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was just so overwhelming? While you're in the right place, I'm your host, Rachel lash Well, as entrepreneur and healthy living expert, joined by my co host Melissa chris Bell, a trained natural path and 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. Today's topic, we're going to be talking about a summer. It's a time that we are outside side where in nature the sun's out, kids are out of school, there's so many activities that we move outdoors. The sun is good for us, makes us happy, but there are also some risks and sun concerns, and that's what we're want to
talk about. There's a handful of concerns from skin cancer, heat stroke, bug bites, food poisoning. We all encounter them. It's sort of the bad that goes with the good. That's our topic for today. So how we can mitigate some of those risks, how we can treat some of those risks for our own safety, for safety of our families. And let's start with skin cancer. I think we all know some of the main causes are
sunburn, skin color, family history, tanning beds. Let's so, what is skin cancer and what are some of the signs people should look for. Skin cancer very simply is the out of control growth of abnormal cells on the outermost part of our skin, so right on that top layer. Skin cancer
is caused by someone who's had a history of sunburn. And we were just talking about this and some of the crazy things that people do to get a sun tan People with really light skin color can get burned more easily, and tanning beds, tanning beds are like a concentration of it that you're laying in this coffin, you know, with the concentrated UBI lights on it. So so those are the causes some of the signs. There are seven signs to keep an eye out for. It doesn't mean that these are absolute uf skin
cancer. It means these are signs to keep an eye on. And it means your skin and has changed and there's a reason for it. Changes in the appearance of a mole, that can be an indicator. Skin changes after the mole has been removed, So maybe you've had that removed and that skin
gets kind of pink or it gets kind of scaly. That can be a sign itchiness of the skin oozing on the skin, a sore, or just a spot that doesn't seem to go away, scaly patches, believe it or not, Vision problems, vision issues, and your finger and your toenails are also indicators of something that's going on inside the body. So take a look. And Luisa, I know too that some people say, well, all you take good care of my skin now, But in my teens or twenties
I was in tanning beds a lot. But that damage can still stick around. Yeah, it's the burned skin. It's it's the act of burning that skin that changes those cells. And it's not a you know, an instant overnight kind of oh now you have skin cancer. You know, it takes ten twenty thirty years before that starts to creep up on you. So if you were one of those crazy teens like I was putting frisco and baby oil and all that goofy stuff on your skin to get browner, buckle up and
some lessa. I know that there are different types of skin cancer, some are more or less serious. Can you talk about that too, Yeah, yeah, So there's basil cell carcinoma, there's squamous cell carcinoma, and there's melanoma. So those three kind of I don't like to say good, better, best, but small, medium, large, baby. As far as the risk goes, I have to be very very clear, this is not an undoctored moment. This is the time when you absolutely need to go see
a doctor. When you see that really dark spot that's kind of wonky in shape, it's not symmetrical, and it wasn't there for your whole lifetime. It's just popping up. Goo. Get that thing checked out. Yeah, and I think it's good to do regularly see a dermatologists just to make sure that there's nothing going on that you haven't been able to detect yourself either. So I want to talk about sun protection. What to look for in good
sunscreens. Things to look for are no benzine, using the zinc oxide, titanium oxide, so those are minerals, and the mineral sunscreens are better. There are a few that I personally use. I'm going to go ahead and say this name. I like Third Rock Sunblock. That's what I have personally used. I've had success with it. It uses only zinc oxide. It's food grade, so it's a really good brand. There are some others that are a little less greasy, not so sticky. You know, you're just
going to have to find the brand that works for you. If you go with the zinc oxide brands, something that doesn't have the nanoparticles. A non nanoparticle is something that helps take care of the environment as well. So if you're looking to be eco friendly and not do damage to the water and to the aquatic life, there are specific brands you want to take a peek at. Look at the things that say reef safe. I like Tropic Sport and it has no benzine, it uses zinc oxide and it's REEF safe. It
falls into that category of healthy sunscreens. Yeah, at definitely. You know there are organizations out there that do the work for us. I really really encourage everyone to do your own due diligence. If you have questions, you can email us at Client Services at pure essentials dot com and we'll be happy to answer questions over there at Pure Essentials. But yeah, there are organizations that do the work for us. Man the advisory board of one of them,
it's called made Safe. It's made safe dot org and it's a wonderful resource for all not just sunscreens, but all products that are non toxic. Run by an incredible woman, Amy Ziff, and this is her life mission and happy to be able to support her. But she's got an incredible list of holding products to higher standards. So we love what they're doing over there made safe dot org. And they're also Amazon's non toxic certification label, so
you can find them on Amazon as well. So in terms of where to find the good stuff or what to look for in the good stuff, what is in sunscreen that we should be aware of. What's a bread flag? Yeah, here come all of the big chemical names chemical steer clear of in your sunscreen are the oxybenzone, the octinox state, the abobenzone, octocrylene, there's dioxobenzone. Basically those benzines. Those are petroleums. Think of that.
What is petroleum. It's used in making plastics, it's used in making gas, it's used in making all kinds of things. But it is a chemical and it is a known carcinogen. So if we kind of put two and two together here, if we know that our skin getting a sunburn, having a sunburn is what ultrus those sell, but then we use a known carcinogen as the sun's screen. You know, let's put two and two together. There is that really what we want to do. It's not what I do.
It's not what I would like to do, So steer clear of those. You can bet that if something is banned for environmental reasons, it's probably not that good for your skin either. So you know, if we're talking about when with made safe or going with the reef safe and the coral safe, and we're you know, we're looking out for the aquatic life let's look out for our own life as well, you know, in our own skin. I know, going to places like you'll see in Key West, Virgin
Islands Oruba, Hawaii. You'll see on beaches or hotels that they'll say these chemical goals are sunscreen with such and such chemicals are banned to preserve the reefs. Say, you've got to think about what's that doing on the greater level for our own selves, our own biology, in our environment. I know there's a handful of brands that we may think are great, but if you do the research, there's some no no products in them. Stuff that's acceptable
in the United States, banned in Europe. Some of the sneaky ingredients. There's one called homo salate. That one is interesting if you take a look at that. The European scientific community did some studies on that, did some research and they found that the typical ten percent that's listed in sunscreens is actually a cancer causing agent. Now, they did agree to allow that in a sunscreen product. You know, some of those tinted moisturizers have a sunscreen in
it. As long as it's at point five percent, it's safe for human use, so not fifteen like some of the grocery store brands have in their product. There are other very very well known brands and one of them used to be my go to totally loaded with benzene whitches, an established carcinogen. There's also items by polysorbate sixty. Polysorbate sixty is a preservative in some of the injectibles. Some of those things that we're concerning about some inject was the
polysorbate sixty. So really take a look at your brand, read the labels, whether it's food or shampoo, or body wash or sunscreen or later we're going to talk about bug spray. If you are putting it in your mouth or on your skin, you have a risk for damage to an organ, for damage to a system. I know we can absorb more and by putting stuff on our skin than we can by eating it. And there's one other chemical I want to ask you about, something called PEG. What is PEG?
PEG is polyethylene glycol. The main concern with polyethylenc glycol or PEG compounds is the ethylene oxide that's used in the formation of process. So that process has got another big term to it, it's ethyloxyalation. That process itself can cause contamination with the ethylene oxide, and that is the chemical that's associated with many forms of cancer. We all heard about pegs a few years ago, pegs being in certain injections as well, But pegs are not just in that
world there all over the place. So again you just have to read your labels and even the ones if you think it's safe. There's a lot of marketing out there that's deceiving. Do the research yourself, see what's in there. You know, even if things sometimes say healthy or natural, when you do the research, it's not always the case. So let's get into another concern over the summer heat stroke. What exact lameless it is a heat stroke and what are the signs? Very simply put, a heat stroke is a
condition caused by your body overheating. Your body's temperature control mechanism just quits for whatever the reason is. So the body temperature sores, the internal cooling system fails, core body temperature goes over one hundred and toward degrees. Someone could experience an altered mental state, you know, like kind of confused weird behavior, sweating alternating between sweating and not sweating, nausea, vomiting, a racing part beat, headache, All of that can be signs and symptoms of a
heat stroke. And now you think about being out in the summer. You'll go to a kids sporting game, You'll run around yourself. You'll realize it's towards day. All of a sudden, you have a splitting headache. You haven't drank enough water during the day, and you've been out in the blistering sun. It's not a fun way to experience the day. But what can you do if this happens. If you realize, oh my goodness, I've gotten to this point, or you see someone in your family has gone to
this point, this is another one of those not undoctored moments. If you suspect that someone is having a heat stroke, that you need to get medical assistance asap. It has to happen call nine one one period. You have to take immediate action to help that person cool down while you're waiting for the assistance. Someone wrote in and their husband works in the HBAC trade and she was asking if we could cover heat stroke and dehydration in those kinds of things
on the show. So that's part of why this is here. So if someone in that situation get their boots off, get their boots in, their socks off quickly. If it's a player, you know, a kid on a soccer field, on la crosse field, get them to the sideline, get their cleats, get their shin guards, get their socks off. Get those things off so the body can start to cool down naturally. Get the person to shade, under a tree, whatever where you have available. You
remove the excess clothing so that they can start to cool down. Cool them down with whatever you have around. You can what a handkerchief, what a towel, what a washcloth, whatever you have around, and put that, you know, on different parts. You can put that on the neck, put it on the armpit, put it on the growing area. Fan someone off, you know, if you have one of those fans with the cooling mister or something like that, do what you have to do to get that
person to cool down. Living on Doctor sponsored by Pure Essentials. I'm your host Rachel Lash, wellness consultant and healthy living expert. I'm joined by my co host, Melissa chris Bell, who was trained as a natural path a nutrition specialist. Talking about a summer. The sun is good for us, but there are also some risks and some concerns unless are there difference between heat stroke and heat exhaustion, because we hear the two and is that interchangeable.
Although not interchangeable, they're each their own. I don't know that there's necessarily one's worse than the other. One's probably on the way to the other. Heat exhaustion, and then heat stroke being the ultimate. Some of the similarities are muscle cramps, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, headache like you talked about being you know, at the end of the day, end of a sporting event and you have a headache. Some of the differences are heat exhaustion.
Someone has excessive sweating, but with heat stroke there's no sweating because they're cooling mechanism, which is the sweating isn't working properly, so they won't have the sweating. Heat exhaustion, their skin is going to be kind of cold and kind of clammy feeling. Total opposite with a heat stroke, it's gonna be red, it's going to be fire hot, and it's going to be dry. Heat exhaustion. Someone might have a rapid, really fast pulse, but
weak. The opposite for heat stroke, they have a rapid and they have a really really super strong pulse. So there are some key differences. More often than not, someone is experiencing heat exhaustion, use the same techniques cool them off as quickly as possible so that we don't get to the next level. The goal is to not get to that point in the first place. So let's talk a little bit about preventing a heat situation. I mean,
obviously hydrating, drinking water. Yeah, drinking water. I saw a TikTok recently that was like, who told you to drink eight glasses of water? Eight glasses of water? Doesn't make sense? And you know what, they're right, It doesn't drink half your body weight and ounces. If that happens to be eight glasses of water, congratulations. If it's ten, it's ten. If it's twelve, it's twelve. You know, if you weigh a
one hundred pounds, fifty ounces of water is what your intake is. If you weigh two hundred pounds, one hundred ounces of water is what your intake should be. So drank water and water is water. Tea isn't water, CoA, soda isn't water, Juice isn't water. They are all liquids, but they aren't necessarily hydrating you. So you want to make sure that you're
hydrating. You're hydrating with water when you drink things that have caffeine. And this is something else that one of our listeners wrote in about their husband was using the powdered drink mix and it had be twelve in it and had electrolytes in it, and then it had caffeine. So the person is using it to have caffeine to give them a little bump in energy, but caffeine dehydrates
you. So if you're having some sort of drink replacement or drink addition that, or you have a cup of coffee, plan for an extra however many ounces that was in order to neutralize that. So say for conversation's sake, your water intake is one hundred ounces, Well, if you had an eight ounce cup of coffee, well, now you have to do one hundred and eight ounces because you have to replete your system from the caffeine that came in
the coffee or whenever, drink addition kind of thing. And you bring up an interesting point too, because a lot of the drinks with electrolytes and things in it, sometimes they can be chocked with chemicals themselves, so be careful what you're ingesting a lot of times as bright colors aren't very natural and can do more harm than good, especially over time. They also they use poor quality forms of the nutrients. They're not looking out for your nutrient status like
pure essentials. If like B twelve, where we use hydroxicavlement the highest form possible, they're using cyanic evalment the lowest form possible. That's not helpful. Poor quality of nutrients can be harmful. Yeah, So with my family, we drink water, it will squeeze lemon in it, organic lemon. Just try to keep it as organic in natural as possible. So on the flip side of this, we're looking at dehydration. What are the signs of dehydration.
I know it's different in adults and kids. A lot of times we have babies out in the sun. They can't always communicate what's going on. So what are signs and adults and children to look for in dehydration. So signs of dehydration and adults and children can be feeling thirsty and by the time you feel thirsty, you're probably dehydrated. So feeling thirsty, having a dark yellow or a very strong smelling urine. That can be a sign of dehydration.
Going potty less often kind of a one in, one out kind of scenario. And if you are drinking a lot and you're not going potty a lot, it's likely that you're probably dehydrated. Feeling dizzy, feeling lightheaded, feeling tired, those are all signs of dehydration. Dry mouths, dry lips, and tongue, those are all signs of dehydration in babies, if they're you know they're having less wet diapers. You know, the diaper is wet less frequently, that's a sign of dehydration. You know, just like a
bigger person, one potty less, you probably dehydrated. Kind Of a harder thing to tell with babies is you know, being drowsy or being irritable. I mean, that's kind of what babies do. So you know, if you see it more than what they were before, and you know you were outside a beach day, chances are you know it might be a dehydration situation. Having their soft spot they're fun to know, being kind of stumken in that's another sign of dehydration. So you know, on those beach days or
out of the park days. You know, pay attention to that. You know, they're kind of their little button there. Important stuff. Let's get onto one of the problems that I know when I'm up in Connecticut, bug bites. You'll be at mosquitos. We've got ticks. We've got a whole
bunch of things that like to come out in this summer. You know, sometimes it's a convenience, and sometimes they're situations that can be worse, especially what we're looking at tick bites that can carry lime and other diseases, and mosquito bites can carry a bunch of stuff too. You knowlist we know that the infamous d D eet it's a powerful and toxic chemical. They can cause
skin irritations and alert reactions. It's also been banned for a while, but we still see it coming up. Can you talk a little bit about why not to use deep if someone still needs to know about deep after all of that. Deep can have harmful effects on the environment too, So it's not just our bodies. I'm going to go back to the aquatic life. I love the turtles. No straws, you know, bann the straws, banned the plastics. Save our turtles, Save our coral and our fish. Deep
can have a harmful effect on the aquatic life. And there was a Duke University pharmacologist who studied deep and the effects of deep and found that frequent and prolonged exposure led to brain cell death. We're not going to do fear marketing here, So that's frequent and prolonged exposures. But I mean, if you are a camping family, that's frequent and long exposures. You know, you
spend the summer out in the woods doing all the things. You live in a farm, that's frequent and prolonged exposure too, because you're out working on the farm and doing all of the things. So you know, there's that, there's parabinus, there's sulfates, there's falt all all of those sneaky substances that can disrupt the body's natural processes. Those parabins, they can be hormone
disruptors. That whole endocrine system can be disrupted by those chemicals. It's no shock when someone comes in and they say I have this, this and this going on. I have to do is look around, look at what's on the fork or what's on the skin. And there's a lot of clues there. There's some real toxic stept out there. But what ingredients do you feel like are good to have in bug spray? You know, just like our
food homemade, everything's always going to be better when it's homemade. But if that's not your thing, maybe you don't like doing that, you know, look for a natural insect repellent that has naturally occurring repellents, things like lemon, eucalyptus, citronella, peppermint, lavender. Lavender can be an endocrine disruptor,
so you don't want to rub that on you too too much. And also, you know when you work with essential oils, using ones that are pure bas is, not synthetic basis, because those can be toxic too if you're not getting them from the right source. And as speaking of oils, the next step to pull it back the step you know you can use plants around your property as buggray pants. We'd be talked about that a little bit, Melissa. Yeah, that's what I do. I have a big,
huge bucket of lavender over on the far side of our deck. We have citronella that we just kind of incorporated throughout the backyard. We have marigold plants that I plant within my garden area in the boxed garden, and the herbs that are here towards the back door that aren't all the way out in the backyard, I put rosemary in there. I put lemon balm. There's a big giant bush of that that comes out. I think I even have some
lemon grass in a pot at the back door. So there are plenty of ways you could use basil if I didn't say that one already, there's basil in my herb garden as well. Cat nip you have a cat grow the cat nip. You can also put it in the dehydrator and it's you know, multi purpose there. But yeah, there are plants that can help you. Just kind of position those, you know, where your seating areas are in the backyard so that it can help you when you're out there backyard barbecuing
and all of the fun things. Unlyssa, in terms of good sprays, so healthy, non toxic sprays, you have recommendations on this, you know. I have one recommendation that I've used, and I found a few that I'm going to try this summer. I looked at the ingredients and I think I'm going to give them a shot. We have used baby ganics. It wasn't bad. It smelled, it wasn't strong. That was kind of what
we were looking at. You know when you use some bunch sprays and people can smell you from like a mile away and they're like, oh, what did you do? You know, I don't even wear perfuel, So when I put these things on it, it's an odd sensation, you know, to be able to smell that. But this one wasn't overpowerful. It wasn't like, oh, where have you been? So it smelled like it was cit dranella, peppermint, rosemary, lemongrass, and geranium. The geranium was
helpful. There is one called All Terrain herbal Armor looks kid friendly. Everyone, please do your due diligence. I don't work for these people. I don't endorse these people. I'm just telling you what I looked at and what I found. What we've used in our house that worked well for us. So this herbal armor or Alterraine herbal armor, looks to be non toxic. It has citronella, peppermint, cedar, lemon grass. The only downside for me was soybean oil. Now, in my research, soybean oil is also
a repellent. I personally just like to steer clear of soy and soybeans. It's just my thing. So if you don't want to use that, you could also check out or baby buzz spray. This is another one I want to check out this summer. This one's new to me, but it looks pretty promising. The ingredients and this one are catnet, eucalyptus, cedar woods, citronella, and lemon grass and cool fun fact, they're also certified biodynamic, they're vegan, and they're a bee corp. So I'm gonna give it
a shot and I can report back and see what happens. I'll try whatever is organic and keep the bugs away, but anything else in terms of pure essentials that helps. Lactotopolis is a fun product to experiment with. It's been helpful for me with beastings and other I don't know, mysterious bug bites.
I just opened a couple of capsules into just a little dish and I just use my finger to drop some water, you know, I put my hand underneath the faucet, just do a couple of little drips onto the lacodophilist powder and just swirl it around and kind of make a paste and put that on the bug bite or the beasting, and it's been helpful. Others have reported that using our sea buffered in their bathwater has helped them with skin issues.
And of course we can never forget our corsetin in its anti inflammatory properties or better said, it's promoting of cell healing properties. It's not an anti inflammatory like an end said or you know some of the overcounter products like that. It really encourages cell healing, which is why the inflammation goes down. I do take extra vitamin C if I know I've been out in the sun again, like I am so pale, I don't tan very easily, but vitamin
C is one of those things I find really useful. But for our listeners, if you want some more information on Pure Essentials, on the lactodoph lists, that ultra corset in, on the buffered vitamin C, you can go online at www dot Pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U R E hyphen e ss E n t i a ls dot com. Or you can call our office Monday through Friday nine am to buy PM at two on two seven five eight thirty two hundred. That's two on two seven five eight three
two zero zero and our last topic, food poisoning. We all have a summer picnic, but a lot of times we can get food poisoning if foods out in the sun for too long. So what exactly is it? And maybe some tips on avoiding it. Most people do love a good summer picnic, but unfortunately so does bacteria. Cold food cannot stay out in the warm temperatures for too long, even up to an hour outside of the fridge in hot weather. Is it invitation for something ugly to come along? In terms
of food poison what exactly is it? They're about two hundred and fifty different specific bacteria related diseases that can cause food poisoning. So some of the more common are salmonilla E. Coli, box dualism, lysteria. Those symptoms can range anywhere from a mild dehydration or diarrhea vomiting fever to double vision and severe dehydration and severe diarrhea and vomiting. It just kind of runs the scale. Any other tips to avoid food poisting? Yeah, these are really good A
found basic, But wash your hands. Really, I can't say it enough to wash your hands. We just had it like a global shutdown. And wash your hands was at the center of recommendation, so that's all. It's surprised that people needed to be reminded to wash their hands, But yes, wash your workstation, wash your dish towels, wash your wash cloths or the dish cloths that you might wipe a counter with. Use separate chopping boards,
keep the raw meat separate from everything else. Cook your food thoroughly. Keep raw meat, poultry, seafood, keep all of those things chilled until it's time to cook it, and then when you do cook it, cook it thoroughly. So we know there's sort of the four seas of food poisoning. I'l column the cross contamination, cleaning, cooking, and chilling. But are there any pure essentials products that could be helpful or what would you recommend?
There's a fifth See it's the sea buffered. That's my answer to everything, along with magnesium and lactodolphus. If you have experienced food poisoning, it's going to be very very important to get your gut back on track. Do it with see buffered magnesium and lactadophlis lackadolphlus is pure essentials, probiotic so all really really helpful and actually for our listeners. To our sponsor, Pure Essentials gave us a code specifically for our listeners. If you use the code undoctored to
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