In this episode, we are joined by special guest Melissa Deally, Integrative Health Practitioner and registered Health Coach. Melissa believes in the power of optimizing your health through taking a proactive approach so that you can thrive and enjoy the true richness of a healthy life. We receive little in the form of education on the topics of sleep, nutrition, and stress – so if you feel confused and overwhelmed by competing opinions and information that is completely understandable. Listen as Melissa shares health hacks and immune-boosting tips to optimize your well-being.  It is never too late to prioritize your health because “health is your true wealth”. 

About the Guest: 

Melissa Deally is an Integrative Health Practitioner & Registered Health Coach, dedicated to helping her clients discover the root cause of their health issues and truly heal.

Melissa uses a 2 prong approach:1) Discover your toxic load and lower it 2) Discover your body’s imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herbs so the body can come back into balance – and heal itself 

Melissa is the winner of the 2021 Quality Care Award by Businesses From the Heart and has been featured in Pursuit 365, and Fresh Magazine. She is also the host of the “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” podcast

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Insta: https://www.instagram.com/guidedhealthjourney/

Podcast:  “Don’t Wait For Your Wake Up Call!” Podcast https://yourguidedhealthjourney.com/podcast

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I am a financial professional, who specializes in helping people to achieve their financial goals.  My absolute passion is creating new possibilities in people’s lives by showing them the ropes when it comes to money. I’m here to spark healthy and positive conversations around wealth and investment and create a world where nobody is limited by their financial situation. I believe this begins with education and shifting our relationships with money. I love getting to witness people achieving their most ambitious goals and creating new possibilities for themselves and their families! 

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Welcome to the wealth and wellness podcast with

me Kaylie Bob air. I specialize in helping people to achieve

their financial goals. I have a love for all things numbers, and

I'm passionate about financial literacy. My goal is to spark

healthy and positive conversations around wealth and

investment, and create a world where nobody is limited by their

financial situation. But wealth is just one piece of the

equation of living our best lives. So join me as we explore

both wealth and wellness topics. From your net worth to your self

worth. Get ready to take confident action. Hello, this is

Kaylee. And thank you so much for tuning in to this episode of

the wealth and wellness Podcast. I'm really excited for today's

episode, we're joined by a special guest, who very much

aligns with my views. So I was really excited when I found her

online and part of her I guess, statement or part of your title

for your business's health is your true wealth. And that just

resonated with me so much. So that's exactly you know, what I

want to cover on this podcast, it's wealth is one piece of it I

am always talking about but if we're not healthy and in a good

place to really enjoy it, and you know, what is the purpose of

that we need to have the whole package. So our guest today is

Melissa dealey, she is an integrative health practitioner

and registered health coach, she's dedicated to helping her

clients discover the root cause of their health issue and truly

heal. She uses a two prong approach to first discover your

toxic load and lower it. And then to discover your body's

imbalances and support them with natural supplements and herb so

the body can come back into balance and heal itself. Melissa

is the winner of the 2001 quality care award by businesses

from the heart and has been featured in pursuit 365 and

fresh magazine. She's also the host of a podcast as well. So

fellow podcaster. And her podcast is called Don't wait for

your wake up call. And so yeah, and I would highly suggest to

check that out too. I was looking through some of your

episodes and listening to some and you have some really nice

short ones and which are kind of great little ones to listen to

quickly for a little tip and then some longer ones. So I

loved it. So Melissa, thank you so much for being here. And I

guess just to get started for listeners, can you maybe tell us

a little bit more about your journey and what brought you to

do this work?

Sure. Thank you very much. And I just want to go

back on one little thing that came out there is it was the

2021 quality care award and USA 22,001. Which I know thanks. So

I'm gonna just correct that one only because it was last year.

And I've been in this line of work now for seven years. So

what led me here will again 100% agree with health as your true

wealth. The other way I say that is that your health is your

greatest asset. But like you with the wealth side, that's

important to me, I actually have a commerce degree. When I went

and got my Commerce degree, never in my wildest dreams was

actually being in a career of health and wellness on my radar.

But life has its twists and turns, right. So seven years

ago, I was let go for my 24 year career in tourism, actually. And

I was given an hour to clear out my desk and not a word of

thanks. And it was when big fish bought little fish. So a lot of

people were being let go. But still, in that moment, after 24

years of service, I knew three things. I was never working for

someone else again. Whatever I did next, how to be more of

service to humanity and the planet. And I had no idea what

it was going to be. But I was open to being guided. And later

that year, I stumbled upon a company in Vancouver BC that

specialized in brain health supplementation. And that was my

first aha I use my brain 24/7 And no one has ever told me that

I can do more to support my brain. And I knew there was near

epidemic levels of Alzheimer's and dementia. And yet this

wasn't being taught. I also had a grandmother over here who was

99 years old at the time, still fully cognitively functioning

and living by herself. And I started thinking well what do I

need to do to get on her path? And that had me thinking about

her life and she was born in little Christchurch, New Zealand

in the bottom corner of the world way before all the toxins

that were introduced into our world since World War Two,

growing all their own food on that property. And then I looked

at my life by comparison well I had the good fortune to be

raised in Tokyo, Japan, except that it was in the 70s, during

the height of manufacturing plants spewing out toxins that

were getting on me. And so I knew right then and there that I

was highly toxic compared to my grandmother, and behind the

eight ball, right, so what more did I need to be doing? Well, I

could do more to look after my brain clearly. So I jumped in

started learning about the brain learning about toxins and the

toxic effect on our body. And four months later, my oldest

daughter got a concussion in her first grade 12 soccer game of

the season. And she had just started using this brain

supplementation. And I started going with her to her

appointments, because I realized she didn't have the cognitive

ability while concussed to go to the appointment, listen to

everything they had to say, and then come home and tell me so

that I could support her on her healing journey. So I started

going with her, also for my own learning, because I wasn't

working full time. Two months later, I'm driving to Vancouver,

and I get a phone call from the high school that my younger

daughter has a suspected concussion from gym class. And

in that moment, I literally looked at his driving right by

the ocean. And I looked out over the horizon kind of up towards

the heavens and said, Really, this is how you show me my path,

stop taking out my children. So now I have two very different

concussions in the house. And concussions aren't easy. They

don't want them. They're suffering. And I'm trying to

support it. It's stressful. But I'm not working full time. So

now I'm going to two sets of appointments for both of the

girls. And then that was the next Aha, what does someone else

do that doesn't have a mom that isn't conveniently working right

now to support their healing journey. And I realized there

was this gap. And around the same time, I was invited to work

at a holistic clinic here in town, because it's a small town,

people knew our story, people were already reaching out to me

and asking for support in the concussions that they had

through work or family or whatever. And I was invited to

work there to support more people recovering from

concussions.

And I wanted to do that it felt like the next step, I truly felt

guided in this work. And yet, I couldn't get insurance because I

didn't have a certification. So ever since I've been let go, I'd

have life coach in the back of my head, but it hadn't landed.

But now I thought, Okay, I have to do this. But I call a friend

who was a life coach and said, How do I, you know, where did

you do your life coaching certification? I should do that.

I know, you did a really good one. What was it? I should do

that? And he said, No, you shouldn't. You don't need to be

a life coach, you need to be a health coach. And I went, what,

what's that? Never heard of it. But boy did that land in that

moment. And I found an amazing health coaching course that

night, literally signed up and started Monday. And I think that

was a Thursday night. And their next intake was starting Monday.

So again, perfect alignment. And I jumped in. And from the moment

of starting that program, I knew I'd found my home, I knew I'd

found my purpose. And I never looked back. I did complete my

life coaching, but I didn't have the same passion for it. And so

from that program, I then learned about integrative health

practitioner organization. And when I saw that I just knew that

was the next step in my journey, because the journey of my

learning is never ending, right. And so I added tools to my

toolbox. And that's where I added the tools of being able to

run functional medicine labs for people to truly see what's going

on inside the body and where those imbalances are. And then

I'm super excited for another program that's going to take me

through NLP, NLP coaching timeline therapy and

hypnotherapy coming up next month. So it is a never ending

journey. But through this process, I've truly found my

passion found my purpose and can help people truly heal because

we have a broken medical system. Today. We have a medical system

that is unfortunately run basically by big pharma and Big

Pharma prioritizes shareholder profit over human health. And so

that's where wealth and health can be at odds. But when people

take their own health and their own wealth into their own hands

and that's when they can work in alignment.

Amazing I love that the whole kind of journey

and how you're adding more and more tools because there is so

many I guess different kind of probably circumstances and

things like that with the clients you deal with and sorry

to hear about your daughter's I'm assuming they completely

like healed well cuz we were talking about them before we got

on the recording and sounds like they're doing amazing. So

yeah, so yes, they both fully recovered from

their concussions and yeah, it was one of them recovered in

about four months and the other one it was a full year. Was it

they are both thriving now. And it just goes to show how

different you know, different concussions are different

illnesses are where each individual's and our bodies are

so different. And so one person's healing journey is

different to the next. But having the guidance to support

you through it is what leads to that success.

Yeah, I love that. And I love the work you're

doing. Cuz I think a lot of us are starting to recognize I hold

that whole idea of the broken medical system just knowing

that, yeah, you go in with all these symptoms, and it just

seems like it's if they can't find you know what it is, like,

if it's not strikingly obvious, it's just like, okay, that's

fine, right? Like, if you're having pains or feeling bloated,

or you know, digestive issues, it's just like, Well, if there's

not something really obvious or a problem, then you're just

going to be sort of go back to it and, and deal with that kind

of thing.

Yeah, well, I heard a crazy stat the other day

from a pharmacist in the US, actually, who told and she's a

holistic pharmacist, so she actually helps people come off

their medications and use natural healing options, right?

She told me 98% of doctor's visits result in a

pharmaceutical drug prescription 98%, right, at their 15 minute

appointments, or less. And so very often, the doctor doesn't

even have time to begin to understand anything close to the

root cause, right? So they're just looking at the symptoms,

and then the box, and then what pharmaceutical might cover up

those symptoms. But the problem is, is the symptoms are your

body's way of asking you to do something differently. And it

doesn't want to be covered up it wants to be heard. And so what

happens is you start taking that prescription drug, and sure you

might feel better temporarily, but then some more symptoms come

up. And something else is happening. Because your body's

trying to say hey, listen to me, listen to me, I want you to do

something differently. And you go back to the doctor, and now

you get another drug and how many people are on multiple 6789

different medications, because the next symptom comes up and

the next symptom comes up, and none of them are truly healing,

which is what Big Pharma wants. That's how they make money by

keeping us all in a state of chronic illness and needing to

take their drugs every single day. And so our mainstream

medical doctors don't even have access to the same labs that I

have access to on the holistic healing side that show us where

these imbalances are, right. So you mentioned digestive issues.

Well, that's an area that I work with a lot of people on. And I

can run labs that will show if we've got bacterial overgrowth

or yeast overgrowth, mold fungus in the gut, I can teach people

why they have heartburn and indigestion and that they don't

need and acids. And in fact, that's the worst thing they can

be doing. Right? In order to alleviate all of that. And

mainstream medicine doesn't even have access to those labs. And

so that's why they're sending people away, just you know, with

a prescription drug or hope it gets better or telling them

there's nothing wrong with you. And by the time people come to

me, they're frustrated, because they know something's wrong with

them. And I teach people to listen to their body to listen

to those symptoms. And so it really bothers me when somebody

does go to the doctor, because let's face it, the first inkling

they don't just make a doctor's appointment, right. By the time

they actually make the doctor's appointment. It's been going on

for a while.

Yeah, yeah, it's usually bad by that point.

Yeah, now they've got up the you know,

okay, I have to do something. So now I'm going to doctor and they

go to the doctor, and the doctor runs labs, and nothing's out of

ordinary or out of the normal range. And then you get told,

Oh, there's nothing wrong with you go home until it gets worse.

Well, that doesn't work. Yeah. And so that's where I end up

working with people. Yes, and helping them understand what is

truly going wrong. And when we know that root cause then we

know exactly what to do about it. And I don't diagnose. labels

don't matter to me. I'm not a doctor. I also don't care. I

literally look for those imbalances, which the lab will

show up. And then we support the deficiencies because those

imbalances are always triggered by either deficiencies, or too

many toxins, too much Candida too much bacteria. So sometimes

we will all the time we also have to remove because there's

always toxins, right? So we remove first, support the

deficiencies. When the body comes back into balance, it will

heal itself. That's what it's designed to do. It can heal a

cut finger, it can heal a broken bone. But some of these other

things going on were to deficient in our key minerals

and vitamins. Because of stress, for sleep, poor nutrition. The

body can't bring itself back into balance. But when we

support it and coming back into that place of balance, then it

can heal itself. And that's what true healing is is when we

create that environment for the body to heal.

Yeah, I love it and I liked on your website. You

had something great In saying that the public health and our

school system just doesn't teach us about these topics either

about like nutrition, about sleep about stress, all these

very much health related and I agree so much with that. And I

feel the same way. Like I always say that about money and wealth

and investing, it's we're not learning this. So the same thing

goes for this is like we can learn, we can use so much more

education in this. So we can, you know, be our own advocates

and do what we can on our like for ourselves and heal

ourselves. And I guess, like you said, there's other interests,

though, like being protected by you know, people being ill and

buying, you know, the the big farmers and their products. So

that's unfortunate, because we could have more of a proactive

stance on this, then, if we were learning about these things

along the way, like that would just be amazingly beneficial for

everyone. I think anyone would want more information on these

topics.

I 100% agree with you. And that's why I

created my podcast. And my little mini health hacks that

you mentioned earlier, is trying to give people that empowerment

in their health with actionable steps that they can take today

that will have profound outcomes on their health. Because I know

when I started my health coaching, career and courses, I

didn't know this either. I hadn't been taught it either,

right. And I already had teenage girls at that point. And I just

sat there literally going, why didn't I know this? How come

nobody ever told me this? How come I wasn't told this for so

many things. And then when I knew it, I realized, well, I

want to do better, right? When we know better, we do better.

And so I was starting to make all of these shifts in my own

life towards lowering stress, better sleep, etc, etc. And then

I was like, well, now I can teach this to others. Because if

I don't know what there's probably millions of other

people out there, through no fault of their own, don't know

this. They're all just as busy as I was trying to raise their

family and earn their income. And so that's where my podcast

came from. Right? is paying it forward and putting that

education out there for people because in so many cases, they

really are a little tiny habits that we can change that aren't

difficult to change, we just need to know that we can and we

need to know why. Right? So when I'm working with people on

sleep, for instance, our modern world today has us getting so

much blue light in our eyes, right? Because of screens, TV,

whether it's phone, iPad, whatever. Back in our hunter

gatherer days before electricity, our brain knew to

start producing melatonin at dusk. But we don't have desk

anymore inside our houses because of electricity. And on

top of that, we have blue light, which is the light of noon.

Right? So that does not tell our brain that it's almost time to

get ready for bed and I need to start producing melatonin. So it

doesn't. On top of that melatonin is the inverse hormone

to cortisol. Well, living in a state of chronic stress has us

with tons of cortisol running through our body, right? So when

cortisol is high, melatonin is also low. Is it any wonder that

70 million Americans struggle with sleep. And they don't know

these simple things, right? When we eject when we can look at

what our cortisol levels are, which we can look at through lab

testing. When we understand what screens are doing to our body's

inability to make melatonin, we can start to change our habits.

For every hour that we're on a screen after dusk, it blocks the

body's ability to make melatonin for half an hour. So you come

home and you're on a screen with blue light for three hours

really common, right? Yeah, that's an hour and a half when

you turn it off, that your body isn't even producing melatonin

so that you can have a restorative sleep. But what

happens most people turn it off, brush their teeth, hop into bed,

want to sleep, lie awake, don't understand why. That's one

reason. But when we put together multiple reasons, and people

understand why, then people can start to change their habits.

And it's just the education that's so critical. Yeah.

I love that. What else was I gonna say? Oh,

are there like ideas for like big, obviously too hot topic of

conversation is with COVID. And people getting sick and wanting

to avoid getting sick and things like that. So our immune system

like ideas for boosting our immune system that you could

share?

Yeah, so I've actually done this several times

now as an immune boosting system workshop. Oh, God, that so I

just did it last week, the week before and a couple times in

November, December because yes, that is what's so important. And

yet is our media talking about that? No, they give one option.

I'm all about pro choice. Everybody has to decide what's

right for them. But how can you decide what's right for you if

you don't get the other options? Right Guess who owns media, Big

Pharma that pays for all those ads that tell you like, try that

if you have this, this and this, then you should take this drug.

But don't take it if you have this, this, this, this, this,

this, this, this and this. And I hear those ads. And I'm like,

why would it? And then it says Ask your doctor, like, why would

anybody ask their doctor for this drug, right? But those ads

pay media, right? So then the media tells their story. So yes,

boosting our immune system, one thing through COVID, that is

incredibly powerful, and incredibly inexpensive, is

vitamin D, okay. In Canada, 100% of people are deficient in

vitamin D, if they do not supplement. And that is because

we live so far north, right, we do not get enough hours of

sunlight for enough days of the year on our bare skin. Right, so

we have two supplements, I like the drops, because you can count

out the drops under your tongue instead of the little gel caps.

Because I literally right now I'm taking 8000 iu a day. So

that eight of those little gel caps and they come in a bottle

of what 90, so that's going to last me 12 days or something,

the bottles last me a month or more, right? So you can run

through your mainstream doctor, it's $65. In Canada, I don't

know what it is in the US, but you can get your Vitamin D

tested. optimal level is 50 to 80. I also run these labs for

people. sufficient level is considered 35. And up. Most

people are below that. Here's the thing is back in October of

2020, there was research done directly related to COVID and

vitamin D. And for people that were treated with the normal

treatment, this was done in the US. So the normal treatment 40 I

think it was 42% didn't need to be admitted to ICU. And then

another 40% were admitted to ICU. And then there was another

8% that passed away from ICU. But when they gave them the

regular treatment for COVID Plus vitamin D 98%, did not even need

to be admitted to hospital. Oh my gosh, and 2% ended up in ICU

and nobody died. Wow. And they have a graph that I've seen that

if when your vitamin D level is above 34, your risk of dying

from COVID is like negligible. Oh my gosh, when your vitamin D

level is really low, like below 20, your risk of dying from

COVID is significantly higher. So vitamin D is incredibly

powerful. It helps with bones and chief health, but it helps

with respiratory health is helping boost the immune system.

Right. So for this particular virus, it's very, very powerful.

Yeah. Combine that with some vitamin C, and some zinc. And

you've got a really good strong immune support going on. And so

that's what I do every day. Another one you can throw in

there as quercetin which again, helps with respiratory health.

Again, I'm not a doctor, I can't diagnose I don't know anybody's

health that's listening to this. So this is for educational

purposes only. And if you are on other meds, you need to check at

least with your pharmacists first to make sure that there's

no contraindication with any of those before you start taking

them. But they're all inexpensive, and can really

strengthen your immune system so that your body can fight off the

virus and or bounce back quickly. If you were to get it.

Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. And it's just

understanding exactly like it would be nice to get information

of what we can do you know, what is in our control, rather than

just hearing the stats and how, you know, people are like all

that there's a lot of fear then and you start wondering, okay,

what do I do and you isolate and you do all those things. But

it's nice to know that there's other things that are available

that we can you can do even more to just help like so if you do

feel stressed about okay, here are some things I can do. Here

are some things I can control, and they will make a difference.

So that's amazing. I love that and

add in there that that's that fear and that

stress actually weakens your immune system. So one minute of

fear, stress or anger, weaken your immune system for four

hours, but one minute of laughter strengthens it for 24

hours. So the first thing I tell people to do is turn off the

news. It's aiming to make you afraid because your brain is

always looking to keep you safe. Right. And they know that. And

so they deliberately, they add the music and the drama and all

of that, because it sucks your brain in, which is on alert, oh,

I have to pay attention, it could be dangerous, I have to

pay attention and you get sucked in, right? But that then lift or

turns on your whole nervous system and raises your stress

levels way up high. And now you're weakening your immune

system. But if you just turn off the news, and instead read it

online, instead of watching videos, etc, you're only getting

the story through your one sense your eyes, right. And you're not

getting all the sound bombarding you as well. And so it doesn't

feel as scary. And so your nervous system doesn't get as

triggered. And you're not doing as much damage to your immune

system as you are when you're watching the news and having

that run constantly or checking it out on three different

channels to hear the same story over and over again. So it's

funny because I was actually this is years ago, now probably

about 15 years ago, I was at a parent teacher, not a parent

teacher night of pack a parent advisory council night for

parents of my kids elementary school. So that's how long ago

it was there a university now. And we were told there to turn

off the news for all of the stress triggers that it creates

in the household and for young children, etc, etc. And I went

away from that, thinking, well, how will I know what's going on

in the world, I might feel like I'm this really uneducated

person, right? Not being able to have conversations around what's

going on in the world. But I decided to try it anyway. And I

turned off the news. And we used to watch it every night at six

o'clock, we'd have dinner with the news on, we just stopped the

news. And guess what? I still know what's going on in the

world. Right? And even if somebody says something, and I

haven't heard of it, I'm hearing it now they're gonna tell me,

right? Yep. And I can read it, etc, etc. So I don't feel like I

don't know what's going on in the world. I know what's going

on in the world. But I get the information in a way that

doesn't trigger my nervous system, and put me into a state

of chronic stress, which leads to a whole myriad of other

health issues, as well as weakening my immune system.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we could Yeah, we could

have a whole episode two on strength, just stress alone, we

can have a whole you probably have lots of episodes on yours,

though, about that, right? So

I do and my next workshop in March is going to be

on stress actually, because important, it is particularly

important for women to understand how stress is

impacting our body, because stress is actually driving

hormonal imbalances, right. And there's many women out there

that are suffering with PMS, or infertility or menopause. And

taller tolerating that. Thinking that it's part of being a woman

that they have to put up with these symptoms. And, you know,

they talk about it with their friends, and all they have the

symptoms to and then we normalize it. Yeah. Here's the

thing about our human body. It was never designed to cause you

pain, every single month, or on an ongoing basis, or not

procreate, or, you know, take, you know, be painful going

through menopause. Those are all symptoms of imbalances in your

hormones. And those imbalances are triggered by stress, by

toxic load, those are the main two. And we can correct all of

that. So that those symptoms don't have to be tolerated

anymore. And for menopause, women going through menopause

that can take, you know, eight to 10 years. Well, those should

be the eight to 10 best years of your life, right? Not suffering.

And I've been through that myself. My hormones were out of

balance. And that was even before I was in my health

coaching journey, I was struggling with hormonal issues.

And I found a naturopath and I discovered the imbalances

through the very same labs that I run today. Wow. And I was able

to fix them. And that was back when I was getting migraines at

the onset of my cycle every time. And then I was able to fix

that. So the migraines nearly went away. And then I hit

menopause. And they were different. So I went back into

the lab again and found out Oh, different imbalances. So I fixed

it. Right, because I knew I could and it's the same thing as

people just need to know they can these labs are available.

You can choose to run the labs and follow the protocols to

allow your body to be rebalanced as opposed to thinking that you

just have to live with this and you got a shitty lot in life

that your symptoms are so awful. Yeah.

Yeah, I love that. So and these are all like

labs and if you're working with someone, I'm assuming this is

what they can expect that you'll go through this with them.

Absolutely. So beautiful thing is in the day of

an age of COVID is my business is 100% virtual the labs get

mailed to people's homes. You do the labs you've got all the

instructions I give you a you know edition Instructions on

doing the labs, they get mailed off, and then the results come

to me. And then I don't work with people on just one

appointment. Because I've seen that, and it doesn't work.

Here's what the lab says, Now go and do it.

Like you're a member, you retain maybe one or

two things, and then it's like,

Oh, this isn't? Exactly. So I've seen that I've

seen that even with naturopaths, that, you know, you get the

results. And maybe it's a food sensitivity lab, and it's like,

Oh, my God, it says, I can't eat anything, right. And that's not

at all what it says. But that's what your brain heard, right?

And so then by the time you get home, you've talked yourself out

of it. Yeah, I can't do this, right. Whereas I work with

people over a minimum of four sessions up to 12, depending

what they want, and how many things they have going on

providing meal plans and recipes, etc, if we are changing

the way someone eats, or supporting them through

rebalancing hormones, etc, with different protocols, and then

tweaking them as those hormones come into balance, and then

weaning them off those hormones because guess what, now the

body's back in balance, and it can do it itself. Versus if you

get a hormone replacement therapy treatment from a

mainstream doctor, guess what that does? The body's like, Oh,

I've got enough of that. I don't need to make it. So it just

stops making those hormones. And now what? Oh, you need that

therapy for the rest of your life? Yeah. We want to get the

body back to doing what the body is supposed to do.

Absolutely. And you mentioned at the beginning

to toxins toxic effect, and you have I guess, like a treat for

listeners to what we will include it in the show notes.

It's a discover your toxic load quiz. But can you talk then a

little bit about toxins? And if someone, I guess, is going

through the effects of that, like, how would they know or

what are some signs?

So yes, unfortunately, we live in a

toxic world today. Since World War Two 144,000 manmade

chemicals have been introduced into our atmosphere, they're

getting into our body through the food, we eat our waterways,

our airways onto our skin, right? And so many of the

symptoms of a toxic load. And this quiz does go through quite

a few. But some of the really common ones are things that we

typically end up writing off as was aging, its genetics, it

seasonal allergies, thinking we can't do anything about it, and

we just have to accept it. But the reality is, that is

absolutely not the case. So whether it be things like you

know, headaches and mucus and sneezing and nasal drip, etc,

you know, all signs the body's trying to get something out, or

whether it be you know, gas and bloating and digestive issues,

etc. Whether it be poor sleep, whether it be just brain fog,

and poor mental clarity, whether it be aches and pains and muscle

stiffness. All of these are signs of a toxic load. And

because we have so many toxins in our world today, we can't

avoid them. So instead, we have to go okay, there's toxins

around me, what can I do about it, and we need to help our body

get them out, because our liver is just overburdened now by all

of these toxins. And unfortunately, undernourished at

the same time because we've got depleted soil systems. And so

specific nutrients that the liver needs to do its job really

well are no longer in our soils, so they're not in our food, so

they're not getting in our body. So then our liver can't do what

it's supposed to do, which is get the toxins out, because the

nutrients needed for phase two of detoxification aren't there.

So what does it do? It stores them in our fat closets in order

to try and not have them get into our bloodstream. So that's

one reason for weight gain. It's not the only one, but it means

we are toxic. And I take people through a detox program all the

time, and I love hearing their results from wow, I have so much

energy that I I didn't know that. I could have again, right?

I don't need an afternoon nap anymore. I my aches and pains

have gone right. I was on a call recently with a group of people

and one lady's like, Well, I used to have this pain in my

pinky finger and I just had it for years and it's completely

gone. I had a pain in my knee. I had another lady who couldn't

walk barefoot. On her bedroom floor or anywhere in her house.

She had to have these special shoes all the time. And after

doing the detox, she could walk barefoot again. She's like, wow,

I had no idea how inflamed I was right? Because these toxins

build inflammation and cause pain. Just people that say I

can't remember ever feeling this good, right? Because we don't

realize that all of the symptoms they creep up on us slowly. We

ignore them just thinking. It's aging is genetics. It's seasonal

allergies, and we do nothing. Right. Have a saying that the

body when it talks to us. It first whispers The gentle touch

of a feather. And if we don't listen, it might thump us with a

brick. And if we still don't listen, it might walk us with a

wrecking ball. And I like to talk or work with people when

they're at the feather or the brick stage. So we never have to

get to the wrecking ball stage. But every single one of us knows

someone at that wrecking ball stage. And it's so important,

because we now know that 90 to 95% of all disease is triggered

by the environment we create inside our body. Right? Yes, we

have genetics, yes, we might be predisposed to some disease

through those genetics, but that's only five to 10% of the

time, the 90 to 95% of the time is the environment we create

inside our body. So if we create a toxic, inflamed environment

inside our body, that inflammation triggers those

genes to turn on disease. But if we create a clean environment,

as I call it inhospitable to disease, those genes never have

to be turned on. And that's powerful. Because we have the

choice. And in the Western world, we're taught, oh, you

have a shower. And that's enough for good hygiene and good

health. But it's not because we've completely forgotten about

our inner body. And if we look back at tribal cultures, and

longer histories, like Ayurvedic medicine out of India, or

Chinese medicine, you know, these are 5000 6000 year old

practices, they still detox to this day.

And we don't, but we should, because it's life changing.

Right? And to your point that you're talking earlier about,

you know, not being educated, etc, etc, in our health and not

being proactive in our health. Back in ancient China, in

ancient India, their doctors didn't get paid if their

villagers got sick. Because they hadn't done their job. And

today, unfortunately, the doctor won't see you until you're sick

enough. It's completely backwards. Yeah. We can all take

proactive action in our health, we just need to know how, yeah,

don't reach out to me. And you either pay now or pay later

coming back to the wealth thing, right? People think, Oh, I don't

need to pay for my health now. Because I'm healthy. Or, you

know, why would I pay you when I can go to the doctor and that's

free. Right? But if you go that path, and you end up chronically

ill, and the last in Canada, on average, the last 10 years of

someone's life is spent in some kind of nursing home hospital

bed, without any quality of life. What's the cost of that 10

years, not only financially, but emotionally on your family, etc,

etc. Alright, pay now to be empowered in your health, to

live that long, joyful life and have quality life to the end.

And it costs you far less than the other way around. And that's

what I want. My grandmother died at 101. In bed, at home. Yeah.

That's amazing. We're sad. But we were also celebrating this

amazing life. Right? So I'm on her path. And I'll take anybody

with me that wants to join me. Because that's how I

want to go. Yeah, that's the path. Exactly.

I want to be on that path to exactly. And it's yeah, when

you're doing things for your money, same thing. It's like

you're doing things now to build it for your future. And then

it's what are you going to do, though, with all this money?

When money can't? What if you've gone too far down that way, like

you said, if it's a chronic illness, and if it's, we haven't

done the things proactively now, money can maybe can't even

reverse or fix that. Like there's no amount of money that

can help you in those scenarios sometimes.

Exactly. I agree. 100%. And so, to your

point, at the very beginning, we're not taught about our

wealth creation, and we're not taught about our health. But,

you know, I encourage anybody who's listening to this, that

it's never too late to get started on both right? Create

the wealth and create the health so you have the health to enjoy

your wealth, and vice

versa. Absolutely. I love it. You

couldn't sum it up better than that. I won't even try. So for

people wanting to get a hold of you getting contact, like I

said, I'll include that quiz. The link for the toxic load

quiz, which sounds very interesting. I want to try that.

How else can people contact you reach out what's the best way,

they can just go to my website, which is your

guided health journey.com. And there's a book button or contact

me button, the Book button, just books a 15 minute introductory

call so that we can get to know each other. And anybody who does

the quiz, I will also follow up with you inviting you into a

call to discuss the results, so that you can get a deeper

understanding of those results. And next steps. Perfect, I

love it. I want to try it seems very valuable.

I'm gonna be proactive with my health. This is important. So

thank you so much, Melissa, I love this conversation. And it

really has, you know, given us a different way of looking at

things that it's empowering. Like, it's exciting to know

that, oh, I can do this. I don't have to be a doctor, I can take

these steps right now myself, and make improvements.

We just gave me full body goosebumps because

you're right. And something that I like to tell people is that

you are actually your own best doctor, you've lived in your

body your whole life, right? You know, when something's off. And

when we slow down enough to just tune in and listen. We very

often know what's going on or that something's going on, and

then seek that answer. And if somebody else tells you there's

nothing wrong with you get a second opinion.

Yeah, yeah, cuz it's that intuition to let's

build that into ourselves Absolutely, accurately. Well, I

love that. Thank you so much, Melissa, for joining us on this

episode. So many great info like information tips and whatnot. So

I really appreciate your time. Thank you so much for sharing.

It is absolutely my pleasure to be here. Thank

you for inviting me to be on the show.

Awesome. Thank you so much. And thank you

everyone for listening in. I will catch you on the next

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