124 | Botox to Body Burden: Exposing Parasites & Toxins

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(00:52) Welcome back to the Healthy Home Hacks Show. I'm Ron and I'm Lisa. We're calling this episode the high price of beauty. And the price is higher than you think. Millions of Americans have parasites and don't know it. But the beauty treatments they're getting, Botox, fillers, even breast implants, could be making everything worse. We're exposing BII, breast implant illness, and the hidden dangers your doctor isn't telling you about.
(01:26) Plus, how everyday toxins and heavy metals from skin care to your drinking water are feeding the parasites, bacteria, and fungi already living inside you. Today, we're revealing the number one mistake people make when cleansing their bodies and what you can do right now to protect yourself and your family. You definitely don't want to miss this riveting interview.
(01:51) Our guest Shelley Blankenship is a holistic nutritionist who helps clients reverse and prevent chronic disease through detox, nutrition, and lifestyle change. After a surprising cancer diagnosis when her children were just babies, Shelley discovered that many everyday products in her pantry, medicine cabinet, and cleaning closet were filled with toxic yet legal chemicals and toxins. By transforming her family's diet and environment, she not only supported her own healing, staying cancer free for nearly 13 years.
(02:24) Woohoo! But also helped her husband come off cholesterol medication, cleared her daughter's seasonal allergies, and resolved her son's eczema. Shelley found her true calling. What began as a personal passion grew into a professional mission and she launched Shelley Blankenship Ballistic Nutrition with the mission to help others reclaim their health naturally.
(02:51) Shelley guides clients through personalized protocols including parasite and heavy metal detox, functional testing, and nutrition coaching. She believes true health is about results, not prescriptions, and that with the right tools, anyone can feel energized, youthful, and truly heal. Welcome to the show, Shelly. Yeah, I'm Shelly. That was an awesome intro, y'all. You're an incredible guest. We had a lot to cover. I had to trim it down. We are so thrilled to have you with us today.
(03:22) And for listeners who heard our episode number 113, you know that Ron and I completed a rigorous parasite heavy metal and candida cleanse this year. The results were nothing short of an alien invasion. And I've got all the pictures and videos to prove it. But I rushed into this cleanse before opening all of my detoxification pathways resulting in a healing crisis of Herxheimer reactions, which led me to find Shel.
(03:53) She guided me brilliantly along my journey and I knew then we needed to bring her on the show so you don't make the same mistake I did. But before we get into the parasite and heavy metal discussion, Shelley, can you tell us about your cancer diagnosis 13 years ago? Did you have a family history or did this come as a total surprise? Yeah, no, it was a a total surprise. No history.
(04:16) I had two babies back to back and after my son was born, I just never kind of felt myself and something is wrong with and I was exhausted all the time and I had really achy muscles and I would go to the gym and I'd be like laid out for the rest of my day and my husband would be like you weren't, you know, running a marathon like why are you so sore and the process of getting diagnosis was very underwhelming and that was like really step one of me waking up from a medical perspective.
(04:46) because I was like, "Something's really wrong with me." But they kept saying, "Your laughs are normal." You know? Yes. Oh, yep. Yeah. You know how that is. And I went to so many doctors who they all basically said, "That's probably just postpartum." And so, thankfully, I had a girlfriend who was an ultrasound technician and she's like, "You probably just have some nodules on your thyroid. Just really push for the ultrasound and and then they can figure that out.
(05:09) " And so, thankfully, I did that. The doctor did not want to push for the did not want me to get an ultrasound. And I think they've got all those insurance constraints and whatnot, but didn't want to do it, but she reluctantly did. And then that's kind of how it all unfolded.
(05:27) But it was almost a year of like testing and going to different doctors and asking and begging and pleading get the diagnosis. But then it was like validation. I knew something was wrong. Was it thyroid cancer? Oh, yeah. And it was wild because it No. And back then I was not who I am now. Did have it treated conventionally. So they took the thyroid out. I'm completely dependent on medication for the rest of my life. Boo.
(05:49) How they get you. So and then thankfully they don't do chemotherapy for this type of cancer. They do a form of radiation. So but then I started to like learn and grow after and it was like really rapid after that. I had a few friends in my orbit that were randomly from other countries and they introduced me to other things and they were like, "Well, in our country this is what we do and this is like we're normal and we get to the root of problems." Correct.
(06:18) Right. Right. And just showed me all one of my girlfriends from Russia gave me a book from Dr. Batar. That's how I got turned on to him. And so once I went down the rabbit hole was like once you're red pill, you can't go back. Like once you really get it, it just clicking. I think I was open.
(06:36) I was ready for it and I just went head first and I was like, "Wow, did I even have cancer? I don't know. I'm so jaded now." You know? Wow. That's an interesting question. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he said I had a the tumor was like the size of a golf ball, but And it was like amazing that you couldn't really see it. Yeah.
(06:55) Oh, do they show it to you? Can you actually ask to see it when they remove it? I guess you could have. I didn't. Right. But one of the parts of the the diagnosis or getting to that part part of my story that I left out, but this was like a really good part. I was convinced that maybe the way I was feeling was my birth control cuz I was taking birth control. I didn't want any more babies.
(07:13) Two was enough and they were little. So I was like, it's got to be the birth control. I'm getting out birth control. You're going to get fixed. So we go to the urologist. And the urologist was the one that said, I hope you don't mind me asking, but do you have a thyroid issue? And I was like, no. Why would you say that? And he's like, "Your thyroid looks really big to me." And it just he was the one.
(07:32) It was him. His voice was in my head. I was like, "I know. I know that's something. I know it's something." And I had to write him a thank you card after it was all said and done. Like, "Thank you for saying something. I'm not even your patient." Yeah. And that could maybe be taboo to some people, but you said something. And that literally changed the course of my life. Wow.
(07:49) Isn't that amazing? It's like that HGTV show um TK and Christina. It was a viewer who wrote in and noticed TK had a cancer. Yeah. And it was a viewer said, "Your thyroid looks very large." And he went and got it checked out and it turned out he had thyroid cancer, too. So, yeah, good job speaking up that doctor. So, it was a combination of you getting the MRI.
(08:11) Did the doctor tell you your thyroid looks big and then you had the scan? Yeah. After that, I went back to my doctor and I was like, "You have to do the ultrasound. We have to like after I did this several times and when I was pregnant, they said my thyroid was enlarged, but everything's enlarged." So, but it just didn't like the voice was like it wasn't going away.
(08:27) Yeah. So, what age was it by the time you found it? It was a baby. I mean, and I mean, it hadn't even like it wasn't it hadn't even like broken like the the seal, you know, like encapsulated in my lymphatic system or anything. So, I know knowing now what I know, I would never have done that. And I hate the fact that like I have to be dependent on medication for the rest of my life. Mhm.
(08:52) And I remember that even then being a concern and I was asking my doctor that so like if I'm stranded on an island, am I going to die? And he was like, "Well, yeah, but something else will kill you first." And oh man. Wow. Okay. New doctor. Exactly. Probably when it comes to this, right? That's crazy. We did an interview.
(09:17) I don't remember the episode on there was a documentary called Boobs. I forget something. And it's all about breast cancer and the industry and the push for mammograms and really how many women are falsely diagnosed like false negatives, false positives just like and women like there's horror stories of women like having their breast removed and finding out like they really didn't have cancer and crazy things like that.
(09:42) So yeah, you always want to get multiple opinions and you always want to trust your gut. I think that's kind of a reoccurring theme that we hear from so many people that we interview like your women's intuition and men have it too, right? We all have intuition.
(10:01) Trust that cuz it's your body and it's your life and when you hand that over and then it's you were in a fearful state. The same thing happened to our sister-in-law. She had unfortunately has passed away but she had um breast cancer and there was so much fear-mongering in the industry to do these conventional treatments and not never discuss diet or lifestyle or any of these things.
(10:24) So you know that's why you and me met because we are kindred spirits for sure and congratulations on being cancer free 13 years. Thank you. Yes. Definitely like my passion to talk about cancer and you know then when I got really familiar with the parasite piece and then married them become very passion very impassioned to talk about that specifically because there's just so many people that like you were just describing go through all of these things to like later find out that it actually wasn't even that. Yeah.
(10:52) Or maybe it could have been prevented naturally. Right. Right. Or it healed naturally. I mean there are some really simple things. I mean I just saw another study like last week about like highdose vitamin C. Yeah. And it's impact on cancer cells. It's there's so many different things that we are so cheap. Yeah. Yeah. IV is supposed to be really good.
(11:16) I mean we could bareric oxygen obviously like the starving the cancer with more keto style diets or whatever but yeah's Yes. Why not try it? Why not, right? Why not try it first? And if it doesn't work, well, then you go to the conventional treatments, but we're not taught that. Yeah. Especially in those cases where it's not like impeding your ability to have to to breathe or to digest your food, you know, like if it's just in your breast, it's off to the side.
(11:47) Maybe it's a little uncomfortable or awkward, but a lot of times you don't even notice it if you're not doing your own self- exam or they find it in some kind of imaging. So, you don't even know it's there. And then you append your whole life. And oftentimes these surgeries and treatments actually result, you know, when people say they someone lost their their battle to cancer, it wasn't the cancer that killed them. It was the surgeries and the other interventions, the chemo.
(12:10) For sure. So, it's very very Yeah, there's a lot of We'll circle circle back to that. But Shelley, I want to get to this part. You and Lisa, you met over parasites. Not literally, right? But uh you help you helped her during what would we call a healing crisis.
(12:35) Can you share with our listeners why opening the detox pathways before cleansing is so important? Yeah. So one of the things that I hear a lot from people is why do we need to detox? We have our liver and our kidneys. We don't need to do all these other things that you're talking about. And the problem is our liver and our kidneys are overburdened because we live in such a toxic world and we're literally getting toxins from our food, from our air, from our water, from our clothing. It's everywhere. You can try your best to eat organic and have a low tox lifestyle, but you still have to
(13:02) breathe air. It's really hard for our kidneys and our liver to keep up with the level of toxicity that we're exposed to. So, that being said, parasites can hoard up to eight times their body weight and toxins. They also encapsulate themselves in biofilms which is like a mucousy layer that helps them to hide from the immune system and it protects them.
(13:26) They hide all these toxins like heavy metals, glyphosate, mold, candida, viruses in their bofilms. So once you start to break down bofilms and kill parasites, these toxins all get eliminated as well or they start to circulate in your body. If your detox pathways like your colon, your kidneys, your liver, your lymphatic system, your skin, those are the main ways we eliminate toxins. If they are clogged or backed up, those toxins can't exit.
(13:48) And so instead, they get stuck in your bloodstream, they recirculate, and they can actually make you super sick. And so dead parasites inside you are worse than live ones. So yeah, my reactions and for listeners, I haven't really shared all this yet, but like I was doing these um fulvic acid humic acid foot soaks as a way to help the detox process while I was doing the cleanse. And guys, things came out of my feet.
(14:15) Shel has posted some of the videos on my behalf that you would not believe. Like, yeah, you're thinking worms. Yeah, there's worms. After a while, I was like, oh, it's just a dead worm. Like it's cuz like I was like it's a worm. It's just a dead worm. Oh no, here comes the live ones. Like I had live swimming worms. I had things that looked like aliens. I had things that looked like robots. I had things that lit up.
(14:38) I had things that looked like candida fungus. And I took a picture and videos of every single foot bath in Rhonda. I did over 50 foot baths because I kept every time I would do it, I'm like stuff still coming out. I guess my body keeps needing to do it. I was having like tremors um at night. I couldn't sleep.
(14:55) my body was just going nuts and that's when I was like, "Oh my god, something's really wrong. This is not normal. This is so I felt like I was dying some of the times." So, and I don't want to deter people from detoxing, but this is why. And Shel, if you go to her website, she talks so much about opening your pathways first. And I wasn't told that. I didn't know my pathways weren't open.
(15:15) I'm like, like you said, normal lab result. I eat a vegan organic diet. I live a very clean lifestyle. how the heck would my pathways not be open? But this just goes to show you that doesn't matter. You can still have these issues. So, you really helped me. We kind of had to reverse engineer and start it go back.
(15:35) And I would definitely not advise that for people because it was not fun. And it went on for months for me, like months and months and months. Yeah, I know. I know. And this sadly is such a a common story because I think with the explosion of Ivormectin during co and so many people were turning to these like cleanses prophylactically these types of reactions started to become like way more prevalent because people like I want to do the ivormectton cleanse and now you're hearing it on radio ads and stuff and they're just jumping out and doing it and not
(16:05) realizing and then they're getting like super sick. It can like activate like viruses inside you like like Epstein bar, H. pylori, Lyme disease can get activated. Sometimes people have these things in their body and it's just kind of like maybe doing a little bit of damage in the background, but it's kind of dormant and you wake it up and you're just like having tremors like you stir things up that you didn't know were in your body.
(16:28) I felt movement and vibrations and shaking and parts of my body I'd never felt before and it was really scary. They were coming out. I mean, I got to see a lot of it. I didn't see all of it, but I got to see what was in my body. And it's wild because like Shelley said, you guys, you can have these diseases dormant.
(16:46) So, just because you're not having a reaction, like when you did my assessment, lime came up as like like a maybe. And it was like, whoa, you know, where would I have gotten that? Because you, you know, we can tend to think, oh, it's only in woodsy forests. No, you can get lime in any state, right, Shelly? Across the entire Yeah. Yeah. It's Yeah.
(17:09) Lime is another one where it's like such a misconception and it's a rabbit hole, it could definitely go down. But a lot of people think that just because you never had a bullseye rash after like a lime bite or a tick bite that you would never have lime. And that's so not the case. And we can get lime from mosquitoes, fleas, flies, lice, like any biting insects can be tra passed from mother to baby and uterro and through nursing. It can be sexually transmitted.
(17:34) Yeah, it is um definitely more common. Correct. Right. And now, so lime, okay, lime is the disease. Is it a parasite or is it a what is lime? It's a bacteria. Bacteria. Okay. Bacteria that you get from the tick. And then now they're I've been seeing the headlines lately that Chada's disease is on the rise. I don't know if it's just California. Have you seen these headlines? The kissing bug. It's the kissing bud.
(17:59) They've come and gone over the years. I think even I got bit by one of those one time because they like get you by your eyes. Oh, they do. They do. Oh my gosh. I was like, "What the hell? Where are those sunglasses?" Sunglasses. Wow. God. Yeah. They call it the kissing bug. I don't know why.
(18:16) I guess it And it's the disease is a parasite. It's Chaga's disease and it's a type of parasite that you get. So, and like we can get parasites through Shel tell us the ways we get parasites because there's a lot there's a lot of ways. They're really unavoidable. While microscopic eggs are everywhere, they're on produce.
(18:36) And if you're super clean like us and you buy organic, the one thing about organic is you're not getting doused with pesticides, so you're more likely to have parasitic eggs on, you know, organic produce. Um, it's not just from meat, but yes, meat, fish, for sure. Fish are the nastiest. Undercooked, like sushi, for sure. Yeah. Even like salmon. I mean, I've got a lot of posts on my website about fish because you'd be shocked. Yeah.
(18:58) Maybe you wouldn't make but my feet. I'm not. Right. Yes. But like you know penworm eggs you can sneeze if if you have an infestation you can sneeze and a microscopic egg can go on the countertop and then you can get it that way. Obviously if you have pets you know people who let their pets on their couch and sleep with them and on their pillow and kiss them lick their ice cream cone.
(19:24) No guys you got to stop doing that. That is just I don't care how much you love your pet. That has to stop now. Listeners, stop. Maybe you do one thing. It's just so unsanitary. And we don't realize like, yeah, they look fluffy and cute and clean, but they definitely pick up this stuff when they're out walking and it's so easy for them to transfer.
(19:43) And I heard ear mites can go from a dog and jump into a human's ear. If the dog is like up and close to you licking you or whatever, they can jump into your ear because Ron thought maybe he had ear. Nice. Because let me tell you, we got one of those like endoscope tools and my daughter was using it.
(20:02) Have you seen these? And it's like a huge magnification thingy and you put it in your ear. You can kind of clean your ear. My daughter was using it. She was like, "There's like a bug in my ear." I'm sure it was a might. She freaked out. Yeah, they're so tiny. You can't really see them, but you can't see them.
(20:18) But you was kind of like where they would get clogged. I was like I started googling it and I'm like, "Oh, no. It could be an air might. It could be from the dogs you pet." Even going over to people's houses and petting their dogs. You think it's Yes. Well, the pillows can be your pillows can be a big carrier from because pillows like I think that what is the statistic like couple of pounds of like your pillow can be like living in dead dust mates.
(20:44) I think it's after 10 years it's 2 pound I don't know what the weight is again 2 lbs or might be higher than that of the pillow is living in and dead dust mites and death mites even though they're not toxic like a parasite if you have allergies you're going to have constant allergy issues you're going to be constantly having sinus issues if you're allergic to dust mites and they're everywhere guys they're in your pillow they're in your bed and the only thing you can do is have good hygiene because you can't get
(21:09) rid of them completely this is why Ron and I when we travel we always bring our organic little baby pillow. We have a baby. Well, I I do now for sure. Yeah. I mean, honestly, I think it's one of the best things you can do when you travel because those pillows are nasty. I've talked about it before. They do not change the pillow.
(21:27) They change the pillow cover and everything can get through that cover, guys. All of this can. Wait, so everyone has ear mites, right? But it's just a case of them overgrowing too much and that's when you have a problem or is that not true? Do Well, I don't know that everyone has them, but I feel like they're probably pretty common, you know. Right. They probably are.
(21:45) Oh god, if we can see everything in our body. Okay, so I want to get on to because we have so much we want to cover today because um how all this connects, which we talked about the top of the show, is really important and this is something Shelley and I have been discussing a lot and you and I Shelley have talked about the dangers of Botox and fillers.
(22:05) Most women want them as they offer immediate results, but let's dive deep into the dangers that most women are completely unaware of when it comes to these. Yeah. I mean, so I think most people know that Botox stands for botulism toxin. That's one of them. In bachelism, I think it's Is it the deadliest toxin on the planet? That's what I heard too. The deadliest toxin to express. Yeah. Right.
(22:27) So, obviously that comes with a little bit of risk. They have a blackbox warning on them. And I've had clients firsthand just because they had Botox and then suffer like paralysis on one side of their body or just other weird really permanently. No, no, but like through detox and things, we were able to like pull it out. But Oh, I see what you're saying.
(22:50) Clearly, I mean, there's websites and Instagram pages just dedicated to Botox and filler side effects because they're so prevalent. But I feel like a lot of women don't always correlate it, you know, because maybe you'll get Botox and you think like if you're going to have a reaction, it's going to happen right then, right? And you might not realize, oh, a month later you start to develop signs of like an autoimmune condition, but you don't like connect it. Sometimes that's what happens.
(23:14) And so obviously they're filled with toxins, heavy metals, and and things of that nature. And the other thing they do is they they can cause that same bofilm formation that parasites thrive in. That can happen with Botox and implants. And these bofilms, they become a haven for microbes. And so cuz the biofilm protects the invader, the parasite in this case, and it actually so it tricks your body to think like it's part of your body.
(23:42) So your body doesn't look at it like a foreign invader because now it has this organic film and right. Is that correct? It literally your body would normally fight off a parasite, but it's hiding under this bofilm. It doesn't view it as an invader. So that's how they're very stealthy. and they they wreak havoc silently without you knowing.
(24:01) But going back to the Botox, like so the blackbox warning basically says this toxin can travel from the injected area and that's a big deal when they put a blackbox warning on something and your doctor. Now I've had Botox. I'm going to tell you I used to do it and I was like everyone else being told, "Oh, it's totally safe and it leaves your body in a couple months and there's no problem with it." until I started digging.
(24:25) We did an episode on this a while ago. Utterly shocked you guys with the stuff that I uncovered. And I wanted to just list some of these articles that I came across in Science Daily. Botox makes unnerving journey into our nervous system. You guys can look that. I'll link that in the show notes on Green Medf info.
(24:46) Botox's ugly side effects run deeper than skin alter mind and numb emotion. And then in Psychology Today, how facial Botox changes your brain literally. And that's a really interesting article where it gets into the more you do it, the potential for your brain patterning to change is like really high. And so this isn't just like, oh, a temporary little glitch.
(25:11) We're talking about like dulling your emotions. I mean, if this stuff is getting into your nervous system, and obviously there's horror stories of people getting bachulism because of a bad, it's not always like, oh, they had too much cuz you would think like, well, that person did too much.
(25:29) Sometimes people had, there's something called a lip flip and they put Botox around the lip. There's stories of people that just went in for that and had severe poisoning. So, you and me talked about it being kind of Russian roulette, right? You could do it, not have an issue, and then you just don't know what one time's going to be. Yeah, it's so true.
(25:46) And I've had such a rash of clients with and I started to kind of put this together because I was like, what does everyone have in common? But they were all jumping into parasite cleansing without doing a like a drainage protocol prior. And they had all done Botox and they were having severe reactions.
(26:04) And I was like, there's got to be some kind of connection because this is just a I mean, yes, everyone did not do a protocol to open drainage pathways, but there I felt like the Botox was common denominator, too, right? Because a lot of these women were all very health consscious and like for the most part holistic. Yeah. Right. We say we pick and choose our toxins.
(26:20) For some women, they choose Botox. And the problem with that too is that when we breathe in a toxin or eat a toxin, we have mechanisms in place to help flush that out, you know, in our lungs and in our digestive tract. But when you subvert that and you go directly into the dermis with a needle, those mechanisms are not at play and then your body's just like it can panic.
(26:43) And I'm almost wondered too if it's because these women are more healthy and maybe their immune system is more like activated and ready to get a pathogen, you know, pathogen or toxin. Maybe they're just like, you have to pull this out right now. And then they have these severe reactions. It's just been kind of wild.
(27:00) And like you said, it's not just like random. It's not just like parasitic worms. It's weird stuff. Even like things that look like little balls of metal coming out of people's skin or blades of grass. It's really weird, you know, things. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ron's seen all my foot baths, Ron. I mean, some of them are like light up. We're like, "Oh, they were alien. It looked like outer space in the middle of the movie.
(27:25) " Yeah. Really really bizarre looking things. Yeah. There's no like pattern. You would think they're all going to look like little worms. No, you'll see you'll see all kinds of strange looking things. And the other thing about Botox that I wanted to mention because it's something that I only discovered like I don't know maybe a year or two ago, maybe not even that, that they use the Botox brand.
(27:49) You know, there's other brands that use the same toxin, but they're under different brand names. Uses human blood protein. Human blood protein. That's how they bind it, I think, to your body. And when I found that out, I was horrified because like I'm a vegan. I don't eat animals.
(28:10) They certainly don't want to be put someone else's blood who you know nothing about their medical history either. Yeah. So it's al how do you pronounce it? Albamin. Albamin. Albamin. So that's something that as in I think there's only one company that doesn't use that and it's Daxifi and they use peptides. But still guys I would say that's a safer option but at the same time you still got the toxin. The toxin what is it? A teeny teeny teeny drop can wipe out.
(28:33) I mean, it's a it's a really potent toxin. Yes, it's purified. You know, they'll tell you. I think it's a gaslighting thing. They'll tell you it's the talking points to make the sale just like, you know, everything else. But then, you know, you see these women that have been doing Botox regularly now for like 20 years.
(28:49) It's kind of like the first generation where we've really seen this group of women and now they are really starting to look old. You know what I mean? Yeah. And they're 50 because you can slow it's not just like well the face stretched and then relaxed and then stretched in with fillers, right? And so it's it's and so that muscle atrophy that can happen after doing that so often, right? And if you don't Yeah.
(29:14) These young girls start Botox so early. I'm shocked. And the parents are like, "Yeah, you know, they're going with them to the doctor. I see these things on Instagram." And it's so sad because it's not just physical, it's the mental. How are you going to feel confident in your beauty? And why can't we start to embrace natural beauty a little more? And yes, we all want to look good. I get that. I'm not going to sugarcoat it.
(29:37) But at the end, I want us to go over some natural remedies. Let's get on that. But there are things you can do. Shelley taught me one and I've been doing it every day for my face. And I haven't done Botox in years and I have no intention to ever do it again. And I to make a movement. Well, Botox detox, right, let's let's show them our wrinkles. Let's show let's do it.
(29:56) In our proud minds, we have 11s and we're proud of them. Yeah, exactly. It is what it is. It's gonna happen. And you know, I just hope that I can feel I feel better now in my 40s than I ever did in my 20s. Yeah. So, I feel good. And yet, yeah, you're inspiring to me when we were talking. You go, "Yeah, you've never done Botox or filler.
(30:20) " And you said, "Yeah, maybe my friends have less wrinkles, but I feel amazing and I feel great and we'll check back in 20 years and see who's looking. I'm the only one without an autoimmune condition, you know." Right. Yeah. And you said you said you just get used to the new you and how you look and you'll learn to love that. And you said something like that like you'll love that. You won't feel bad. You won't feel like, "Oh, I'm wrinkly. I need Botox.
(30:44) " Cuz it's addictive. There's no doubt about it. You get addicted to it because once you have it, you're like, "Oh, wow. My skin looks so smooth." And then when it wears off, you're like, "Wait a minute. I guess I need it again." And junkies, they go like way too often, they go, "So, not like physically addicting, but it's like mentally addicting, I would say." Yeah. Well, cuz like, you know, we all want to look good and then we're fighting the clock. And I totally get that. I see myself in pictures and I'm
(31:09) like, you know, so you're just like, "It's okay." You both are very hard on yourselves. You both look great. Honestly, thank you. I know. But you, you know, it's that's a great point, though. Your man should think you're beautiful without Botox.
(31:27) If you're dating someone or married to someone who's telling you to go get all that, get a new man. Okay. I mean, like, see, best without makeup, right? Really? Ron, too. He's like, "Oh, you look beautiful. You used to that stuff off your face, right? You're right. It's true. It's true. Natural beauties." I also I want to make sure we talk about this too, Shel. Can you share the connection of these toxins to parasites, fungi, and bacteria in your body? So, how does Botox and filler exacerbate the underlying issues and wreak havoc on our body and immune system? So, I think that the biggest issue like
(32:04) parasites have gotten a ton of hype because of COVID, but the bigger issue is your toxic burden. So toxins are what really are like the magnet that keep the parasites attracted to you. It's what makes your body a hospitable terrain. So it's really more of the toxic exposures that you have that make your body more toxic with metals and things of that such but also parasites.
(32:29) So when you Botox again going directly into the dermis without being able to flush that stuff out that in that one instance you're just exponentially increasing your toxic load because of all of the toxins that are in it. So people that get Botox have breast implants, root canals and amalgam fillings. These are things that people don't realize that could actually have a huge impact on their health.
(32:53) and it's a constant toxic drip. If you're eating processed food all the time and drinking soda, yes, live right by a farm that's spraying glyphosate all day long. If you live right by a 5G tower, these are all going to increase your toxic burden so that when you come in in contact with a parasite, because we're all going to do it all the time, it's unavoidable, but your body is so overburdened by all these other things.
(33:18) It's like parasite, you can thrive because I'm trying to focus on this mercury coming from my tooth. So that's kind of the bigger issue is really the toxins. So if you want to be parasite free, you really have to focus on reducing your toxic burden, which I steer clear of all injections because even the B12 shot typically has some type of component of like the marisol or aluminum. Oh my god. And you really Yeah.
(33:44) It is such a weird industry because like I'll ask sometimes like if I'm getting an IB, is that vegan? And they're always like, "What? I've never been asked that question. I don't know." You know, the nurse will be like, "I have no idea. Let me go see if I can find out." And why don't they know this stuff? Why can't you see the list? Why isn't anyone showing you you sign consent forms for certain things? Like, I'm not going to sue you if I have issues, but not like here's the ingredients.
(34:06) Are you okay with this? Do you approve of this? There's no transparency in the industry. And I find it super strange. Even like you said, even with simple IV therapies, there's no one telling you here's everything in there. Are you okay? Is that is that all IV therapies that you're affect? No, I think you just you just have to ask for the ingredients and just double check. You know, you could very well have like a practitioner that's like really particular about it being clean. And sometimes there's like a life-saving
(34:30) necessity. It might be worth getting a injection for some reason with some junk in it just because you need it. I don't know. But a lot of them do. My thought is, especially if you're going to do something under the guise of like being well and healthy, you really want to make sure it doesn't have toxins in it.
(34:48) And they describe it, you know, like mercury, if you ever see theol, that's really the name for mercury. So that's what it usually will be listed as. Yeah. And for the flu shot, like it's really weird to me. They have a thearisol free flu shot, which we never do. Obviously, we don't do the flu shots, right? But you have to ask for it.
(35:06) So you can get a theol free, but like they make two. Why not just make it the sulfate, right? Kind of like the food Europe has, you know, the healthy catch. We have the grocery stores push those flu shots so much. I just yesterday I think I went to the grocery store and right at the front register far away from the pharmacy says, "Get your free flu shot.
(35:25) " Free operative words boldly on a sign right next to the checkout stand. So, uh Yeah. If it's free, you're the product. Right. Right. Exactly. Exactly. They're not giving you free vitamins. They're not giving you free memberships to the gym. They're not giving you free non-toxic skinare. They're giving you Right. You have to actually think about it.
(35:48) And I think too for listeners, be bold. Be brave. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to say, "Hey, I want to see the ingredients." Cuz you know, especially as women, we're kind of raised to, oh, don't do that. Don't disrupt. Don't, you know, ruffle the feathers. No, it's your body. And it's your child's body.
(36:03) If we're talking about you with your kids, like ask those questions. Don't be afraid. You have autonomy. You always have your free will to say what goes in your body. And I think that's really important. It's your choice. Not telling you what to do, but just know that nobody gets to take that away from you or pressure you, right? Coers you into something that you don't want to do.
(36:22) But you mentioned breast implants. I want to circle to that. So today, many women are getting expplants versus implants. Yes. Which is great. And we also discussed breast implant illness at the top of the show. Can you share what this is and how breast implants disrupt women's immune systems? Yeah, I've had a ton of clients within the last like maybe two years that had expplant surgery and I even have one of my closest friends had a story where she had implants and then maybe like close to a decade in was really having super
(36:53) debilitating migraines, getting really laded, started to like faint and like have these weird little blackout spells and she was like, "Okay, I think it's time to get these out. I'm going to do it. I think it's breast implant illness." So she went and there's thankfully like a practitioner locally that's like awesome and I've referred a lot of people to him and did her expplant surgery. We detoxed her just postsurgery detox and everything completely dissipated.
(37:19) Really? Wild. Mhm. She was like this is not normal. They were they had her on that what's that seizure medication? Topa max. It's like a seizure medic. Cuz she was like easing but it was like heading in that direction. Is it the foreign invader? You know and they're like yeah silicone. body. It's still in a ball of plastic, right? It's still wrapped in a plastic bag.
(37:42) I mean, if you seen a breast implant, it's a plastic bag. Okay? I don't care what's inside it. It Well, I do. But you're putting an invader, a foreign invader, a very large one, two of them, in your body. And thinking that your body's not going to try to attack that or feel like, hey, something's here that's not supposed to be here. Our bodies are designed to heal.
(38:00) Of course, it's going to feel like, what the heck's going on, right? And I don't even know. And again, even when people think that if I get silicone or is it silicone or saline that Yeah. Well, I don't know if they even do silicone anymore. I Okay, saline. I think a lot of people will say, "I get I got saline, but it's still like a it's like a two-way drip.
(38:18) Things can go out and things can come in and you don't realize it. They rupture." Yeah. Yeah. And then also bofilms can form around them and they become like these havens for microbes like candida, mold, heavy metal. I bet they're so disgusting when you see one come out in an explos. It's really gnarly. I've never lock in shrively. They look like a nasty decayed like chicken cutlet. They do.
(38:43) Oh god. Yeah. Oh no. Yeah. I'll just visual Instagram for the visual. Shelly got with marinara sauce. I'm guessing. Oh man. I know. I think we're surprised because we don't even meat. So gnarly. And it goes back to that again. If your man sending you money to go get your boobs done, get a new man, ladies. I mean, you're a God made you beautiful, whatever size your breasts are.
(39:16) If you really want to wear a padded bra or or put I think it's really the women doing it for women, to be honest with you. It is. It's like the makeup, you know? Yeah. We're hard on each other. Did you wear it? No, just kidding. But, you know, it's like we like we want to be cute. We want to be on trend. And it can be a little hard. I try to, you know, wear natural clothing.
(39:34) That's really hard to be on trend and wear like, you know, I can't. It's really hard. How beautiful. I love your beige cotton knit skirt. Yeah. It's like a chic, you know? Wow. I like I found this brand Lazette and they're like actually really cute and they have like trendyish stuff and I'm trying to get my teen like to wear more of their stuff. It's so important though. Yeah.
(40:00) Shel, you and I tal we tal about a lot of stuff. We talked about packed, the company that does all organic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Ron. Yeah. They're I was like, Ron, we're getting you some boxer briefs. And you know, Ron loves when I all his personal stuff. Everyone knows Ron has earmar [Music] safe place.
(40:19) Honestly, not to be nerdy, but even if you just wore that to bed, like even if you're obviously it's impossible to wear 100% organic cotton all day. We know that. But just to bed, if you just change your sleeping cuz we sleep on a completely organic mattress, pillows, sheets, dubet, all of it is organic. But if you're going to bed in your polyester pajamas, they'll call them silk pajamas.
(40:40) If they're not over $100, they're not silk. They're not polyester, right? And you can feel it because you'll sweat more and it's gross and the fabric doesn't breathe. But these fabrics have frequencies, too. And they've touched them. They vibrate at a different frequency.
(40:57) like cotton and linen and hemp and all these natural fibers are really high frequency and then the synthetics are really low. So think about that and we're we're all energy, right? Think about how that's affecting your mood, your feeling when you're wearing these plastic clothing, right? Yeah.
(41:17) There was a study that just came out within the last week or two about the tie to these yoga pants to fertility. Yeah. Because the polyester, it's not just staying on the skin. It's not just topical. These microplastics and things are getting into the dermis and getting deeper into the layers and causing all disruption with your hormones.
(41:34) But that's one of the things that I talk to people about when they struggle with infertility is like avoiding the plastics and the glyphosate. And I was just so thankful that this study just came out because I tell people about the clothing, but this study really like proved it that it was Sarah G just posted about it. I know you follow him. Yeah.
(41:50) Yeah. And so it was just so good. So, I sent it to a couple of my clients that I knew that like fertility is the goal. I'm like, "Listen, what if you just switched up your yoga pants and that made all the difference?" And I said, "He needs to do it, too." Yes, he needs to do it, too. Sperm counts are on the decline. Infertility is on the incline.
(42:08) And we are ingesting 12 plastic bags worth of plastic a year on average. That's about And people are like, "Well, how?" Well, there you go. You're I mean, you're not ingesting, but your skin is your largest organ. So it does absorb what eight something% of what goes on it. We've got plastics in our water and people are still drinking out of plastic bottles.
(42:27) That's a huge way. Everything's wrapped in plastic. All the food, even Trader Joe's, like even organic, even organic, it's a plastic explosion. We've gotten so far removed from the natural stuff and it's wreaking havoc. I mean, people are sicker than ever. Chronic illness is on the rise.
(42:45) It's rare that you meet somebody that doesn't have an illness or isn't on at least one medication. There's a quote. Do you know what it is? The average person takes x amount of meds. It's pretty high. I read it recently. I was like, "Okay, yeah, that was funny. I was going to say four." Yeah. As people get older, they're in the teens, right? Thick and 10, 15, 12, whatever.
(43:02) Okay. We need some hope, Shelley. Can you share a few tips with listeners on what they can do right now to boost their immune system and still look and feel good naturally without increasing their body burden toxic load? How do we do it, Shelly? Yes. Awesome.
(43:21) Well, I'm going to piggyback off what you were just talking about with sleep in your bed. That's one of the things that I love to stress is that when you go to bed, you want your sleep to be restorative. That's when your body does all of its healing. So, you do want, if nothing else, your bed and your bedroom routine to be as as clean and low tops as possible.
(43:39) So, that's the sheets and the bedding and your pajamas. And one of the things that I find, you know, a lot of people will sleep with their phone right next to them. And I'm like, get your phone away from you. I unplug my Wi-Fi router at night. My phone is like in another room. You're a twinsy. And I feel it's like it's measurable.
(43:57) Like people are like, "The phone? Really?" And I'm like, "You have no idea. It's like a caren. It's a class two carcinogen. Yeah. World Health Organization. Yeah. Right. It's the same as smoking cigarettes. So, it's legit and people are walking around with it in their bras or their pockets all day long and wondering why we have all these issues. So, I'm like, get the phone away.
(44:22) If you're on call for work or you're expecting a call from a parent or a kid, just put it in another room where you can still hear it, but it's not like constantly. Distance is key. The radio stop with distance for sure. Mhm. These are, you know, free things you can do. Turn off the Wi-Fi. I have a ton of plants in my house. I put them especially in your bedroom by your bed.
(44:40) Air purifying plants so that you can help filter the air so that when you're sleeping, it's like clean air. Plants are super cheap and they make your house look pretty. So, I mean, I feel like that's a win-win. And these are just like easy things you can do. They another thing for the beauty perspective. This is helpful for weight loss, for natural hormone balance. And I do this almost every day.
(44:59) When it gets colder, not as much, but I go outside in the morning for at least 10 minutes, just kind of like sungaze because when you get that morning light, it has those natural red light that everyone is so hyped about is that red light because of it anti-aging benefits and ability to heal your body from different things and to help balance your hormones.
(45:20) But in the morning, it's the strongest and you get it naturally from the sun. Just 10 minutes. There are studies that show just 10 minutes of that red light in the morning. Would you directly look at the sun? No, I just have it like to where it can hit my eyes. You don't want to wear sunglasses because there's like a process that happens and then I can't explain it, but I can send you links to it.
(45:38) Once it hits your eyes, it sets off a chain of reactions in your body to where it's like, okay, it's getting into my eyes and now I know to do blah blah blah blah. There was a study on weight loss and how just like 10 minutes in that sun had such an it's like a profound impact on women's ability to weight. Now, we're all going to get up early, Shel. We're all Earthing too. Yeah.
(45:56) Pictures. Sungazing. So, I just want to make sure it's like hitting my eyes. I'm not looking directly at it, but I'm taking You don't want to look directly, right? Exactly. I know some people do and are proponents of that, but it can be dangerous.
(46:08) And earthing, like putting your feet on the earth, we know of a girl that lost a ton of weight and that's the only thing she did different was 10 minutes a day of grounding. Now, we know that can have parasites if you're in soil. Yes, you have to be careful. I know. But I told you're going to get parasites anyways.
(46:24) So just keep your body low tox and the grounding is going to help you. You're going to get the negative ions from the earth and it's going to help you be able to fight peric infection. You gave me two great tips you do every night before you go to bed. Not very sex the castor oil. Castor oil. Yes. And sleep with the castor oil every night. And I've been doing it for over a year.
(46:47) But castor oil is amazing for so many things. It's the deepest penetrating oil. But if you put it over your abdomen and over like the female organs, it has this really wonderful ability to help your body balance hormones naturally. It's one of the cheapest, easiest things you can do. It has to be organic.
(47:04) You want it to be in glass because it does have such a great ability to bind and pull toxins. You don't want to grab plastics and then put them into your dermis because it's in a plastic bottle. And again, you want to have like a organic covering so that you know you're not pulling synthetic fibers and dyes into the dermis. But it helps to break up so many toxins in that region.
(47:24) Toxins are stored in fat, so it can help with like weight loss. You told me you lost 12 pounds and you didn't different. Yeah. I didn't even realize I really lost weight. I just thought maybe my pants were getting bigger, like stretched out or something, you know? How did you get lose 12 pounds? I mean, I'm not like skinny, but it was like, you know, I got down to like a like a weight I was in high school and I was like, what in the world? Yeah, I don't weigh myself. So, I don't weigh myself a lot. So, when I got on the scale, I was like I like I
(47:53) was like stunned. But, um but it's only cuz people were like, "I think you've lost weight." And I'm like, "I don't know." You know, and that's all you did. And how many months of doing castor oil do you think that took? Um like maybe six months. Because you said you're religious like you will not miss a day.
(48:10) So, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. But I also like I coat my face and it also can help with anti-aging and the wrinkles. It's like a natural and whatever. When you go to bed, your husband's like, "Good night, honey. Can you move over?" I'm really sexy. Can you move over? But our cash put the pack on. I laugh with my client cuz I probably got like all these women now.
(48:35) They're looking like little like maze with this little pack on with oil all oiled up and the husband's like cuz it's like not sexy oil. It's like you know sticky and thick. Castor oil. That's true love. We're in the same way. Do you have a cotton wrap that goes around your stomach though? Then how often do you have to clean that cotton wrap? Yeah. How often do you have to wash that? I do it like weekly. Weekly? Okay.
(48:53) You really have to be strategic with washing it too because like it can get everything else oily. Like one time I wash it with my daughter's like light sheets and then just it was like a paint stains like oil stains all over the sheets. Yes. It's a very thick oil.
(49:11) I know cuz we bought the disposable ones when I were laughing cuz um I got them on Amazon. First got a pack, didn't really think twice about it and it was making my skin all rashed, right? The adhes. So then I'm like, "Oh my god, I need to get a healthier one." So then it's labeled hypoallergenic organic cotton. No shifted. So it's like no shifted like the funniest language. And then that was making me break out.
(49:29) And then I was like, "What is going on?" Obviously they just make up terms some of these companies to just tell you. Clearly it wasn't. So then I was just like the little belly button one seemed like it was fine. Whatever that adhesive was. Do you think that will do the same effect as like covering the whole belly or do you recommend like just putting it in your belly button? No, it's like a belly button patch they sell. It's just a little square.
(49:52) Put the cast on it and then you put it over your belly. I mean I definitely know that just putting it in your belly button is going to have a lot of benefit. I mean it just depends on what you're struggling with and and how necessary it is. You might not need to do the whole shebang. It's great for people that have like PCOS or endometriosis. It can actually like help break up like cysts and lumps.
(50:11) If you have like cramps or menstrual issues or if you just have digestive issues, you put it on on the whole belly region and it can help like break that up. But if you just want to do one like cool little wellness thing for yourself, you can put it just in your belly button at night and like all these little nerve endings through your body hit that point and it just helps. It just does this miracle work.
(50:30) It's worth it. Yeah, it's pretty amazing. castor oil like when you look up the benefits like cuz I was looking up yes it's antiparasitic yes it kills candida and so there's so many like powerful and you obviously you can ingest it too if you're having like stomach issues or certain work with your professional like Shelly she can guide you how to do that because yeah my sister was having weird something weird in her stomach and she was working with an Ayurvedic doctor and he had her taking like a tablespoon of it every day and it totally cleared up what's going on. Yeah. So, um, and then
(51:03) the last one that you also told me that I love is the one for your face. Do you know what I'm Yeah. Tell us about that. The gouacha. Yeah. Gouasha. Yeah. It's like a stainless steel gouacha tool. I was like, do I have mine over here? No. I had it this morning like right by my bed.
(51:21) like a little tool and in stainless steel and you just do these series of like exercises with your face and it just stimulates lymphatic flow and helps to push toxins out, but it like stimulates like collagen like uh regeneration like naturally. And so over the course of time, and again, none of these are going to be a quick fix like Botox, but if you're really consistent with it, these really do make such a huge difference.
(51:47) And I mean before I got hardcore into the guasha, I you know would always have my face mask on the red light. I saw more like difference using gouacha within like a week than I did with my red light mask, you know, in a year. Wow. So you can buy them for $12 on Amazon. The stainless steel. They're so cheap. Yeah. They're so inexpensive. Cheap. Easy. And then it's like long lasting.
(52:07) I mean I one time I hit my head on something and I had a huge bump right here and like I cut it open. So like once it finally healed there was like this huge lump and I was like no. So I just gouached it because it was like all the scar tissue and I just gouached it every night like just slowly broke it up and then it's like completely gone but it was going to be like a lump right here. No way. That's incredible. Your skin looks amazing by the way.
(52:31) I mean yeah I would have never thought that you didn't do Botox or filler and it does have a glow. girls, we just need to not be so hard on ourselves and it's really it's tough with Instagram and social media puts a lot of pressure on people to look perfect all the time and like just really loving ourselves and accepting our beauty and doing things.
(52:49) Oh, I was going to mention Peter Thomas Ross sells this Peter Thomas Roths this temporary eye tightener, but it's can tighten anywhere you would do Botox. It's a cream now. It's temporary. It comes off when you wash it. And I looked it up on Skindeep database, EWG's skin deep database, and it hasn't, you know, in the good range. So, it's not super toxic and it's like a temporary filler.
(53:11) So, you can put it anywhere. And that's another little tip that I wanted to share because there's a lot of stuff out there that we can be doing instead. What's that one called? Peter Thomas Roth and it's a temporary tightening cream. They have one just for under here. I used it. I couldn't believe it. I did it here. Here.
(53:29) After a couple minutes, it just kind of looks like it really does. It's clear. Does it change when you put mo when you put your makeup on? It didn't for me, but the person that I learned about it, she mixes her like like you can mix it in with your moistur or your foundation and put it or your concealer. If you see like residue, you just wipe it off.
(53:47) It comes off easy cuz like people do that face tape. I'm like, "No, that's you face tape." This is like better. And then it's also like you're not wearing it every day. You're just wearing it on special occasions or whatever. Right. Right. I can get down with a three for a special occasion. Yeah. For special occ. Exactly. We can do we can go with the three.
(54:04) This isn't about being perfect, guys. And I really want to preach that like we're trying to reduce our toxin load. Like if you're going to You said I know a really famous doctor. Most of you listening know who she is. Very famous, very holistic. She's like worldrenowned and she does Botox and fillers all the time.
(54:23) And I'm like, wait, what? How is that? But, you know, we have to do the best we can do. And if that's you're going to wean off that or maybe you start doing baby Botox, you start limiting the amount and the frequency. And that's what I did. I started weaning myself off. Just do the best you can, right? Yeah. Yeah. I literally just posted that last night and this morning. It's not about perfection.
(54:46) It's just about every day taking new steps to get closer to your wellness goal and knowing every day you move forward is day better than you were past. Yeah. And it doesn't have to be overwhelming. One thing at a time. Whatever comfortable we just, you know, one thing at a time. So, one thing at a time, put your whole life in upheaval. Right. Exactly. It's ease into it.
(55:02) Ease into it. And Shel's mantra is look good, feel good, do good. Shel, is there anything you want to leave our listeners with? No, I mean, we did. We did. Thank you so much for having me on. You're awesome. I mean, you're you're inspiring, too. And being outspoken to to people about these topics and with a more diverse audience than I have, I know can be challenging and risky and so definitely props to y'all for being a such a winner. I know.
(55:34) You help Lisa so much and you're helping so many other people. Like, what a special mission you have. So, thank you. Yeah. I'm so happy we met. If you lived closer, we'd be like buddies. I know. We'd be hanging out. We'd be going for our organic filtered lattes weekly. Exactly.
(55:53) Exactly. Well, thank you so much for being with us today, Shel. And friends, you can learn more about Shel's offerings or to book a call, visit Shelly, and that's S E L L E Y. Shelley Holisticnutrition.com. And as always, friends, you can find the link to her site in the show notes at healthyhomeac.com. We appreciate you and be sure to leave a review or rating.
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