Welcome to Living on Doctor sponsored by Pure Essentials. I am Rachel Ash, your hosts. We are here on w R seven ten am every Sunday from five to five thirty pm. For more information, I'm Pure Essentials. You can go on their website www dot pure hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U r E hyphen e ss e ntils dot com, or on Facebook or Instagram at shop Pure Essentials. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, wellness consultant and healthy living expert. I'm joined by my co host, Melissa Chris Bell
was trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. She has a whole host of other wellness certifications to include uricular acupuncture for detoxification and relaxation, yoga and
natural healing. Melissa's spent the better part of the last thirteen years teaching doctors all around the world how to look at both traditional lab testing with a functional medicine lens, use specialty LAP testing like nutritional genetic tests, food sensitivity tests, and micronutrient tests, along with professional grade nutraceutical supplements such as Pure Essentials
to create their own signature programs. A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa is on a mission to teach you how to reclaim your health and live your
best life. Undoctored a little bit of a different format today. We've got a lot of questions the past couple of weeks from listeners from clients of Melissa's in terms of how do we work with supplements, what are some good rules of thumb in terms of nutrition and overall health questions that have come up out of just even doing our first two episodes of the show on nutrition on nutrients thum Melissa first question, what is a good rule of thumb to know what
ingredients to avoid when doing food shopping. That was a great question and it has a few different answers. I would say, if we're talking rule of thumb for something that would apply to any human being, shop the perimeter. That's nothing new. Steer clear of the processed in the middle. I mean, you're going to have to go to the middle for a few things.
If you eat rice or oats, that's in the middle. But for the most part, if you are eating in a way that will actually fuel your body, you're looking at meat, fruit, vegetables, right, You're reducing the dairy intake, you're reducing the grains you're reducing the processed foods, so you want to make sure that you're eating the perimeter. Eat the perimeter, eat the rainbow. Even though we're not having skittles, you know, we still want to eat the rainbow. We'll say, eat the organic rainbow.
There you go, organic, non gmo whole foods. That's my stick for clients. Sounds good, and I know in terms of chemicals, we see things in not just in foods in terms of colored and processing foods, but also in a lot of medications. There are certain dyes. We had a client who was in the center once who was allergic to the red dye on the Thailand all capsule and they had been taking Thailand al pm every night before they're going to bed, and something that minuscule was causing a reaction in their
body. So less as specifically why should I avoid red dyes, and if you want to talk a little bit about other dyes and food colorings too and why they can pose real problems. Most of those diyes, whether it's FD and C red number five or yellow six, Blue Lake, they're petroleum based. Think about what petroleum is. Is that something you really want in your system? It's probably not red specifically the question mark. Very honestly, it
might be new information to some people. It's been happening for a hundred years, but it's made from a specific bug, Carmine corneal. It's a white bug that oozes red stuff, and that's where it comes from. Some people might be familiar with. One of our favorite coffee places actually had to take a specific drink off of their menu last year. There was a big expose
about using bugs to flavor people's drinks. You know, I think they were just kind of going with its natural because it happens in nature, not really thinking what the sumer was going to appreciate or not appreciate about it. Those colorings. The petroleum base is the bigger issue than the bug is, right. I have a friend and a colleague. He's a chiropractor in Indiana. He was doing food and chemical sensitivity testing on patients and this it was the
mom of a little girl. She hadn't done her food and chemical sensitivity tests yet, but this practitioner had started the child on vitamin C flushes with our famous vitamin C. And for those of you that aren't aware, you can calibrate your body's need for vitamin C by taking it in a very specific ratio.
So you know, someone in generally good health that just wants to do better for themselves would take one teaspoon in six to eight ounces of water, stir it up, let it dissolve, litical clear, all of those fun things, drink that vitamin C water, and then repeat that process every twenty minutes until the body flushes. And what you flush is what's been hanging out
causing issues. But more importantly, the process is used to calibrate what war bodies daily need is you want to make sure that you're taking enough vitamin C but not taking too much that you end up with a bout tolerance issue. There's more information on pure dash essentials dot com about our vitamin C calibration. You can also call into the office. You can also purchase the sea buffered,
which is the vitamin C that we're talking about right now. It's a powdered vitamin C. And I know some people do that in place of a colonic They do it as a detox. They do it after they travel, if they've spent a week somewhere and eating bad food, enjoying themselves thoroughly. But it's a great reset. And that phone number Melissa was talking about is the number for our office. It's open Mondays through Fridays nine to five and
it's two one two seven five eight thirty two hundreds. That's two and two seven five eight three two zero zero. Anyway, this particular practitioner was addressing some food and chemical sensitivity issues with his patient and the mother was reporting back after doing these Vitamin C flushes that it smelled like band aid and plastic in the bathroom. They couldn't figure out what was going on with this little one.
Did the food and chemical sensitivity test, it comes back she's reactive to petroleums, so her body was holding onto those to try and protect her. And it was the result of petroleums in the air and taking in vitamins and supplements that had those dyes. Some of those kids in Europe they're called goomies. In America they call them gummies, taking some of those over the counter
children's squishy gummy type supplements that had different petroleum based dyes in them. And once they cut those out and got her on a good path of cleaning the air and doing the regular vitamin SEA flushes, she was able to recover from that. You actually make a really interesting point because so many of the kids supplements are gummy. They're sugar, they're colored, they look like candy, they taste like candy. Effectively, you're getting as much chemicals or toxicity as
you are the good stuff, and it cancels each other. Adam, sure, it's wacky in that way, just once you're on the manufacturing side of it and you understand what those are actually made of. I just can't seem to get behind it. The amount of sugar in those little things, it's pretty insane. I wouldn't say that it's as much as drinking a cocoda.
I'd have to look at you know, the actual milligrams. Again, I don't know them off the top of my head by memory, but they're little sugar bombs, those little gummies are, and they make them for kids with melatonin. So you're going to give a kid that sugar bomb with some melatonin before they go to bed, and it's just not what I did for my
children. I can tell you that melatonin is one of those things. I know a lot of people take it frequently, but it'll start to wear off, it won't have that same effect on you, because melatonin is part of an actual neurotransmitter process in our system. If you were to add that regularly, it's going to lose its effect. It's great, you know, if you're going across the globe and you need some assistance sleeping on one of those long, long flights, melatonin it can benefit you. But on the regular
probably not the thing to do. And I know too, Melyssa. There's different sleep products that you recommend are wonderful. On the Pure Essentials line, there's also a children's supplement, all natural, non GMO, no fillers,
none of the bad stuff added. And you brought up something lash So that's interesting to talking about sugars and sugars and supplements, But don't they fight for the same receptors as a vitamin C. They can, Yeah, And so if you load up a vitamin C product with sugar, you're really canceling each other out. Ultimately, that's why Pure Essentials Sea buffered has no sugar, has no flavor in it. It's just all natural. It's food derived.
And speaking of nutrients, mol So, we had somebody write in that you had previously mentioned some nutrients or vitamins would require eating a quote ton of right foods, even though we were designed so uniquely. You know, our bodies have all of these internal microcosms of things that happen, you know, in our mouth and our stomach, you know, on our skin. We have
so much that happens naturally without us telling our body what to do. We just weren't designed to take the load of stress or the amount of stress loads that we are handed and our body needs extra help. If you couple that with the stress that we have, and I'm not talking about anything traumatic, I'm talking about just day to day stuff, right. If you couple that with the lack of nutrients in the soil that our food is grown in,
it's just a recipe for not getting it over the finish line. Our bodies need a little help. We have to have the right nutrients in there. If someone wanted something specific, I can tell you. For me, it's fish, it's omega threes. It's getting enough omega threes in that they reduce inflammation. They help with my joint aches and pains, They help with mental
clarity and such. Getting enough in is difficult for me, mostly because of the area that I live in and getting the type of fish that I would eat and getting it so that it meets all of my criteria because I don't
want farm raised, I don't want colors added. I don't want it from areas of the world that have known talks in their water, because what that fish swims in is what's going to be in the flesh, and I just don't eat that much of it. So supplementing with omega's, which is the pure essential ultra omegas plus supplementing what that Omega three is very very important for me. I did a test. It was an Omega three index plus test. Pure essentials is going to be carrying an Omega three index plus test.
It's just a little landset it just a little fingerstick, drop the blood down on the little car, send it off, and the lab sends them the results just like I did, and tells me how much omega three was actually in my blood, how much omega six, which we all get you from oils and seeds and those kinds of things. We probably get too much of that, And then what's the ratio, what's the healthy spot for me? Melissa Crespell And that test will be available soon and interesting to Melissa. I
know we've spoken before. But for our listeners, not all omegas are created equally, and in fact, because it's so unregulated, a lot of them are created dangerously. Can you talk about the difference of the Pure Essentials omegas and why it's a lot safer than most of their step out there? Yeah,
definitely. So the omegas that create the Pure Essentials old omegas plus product, the first third and the last third of the fish are discarded because that's where a lot of the toxic chemicals can hide out in the fish, the body of the fish. So only that center portion is used. Nothing farmed ever, nothing, nothing, nothing. We don't want anything farmed. We want that deep fresh cold water fish. We also want to extract it under
a nitrogen blanket, which has become industry gold standard. We want to do that because that reduces the possibility of rancidity. And we don't put any type of natural here's my air quotes, natural flavorings in there, no chemical additives, organic, non GMO lemon oil is what Pure Essentials uses and that's just
to have a little bit of flavor in it. Because little kids can take this, they can bite onto it, you can puncture the gel, put it on a spoon and give it to the little one and it's going to taste like a lemon oil and not taste like tuna fish with lemon oil flavoring. Or you know who knows what else some of those other companies are doing. And for more information and where to find those omegas again online at Pure
hyphen Essentials dot com. That's p U r E hyphen e ss E nti als dot com, or you can call the office which is open Monday through 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 for more information or if you'd like to place in order. I'm your host Rachel Lash, wellness consultant and healthy living expert. I'm joined by my co host, Melissa Chris bellb was
trained as a natural path and nutrition specialist. She has a full host of other wellness certifications to include auricular acupuncture for detoxification and relaxation, yoga and natural
healing. Melissa's spent the better part of a last thirteen years teaching doctors all around the world how to look at both traditional lab testing with a functional medicine lens use specialty lab testing like nutritional genetic tests, food sensitivity tests, and micronutrient tests, along with professional grade nutraceutical supplements such as Pure Essentials to create
their own signature programs. A self proclaimed wellness warrior advocate, Melissa is on a mission to teach you how to reclaim your health and live your best life. Undoctored Melissa, We're going to change it up a little bit. Next question, I'm in my mid fifties and even a moderate workout leaves me uncomfortable for days. Are there vitamins or minerals that can help my body recover more quickly? Oh? Yeah, definitely, Pure Essentials. Pure Essentials has a
pill for that. That's what I like to say. You know what, Yes, I'm going to answer that question with vitamins and minerals. I'm also going to add this regular stretching, regular movement will help to reduce it. You know, any chiropractor across this country will tell you that the weekend war is the one that gets hurt and the one that they see on Mondays, probably from spring to summertime. So staying active on the regular Tai chee cheek
gong, yoga, just stretching the body can be a benefit. So it's not all about what pill can I take to make this better? It's what can I change in my routine to support what I want to do in life. So, you know, maybe changing up the way that we view that just a little bit. But as far as vitamins and minerals go, if we get to a certain age and we're feeling some joint situations, those omegas
that I was just talking about can be good for that. Pure Essentials has a joint product that has glucose amine and condroiton in it that could help with some of those joint issues. Vitamin C. I know, you know everyone's gonna say, Melissa, you say, vitamin is see for everything, and I'm probably going to Vitamin C. It's like nature's vacuum cleaner, and it just goes around and it just sucks all the issues from the tissues and it
helps you to mobilize them, get rid of them. It helps to increase your bodies own natural collagen production, so you don't have to take yet another product which you probably couldn't absorb and use anyway. So if you use the vitamin C for that, it's going to help strengthen those tissues and those areas that are feeling sore. For our friend in their mid fifties, that vitamin
C can help to relieve some of that as well as can magnesium. When we're feeling sore like that, you can take magnesium internally, but you can also soak in it using epsom salts and baking soda. Put one cup of each in your bathwater doesn't have to be super hot, but no as warm as you like it. Hang out in that tub for twenty minutes. Let your skin get nice and pink. Baking soda will help too. It's kind
of a dual purpose. The baking soda is going to help to pull some of the toxins from the skin, so the magnesium then it relaxes the skin, opens the pores. The baking soda is kind of the tag team there and then helps to pull some of those toxins. So that can help reduce some of that soreness as well. And you can even throw a little vitamin C in that bath too. For ken, Vitamin C, corse it in and magnesium are my go to the pure essentials and it's phenomenal. I just
take the vitaminc out of the fridge, order a teaspoon. You know, five personin and ta magnesium and I know I'll be feeling so much better the next morning. They're fantastic products. Next question, Melissa, I know we see a lot of products on the market with collagen and you mentioned something in that last response about vitamin C. I don't know if it's versus collagen,
but can you talk about that a little bit. Yeah, So it's really difficult for our bodies to absorb collagen when we ingest it in a food or you know, when I say food, I mean like like a protein shake or a powdered additive or something along those lines. So for me, that's kind of a waste. I would rather take the vitamin C because it has multi use to it and it helps my body to produce the collagen that I should be producing. Anyway, as we age, there are things that just
don't happen like they used to, and that's okay. There are supplements, there are vitamins, There are mineral rules that our body needs in order to keep doing those things, and maybe we need to take a little bit more, and vitamin C is one of them. And speaking of taking supplements for recovery, taking things on a regular basis. We had somebody right in which nutrient and supplements should be taken regularly by most people. I would say everyone
could benefit from a quality multi vitamin. And when I say quality, I mean the added junk. Look for magnesium, steer eight, look for silicon dioxide, look for titanium dioxide. Look at the other's category underneath the supplement fact panel and see if you have all natural ingredients in there, or if you have those big giant chemical words. Those are the words that we want
to steer clear of. If they don't come to you automatically, or they're very difficult to pronounce, chances are they are not very good for your body. So a good quality multivitamin the fish oil, I can't get away from it. It just does so much for us. A good quality Omega three magnesium is always a good one. It's alkalinizing inside our body. Our body needs those buffering minerals just because of the acid that gets produced in our system
for many reasons. For the food that we eat, the amount of water that we might not be drinking, or the amount of coke, sodas or other sugary soft drink type drinks. Those create acidic effects in our body. I would say that magnesium is super important for those reasons. Specifically, our bones are where the minerals are stored. If we don't have magnesium to buffer in our system, our body's going to go looking for it, and it's going to go to where it's stored and it's going to rob the bones from
that, which then creates another situation somewhere else down the line. So I would say the magnesium vitamin C because we can't produce it ourselves. Our body does not make vitamin C. It's not possible. So getting enough vitamin C in for your body is going to be different than from my body. So getting that vitamin C in there is also important. Figure out the vitamin C
calibration would be important as well. And I know our practice in the city, we used to see a lot of women coming in seeing they need calcium, are taking calcium, and it was like they could never take enough, and really it was a magnesium deficiency because you need the magnesium in order to absorb the calcium. So to your pointless, everything is a system to look
at your body from that perspective. Magnesium is so critically important, definitely, and you know Honestly, people don't want to take I don't even want to take tons of vitamins and minerals in the supplement form, you know, So finding the supplements that work for your body, that meet your criteria of organic, non gmo, enzyme rich, whole food derived, you know, finding that core that gives you the energy and the vitality that you're looking for.
That's your core, that's your foundation pack, and Pure Essentials can help with that. With the Pure Essential Essential Starter pack, there will be other supplements that you're going to need for certain periods of time to address whatever situation you might have going on. Someone might naturally just decrease in their vitamin D throughout the winter. Maybe they live in an area where there's not a lot of sun, so they might need to take vitamin D for that period of time.
Other people might have a gene that prevents them from converting vitamin D from the sun, so they'll always have to supplement. I'm one of those people, you know, It's the way that I was made, So the vitamin D is part of my core supplement regimen as well. So taking a look at specifics blood tests that can be run all but five states in our country allow you to order your own blood work, so you can walk into a lab and you can say I would like to check my vitamin D please,
and they'll do it for you, checking your blood work. Instead of just taking supplements that you read about somewhere, you know, do what's right for your body. That's such an important point that everybody's a unique biochemistry. Everybody is different. What's healthy for one person may not be healthy for someone else, so they get properly evaluated. To figure out what's great for you is so important. It's just to optimize our health. And we are here on
this show because of Pure Sounds. That's something I've taken for years. Melissa has worked with it for years as well, recommends it to clients, which leads us to our last question. We had somebody right in asking us our pure essentials vitamins from a natural source, nature, identical, synthetic, strictly synthetic, food based or by a culture of fermentation process. Well, listen, you want to answer that. I want to answer that, and the
answer is yes, except for the part that says strictly synthetic. Here essentials supplements are all natural. They are from natural sources. Meaning some of its herbs. There's two different answers for the food based. So there's food based and there's food derived. So there is a supplement company out there that does food based supplements, which means that that food is dehydrated. It's then you know, processed, it's crushed, it's pulverized, and that becomes the capsule
or it's put in the capsule, or it becomes the tablet. Or supplements can be food derived, meaning you get this from this food, or from this herb, or from this berry. You can look at the Pure Essentials labels and I can tell you that what's on that label is actually in that bottle. The newly formulated products that are coming out that have the mushrooms in it, So we'll have a big launch for those products when they come out. But they say fruiting body, or they say powder, or they say
mycelium. We put on our label exactly where the food comes from, so you can trust what's in the bottle is actually written on the bottle. And we do have one product that'll be coming out later this summer that is from a fermentation process, which is our probiotic. Also looking forward to that, we're using because they are non toxic. It's a low risk, high gain approach. It's more of a holistic look at lifestyle, at solutions of keeping
our bodies lively of healthy at any age. So, Melissa, thank you for answering these questions. It's a great show. If you are eating in a way that we'll actually fuel your body. You're looking at meat, fruit, vegetables, right, you're reducing the dairy intake, you're reducing the grains, you're reducing the cessed foods. Eat the rainbow, We'll say, eat
the organic rainbow. There you go organic, non gmo whole foods. And I know in terms of chemicals, we see things in not just in foods in terms of colored and processing foods, but also there are certain dyes. Most of those dyes, whether it's FD and C red number five or yellow six, Blue Lake, they're petroleum based. Think about what petroleum is. Is that something you really want in your system? It's probably not red specifically
the question mark. Very honestly, it might be new information to some people. It's been happening for a hundred years, but it's made from a specific bug, Carmine corneal. It's a white bug that oozes red stuff and that's where it comes from. Some people might be familiar with. One of our favorite coffee places actually had to take a specific drink off of their menu. Last year there was a big expose about using bugs to flavor people's drinks.
You know, I think they were just kind of going with its natural because it happens in nature, not really thinking what the consumer was going to appreciate or not appreciate about it. Those colorings, the petroleum base is the bigger issue than the bug is, right. I have a friend and a colleague. He's a chiropractor in Indiana. He was doing food and chemical sensitivity testing
on patients and this it was the mom of a little girl. She hadn't done her food and chemical sensitivity tests yet, but this practitioner had started the child on vitamin C flushes with our famous vitamin C. And for those of you that aren't aware, you can calibrate your body's need for vitamin C by
taking it in a very specific ratio. So you know, someone in generally good health that just wants to do better for themselves would take one teaspoon in six to eight ounces of water, stir it up, let it dissolve litical clear all of those fun things, drink that vitamin C water, and then repeat that process every twenty minutes until the body flushes. And what you flush is what's been hanging out causing issues. But more importantly, the processes use
to calibrate what your body's daily need is. You want to make sure that you're taking enough vitamin C but not taking too much that you end up with a bowetolerance issue. There's more information on pure dash essentials dot com. We are here every Sunday from five to five thirty on wo R seven ten am. You can also listen to us Living Undoctored with Melissa, Chris Bell and
Rachel Aash on our podcast on iHeart dot com. If you're interested in any of the products we talked about, or for more information in general, you can get all of those on the website at pure essentials dot com. That's pure hyphen Essentials dot com. You can call us Monday through Friday. We are in the office from nine to five at two one, two seven, five eight thirty two hundred. That's two on two seven, five eight three
two zero zero. I'm your host, Rachel Lash, joined by my co host Melissa Chrispell, living on Doctor, and we will see you next Sunday at five pm here on WR