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Chapter 1: What struggles did the speaker face with depression?
I remember sitting in a rocking chair one day being like, there is no light at the end of this tunnel. It is pure dark. This is misery. One day I just had it. And like I said, I'd lost hope and I attempted suicide. I wanted to be gone.
When I was sick, I thought about suicide because my thing was I would rather die than live my life like this. It was very scary to live my life like this. And I would lose a lot of hope.
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So I've got to experience your products. But I'm here to talk about you and how you got into this, because you have a lot to teach, and we have a lot in common about finding really clean ingredients and things and eating clean, all of it. We have all that in common. I want to take back, right? Pain to Purpose is the name of the podcast.
So I want to hear your story, because you have one heck of a story, as I just said. Right? Depressed, suicidal, and a lot of other symptoms going on.
I do have a crazy story.
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Chapter 2: How did the speaker's health journey begin?
We've got to do some saliva tests, all these different types of tests to figure out what the root cause was of my depression. And so it was little things to big things that were off. I mean, I was low in vitamin D, like basic things, right? Low in vitamin D. I wasn't absorbing my B vitamins like I should. I had some liver issues, cortisol issues. I had food intolerances. I
The inflammation levels were high. I mean, all your basic things were off, but at the time, no doctor tested for any of that stuff. How many years ago was this? This was now 18 years ago when I found her.
Yeah.
And so, yeah, 18 years ago, they didn't test for that stuff.
Right, no.
And so anyways, went on about an 18-month journey with this doctor. She, like I said, figured out all these things. I learned about nutrition from her because, like I said, I was eating Frosted Flakes. Learned that nutrition played a huge role in how your body feels. Mm-hmm. And after the 18 months of working with her, I was able to wean off those antidepressants.
And so for about 15 years now, I've never been on the antidepressants. And I've been able to manage my depression by how I feel my body because our bodies want to do us good, but we've got to feel them with the right nutrients.
So you said you manage your depression. Do you feel like you're still... battle that?
No. Well, so I should maybe explain that. So I actually feel a life full of happiness and energy. When hard times come, I could see that depression creeping in. If when I do feel it creeping in, I know, okay, let's reevaluate. Have I not had enough fruits and veggies? Have I not been taking my methylated B vitamins? Have I not gotten good sleep? Right.
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Chapter 3: What role do nutrition and lifestyle play in mental health?
You go into Costco and you look in the... My assistant always wants me to run up to these people and be like, oh, my gosh, like, you see what you're doing here? Like, and you wonder why you're overweight. You wonder why you don't feel well. It's like, look at your basket. Like, I want to take pictures of their baskets.
I know. But you know what? I have to think back to my days when I thought the American diet, I thought what was on the shelf was fine. Yeah. All years growing up, my mom was like, here's some cereal. Have some cereal before breakfast. Here's this. I don't think people realize it until they have a health crisis or they have a family member or someone close to them that has a health crisis.
And then they're like, oh, I better get doing something different with my life. And then they start eating better.
And here's the scary part, though. Like someone said, well, I grew up on these foods and blah, blah, blah. And then someone sent me an Instagram post of- Oh, I talk about this all the time. We didn't grow up on those foods. Our Frosted Flakes compared to these Frosted Flakes, like ingredients this long, ingredients this long, right? I mean, you could go through every processed food.
I'm not making an argument for processed food, but I'm saying it's gotten way worse.
Well, but also how we grow our crops has gotten way worse.
The soil's gotten worse. Everything's worse.
Well, even just the GMO crops that are sprayed with the glyphosate, my mom didn't have to worry about that.
We didn't deal with that as kids. Our Frosted Flakes didn't have that.
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Chapter 4: What are practical steps to improve family nutrition?
didn't taste very good.
Well, and this is what I try to teach also, that there is no perfect food unless you're just eating fruits and veggies and things. And so instead of trying to be perfect, I try to say these are good, better, and best choices. So let's look for a best choice. But if your grocery store doesn't have the best, then find a better.
And I think that's what I did. I said, okay, this is the healthiest. However, this one does taste the best. And this would be a good place for you to start with your kids. That's what I did say. Yeah.
Yeah.
Chapter 5: How can we make gradual lifestyle changes for better health?
So to those moms or to anybody out there trying to change their lifestyle, just do one little step at a time because all of those changes add up, you know, like a snowball effect and all of a sudden you're living a healthy lifestyle. So I always say one little step at a time. Don't overwhelm yourself with perfection because there aren't any perfect ultra processed foods out there. Yeah. Right.
There's always going to be something except maybe our just ingredient ones. Yeah, I know. Yeah. And the other big key, I think, is to just be consistent because I get all the time like my kids won't eat fruits and veggies. And I'm like, well, if they aren't used to it six days of the week and then one day you try it. Yeah, of course they're not going to be. So let's be consistent.
They know every morning they get a fruit or every dinner there is a fruit and a veggie with your meal. And maybe the first.
week two weeks three weeks i don't know month they're just picking at them or don't even pick at them but they know they're there and finally they'll start being a part of their diet well you know having the this green product that you're developing is smart too because that can be added to the protein if you send your kid out the door with a shake that you dial in that they like and your stuff tastes great so thank you
You know, I mean, our baby loves it, but it's like, you know, they're going to be able to get it in one simple thing. It's fast, it's easy, you know, and it's clean. Yeah. Because again, a lot of those greens, you know, I don't trust it. I don't like any of it. So, and by the way, I don't even think a lot of it's very nutritious.
I think it's, you know, it sounds really good, but in the end, if you measure the nutrition, it's too little of a matter.
Yep, that's what I was talking with that broccoli flora. I was like, this marketing is so misleading.
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Chapter 6: What role do environmental factors play in health?
But then I do want to tell parents also of one other thing. Sometimes people will say, this is all so expensive. And I'm like, then do all the things that are free. Focus on better sleep. Focus on breathing then if you're so stressed. Go for a walk every day. Get some vitamin D. Move your body. There's so many things out there that we can do that doesn't cost more.
And even buying more fruits and veggies rather than so much processed food actually will lower your grocery bill. So just lots of different tips for people out there that lifestyle factors matter just as much as the food does.
Yeah, I mean, and then there's the things like invest $500 into a reverse osmosis system, right? I mean, a cheap way to filter out your water has all these bad hormones. It has fluoride, chlorine, a lot of other chemicals you don't even know about. Heavy metals, we could keep going. It's like, change that. Your kids don't know, right?
Matter of fact, they'll actually say one day, gosh, this water tastes better.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, you shouldn't be drinking tap water. I mean, these are the things, the big things that people can do right now, right? I mean, like you said, I mean, if you just work on one little thing at a time, like you said, you know, it's like bring in, you know, get that shake that your kids like and start in, you know, the nutrition, change your ketchup if your kids love it, right?
Be slick about it. Yeah, exactly. And yeah, find those things that your kids love and figure out a replacement.
Well, and I also tell people, or find a replacement for the thing that's eaten the most in your home. Because I was speaking one time and this lady was like, oh my gosh, my kids eat so many fruit snacks. And I'm like, well, who's purchasing them? And she's like, well, me. And I'm like, exactly. So find a fruit snack then made with real fruits rather than all the artificial stuff.
So it comes back to what you were saying earlier. You have the choice. Be in control of the choices. You're the gatekeeper of what comes in your home.
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Chapter 7: How can parents guide their teens towards healthier choices?
I let them. I didn't do, I didn't make one bone about it. So it's up to you now. See, because I think if you, if you try to squeeze your kids when they're teenagers, you're going to lose that battle. If you go, no, no, no, it's up to you. Now I go, every one of my kids came back, all five, all of them.
Well, I have a funny story because one of my teenagers, when he got to probably like 16 and the kids were always leaving campus to go to a fast food restaurant to eat. And so he's like, I really want to try McDonald pancakes. And I was like, well, I can't stop you. You're going with your friends. I would choose otherwise. So one day he gets the McDonald pancakes.
He comes home from school and is like, mom, I am so sick. My head is pounding. My stomach hurts. And I figured out Those pancakes had, it was like 112 grams of sugar or something like that with the syrup. And he's like, I've never eaten that much sugar in one sitting in my life. I feel terrible.
He probably went home and went to bed because he was so tired. Glucose up, crash.
So I don't think he's ever had McDonald pancakes after that. So they do learn and they realize that they feel better on real food rather than... the crap food. But I have to tell you, my oldest was like eight and nine or eight or nine when I started my health journey, because I had the three kids when I fell into the depression. And so my oldest was the hardest to convince, like to move over.
Where my little 11 year old now, the other day, my older kids were like, do you know what a Twinkie is? And she's like, a Twinkie? What's a Twinkie? And they're like, mom, she doesn't even know what one is. I'm like, nope, she doesn't.
Yeah, that's so funny. So this happened to me, right? I was raised on actually really Italian home-cooked food, right? My mom was the cook in the family. I say the family, meaning like even cousins would come over. My mom was really good. So I grew up on amazing food. I never ate fast food, right? So I just didn't do that. I mean, again, I grew up in the 70s and 80s, right?
I ate a lot of it. Yeah, I didn't eat it, right? That's why I had the problem.
Yeah, exactly. I was healthy until I got mercury poison, another story. But anyway, so in college, my kids were like, or my kids, my friends were like always intrigued that I never ate McDonald's, right? So they paid me $20, which was a lot back then, probably like $100 today to eat a McDonald's Big Mac, or I can't remember which one it was. But anyways, I ate it.
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