35: Natural Ways to Boost Your Immunity

Narrator

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Lisa Beres

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Ron Beres

What�s love got to do, got to do with it? What�s love�

Lisa Beres

Ron, Ron. I mean, I love your voice you know that. That's not what this show is about today, love. We passed Valentine's Day. Oh, today we're talking about gut health.

Ron Beres

Oh, what's got gut to do with it? What�s gut got to do, got to do with it.

Lisa Beres

Well, guys, listeners. Welcome to today's show, and today we are going to find out what gut�s got to do with it.

Ron Beres

�The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather, will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.� `Thomas Edison.

Lisa Beres

Hi everyone, and welcome to the Healthy Home Hacks podcast, season two.

After a short break, we hope you had time to dive into the first 33 episodes where we covered everything from electromagnetic radiation, 5g and healthy sleep to ventilation, green cleaning, disinfecting and sanitizing, cancer prevention, frequency medicine and so much more. But today, we are thrilled to tackle the importance of building and maintaining a strong immune system and more importantly, what gut got to do with it. As we said just a minute ago. This is so important in the days of Coronavirus, especially when you consider the constant barrage of contradicting, complicated and incomplete information being thrown at us daily. There's so much talk about preventing COVID and other illnesses, but very little conversations about how your body's own immune system determines your recovery. In fact, most of us are unaware to learn that 70% of our immune system lives in our gut microbiome.

Ron Beres

That is a great point, Lisa. In fact, there are trillions of microbes, bacteria, fungi and parasites found in the gut, autoimmune and inflammatory bowel diseases become a threat. When these microbes become imbalanced, for example, the tissue that lines our gut contains all of our immune cells. So, when there is a leak, immune cells in the gut lining are damaged and can lead to inflammation and tissue destruction. How do you know if you have an unhealthy gut? Microbiomes your body will give you clues. I'm sure you would know if you had this. They're very unpleasant ones that that in fact, if you suffer from bad breath, bloating, constipation, food intolerance, poor sleep, acne, allergies, eczema, lowered immunity, irritability, excess weight and stress. Your gut health could be to blame. Now more than ever, it�s vital that you take your health and wellness into your own hands.

Lisa Beres

That's right. And our special guest, Saarah Samadani is a mom, a holistic health practitioner, digital influencer and CEO and founder of New Bloom Media. She is dedicated to educating and empowering women about what they put on and in their bodies. Her passions lie in natural beauty and clean eating, using immune supporting recipes, something you've probably never heard of, and we're going to get into that today. Saarah takes a natural and holistic approach to help women achieve the quality of life that they D deserve. Her passion stems from her own experiences, and ensuring that self-care became a top priority in her life. After struggling with a drastic need to change her beauty routine to eliminate harsh, toxic ingredients. Saarah continues to put together and reinvent healthier alternative meals for both the health-conscious kind of sore and families just like you that experience food allergies and intolerance. Okay, guys, so let's dive right in. And welcome to the show, Saarah!

Ron Beres

Welcome, Saarah.

Saarah Samadani

Thanks guys, I love you guys so much.

Lisa Beres

We love you to. A little side note is that we've known Saarah for many, many years. And then our paths crossed in this health journey, which is really interesting. And so, we're so happy to have you with us today. I know this is a really important show. And I know you deal mostly with women, but this applies to everybody. Right? I mean, we're not just limiting this to women.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, totally. I think it's just, you know, I, you mentioned women, but typically what I find is that women influence men. Right? I just found that in my life. But oh, first, with like, with like my parents, you know, like, my dad has been influencing his diet for a while. I definitely do. And I think that with everything, particularly gut health, I think it affects men and women a little bit differently. Like they overlap a little bit as far as a lot of the indications that your gut is like screaming like, whoa, whoa, but I find that women, you know, we have the hormone factor, we also have the differences, you know.

Lisa Beres

Complicated, sorry, we're complicated.

Saarah Samadani

I find that the women especially like in families, and this has just been my experiences, and even with my mom, and everything is you kind of influenced like what is made in the home. And I love cooking, and I'm the one that cooks everything. I definitely think women need to take care of themselves a little bit more, because we always put the family first. And I want to make sure that I'm going straight to the women because I'm like, let's take care of ourselves so that we can take care of each other totally go into the decision maker when you're trying to get a sale.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, she knows her audience. Hey, listen, we have an online program called the Healthy Babes Academy and it�s the exact same reason. Our audience and readers and listeners are mostly women. But hey, guys, you can be a babe too.

Saarah Samadani

I don't want to limit anyone, anyone's welcome. But with that, yeah, and I've treated men to men have a little bit of a different need, particularly when it comes to like protein or bcaas, branched chain amino acids, especially for like muscle mass and stuff. But I'd like to say it's the same difference, right? We have the same health journey. It's just has to take different paths and sometimes different foods and supplements to kind of help us get there. Very cool. Okay, I'm excited to get into all this today. Sorry. Now I know your struggles with autoimmune disease medicine and postpartum anxiety. Don't be frustrated with failures for traditional medicine. Can you share with our listeners a bit more about your journey? And how it led you to become a holistic health practitioner? Absolutely. I kind of felt crazy initially in the beginning, because after I had my children, I had a lot of problems with my gut. And I couldn't understand what was happening. I went to so many different doctors, Western medicine doctors, I did the stool tests, the parasite test, like all of that stuff. Personal. Perfect. I know. Sorry. Right. No, we're going there. today. We're going there. should happen, right? Literally, and it's funny, like we were doing all these tests on me and they were like, your health is perfect. And I just kept telling them like something wrong. I don't feel well, I have to run to the bathroom. my skin's breaking out. I'm inflamed. The last 10 pounds of pregnancy just couldn't come off of me and I eat very healthy, like very, very healthy and I have for a long time. And I got really frustrated. I have Hashimoto. So that's my autoimmune. Oh, I don't know you explain what that is. What is happening? Absolutely. Hashimotos is an autoimmune condition. For the thyroid. We have the standard thyroid conditions like the hypo thyroid and the hyper thyroid. So that's an overactive thyroid for hyper and then underactive for hypo. So, I was hypothyroid. And on top of that, I had the Hashimotos, which is when your body attacks your own cells, so your body isn't intelligent enough to know that your cells are actually yourself, because the gut is so messed up that it's going to just go for whatever it thinks is an invader. Hashimotos, essentially, what happens is that your body thinks your thyroid is a foreign invader that goes after the tissue cells in your thyroid and breaks it down which not to function properly. And that's kind of what happens with autoimmune diseases in general is your body is going to attack something in your body, like there's children's. Children's is another autoimmune condition that affects the salivary glands. Okay, your body legitimately attacks, think of all your glands in your mouth, right? Your mouth gets dry, your eyes get dry. So, it's all the glands that lubricate, and lubricate everything. Wink wink. Once I figured that out, I started seeking like naturopath, I went to three different naturopathic doctors. And by the way, I want everyone to know like, it's okay to go and spread the wings and finding different secondary sources of information. Yes, three different practitioners. They were wonderful. And they all gave me little pieces of the puzzle, right? Someone comes to me and I help treat them and they go to someone else. I never feel like offended or anything, because we're all in this wellness pool together. Yeah. And I find that I specialize in autoimmune, but maybe there's someone else that specializes in muscle mass growth or something. Yeah. And really, when you think of it, yeah, that's a great point, Saarah. And I really would advise anybody to do that no matter what health element that you're dealing with, especially when you get into like cancer and things like that. You always want a second and third opinion. But like you said, different modalities of medicine are going to approach things differently. And this doctor may not find something but the other one will, yeah, yeah, like you, I went to over a dozen doctors every time Western, Eastern, anything in between. Journey To say the least. But yeah, I learned a lie. I also learned a lot about myself and about health, I would advise everybody to credible. And what I love is the learning part of it, if we really want to get to know our bodies better. And while the doctors are really great, like Eastern and Western, very good for guidance there. I also just want to make sure that people know that it's really how you feel. And that's what I kept going forward with. I was like, I don't feel good. My blood work looks amazing. My thyroid was perfect. Yeah, but I just kept telling them, I don't feel well, I still don't feel well. And so, when I went to these three different doctors, like the first one found out, I had a gluten intolerance and that my body wasn't absorbing protein, and that I was fully inflamed. And then the second one discovered, Oh, you know what? Your secondary detox pathways are not detoxing your system. If to detox pathways, you have the first one where your body identifies and processes the toxins. Let's use alcohol as an example. Your first response to alcohol is your liver goes there, and you get a little drunk, right? That's your first response, this toxin that's coming in your body and they're always wondering. Yeah, right. They know like next time you take a shot, you're like, oh, okay, my body is working.

And then the secondary is your body eliminating it and not just eliminating it through standard bathroom methods, but eliminating it through like pores, yeah, and through your tissues, cells and through every little area of your body. And so, my second detox pathway wasn't working properly. And what that meant was, everything was sitting in my body, but the first doctor had no idea about this first and secondary pathways pathway. And the third one came in and he goes, your adrenals are shot. And then he took all this information from the first two. He put it all together, and we kind of went forward and I thought, I bet there's other women out there that think that they're crazy, and that are going through the same thing, going to doctor to doctor, the doctor thinking I have something wrong, and nobody wants to help me and it's lonely. It's a very lonely, isolating feeling. Yes. When you feel like Why isn't anyone listening to me? How come people can't tell me what it is. And then I took matters in my own hands. And as I was feeling through these three different practitioners, I was like, you know what, that's this man. I'm going to find out my own stuff. I'm going to educate myself and I put myself through school and here I am a holistic health practitioner. And it's funny looking back on like, their advice and kind of fine tuning it to myself, right? Because you're the only person that's with yourself, or percent of the day, right? Yeah, you know, your body, kind of listen to yourself. You know, right. And a lot of people don't listen to themselves. And I think that that's a great point is quieting yourself enough and stop the glorification of busy, go, go go, I gotta do this. I got to do this and really be in tune with your body and those sounds, whether it's an allergic response, or fatigue or bloating or those things we talked about at the top of your detoxification pathway, comment I think it's so poignant because we actually just did Episode 32, which was on doing an armpit cleanse. Because sweating is obviously one of the ways we detoxify. When we're using antiperspirants and clogging our pores with aluminum and blocking off one of those ways for toxins to get out. We create like a toxic body burden and toxic overload. You really have to be your own advocate. And I think kind of like you start you have to say, I will find an answer. I'm just going to find an answer, and I won't stop. Oh, totally. Yeah, the best way to approach your health is finding the answer. Yeah, my mom, she passed away from cancer 13 years ago. And I remember her initial states of feeling crazy. And I remember witnessing it on her. And she didn't fight. She just was like accepting what the doctors were saying. She did the same thing. She did a fecal test did all that. And then two years later, they're like, Oh, you got cancer. You got eight months left to live. And then she was gone. But it was like, Fuck.

Ron Beres

What cancer did she have?

Saarah Samadani

She had lung cancer. My mom, she worked in T shirts, and all of the chemicals that she was inhaling she wasn't wearing a mask, the ink, the T shirt, dust boxes, printing all that stuff. And then it just kind of spread. And I do realize like lung cancer is a really hard cancer to detect. Right? There are no symptoms. Yeah, you know, there's no symptom. Right. But then there's also this social stigma to lung cancers. They think it's all self-inflicted. You're a smoker. Yeah. Right. And they think it is. So, no one wants to put any money towards the research to be able to detect it earlier. But anyways, they detected it late, but I just remember like her initial stages have been like five or 10 years before she had passed away. And I feel that it would have been nice if she would have questioned why I say yeah, I always encourage women in particular, fight for it, like get an answer. And don't settle for like, I don't know, your tests look fine. How you're fine. Yeah, or pop that pill and pretend the pain isn't there, or whatever the symptom is. Totally, yeah, cuz we live in that society, unfortunately, where everybody wants a quick fix. And sometimes it's just not going to be a quick fix. It's going to like what we're going to get into a lifestyle change. And like, you're just going to have to be open to changing the way that you've been doing things that could be causing illness. We had Dr. Keneally on one of the episodes about cancer prevention. And she talked about how cancer starts eight to 10 years before it manifests Yeah, to a tumor. Yeah. And everybody on this call, including our producer right now and recently have lost loved ones to cancer or have somebody going through that I'm sure every single person in listening can relate. And it's one in three women and one in two men are predicted to get cancer in their lifetime today. That's today's stat. This is really important. Yeah, you're a holistic health practitioner. Can you explain to our listeners what Holistic Health even means? Holistic Health is referring to the healing of the whole person that's made up of independent parts that we have nine, we got body and we got spirits. And essentially, it roots in understanding that these areas affect your overall health, not just your physical wellbeing. And I think that that's initially what people think is like Holistic Health is like, Oh, I'm going on this whole 30 diet, and then I'm done. Yeah, it's actually a lifestyle change. I'm going to get a green juice. Yeah. Like a juice cleanse, and then like, holistically helping it right. Yeah. So really like an overall state of taking a look at you taking a look at what are you eating? What's your physical activity? How are you feeling inside, like your soul and your spirit? Because you take a look at all three, and all three really affects how you're going to heal. And I'll give you an example to you have individuals, let's continue on this this diet thing, right? So, let's say someone wants to come in and lose weight, right? They come to me and they say, you know, I really, you know, these extra 20 pounds, I really, I really can't lose it, you know, I'm eating all this stuff. And when I start diving into their diet, you know, I'm like, ooh, you know? Not really, would you find most people's perception of how they eat is very different than the actuality. Yeah, it is. And because but also to is like, when people want to lose weight, they start these like massive workout routines, right? And then they think I'm going to reward myself and I'm going to go get a McDonald's hamburger for, how right? And they think, well, how come that the 500 calorie run didn't just like negate what I ate, but it's like, No, no, if you want to lose that way, the physical fitness as well as the food you're eating and nourishing your body is a big deal. And then the mental also plays into that too, because you have to give yourself a break. Right? You have to be like cheering yourself on pushing yourself but also you got to be like, Oh, I can't have that right now because I'm really trying to like detox. Yeah, and kind of get back to like basics.

Lisa Beres

So that's love, you know that is self-love. Like I say that. I say that all the time, like, we lose sight of that, especially as women, you know are nurturers and it's about taking care of others and we forget that taking care of yourself is not selfish. It's self-love. It's actually like required.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, you need to do that. Yeah. And that's why I target women, right? Because I feel that, from my experience, like women that I've known, even myself included, like the self-love and self-care needs to be a part of that, which is all part of like the holistic bubble, right? Yeah. Really treating yourself and giving yourself grace. That's a big thing with everything that you're doing with the whole shebang right, the food this fitness. Fitness doesn't have to be like, Oh, yeah, you know, organic plant-based enchilada. There you go. No, it's true. Looking at the whole and I love that Be gentle. Right? Be gentle. It's so what did you say, Ron?

Ron Beres

This is a marathon, not a sprint.

Saarah Samadani

That's There you go. There you go. But also, one of the biggest parts about holistic health that I think that we're also forgetting and COVID is that holistic health gives your body the tools it needs to heal itself. And your body like we're not all Wolverine it out here, right? But we can heal ourselves. And you see that like when you cut yourself or if you get a pimple and you pop it or whatever, right.

Ron Beres

Explain Wolverines. Not everyone's a Marvel fan, so Wolverine can actually regenerate. When he's caught. He regenerates.

Lisa Beres

Oh, see? I didn't know that. Thank you.

Ron Beres

Saarah, for Lisa.

Lisa Beres

Saarah has a young boy so she knows this.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, so when Wolverine like when he gets cut, like he heals, like in two seconds. And it's like we're on saying regenerates. But the thing is, is our bodies have a capability of healing themselves. All they need is the tools. That's it, they need the nutrients, they need the supplements, they need the walking, because even the physical motion gets your blood flowing, your lymphatic drainage going and everything. And it's kind of the whole vegan enchilada, right? The inorganic. But then also the mental part of it goes with it too. Because you know how they say like, and I remember, you know, my mom was going through chemo is like the mental part of it is so important when you're going through it. And I totally believe it when you are feeling ill or you're proud or you're hurt or something just having that mental like, yeah, you know, yeah, I'm going to get through this. I'm going to power through it. So yeah, totally. We did an episode on frequency medicine. And it's really cool. If anyone is going through anything and wants to go back and listen to that one. And about like, even you know your surroundings when you're healing the music, not just the food, but everything's energy. So, like everything the people that are, you know, around, you know, other people like Debbie downers, you need people who are feeling good for you and positive and that kind of things.

Ron Beres

Absolutely. Well, speaking of the body, like, can you explain Saarah? What does the immune system actually do to help prevent illness for us? Can you get into detail about that?

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, absolutely. Super Simply put, the immune system is a bunch of cells and proteins that help us guard from bacteria, pathogens, against infection rates. So immune system is also super intelligent, that it keeps a record of anything that is already fought off so that if it invades the body, again, it can fight it off faster, and even soon as our guard against the world Yeah, right. We have our own like, we're like little computers, or our own little databases of information of like, Oh, you know what, I've had that before, let me bring in the troops. And we only need you know, this, this and this, and then you have to speed it, nutrition, and it means that it can fight it off. But that's kind of like simply what I thought about the immune system. And then just to know that, every day, we come into contact with germs. And we don't know it. Why? Because the immune system is constantly working and fighting off these pathogens that we're running through that we have absolutely no idea about. an immune system is just so remarkable. It's just, it never ceases to amaze me what our bodies can do. And that's why like, I always bet on my immune system, I give it what it needs. And I know my immune system is going to have my back. I love that trusting it right trusting A lot of people think, that right? You think the body�s against you? And if you realize like, No, your body's always working for you, and wants the best for you. Like you said earlier, it just might need some missing tools. I think that's really cool.

Ron Beres

Yeah. In addition, you mentioned the mental aspect to the femininity of that I think women have a natural intuition that men don't always seem to have, right. I just joked with Lisa, that she's the canary in the coal mine. Something's affecting her doesn't mean it's not affecting me in the home. Let's say it's a toxin or some sort of off gassing scenario. It's really interesting. So, I always take Lisa's perspective first over mine because I'm not even smelling certain smells.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah. And they say it's funny, like, you know, like when you get pregnant how they see your sense of smell, though, is that they said that like a reason why that happens is because it's the first line of defense for the baby inside of you that you can smell that it's kind of like the mama bear protection that you have and ice Like, overall, we're hypersensitive our skin is thinner than a male skin for a reason. So, we can sense changes in temperature or texture in the air. And that's the way we were created for a reason. But I totally agree with you like I could sense smells and everything a little bit more sensitive. And even just like when you wake up, yeah. I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. When I got sick from a newly remodeled home from all of the VOC�s and the toxins off gassing. Ron, you weren't actually living there.

Ron Beres

I was visiting.

Lisa Beres

You were visiting frequently, before we got married.

Ron Beres

I didn't work from there like you did either.

Lisa Beres

So, yeah, I worked it. But I learned through my research and journey, that women we have a higher percentage of body fat. And so, we actually store toxins more than men do. If you�re in a household if, you know, you only need 20% of the occupants of a home or a building, to be sick to consider it sick building syndrome. Like there could be something in your environment, if 20% or more of the people are sick. And it'll tend to be the women first, because of all these things that we're talking about. We are more sensitive, and we do store on those toxins more than men. Man, another thing they have easier.

Ron Beres

I didn�t know we have thicker skin. That was something new I learned Saarah. So, we literally have thicker skin. Yeah.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah. And we were talking a minute ago about somebody like your mom getting all her tests back saying you're fine, you're fine. And she's No, I'm not. Something's wrong when you went through that, too. And I did, too. And I wanted to touch upon that too, because I know what some of our family members, the opposite can happen to where your doctor can say, everything is great, and yet you're falling apart. And people will get Oh, I got a clean bill of health. So, I must be fine. But outwardly, you're having all these symptoms. And that's where you really have to use that intuition that we're talking about and kind of come back and say, take the labs and just move them off and say, something's just not balanced here. And I'm going to get to the bottom of it, regardless of what labs or tests or anything show. Yeah, and I totally agree with that. And typically, what I always recommend people do is I say, take a look at what you're putting in your body. And that goes with the beauty products. Even if guys use like shaving cream, or lotions and stuff like that, or whatever shampoos and everything. for guys like I would take the toothpaste, I wouldn't have them take a look at what they're doing. And then for women, we have the creams and the serums. And we'll makeup and the law, you know, we got all that many lots of stuff. And I always tell women, typically you're putting on your body first, but also take a look at what are you putting in what foods you're eating? Are you reading the label? Are you eating too many processed foods? Are you eating whole foods? What are you cooking them in? And that's where I kind of started the conversation of this is where we need to take a look at what you're putting in your gut, right? Which is Yeah, exactly what you said. It's funny that you said the immune system 70% of our immune system is in our gut. And I literally had that in my notes. Like I was like, I need to say this because people need to know it's worth really. Yeah. I totally agree. So for me, if I know that outwardly, I'm breaking out or because there's different areas of the face that will tell you which organ is being affected, right, like me, not asking if I'm sure you will kind of, but if you have rosacea, or if you have like eczema or you have certain spots, you're getting like rough patches on your face, you can tell that that's areas of your body that's having a really hard time. Oh, like for instance, right between the eyes is your liver. So maybe sometimes if you have been Yeah, like right here, so you have been drinking or whatever. Are you having maybe too much wine, which a lot of people are drinking a lot of wine in this hyper COVID? lockdown, so I'm not held to that. Yeah, right. Right. You take a look here, and if you have any that's coming up or dry spots or eggs in the past, whatever your liver is like, oh, and that's where I kind of go, just to what you're saying is outwardly, if you look like you're falling apart, I look at the areas of the body that you're kind of follow falling apart on Yeah. And then I would say okay, my livers messed up right now. I really, really need to understand it underneath your cheeks. Here's your spleen. What's your cheek area? What's your cheeks This is spleen and then the cheek area. There's bladder, bladder and then under here, and then in the qq. This is like your small and big intestine too. So, you know how sometimes I know you don't eat dairy, but I very rarely eat dairy. I love sheep's milk cheeses. I don't go for cows. I go sheep's milk dairy unless I have been myself. But I'll find that if I'm over indulging in even that and I haven't got to cut around here. Yeah, I'm just like, Oh, my body's not happy with dairy.

Lisa Beres

Yeah. Mine wasn't either and most people�s aren't. They just like we talked about the get used to feeling blocked and they don't realize that that could be a food intolerance or a food allergy or?

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, yeah, called asymptomatic response. Oh, and that's where I started with mine. I was so in the deep end with what was happening to me, I started becoming asymptomatic where I got used to the pain. Yeah, muscle aches and your new normal pain. It's your new normal. Yeah. And what I hate about the asymptomatic is that once you start healing yourself, you feel different. And you're like, wait a minute, this doesn't feel right. But really it is right. Because you're not having the pain anymore. That used to be you gotten used to the pain a lot. And so, when you're feeling great and light, and you're not having the bathroom issues, you're not getting the X amount or the rashes. You're like, wait a minute, and when people actually get scared, and then they revert back to their old ways. They're like, they're like, No, no, something's wrong. Something's wrong. Something's wrong. And that the total mental aspect of this holistic healing is you mentally has to be ready to feel good to you. Yeah. You're like, Oh, God, I want to feel good. I want to feel good. And then you start feeling good, but your head is like messing with your egos. Like you shouldn't be feeling good. But yeah, you have to feel good. Yeah. Well, that's awesome.

Lisa Beres

That's a great point. And Saarah, would you be open to taking a call? Y

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, totally.

Lisa Beres

Okay. Cool. We have a caller. Kay, are you there?

Caller, Katy

I am. Hi, everybody.

Lisa Beres

Hi. Welcome to the show. Thank you for calling. And I? Oh, yeah. Oh, great. Thank you so much. What is your question for Saarah?

Caller, Katy

Well, I'm a mom of three and all my kids are leaving the nest and heading off to college. And I just want to be sure that they're taking good care of their health. So, what are some tips to strengthen their immune system and things they can be doing when mom is not with them anymore?

Saarah Samadani

Great question. That's such a good question. And it's something that I think about too, with my kids. I know my kids are younger, and I always like, well, what if they go off in college and they start eating on everything? Well, first and foremost is they're going to take the guidance that you've been giving them up until now up until they leave. And the only thing that I always tell my kids is when they leave the nest, I'll always tell them is that you own your body. And it's your responsibility of what you put into it. So just know that if you are going to target McDonald's and all these other foods, you're going to hurt. And that's something that you have to kind of assess, is it worth doing that to yourself, but a couple other things for getting the immune system kind of protected when your kind of out in the world is, I always load up on green, and protein. I always tell everyone brings in protein and even if you're not either I am a meat eater, but protein you find in vegetables, as Lisa can definitely tell you about all that right? Yep. But protein is so important to the immune system and serve green veggies, I talked about green veggies. And think of them as like the little scrubbers that scrub scrub, scrub, scrub, scrub the walls of your gut, and they go through your body. And then they get rid of all the stuff that you don't want. But then your body also gets the proteins from the greens too, just like animals do, right? You have the grazing cows and the grass-fed lamb and sheep and stuff and they graze on the vegetables. And then they create these yummy amino acids for your body. So, I would say proteins and greens are my big go twos. And then of course, we always have our vitamin C's. And we have our vitamin DS that we always love and definitely pre and probiotics. Those are my go twos. A lot of people talk about probiotics. But sometimes people don't really look at the prebiotics. And the prebiotics are the food for the probiotics. And I'm glad you're saying that because it seems like it's becoming a buzzword. And a lot of people wait, now we have another thing we have to take no, no the pre. So do the probiotics not work. If you don't have the prebiotic then not necessarily but what's happening is, you're getting a lot of people that have a lot of cases of sibo, which is the upper infection of the upper digestive system, because they're eating all these good, yummy probiotics. But if you have no bad bacteria in your gut anymore, because you're overloading on these probiotics, not overloading, but because you're being diligent about making sure that you're taking his probiotics, then they're going to start feeding on yourself. And that's where the prebiotics come in and prebiotics, you can get through a lot of things you could get them through like Jerusalem artichoke, green bananas are a really good one for prebiotics. And this is just what the whole foods and yeah, you can help the psyllium husks and all that fun stuff if you want to sprinkle it on your supplements and hemp seeds and flax and everything like that. But yeah, the prebiotics are just as important as the probiotics. But yeah, once you run out of that bad bacteria in your gut, they're like, what do we eat now?

Lisa Beres

Well, right, so can you overdo it?

Saarah Samadani

You can definitely you can ever do probiotics.

Lisa Beres

And I like the little scrubber analogy that you gave and I know for me, cruciferous vegetables are really good especially for women because It helps release excess estrogen so cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, right? Is cabbage one, I think. Yeah, Brussels sprouts is a good one.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, so that's really good for women to definitely everybody should be taking them I just learned about that yeah for cruciferous veggies and because I've been with thyroid hormone and all that stuff and for the last year have been looking at him as the supplement you can take that gets to extract from all the cruciferous veggies for women that likes to use your hormones, especially estrogen is metabolized in your liver. So, if your liver is not okay, then your hormones are going to be messed up. You're going to go like Why? I always look between the eyes like, what�s going here?

Lisa Beres

Katy did that. I mean, I know when I went off to college, I didn�t gain the freshman 1. I think I gained the freshman 20. I wish my mom had taught me about eating healthy when I went off to college, because there were too many late-night pizzas and things like that. But I'm sure your kids will do great, Katy. But does that answer your question? Or did you have anything else for Saarah?

Caller, Katy

It's really helpful. I mean, it might seem a little overwhelming to tell a kid all that but I think you've hit it. I think you hit the target where I've actually raised them in a really healthy manner. And so is it College in and I'm doing a 10-day detox and you go, Oh, I need to stop so much junk, and he's a runner and an athlete.

Saarah Samadani

So, it's good that he's mindful. You know, he's surrounded by it. But he's like, I've got to stop eating so much. So that was good, right? Yeah. Like, I love that. Good mama words. I only hope one day my son would tell me that to Mom, I've just been splurging on this dollar menu. Yeah, filet or something. And I help them with the detox. I love that. And I think being mindful, too. And that's the mind element of the whole holistic approach, as well as being mindful of what you're doing and knowing and he's aware which I think you should applaud yourself for that too. Because if he's aware that he's not feeling good, then you've shown him how to go inward and really feel the body and recognize like, yo, my body's not feeling good. I need to do something about it. So, hats off to you, Mom, I think that's amazing.

Lisa Beres

Hats off Katy. Go, Mama. Well, I'm so impressed with both of you. But yes, thank you so much for calling Katy. And good luck to your son and all your kids as they head off to college. Thank you, enjoy them.

Caller, Katy

That's another podcast.

Lisa Beres

That is another podcast. Oh, yeah, we got definitely. Alright. Well, thank you. Thank you for calling.

Ron Beres

So, we talked a lot about kids, for example. So, I was curious, Saarah regards to our parents, their parents have a disease? Does that mean that we're more prone to get that same disease?

Saarah Samadani

They're kind of a funny thing, right? We study and we study and we study and we try to find, is there a predisposition to disease states? I think sometimes there can be, I still think that we need a lot more intelligence on cells and cellular level health and genetic health to understand really, where do we get these diseases? Kind of like where twins come from? Right? You know, I'm a twin. And it's like, my mom wasn't a friend, but my grandfather was a twin, but then they say it's not genetic. So, I'm like, is it is it not? We don't really know. But what I have to say is, when I take a look at, if my parents had this disease, and I get it, sometimes it feels that you can be prone to it, particularly depending on your possibly where you're from your background. And I'll give you an example. So, I'm half Middle Eastern, and a lot of Middle Eastern people, they typically have a high triglyceride challenge when they go get blood work done. And my triglycerides have always been high. And that just stems from my background, right. And my dad is Middle Eastern, he has high blood triglycerides, right? You can kind of go in and Memphis and for instant, and it's really funny to kind of see that. And I find that our bodies all have different ways of functioning and acting. And that's what you get from your parents, right. And so, your body could react in very similar ways that your parents do. However, you can go in and you could be a lot more proactive about your health, so that you can mitigate the potential of you getting whatever it maybe they had or passed away from so my mom she her cancer, right. And yeah, she had lung cancer, but does that predispose me to other cancers? Sure, possibly. Her and I had very similar debt problems. I nipped mine a lot faster. And I think that's what drove me to become a holistic health practitioner to is to not necessarily live longer, but have a better quality of life. Yeah. So I would say that if you have a parent that maybe has heart disease, or atherosclerosis or has cancer or different types of disease states, I would go inward and take a personal look at myself in a holistic way and say, okay, Hey, what am I doing similar to what they're doing that's not very healthy. And how can I change this and integrated newer lifestyle where I could potentially move forward to my avoiding getting this type of? So absolutely, I think they go hand in hand. But I also believe that you control the destiny of where your body year ago, and that all is mind body. And that's actually a positive thing. It's a quote, I think we've said it in other podcasts, but Dr. Oz had said, genetics loads the gun, but diet, environment and lifestyle pulled the trigger might be exposed to surfing, but you have so much control on how your body is going to fight that off and handle that and be healthy and Oh, totally, totally. Like I have a friend. Actually. He just passed away from his cancer that his brother had passed away from cancer 15 years ago. And he didn't eat very well. He was a surfer. We live in Southern California, right? There's a lot of great surfers out there. But he ate whatever he wanted. I think in my opinion, yeah, he had a warning of his brother passed away. And he didn't take care of himself. And he ended up passing away also getting sick the same way his brother did, right. So, there's a lot of examples you can kind of take a look at. But again, my friend didn't take the time to really go. I should probably change my diet. I should probably change. He would go to McDonald's and get what's that sandwich that has the French toast?

Ron Beres

We don't know. We don't know.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah. No, no, no, I can we get whatever it was the ultimate griddle, Mcgriddle. I think it whatever I don't know, but he would get it every single morning. And so, show you an example of he could have had better maybe he could have done the green juices in the morning or the protein shake. Or like a really good egg breakfast where you get addicted. The thing is they're addicted to the sugar that's hidden in a lot of food like French fries have sugar, right? It's not just salt. People don't realize that but they put her in the French fries. The ketchup is high fructose corn syrup. It's loaded with sugar barbecue sauce loaded with sugar. So, Barbara, yes, yes. Yeah. loaded in sugar. Yeah, my son's addicted to barbecue chips. I'm like, Oh, I don't like that.

Lisa Beres

Find the healthy version. Right? Yeah. And I say, hey, whatever you want, you can have it, they have a healthy version of everything. Now you can have ice cream, you can agree is you can have cake. You can have pasta, you can have burgers, you can have hot dogs, as long as you get the healthy version. And if you don't want to go vegan, you can get the grass fed and all that. So, it's just about making a healthy swap. It's not about sacrifice. And Ron you remember when I first started going really hardcore on my diet, I would just do that. I'd say let's just go to Whole Foods, we'll find whatever we're looking for and find something.

Saarah Samadani

I totally agree with you. Yeah. And it's something that I really liked. What we just said is taking away. I think that too, when people start going into this holistic journey for health, it's a no, it's not like chanting and stuff that people also have that stigma about it. But what I really implore people to do is you want to find ways where you can add to your plates, yes, I want to talk in the sense of I'm replacing the protein I'm eating and adding these yummy phytonutrients on my plate or I'm adding this to my salad and replacing. So, we want to talk about adding and replacing instead of I can't eat that I can eat that again. That is great. That's also part of the mind right is knowing, oh, I can add pistachios on my salad and get those really yummy omegas and B6 I could add some green onion in different phytochemicals from the green and you know, I could add and add and add and I think that when people realize the holistic health is adding to your life not removing then I think that would attract a lot of people to go, I'm going to go holistic.

Lisa Beres

Yes, because we as a society are taught that like everything good for us is a deprivation and that's taking Yeah, and so changing just the mindset and saying, because like you said, even like say adding pistachios or more veggies to your salad. As we all know, you get fuller faster, you get rid of those cravings for those bad things, right? I mean, all of a sudden, you don't want those fries anymore. You just ate this healthy salad. You literally don't crave the bad stuff anymore. So, you've got to kind of retrain your body to get used to that and you won't miss it. You literally won't miss the bad food at some point. I mean, everybody's setpoint is different, but at some point, you just won't crave it anymore. I mean once in a while, but it's not going to be like an obsession.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah. I think the last time I had McDonald's was 10 years ago, maybe.

Ron Beres

You knew about the McGriddle, ha.

Lisa Beres

She has kids.

Ron Beres

So, we talked about bad food, good food, obviously good food would be foods that benefit your immune system. Do you have any tips in that area for us?

Saarah Samadani

That benefit your immune system?

Ron Beres

Yeah, any particular foods?

Saarah Samadani

So, for the immune system, honestly, I target the gut, your immune system is your gut, your gut is your immune system. And to be quite honest, when I sit and think like, how can I strengthen my immune system, its proteins in green all the way. I sit there, and I think, what can I eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I've got brains on my plate. If I decided to have eggs, or something, there's greens on my plate with eggs. So, a lot of times you see people will have eggs, they'll do hash browns, maybe they'll do some bacon or pancakes, there's no greens there. I always eat greens on everything. And what I like to tell people, I was like, make it a green sandwich. So, this is what I mean by it is, when you're eating a meal, or in the morning, I have a protein shake. So, the greens are in there. But let's say I have a lunch and I decide, okay, I'm going to have a burger, let's put down to have a burger and fries, right, I sandwich it with green. So, I eat greens before I touch the rest of food. And what's nice about the greens is it's what you're saying is when you start eating those greens, already, you're changing the makeup of your gut. And you're not going to eat that whole plate of French fries. Because you're going to go, ooh, I got these greens in me. And then I'm going to help with protein and you're going to move the bun away, you're going to say I literally just love the greens and protein. So that's what's addictive about in a good way addictive about making sure you sandwich with greens. But as far as if you want to take a look at like supplementary to that right, please. Yeah, I've been with the lettuce. Yeah, that's really nice finish lettuce, whatever.

Ron Beres

Yeah, I can agree. I suspect I know your answer to this, but how important is organic to you with green?

Saarah Samadani

Oh, organic is a big deal. So, because I have the Iowa immune, I react to a lot of different foods, especially pesticides. And when you have your organic veggies, there's still a lot of cross pollination, let's be real, the organic veggies you get, they can never be 100% organic, because the way that they grow the field, you have within 30 miles, you'll have conventional fields, you could get across land, you could get bees going from the conventional produce to the organic produce and back, right. So, you're going to get a little bit of the cross pollination, right because of nature, right? You can't prevent nature and we want to make nature happen. Right? organic veggies are super important. And they're important for a lot of reasons. But these are the main ones I look at is one you don't have these veggies that are loaded in pesticides and all these sprays that you have absolutely no idea what are they going to do on your body. For me, they probably affected my hormonal health and my immune health. It's a constant battle to try to get rid of all these pesticides but like I said, I've always eaten healthy I ate a lot of veggies. I probably also ingest a lot of the pesticide residues because I was in college or like I'm going to get that Apple because it's 25 cents cheaper. I'll just get the conventional because you don't know any different but what I like to tell people is if you think organic veggies are expensive, wait to get the hospital bills later because these pesticides are wreaking havoc on your whole system. And organic is so employee love that another reason why I pay now or pay now or pay later and your quality is much better later when you are servicing yourself and this goes back to self-love and self-care and getting new organic veggies, I mean Target has organic veggies now. Costco has you know many Costco so much veggies like and I know Costco want to warn us yeah. And speaking of what is organic for listeners who are oh I don't even really know a lot of people don't really know what organic stands for certified organic USDA certified organic we buy that food. You're getting no GMOs. No genetically modified organisms, no antibiotics, no growth hormones, no artificial colors or preservatives. no artificial flavors, no synthetic fertilizers, no synthetic pesticides, no irradiation and no sewage. Yes ledge. That's what you're paying for it, guys. I mean, think about all that's going in your body if you're not paying for that. Yep. And then you're taking a pill to get that out of your body. So, it's like you're double paying you might have thought sense, but yeah, going in pain going out. Yeah. I don't think people realize about organic vegetables and this is what I like to focus on is a holistic approach. We like to take a look at foods eat the rainbow, right like eat the rainbow of all the whole fish. Yeah, we have a colorful plate if your plates not colorful. Right, the sad diet, the standard American diet. I call it beige. It's like beige brown like you talked about. weekend meat potatoes. world. That's a big brown. You don't want to look at pasta, you need color. I want to also mention about the convention. Organic. So organic veggies, they're the more natural way that vegetables and fruits are grown in our world. And when you look at the conventional methods, they spray pesticides, but they also do genetically modify stuff so that it forces growth of vegetables that are not supposed to grow in that season. So, the other reason why I like organic is because when you look at organic, there's only certain fruits and veggies you will find every season. And those are the veggies you need. It's funny, right? Let's fall we have lots of pumpkin, lots of squash, lots of those types of veggies. And they're loaded and beta carotene, which is really good for your eyes and really good for the immune system really good for the skin in the gut. And you realize seasons are changing into a colder climate. So, you need to have better eye health and better skin health to bear for this winter. That's about to come. Right, right. And it only really blooms in the fall. And so, strawberries, we're in strawberry season. Now, we need a lot of vitamin C, because this is where allergies come in. And we're getting this well. Yeah, and what I do is I look at the organic veggies as kind of my roadmap of Okay, what is my body supposed to have of the season because naturally, those fruits and veggies are growing in that season. I know people have looked at the organic veggies that way, but I use it as my holistic guide. Or, okay strawberries. So now when it�s strawberry season, I literally have strawberries all the time. And then in the fall, I don't eat them at all, because they're not supposed to really grow in the fall, because there's other fruits and veggies.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, the food is in cycle with us. And we're Yeah, relationship that. Oh, and guys, and listeners, I want to give you a little tidbit, if you're not familiar with EWG, The Environmental Working Group�s, Dirty Dozen and Clean 15. They come out with it every year. And it's a list of produce, which is veggies and fruits that are the highest in pesticides, and that are the lowest, and it's free to download on their website, I'll put a link in the show notes. And the reason you want this is because if you're on a budget, which everybody is, and you are like, hey, I've only got to allocate funds to the produce. That's the highest and pesticides. So, I'm going to buy those organic, then the purchase that's lowest and pesticides, which typically is stuff like with a thicker skin than those you could buy conventional. And so that's a really good way to help you budget when you're shopping healthy.

Ron Beres

Yeah, I love that, great point. Saarah, I�m asking for a friend. Is the keto diet, good for weight loss?

Saarah Samadani

I get this question a lot. And quite frankly, I think that all the different diets from keto, paleo, whole 30 fodmaps. A lot of the ones that are out there, I have to take a look at the person. Sometimes the keto diet isn't good for people, particularly people who may have heart condition who are predisposed to atherosclerosis or heart attacks and who also don't really eat the way that they should I think people take a look at the keto diet and they overdose on the fat part of the diet. Yeah, you know, diet is actually you're supposed to have a lot of veggies in there. Yeah, you can't have fruits because you're trying to eliminate the sugars. But what I recommend is if someone wants to do the keto diet, I would say that you need to have your plate balanced, where there's more greens and veggies, and there is meats and fats. Because you really need to load up on the greens like the green sandwich where you eat the greens. And then you eat the fats and the protein and then you eat the greens again, because the greens are those scrubbers. They're the ones that are going to help you digest all that fat. And I only recommend the keto diet intermittently. So, I don't recommend it as a whole lifestyle. But if you're going to do it, do it for three months, and then take a break and then slowly start integrating all that other stuff back in.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, it�s a long time, but some people do it every day for their life. How can that be healthy? Yeah, you're literally if you're taking fruits out. There are so many antioxidants, right, and the fruits and vitamins and minerals on it?

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, I wouldn't think, long term. Yeah, for my personal body type. I am better on a paleo diet, and I am on any other diet, but that's just because that works better for my body for my genetics being past Middle Eastern, and then also because of my autoimmune because if I load up on so many fats on the keto diet, my body will go crazy because my liver is so important to me with an autoimmune condition and rain. So yeah, I would take a look at what do you have? Do you have any ailments? Or do you have food allergies? Do you have food sensitivities, and then I would take a more of a veggie style approach? I like meats and veggies. That's why paleo is like so great for me. Maybe eliminate the grains but yeah, you know is it depends on the person. I don't recommend it for everybody.

Ron Beres

Saarah, you avoid certain kinds of meats. I'm vegan, but you avoid certain kinds of meats, typically non organic probably.

Saarah Samadani

Well, yeah, so I do grass fed. That's really important to me. So, I'll make sure that its grass fed or pasture raised for the chickens and stuff. Lamb is one of the best sources of amino acids of all the meats. We were not. And so, if I have a choice to eat a meat, I'll eat lamb. Lamb has one of the most complete amino acid profiles ever. And it's amazing. I just don't eat pork. I do that for my own reasons. There's a lot of stuff in pork meats that I probably don't want to go into that. I can really, I just posted a video of a hot dog and it was I got so many responses like what a hot dog under a microscope. Oh my god, it was so disgusting. Yeah, weird things that athlete. Yeah. But I think what you said is that we all are different. We all have different even our blood type, right? There's the whole eight, right for your blood type concept. Yeah, we're all very different. And we all have to figure out what works for us. It's taken me we've been vegan five years now I was vegetarian. I was really pescatarian. Before that, and that was my journey. That's how long it took me to be vegan. I couldn't have been vegan earlier because it really didn't know how to eat perfectly as a vegan, meaning. I was doing too many carbs and I was really fatigued. Yeah, and that's what happens, right? And with anything like even if you want to go more paleo like, for me, when I go paleo, I still eat the rice pasta. Sometimes they still indulge and I make my own French fries. Right? Yeah, I still do that. However, it was a slow integration. And with any lifestyle change. It's got to be a slow integration. It's really difficult to just go cold turkey.

Lisa Beres

Yeah. Because then it feels like you're depriving yourself, right? Where right away. Even Yeah, you're hungry. Even though you wouldn't normally be hungry in like an hour after you eat.

Ron Beres

Yeah, let's move on from meat. So yeah. So, what do you feel about being gluten free? Would they be healthier?

Saarah Samadani

Again, I think that depends on the body type. So, I'm gluten free, for obvious reasons. But going gluten free doesn't necessarily mean healthier. I found that when I first had to go gluten free, I was trying to find all the alternatives, right? And then when I started reading the labels of the gluten free cookies and the gluten free cereals and breads to make. Yeah, like doing great. But then it's like you really read into the ingredients. You're like, Oh, yeah, what else are they replacing? But I find that for instance, people with thyroid conditions absolutely go gluten free. The gliadin protein that you find in gluten is very bio identical to the thyroid. Very identical. So, it's going to mess with the thyroid.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, say you have a client who has thyroid issues. Do you do that right away? Like do that right away, because then they get off their medication? Yeah, I know. You're not giving medical advice, but typically?

Saarah Samadani

In my opinion, if you can catch it early enough. I think you can get off some medicine, but for me, I think it was too little too late. So, what I'm doing is I just do stuff for thyroid support with the copper and the glutathione. And all that other fun thyroid support. Choline is a really big thing for me. Choline is found in the yolk of an egg and asparagus really behind choline. Okay, sprouts like any stinky bouquets. Yeah, right. Only for women, by the way, just FYI. Women need choline for all the all the women's stuff. But for gluten free, I would have to say that you think about grains as a grain. And I think that too much gluten is not good for people. I think that within reason people can still have a little bit here and there wouldn't take two months to get out of the body when you have to get rid of it. And purge, it takes a couple months to get it out of your system that shows you how sticky it is. Yeah, yeah. But I would limit it.

Lisa Beres

Yeah, I gave up gluten to really, I mean, I didn't have an allergy, not celiac or anything. But I just noticed I really felt bad after I ate it. Yeah, like we're talking about the bloating, constant loading and just that kind of really full, heavy feeling. So, listening to your body and kind of tuning into those little clues that gives you was really the moral of today's show. So Saarah, this has been so great. Now stress plays a huge part in our ability to heal and eat healthy and what would you say are some great techniques that you recommend and do to reduce stress which everybody needs right now, stress is a really big deal?

Saarah Samadani

Stress can affect your adrenals and your adrenals affect your hormones and your hormones affect the way you've been digesting food and when you affect the way you metabolize food; you're not getting the nutrients that you need. A long way into right stress is a really big deal. And then stress also affects the way that your body organs, detoxify processed foods, everything from even your mood, right. We all know that when we're stressed our moods kind of live on Good sound effects. But they're really distressing. I think again, it depends on the person. So, for me distressing is like going on a walk, exercising, my stress relief is through motion, I have to move to get rid of the stress. Yeah, other people may find sitting and meditating and yoga, eating, yoga eating, if that's the word, I love it, they'll get no gain, maybe that works better for them. Sometimes distressing is like going out with your boyfriend, I definitely don't recommend you getting yourself an excessive libation and stuff like that when you're trying to de stress because I think you're just messing what the issue is, right? But really going, doing things that get you in touch with yourself creating that space that you need to release it. And then there's also adaptogenic herbs that I take for stress. So, some of those herbs are ashwagandha, which I know you know about and holy basil.

Lisa Beres

All What is it? Holy Basil. Is that basil different? Is it holy? It�s blessed, ha.

Saarah Samadani

Yeah, it's actually a good one. And there's the Reishi mushrooms and the whole mushroom family with adaptogenic herbs. And what adaptogens do is they help to you have this gut adrenal connection. And what it does is it helps your body adapt to stress. So, when you're stressed out, your body releases cortisol and a little bit of cortisol is good. We need cortisol. Cortisol is actually what gets your body to go chill out. Okay? But then when your body is constantly like running and running, what happens is your dream knows they shoot up to the brain to go deal with stress release cortisol. So, release cortisol, then the dream is going again, we're stressed again, release cortisol. But if this connection is not happening, then the adrenals are like release cortisol release cortisol release cortisol, and the brain is like, Oh, yeah, what? What do you say? I can't hear you. I can't hear you know, what the adaptogens do they become this super big foghorn? And they're like, renewed release the cortisol. And then you kind of like, chill out, right? We're all going to have that as well, anyway. Yeah, right. The mushrooms are like an amplifier. And that's really cool.

Lisa Beres

No, that's true. Because there's so much adrenal burnout. Nowadays, we live in a fight or flight. Society and it's rewarded, right? It's encouraged. Oh, you didn't get sleep? Got a high five. You're working hard. And so, we get rewarded for that. And we push ourselves and push ourselves and push ourselves until if you've ever had adrenal burnout, anyone listening? Whoa, me? Yeah, well, right. It's like someone puts the brakes on really fast. And you can't tap into those reserves anymore, because you've abused them. It's a journey to get those back. So, get that body balanced again.

Well, you guys, this was so amazing. I hope you learned as much as I did. Thank you so much, Saarah.

Saarah Samadani

Thanks for having me.

Lisa Beres

Oh, gosh, this was really important, especially in today's day and age. This was great and such an important topic. I hope you guys learned a ton and take away some tips to start improving and building your immune system and gut health today. Be sure to subscribe to the Healthy Home Hacks podcast if you�re not already. And to find all the show notes and all the links that we discussed today, go to www.RonandLisa.com/Podcast

Ron Beres

Plus, all of Saarah�s recipes are allergy friendly, quick to prepare and incorporate a superfood to add an extra boost of wellness. You can learn more about Saarah at www.BeautyMomme.com and that's beauty mommy with an �e.� Let me spell it for you. B e a u t y m o m m e dot com. Of course, you can also find her on Instagram at beautymomme. So, we'll see you at the next episode. Thanks, everyone for joining us. We appreciate you being here.

Saarah Samadani

Thank you, guys!

Ron Beres

Good to see you. Wonderful, great job.

Saarah Samadani

So good to see you guys. Thanks for having me.

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