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So, at the time that I was doing triathlons and living a healthy lifestyle, I met my husband,

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he also was very dedicated to healthy living.

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And we got married and started our family.

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So we had children and a brand new house and we both had careers that we loved and we

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both active and physical and that all came to a screeching halt in August of 2007.

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I was in my mid-30s when I had set an onset in our apathy in my legs.

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I lost the movement, the ability to stand in my left leg.

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So we decided to go ahead and have surgery and I woke up after that standard procedure

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was an inability to walk.

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I had what's called chronic pain syndrome.

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So I had pain messages running through my l Neurological system around the clock.

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There was no way to turn that pain off.

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I became very dependent on pain management techniques, steroid injections.

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I think they injected every part of my body.

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My skull, my neck, my spinal cord.

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It got so bad.

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I couldn't move my wrists.

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I had injections in my wrists.

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And that just really cascaded into a number of chronic diseases.

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My alfashal syndrome, fibromyalgia, IVS, food allergies, chronic pain.

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Depending on who I went to, there was a new diagnosis.

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I eventually lost the job that I loved because my prognosis was so poor.

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And I spent, you know, the majority of my time thinking about what I could do, what my options

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were as far as recovery.

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At the same time that I was receiving my multiple diagnosis, my son was diagnosed with

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a pervasive developmental disorder, which is an autism spectrum disorder.

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And as a parent, you really, you know what is, you know what is your first child, you don't

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know where to go.

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You don't really know what to do with that information.

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A well-respected neurologist said that he would never speak and that he would never have

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peer relationships or social experiences, potentially not live on his own, never get married,

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and that his social anxiety was so severe that he really needed medication to be able

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to survive in society.

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All of Stevens' clothes were chewed to bits.

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He was always doing something, I think, whether he was rocking back and forth, throwing

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his body in, we're sucking on his clothes, or putting things in his mouth.

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He would use those kinds of movements or flapping as a way to, to come his central nervous

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system, and if he wasn't doing it, then he was usually shut down.

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It took him a very long time to speak, so he then starts to gesture and use fluctuations

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in tone of his voice to articulate what it is that he wants.

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You called Stevens a lot of speech therapy.

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When I started working with him and joined his team, I was in second grade.

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At that time, Stevens was communicating with mostly gestures, and when you can control your

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tongue and move it or pull it back in or pull it forward, you have to teach the child how

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to do that, and Stevens had to be taught that over and over again.

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My son Camden had early signs of asthma, so getting chest X-rays to look at how much scar tissue

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was developing from repeated faces of bronchitis.

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In fact, we had to rent and mobilize us so often from the pediatrician that she suggested

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we buy our own, which we did.

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He was very puffy looking and swollen, but then we thought, well, he's chubby, he's just

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a chubby baby and isn't that cute.

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But in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, I don't know that his belly should be that

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descended in hard looking and big.

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He was from the constipation, which would then lead to mood-related issues in agitation and

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anger.

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I felt like he was very hot and cold.

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Happy one minute and then in an anger and rage in the next.

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You couldn't reason with him.

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We had to wait for him to calm down so that we could even have a conversation with him.

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So in Tracen's case, his body was covered in rashes, head to toe behind the knees, was

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so inflamed, he was bleeding.

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My husband is naturally very lean and athletic.

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He was doing all natural bodybuilding and has a really good build.

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So we noticed that on one side of his chest, he was developing an enlarged breast tissue.

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So he went and had a mammogram and that came back as a benign tumor called gynecromestia

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and men.

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What they recommend is if it bothers you enough that they recommend surgery, they

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have it taken out basically.

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And I asked the doctor to his ear and I mean, how does it come?

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How does it come about?

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And they really didn't have many answers.

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But I had my suspicions that something we were eating every day may have been contributing

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to the kind of comestia.

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So what was really happening in our family was that each family member was developing

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a chronic condition of the body one at a time, slowly and accumulably so that eventually

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when I rode everything down that we were managing, we had 21 chronic diseases in one

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family.

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I mean, we were making conscious choices every single day to live a healthy lifestyle and

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something went terribly wrong.

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But we blended in with everybody else because everybody else had the same problems.

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They were doing the same things.

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They were in the therapy rooms.

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I was having conversations with mothers that we could all relate to each other because

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everybody had children and or themselves that had chronic conditions.

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So our son was diagnosed on the autism spectrum and he was three.

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My youngest daughter started having some GI issues.

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My daughter was about eight years old and she was looking really inflamed and puffy and she

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was starting to develop breast.

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I was diagnosed with the stage two breast cancer.

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I have had three miscarriages.

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My first boy, he had an allergy to milk and then to nuts.

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And I know that our family is like every other family out there.

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I know people are doing the same exact thing that as the symptom comes up, they address

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that particular symptom and before you know it, one is piled on top of the other on

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So we were essentially at a very young age, even though we were health conscious, we were

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managing early signs of chronic disease.

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Around age two, Trace and eight, a peanut and he had an anaphylactic reaction.

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And like what any family would do when you have a child with a peanut allergy, you

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remove all peanuts from the house.

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And I said, why is it that we're willing to remove foods from the house that we know

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are life threatening to an individual that it would have an anaphylactic shock.

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But we're not willing to remove foods that would create chronic disease and a slow

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death.

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Because essentially what you're doing is you're still contributing to death, but on a

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very slow steady basis.

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And that's when I said, I will never bring foods in this home that do not contribute

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to health, that in any way jeopardize anyone's health in this family.

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And that was the beginning entry point from when I started to look at the food and

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the body and the physical symptoms.

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I decided that I would learn as much as I can.

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So even in a short period of raising a family and trying to reverse my own condition,

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I spent 1700 hours studying only nutrition, 100% holistic nutrition.

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And I learned some of the biochemistry behind autism and how food chemicals break down

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on the body and the mitochondria and the endocrine system.

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And that became really interesting where I started to really learn about specifically

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what autism can teach us.

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In fact, autism was my greatest teacher about the human system and its interaction with food.

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Well, try to get cool that air, make that air cool your tongue.

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I mean, I can remember, I think he was five years old and I'm trying to teach him how to read.

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So I'm looking at a word that's a cat, you know, say,

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ah, so we paint after me, ah, inhale, inhale, inhale, inhale, inhale, inhale, take a little

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while, inhale, get out.

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And then I'll go to the take.

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So give me the T cell.

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Two, two, two, two, you know, take a little while, but eventually he'll get two.

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So I'll say, ah, again, and the two again, now say no, well, it's put into get an act.

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Couldn't do it.

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Could not do it.

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It was the most frustrating thing.

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And I mean, I would get frustrated.

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He'd eventually cry.

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I cried.

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I mean, this went on late after night, we were trying this.

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And I'm still talking about trying to get the act and the T together.

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That's why the see what we are today.

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I just, I'm going to, I'm in shock.

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My experience was for myself and for Stephen that we went through extensive therapy.

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Nothing carried over.

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But say I was able to perform a particular isolated exercise as contracting my quadriceps.

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Never translated to walking.

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And in Stephen's case, producing a sound didn't translate to speaking.

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When we made dietary changes and pulled the foods out that were disrupting the body and

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damaging the body, the therapies translated to long term results.

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So we had already spent years, two, three, four years doing therapies without changing

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our food and didn't get results.

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We were still going to therapy.

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When we changed the food, we stayed with therapy, got results, and never went back to therapy.

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One of the main things to avoid to achieve healthy status or to remove chronic conditions

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of the body is to remove GMO foods or genetically modified organisms.

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GMOs are genetically modified organisms.

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They're also called genetically engineered foods.

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While industry scientists claim that GMOs are just an extension of natural weighting

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that farmers have been doing for centuries, the dozens of scientists that I've interviewed,

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the independent scientists, completely disagree.

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GMOs are the most radical change in our food supply and pose one of the greatest risks

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to our health.

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To create a GMO, scientists take genes from one species and artificially force them

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into the DNA of other species, or they alter genes within the same species.

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This is not hybridization.

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That uses the plant's own natural reproductive system.

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These are artificial techniques done in a laboratory.

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The process itself causes massive collateral damage in the DNA, which can increase toxins,

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allergens, new diseases, and nutritional problems in the food we eat.

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GMOs, so far, for example, has up to seven times the amount of an allergen.

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One type of GMO corn contains a totally new allergen.

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Another has more than 200 altered proteins and metabolites, including those linked to allergic

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reactions and cancer.

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These type of unproductive changes may help explain why lab animals fed GMOs suffer

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from a variety of health issues.

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There's genetically engineered soy, corn, sugarbeats, cotton, canola, and alfalfa.

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These are the six main GMOs.

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There's also papaya from China or Hawaii, as well as some zucchini or yellow squash.

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A small amount of genetically engineered potatoes and apples just came onto the market.

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And salmon is being sold in Canada.

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When we remove those foods, in essence, you're taking the biggest burden off the body.

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Because if those foods are removed, you've eliminated so much of the dysfunction.

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We take away what is continually breaking down and contributing to the disease to state

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and the body will heal itself.

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So many diseases and disorders in the United States have increased.

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Since the introduction of GMOs in Roundup in the food supply in the 1990s,

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asthma, allergies, autism, ADHD, anxiety, autoimmune disease, Alzheimer's.

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And that's just the A's.

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But the bottom line is I've removed genetically modified food and had kids eat all organic

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food.

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No pesticides, no GMOs.

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And the changes I've seen are remarkable.

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So our son was diagnosed on the autism spectrum when he was three.

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And then I'd say it was a slow, roll introducing non-GMO organic.

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The more we did, I see like the better he got.

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I mean, it wasn't days, but I would say over weeks.

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For months, we just started noticing more behavioral changes I would say.

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Not as much of a vehicle called meltdowns.

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Yeah, for Ethan's symptoms, again, the spectrum is huge.

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So with him, he wasn't speaking.

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We noticed over, I'd say, of course, a month improved speech and less anxiety.

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So we were like, okay, let's give him even more organic non-GMO food.

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And he just kept getting better and better.

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They didn't say it immediately.

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They started saying things like, not quite sure we're seeing the autism as much.

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You know, and it's like, it's the greatest.

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Greatest thing you want to hear.

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I never forget we went to parent teachers' conference.

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And we were just praying for semi-good news.

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And she said, he's in the middle of a class.

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And I went up the whole class, he's in the middle.

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And that was just overwhelming.

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And you go from preparing yourself as a parent to,

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I'm like, I'm just like, you know, you wanted to worry about things like,

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is he going to be good at soccer?

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Is he going to like, chess?

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So whatever.

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And then you go into, you just want him to be okay.

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And be able to live okay when we leave.

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And then our daughter, along the same time, we were even thinking about her asthma.

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Well, that kind of just went away.

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You know, we started talking about it.

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You're like, you know, we're talking about it.

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And you get angry again because you think of all the toxins that are being put.

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It's not just in the food.

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It's on the food.

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I think the more you look into it, the more you just raise his questions.

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And it raises questions of like, what are we doing?

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And how can we be doing this?

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Why is the chemical company in charge of the food?

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That would be my big question.

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The GMO manufacturers like Montanto, Bear, Dow, Sincenta, and Dupont are actually chemical companies.

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Their main products are chemicals.

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The primary reason they genetically engineered crop is to allow that crop to be sprayed with

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their chemical herbicide.

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The most widely used is Mont Santos Roundup.

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Roundup herbicide would normally kill the weeds and the crops.

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But their genetically engineered plants are designed to be sprayed with roundup and survive.

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These crops are called roundup ready.

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Over 80% of all GMO crops worldwide are Mont Santos Roundup ready varieties.

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Nobody told us that our food is being sprayed all the time and that they're changing

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the makeup of the seeds.

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The entire enterprise of GMO amounts to nothing more than making plants tolerant

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to poison so we can use a lot of poison.

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Roundup's active ingredient is called glyphosate.

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Glyphosate was originally patented as an industrial cleaner to clean boilers and pipes.

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As a key later, it grabs onto the minerals and strips the buildup inside the pipes.

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When the residue is pulled on the ground, it wiped out all the plants.

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So Mont Santos bought glyphosate and patented it as an herbicide.

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It takes out metals and that's not a good thing for all of us.

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We need to be able to absorb certain minerals into our bodies and that compromise when glyphosate

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is present.

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And Steven was presenting with mineral deficiencies.

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I started to say, well, this seems risky that we would be bringing in a food that

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could potentially take minerals out of our body and also damage the gut microbiome.

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We now understand that human health and even brain health depends on the health of the

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bacteria that live within us.

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We call the bacteria and the other organisms, the human microbiome.

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The cutting edge of medicine right now is the organisms that live from your mouth to

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your touch to the other end.

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The trillions of bacteria in your body control many aspects of your health, your immunity,

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your metabolism.

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Production of vitamins, it's the first line of defense for detoxification.

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Your set point for inflammation, for example, are all mediated by your gut bacteria.

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They are your buddies.

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You have to love your microbiome.

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They make the very chemistry that rules your brain, the brain chemistry that makes

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you happy or sad.

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When round-up first came out on the market, we were told that it wouldn't affect

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human health because humans don't have the chicken-made pathway.

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And that's a pathway that plants have.

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And that's where round-up affects plants.

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We don't have this pathway, but our gut bacteria do.

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And when our gut bacteria, we can't produce the compounds from certain amino acids to make

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these other chemicals that we need to run our entire body.

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Things like tyrosine and trip to fans, tyrosine for dopamine, and trip to fan makes

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serotonin.

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Both of them are considered feel-good chemicals.

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More than 90% of the serotonin in the bodies actually manufactured in the gut.

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So when you unleash a chemical like glyphosate that damages the gut bacteria, there is

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a tell to pay.

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There are consequences that we are just beginning to understand, but that are very, very

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real.

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We know what glyphosate does.

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It's been patented as an antibiotic.

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Because I had already been looking into the microbiome, I thought, well, the last thing

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we want to bring into the body is antibiotic, particularly on food because our microbiome

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or our bacteria is really our number one defense.

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It kills the beneficial gut bacteria, the probiotics we normally pay for like lactobacillus.

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It doesn't kill the nasty stuff like pathogenic ecoli, salmonella, and bachelisum, which

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can overgrow in our gut.

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My middle son, who was about eight years old at the time, started displaying autism symptoms.

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His teacher called me and said something is going on with him.

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We noticed that he was hitting.

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He actually tried to hit us.

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He had a rash around his mouth as well.

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His great drop from A's to D's.

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He just had behavioral outbursts and I thought something is going on with him.

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This is not just a phase.

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I took him first to our doctor and he said, I'm going to test for fungus.

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I said, why for fungus?

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He said, well, because sometimes pathogenic gut bacteria leads to inflammation in the brain,

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which can lead to behavioral issues.

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He tested it at very high levels for this fungus.

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He was the same fungus which is present in children with autism.

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Also, claustradiya, diffusial, all kinds of bacteria, and he tested positive for over

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19 different food intolerances.

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He said, your son has leaky gut.

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I said, what does that mean?

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He said, he has holes in his small intestines.

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My son had holes in his small intestines.

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Why is this happening?

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At the same time of this diagnosis was when we had the glyphosate testing.

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My son was the first one tested for glyphosate in his urine.

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That is when we discovered that he had eight times higher of the level of glyphosate in

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his urine than was found anywhere in Europe.

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We eliminated any source of glyphosate and we went all organic.

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Within six weeks, we tested him again and the glyphosate levels in his urine were

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no longer detectable and his autism symptoms were gone.

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And they have never come back.

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It's been over two years.

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We now can connect the dots very easily.

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Autism and Alzheimer's Parkinson's multiple sclerosis.

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These are inflammatory diseases of the brain.

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It's the bacteria in the gut that regulate inflammation and these are the bacteria that are

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damaged when they are exposed to glyphosate.

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I don't believe that every case of autism is triggered by genetically modified foods.

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But I don't think any child on the planet can recover from autism by consuming genetically

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modified foods.

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It's so easy for you.

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Is it always been easy for you?

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It used to be hard and it used to take me a long time to finish.

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But it's not that hard anymore.

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Because I went around GMO and grew free.

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And what did that do for you?

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It helped me in school and helped me focus on stuff.

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Autism curable.

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It takes a lot of work.

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It depends where they are in the spectrum.

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But what we do know is children on the spectrum have significant digestive disorder complaints.

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But when you change your diets, they get significantly better.

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Many of them, not all, even when you just do that alone.

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The overgrowth of these pathogenic bacteria can lead to gastrointestinal disorders, obesity,

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heart disease, and many other serious health issues.

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I mean, it's no mystery we have a huge problem, no pun intended, with obesity and overweight.

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In Western cultures, and patients will tell me, Dr. I am not eating much at all.

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I'm on a 1,400 calorie, a day diet.

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I'm on the treadmill for whatever length of time and I can't seem to lose weight.

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I have to admit for many years, I'm not sure I fully believe them, but now I do.

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As we've now embraced the notion that the gut bacteria, the human microbiome,

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plays a pivotal role in determining whether you are fat or lean.

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Switching to organic, we noticed that we lost weight, which was a nice bonus that we didn't expect.

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So majority of my practice members, myself included, have found that it's so much easier to stay at a healthy weight.

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And not worry about it when you change to the organic and non-gia male lifestyle.

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At the time, my daughter was about eight years old and she was looking really inflamed and

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puffy and she was starting to develop breasts and she had a little pooch in her belly going on.

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And since we've gone GMO-free, her belly is completely flattened out.

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It's like that information is totally gone.

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And she stopped that accelerated development.

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You know, she is where I feel like she belongs as an 11-year-old little girl.

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Part of the experimental process was the individual removal of certain foods because you're

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playing detective in essence. You're trying to match up symptoms and conditions with specific foods.

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And at this point, we had already removed soy, dairy, gluten, preservatives, food dyes.

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And we still had the conditions that we were struggling with.

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We had improvement. But everybody still had all the same conditions.

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So when I looked more specifically at the genetically modified foods and the glyphosate that was

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still hidden in some of our food and we removed that, that was when the solution really unfolded.

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The Institute for Responsible Technology surveyed more than 3,200 people who reported health

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improvements after they switched to non-gia male diets. By far, the number one reported benefit

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was digestive problems. So, Camden, what I noticed most about him was digestive changes,

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because he had the disdended belly when he was very young and was prone to constipation,

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which would then lead to mood-related issues in agitation and anger. And he just became very

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quirky and funny and outgoing. And the mood changes shifted. He's now an even-kill, steady,

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easy-going child. His athletic performance, I mean to think that, you know, when I see pictures of

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him with an abulizer on as a child and knowing that he was always so prone to mucus and inflammation

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at upper respiratory bronchitis and coughing, he's now a real superstar on the tennis court.

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And soccer and basketball and playing other sports has no upper respiratory distress, no bronchitis,

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colds, asthma, ear infections, none of it. So, some may criticize the idea that, well, we want to look

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at scientific studies and individual patients saying this or that doesn't really mean anything.

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And I would respond to that in two ways. Number one, the plural of anecdote is data, meaning that

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each individual anecdote ultimately accumulates to a body of information that we can call data.

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And number two, that it sure is heck matters to that patient. It sure is heck matters to those

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parents whose autistic child begins to speak. It matters in a very big way. And as a treating physician,

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we live for that. So, you know, the notion that these individual cases don't really matter much

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for me as a clinician, I have a tough time accepting that information. After switching to

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non-gimon diets, people reported significant improvements in more than 20 other health issues,

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including energy level, weight loss, brain fog, allergies, anxiety, depression, memory, pain,

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insomnia, hormone problems, gluten sensitivity, diabetes, and skin disorders to name a few.

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Skin disorders, skin conditions are a manifestation of an internal issue. It's not just that you

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want to put some kind of save or cream upon the skin and hope for the best. That is treating this

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smoke. It's ignoring the fire. These are inflammatory conditions. So, Trason was covered in rashes,

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head to toe behind the knees. It was so inflamed. He was bleeding. And he had rashes all over his

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torso, poke at heart, red rashes, hives, red cheeks, red ears. In fact, I took him to a immunologist,

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allergist, who was supposedly the best in the field. And his recommendation was to lubricate his skin

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in the bathtub three to five times a day. And then rub a Vaseline aqua four treatment over the wet

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skin to seal in the moisture and then to keep his hands covered so that he wouldn't scratch it.

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And I said, well, how is it that I'm supposed to do that with a two-year-old while I also have two

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other children? And he said, well, that's the only way you have to keep the skin moist and wet and

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seal in the moisture. So, it was obvious to me that this was not going to work. And it didn't take

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me long to figure out that what was happening outside the skin was really coming from inside the body.

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Now on a non-gia modiat, his system is completely healed. His entire history of Exima is non-existent,

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no hives, no rashes, no distended belly. He's so much at peace with himself,

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easy to connect to than he was when his body was always agitated.

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And my husband's eating habits were not that great when I met him. He suffered from Exima,

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he suffered from arthritis and he suffered from a lot of allergies. So, I've worked with him to

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correct some of those things by introducing him to a non-gia mod 100% organic lifestyle.

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Right now, he doesn't have any allergies. He has not had an Xima outbreak in six years.

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My husband is a bread lover. So, he's addicted to any kind of gluten and any form of bread.

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So, he will occasionally sneak back in a roll or something, but he can immediately

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feel the difference in terms of sneezing, coughing, and then he'll say, what is that? And I say,

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what did you eat? Oh, I forgot. I had a sandwich with some wheat and then it clicks warm.

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Wheat is not technically genetically engineered. However, it is often sprayed with round-up

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just before harvest to dry it out. It may be the explosion and gluten sensitivity has its basis

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in the explosion of round-up use. You know, these days we're seeing so many people who are

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suffering from issues from gluten sensitivity. And even other sensitivities, Casey and sensitivity,

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for example, a protein found in Casmilk, you go to a nurse at a school and she'll say,

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30 years ago, we had one epipen on the wall. Now we've got 30. We've got the same enrollment,

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same amount of kids. And now we have 60 epipens. So, clearly kids are having problems today that

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they didn't have many years ago. So, you're going to ask yourself, why? Why is this?

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It's got to be a reason. But what happens is that the gut lining generally prevents certain

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proteins from getting out and challenging the immune system, leading to allergies and sensitivities.

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Anything that can threaten the lining of the gut can increase the risk of these foods sensitivities.

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And when you understand that glyphosate by changing the gut bacteria whose job it is to maintain

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the gut lining will therefore lead to permeability of the gut, bleakiness of the gut, or may lead to it.

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Their immune system is seeing these foods as foreign invaders and they're mounting an antibody

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response to these foods. Then it really sets up a perfect storm in terms of connecting the dots

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between genetically modified food, leading to more consumption of glyphosate, latent food,

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challenging the gut bacteria, leading to permeability, or leaking a sub-the gut,

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then whatever protein should have been excluded, get into the system and lead to these

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allergic issues, these sensitivity issues that are so prevalent today. In addition to crops that are

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engineered to withstand herbicides like Roundup, they're also corn and cotton plants engineered to

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produce their own toxic insecticide called BT toxin. The BT toxin breaks open little holes in the

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walls of the insects gut and kills it. Both BT toxin and Roundup can create leaky gut, permeable gut,

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holes in the walls of our intestines. I do testing and I show that parents that their kids

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have leaky gut, this intestinal permeability, with food allergies. So I have three boys and my first

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boy, he had an allergy to milk and then to nuts and his nut allergy was extremely frightening.

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So it's Thanksgiving and we're sitting on a table surrounded by 18 different family members,

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everybody's having a great time and I look over at my son at the end of the table and suddenly

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he looks very, very sick. So I say you can go to the back room and lay down. I'm thinking maybe

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he got the stomach book and then a few minutes later we hear him cry out and he's covered in

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wealth. His entire body is puffed up like a raspberry with red wealth and so I run and get the

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epipen and my husband jams it into his leg and he can't get it out so I pull it out and it

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spurt's blood across the room and my mother-in-law and I are screaming and we don't even think

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about waiting for the ambulance. We just run and get in the car and when I'm in the back seat my

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my son's eyes start rolling back in his head and I think he's gonna die but he holds on to my

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hand and he looks at me and his eyes are saying like mom please help me you know I can see the

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looking his eyes and there's nothing I can do I feel completely helpless and all I do is pray to God

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and you know thank God that he didn't die that day but no one should ever have to experience that

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from food. When I change kids diets and then and treat them however I need to treat them depending

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on the kid I recheck their food and about he testing and it's markedly improved when I removed GMO's

450
00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:03,640
four months later his allergies went from a 19 down to a point two he no longer has life threatening

451
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:09,400
food allergies. You know so often when I see patients among their various complaints is this thing

452
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:15,800
called brain fog and they describe it as feeling that they're not all there that they're one talk of

453
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:23,240
short of a combo platter or however you want to phrase it but brain fog is a very real issue. The brain

454
00:34:23,240 --> 00:34:28,280
is a very highly energy dependent organ in the body you know even though it represents only 5% of

455
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:34,600
the body weight it is at rest consuming 25% of the body's energy of the body's calories and when you

456
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:40,440
compromise the brain's ability to use energy in other words you compromise the function of what

457
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:46,200
are called the mitochondria then people experience brain fog and glyphosate does that.

458
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:52,040
Your mitochondria are like little furnaces in each of yourselves and that's really where your

459
00:34:52,120 --> 00:35:00,520
energy is made the energy that just keeps you alive it's not a process that's passive to stay alive

460
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:08,600
it's an active process we've converted star dust to organs and those organs have all these vital

461
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:15,800
functions they need to energy so if glyphosate is damaging your mitochondria you're going to have a good

462
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:21,880
chance of having overall the organ dysfunction in many organs in the body. Consider that it is

463
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:29,480
damaging the brain's energetics the focal point of such things as Alzheimer's Parkinson's

464
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:36,200
autism so from my perspective as a brain specialist this is one of the most powerful issues that we

465
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:42,040
deal with in our modern times. Brain fog and fatigue were also two of the main reasons that I really

466
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:48,440
wanted to find out what was going on with me because I would be sitting at work and really just staring

467
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:54,280
at the computer and going I couldn't tell you my name I felt that dumb one of the biggest changes I

468
00:35:54,280 --> 00:36:00,440
see with people that go on a non-gia modiat occurs with brain fog that might occur they feel more

469
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:06,760
invigorated they feel more connected they feel as if they're not just going through life but they're

470
00:36:06,760 --> 00:36:13,560
actually you know participating in it and when we see a people who are really careful all of a

471
00:36:13,560 --> 00:36:19,720
sudden in terms of limiting their consumption of non-organic food therefore they're less likely to be

472
00:36:19,720 --> 00:36:27,160
consuming glyphosate it adds to their ability to regain optimal brain function. Honestly within two

473
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:33,240
days that brain fog lifted two degree where I was almost like a light went on and all of a sudden I

474
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:41,000
felt alive again and that was really remarkable that was shocking I was so excited and amazed really

475
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:47,480
wow it really made that much of a difference. When we see such dramatic changes in an individual's brain

476
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:53,560
function and reduction of his or her complaints when they simply make a dietary change that we know

477
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:59,640
will reduce their glyphosate consumption to me there is very little doubt of the relationship because I see it

478
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:05,240
every day. At high doses we search shows that roundup may affect many of our hormones including the

479
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:12,840
balance of testosterone and estrogen. Most of us are pretty comfortable with our testosterone

480
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:19,240
estrogen balance where it is. I don't really think we want to ingest a poison that's playing havoc

481
00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:25,240
with that because that's really vital to who we are in the world. Your hormones run your entire body

482
00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:30,040
whether it's your thyroid hormone that regulates your little battery here at your throat, growth hormone

483
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:36,040
that helps you grow insulin which regulate sugar metabolism cortisol which is the precursor for

484
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:41,480
almost every other hormone in your body including your sex hormones. Mont Santu found that glyphosate

485
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:48,680
destroyed the male testes of the rats. That has implications as to the animal's ability to reproduce.

486
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:57,560
So I am currently trying to get pregnant. I have had three miscarriages in the past year and a half or so

487
00:37:57,720 --> 00:38:02,840
you know with the first two they said it's normal miscarriages are typical it's nothing to be

488
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:12,280
alarming probably just bad luck. After the third in my age I was 38 at the time that I had the third one.

489
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:22,040
They said we should really start to see if there's anything wrong. So the full gamut of tests

490
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:29,720
and they couldn't find anything. So currently we're in a state of you know let's get pregnant

491
00:38:29,720 --> 00:38:37,720
again and the doctors are we'll just see what happens they don't really have any suggestions.

492
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:45,560
I had the pleasure of working with my and she came to me because she was struggling with pregnancy

493
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:51,400
and I asked her to explore more closely the role of nutrition genetic modified foods and glyphosate

494
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:59,320
and her diet and she was willing to do it what she did. I'm doing great. I am 22 weeks pregnant

495
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:07,480
and I feel fantastic. Are you excited? Yeah we're very excited we're incredibly excited.

496
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:16,040
We waited a long time for this so in a typical pregnancy they say that around 12 weeks is where

497
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:25,800
you're safe and out of the danger zone for a miscarriage and I think that when we reach that point

498
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:38,280
and we were finally able to share that with our friends and family and not worry about having to

499
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:49,000
protect them from disappointing news we were overjoyed I guess. Only word that you can really use.

500
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:58,360
In 1982 there were 40 fertility clinics in the United States as of 2015 there are 440

501
00:39:59,240 --> 00:40:03,880
it changes price based on where you go but on average in vitro fertilization is going to be about

502
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:10,840
15,000 dollars. Now of course you can't put a price on a child there is no question you're not

503
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:17,880
going to put a price on a child however by changing to organic by switching to the non-gmo by

504
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:24,920
starting care-practic care taking care of yourself it's going to cost a fraction of what you would be paying

505
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:32,120
but that's only in dollars. Think of your health though over the time if we know we know that

506
00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:38,760
risk of mom getting diagnosed with breast uterine ovarian cancer for 15 years after she goes through

507
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:44,440
the drug therapy to get pregnant is over double. We know that there are seeing so many more cancers

508
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:50,600
hormone-responsible cancers in the moms who go through fertility treatment. The problem is the

509
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:55,640
American Journal of Human Genetics also just showed that the babies born to moms that did IVF

510
00:40:55,640 --> 00:41:01,080
and used the fertility drugs the retinoblastomas the neuroblastomas all of the solid cancer tumors

511
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:07,720
were all found much much higher so is it really worth it to do whatever you can to get pregnant

512
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:13,160
or should we be changing our focus to say we need to get healthier first. I can see the big

513
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:17,400
shift happened when people start to change that diet focus on the diet first and a lot of things

514
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,960
start to change and follow. People started coming to me it's all been word of mouth and they've

515
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:26,600
said there's this doctor and she's helping people with fertility. My mingol isn't so much fertility

516
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:32,520
it's health and I would go by product of health is improved fertility so my focus has never been

517
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:38,040
let's just get people pregnant it's let's get them healthy and help them raise a healthier child

518
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:42,520
so a majority of our couples actually have been to the fertility clinics they've been trying

519
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:47,000
other things and have been told they're unsuccessful so of the couple that have come to us we've

520
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:53,000
had 65 that have babies 12 that are currently pregnant and there's not a couple that has used my

521
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:58,840
protocol 100% and not been successful so Emily is a health coach and she has been helping

522
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:03,640
people regain their health so when she came in and was concerned that she had lost her period

523
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:11,640
that was obviously a concern. I knew I wanted to be a mother before I got married over five years

524
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:20,920
ago now and I kind of watched my sister go through a journey of in vitro and trying to have children

525
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:27,400
and we're very close so I decided during her journey that I wasn't going to take that same approach

526
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:33,560
I'm going to and do this a little more naturally and my menstrual cycle came back and then I go

527
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:43,160
okay now we can start talking baby and then about six months after that conceived her child

528
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:49,400
as a woman how did that feel and you couldn't even have your period much that's actually

529
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:58,840
for two whole years how was I motion it was horrible it was horrible yeah emotional

530
00:43:01,720 --> 00:43:05,320
you're not doing the one thing I wanted to do

531
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:13,720
I want to have more children and so I know how important it is to keep doing this

532
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:21,960
but it's a lifestyle I've adapted it's natural and it's he wanted for everyone

533
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:27,960
and everyone you hear that struggles just want to share their story

534
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:36,120
but I'm so proud of myself for giving my body a chance

535
00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:47,240
because many women including my sister they take it different approach and our bodies aren't meant to go through that

536
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:56,440
sorry we know that glyphosate is a key later and antibiotics and an encyclant disruptor

537
00:43:57,000 --> 00:44:03,240
unfortunately that's not all the world health organization has now classified glyphosate as a

538
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:10,520
probable human carcinogen that is earth shaking according to the World Health Organization

539
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:15,160
glyphosate causes cancer and animals it causes mutations and damage in human DNA

540
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:19,400
and where it spray there are higher levels of cancer in the population

541
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,600
things like cancer don't just happen they happen for a reason

542
00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:30,520
and now we're seeing connections between the mechanisms of cancer and the mechanisms

543
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:37,000
my which glyphosate changes human physiology my personal experience actually began eight years ago

544
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:44,680
when I was diagnosed with the Stage 2 breast cancer and I wanted to help my body recover from that

545
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:51,800
disease and I wanted to start by helping my immune system and so I did a lot of research I went back

546
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:58,200
to school I became a nutritionist and what I did was I changed my diet completely I thought that

547
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:04,520
I was eating right I thought I was I was exercising but what I didn't know is that a lot of what I

548
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:12,760
was eating contained GMOs at particularly soy I had gone on a soy binge in an effort to replace

549
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:19,880
you know what I thought were bad products I was consuming GMOs soy like it was candy right now

550
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:27,960
I'm perfect it's been eight years since my diagnosis I compete in triathalons and I feel great

551
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:35,720
I attribute the success of my recovery directly to eating an organic diet and staying away from GMO

552
00:45:35,720 --> 00:45:44,680
products and eating a living foods diet that includes fresh fruits, vegetables that are 100% organic

553
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:51,240
and that inspired me to want to bring that knowledge to other people so a lot of my cancer patients

554
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:58,760
once they go on a non GMO diet report back to me that they are feeling stronger they have a higher

555
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:04,680
tolerance if they happen to be going through chemotherapy they're able to sleep longer and more

556
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:12,120
restful deeper they are able to hold food down and the foods that they are eating are not affecting

557
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:19,240
any kind of gut issues that they might have. We're here today to support the state of California's

558
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:28,280
adding glyphosate to the Prop 65 listing of chemicals that are known to cause cancer

559
00:46:28,280 --> 00:46:38,040
we're among a team of lawyers that are representing thousands of people who have suffered

560
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:44,520
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma after using Mont Santos Roundup which contains glyphosate

561
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:51,960
My husband Jack McCall used Roundup regularly for over 30 years believing it to be safe

562
00:46:53,160 --> 00:47:00,600
he died a painful death on December 26th, 2015 of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

563
00:47:04,120 --> 00:47:10,200
Jack's initial symptoms were the same as that of our family dog Duke who also died of lymphoma

564
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:16,520
after developing lumps in his neck he had spent his life following Jack around the farm and was

565
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:23,560
significantly exposed to Roundup my husband Jack was very conscious about the dangers of chemicals

566
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:31,400
and his misfortune was taking Mont Santos word that Roundup was safe. My dad was definitely the last

567
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:38,840
person you would think take it cancer he was the avid surfer and as a family we ate out of the

568
00:47:38,920 --> 00:47:45,320
garden for pretty much every meal thinking that that was living a healthy life

569
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:56,680
little did we know that we were actually poisoning ourselves it just feels like an unlawful robbery

570
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,000
and we just want to avoid that from happening to anyone else

571
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:17,240
Mont Santos asked the environmental protection agency to seal the company's safety studies on

572
00:48:17,240 --> 00:48:21,720
glyphosate and not make them public claiming that they contained trades secrets

573
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,520
however a scientist named Anthony Samso obtained the secret documents after repeat to

574
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:31,400
requests and a little help from his senator Samso is not allowed to show them more than 20,000

575
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:36,200
pages of secret documents but he is allowed to report on them. The Mont Santos documents

576
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:44,840
do actually reveal that they found numerous types of cancers in virtually every organ in

577
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:53,880
gland of the animal's body the experiments that they did clearly showed that glyphosate causes

578
00:48:53,880 --> 00:49:00,680
several different types of lung cancer as well as causing interstitial destruction of the cells of the

579
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:10,840
lungs which would lead to COPD and asthma like conditions so in my particular situation it's

580
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:17,800
it's particularly close to home because my wife my wife Germaine has COPD

581
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:28,680
and the doctor's prognosis back in 2002 there was nothing he could do for her she has

582
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:38,440
less than two years to live and I told the pulmonologist not on my watch and that's when

583
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:48,200
that's when both of us changed our diets while I was in 2002 and now it's 2015 she's still with us

584
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:54,520
and her doctors say they don't understand why she's still with us

585
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:06,120
they attribute it to her diet they say it's your organic diet that's keeping you alive

586
00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:20,520
Mont Santos new and this will makes me angry they knew and they lied

587
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:28,280
well quickly we want to talk about round up it's been approved in America by the EPA

588
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,040
something that that your company manufacturers but many studies have looked at where

589
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:37,080
it's funded or conducted by your company that this chemical may actually

590
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:46,040
could cause cancer a chemical that is in this feed is there any sort of response to that I mean

591
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:53,320
are we in fact poisoning our crops by using this round up chemical farmers depend on this

592
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:58,840
it's an important tool for growers in the fight against that weed so every spring when they plant

593
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,800
a crop the weeds are there they're every spring so they need all the help they can get to combat

594
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:08,760
those weeds so I feel I feel very good about the safety of the product it's been studied extensively

595
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:14,200
for more than 40 years Mont Santos whole rationale for risking our health with their GMOs in

596
00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:20,680
Roundup is to make it easier for farmers to kill weeds and even this is failing superweeds

597
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:25,720
which have now developed resistance to Roundup are found on 300 million acres worldwide

598
00:51:26,120 --> 00:51:30,440
farmers use more and more Roundup to try to kill the superweeds as a result

599
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:35,960
herbicide use in the US increased by over 500 million pounds during the first 16 years of GMOs

600
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:42,360
in response to superweeds GMO makers are introducing even more GMOs resistant to other toxic

601
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:47,400
herbicides like 2-4D which is part of the poisonous agent orange used during the Vietnam War

602
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:52,760
in addition to superweeds there are now super bugs which are no longer being killed by the

603
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:58,440
toxic insecticide produced in GMO corn and cotton in spite of their multi-million dollar media

604
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:04,120
campaigns claiming that GMOs are necessary to feed the world a top experts totally disagree

605
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:09,240
a comprehensive report sponsored by the United Nations in World Bank and written by more than 400

606
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:14,840
scientists concludes GMOs are definitely not the solution to World Hunger in fact according to

607
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:20,440
the New York Times investigation as well as other sources GMOs don't even increase yields

608
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:26,760
Mont Santos pretended that Roundup was biodegradable until they were found guilty of false advertising

609
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:31,720
they claimed it was environmentally safe but the truth is it severely damages soil biology

610
00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:34,920
and it's linked to the massive die-off of monarch butterflies and honeybees

611
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:40,600
corporations claim that GMOs and pesticides are safe however investigators have shown

612
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:45,080
that they design their studies and manipulate the data to cover up the health dangers

613
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:50,600
for example when they feed lab animals GMOs around them they compare them to control groups

614
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:56,760
that are also fed GMOs and roundup and they limit the animal studies to just 90 days

615
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,960
even then they have to explain away problems that arise

616
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:07,800
the story that is dispensed in public is that there's never been even one documented safety

617
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:13,480
issue with any genetic-language nerd food on utter and unconscionable lie that is being

618
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:18,440
propagated as a scientific fact there are well-controlled laboratory feeding studies that show

619
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:23,400
clear evidence of harm from multiple types of GMOs both the BT talks and crops and the

620
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:29,000
rounded pretty crops when independent scientists report problems a well-organized attack is launched

621
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:34,680
trying to discredit the researchers and their findings we cannot trust the EPA's evaluation of

622
00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:40,120
roundup or beside first of all they rely on monthsanta to do the testing secondly they only

623
00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:46,360
require data on glyphosate the so-called active ingredient they ignore roundup the whole formulation

624
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:51,480
which can be over a hundred times more toxic we're not just exposed to roundup to

625
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:58,040
consuming it in our food roundup is sprayed on lawns golf courses parks road sides and even

626
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:03,560
school yards most caught in the United States is genetically engineered and sprayed with roundup

627
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:09,320
so the residues are found on cotton products like bandages and tampons and they're clearly

628
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:13,400
ignoring both industry and academic research that shows that roundup has potentially

629
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,480
endocrine disruptive effects and doses that are well below that which they're saying is safe to

630
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:23,720
consume for example ultra-low doses of roundup caused non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in rats

631
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:29,640
one quarter of American suffer from this liver disease which is directly linked to obesity,

632
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:36,040
diabetes and heart disease in the early 1990s the White House instructed the FDA to promote

633
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:42,920
GMOs the FDA then hired Michael Taylor Monsanto's former attorney to be in charge of policy

634
00:54:43,720 --> 00:54:48,680
the policy video over saw claimed no safety tests were needed and no labeling was needed

635
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:54,360
Michael Taylor after leaving the FDA became on Santo's vice president in 2009 he returned to the

636
00:54:54,360 --> 00:55:01,480
FDA to become the US food czar Stephen Drucker a public interest attorney filed a lawsuit against the

637
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:08,360
FDA they were forced to turn over 44,000 secret internal memos and he and others found out that

638
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:15,000
there was fraud it's clear that the FDA's own scientific experts concluded that genetically engineered

639
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:20,360
foods until unique risks in that each one of them has to be carefully tested before it's marketed

640
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:24,840
but the FDA scientists were ignored and their concerns were denied in the official policy

641
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,240
what we're saying is that we've all been deceived about our food supply

642
00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:38,040
and that is a huge leap of faith for families to wrap around that we've been fed this toxic food

643
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:43,080
knowingly that's what we're saying but all the technology side is saying oh they're fine

644
00:55:43,160 --> 00:55:47,640
oh they're fine just eat them and shut up and I don't think just eat them and shut up is

645
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:54,520
is working I feel like we're just being led like the cows in the farms to do what we're supposed

646
00:55:54,520 --> 00:56:00,920
to do that's not okay when I started learning about the impact that genetically modified foods

647
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,840
and chemicals and pesticides a glyposite were playing in our health and on our family

648
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:19,160
I felt sad at first and then I got really mad that I didn't know better

649
00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:27,320
that I didn't ask better questions that I was letting my kids down

650
00:56:27,800 --> 00:56:40,040
and then I got really angry at the food business the industry the protective agencies that were

651
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:45,720
really looking out for me and my family inside difficult literature graph show that has

652
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:51,800
used more GMO soy and corn in the U.S. or spray more glyphosate on those crops the number of people

653
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:57,240
suffering from more than 30 health disorders has been rising in parallel on the wrong

654
00:56:57,240 --> 00:57:01,800
these graphs are just correlations they don't absolutely prove a relationship but consider the

655
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:08,760
context lab animals fed GMOs or glyphosate are often afflicted with these or related problems

656
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:14,920
many individuals or their physicians report that these conditions improve or disappear

657
00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:17,480
after switching to non GMO organic diets

658
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:23,160
livestock and pets show these type of improvements after a similar change in diet

659
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:28,760
and science can now explain how the properties and characteristics of GMOs and round a

660
00:57:28,760 --> 00:57:30,280
could lead to these disorders

661
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:36,760
now when may argue that GMOs round up and glyphosate are not the only toxins in our environment

662
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:41,880
and that's certainly true what is called for is more long term independent research that's not

663
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:47,000
funded by the very companies that stand to profit from sales but millions of people and thousands

664
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:52,600
of doctors are not waiting for those tests they're switching to organic now to protect themselves

665
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:58,360
from GMOs, round up and other secret ingredients in their food after the anger came in power

666
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:05,720
meant because I decided to take us out of the human experiment and my family my children's

667
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:10,120
outcome was not going to be somebody else's responsibility it was going to be my responsibility

668
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:14,520
I've had a lot of families very resistant to the idea of changing their diet

669
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:20,760
the reason being is they can't believe that food that looks so equivalent and taste so

670
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:26,760
equivalent can be so adversely affecting their health so we can't tell the difference by the way it

671
00:58:26,760 --> 00:58:33,640
looks or by the way it tastes and organic food is more expensive and my answer to that is a couple

672
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:40,440
of points one the cheap food really isn't food in the first place so you're comparing expensive food to

673
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:48,680
inexpensive cheap processed chemically made products so we we've lost touch with what real food costs

674
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:55,720
and what happens from farm to table secondly chronic disease is far more expensive

675
00:58:56,440 --> 00:59:00,280
than organic food will ever be you know we've never bring our kids to the doctor

676
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:07,960
that's yeah that's we we brought was our daughter at one point I think for her her yearly check-up

677
00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:12,200
and she literally had not been back since her last check-up and the doctor was like

678
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,560
I haven't seen you all year and we're like yeah we don't get sick

679
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:23,000
so again I'm no scientist but I think the food's working

680
00:59:24,360 --> 00:59:29,800
I went in for an annual physical with my boys and the nurse shockingly said

681
00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:35,560
you haven't been here in a year and I said that's right and she said but you have three boys in elementary

682
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:40,600
school and I said exactly and she said well this is on her dog she said you make terrible patients

683
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:46,200
because I can't make any money off of you jokingly but the truth was that we really weren't going in

684
00:59:47,320 --> 00:59:56,440
I can feed my family a meal for under $20 with 100% organic food I think eating a healthy organic diet

685
00:59:56,440 --> 01:00:00:02,040
is socially inconvenient today and it's not a difficult thing to do it's just socially inconvenient

686
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:07,400
and what does that mean it means being out on the road and stopping to get a quick bite

687
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:13,160
things like that have to be thought out in advance we have snacks we bring whole fruits and nuts

688
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:19,240
and seeds with us we always eat before we leave and birthday parties we bring our own dessert

689
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:25,560
and it's really actually kind of funny the boys now can watch the transformation of the children

690
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:31,720
at the birthday party usually takes about 20 minutes after the cake or fruit punch and then they

691
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:37,800
give me the eyeball like this is going to get ugly and it does and then for the remainder part of the

692
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:43,320
party we hear don't do that please sit down get down from there why are you doing that so the parents

693
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:48,920
are trying to regulate the behavior of the children who just finished the fruit punch the lemonade

694
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:55,960
the blue cake when I started eating more organic you know when I was pregnant I felt so much

695
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:03,240
energy I felt I felt so much better so then I have my daughter and there was a time in there that

696
01:01:04,040 --> 01:01:09,320
we just kind of had to make things work and as much as I tried to do organic we kind of started

697
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:14,120
falling off the wagon and getting a lot more nonorganic I noticed that I was getting a little bit more

698
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:20,440
sniffier I kind of chalked it up that I was exhausted I noticed the irritableness from my children

699
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:25,800
and then my youngest daughter started having some GI issues she wasn't going to the bathroom

700
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:31,560
or she would scream and she'd walk around holding your belly and she'd just be screaming and

701
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:36,680
it breaks your heart because it's like what what can we change what can we do and then I was like

702
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:43,800
it's me it's me like I need to go back to organics it kind of took like a month but then you know

703
01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:49,720
with her eating healthier and eating more of that plant-based organic food she isn't crying anymore

704
01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:55,240
I've had some families where the kids have gotten so much better it's so profound I have a kid

705
01:01:55,240 --> 01:02:03,320
with a pediatric acute neuropsychiatric disorder called pandas that child using an extensive

706
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:12,200
combination of dietary changes food restrictions and supplementation got better however the family

707
01:02:12,200 --> 01:02:18,120
got dietary fatigue they got tired of constantly monitoring what this kid was eating how they

708
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:23,880
were shopping the other siblings and have this issue and they got very laks when they got laks

709
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,640
and they're shopping the organic food what they were buying all the stuff that we're talking

710
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:34,600
about his symptoms all returned I just got this email so now I have to figure out we

711
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:39,880
almost have to start from the beginning that you can literally unravel a kid back to the

712
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:45,400
baseline where we started and I see that happen and it's so frustrating for the family to yet begin

713
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:51,000
again but I say we can do it we've done it once we can do it again it's interesting when somebody

714
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:56,760
goes from a clean diet to a diet that's not really clean anymore the patient does

715
01:02:56,760 --> 01:03:02,040
understand hey I you know I was feeling great two weeks ago and now I'm kind of back to the you

716
01:03:02,040 --> 01:03:06,920
know I don't want to get out of bed I'm tired my knees hurt and I see it time and time again they'll

717
01:03:06,920 --> 01:03:12,040
tell me my fatigue came back the brain fuck I can't believe how quickly you know my joint pains

718
01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:18,120
came back when I got off the diet they have to want a cheat and see that it makes them sick

719
01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:24,120
and then they're motivated to go back to the good diet because they see the improvement and then

720
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:29,480
they realize if they slide backwards they have dramatic changes and they don't like having

721
01:03:29,480 --> 01:03:34,440
their autoimmune disease so it maintains them on the good diet forever you know I might write a

722
01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:39,800
prescription for a medication though not likely but on that prescription pad I often write non

723
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:47,880
a GMO foods organic foods let's change your diet and my plea is that the general audience understands

724
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:53,960
that the world understands that the science is sound the science is there you just have to look at it

725
01:03:53,960 --> 01:04:01,240
having this knowledge is so empowering I feel like I really want the you know health lottery

726
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:07,560
my children don't have to grow up ill they don't have to grow up with chronic disease they don't

727
01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:14,280
have to grow up fat and immobile so the question might be then how do you avoid glyphosate and

728
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:18,520
to sound a great you're not going to be able to I think you could make some significant changes to

729
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:24,440
reduce the exposure and that is number one to try to eat as organically as you possibly can I believe

730
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:31,400
we can fix this issue but it's going to take a significant change in our food supply because it's

731
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:36,200
been so contaminated ultimately it's going to come down to the almighty dollar and the almighty

732
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:40,680
dollar is going to come from the individual so even if you think I'm not making a big difference

733
01:04:40,680 --> 01:04:47,160
you are making a big difference by choosing organic non GMO food as more and more consumers choose

734
01:04:47,160 --> 01:04:54,280
non GMO foods GMOs are becoming a marketing liability for food companies with 57% of survey

735
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:59,320
American say they believe GMOs are unsafe we're seeing a tipping point in which food companies

736
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:04,600
have to eliminate GMOs in order to maintain market share that's how they were kicked out of Europe that's

737
01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:08,920
how we kicked out genetically engineered bovine growth hormone for most dairy's in the United States

738
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:13,560
major companies have committed to remove GMOs from some role their U.S. product lines

739
01:05:14,120 --> 01:05:19,160
the non GMO revolution is well underway and the next phase that's already emerging is the

740
01:05:19,160 --> 01:05:24,920
overwhelming demand for organic food an organic diet is appropriate for anyone who wants to have a

741
01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:31,480
good quality of life so you know I give an organic diet to anybody who just wants a better quality of

742
01:05:31,480 --> 01:05:36,920
life they want to they want to feel that energy that is that is available to them and when you do that

743
01:05:37,000 --> 01:05:42,040
then you can think about optimizing your health by bringing in nutrient-dense organic food

744
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:46,840
which now the body is able to work with because you don't have inflammatory gut issues you have

745
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:53,400
proper enzyme function in the gut you have property toxification and absorption you have conversion

746
01:05:53,400 --> 01:06:01,160
and that's when you see health number one get out there and support organic go to your farmers markets

747
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:06,040
make sure you can get boxes of fresh produce let your grocery stores know we alternate shopping

748
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:11,080
so we make a good team here he does most of the cooking I do the baking most all right sorry

749
01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:20,600
98% of the day shopping for healthy foods can be confusing the easiest way to avoid GMOs in toxic

750
01:06:20,600 --> 01:06:27,640
pesticides is to buy food that is labeled organic the next best choice is non GMO but remember even if

751
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:34,120
it says non GMO it could still be sprayed with roundup and other toxic pesticides many crops

752
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:40,680
such as rice beans lentils potato sugarcane and wheat are sprayed with roundup right before harvest

753
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:45,080
I don't want to eat pesticides I mean a few you know if you sprayed that with you know

754
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:51,000
some chemical if you just got a bottle roundup and took that organic cucumber and sprayed it

755
01:06:51,000 --> 01:06:58,680
and handed it to somebody and said you want to eat this yeah GMO free you know no it's you don't

756
01:06:58,760 --> 01:07:04,040
want to eat these pesticides although organic foods are not allowed to intentionally contain GMOs

757
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:10,440
there's no requirement to test organic foods to see if contamination has occurred the non GMO

758
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:15,800
project verification however does require testing so the gold standard is to buy products that are

759
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:23,400
organic and non GMO project verified eating clean and eating whole food is not burdensome it's not

760
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:28,920
it doesn't have to be that expensive it really is you know it's a matter of just changing

761
01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:34,200
one or two things until we get to the place where we can incorporate a whole clean diet like this

762
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:40,200
did not happen for us overnight it wasn't this radical change we didn't go from fruit loops to kale

763
01:07:40,200 --> 01:07:47,560
okay we went from pizza to pizza and cookies to cookies vegetables to vegetables pancakes to pancakes

764
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:52,840
except the ingredients were different so we eat in the same foods with different ingredients one

765
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:59,000
genetically modified one is not one is giving us disease the other is not we weren't watching

766
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:05,640
GMO versus organic when I was growing up that wasn't that wasn't on our radar so now we understand

767
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:11,640
differently of what is good food and good food now it says it's coming from a local sustainable source

768
01:08:11,640 --> 01:08:16,040
it's not being used with pesticides there are no GMOs in that food and it's something that

769
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:20,680
can actually nourish and support you instead of just be in the it looks pretty it's big and we

770
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:26,200
can get a lot of it everyone might have different reactions to it but I don't think anybody has had

771
01:08:26,200 --> 01:08:33,960
a negative reaction to eating organically that's a great point you are smart you did get smarter

772
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:40,120
out of all that the two weren't smart before and network with other people who are like minded it

773
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:45,160
helps that's big it would be there's a couple that we have that are just like us and we just

774
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:50,680
love going over their house they love coming out of house and you might need to make new friends

775
01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:57,160
that do what you do as opposed to forcing your old friends you have to get rid of your old friends

776
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:01,800
you just you don't have to just go over there for Thanksgiving as a family we love to get together

777
01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:07,160
with Kathleen and her family we feel very blessed that we're in each other's lives

778
01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:11,160
all right guys running place and we're in two we get up

779
01:09:11,160 --> 01:09:15,880
we're gonna love it we're gonna do a little appetizer thing

780
01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:22,840
what is this really is it cook kind of why is that we don't have a cook oh man we've done things

781
01:09:22,840 --> 01:09:26,520
giving out so we're too maybe three we're taking notes

782
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:29,960
no it's coming back get him out

783
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:38,280
who's coming here the quality of the ingredients is really ultimately what we changed

784
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:43,720
and that's what led to the results of you know resolving our health issues we had

785
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:50,280
significant changes within two to three weeks and each symptom in each individual

786
01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:56,760
improved and it was very short time relative to how long we suffered and then within three months

787
01:09:56,840 --> 01:10:02,440
even more resolution and by six months we're really looking at no chronic disease in the family

788
01:10:03,480 --> 01:10:09,000
I love the fact that we are organic because it makes you feel better I can feel it

789
01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:17,800
and V I think it tastes better it fits us the results are great there's no reason to doubt it

790
01:10:17,800 --> 01:10:18,840
there's no reason to not

791
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:20,840
you want to over it

792
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:29,320
almost everybody I talked to says my doctor said diet has nothing to do with my condition

793
01:10:29,320 --> 01:10:36,600
it has nothing to do with the symptom and that's wrong it's false information

794
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:41,560
I think the medical doctors should say that they don't have any experience in the area of

795
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:46,200
nutrition and therefore can't comment on whether or not diet influences their particular condition

796
01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:49,080
but to say that it has nothing to do with it is a flat out lie

797
01:10:50,520 --> 01:10:55,240
when I learned about genetically modified food initially I thought it wasn't an issue

798
01:10:55,240 --> 01:10:59,800
because there was nothing in our literature our pediatric literature to suggest that it wasn't safe

799
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:05,560
there was no studies whatsoever it was introduced as a safe food when you were in medical school

800
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,280
how many hours of training would a physician get in nutrition

801
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:17,320
the answer is not enough

802
01:11:19,640 --> 01:11:22,200
I probably say two to three hours of lectures

803
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:25,000
myself being guilty as well as

804
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:28,120
certainly many other practicing physicians

805
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:34,920
have a hard time in seeing someone's diet as a contributing factor to one's chronic pain

806
01:11:35,880 --> 01:11:38,840
and it's likely is something that we overlook unfortunately

807
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:49,960
this is my disability form that comes in every year and I was so proud to say to my husband

808
01:11:49,960 --> 01:11:52,360
Steve and that we've been building this out

809
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:54,520
different maybe start

810
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,760
you know just isn't exciting time for me

811
01:12:01,720 --> 01:12:04,200
do you no longer feel that you're disabled at this point?

812
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:11,880
right I no longer have the look pain that I had because I have a better understanding

813
01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:19,080
of the chronic dysfunction in my body which is the part that I feel like I'll control over

814
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:25,080
and my inflammatory response which was originating in my gut is where I initiated the healing

815
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:30,200
so I moved my attention to healing my gastrointestinal tract and when I did that the inflammation

816
01:12:30,200 --> 01:12:34,920
went down and my body responded it's very rare that people are able to return back to work

817
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:39,640
after being disabled for so many years so proud of you

818
01:12:39,640 --> 01:12:41,640
you're

819
01:12:56,600 --> 01:13:01,640
how did I get to see you thank you too nice to see you

820
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:12,920
so we spent a lot of time talking about Steven's cognitive skills and how I did on the

821
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:17,960
testing a couple of weeks ago so let's kind of go through but those are and then what how he's

822
01:13:17,960 --> 01:13:24,920
doing now in terms of some of those skills he clearly does not need three of the social criteria

823
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:31,000
and he clearly does not need any of the four repetitive behaviors so what that means is that he

824
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:38,280
no longer meets criteria for an autism spectrum disorder so congratulations on all your hard work

825
01:13:38,280 --> 01:13:41,320
thank you it's going to be so exciting

826
01:13:41,720 --> 01:14:02,040
so when I start to think about this unfolding of when we started to make dietary changes

827
01:14:02,040 --> 01:14:08,520
and what that translated to it's so important to have some context around what those early years

828
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:18,200
looked like because as things became easier for him when I say easier I mean that we lived at the burden

829
01:14:18,200 --> 01:14:28,040
off the body and Steven was already here Steven now is in articulate lovely

830
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:35,160
straight-a student with many friends active place sports he participated in mainstream

831
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:40,440
classroom without any supports no speech therapy no articulation disorder no physical therapy

832
01:14:40,440 --> 01:14:46,120
no occupational therapy he does all the things other children do with great ease and elegance and

833
01:14:46,120 --> 01:14:56,200
grace and he is perfect so since we've gone non-gimo organic our son no longer tests on the autism

834
01:14:56,200 --> 01:15:02,280
spectrum and our daughter no longer has asthma right so that's like the best news you can

835
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:07,720
possibly have and we look at it and say well you know what what did we change just we had a lot of

836
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:13,320
help along the way but what's the big thing that we changed we changed their diet yep and we lost a

837
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:19,800
couple pounds so that was the bonus so many people have benefited from eliminating GMOs and pesticides

838
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:25,320
and switching to an organic diet after years of struggling with infertility both my and Emily had

839
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:32,120
healthy baby girls and a doctor marshes clinic 92 out of 92 couples who followed a protocol

840
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:38,040
and went organic all had healthy babies I think it's important to recognize that you can have five

841
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:42,920
people and all of those five people in your family maybe it's three maybe it's four in our case it was

842
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:50,680
five we had five people who were all struggling you know all unique all presenting in a very unique

843
01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:57,720
way 21 different conditions and five different people but the same underlying cause it was the same

844
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:04,040
thing feeding five different bodies that was translating to various different diseases I think

845
01:16:04,040 --> 01:16:09,000
that's really important to recognize that just because something comes into the body that assaults

846
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:14,440
the body that the translation of that can be so unique to the individual that it becomes very

847
01:16:14,440 --> 01:16:19,720
very difficult for people to say whether something causes something else what's the relationship

848
01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:24,280
something I had on Monday gives me symptoms on Wednesday how do you do that I'll tell you how to do

849
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:28,600
that you change the one thing that's going in every one of those bodies and then you ask yourself the

850
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:34,600
question what's causing what just looking at the basic principles of a genetically modified food

851
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:41,240
remove that from the equation and then get your baseline if it worked that well for Steven from

852
01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:48,360
really not being able to communicate at all to where he is today is just remarkable and some

853
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:53,800
people can benefit from that if they have that information but you know most of those people probably

854
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:58,600
don't know that you can do that much for yourself and you feel your children and you really can you

855
01:16:58,600 --> 01:17:06,920
don't have to rely on the outside therapies alone you can do a lot of good too and it's starting

856
01:17:06,920 --> 01:17:15,480
in the kitchen I am 100% confident that the removal of genetically modified foods glyphosate and

857
01:17:15,480 --> 01:17:21,160
pesticides was the fundamental the foundation for why we all recovered

858
01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:57,320
listen to your body let it speak the truth let your own experience be your living proof

859
01:17:58,360 --> 01:18:07,400
your body has the wisdom to know just how to hear when you listen closely the truth can be revealed

860
01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:18,040
how this wealth it's the gift you give yourself how this wealth don't leave it to no one else

861
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:27,880
how this wealth is the gift we give ourselves how this wealth don't leave it to no one else

862
01:18:28,680 --> 01:18:37,800
time to get the toxins out of our food maybe it's those chemicals causing that bad mood

863
01:18:38,600 --> 01:18:47,800
there's lots of foods to choose from but one thing you should know when it comes to GMO should say no no no

864
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:59,080
how this wealth it's the gift you give yourself how this wealth don't leave it to no one else

865
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:08,920
how this wealth it's the gift we give ourselves how this wealth don't leave it to no one else

866
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:17,160
call up all your friends and invite them for a feast when we share the table there's plenty

867
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:26,600
enough to eat let's get back to the kitchen and joy home cooked meal you might be surprised

868
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:38,600
that just how good you feel how this wealth it's the gift you give yourself how this wealth don't leave it to no one else

869
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:48,920
how this wealth it's the gift we give ourselves how this wealth don't leave it to no one else

870
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:58,600
insisting we need poison on our crops is a lie we can feed the world better with food that's alive

871
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:07,640
we can choose organic there's lots of recipes just giving me food that's grown on farms with butter

872
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:17,000
flies and bees just giving me food that's grown on farm let's go organic of course baby I love you

873
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:25,960
with butter flies and bees