Allison Evans

I'm not going to name names, but you listeners know the ones I'm talking about.

Things I had never thought about.

And within a few weeks, I started seeing a shift in my roommate, who's now my business partner.

said, I think we need to go live with your aunt, Marilee.

I mean, she's on to something.

You know, she'd watched me struggle for years through college.

So we go out to the Texas Hill Country in 2008, and that summer changed our lives completely.

We were drinking juice before juice was a thing.

It was just OJ and grapefruit juice and apple juice.

And now we're drinking, you know, a bunch of vegetables shoved through a machine.

There's juice that comes out.

And we're grounding and we're not on our cell phones and we're eating real food.

But what's really cool, and I'll pause for a minute on my story and tell you Marilee's story, because it really frames the entire context of why we exist as a company and why we're so passionate about this idea of removal of toxins.

So she had two catastrophic events in her life that really opened her up.

to the idea of the importance of our diet and the importance of our environment and our health.

So one, she was diagnosed with basically kidney failure in her 20s.

She was told she needed dialysis, she needed a kidney transplant, but she ended up learning about food as medicine and she went on a very strict, specific medicinal diet for 10 days

And she saved her kidneys.

All of her numbers were in line and the doctors could not believe it.

So fast forward about 15 years later, she is taking now her 10-year-old son to school, drops him off, and he was exposed to chlordane, which is a now banned pesticide.