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REFRENCES:

EWG Skin Deep

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NIH tampons and heavy metals

https://www.factor.niehs.nih.gov/2024/8/feature/3-feature-metals-in-tampons

On this episode of the Elemental Evan podcast, your host Evan focuses in on women's health, specifically around the challenges women face in maintaining their health amidst environmental and product-induced toxicity, and why women may face higher toxicity levels compared to men.

Evan breaks down the sources of these toxic loads, including everyday products like makeup, skincare items, and even tampons, and how they impact overall health. The episode highlights the importance of being conscious of the various products we use daily, their ingredients, and their potential harm. Listeners will also learn about tools like the Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep database to help make informed choices for better health. Tune in for a holistic and simplified approach to understanding and managing these risks.

00:28 Challenges in Maintaining Health

01:26 Toxicity Levels in Women

02:14 Impact of Personal Care Products

03:35 Environmental Working Group (EWG) Insights

11:12 Heavy Metals in Tampons

15:14 Practical Tips and Recommendations

16:42 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

DISCLAIMER:

This podcast is for educational purposes only, it is not a substitute for professional care by a doctor or other qualified medical professional. Evan Roberts is not a medical professional and this podcast is provided on the understanding that it does not constitute medical or other professional advice or services. Statements and views expressed on this show are not medical advice, this podcast, including Evan Roberts and any guests on the show, disclaims responsibility for any possible adverse effects from the use of information contained in this episode. If you think you have a medical problem please consult a medical professional.

What's going on, everybody.

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Welcome to the elemental.

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I've been podcasts.

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This is your host, Evan Roberts.

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On the show, I break down

health topics from a simplified

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and holistic perspective.

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So that way I can provide you with

accessible health knowledge that

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you can apply to your life right

after listening to these episodes.

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That's literally the goal of this.

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If this show is too.

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I just provide you with free

information so that you can use it

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and take control of your health today.

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We're going to be talking all about

women's health and toxicity levels and

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products that differ between men and

women, and pretty much just why it can

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be a little bit or a lot more difficult

to, um, maintain one's health as a woman.

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So.

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First off, I mean, maintaining

anyone's health in today's

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world can be difficult because.

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Many many reasons, but we have tons

of easy access to all kinds of ultra

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processed foods, which are made to

literally hijack your taste buds

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and make you crave more of them.

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Um, you know, as well, we have

contaminated waters and air

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pollution and contaminated soil,

all these different things.

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So we're, we're facing a lot

of toxic loads on all different

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fronts, so it can be difficult to

really take care of our health.

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Right.

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We have to really put conscious effort

into it and make sure that we're

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trying to do our best that we possibly

can with the tools that we have.

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But when it comes to men and women's

health, What are the main reasons why

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toxic loads might be higher for women?

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And once again, this is just kind of my

opinion, as well as some of the research

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I've been looking up online tends to also

back me up in terms of, you know, tox

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toxicity levels being higher in women.

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But I think there really isn't a

smoking gun that we can point at

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and say, That's the reason that's

why, you know, women's health is.

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You know, kind of on the decline

or, um, you know, doing worse than

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men's or whatever it might be.

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I think it's really coming down to all of

the little steps throughout the day that

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we take that really make up the whole.

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That is honestly the reason why

toxicity levels might be hiring women.

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And some of these things can be things

like makeup, for example, makeup.

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I mean, obviously.

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Underneath the list of makeup or the

title of makeup, you would have a

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list of a bunch of different things.

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Mascara foundation,

eyeliner lipstick, right?

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Like there's so many different

things just under makeup.

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But then on top of that, you've

got things like makeup remover.

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You've got you.

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Uh, fake nails.

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You've got nail Polish, you've

got nail Polish remover.

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You've got hair dye.

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You've got fake eyelashes.

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And the glue that you put

the fake eyelashes on.

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You've got, um, you know, tampons pads,

you've got birth control and then as

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well, a bunch of skincare products,

perfume, uh, shaving cream deodorant.

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Those last couple ones obviously

are shared between men and women,

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but still nonetheless there's.

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A plethora of things that, uh,

specifically women are putting

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on their body every single day.

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And for those of you

who are unaware of this.

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Your skin is the largest Oregon.

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On your body or in your,

in slash on your body.

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And it is not a closed system.

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What you put on your skin

does not just wash off.

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It actually does get

absorbed into your body.

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And, um, yeah, actually

very, quite easily.

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So.

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On that note.

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When we take a look at the

environmental working group.

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Um, EWG, they've done a survey.

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And in the survey.

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They found that the average adult uses

nine personal care products each day

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with 126 unique chemical ingredients.

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Now to break that down

a little bit further.

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The average woman uses 12

products containing 168 unique

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ingredients every day with men.

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On the other hand, using

six products daily with 85

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unique ingredients on average.

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So right there, it's already about

half of the amount of products that

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menus, uh, when compared to women.

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And on that note.

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Since 2009, 595 cosmetics manufacturers

have reported using 88 chemicals

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in more than 73,000 products.

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That had been linked to cancer,

birth defects or reproductive harm.

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So it's really just a.

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How do I say this?

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It's really just like a, uh, not a, not a

perfect storm, but it is a perfect storm

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of, you know, Our skin being so absorbent.

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And then also these companies not always

having our best health in mind, right?

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Not always using the best

ingredients for our health.

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Um, and then our skin absorbing a lot of

those ingredients, which can have some

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serious harm on our bodies and as well.

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Um, children.

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Right?

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So it's very important for us to try to

be aware of what it is that we're putting

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on our skin and don't get me wrong.

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I realized that a lot of these.

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You know, clean and high quality skincare

and makeup brands are really expensive.

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And, you know, in this

economy, It's not easy.

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Like everything is expensive.

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It feels like these days you

go to the store and walking out

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with a grocery bill at a hundred

dollars, can almost feel like.

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That was a pretty good job for

shopping for the week or something,

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you know, it's, it's wild, how

expensive things have gotten.

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So I understand when people go to

the store, Um, and they see a skin

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cream for $8 and then one for $35.

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It makes sense.

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Like the person who only has $200 to

spend for groceries that entire week is

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probably going to go for that $8 brand.

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So I totally get it.

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And I think really it's important to

just be aware of this and also aware.

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Uh, that, you know, Maybe purchasing a

brand that's just a little bit better

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or, um, you know, trying out one of

those expensive brands and trying to

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just make it last a little bit, maybe,

you know, alternating between the two.

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Um, anything that you do is going to

be better than just staying on the path

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of using these really like bad quality.

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Uh, skin skincare, makeup brand,

like whatever it might be.

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Um, You know, really trying

to just step it up a little

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bit is going to be of benefit.

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And there is a really cool tool that

I think everyone should know about.

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I'm going to post it.

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Uh, the link in my, in the description

of this episode, so that you can go ahead

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and check it out at, at your leisure.

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But the.

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The group that had, that I had mentioned

earlier, the environmental working group,

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or E w G if you go to their website,

which once again, in the description,

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Uh, then you will find on there, there's

a bunch of different links to see, like,

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you know, what's the best a water filter

brand and, and, um, you know, oh, the

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dirty dozens lists, like what are the F.

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The produce items that tend to

be sprayed with the most, um,

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Uh, pesticides and stuff, right.

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To the ones that avoid.

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Well, they also have a link to the EWG

skin deep, which essentially they will

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show you brands for different makeups.

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You know, like blush and foundation

and all those different things.

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And then as well for skincare.

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And.

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It will have their ranking in terms of,

Hey, this is a brand that ranked number

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one on our, uh, EWG verified clean list.

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So you can know that this is

a super, super clean brand.

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And then it goes all the way down

to number 10, which is the worst.

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So you can go on here and check out and

find a brand that maybe fits your budget.

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And maybe it's not a number one, but

maybe it's a number two or a number three.

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And at least it's pretty decent.

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You know, it's a lot better

than, than buying something.

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That's a number eight, nine or 10.

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So I think this is an

awesome tool to use as well.

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Um, there's brands that,

well, I don't wear makeup, so.

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Obviously wouldn't really know these

brands, but, um, there's a few on here.

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Like I'm on the page right now.

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Rejuven minerals is one

Maya's mineral galaxy.

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That's M a I a and both of those

are, I believe rated number one

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in terms of the EWG verification.

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So they're super clean.

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Um, but yeah, it's a great list.

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I highly recommend that you

check it out and try to find

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something that works for you.

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For me being a guy.

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I mean, I realized that.

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I have a little bit more freedom in terms

of my spending power, because I only

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buy a couple of, you know, skincare.

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Um, products every so often.

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And even with that all typically

use it like every other day.

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I'm I'm never really putting

things on every single day.

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Um, for me personally, I love Allie Torah.

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That's just, that's my go-to.

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It's the cleanest skincare brand

that I have personally found.

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Um, OSEA is also really, really good.

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Don't get me wrong.

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They're both not cheap, but

they're very good quality.

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Uh, with Allie Torah, for example, I've

seen the founder put some of, um, I

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think it was the gold serum or something

onto his hand or the face moisturizer.

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And he literally just licked it off.

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Like that's how clean it is.

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He can consume it like

internally, which makes sense.

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If you're going to put it on your

body, it's still going to be absorbed.

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So.

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You wouldn't really want to put something

that you couldn't ingest, I guess.

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Uh, but nonetheless.

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From them, their night

cream is incredible.

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It's super thick.

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And when you put it on a, before you

go to bed, a lot of the times I'll wake

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up and there's still a layer of it.

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And I did not put a thick layer on it's.

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It's very well rubbed in, and

it is awesome for the face.

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It does a really, really good job.

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So I tend to try to find the products that

have like the biggest return on investment

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for me and are as clean as possible.

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And those are the ones that I'll go with.

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But, like I said, I'm not

using them all the time.

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I can.

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You.

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You know, kind of splurge

on them every now and again.

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Um, But personally, that

is like my go-to brand.

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Alitura naturals is.

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Yeah, I freaking absolutely love them.

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And he's awesome.

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He's been on the show.

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Uh, he's the founder of, of the company.

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So you can check that out.

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And as well as a listener of the show, you

do get a discount for being a listener.

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So check out the description, the

link and the code are all in there.

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Um, but yeah, these

are really great tools.

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You know, if I come across good brands, of

course I'll always recommend them on here.

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Um, but this EWG skin deep tool

that you can use, I think is just.

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Really, really cool that they've

designed this and I highly

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recommend everyone check it out.

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Um, and then the last thing I really

wanted to mention on here was, um, I'm

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not sure if you have heard about the.

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Study that had came out.

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Um, I don't, it wasn't that long ago.

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And I forgot who it was

that actually did the study.

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Um, but it was essentially

talking about how.

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There's heavy metals

being found in tampons.

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And, uh, actually like in a hundred

percent of the tampons that were actually

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tested, they found heavy metals and they

were testing for 16 different metals and

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they found 12 of the 16 metals that they

were testing for which some of these

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metals were toxic metals such as lead.

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So really, really like not

super great stuff to hear.

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Um, they do mention however, That

they want to urge people not to

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panic because they do not know yet.

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If the metals can come out of the

tampons and be absorbed by the

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body and have an impact on your

health and all that good stuff.

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So, I mean, I get it like more

research needs to be done.

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But at the same time, Reason for

concern, in my opinion, right?

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That really sucks to hear that.

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Um, and you know, It's like,

what's the alternative here?

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Right?

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I mean, like, of course we have, you

know, pads and the cups and, um, you

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know, there, there are alternatives, but

I realized like tampons are a very easy.

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Thing to use, right?

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Like it's it, it's a.

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Yeah, it's an easy way for, for when

you're on your time of the month.

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And a lot of people prefer

them, so I totally get it.

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But.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what the answer is.

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Moving forward to this.

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Um, I mean, just like, and I am obviously

a guy here, I have zero experience in

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this and I'm not a medical professional,

but I mean, I would just imagine

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that probably moving to something

like a pad would be slightly better

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for your health, or hopefully not

absorbing some of these toxic metals

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in through literally the vaginal.

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Uh, canal and, and, um,

leaching into the body.

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But.

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All of these things are just to say

that women face higher toxicity levels

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and their health is kind of just

getting more of a beating, I would

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say, just because there's so many more

things that they're putting on their

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body and using day in and day out.

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So.

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Really.

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I don't have the answer here.

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I realized that, you know, Of course, like

still where your makeup's still, you know,

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do the things that you got to do to live

your life and feel good about yourself.

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Right?

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Like that's what we want.

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We want to feel good about ourselves

in everything that we're doing.

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But in terms of, you know,

promoting longevity and health

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here, I would just highly recommend

that becoming aware of this.

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Hopefully this is just the

catalyst kind of the spark here.

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Um, I'm providing you with some

information for you to kind of

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go down that rabbit hole for

yourself and see what the best

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answer is for your personal health.

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Everyone is different

specific in their own health.

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So.

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Um, you know, do what works best for you.

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Do what fits in your budget as well.

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But hopefully this information

is a little bit of an eye-opener.

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And also, um, a reason to start maybe

making some changes, whether it is with

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your, uh, the food that you're ingesting,

or maybe the products that you're putting

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on your skin, the amount of products

that you're putting on your skin.

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Um, and also just becoming

aware of these things such as

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heavy metals in tampons, right?

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Like who knew that that was going

to be a thing, even in an OU.

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I'm sorry.

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Don't fact check me on this one.

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Um, I had heard that this was including

organic cotton tampons as well.

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I'll need to double check that I highly

recommend you double check as well.

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Don't take my word on that one.

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Uh, but nonetheless, that really sucks.

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Um, Yeah.

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And it's just a bummer to hear that.

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One thing I will say, if you

are, um, just looking to.

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You know, you like, you don't

know where to start in terms of

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shopping for cleaner products.

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I know whole foods is not perfect.

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They have a lot of places that they can

improve on, but I will say one thing

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about whole foods that I do respect is

they actually have a list of ingredients

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that if you want to get your product

into their store, You cannot contain.

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Those ingredients on that list.

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Um, I mean, even firsthand I've seen

this happen where people's products get

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rejected from getting into whole foods

because they have an ingredient that is on

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the, uh, the banned list from whole foods.

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So.

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Once again, whole foods is not perfect.

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I'm not saying everything on their shelf

is a hundred percent great for you.

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Um, but at least there is a.

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You know, Uh, a loop

to jump through, right.

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For companies in terms of, uh, you

know, not being able to just throw

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whatever they want into a product

and put it on someone's shelf.

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So that's always a great way to start.

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If you're like, Hey, I have

zero knowledge on this stuff.

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I don't even know where to start.

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If you've got a whole foods close to you.

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Go check it out.

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See if there's something that fits

your budget, at least, you know, that

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they're screening for some stuff.

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Um, and then beyond that, I would

say, just do your own research

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and then as well, check out the

environmental working group.

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Link that I'm going to have

in the description here.

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Uh, the show notes of this show.

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And yeah, I think that's

a great place to start.

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So.

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Anyways.

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Is going to do it for today's episode.

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I'm not here to like

scare anybody as well.

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Um, I think.

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You know, it was just an interesting

topic that, uh, my wife and I were

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actually discussing, and it was

like, Kind of eye-opening for myself.

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Like yeah, no, duh, that, you know,

this would make sense that we mood

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would be kind of facing a harder times

in terms of maintaining their health.

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And, um, you know, I think that's

also why we're seeing a lot of things

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like hormonal imbalances and a lot

of, um, gastrointestinal issues,

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which obviously is not just for women.

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Like, um, I deal with that myself

as well, and, and I've healed

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myself massively, but, um, you

know, we see things like that.

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We see fertility issues.

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Like there's so many different things.

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Uh, you know, breast cancer,

like one in every eight women

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are getting breast cancer.

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Like that's a terrible statistic, right?

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And I think, um, not all of it, but

I do think that some of it could be

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stemming from some of the products that

we're using, uh, day in and day out.

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And of course, the way that

we're living our lives, right?

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Like how much exercise are we getting?

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How much sleep are we getting?

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What are our diets?

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Like, these are all gonna

play massive roles, but.

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Anyways.

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I hope once again, that this is just

the spark for you to dive in for your

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own health and your own research and

kind of see what works best for you.

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So anyways, that's going to

do it for today's episode.

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I appreciate you all

so much for tuning in.

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I hope this was beneficial in one way

or another, and, uh, you know, leaves

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you walking away with some information.

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And as well, a couple

tools like the EWG list.

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To really start improving your health

or finding better products for you

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and, uh, get, get going on that path.

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So anyways, Thank you all so much.

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I appreciate every single one of you

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to me and supporting this show.

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If you haven't already, please go

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Leave a review as well.

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That's an elemental Evan.

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And, uh, till next week's episode, I hope

you all have a beautiful rest of your day.

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Um, Yeah, take some time for yourself.

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Take some, uh, take some deep

breaths and just, uh, Be a

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beautiful human being like you are.

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So I appreciate you all so much.

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And you know, the motto of the

show, it's do everything with good

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intentions and connect to your elements.

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I love all of you.

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Have a good one.

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Peace.