Elissa Goodman
Appearances
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Yeah, that's a great question. Because you want to have as least fillers and additives in that supplement as possible.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So filler is like something that just fills up the supplement. You know, it's like, you know, crystalline cellulose is a filler. Not all the supplement is going to be the B complex, but they need other things, you know, to bind the Bs, you know, for you to be able to digest them. So a lot of times, you know, or...
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
It's expensive to have the supplement be all liposomal C or B or vitamin D. So a lot of times they add the additives so that it isn't as costly. So it really is a struggle because a lot of people don't do well with these additives and they don't know that. So microcrystalline cellulose is one that's in a lot of supplements and it gives you digestive issues if you're taking too many.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So you could see a lot of people's supplements and they can all have microcrystalline cellulose. I mean, it's wild. So, or soy lecithin, you know, or just these additives, just like in foods, you know, it kind of maintains the shelf life of the supplement as well. So it's hard to find supplements without that because they're costly and a lot of people can't afford that.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So that's why, you know, I try to go more like with the food and that, you know, lead with the food and then supplements come second. But there are some supplements out there that we absolutely do need. You know, vitamin D is one of them.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
I mean, since COVID, the studies that have been done on vitamin D and especially liposomal D because liposomal is a phospholipid outside of a, you know, supplement supplement. and basically is better to absorb, easier to absorb, like liposomal C and liposomal glutathione and all those things. And so basically when you raise your D levels you can lower your cholesterol.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Actually you raise your D levels it's better for your immune system, it's better for cognitive function. People don't realize that there's a vitamin D cell receptor in every cell in your body. So there's that, it's omega-3s, it's magnesium. There's certain things out there, B complex for stress.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Well, it's the same thing as the supplements. You know, there's a laundry list of things on the back of the snack, you know, box or bag or whatever that you don't even recognize, right? Like it's just, I mean, there are like, you know, certain dyes that are bad for us. And like going back to the soy lecithin, like soy lecithin is really bad for us.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
I mean, I love soy, whole soy products, but you know, when it's processed down to that, it's bad. It's like the bad seed oils, that's omega-6s and nines and like really causing inflammation. So again, if it's a laundry list of things that you don't recognize, like that kind of is a no-go. I mean, you know, let's talk about some of the things we know, like plant milks or
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
You know, they've been huge for years, right? Now there's, thank God, there's better, healthier plant milks out there. They're just almonds and sea salt and water. Like those are the things to look for. Something that's just simple. Even the cheeses, you know, I do love some of the plant-based foods and cheeses and some of the fake meats. But again, they could have a lot of bad stuff in them.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So it's like, you know, you just got to go for the less is more, even the protein bars too. You know, every so often it's not bad to have some of these things that do have these, you know, all these things to end them because you're not going to be perfect.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
But I would say 75% of the time, 80% of the time to try to look for, you know, those things on the back and just try to do things with less energy. additives because your system doesn't know how to process it, doesn't know how to digest it. And the more you add these additives into your body, I think more toxic you become.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And also the digestive system, like the digestive issues are crazy out of control. Like I created a digestive cleanse because it's been like everybody has digestive issues. Everybody calls me like my every time I eat, I get bloated. You know, I can't eat anything now or I can't go to the bathroom like the constipation for days on end.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Like it's really crazy or the other side of it where they're going to bathroom too much. That's an epidemic like the hydration.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
No, it doesn't.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Most of America has, you know, right? I mean, the sugar in these things, like, you know, there's a lot of sugar in these bars and in these milks and cheeses or whatever it is, because things don't taste so great when they are on that simple side. You know, there's a lot of salt, there's a lot of sodium. So to make them taste better.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So the regular cleanse is really, I'll tell you a little bit about what's on it. There's a detox tonic on it with coconut kefir, which is a probiotic drink.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
a big fan of probiotics and i love coconut kefir's coco yo and there's a lot of great products out there on the market then it has chlorophyll apple cider vinegar lemon ginger in there and then there's my homemade super seed bar then you basically get a bone broth or a vegan broth Our bone broth is really gelatinous and so there's a lot of collagen, which I love.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And then you get different salads for the week, different salad dressings, fermented vegetables, you get different soups for the night time and then you get lattes for the evening. Then you also get digestive enzymes and you get magnesium. so to make sure that everything's working properly.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Because people going from an animal protein diet into a plant-based, legumes and beans can disrupt their stomach, and also a lot of vegetables can as well. So there's that one, there's a three-day...
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
one yes walk us through so are you encouraging people to not have dinners in that is that the soup is dinner yes or they could have soup for lunch and do the salad for dinner so it's not super strict um a lot of people who exercise a ton will add a little bit of animal protein you know to the meal potentially and it doesn't take you away from the cleanse so again you're just getting tons of vegetables you're getting anti-inflammatory
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
you know, nourishing, nurturing foods. So that, you know, that one is like my regular one that has been going on for nine years. Sometimes it blows my mind because the tonic's been on there for nine years, the bar's been on there. Like, it's crazy that things are still popular. People buy the tonics and the bars separately. And then the gut cleanse has activated charcoal on there.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So activated charcoal. So I love activated charcoal because it lowers bacterial loads in your gut.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
You can put it in a drink and you could put it in the detoxonic or in water or whatever, but it's a pill. It's a very strong pill. And I have found when I had insulin-resistant clients, who couldn't lose weight, you know, weight resistant clients, their insulin was high, their gut bacteria was too high.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So I would put them on five days of activated charcoal and lower their insulin levels, which was like, fantastic. So that's how the gut cleanse came about. So they get activated charcoal, they still get the enzymes to get the magnesium. But they get chia pudding, they get sauerkraut, they still get the detox tonic, they don't get the bar because a little too much sugar.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
I don't want sugar for them because of the bacteria. And then they get everything else that's pretty similar. And the nighttime is a Tulsi tea. You know that. Holy basil is one of my favorites. It's anti-inflammatory and great for the gut, great for sleep. So that's the other cleanse that I love. So what I'm trying to do for people is really clean them out.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Those clients are the ones that have a little bit of constipation issues, like aren't going to the bathroom regularly. And by the end of the week, they're going two and three times a day.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Like that's another crazy thing.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Yeah, once a day. That's considered constipated these days. It's crazy.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
Well, you know, once a day is good, twice is great, three is perfect. So we really, because we don't get enough fiber, because we don't get enough hydration, because we're stressed, because when we're stressed our digestive system completely shuts down, we are not being able to digest our food.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
And also we're eating a lot of animal protein, so it takes 14 hours to get through the small intestine, cow and animal protein, and 90 minutes for plant-based food, which is crazy. Wait, say that difference again? So for plant-based food, it takes 90 minutes to get through the small intestine. For cow and animal protein, it takes 14 hours.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So we're, you know, we're eating eggs for breakfast and chicken for lunch and salmon for dinner. Like, so we're just like, not that it's bad for you, but we're just, we're not getting hydration. We're not getting fiber. You know, we're stressed. We're not doing the other things. We're not sleeping. Sleeping is very detoxifying and helping us with our digestive system.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Jay’s Must-Listens: 5 Nutrition Experts on the Foods to Eat (and Avoid) to Improve Digestion and Stop Bloating (Ft. Dr. Casey Means & The Glucose Goddess)
So, um, yeah, so we're, we're supposed to be kind of like an animal and going after every meal. Hmm. And people are a little bit like, oh, please don't tell me that.