Hello again, I apologize the last livestream that I did I had some
technical issues for some reason I just got booted off it's kind of in the air
today. I've had some technical issues all day today so I apologize for that.
So I'm starting this new video and hope everything goes well and hopefully I can
get this information to you without something crashing again. Okay,
so if this is your first time joining me my name is Kendra Perry. I'm a functional
diagnostic nutritionist and my specialty is gut house hormones toxins and detox
and especially I love talking about toxins and detox, because this is
incredibly important it's something that every single one of us really needs to
be thinking about okay. And a lot of times when our health is crappy, when we
have poor energy, when we have you know, we're gaining weight we can't lose it no
matter what, we're hyper focused on our diet,
we're hyper focused on our exercise routine, but few of us are actually
focusing on the toxins, and you might be wondering well what the heck do toxins
have to do with my energy, what do they have to do with weight gain? And I mean
the truth is they have so much to do with it so a lot of toxins especially
different chemicals that are in our environment and metals they actually
interfere with the function of your mitochondria. So maybe you can remember
from high school biology but the mitochondria is actually that little
powerhouse in your cell and one of its primary jobs is producing ATP and that
is your body's main energy molecule. So every time you need energy your body has
to make ATP but if you have a bunch of toxins that are interfering with your
mitochondria is ability to make that ATP you're gonna be
really fatigued, you're gonna be really f**king tired. You're gonna feel like
you're super glued to the floor, you're gonna wake up exhausted even when you
had a great sleep, you're gonna sort of drag your ass throughout the day, you're
probably gonna have to drink lots of coffee to get that sort of artificial
energy, you might crash throughout the day, like you're just really really gonna
struggle with your energy and no amount of good diet no amount of exercise is
actually going to fix that. So we really need to be thinking about this because
unfortunately, well it's kind of messed up right, like
we have so many chemicals and toxins in our environment and we are always
getting exposed and if you tuned in to my live videos you probably think I'm a
broken record because I'm always saying this but it's really really true. We're
constantly getting exposed, so we really need to work our hardest to remove a lot
of these things from our environment as much as possible of course it's not a
hundred percent possible regardless like we're gonna get exposed to some degree
right but there's a lot we can do. So I'm going to tell you about five hidden ones
that not everyone thinks about that can really wreak havoc on your energy levels
but also weight loss. Okay and this is really really important. Typically toxins
get stored in fat cells. Okay, so if your body is getting a really constant influx
of chemicals of toxins, it has to go somewhere so if they're coming in too
quickly like maybe faster than your detox pathways can deal with or maybe
you don't have the good mineral level so you don't have the hormone balance or
something's going on where you don't detoxify very well which is very common
for a lot of us, your body has to put these somewhere if your body can't deal
with them they need to go somewhere and thankfully fat cells are as nice sticky
membrane that you can stick a toxin into and it's not gonna have a really nasty
effect on the rest of the body okay. So this is obviously problematic for weight
loss because if your body is totally toxic, so your fat cells are filled with
toxins, your body might be like uh-uh like you ain't losing weight because I
can't deal with all these toxins right like if you were to immobilize that fat
or burn that fat you're gonna immobilize all these toxins and then they're gonna
enter the bloodstream and your detox pathways need to be ready to deal with
that. So a lot of what's going on with us and this is really important to think
about is actually our body protecting us. So, I think when we're unhealthy or we
don't feel well, we have poor energy, we can't lose weight, or we have brain fog,
and insomnia, like whatever it is we can feel really frustrated and sometimes we
can even feel angry at our bodies. But I think what we need to realize is our
body is doing the best that it can with the tools that
it has. And a lot of them really like nasty symptoms that we're experiencing
are actually our body protecting us in some way and that's really true for the
fat cells being filled with toxins and not being able to lose weight it's your
body being like "I don't want you to die like, I don't want to do immobilize these
toxins and go completely ototoxic so you're not gonna lose weight" and so
you're frustrated at your body because it can't lose weight but really your
body is just like "hey like stop putting this crap in my body and maybe I'll let
you lose weight" okay. So, we're gonna talk today about some of the toxins that lead
to that you know mitochondrial inhibition which prevent the
mitochondria from making energy and we're gonna talk about some of those
toxins that are classified as obesogens which are have actually been
scientifically proven to make you gain weight. So you know I've heard some
people say it's the chemicals not the calories it's these obesogens that
are actually making us gain weight. So we're gonna talk about a few of those
today some of them may surprise you some of them you may have heard me talk about
before but if you're on with me live feel free to say hi and let me know if
you have any questions as we go along and more than happy to answer them.
Okay, so the first one the first toxin I really want to talk about cuz this is
actually a really common ingredient that a lot of us cook with but it's actually
baking soda and you might be wondering well we know what the heck how is baking
soda a toxin? So it's not necessarily the baking soda but it's what is added to
baking soda. So if you're making soda if you're me to buy baking soda because you
love to bake and I do you really need to look at the ingredients and you really
need to check to see what's in it okay. The reason for this is because a lot of
baking soda has an anti-caking agent just so it doesn't get all stuck
together and that is generally aluminium. Okay aluminium, what's aluminium? It's a
super toxic metal it's one of the primary metals that causes fatigue. A lot
of people don't know that that it actually, so there's certain enzymes in
the mitochondria that your body uses to make energy and it needs these enzymes
and might be minerals these might be
vitamins these might be various other proteins it actually poisons those
enzymes. Aluminium is super associated with fatigue and it's definitely one of
those obesogens that can lead you to gain weight and commonly, I mean it's in
a lot of different things, but a really common source of it is baking soda. So if
you're just going to the grocery store and buying random baking soda there's a
good chance that it's full of aluminium and the baking soda, how the baking soda
and the aluminium react is the baking soda that alkaline environment actually
makes the aluminium significantly more potent and way more absorbable by your
body, okay. So that's number one, is baking soda, you may not have heard about
that before, you may totally know what I'm talking about but my recommendation
is when you're buying baking soda to cook with, make sure to buy a good source,
buy organic, and make sure there's zero fillers. There shouldn't be anything,
because it won't say directly on the label that it's aluminium. It may call it
something totally different that actually has an aluminium base or is
derived from aluminium or has aluminium in it but it has some totally other random
name that you look at you're like "oh that's fine there's no aluminium on that"
but there's a good chance if there's any additive if there's anything but baking
soda, in your baking soda, then there's a good chance that there's aluminium in it.
Okay. So the next one I want to talk about is nail polish, okay, and I think
this is really interesting because I think most women are painting their
nails. And I actually want to talk about a study that I just read about. So,
what is in typical nail polish is triphenyl phosphate, okay.
And so this is a really powerful toxin, this is an obesogen, this is an
endocrine disruptor, when I say endocrine disruptor I mean it f**ks with your
endocrine system, okay. And what is your endocrine system,
it's your hormone system. And a big way that these chemicals actually interfere
is for some reason a lot of the chemicals that we make mimic human
estrogen, okay. Estrogen, potent growth hormone, great
when you have it in certain amounts, but when it's out of balance, it causes so
much stuff, like it can give you different
of cancer, it can cause endometriosis, it can cause PCOS, it can cause fibroids, it
can cause cysts, it can cause infertility, PMS, emotional meltdowns. They can
cause so many things, they can cause acne. And a lot of the chemicals we are
getting exposed to, contain these synthetic estrogens. And so, there was a
study done recently where researchers went and bought nail polish from a
common department store, and they assigned, they had a control group so a
group that wasn't getting nail polish and a group that was using nail polish.
And before they gave the woman these nail polish they did a urine sample
to establish like a base a baseline for the triphenyl phosphate so they had a
baseline of the triphenyl phosphate which is that chemical that is in nail
polish and then the next day each woman just painted her nails and after 10 to
14 hours after of painting their nails they redid that urine test and what they
found was that the triphenyl phosphate levels were seven times what they were
ten to 14 hours earlier before they put the nail polish on okay. So how is that
nail polish getting into our body? Well it might be absorbing through our skin
right because we don't always paint our nails perfectly right sometimes we miss
it gets on our skin but in a lot of way that it's actually getting into our
bodies is because we're inhaling it because it vaporizes. Most nail polish
smells like crap right it smells super chemical. And this is really common, I
mean most woman I see have painted nails and I'd say there's probably a pretty
good chance they're not buying that you know organic or non-toxic nail polish.
And so I have some some of the top top brands that were found to be really high
in the triphenyl phosphate are Sally Hansen, Revlon, OPI, wet-and-wild, which is
one that I used to use when I was a kid Maybelline and spa ritual so maybe you
use those brands on your body let me know if you do if you do I really
recommend that you switch to a known toxic brand okay. You might be wondering
about well you know what is non-toxic, which products are safe? A really good
resource is the Environmental Working Group so ewg.org they have a crazy
database they pretty much have a database for pretty much all products
and you can search for your product in the search box and it'll come up with
that product and it'll tell you about all the ingredients and what they are
associated with and then it will give it an overall rating of whether it's safe
and for a lot of products they actually have a top 10 list. Top 10 of their
safest best products. So nail polish is a big one and I think a lot of women are
using it and a lot of women are just buying whatever they get from the store
but this is actually a massive massive endocrine disruptor, it's a flame
retardant. So very toxic some of it has formaldehyde in it and that triphenyl
phosphate is huge, studies have shown it affects hormones, metabolism,
reproduction development, it's massive and it's just as simple as switching out
your nail polish brand okay. This is a big one okay. So that's number two, so
number one, if you're just joining now was baking soda because it tends to have
a non caking agent in it, which is usually made from aluminum. Number two,
nail polish. Number three is polyethylene. This is another one of
those obesogens, so one of those chemicals that has been scientifically
proven to cause insulin issues, can cause metabolic issues and ultimately
weight gain. Polyethylene is in a lot of things but a really common thing that
polyethylene is in is to-go cups! So those little Dixie cups, so when you go
get a coffee or tea to go, there you know typically they're paper but what they're
lined with is this plastic coating that's what prevents the liquid from
soaking through the cardboard and that is lined with polyethylene and
polyethylene is also an endocrine disrupter. So this is the same as the
triphenyl phosphate the same as the nail-polish it mimics human estrogen.
Estrogen issues are so massive, most of the woman I work with have estrogen
issues that either have too much estrogen or they have way more estrogen
than progesterone and I mentioned earlier some of those side effects of
too much estrogen are really nasty. It will totally prevent you from gaining
weight, it'll cause ovarian cysts, endometriosis, fibroids, it
can it's typically causing all those km symptoms so any of those symptoms that
you get in the week leading up to your period or for the time during your
period so craps, mood swings, low immune system, sugar cravings, retention, sore
breasts, all those things, are very much estrogen driven and we are a very
estrogen dominant society because so many of these chemicals have these
endocrine disruptors in them and when you're putting hot liquid in a to-go cup
that is lined with plastic you are literally drinking plastic and you're
drinking synthetic estrogen, so when you get a coffee to go you need to bring
your own mug and it shouldn't be a plastic mug because that's probably
gonna have other crap in it as well. I would say really high-quality stainless
steel or glass, those are your two best options for to
go coffee mugs and then on top of that I mean it's really good for the
environment too right there's just been so much press lately on all the crap
that's in the ocean I mean these single-use plastics, these single-use
cardboards, or whatever it is even if we can recycle them this is still putting
crap into our environment right, so, if we can be more on top of it
you can be a little bit more organized and come prepared with your to-go cup
and stainless steel of glass then we can go a long way to actually not only help
our hormones that help the environment as well. So that's number three. So number
one was baking soda because of the aluminum content, number two is nail
polish which contains endocrine disruptors and number three is
polyethylene which you typically find in to-go cups but you also find it in other
things as well. Okay, next I want to talk about
something that maybe isn't like a toxin but it is toxic okay and this one I
think is a really big thing so being busy okay so I know this isn't like you
know a toxin but this is toxic okay and I was just doing a live interview
earlier with a colleague of mine and we were just talking about the gut-brain
connection okay. So stress has a massive effect on our digestive system it also
has a massive effect on our minerals. Anytime we're stressed sodium goes up
and as sodium goes up it actually depletes our calcium and magnesium
significantly okay. And you know I think it sounds kind of hokey and people are
like "oh you know like that's kind of woo woo" or whatever but you know I can prove
that gut-brain connection to you because think of how you felt when you had to
give a speech or talk in front of a big audience right or maybe you were running
a race or something like that right like we feel it in our gut. Like I know when I
was young and I had to do speeches for school,
I remember like doing a speech and then basically having diarrhea because it
would affect my guts so much. And a lot of us we feel that immediately like when
we see you know maybe we run into an ex-boyfriend or girlfriend or we
see someone who may be bullied us or you know we have like an
uncomfortable conversation or we go through confrontation, a lot of times we
feel it directly in our gut. And being busy has become a massive toxic burden
in our society because it's completely glorified right like I find like
sometimes I ask people like how are you and they're just like "busy. Oh I'm so
busy" you know and it's kind of like I'm kind of sick of hearing that because
it's like okay well how are you, how do you feel today, how's your heart, like
how's your brain, like how's your family, how you know how's your life right? And a
lot of people are just busy and they over schedule their lives and they're
even addicted to feeling busy because I think with some people when they slow
down they have to actually deal with their thoughts and their problems so I
think a lot of us like we over schedule our lives and we are very obsessed with
being busy but this is a massive toxic burden. Okay, if we are constantly in
fight-or-flight if we're constantly in sympathetic dominance we are burning our
magnesium at an excessive rate and magnesium is one of your primary
minerals it's responsible for over 300 different reactions in the body without
magnesium it's really impossible to have energy. We talked in the beginning of
this about the mitochondria producing ATP for energy, anytime you make ATP you
need magnesium, so if you don't have ATP you're not gonna have energy, and I think
stress and over-scheduling their lives and being busy is huge right? And I mean
we're all guilty of it I'm - yeah - like sometimes I remember like
in the spring we were having this really beautiful weather it wasn't too hot it
wasn't too cold, I was feeling really great so I was planning like climbing
adventures and biking and I was climbing biking, hiking, walking, like going up for
dinner with friends and I literally didn't take a moment for myself for like
three weeks and then I crashed and burned. And it was just a really good
reminder that like "hey" like as fun as it is to be busy and to do all these things
and to you know be involved in things like it has a really it's really really
hard on your body. And when your body is in that chronic fight-or-flight it does
suppress that rest and digest function right? It takes all our energy out of the
gut, out of detoxification and it puts it into the muscle or the skeletal system
and basically it's preparing us to fight for our lives or run for a lives but in
reality like our life is not in jeopardy like we're just stressed out because
we've you know we have a million functions to go to or our kids are in a
million activities and you know we're also trying to do our masters and you
know work a regular job and then take care of kids and then you know pursue
our hobbies right? Like I think, it's there's a lot to be said for just
slowing down and chillin the f**k out okay so that's number four being busy. I
actually consider that a pretty major toxin. Okay, number five so this is the
final one and if you guys have questions I see there's a bunch of you with me
live so I'm really excited you guys are here with me feel free to say hi or if
you have questions just shoot me a comment.
The other one is hydrogenated oils or polyunsaturated oils okay, and I have
actually talked about this in a while but I just want to kind of remind the
new people that we really need to be careful about our fat consumption and so
a lot of the information that we've been getting for probably the past thirty
years is that saturated fat is bad and we should be prioritizing the
polyunsaturated fat. So the polyunsaturated oils are gonna be things
like safflower oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, those are
kind of like the six main ones. And that saturated fat things like butter, coconut
oil, avocado oil, animal fat, are all really bad but that's actually not true.
Our brain is primary saturated fat. Saturated fat is actually
a very very stable fat, it's solid it stays stable at room temperature and
higher heats that those are the ones that we should be heating we shouldn't
be heating polyunsaturated fats, we shouldn't be heating canola oil
safflower or a sunflower oil but those saturated fats are very stable, and we
want a lot of the fat content of our body to be made up of those saturated
fats. Because the issue with a polyunsaturated fats is that they are
very very reactive and they're very very highly unstable. So like, I'll use canola
oil as an example. So basically with the polyunsaturated oils like they don't
tend to be made from really fatty sort of plants, so really really massive
industrial presses are needed to make these okay, and so typically
that's going to generate quite a bit of heat. and with the polyunsaturated fats
basically what you have is you have hydrogen linked to hydrogen and
typically so with saturated fat you have a bunch of hydrogen molecules and it's
completely, sorry a bunch of carbon molecules completely saturated
with hydrogen molecules and that's why it's saturated and that's what makes it
stable and protective but when you have polyunsaturated fats a lot of those
hydrogen molecules are actually replaced with double or triple bonds between the
carbon molecules, and those double and triple bonds are actually really really
reactive and sensitive to heat and light. So that really crazy industrial
press that you need to do with things like grapeseed oil or canola or
safflower, sunflower, does generate heat and that will wreck the oil and make
them toxic and cause them to break down. And so a lot of these oils they're
actually completely rancid when they sit on the shelf but they've been deodorized
so that they don't stink and you can actually do a bit of an experiment at
home so you know take some butter put it on your counter and leave it at room
temperature and then stick some canola oil on your counter too and wait about
two weeks to see what happens. The butter will so stay stable it won't smell it'll
be basically the same it'll just be kind of melty but the canola oil will start
to stink because that's what happens with oil oxidizes and breaks down okay.
So a lot of that stuff it's already toxic
and it's oxidized and it's rancid sitting on the grocery store shelf but
the manufacturers have deodorize it so
it's hiding that nasty smell. And you might be thinking well you know I buy
cold press. And that's great so that's gonna cut down on that heat that's
generated during the industrial pressing, but the other thing about these oils is
they're very sensitive to light, okay. So there's the industrial process but then
in the grocery store they tend to be really well lit and a lot of them are in
clear plastic bottles or even clear glass bottles even that light can break
down and make a lot of these these oils rancid. On top of that like you don't
know what happens in the shipping process and the handling process so even
if there is no heat produced in the the press, there might you know, it might, for
example right now it's super super hot where I live like it could literally go
to a a warehouse and sit there in an air-conditioned warehouse and just kind
of fester and heat. And then if that doesn't make it go rancid what happens
when it goes inside your body. Your body's pretty hot okay. So your body runs
at about 99 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about almost 40 degrees Celsius, so
that's pretty hot right. So you can only think about what happens to those oils
when it goes into your hot hot body right. So a lot of them, even if they
are cold-pressed, they are going to get quite rancid when they actually go into
our body. And another thing I like to think about with the oils is think about
like the types of fats that our ancestors would have had access to
grapeseed oil, canola oil there's just no f**king way you would be
able to get oil from those without a massive industrial press okay. So when
you think about coconut, when you think about butter, when you think of an animal
fat, avocado, like these are fatty things and me just pushing those things
together or cooking those things like the fat comes out right, and so those are
the fats that we want to we want to focus on, because if you're eating some
of these unsaturated fats like safflower oil, sunflower oil, canola, soybean,
vegetable oil, grapeseed oil, we're really just drinking toxic oils okay and it's
not only going to throw off our fat balance our Omega 6
omega-3 balance in the body but these can actually damage cells and they can
actually get into our arteries and break down and damage arteries. So, a little bit
is okay like if you're just having some every now and then but when it comes to
on a regular basis and when it comes to cooking focus on ghee, focus on butter,
focus on coconut oil, animal fat, like lard and tallow you don't tend to find
those in a grocery store but you can make them yourself it's actually pretty
easy. Avocado oil and olive oil are very good
as well I probably wouldn't cook high heats with olive oil but it's great for
salad. So that's really where you want to focus so those are my five, you know kind
of hidden kind of unknown toxins. Let me know what you think, let me know if
you've taken steps to remove those from your life, to remove those from your
environment, definitely let me know I'd love to hear about it. And if you have
questions you can comment on this video I am doing a live Q&A on Thursday at
4:15 Pacific, which is 7:15 Eastern. so any questions at all you have about
hormones, about gut health, about minerals about toxins, like anything you've got
question wise whether your client whether your you know a layperson who
just wants to improve your health or your practitioner who wants more
information on how to help your clients ask me and I will address those on
Thursday during the live Q&A. And you can do that by commenting on this video, you
can send us a message to my page or you can email support@kendraperry.net
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