The Hidden Biochemistry Behind Anxiety & Brain Fog | Eva Hooft
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What are the real dangers of detox marketing?
if you've been on instagram for more than 30 seconds you've been pitched some form of a detox the process of detoxification is something that the body does naturally as a society we're just more toxic than we've ever been it's just like a marketing scam or a marketing term just to sell you products just because it feels good doesn't mean it's actually supporting you they're literally everywhere right like tap water has heavy metals like if we walk outside and we're breathing air we're breathing in aluminum I was seeing things that weren't there. Literally, it can change our perception and the brain chemistry. Our bodies actually naturally have defense mechanisms to make sure that these parasites don't overgrow.
Eva, thank you so much for taking some time with us today. I'm really excited to chat. Likewise. Thank you for having me on. Yeah, so I'm going to be very honest. This is going to be a very selfish episode because I'm like armchair amateur. All the stuff that you talk about, I'm like so interested in. But with no background. So that's why I love the podcast because I get to bring on amazing experts like yourself. And then I get to pepper you with questions for a while and learn a bunch of really cool stuff. So I want to start with the idea of a detox podcast.
How does chronic stress affect our detoxification process?
If you've been on Instagram for more than 30 seconds, you've been pitched some form of a detox in some form of ad in your stories or wherever. Maybe just break down for the audience at a high level. What is a detox? Why do we need these things in our lives today? Like maybe just let's start really high level on this idea of detoxing. And then I want to kind of bring us down to the ground and get a little nitty gritty as we go through our conversation.
Yeah, that sounds great. So I think it's important to understand, first and foremost, that the process of detoxification is something that the body does naturally, right? Like, it's essentially like, in the simplest way to put it, you know, we're coming into contact with things that are, you know, not supportive to our bodies, whether we talk about, you know, like, actual toxins in the form of like heavy metals or microplastics or you know other things but sometimes it's even toxins that our body or like organisms in our bodies produces itself or even just toxins that our body produces as the you know a byproduct of some sort of process internally and so typically like let's say we look at like a hundred thousand years ago you know our toxic load in our day-to-day life was a lot lower than it is today so for example you know we have a lot more toxins in our external environment but also one
massive toxin that I think people don't really understand is the amount of stress that we have in our day-to-day life. So stress in general is going to have massive impact on the entire body, including that natural detoxification process. And so over time, due to all these inner and external factors, the natural process of detoxification tends to slow down. And so What I kind of look at with detoxification is essentially just as simple as, you know, we're packaging harmful substances into less harmful ones and then hopefully excreting them out of the body, right?
What role do heavy metals play in our health?
So that's as easy as we can make it. Now, what happens is that if we are in a chronic state of fight or flight, which, you know, many of us wake up, we check our email first thing in the morning, maybe like we're eating foods that are not good for us, we're we're having this idea that we always need to work or perform or whatever the external stress is, that natural process actually slows down and a lot of those toxins end up backing up. And so, you know, by the time that we're 20, 30, 40 years old, chances are that we've probably been in a state of chronic fight or flight for at least a couple of the years, you know, that we are on this planet with like the high stress load these days and also the additional toxic burden that we face now versus like 100 years ago.
And so those factors combinations essentially kind of lead to the body being in a place where it can't really deal with all the toxic load and the stress on the liver.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the real dangers of detox marketing?
0:00–1:18
2
How does chronic stress affect our detoxification process?
1:18–3:12
3
What role do heavy metals play in our health?
3:12–4:51
4
How do minerals influence our personality and mental health?
4:51–6:24
5
What misconceptions exist about fasting and detoxing?
6:24–7:49
6
How do parasites function within our bodies?
7:49–9:20
7
What symptoms indicate a potential toxicity issue?
9:20–10:11
8
How can we better integrate mental and physical health for overall wellness?
10:11–1:09:23
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