ron Beres: Thanks for warning us. We'll keep going.

[00:18:14] Lisa Beres: We'll keep going. Goat yoga instead.

[00:18:16] Ron Beres: Yeah, we'll do that instead. Okay. What is some practical guidance for families navigating this transition where their kids are not having it and they want what their friends are eating? How do you play ball at them?

[00:18:28] Amy Elohim: Well, I have two kids of my own and they always make fun of me 'cause their friends will come over and their friends are like, why is everything organic? You're the weird mom. You're that weird mom. Yeah, I'm, but I'm like, also, my kids don't have a slew of health issues and they're really healthy and if they do get sick, they're over in a day or two.

Meanwhile, they're friends, you know, so it's just leading by example. It's just, you know, you are the parent. We've gotten to this stage in America where it's like the kids tell us what to do and it's so unhealthy. It's like, no, take your authority back. You do the grocery shopping, you feed them. If they don't like it, then they don't eat.

Like we're going back to the eighties. That's where we're at.

[00:19:12] Lisa Beres: That's our era, and that was my life every night at the dinner table. Yeah. If we didn't eat, we didn't eat. We didn't eat. Yeah. There was nothing else. You weren't getting a short order cook to make you what you wanted and you what you wanted.

Right? Yeah. Starve them long enough. No, I'm just kidding. Not star them, but like you give them that. No, some parents hate that. They think it's cruel, and I'm like, I grew up with it. I never thought it was cruel. I didn't like it. I would've rather had a bowl of ice cream, but that wouldn't have been good for me.

Right. That's such great advice.

[00:19:39] Ron Beres: Well, you can also tell your kids, look, you have the wrong friends. Go hang out the Amish family next door. Right?

[00:19:45] Amy Elohim: My daughter wants to be Amish. I'm like, no you don't, child.

[00:19:50] Lisa Beres: That's so funny. And also like we talked about, that there are great companies making wonderful, healthy alternatives.

And my motto Amy, 'cause you had mentioned, I forget something you said earlier about finding, I don't even know what it was. An alternative. If you go to Whole Foods or your natural food store today, you can find an healthy alternative to anything. Whether that's mayonnaise or candy or you know, you want vegan ice cream.

Say you do want, 'cause a lot of vegan stuff. We'll be cognizant about not having like the artificial stuff in it, or non GMO, like you can literally find a healthy version of everything. Now you're in a rural area, you might not be close to those stores, but with the online ordering now, I mean, yeah, you can get anything.

So I love that. And hey, your kids can teach and influence their friends with better stuff. So think of it that way too, right? Yep. Okay. Can you share with us, this is really popular right now. I see this all over Instagram and everything, social media, the tricky names that they're now using to hide food colorings in our food.

[00:20:51] Amy Elohim: Yes. So Red Three is also known as Rosine. I. Okay. Oh,

[00:20:57] Lisa Beres: RRO. Yeah. Try. Remember we at right now, nobody's gonna know that. Nobody's

[00:21:00] Amy Elohim: gonna know that when they look at the label. Right? Right. You're just thinking, oh, okay. What is that? You know? And you're just gonna need it. Yeah. Allura red AC is another name for Red 40, and Tartrazine is yellow number five.

And sometimes they'll just put like. Artificially colored or artificially flavored, and it's like, that's a huge paradigm that you could like, uh, where is, they can't say

[00:21:23] Lisa Beres: natural flavors and colors, right? They can't say that. Or can they? Yeah, they can, they can use the word natural. Okay. See, it's getting so hard for consumers because you really have to be your own little detective now and your biggest health advocate for you and your family, because I know they're doing this with Sac and Asper team too.

They've changed the names. So that you know now that everyone's like, okay, we gotta read labels. You've gotta be a scientist to actually know what these things are. Right. And stay constantly on trend with keeping up with their sneaky marketing tactics. Right?

[00:21:57] Amy Elohim: Yeah. That's how my whole eyes were open to this.

I had a class in college almost 20 years ago. It was a marketing class. She was like, I want you to go to the store and I want you to look at how they put the ingredients on the back, but name things different on the front. She's like, almost all the ingredients are the same on each bottle. They're just changing the marketing on the front saying it's for smooth.

Fine hair or thick hair, and really at the end of the day, they're just really great marketing geniuses. But that was what opened my eyes. I'm like, I can't pronounce any of these words. So I started looking them up and I'm like, why are we putting formaldehyde in shampoo or, right, right. You know, or be synthetic dyes in, you know, our skin is our largest organ, so we really need to be cognitive about the things that we are putting on our body as well.

That's where it started for me.

[00:22:45] Lisa Beres: Yes. Whether it's

[00:22:46] Amy Elohim: parabens,

[00:22:47] Lisa Beres: these preservatives, phthalates, these are very endocrine disrupting, hormone disrupting chemicals. You've got the word fragrance where they can legally hide hundreds of chemicals behind that one word, fragrance or parfum. So even if you are a label reader, you.

Aren't gonna know what that word is hiding unless you know. Now there's a lot of companies saying, oh, we'll show the ingredients on our website. Well, okay, you're at the store, you are not doing that. You know,

[00:23:14] Amy Elohim: I know that whole new smart label thing is so annoying. 'cause you can read the back of it and it looks like, oh, there's nothing bad in here.

But then you span the label and it's like. All the chemicals genetically modified, and not everybody knows how to use that QR code scan app, especially older people. So it's just deceptive.

[00:23:32] Lisa Beres: It's deceptive. It's intentionally deceptive. So a couple shout outs. So give some shout outs to some apps I know for personal care.

There's the Skin Deep Database, EWG Environmental Working Group. Their app is called, they have the Healthy Living app. And then within there, I think you access the skin deep database. And then there's Think Dirty is another great one. Do you have any that you recommend for Food? Yucca is now doing some food.

Okay, good. Yucca, because Yucca does personal care too, correct? Yep. Yep. Okay. And then there's free desktop. There's Cleary. Isn't that what it's called? Run clear yet, right? I guess so, but I think so. Is it only desktop really? Well, I think desktop and maybe last time I checked it wasn't available for iPhone, but anyway, yeah, so there's tools, guys that you can actually look things up 'cause it is confusing and don't feel stupid.

I mean, we've been doing this since 2006. Amy's been doing this for how long,

[00:24:24] Amy Elohim: Amy? Well, with this company, four years, but I've been, you know, 18 years almost learning all natural 18 years. And we still have to use

[00:24:33] Lisa Beres: other tools to find out what they're actually hiding

[00:24:36] Ron Beres: now. But if it says USDA organic, we can assume there's no like red Ds in it, right?

They wouldn't. Is that true? Okay. Okay.

[00:24:43] Lisa Beres: USCA are gay. They cannot have chemicals and they cannot, and especially with the food, well the food and the personal care are totally different labels, but yeah. It can't be grown with chemical fertilizers and pesticides and it can't have chemicals, so that's definitely worth the, the little extra guys, I mean, try to smear the organic.

Labels saying it's meaningless. No, it's not. It's so, so important. Even if you're paying a little extra, don't forget you're investing in your health, right? Every time you pay a little extra for better quality, you're investing in your health.

[00:25:11] Amy Elohim: I know the thing that drives me ness is when people are like, well, it's so expensive.

I'm like, well, wait 10 years when you're really sick, that's gonna cost you everything. You can't move, you can't sleep, you can't function. You're all a mess. It's like, take care of yourself now. Do the work now.

[00:25:26] Lisa Beres: Yeah. I love that quote. Pay the farmer now or pay the doctor later. Exactly, yes.

[00:25:32] Ron Beres: Now for those of us who have maybe had red dye 40 or some sort of unnatural,

[00:25:36] Lisa Beres: all of us, probably every single person living,

[00:25:38] Ron Beres: this is the question that's probably going through our heads, or at least my head.

Can the body detox from these artificial colors?

[00:25:46] Amy Elohim: Absolutely.

[00:25:47] Lisa Beres: Yeah.

[00:25:47] Ron Beres: Okay.

[00:25:48] Lisa Beres: Just naturally. Now, do you have herbs or supplements or kits that you recommend that can assist in that?

[00:25:54] Amy Elohim: So we actually, our whole company was created off the fact of creating step-by-step kits, or all of our kits come with a detailed 36 page booklet that walks you through the entire cleansing process.

Most people wanna go straight for parasites, but the reality is you should never go straight for parasites. You first wanna make sure that the pathways in your body are open, so you have to make sure that your colon's working, your lymphatic, your kidneys, your liver, your gallbladder, if you have one. But all of that needs to be open and flowing.

And then after that, you need to go after heavy metals because heavy metals coat our cells. And most of the parasites that we're trying to get are those microscopic ones, and they're inside the cell. So you gotta peel the metals off the cell. But if you're someone who's dealt with candida or mold overgrowth, you need to pull that out before you even go after parasites.

So we're very big on teaching people the correct way to cleanse because it can backfire. We've seen people seriously harm themselves. Some have even passed away from inappropriately cleansing their body because that pathway gets blocked up, especially the digestive one. And then if a tumor or something pops.

You're not able to go, that cancer just spreads through the body and boom. Takes you. Yikes. You're scaring me because I'm in the middle of the

[00:27:15] Lisa Beres: cleanse. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well, it's weird because I said to Ron, so much has been coming outta my feet. That, you know, it did feel that some of my pathways must have not been as open because the mount, like we do these foot folic acid foot soaks and Ron's not, hasn't really had a lot in his and might have been like candida coming out of my feet.

Like moving worms, guys. I'm sorry to be gross and graphic, but like this is like a girl who has a clean bill of health and has been vegan for nine years and has never eaten sushi and like the amount of worms that I have seen and candida, I think, I think it's, well definitely candida and, and stuff is wild, so

[00:27:53] Amy Elohim: people don't realize, like they might do like a 30 day parasite cleanse, but parasites live in stages and cycles.

It can take 90 days for them to even start coming out of the body. I passed parasites every day for 11 months when I cleansed my body. Did you really? Every day. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. So

[00:28:13] Lisa Beres: you didn't do Foot SOS or anything like that, did you?

[00:28:15] Amy Elohim: I did. Oh, that's so crazy. And I have an feel like that's gonna be bath too.

Have you ever seen

[00:28:19] Lisa Beres: those? Which one? The ionic. Yes, we have a really wonderful functional medicine center that we go to here as our doctor, and they were like the first people ever offering the foot bath soaps. And this was so long ago, and I used to do them all the time, and then I would get those patches.

It's that you sleep in. I was, oh god, this, it's crazy with the foot soaps, right? The color of the water. And you're like, what is in there? Because I found this out. Your feet have 120 pores in each foot. It's 3000 pores on the bottom of each foot. 3000? Mm-hmm. You're kidding. That makes sense. When you see guys, I'm gonna be posting more Instagram photos of what came outta my footpath.

Like when you see it, you're like, how did that get outta your foot? How is that possible? Because they open up, right? They open up and then stuff comes out.

[00:29:06] Ron Beres: Amy, is it similar with our hands too? Do we have a lot of pores there as well?

[00:29:10] Lisa Beres: We do, but not as many. I. Yeah. 'cause you wouldn't soak your hands. I wouldn't wanna see anything coming outta my hands.

Right. Even if it, mm-hmm. Okay. So, Amy, Amy, I know you have a lot of really cutting edge treatments. What do you think is a treatment that you offer that you're like, this is such a game changer? Everybody, if they're not doing it, should be doing blank. Maybe give us a couple.

[00:29:31] Amy Elohim: So red light therapy obviously is a really great one.

You just wanna make sure that you're getting the good red lights. 'cause people are selling anything on the market right now. But a good red light's gonna cost you, you know, a decent amount of money. Not gonna be $20 on Amazon. Right, right, right. Don't worry. A hundred dollars. You know, like that's just, you don't know what you're getting.

Um, so red light, I got rid of a 10 year back issue using red light after five sessions. So the platinum LED red lights are really wonderful. That, is that what we wanna look for? Platinum? LED? Yeah. Platinum. LED. That's the name of the company, I believe. Oh, okay. I'm gonna put a link to that.

[00:30:06] Ron Beres: What's the price point for those?

[00:30:08] Amy Elohim: Ooh, you're expensive. You're looking at anywhere from a thousand to, to, however, I don't know. I think I, I got four panels and. I believe that was like 7,000, 8,000. Oh my goodness. So you're talking about big panels that you would stand in front? Yeah, it's a full LA panel. Okay. We have a bed that you laid it down on, but also the vibration therapy.

That's been amazing for people who have a clogged up lymphatic.

[00:30:34] Lisa Beres: Mm.

[00:30:34] Amy Elohim: Tell us about that. What is that and how does it work? So vibration is just, you're standing on a plate and it just vibrates back and forth like this. And what it does is it's just like in the old days

[00:30:44] Lisa Beres: when they tried to like slim

[00:30:46] Amy Elohim: Yeah.

With the belt. Yeah. And that's one of the side effects. It tones the skin, it helps with cellulite, it gets your lymphatic moving, it helps with the digestion. And 10 minutes on it is equivalent to one hour at the gym. Oh

[00:31:03] Lisa Beres: my God. Like toning or not losing weight. Do you lose weight? Oh yeah, you can lose weight.

Oh, you do? And it's only 10 minutes and it's painless.

[00:31:11] Amy Elohim: I'm assuming That's completely painless. Yep. Oh wow. And then my other favorite is the ionic foot bath. We've seen so many crazy things happen, even myself, like if I feel like I'm coming down with something, I do a foot bath right away and it pulls it right outta my body, sends my freaking, I believe that frequency.

Back up. We had one lady who had a. She had like a cyst in her foot. She had surgeries, all types of shots. Within two sessions, it completely dissolved in her foot. Mm, wow. And it's just like, man, there's so many simple things that we can be doing that we don't need to surrender to, you know, western medicine for medications or stuff.

And if we just surgeries, think about all the needless

[00:31:51] Lisa Beres: surgeries that people get. Right. I've been thinking about that so much with the parasites because now they're linking parasites to all these illnesses. Right. And it's like the doctor's not telling you to do heavy metal detox or a parasite cleanse or a candida cleanse.

So they're doing surgeries and really harsh treatments that maybe could be avoided, probably in most cases, be avoided. Right. Yeah. Wow. That's pretty powerful. And don't you find it interesting since we're talking about food coloring today, artificial dyes, that the pharmaceutical companies use those on their pills?

Yeah. Does

[00:32:25] Amy Elohim: it really matter what color your pill is? I mean, right. Or think about amoxicillin for children. You know what I mean? They put the red dye in it to make it pink, so it looks like bubble gum. Oh

[00:32:35] Lisa Beres: really? I didn't know that. Oh, wow.

[00:32:37] Amy Elohim: Yeah. Is amoxicillin, is that like, so that's a liquid that you take Yeah.

For children? Yeah, I grew up on it. I

[00:32:44] Lisa Beres: like, I'm thinking of Pepto Bismol. That's gotta be artificial pink. Yeah, that

[00:32:49] Amy Elohim: does have red. I think that's red 40.

[00:32:53] Lisa Beres: It's so crazy. Oh, and I read this too when I was researching for the show. So they actually combine red D number 40 with aluminum to create red 40 lake.

And ladies, you've seen that on your lipstick ingredient. You've seen Red 40 Lake and wondered what the heck that is. And also, the lakes are also used in chewing gum where there's not enough moisture to dissolve the dye into the product. They also use it in frostings to prevent the colors from bleeding.

Isn't that wild? It's so wild. And then we've got a timers and we have all these like neurological issues and then we linking to these heavy metals, yet they're putting aluminum. It's bad enough. We have aluminum in the antiperspirant, but then aluminum in the food die, which is so unnecessary.

[00:33:36] Amy Elohim: Yeah. 'cause it crosses the blood brain barrier.

And so then before you know it, you know they have people on cholesterol medication, which is dangerous. Then they have this aluminum and everything, and we have seen people come into us. I have, one of my favorite stories is this lady, the first time I ever met her, she was just in my store shaking like this, and I was like, oh my gosh.

Like I was like, maybe she's far beyond repair for me. But we just started implementing, okay, first you're gonna open your pathways. And so she did that for a couple months and then she went on the heavy metals and parasites. If you saw her today, you would have no clue. You have no clue. She stands in her no more cane.

She's walking all over town. She's in her seventies. Oh my God. Wow. That's amazing. You're never too far beyond repair if you have a willing part. Oh, I love that. Oh, that's good. You're

[00:34:26] Lisa Beres: never too far beyond repair, guys. I believe that too. And I think that people, I. Confuse living longer with living better.

Right. There's lifespan and then there's health span. Lifespan is like, oh good. 'cause you'll look at studies and like, well, people are living longer. Yeah. They're medicated. They've gotten surgeries. Yeah, they're, they're on so much medication, they're not living a quality life. But what we really want is a good health span.

We wanna have a life where we're vibrant, where we can exercise and go outdoors and do things and travel and not be confined to a chair and watching TV all day, which is really what you see with elderly today. Yeah, it's hard. Hard front a screen, right?

[00:35:02] Amy Elohim: Yep. When my dad, right before he passed, he was taking 32 pills a day.

[00:35:06] Lisa Beres: Wow.

[00:35:07] Amy Elohim: And I'm like, at what point is he supposed to get better? Right. And they don't what. Kind of life is this, that he's just sitting in a chair all day and just, you know, the highlight of his day is what TV dinner he's going to eat next. Because his doctor was like, oh, just eat TV dinners.

[00:35:21] Lisa Beres: Oh geez. They still make those.

Oh my God. Yeah. That's so sad. Well, there you go. That's why they have to color code the pills because they want them on so many that they've gotta differentiate which one's which. Right. Yeah. Uh, and I think that's pretty normal. I've watched a lot of those documentaries like Food Inc. And. I can't think of the other ones.

What the health and all of that. This is very common. I think it's like a hidden secret. A lot of people don't talk about how much medication they take, right? Because like when Ron and I go to our checkup, they're like, okay, what medication are you on? We're like, none. What's your health issues? None. And people will look at you like, what?

Like this is unusual. I've never heard this. You know, I'm not used to hearing that. Right, Ron? Right. I mean, our center is very proactive. But going back to those foot baths, do you think the same thing goes with ionic foot baths? That you could get really low quality ones and you need a good one? Do you

[00:36:09] Amy Elohim: have a

[00:36:09] Lisa Beres: brand you like?

[00:36:09] Amy Elohim: Yes. So I use the Hibis. They're very expensive. I mean, I think just for a single unit it's like $1,600. Wow. But it comes with a proper tub. And that's what really matters because some of these people are using the plastic tubs or getting them on Amazon. Yes. I've seeing Ionizer pop up all over Instagram.

Yeah. Yeah. And they have, and the ionizers are made of lead and they're coming from China. Oh, all these, these pfas. And so it's like, man, just have forests are

[00:36:37] Lisa Beres: open

[00:36:37] Amy Elohim: and your foot

[00:36:38] Lisa Beres: and taking

[00:36:38] Amy Elohim: in

[00:36:39] Lisa Beres: those chemicals. Yep. That's a really good point. 'cause I've been seeing them really cheap and thinking, Hmm, something's not adding up here.

Right. Yep. Speaking of things coming from China that could have artificial dyes, and this comes in the news all the time, is like the company, the fast fashion like Xian and Temu and these companies, there's like barely regulation on what kind of, there's heavy metals in the clothing. We know the clothing is loaded with plastics nowadays.

The microplastics in all the polyester and dyes. And the dyes, right. There you go. The dyes aren't just in our food. Yep. Yeah, so they're getting

[00:37:14] Amy Elohim: interest. Yeah. 'cause you know, this is a really fascinating thing about scripture too, how God told us not to mix linen and wool. Because yeah, linen has a frequency of a positive 5,000 wool has a frequency of negative 5,000.

So when you stem 'em together, it or stitch 'em together, it cancels the frequency out and then it's not protected. So I'm really big on all natural fibers. I wear a hundred percent cotton linen wool. I even sleep in linen sheets. My kids have linen sheets. Wait, that, that's from a song Elton John. Is it of linen?

[00:37:50] Lisa Beres: I dunno that one right Ron?

[00:37:53] Ron Beres: That is true. That's a true.

[00:37:54] Lisa Beres: Do you really? That's pretty impressive.

[00:37:56] Ron Beres: Yeah,

[00:37:56] Lisa Beres: because it's hard to do now. Like Ron, we went to Nordstrom's like a couple months ago. We're gonna look for a couple dress shirts for you business shirts. And I'm like, everything's recycled plastic.

Everything's recycled. Plastic. And plastic is polyester, guys. I mean it's petroleum derived. It's just like the worst thing to put on your skin. And when you wear it, if you sweat, it's disgusting. 'cause the sweat can't go anywhere. It doesn't like get outta your body and it just like gets trapped in these shirts.

It's so gross. Same with the workout clothes. You know, Lulu underwear, Lululemon's been found high levels of PAS in their pants. You've got in the crotch area where you are, I mean, these are skin tight pieces of clothing and you're sweating your sweating while you're wearing these. So now you've got, like you said, your largest organ.

Your skin is now exposed to pfas, heavy metals, artificial colors in these clothes. So. I find it harder and harder to find good what you're wearing. Like the organic cotton,

[00:38:52] Amy Elohim: right? Yeah. But I'm also at a point where I don't care how much something costs if it's going to help my health, like I'll buy the a hundred dollars shirt.

If that means I'm not killing myself, right, because I don't want not see cancer. Your

[00:39:05] Ron Beres: shirt is really nice, Amy. It looks really nice today. Thank

[00:39:08] Lisa Beres: you. She looks glowing. She's glow.

[00:39:11] Ron Beres: You can see what we see. It's amazing.

[00:39:13] Lisa Beres: And like sheets, like we sleep on all organic bedding. That's like for sure. I mean, clothing-wise, I'm not gonna lie.

We're not doing that. And I know that that's what we all need to be doing. You know, I think we need to put pressure on the manufacturers to like demand. We want better materials. We don't want this disposable clothing. We don't want this like cheap junk. It falls apart anyway. It doesn't look good and lasts like the good quality fabrics

[00:39:37] Amy Elohim: there.

I'm even gonna tell some really great companies, 'cause I'm a leggings girl. I love leggings and they make a hundred percent organic leggings. Can we

[00:39:44] Lisa Beres: give them a shout out? Yeah. Do you know?

[00:39:45] Amy Elohim: Yeah, it's packed. But the website's where pact, so it's W-E-A-R-P-A-C t.com. Awesome. And they make leggings nice. Yes.

Organic leggings. They're tank tops. They're all the ones that I have under here. They're organic cotton, a hundred percent organic cotton. Some of their stuff's a little pricey, but at the end of the day, it's worth it when you know you're not putting chemicals on your body.

[00:40:10] Lisa Beres: Yeah. And you're not buying, you aren't needing to buy so much stuff, right?

I mean, you buy a couple good pieces, right? And then you're not like, do they

[00:40:16] Ron Beres: sell men's products too? Or is it just women? Oh yeah. Oh, they okay.

[00:40:19] Lisa Beres: Oh wait, yeah. I'm pretty sure they have men's collection now.

[00:40:23] Ron Beres: Mm.

[00:40:23] Lisa Beres: Okay. That's great. Thank you. It's such good tips, Amy. Okay. Can you leave listeners with some healthy swaps?

We talked about the brand Unreal, but are there any other companies that have healthier food that you'd like to mention? Have you heard of Yum. Earth?

[00:40:37] Amy Elohim: No. Ooh, yum. Earth. Yeah, so if you have kids, they have like Starburst Alternatives, nice fi, little alternatives. Oh, that's perfect. What is the name of the, I think it's called Sweetss or something, but they're low sugar.

All natural, no artificial flavors or dyes, but Yum. Earth is probably my favorite when it comes. Okay, that's a great one. Okay. We also do have, you know how McCormick's really big for their like seasonings and stuff. There is a night, I don't have the name of it, it's over in my storefront, but I did find a really awesome company that offers like organic country gravy mix and organic ranch and bean stew meatloaf flavoring.

So there are alternatives out there. It's gotta look and like Thrive Market, you can sign up for that.

[00:41:26] Lisa Beres: Yes. I love that. And did we? Yeah, we had her on the show. Chef Maria, she's a friend of ours who's here locally, and she created Superfood Sprinkles. I think you would love this. It has hundreds and hundreds of antioxidants, phytonutrients, and it's

[00:41:41] Ron Beres: tastes delicious.

Oh, all over flavors. Yeah. She has like

[00:41:43] Lisa Beres: the savory and the spicy version and it's black seed. So she's Egyptian and she talks about the power of black seed. So they both have the black seed, but there's like so much else in it, like turmeric and. All kinds of wonderful spices and it's actually very affordable.

You buy like two tins. It comes with the little gold spoons you can put it on eggs, potatoes, salad, soups. We use it on everything, don't we? Right. We put it, oh yeah, you put it on popcorn, you could put it on, and it just gives that extra, really yummy flavor with just, yeah. 'cause you're getting so many different spices in that one thing.

I'll put a link to that too in the show notes, and I think you would love that, Amy. Yeah, I wanna give that a try. Yeah. Super food sparkles. Okay. All right. All my notes here. Alright. Anything else that you wanna leave listeners with? Just go get your book, right? Go buy your book. Yeah.

[00:42:35] Amy Elohim: Well, I mean, the book's fun.

If you wanna learn about herbalism and how to make your own medicines and. And stuff for your family. But at the end of the day, invest in yourself because you don't wanna be 60 or 80 living on medication and not being able to enjoy your grandchildren or your children. Like take care of yourself now. So when the time comes later, you won't regret it.

[00:42:56] Lisa Beres: Well said.

[00:42:57] Amy Elohim: All right, well thank

[00:42:57] Lisa Beres: you so much for being with us. Amy, you're so vocal. Yes, it was really. Fun. I love this conversation. We could go on for hours. To learn more about Amy and her fabulous herbal solutions, visit restored identity.com.

[00:43:11] Ron Beres: And as always, please be sure to review our show. Five Stars are always appreciated, so we can continue to bring you excellent guests like Amy.

Head over to healthy home acts.com for all of the links in the show notes and see you in the next episode. Bye everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Amy.

[00:43:28] Amy Elohim: Bye. Thank you, Amy. You're welcome. See ya. Bye.

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