Moment 199: 5 Warning Signs Your Body Needs More Nutrients: Mindy Pelz

0:00:02 (upbeat music)
0:00:06 – So how do I know if my liver’s healthy?
0:00:09 Is there any symptoms of an unhealthy or toxic liver?
0:00:12 – Well, let’s go through possibilities.
0:00:13 I call them checklists.
0:00:14 – Okay.
0:00:15 – Okay, and the reason I call them checklists
0:00:17 is because they may not apply to everybody.
0:00:21 The first question to ask if your liver’s healthy is,
0:00:24 when you go without food, do you make a ketone?
0:00:25 – Okay.
0:00:28 – If you don’t make a ketone, and you’re like,
0:00:30 “We’ve had people they’re like 20 hours in,
0:00:32 “36 hours in, 48 hours in.”
0:00:34 They’re like, “I’m still not making a ketone.”
0:00:36 – How do they know?
0:00:37 – Because we have them testing.
0:00:38 – Okay.
0:00:42 – So a little ketone, the continuous glucose monitors,
0:00:46 they’ll help the blood sugar, but you need a ketone reader
0:00:48 to help ketones.
0:00:50 It’s like a little, you prick your finger.
0:00:50 Have you ever used one?
0:00:51 – No, that’s so interesting.
0:00:53 I didn’t know those were even a thing.
0:00:54 – Oh yeah, you should get one.
0:00:57 So you get a little monitor.
0:00:58 – Yeah.
0:00:59 – And you prick your finger,
0:01:02 and then you put your blood on this little strip,
0:01:04 and you put the strip into this little monitor,
0:01:06 and it tells you how many ketones you have.
0:01:08 – Okay, so more ketones, the better, right?
0:01:09 – Yeah.
0:01:10 – Okay, interesting.
0:01:12 – So if you can’t make ketones,
0:01:15 or you’re starving would be another,
0:01:17 or after a long period, you’re not feeling
0:01:19 the benefits of fasting.
0:01:21 That could be because of your liver.
0:01:26 So we now have, okay, that’s liver issue number one.
0:01:29 Okay, then we can go to things like,
0:01:31 how do you process alcohol?
0:01:33 Like, you know how there’s certain people
0:01:35 who you go out to drink with them,
0:01:37 and after a couple drinks, they’re dancing on the table,
0:01:41 and then there’s other people that can drink the whole bar,
0:01:42 and they seem like they’re completely normal
0:01:44 compared to when they walked in.
0:01:44 – Yeah.
0:01:45 – So that’s liver function.
0:01:50 Like, how quickly is that liver metabolizing that alcohol?
0:01:53 – Which one is healthy, sorry?
0:01:55 – Well, I actually think metabolizing it quickly
0:01:58 is better than the stagnant person.
0:02:00 – So the person that’s hammered is going to be.
0:02:01 (laughs)
0:02:06 – Yeah, so, I mean, there’s a lot of nuance in that comment.
0:02:09 So just so we don’t get the whole world
0:02:11 coming after you or I on that, so.
0:02:16 So it’s how quickly are you able to metabolize a toxin
0:02:18 in your system, and get it out of you?
0:02:20 So that would be another one.
0:02:22 Then we have some really, really good ones,
0:02:23 really like applicable ones.
0:02:26 Like, this is based off some old, ancient strategies,
0:02:28 like corner of your eye.
0:02:32 If the inside of your eye is yellow,
0:02:37 according to iridology, which is the study of the eye
0:02:40 as it relates to health, when the corner of the eye is yellow,
0:02:42 that can be a sign of liver stagnation.
0:02:45 Okay, another one, I just.
0:02:46 – The inside corner.
0:02:47 – Yeah.
0:02:48 – So next to your nose.
0:02:48 – Mm-hmm.
0:02:49 – Okay.
0:02:51 – Another one, you can look at the bottom of your feet.
0:02:55 So bottom of your feet, when they’re dry and cracking,
0:02:59 is showing that you’re not getting proper circulation
0:03:00 down to your feet.
0:03:03 And so it can be a possibility that the liver
0:03:07 is not doing a good job of detoxing and getting toxins out.
0:03:10 So your circulatory system has more sledge in it.
0:03:12 So the circulation isn’t freely getting down
0:03:13 to the bottom of your feet.
0:03:15 – Have you ever asked someone to show you that feet?
0:03:16 – Oh yeah.
0:03:17 – Really?
0:03:18 – Yeah.
0:03:20 Feet, eyes, I want to know everything,
0:03:21 ’cause it tells it.
0:03:24 Feet, eyes, I want to know what your menstrual blood,
0:03:25 I don’t want you to see it,
0:03:28 but I want to know, is it clumpy?
0:03:30 How quickly does the flow come out?
0:03:32 These kinds of things are so important.
0:03:33 How quickly your hair grows?
0:03:34 How quickly your nails grow?
0:03:35 What’s on your nails?
0:03:37 Are ridges on your nails?
0:03:39 ‘Cause that could be minerals.
0:03:44 Like, our body gives us a full analysis of what’s going on.
0:03:47 So I have looked at a lot of feets.
0:03:49 – And if I look at my feet now,
0:03:52 I just want to take a quick look.
0:03:55 ‘Cause I remember really looking at the bottom of my feet.
0:03:58 What is a sign that my liver is not healthy?
0:03:59 Looking at the bottom of my feet.
0:04:02 – That’s the real dry cracks.
0:04:05 – Oh no, mine is soft, like a baby’s bottom.
0:04:06 – There you go.
0:04:07 Do you want to put it up on the table so I can see?
0:04:10 – Yeah, ’cause people will sell pictures.
0:04:11 – Oh, that’s right.
0:04:12 Oh my God.
0:04:18 – Oh, the revenue, if that happens.
0:04:19 – Yes, oh my God.
0:04:20 I want to make that decision myself.
0:04:21 – You’re so accurate.
0:04:25 – Okay, interesting.
0:04:29 – So here’s a couple, let’s give people a daily routine
0:04:31 of what to look at to be able to see
0:04:33 like how your body’s functioning.
0:04:35 So when I get up in the morning, that’s one thing I do.
0:04:38 I always look in the, I’m periodically, you know,
0:04:40 throughout the day looking in the corner of my eyes.
0:04:44 Like, what is there a yellow tinge in there?
0:04:45 So I look at that.
0:04:47 I also look at my tongue every morning when I wake up.
0:04:48 Do you look at your tongue?
0:04:49 – Not really.
0:04:51 – So when you look at your tongue,
0:04:52 is it have a white coat on it?
0:04:54 If there’s a white coat on it,
0:04:56 that can be a sign of Candida,
0:04:58 too much yeast in your system and your body’s detoxing.
0:05:01 You can also look at your tongue when you fast.
0:05:02 Sometimes it’ll go black.
0:05:04 And that’s like Candida coming out,
0:05:06 that’s yeast coming out.
0:05:08 So make sure you’re looking at your tongue.
0:05:10 Every morning I look at my tongue.
0:05:12 So ’cause at night you’re kind of see
0:05:13 what’s detoxing out of you.
0:05:14 – So if it’s white, what do I do?
0:05:16 If it’s black, what do I do?
0:05:18 – So if it’s white and black, you have Candida.
0:05:21 That’s a sign of too much yeast in the system.
0:05:24 So I mean, fasting can help.
0:05:27 Getting off sugar, alcohol, fruits can help.
0:05:29 We just find people who fast,
0:05:30 especially if you go into longer fasts,
0:05:32 it’ll start to change.
0:05:35 We’ve even done some interesting community fasts
0:05:37 where we have people watch their fast
0:05:38 and they decide to break their fast
0:05:40 based off what their tongue is doing.
0:05:42 So if it’s white and it’s black
0:05:43 and it’s getting worse, keep going.
0:05:46 If you can keep going until it starts to turn pink.
0:05:48 And then the outside of the tongue
0:05:50 will actually start to turn pink.
0:05:54 And then we know, okay, the yeast is starting to die off.
0:05:56 Go ahead and break your fast.
0:05:58 So that’s one way that you can look at the tongue.
0:06:02 We already talked about the bottom of the feet,
0:06:06 periodically looking at that, your hair and your nails.
0:06:10 So do you ever look at like the ridges of your nails?
0:06:11 – No.
0:06:13 – Okay, so when there’s a lot of ridges in your nails
0:06:15 or how quickly your nails are growing,
0:06:18 that can be a sign of mineral deficiency.
0:06:19 – Okay.
0:06:21 – If your hair is falling out.
0:06:23 – So on the nails then, what am I looking for?
0:06:25 I’m looking, there’s no ridges in my nails.
0:06:26 – Perfect.
0:06:29 So you probably have a good mineral load.
0:06:33 But if you ever look down and you see those ridges,
0:06:35 it can be a sign that there is,
0:06:37 you have too many low minerals.
0:06:37 – And what kind of minerals
0:06:40 would you then supplement with or focus on?
0:06:43 – Yeah, I’m a huge fan right now
0:06:45 of organic minerals that come from the earth,
0:06:48 like fulvic and humic acid type minerals
0:06:50 that are coming from like volcanic ash
0:06:53 ’cause they’re very, very rich in minerals
0:06:56 that we’re not getting in your typical mineral supplement
0:06:57 or your food.
0:07:01 You know the whole thing about conventional farming
0:07:04 and how it’s depleting the minerals in our soils, right?
0:07:04 – No.
0:07:06 – I feel like this is gonna get really depressing
0:07:07 really quick.
0:07:08 – That’s fine.
0:07:08 – You want me to tell you?
0:07:09 – I brought another truth.
0:07:14 – Okay, so the soils that are being monocropped
0:07:16 where they’re being tilled over and over again,
0:07:20 not from regenerative farms.
0:07:24 What we know now is that they are deficient in minerals.
0:07:27 So the way that it’s being expressed to people
0:07:29 is the broccoli you have now
0:07:31 has less vitamin and mineral content
0:07:35 than the broccoli you had 10, 20, 30 years ago
0:07:38 because of how the farmers are taking care of the soil.
0:07:41 Now you go to a regenerative farm
0:07:45 where there’s bugs, there’s weeds, they don’t spray.
0:07:48 When a crop grows, they let it die, they don’t till,
0:07:50 that has more minerals.
0:07:52 So when you are actually eating food
0:07:54 from regenerative farms,
0:07:58 you’re getting the minerals that you need into your system.
0:08:01 So when people look at their nails not growing,
0:08:03 they look at the ridges, a good question.
0:08:05 If you don’t want to take a mineral supplement,
0:08:07 is ask yourself, like,
0:08:10 am I eating foods from a regenerative farm?
0:08:12 Do I’m eating fruits and vegetables from the farmer?
0:08:14 Do I know the farmer even?
0:08:16 Sounds expensive.
0:08:17 Right, yeah.
0:08:19 Can you see why I like fasting?
0:08:22 But if I fast, I’m still not getting the minerals.
0:08:25 Right, I know, but all of these problems
0:08:30 that we’re addressing in order to eat healthy is expensive.
0:08:35 So I’ll come back to that comment in a second
0:08:37 because that’s a good one to address.
0:08:39 Let’s use a typical person.
0:08:41 They’re eating the, everything we’ve talked about.
0:08:44 They’re eating all the obesogens.
0:08:47 They’re gaining weight.
0:08:49 Their toxic load is high.
0:08:50 They’re not getting enough vitamins.
0:08:52 They’re not getting enough minerals.
0:08:53 Their hair is falling out.
0:08:56 Their menstrual, a woman’s menstrual cycle is off.
0:08:58 Their skin is changing.
0:09:00 Weird stuff is showing up.
0:09:03 For that person, if all I do is say,
0:09:05 hey, I want you to eat your fruits and vegetables
0:09:07 from a regenerative farm.
0:09:11 Now, okay, we’re adding some minerals back in.
0:09:13 So we’re starting to get some of the nutrients
0:09:15 that person was supposed to be getting,
0:09:16 but was actually getting those,
0:09:20 all those toxins were depleting that person’s system.
0:09:22 So we start to get them eating fruits and vegetables
0:09:23 from a regenerative farm.
0:09:25 Now they’re getting the nutrients they need
0:09:29 that aren’t being, that are being depleted by these chemicals.
0:09:32 Okay, so that’s why in that context,
0:09:37 just eating good, healthy fruits and vegetables is important.
0:09:40 But what if we put them in a fasted state?
0:09:42 Let’s take that person one step further.
0:09:44 They’re metabolically challenged.
0:09:47 They’re full of toxins.
0:09:49 Let’s put that each day.
0:09:53 Let’s start to tack on a fasting window.
0:09:54 In that fasting window,
0:09:56 we’re starting to see glucose come down.
0:10:00 We’re starting to see the body repair and heal itself.
0:10:03 Okay, now when they open up their eating window,
0:10:05 we can have them add in minerals.
0:10:07 So we can have them added in,
0:10:10 or they can still eat more fruits and vegetables
0:10:11 from regenerative farms,
0:10:13 but they have to prioritize minerals.
0:10:14 In our community,
0:10:17 we actually will have people add in minerals
0:10:18 in the fasted window.
0:10:20 Like take a mineral supplement,
0:10:22 take an electrolyte supplement,
0:10:23 put it in your fasting window
0:10:25 so you’re adding that support in.
0:10:26 – And when you say minerals,
0:10:28 what exactly are you referring to?
0:10:29 – Well, there’s a lot of different ones, right?
0:10:31 So magnesium, zinc, selenium.
0:10:32 – Okay.
0:10:34 – Those are the biggies.
0:10:36 – Okay, and it’s expensive.
0:10:37 So can I just supplement it?
0:10:38 – Right.
0:10:39 – ‘Cause that’s cheaper.
0:10:40 – Right.
0:10:42 – The reason I like the fasting window
0:10:44 is because we’re changing the metabolic system.
0:10:48 And now we go into the eating window.
0:10:51 Let’s just at least start with fruits and vegetables
0:10:52 coming from regenerative farms
0:10:54 if you don’t want to spend money on supplements.
0:10:57 If you have the resources to spend money on supplements,
0:10:59 go ahead and do that.
0:11:01 (upbeat music)
0:11:02 (upbeat music)