True Detox During Menopause: Is It Science or Trend?

I love you both, and [laughs] in this episode, I'm talking about detox, and I'm talking about it because, well s- a, a multitude of reasons.

And number one, I wanna call out the elephant in the room, as I always do.

I think whenever we're, whenever I'm talking about a supplement that I've tried, I can feel almost, feel your guard going up or like, "Oh, no, not another supplement," because I'm like that, quite frankly, myself.

And I think of us more as friends and peers than I do any other thing.

But I wanna let you know why I did this, why back in 2014 and '15, I began writing about our exposure to toxins.

And at first, it all evolved most likely from foods, learning more than I wanted to or care to about [laughs] the quality of our soil, meaning the quality of our food, even if we choose organic, was, you know, less micronutrient dense than other years.

That all evolved into learning more and more about hormone disruptors, endocrine disruptors, and we're talking about things like perfume, shampoos, parabens.

And now that we're much more aware from a decade ago when I was early writing and publishing that book to now, I feel almost as if the word detox has come, and it's gone, and it's kinda come and gone again.

And we don't necessarily do the quality detox that we need to.

I do think if we're exposed to loads, lesser loads, we're not doing so many of these kinds of products or exposing ourselves to dryer sheets or toxic detergents anymore, we're less likely to establish this load that we just, our body can't handle anymore.

And I do think we're all much more conscious and aware of the products that we're purchasing or putting in or on our body.

But what about the cumulative effect? And what about the other types of burden that we have in stress and the allostatic load? And we've, we really unpack a big piece of all of that today, and we talk about Qualia's two-day detox, which is what I've recently done.

But I wanted to ask the product developer team, why this product? How does it work? Because it is a very well-thought-out step by step by step process, and each one of these builds upon the previous one in order for them to work as a collective whole for your good.

So I wanna bring you into this conversation.

Even if you think, "I don't wanna detox," "I don't need a detox," or, "I know what detox is," I really think we are at the moment in time, you'll hear us talk about and describe why that's true early on, that we all probably need some level of detox.

So this one is for you to look at and make a decision about maybe simply your exposure to all toxins and whether you can make a change in your day-to-day life that improves your exposure to them and/or if you want to go through the cleanup, as, as I did and will repeat monthly for a while.

If your house is already clean, doing a, you know, an easy little dust mopping doesn't do a lot, and I borrow from Dr. Greg Kelly's words in saying that.

He is my guest today.

He's the chief product officer at Qualia Life, naturopathic physician, and author of the book Shapeshift.

He was the editor of the journal Alternative Medicine Review and has been an instructor f- at the University of Bridgeport in the College of Naturopathic Medicine, where he taught classes in advanced clinical nutrition, counseling skills, and doctor-patient relationships.

Dr. Kelly's published hundreds of articles on natural medicine and nutrition, contributed three chapters to the textbook of natural medicine, and has more than 30 journal articles indexed on PubMed.

His area of expertise includes nootropics, anti-aging, and regenerative medicine, weight management, sleep, and the ... chronobiology of performance and health.

I'm gonna leave you with one assignment [dog barks] before we even start.

So wait, stay with me now, but after the show's over, if you are also a child or a baby of the '60s, did you have this game? I'm feeling robbed because the game he describes I did not have as a child.