Are you sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Have you been to a long list of doctors and specialists but still feel badly and don't have the answers that makes sense? Have you turned to the internet rabbit hole but had to walk away because it was just so overwhelming? While you're in the right place, I'm your host. Rachel lash wellis entrepreneur and healthy living expert, joined by my co host Melissa chris Bell, a trained natural path a nutrition
expert. Together, we have thirty years of experience coaching clients, teaching healthcare providers how to create their own signature programs, creating learning spaces for health coaches, building integrative clinics, as well as writing and speaking in the functional health space. We hope to inspire you to live your best life and teach you how to live it proactively by living undoctored. Melissa, Welcome to the show. Thank you. We're busy people, Yeah, very very busy people.
Find us here every Sunday from five to five thirty on WR seven ten am. Let's jump right into the topic of the day. Is gluten to gluten or not to glue? In Melissa, do you gluten you do not gluten. Let me be honest. I do not gluten. Sometimes I do, occasionally I try not to. If I do, I tend to get really sleepy, bloaded. It's not my thing. But let's talk what if glutend to us? You know, the super sciency version is that gluten breaks down
the walls of the intestinal lining. So if you think of and I'm going to talk with my hands, and I know that most people can't see that, but if you think of like nylons, you know that blocal over your legs and you can see the fibers if you stretch through them. If you think of those nylons and those tight junctions, that's kind of what the inside
lining of the intestines are. And the gluten itself breaks down those junctions of that lining, and when they get wider and wider and wider, undigested food particles, toxins, chemicals, those kinds of things can kind of float through and then they get into the blood stream and they don't belong on the blood stream. So that's like a hole in your stocking. It is, you got a hole in your pantios, you're a hole in your guts. That's
where leaky gud comes from yep, so we hear the difference. Like people. Some people say they have celiacs, some people say they have a gluten sensitivity. What does it mean to have a gluten sensitivity? A gluten sensitivity means that there are people that have symptoms when they eat gluten that are very similar to people that actually do have Celiac disease. But they don't have Celiac
disease. They just have the symptoms. So if somebody has Celiac, they have a zero tolerans to gluten, and if somebody with a sensitivity, they've got a little more leeway. I have some leeway. It's really not recommended. I mean, how many people like feeling bloated, You know how many people like having stomach pain, and you know some of the other symptoms that
go along with being sensitive to gluten. So they have some leeway. They're not going to double over, they're not going to end up in the emergency room. But it's frowned upon, right, So some of those symptoms could be abdominal plain, bloating, gas fatigue, nemia, anxiety, brain fog, or difficulty concentrated. Yes, and think about it, you know, if someone's kind of bing, kind of ping pongy and they just blame it
on another label, Gluten could be at the bottom of that. You know, we talk about root cause and mom and sense nutrition, common sense wellness. This is kind of one of those things that you have to take a look at and Lissa, can somebody suddenly become gluten sensitive. It can hit anyone at any time, but it's likely that someone has had symptoms for a period of time and they blame it on something else. You know, they blame it on being tired, or blame it on just eating poorly for a
period of time. They blame it on age or you know, something along those lines. But it usually doesn't happen just in an overnight kind of thing. When is it most likely for symptoms to appear, Usually after someone has eaten something that has gluten in it, after eating bread or crackers or something like that. It doesn't necessarily happen right away, within ten fifteen minutes. It can take a little bit longer than that. But you have to be
exposed to it, you have to have it somewhere. I know, it's possible for someone to be sensitive and not allergic. So can you explain the different parts of our immune system and how this is possible. Yes, if you think of your immune system as a pie piece or a high the very first space is the type one. Your type one allergy or your type one immune pathway is your immediate allergy. That's an IgE. That's someone who maybe
eats shellfish and their tongue or their lips could swell eat a strawberry. There are many peanuts, you know, there are many allergies out there, so that falls in that category. Then we have type two, Type three, and type four. The type two is the antibodies that people have heard of that have become popular lately, and that's the IgG IgA and IgM. Those
are kind of your rear view mirror antibodies. So if you have an IgG antibody level to something, that says that you've had a problem with this particular item at some point in life, but it doesn't necessarily mean you're having a problem with it right now. You then have your type three pathway and your type four pathway. Your type four is your T cell mediated pathway. That's the pathway that says, I hold on a second, we're launching an immune
response because something has come in and offended us. And that's really what happens. When those food particles that we were talking about make their way through the nylons, they get into the blood stream, antibodies are created. Then the army comes out to fight it. But it happens every single solitary time you have that particular item again, which then creates this cascade of immune reactions. So it's frowned upon one in all establishments to let the food get through the
nylons. So you're effectively eating something you're allergic to, even though it's called gluten sensitivity. That's probably an easier way to wrap your head around it. Yeah, just technically it's not an allergy, you know, So if you were to go into a restaurant and you ask for gluten free hasta, a lot of places will ask you, is this a dietary preference or is this a medical situation? So it would probably be in this situation it would be
a dietary preference. A celiac that would be a medical condition. An allergy to wheat, or an allergy to rye or barley that would be a medical situation. Can you flush gluten out of your system? I don't think you actually can do that. I think you can support your body's response, you can enhance your body's response, but you can't actually make the gluten like flush it out. It's not like you can take a bena drill. You know, if you have an allergic reaction and you take a better drill to reduce
the symptoms, that's not going to happen with gluten sensitivity. You can do things like drinking more water. You can do things like eating more alkalin forming foods. Remember, alkaline on your plate doesn't mean a whole lot alkalin in your glass, and alkaline water doesn't mean a whole lot alkalin forming in the system is what more important is what happens inside the system, eating fiber rich foods, taking digestive enzymes, eating an anti inflammatory kind of diet and inflammatory
foods. Juice seeing itself, is not a detox. Let me go ahead and make them very very clear. Shoving fifteen pounds of celery through a juice or or maybe putting in a cucumber in a green apple is really pretty, It tastes good. It is not a metabolic detox, but it is nutrients in a glass, and it's nutrients in a way that doesn't create a taxing situation for our intestines and our digestive track. That could be something that's helpful
if you've been I'm going to coin a term glutinized. It's just so hard to avoid in our diet. I'm your host Rachel Lash joined by my co host Melissa Crispell, living on Doctor Here on War. If you struggle with occasional digestive discomfort. I used to eat all sorts of food, nothing bothered me, but recently my stomach seems less tolerant. So my wife gave me
Ultradigestive Enzyme, a new dietary supplement from Pure Essentials. It helps metabolize the food I eat and turn it into energy and nutritional benefits my body needs. Pure Essentials only uses ethically and sustainably sourced ingredients. Order Ultra Digestive Enzyme today and learn more at pure dash essentials dot com. Did you know many foods you think are gluten free actually have gluten hidden as a stabilizing ingredient that can
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not intended to diagnostreat your preventity disease. Living Undoctorate sponsored by Pure Essentials. I'm your host Rachel Lash joined by my co host Melissa Crispellve was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist and I know, Melissa, you work with Pure Essentials. It's the highest purity efficacy nutraceutical out there on the market. That's why we're here. They have a lot of amazing products. Is there a specific enzyme that you would recommend? There is a specific enzyme product that
I would recommend, and it is by Pure Essentials. It is called carb and Luten Assist. It has an enzyme blend in it. It has amlase, it has glucoamlase, it has pectinace, it has light pace, lactase, protease, cellulase, all the aces, lots of aces. Those are the enzymes. And the cool thing is it also has a herbal blend, so it has funnel seed, it has ginger, it has flax seed, it has peppermint, it has artichoke. It also has a probiotic in it
kind of an all in one, an encompassing aid. I wouldn't want someone to think that this is like your pill and your ticket to go luten crazy. But it is your assistance and it's your relief from the symptoms if you have gluten. So how would you take that? If you're going out, you know you're having gluten, you take it before during a what do you recommend? I would say to take it thirty minutes to an hour before you're going to eat, and you only have to take one so you don't have
to take this every single time you eat. One a day is the recommendation. But again, you know every body is different, everybody accesses differently, so maybe your body would appreciate having two if it's going to be one of those kind of days. And any other nutraceuticals to combat, oh, definitely definitely. So maybe not a combat, but to support, you know, supporting the body combats the symptoms. So if we give our body what it needs to do what it was designed to do naturally. It kind of goes
to work and we don't have to worry about combating or fighting anything. But if you're going to take the carbon gluten assess and you want to try and get rid of the gluten or get rid of the symptoms, get rid of the effects. The pure essential sea buffered powder, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. It also has magnesium in it as a buffering mineral. It has calcium
as calcium a scorebate. It has magnesium as magnesium a scorbate. It has zinc and potassium same thing, and the ascobate form, which is the natural form, and it is also the buffering form so that the vitamin C is not too acidic on the stomach. Both of those together will help to reduce the symptoms. Vitamin C on its own has so many antioxidant properties, collagen building properties, immune supportive properties. It is nature's vacuum cleaner and it sucks
all of the issues from the tissues. So the vitamin C powder that would be a great addition too. And Melissa, can you explain to the listeners to not all vitamin C is created equal, and this is something that most people don't know. Can you talk about that a little bit. Yeah, So a lot of vitamin C on the market. Number one is made with an ascorbic acid, not with the lscorbate natural form that's derived from food. And the Pure Essentials vitamin C is derived from food, and it's derived from
a non allergenic food. That's the other thing about vitamin C is on the market. A lot of them come from corn. Every single grain has a small prolamine of gluten. Corn does have gluten. How much of it You'll have to look that one up. I don't know off the top of my head exactly how much gluten is in corn, but you can look all grains have a small little body of that gluten. Supposedly, when these supplements are made, there are companies that say that the antigen has been removed. There's
no evidence of the corn. You'd have to look into that. You'd have to ask those questions. And that's a chance, and that's a choice that you know you have to be willing to take. At Pure Essentials, we
choose not to even go there. We use a non allergenic food source for the vitamin C and we want to make sure that when we're looking at vitamin C powders vitamin C products that we're not choosing one that has fake flavorings in it FDN seafood colorings to make it yellow so that your brain thinks that you have an orange powder or something orange flavored powdering putting sugar in it. The
sugar in the score bait. They fight for the same docking station in the cell, and so that kind of cancels each other out when you do that. So there's no sugar in the Pure Essentials sea buffered powder. It's really a superior product. I take vitamin C twice a day, no matter what it's a powder. I put a tea spoon, mix it in water. I keep the vitamin C in the refrigerator. It's a staple for me and
just for our listeners. If you want to know where you can get our vitamin C or the Pure Essentials Vitamin C or the carbon gluten Assist product UNLESSA talked about, those are available on the website which is www dot pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U r E hyphen E s s E n t i a LS dot com. Or you can call our office open Monday through Friday from nine am to five pm, and the number is two one
two seven five eight thirty two hundred. That's two on two seven to five eight three two zero zero unless I have another vitamin C question for you in terms of we were talking about vitamin C assisting in symptoms related to gluten or toxicity in general. I know you've spoken before about vitamin C calibration. What is a vitamin C calibration? How would somebody do it? So? Very simply put, this, vitamin C calibration is just finding out how much vitamin
C your body needs. Each one of us processes differently based on the environment that we live in, based on our stress levels, based on toxicity in the air, hormone levels. There are all kinds of things that make each of us different. Even though we have the same working parts, we just use nutrients in a different way. So in order for us to know how much vitaminc our body needs, we do what's called a bowel challenge. Not a sexy topic. Just poot it out there, right, So you'll take
one teaspoon. If you're in ill health, you probably want to do it a little bit slower, So I would say take a half a teaspoon. Which would be two scoops of the sea buffered powder. Put two scoops in the cup, and then you put maybe six ounces of water in there, stir it up, take fifteen to twenty minutes and drink that and then repeat the process. And when your bowels cut loose on you, you'll know what I'm talking about. It is a very very loose, watery stool that will
send you running for the hills. That's when you know that you have reached bowel tolerance. And you'll want to calculate seventy five percent of that how many teaspoons did it take you time? Seventy five percent. That's what your body needs every single day. So if it took you ten teaspoons over the course of twenty minutes per each to get to that state of bath groups, you would know you need seven teaspoons a day. Yeah, and you want to
spread that out throughout the day. You know, if you have one of those big water bottles that sits on your desk a lot of people are you have those these days? Just put the vitamin C in there, and as you drink it down, put a little more vitamin C in there so you'll accumulate that seven teaspoons throughout the day. You don't have to sit and do that flushing process again. It doesn't have to be every twenty minutes again when
you do the sea calibration. Just a couple of pro tips. If you start to feel kind of crampy, if your belly starts to feel kind of funny, it's totally cool to put a heating pad on your stomach. You can use if you have essential oils around the house. Peppermint essential oil is great for that. There are a couple of companies out there that have like a digestive blend kind of thing and it might have some liquorice or you know, some other blended oils in that you could use that. Just put a
couple drops on your belly. I would highly highly recommend when you finish your C calibration you take a salt and soda bath. And a salt and soda bath can be so relaxing anytime. You know, it doesn't have to be done just after a C calibration. If you can incorporate that two, three, four times a week into your routine, you're really on your way to living undoctored. The Vitamin C calibration then the detox bath or salt and soda bath, and then of those oils. I mean, gosh, that's that's
a great process. There. I'm your host Rachel Lash, joined by my co host Melissa chris Bell, Living undoctored here on War. If you struggle with occasional digestive discomfort. I used to eat all sorts of food, nothing bothered me, but my stomach seems less tolerant. So my wife gave me Ultradigestive Enzyme, a new dietary supplement from Pure Essentials. It helps metabolize the food I eat and turn it into energy and nutritional benefits my body needs.
Pure Essentials only uses ethically and sustainably sourced ingredients. Order Ultradigestive Enzyme today and learn more at pure dash essentials dot com. Did you know many foods you think are gluten free actually have gluten hidden as a stabilizing ingredient that can trigger
digestive trouble. Well now you can reduce meal time worries with carbon gluteno Assist, a dietary supplement by Pure Essentials. Carbon gluten Assist is formulated with sustainably sourced ingredients and supports gut health by helping your body digest food with gluten. Order today and learn more at pure dash essentials dot com. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food Drug Administration. These products are not intended to
diagnosedtreat europreventity disease. Living Undoctorate sponsored by Pure Essentials. I'm your host Rachel lash joined by my cohost Melissa crous Bellve was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. Getting back gluten for a moment, How would somebody know if the gluten free diet is right for them? And what kind of foods would you suggest somebody eating if they're going to be gluten free. I think that if someone asks if they should be gluten free, they probably already know that
they should be gluten free. I think a gluten free diet is good for everyone as long as you're doing it right. And by doing it right, I mean reading the labels. Gluten can be in anything. It's not just in a bag of bread. It can be in salad dressing, that can be in ice creams, It can be in condiments. It can be in your cosmetics. It can be in your cleaning supplies like your body wash,
your face wash, your shampoos. It can be anywhere, So I would recommend that if you're going to do it, please, please please take a peek at your labels because it's sneaky. It's everywhere. Foods that are gluten free, yes or no? Banana gluten free, popcorn, I'm going to say yes, gluten free, but we already talked about corn cheese. Check the label. Cheese should be gluten free and likely if it's just a brick of cheese by itself, it is. But if it's with other things and
it's an ingredient in something, it's likely not. And I can tell you from experience, cheesecake is not gluten free, all right, pasta asta No, unless it's made with something other than wheat, barley or rye, tortilla, tortilla chips, corn chips, oat me off, Yes and no. We already talked about the grains though. Check out the label. Go do some research for yourself. I know that you know we don't want to go down the gluten rabbit hole. Just google the one question and you can see
it for yourself. This is basic science. Every single grain has a very small part of gluten in it. And then finally, a san ferret ice cream, well milk sugar cream, those are gluten free, but there are thickeners, there are colorings, there are flavorings. Those have gluten in them. And you really want to look for whole food ingredients, so there is no substitution for checking the label. Back to some of questions, does gluten affect our vitamins and minerals, it really does. B twelve is a big
one. B twelve is absorbed in the lower part of the small intestine. When someone has gluten like having a response to it, and everybody will know this noise and their stomach does this kind of rumbling noise. That's the processing of it that's not working out so well. And so when that area of the intestines is damaged by gluten, the B twelve fails to be absorbed there. Vitamin D is another one. It's all coming down to the absorption.
It just even when you're eating the best of foods, if your gut is in disrepair, it's not absorbing all of the healthy nutrients. So vitamin D is another one. Full zinc copper. Those are a few more. You can check out Perry Essentials. It's called number two. It's the multi vitamin that Pure Essentials offers, so that you could pick up some of those supplements in the number two. You can also take a look at the Vitamin D
three liquid by Purisentials if you needed to supplement with that. But definitely look at your vitamin D level. Don't just decide one day that you're going to take vitamin D because someone on the radio said take vitamin D. Take a look at your levels. And for more information on that number two, which is the multi vitamin vitamin D or that carbon glutinous sist you can find them online at Pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U R E hyphen E
S S E n t I a LS dot com. Or call the office Monday Crew Friday nine to five two one two seven five eight thirty two hundred that's two one two seven five eight three two zero zero Melissa Boots to help support vitamins. Well, we just talked about the supplements. So do we take vitamins, do we take supplements? Do we just go for food? I would say you go for both. Dietary supplements are meant to supplement all
of the good things that you're doing in your life. So to supplement the dietary choices you're making, so you could eat foods like being they are rich in thiamine, riboflavin, niacin. You could eat green peas, you could eat lima beans. If you're looking for iron, eat beef, eat turkey, eat tuna. Look to the food choices first, make solid food choices, eating whole foods, meats, fruits, vegetables. You can never go
wrong with that. And then look to fill in the blanks or fill in the spaces with a quality dietary supplement that doesn't have ingredients that are more harmful than helpful. So I would say they answer to that question is to both and to your point, having the most information is best seeing an integrative doctors, seeing a practitioner who can help you do the testing or figuring out what you need to determine what your levels are, and then making eddated decisions based
on that. Let's talk about testing. Are there any tests that somebody can do? Pure Essentials has a nutritional genetics test. You can find out if you're gluten sensitive, or you can find out if you have the gene to be gluten sensitive. There are a few genes in there, the HLA DQ genes, It's so simple. You go to Pure Essentials or pure dash esentials dot com. You order your nutritional genetics test. When you receive it,
you have to register your vile. Please register your vile. You do a cheek swab almost like this little cotton ball on a stick, almost like brushing your teeth, but you do it on the inside of your cheeks that you can gather the cells. Put it in the vial, clip it off, send it off in the prepaid envelope. You'll get your results in three to
five weeks. And not only will you find out if you have the gene to be gluten sensitive, you'll find out if you have the gene to be certain vitamin deficient, vitamin D, vitamin B, vitamin K, vitamin A, vitamin E. You'll find out if you have the obesity g You'll find out if you have the warrior or the warrior gene, which teaches you about your processing. The nutritional Genetics test by Pure Essentials is really your blueprint for
what foods should you eat and what kind of exercise should you do. And I think it's important to note too that you can do this at home. We don't need to go to a doctor. To do it. Your information is not saved, it's not sold. It is purely educational for you to do in the convenience of your own home. Yeah, and I think it's really important to start with functional wellness information instead of just running out and grabbing this off the shelf or that off the shelf, or so and so did
this and it worked for them. This person did that and it worked for them. That's what I see a lot that clients do. They want to try and do what somebody else has done, except that our bodies are so different and we're also individual I mean, how much more individualized and personalized can you get than looking at your own genetic blueprint. I would have to say that clients some pitfalls that they experience when they first go gluten free is finding
the right foods well. Your nutritional genetics test would tell you which foods work for you and which ones don't. Locating where gluten is hiding in their routine, that's a big one. We're going to have a VIP area soon that we'll have specific tools for our VIP clientele. You'll be able to register for that. You can go behind the scenes and go into our big library that we've been building and you'll be able to have some tools to help you find
where the gluten could be hiding. What's its great information? As always, thank you for being our expert and your years of experience and helping people heal with Pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, joined by my co host Melissa chris Bell, living on Doctor Here on War. If you struggle with occasional digestive discomfort. I used to eat all sorts of food, nothing bothered me, but recently my stomach seems less tolerant. So my wife gave
me Ultradigestive Enzyme, a new dietary supplement from Pure Essentials. It helps metabolize the food I eat and turn it into energy and nutritional benefits my body needs. Pure Essentials only uses ethically and sustainably sourced ingredients. Order Ultradigestive Enzyme today and learn more at pure essentials dot com. Did you know many foods you think are gluten free actually have gluten hidden as a stabilizing ingredient that can trigger
digestive trouble. Well, now you can reduce meal time worries with carbon Gluten Assist, a dietary supplement by Pure Essentials Urbin Gluten Assist is formulated with sustainably sourced ingredients and supports gut health by helping your body digest food with gluten. Order today and learn more at pure dash Essentials dot com. These statement has not been evaluated by Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to
diagnosed. Treating pure preventity disease. Living on Doctor sponsored by Pure Essentials. I'm your host Rachel Lash joined by my co host Melissa Chrispalve was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. For more information on Pure Essentials again, anything that we talk about on today's show, the nutritional genetics test, Vitamin C, carbon gluten assists, the number two which is our multi vitamin. There's a lot of information on the website. Find us online at www dot
pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U r E hyphen e ss E nti als dot com. Or you can call our office Monday through Friday nine to five. The number is two one two seven five eight thirty two hundred. That's two two seven to five eight three two zero zero. You can listen to us on our podcast Living Undoctored or every Sunday from five to five thirty on w R seven ten am Melissa, thank you again and we will see you next Sunday at five pm here on WR