Dr. Mindy Pelz

That's liver function. Like what, how, how quickly is that liver metabolizing that alcohol?

Well, I actually think metabolizing it quickly is better than the stagnant person.

So, I mean, there's a lot of nuance in that comment. So just so we don't get the whole world coming after your eye on that. So it's how quickly are you able to metabolize a toxin in your system and get it out of you? So that would be another one. Then we have some really, really good ones, really like applicable ones. Like this is based off some old ancient strategies, like corner of your eye.

Okay. And the reason I call them checklists is because they may not apply to everybody. The first question to ask if your liver is healthy is when you go without food, do you make a ketone? If you don't make a ketone and you're like, we've had people that are like 20 hours in, 36 hours in, 48 hours in. They're like, I'm still not making a ketone.

If the inside of your eye is yellow, according to iridology, which is the study of the eye as it relates to health, when the corner of the eye is yellow, that can be a sign of liver stagnation. Okay, another one.

Yeah.

Another one, you can look at the bottom of your feet. So bottom of your feet when they're dry and cracking is showing that you're not getting proper circulation down to your feet. And so it can be a possibility that the liver is not doing a good job of detoxing and getting toxins out. So your circulatory system has more sludge in it.

So the circulation isn't freely getting down to the bottom of your feet.

Oh, yeah. Really? Yeah. Feet, eyes. I want to know everything because it tells you. Feet, eyes. I want to know what your menstrual blood. I don't need to see it, but I want to know, is it clumpy? How quickly does the flow come out? These kind of things are so important. How quickly your hair grows? How quickly your nails grow? What's on your nails? Are nails on ridges on your nails?

Because that could be minerals like... Our body gives us a full analysis of what's going on. So I have looked at a lot of feats.

It's the real dry cracks.

There you go. Do you want to put it up on the table so I can see?

Oh, that's right. Oh, my God. Yeah.

part of the revenue if that happens yes oh my god you're so accurate um okay interesting so so here's a couple let's give people a daily routine of what to look at to be able to see like how your body's functioning so when i get up in the morning that's one thing i do i always look in the i'm periodically you know throughout the day looking in the corner of my eyes

Like, is there a yellow tinge in there? So I look at that. I also look at my tongue every morning when I wake up. Do you look at your tongue?

Okay. So when you look at your tongue, does it have a white coat on it? If it has a white coat on it, that can be a sign of candida, of too much yeast in your system and your body's detoxing it. You can also look at your tongue when you fast. Okay. Sometimes it'll go black and that's like candida coming out. That's yeast coming out. So make sure you're looking at your tongue.

Every morning I look at my tongue. So because at night you kind of see what's detoxing out of you.

So if it's white and black, you have candida. That's a sign of too much yeast in the system. So, I mean, fasting can help. Getting off sugar, alcohol, fruits can help. We just find people who fast, especially if you go into longer fasts, it'll start to change.

We've even done some interesting community fasts where we have people watch their fast and they decide to break their fast based off what their tongue is doing. So if it's white and it's black and it's getting worse, keep going. If you can keep going until it starts to turn pink. And then the outside of the tongue will actually start to turn pink.

And then we know, okay, the yeast is starting to die off. Go ahead and break your fast.

So that's one way that you can look at the tongue. We already talked about the bottom of the feet, periodically looking at that, your hair and your nails. So do you ever look at like the ridges of your nails?

Because we have them testing. Okay. So a little ketone. The continuous glucose monitors, they'll help the blood sugar, but you need a ketone reader to help ketones. It's like a little, you prick your finger. Have you ever used one?

Okay, so when there's a lot of ridges in your nails or how quickly your nails are growing, that can be a sign of mineral deficiency.

If your hair is falling out...

Perfect. So you probably have a good mineral load. But if you ever look down and you see those ridges, it can be a sign that you have too many low minerals.

Yeah, you know, I'm a huge fan right now of organic minerals that come from the earth, like fulvic and humic acid type minerals that are coming from like volcanic ash because they're very, very rich in minerals that we're not getting in your typical mineral supplement or your food. You know the whole thing about conventional farming and how it's depleting the minerals in our soils, right? No.

I feel like this is going to get really depressing really quick.

You want me to tell?

Okay. So the soils that are being monocropped, where they're being tilled over and over again... not from regenerative farms. What we know now is that they are deficient in minerals. So the way that it's being expressed to people is the broccoli you have now has less vitamin and mineral content than the broccoli you had 10, 20, 30 years ago because of how the farmers are taking care of the soil.

Now, you go to a regenerative farm where there's bugs, there's weeds, they don't spray. When a crop grows, they let it die, they don't till. That has more minerals. So when you are actually eating food from regenerative farms, you're getting the minerals that you need into your system.

So when people look at their nails not growing, they look at the ridges, a good question if you don't want to take a mineral supplement is ask yourself, like, am I eating foods from a regenerative farm? Am I eating fruits and vegetables from the farmer? Do I know the farmer even?

Right. Yeah. Can you see why I like fasting?

Right. I know. But all of these problems that we're addressing... in order to eat healthy is expensive. So I'll come back to that comment in a second because that's a good one to address. Let's use a typical person. They're eating everything we've talked about. They're eating all the obesogens. They're gaining weight. Their toxic load is high. They're not getting enough vitamins.

Oh yeah, you should get one. So you get a little monitor and you prick your finger and then you put your blood on this little strip and you put the strip into this little monitor and it tells you how many ketones you have.

They're not getting enough minerals. Their hair is falling out. A woman's menstrual cycle is off. their skin is changing, weird stuff is showing up. For that person, if all I do is say, hey, I want you to eat your fruits and vegetables from a regenerative farm, now, okay, we're adding some minerals back in.

So we're starting to get some of the nutrients that person was supposed to be getting, but was actually getting, all those toxins were depleting that person's system. So we start to get them eating fruits and vegetables from a regenerative farm. Now they're getting the nutrients they need that are being depleted by these chemicals.

Okay, so that's why in that context, just eating good, healthy fruits and vegetables is important. But what if we put them in a fasted state? Let's take that person one step further. They're metabolically challenged. They're full of toxins. Let's put that each day. Let's start to tack on a fasting window. In that fasting window, we're starting to see glucose come down.

We're starting to see the body repair and heal itself. Okay, now when they open up their eating window, we can have them add in minerals. So we can have them added in, or they can still eat more fruits and vegetables from regenerative farms, but they have to prioritize minerals. In our community, we actually will have people add in minerals in the fasted window.

Like take a mineral supplement, take an electrolyte supplement, put it in your fasting window. So you're adding that support in.

Well, there's a lot of different ones, right? So magnesium, zinc, selenium. Okay. Those are the biggies.

Right.

Right. So the reason I like the fasting window is because we're changing the metabolic system. And now we go into the eating window. Let's just at least start with fruits and vegetables coming from regenerative farms if you don't want to spend money on supplements. If you have the resources to spend money on supplements, go ahead and do that.

Yeah.

So if you can't make ketones or you're starving or after a long period you're not feeling the benefits of fasting, that could be because of your liver. So we now have, okay, that's liver issue number one. Okay. Then we can go to things like how do you process alcohol?

Well, let's go through possibilities. I call them checklists.

Like, you know how there are certain people who like you go out to drink with them and after a couple of drinks, they're dancing on the table. And then there's other people that like can drink the whole bar and they seem like they're completely normal compared to when they walked in.