# 5 Hacks to Upgrade Your Health (For Free)

An episode of [A Really Good Cry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1708895338), 15 Apr 2025, 32 min.

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What if better health isn’t about adding more to your plate, but about doing less — with purpose? In this episode, I share five gentle yet powerful practices to support your health naturally and intentionally. From simple daily detox rituals and mindful movement to nourishing your body with whole foods and lightening your emotional load, these shifts are meant to feel good — not overwhelming. Rooted in both modern wellness practices and the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda, this episode is a reminder that true balance doesn’t come from extremes, but from tuning in and honoring your body’s rhythm. Let’s return to what’s essential — one mindful step at a time. What We Discuss: • 00:00 Introduction • 03:59 Gentle detoxing • 07:18 Importance of tongue scraping • 11:32 Drinking warm water with CCFT • 14:21 Abhyanga • 15:59 “Eat less from a packet, more from the Earth” • 18:56 3 Ingredients to Always Avoid in Packaged Food • 19:46 Spices as food and medicine • 21:11 Move your body and mind • 25:35 Dream and Do • 28:26 Drink water and mind your own business Follow Radhi: https://www.instagram.com/radhidevlukia/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWe9A4kMf9V_AHOXkGhCzQ https://www.facebook.com/radhidevlukia1/ https://www.tiktok.com/@radhidevlukia See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: I heard the statistic the average person is exposed to
[0:03] Speaker 1: over seven hundred thousand different chemicals a day. The USD
[0:07] Speaker 1: actually found that over seventy percent of conventionally grown produce
[0:10] Speaker 1: contains pesticide residues, and that the average American consumes nearly
[0:15] Speaker 1: nine pounds of chemical food additives annually.
[0:18] Speaker 2: And the EWG, which is the.
[0:19] Speaker 1: Environmental Working Group, found that the average woman applies get
[0:23] Speaker 1: Ready one hundred and sixty eight chemicals daily through beauty
[0:27] Speaker 1: and skincare products.
[0:29] Speaker 2: I'm telling you all these facts.
[0:30] Speaker 1: Not to scare you at all, but just to emphasize
[0:33] Speaker 1: how important daily gentle detox is. I'm Rady WKA and
[0:37] Speaker 1: on my podcast A Really Good Cry, we embrace the
[0:41] Speaker 1: messy and the beautiful, providing a space for raw, unfiltered
[0:44] Speaker 1: conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune in
[0:48] Speaker 1: to learn, connect and find comfort together. Hey everyone, welcome
[0:52] Speaker 1: back to this week's episode of A Really Good Cry.
[0:55] Speaker 1: Today I wanted to talk about some of my favorite
[0:58] Speaker 1: tips for living a healthy life style, like my top
[1:01] Speaker 1: five tips forgetting your health to its optimal level that
[1:05] Speaker 1: actually are free or pretty much free or at least inexpensive.
[1:09] Speaker 1: There's just so much health advice out there, and it
[1:12] Speaker 1: can feel so overwhelming, like whether you're going online and
[1:15] Speaker 1: you're seeing it, whether it's the amount of books that
[1:17] Speaker 1: are coming out, so many experts out there, one person
[1:21] Speaker 1: saying this, one person saying that, and it can get
[1:23] Speaker 1: so overwhelming, especially if you're not someone that's in the
[1:26] Speaker 1: health industry or that's even studied anything to do with health.
[1:29] Speaker 1: And most of the time it's this idea that you
[1:32] Speaker 1: have to overhaul your entire life to feel better. You
[1:35] Speaker 1: have to buy new things for your kitchen, for your bathroom,
[1:38] Speaker 1: for your shower, and it can be really expensive, and
[1:41] Speaker 1: it can just make you feel like there's just too
[1:44] Speaker 1: much to do, so I'd rather just ignore it. But
[1:46] Speaker 1: today I'm going to keep it super simple. I have
[1:49] Speaker 1: studied Aravadas. Some of you might know, I was trained
[1:52] Speaker 1: as in nutritionists and dietitian. I actually studied for three
[1:56] Speaker 1: years as a nutritionnis and then did further studies to
[1:58] Speaker 1: be a dietitian for three years. The difference between the
[2:01] Speaker 1: two is one works in a hospital, which is a dietitian,
[2:04] Speaker 1: and the other has clients outside of a hospital setting.
[2:07] Speaker 1: So when I trained as a dietitian, I was doing
[2:09] Speaker 1: more clinical work and as a nutritionist, it was based
[2:11] Speaker 1: purely on food and the nutrition people are getting outside
[2:15] Speaker 1: of being in a hospital. So I feel like I
[2:17] Speaker 1: have gathered so much information over time, whether it's from
[2:20] Speaker 1: the Western medicine perspective or when I studied Arivada, from
[2:23] Speaker 1: the Eastern philosophy, and I think a combination of both
[2:27] Speaker 1: is actually where the ideal balance is. There is so
[2:30] Speaker 1: much from Western medicine that I really appreciate, but so
[2:34] Speaker 1: much from Eastern medicine that I think is missing and
[2:36] Speaker 1: not known and has kind of been lost over the years.
[2:39] Speaker 1: And so this is going to be a combination of
[2:41] Speaker 1: both the best of both worlds. And obviously I can
[2:43] Speaker 1: only speak from my own perspective and my own research,
[2:46] Speaker 1: and so these tips are my top five favorite that
[2:49] Speaker 1: have helped.
[2:50] Speaker 2: Me in my own life.
[2:51] Speaker 1: But obviously you might have to pick and choose the
[2:53] Speaker 1: ones that work best for you, that fit into your schedule,
[2:56] Speaker 1: your lifestyle the best you know. And one thing I
[2:58] Speaker 1: will say is I think think one of the biggest
[3:00] Speaker 1: mistakes we make is when we find out all this
[3:03] Speaker 1: information and then we try and implement it all at
[3:05] Speaker 1: once and The one thing I have learned from constantly
[3:09] Speaker 1: failing at that is, let me just pick one thing.
[3:12] Speaker 1: I'm going to do that one thing for a week,
[3:13] Speaker 1: and then I'm going to add in another thing and
[3:15] Speaker 1: then another thing. So one you're not scaring your body
[3:18] Speaker 1: and your mind into all these changes that you're making.
[3:21] Speaker 1: And two you end up knowing, oh, I can make
[3:24] Speaker 1: this one change, and I've managed to do it for
[3:25] Speaker 1: a week, I could probably do this other one as well.
[3:28] Speaker 1: And it kind of as you make these small changes
[3:30] Speaker 1: and as you end up sticking to them, it increases
[3:33] Speaker 1: your capacity to make changes. So if you're trying to
[3:36] Speaker 1: add all in at once, it's more likely that you're
[3:38] Speaker 1: gonna end up failing, rather than doing it in phases,
[3:41] Speaker 1: one at a time.
[3:42] Speaker 2: And remember, these are changes we want to keep for life.
[3:44] Speaker 1: It's not we're going to do this for a week,
[3:46] Speaker 1: or we're going to do this for two weeks or
[3:47] Speaker 1: even a month.
[3:48] Speaker 2: These are changes you're trying to incorporate into.
[3:50] Speaker 1: Your lifestyle for life to allow you to optimize your
[3:54] Speaker 1: health month on month, year on year, and.
[3:57] Speaker 2: So the level you do it, the better.
[4:00] Speaker 1: So the first one I wanted to talk about is
[4:01] Speaker 1: gentle detoxing. So whether it's through the food that we eat,
[4:05] Speaker 1: the environmental toxins that we inhale, all the products that
[4:08] Speaker 1: we put on our body. I heard the statistic the
[4:11] Speaker 1: average person is exposed to over seven hundred thousand different
[4:15] Speaker 1: chemicals a day, seven hundred thousand every single day. The
[4:19] Speaker 1: USD actually found that over seventy percent of conventionally grown
[4:22] Speaker 1: produce contains pesticide residues, and that the average American consumes
[4:26] Speaker 1: nearly nine pounds of chemical food additives annually, nine pounds
[4:31] Speaker 1: just of food additives. And the EWG, which is the
[4:34] Speaker 1: Environmental Working Group, it's a nonprofit organization that focuses specifically
[4:38] Speaker 1: on protecting human health and the environment, found that the
[4:42] Speaker 1: average woman applies get Ready one hundred and sixty eight
[4:46] Speaker 1: chemicals daily through beauty and skincare products. I'm telling you
[4:50] Speaker 1: all these facts not to scare you at all, but
[4:52] Speaker 1: just to emphasize how important daily gentle detox is, because
[4:57] Speaker 1: often we don't even know that we are.
[4:59] Speaker 2: Taking these toxins in.
[5:00] Speaker 1: And actually every single part of our body is made
[5:03] Speaker 1: to absorb, whether it's through our scent, whether it's through
[5:06] Speaker 1: our nose. Basically every single hole in the body, including
[5:09] Speaker 1: the pores on our skin, take in every single part
[5:13] Speaker 1: of our environment. So whether it's through our mouth, the
[5:16] Speaker 1: food that we eat or the things that we drink,
[5:18] Speaker 1: our skin, the products we put on it, our nose,
[5:21] Speaker 1: the things that we smell, the perfumes, the incenses, all
[5:24] Speaker 1: those things that we smell, the toxins that are in
[5:26] Speaker 1: the air. Every part of our body takes those things in.
[5:30] Speaker 1: And so when you think about it in that way,
[5:31] Speaker 1: think about how large our skin is, and imagine you're
[5:34] Speaker 1: in a toxic environment constantly. Every poor on your skin
[5:38] Speaker 1: is absorbing something that's going into your body, then into
[5:40] Speaker 1: your bloodstream, then into your organs. And if we're not
[5:43] Speaker 1: supporting our bodies in the right way to really support
[5:45] Speaker 1: our detox systems, then actually our bodies getting weaker and
[5:49] Speaker 1: weaker and has less of an ability to fight off
[5:51] Speaker 1: the toxins or get rid of them regularly. So daily
[5:55] Speaker 1: gentle detox is important. And I think sometimes you know,
[5:58] Speaker 1: I've shared about detoxing before online, and I remember at
[6:00] Speaker 1: the beginning when I was sharing about it, I would
[6:03] Speaker 1: have quite a few people messaging me saying you're sharing
[6:05] Speaker 1: a false narrative. People have eating disorders you shouldn't use
[6:08] Speaker 1: the term detox. And actually, I think detox the word
[6:11] Speaker 1: has been completely changed into something negative that is linked
[6:15] Speaker 1: to weight loss or removing specific foods from our dier
[6:20] Speaker 1: and creating a really toxic version of what detox means.
[6:24] Speaker 1: And actually it's quite ironic because detoxing is literally the opposite.
[6:27] Speaker 1: We're trying to take out toxins. We're not telling people
[6:30] Speaker 1: to reduce their calories, we're not telling people to go
[6:33] Speaker 1: on a calorie restricted dyer. Actually detoxing is just taking
[6:37] Speaker 1: the things that our body does not need, or the
[6:39] Speaker 1: things that are harming us out of our body. The
[6:41] Speaker 1: body actually naturally has a detoxification system, whether it's through
[6:45] Speaker 1: our liver, kidneys, lungs, or skin, but constant exposure to
[6:48] Speaker 1: these toxins can overwhelm our detox systems, leading to symptoms
[6:52] Speaker 1: like fatigue, brain, frog, and chronic inflammation. And I said
[6:55] Speaker 1: those three things, and I was thinking, oh my gosh,
[6:58] Speaker 1: I have no people that feel these things on a
[6:59] Speaker 1: daydaily basis that I've been dealing with these issues a month,
[7:03] Speaker 1: two months, maybe most of their life, and it just
[7:06] Speaker 1: becomes our normality. But actually it is a clear sign
[7:09] Speaker 1: that we have toxins in the body. Irada actually emphasizes
[7:13] Speaker 1: daily and seasonal detox practices to remove armor which are
[7:16] Speaker 1: toxins and restore balance.
[7:18] Speaker 2: In the body.
[7:18] Speaker 1: So one of the ways that is emphasized in Aravada
[7:21] Speaker 1: is something I've been doing since I was a child.
[7:23] Speaker 1: It is a practice that's been passed down to me
[7:26] Speaker 1: from generation to generation. My parents do it, my grandma's
[7:29] Speaker 1: done it. You know. I think it's more so part
[7:32] Speaker 1: of an Indian tradition than it is in the Western world.
[7:35] Speaker 1: But it is tongue scraping. As soon as I learned
[7:37] Speaker 1: how to brush my teeth, I was taught how to
[7:39] Speaker 1: tongue scrape. It just goes hand in hand. And actually
[7:43] Speaker 1: one might argue tongue scraping is actually even more important
[7:46] Speaker 1: than brushing your teeth is. So if you're someone who
[7:49] Speaker 1: only brushes your teeth once a day, don't do that.
[7:52] Speaker 2: Please brush your teeth twice a day.
[7:54] Speaker 1: But even if you are someone who does that, even
[7:55] Speaker 1: if you're not brushing your teeth at nice, at least
[7:58] Speaker 1: scrape your tongue. You can get different kinds, and there's
[8:01] Speaker 1: plastic ones and all different materials. I recommend using stainless
[8:04] Speaker 1: steel or a copper one. Why I put extra plastic
[8:06] Speaker 1: into your body when you don't need to, And actually,
[8:08] Speaker 1: traditionally it's made from metal anyways, So I like to
[8:10] Speaker 1: do what they did back in the day. If it's
[8:13] Speaker 1: worked in the past, and it's worked for thousands of years,
[8:15] Speaker 1: why change it. So I recommend scraping your tongue morning
[8:18] Speaker 1: and evenings, just as you would brush your teeth. And
[8:20] Speaker 1: actually it helps to remove all the toxins and bacteria
[8:23] Speaker 1: that accumulates on the tongue overnight. And actually one of
[8:26] Speaker 1: the diagnostic tools that Irady doctors use when you walk
[8:28] Speaker 1: into a clinic with them. They do different types of assessment,
[8:31] Speaker 1: but one of them is your mouth health, your oral health,
[8:34] Speaker 1: and specifically the color that is on your tongue.
[8:37] Speaker 2: It there's yellow.
[8:38] Speaker 1: This is gonna get a bit too like TMI too
[8:41] Speaker 1: much information, but it's actually really useful. If you wake
[8:43] Speaker 1: up in the morning and you put your tongue out
[8:45] Speaker 1: in the mirror like that, I just ate. So I
[8:47] Speaker 1: don't know what some my tongue, but you put your
[8:49] Speaker 1: tongue out. If there is white coating or yellow coating,
[8:53] Speaker 1: it's a sign that there are actually an extreme amount
[8:56] Speaker 1: of toxins in your body.
[8:57] Speaker 2: But if you're noticing.
[8:58] Speaker 1: If you do that and your tongue is nice, bright
[9:00] Speaker 1: and red, it's a sign that actually your detoxing systems
[9:03] Speaker 1: are working. So sometimes when I've got a cough or cold,
[9:06] Speaker 1: or i have too much mucus going on in my
[9:09] Speaker 1: nasal passages or in my body.
[9:12] Speaker 2: A lot of the time, even.
[9:12] Speaker 1: When I have a fever, I'll look at my tongue
[9:14] Speaker 1: and there's definitely more of a coating than there is
[9:17] Speaker 1: on the days that.
[9:17] Speaker 2: I feel healthy. And so it's actually quite incredible.
[9:20] Speaker 1: Your body tells you in so many different ways that
[9:22] Speaker 1: you're not feeling well or that there's too much going
[9:24] Speaker 1: on in the body, and your tongue is definitely one
[9:26] Speaker 1: of them. So these are the signs of a healthy tongue.
[9:29] Speaker 1: It's pinkish in color, not pale, and not deep red.
[9:32] Speaker 1: If there is a coating, then it's a really thin film.
[9:34] Speaker 1: It's definitely not thickly coated. It's soft and smooth, not rough.
[9:38] Speaker 1: You can actually see your taste buds clearly, and there
[9:40] Speaker 1: are no visible crags or teethmarks on the side of
[9:43] Speaker 1: the tongue. So that's a basic healthy tongue description. Now
[9:47] Speaker 1: let's go into what it looks like when it's not
[9:49] Speaker 1: necessarily as healthy as it should be. If you have
[9:51] Speaker 1: a heavy white coating on your tongue, it is a
[9:53] Speaker 1: sign of toxin build up, digestive issues, or low immunity.
[9:57] Speaker 1: If there's a thick coating at the back of your tongue,
[10:00] Speaker 1: it's a sign that there's tuxin build up in the
[10:01] Speaker 1: large intestine, small intestine colon. If it's in the front
[10:04] Speaker 1: and the back, it's a sign of tuxin build up
[10:06] Speaker 1: in your stomach and your small intestine. If it is
[10:09] Speaker 1: dry or cracked, it's a sign of dehydration in your
[10:12] Speaker 1: digestive system, probably accompanied by something like constipation. And if
[10:16] Speaker 1: your tongue is bright red, it may be a little bumpy.
[10:18] Speaker 1: It is a sign of too much heat or acidity
[10:21] Speaker 1: in the digestive system and your body, which could be
[10:23] Speaker 1: accompanied by something like diarrhea. If the coating is grayish,
[10:27] Speaker 1: it is a sign of gas and bloating or sluggishness,
[10:30] Speaker 1: and it could be accompanied by heavy dark circles under
[10:33] Speaker 1: the eyes or water retention over the body. Now, if
[10:36] Speaker 1: you have bite marks or scallops on the side of
[10:38] Speaker 1: your tongue, it is a sign that you are not
[10:40] Speaker 1: absorbing nutrients. Now, obviously, if you happen to have bit
[10:43] Speaker 1: in your tongue the day before, it's probably a sign
[10:45] Speaker 1: of that. But if you consistently see things like bite
[10:48] Speaker 1: marks or scallop pattern on the side of your tongue,
[10:50] Speaker 1: it is a sign that you may not be absorbing nutrients.
[10:53] Speaker 1: So all that to say, our tongue is very important.
[10:55] Speaker 1: And when you end up scraping your tongue every single
[10:58] Speaker 1: morning and every single night, you actually remove all the
[11:00] Speaker 1: toxins that build up. And if you think about it,
[11:02] Speaker 1: our body actually does most of its detoxing at night
[11:05] Speaker 1: when we're asleep, and so all the toxins are extreeeted
[11:08] Speaker 1: out of our body during our sleep as well, whether
[11:10] Speaker 1: it's the way that you smell in the morning, if
[11:13] Speaker 1: you've sweated a lot overnight, it comes through our pores,
[11:15] Speaker 1: but also it comes out of our tongue too, And
[11:18] Speaker 1: so instead of swallowing those toxins back into your body,
[11:21] Speaker 1: ideally you scrape them off and it reduces the amount
[11:24] Speaker 1: of toxins going into your body.
[11:25] Speaker 2: Again, your body's got rid.
[11:27] Speaker 1: Of it for a reason, so don't put it back in,
[11:30] Speaker 1: so tangue scraping is number one. Another way to gendle
[11:33] Speaker 1: detox during your day is drinking warm water with lemon
[11:36] Speaker 1: or CCFT. I speak of out CCFT all the time.
[11:39] Speaker 1: It is the queen blend of all spices. It's coriander,
[11:42] Speaker 1: cuman seeds, and fennel seeds. It is a gentle digestive tonic.
[11:46] Speaker 1: You can boil half a teaspoon of each seed in
[11:48] Speaker 1: water and sip.
[11:49] Speaker 2: It throughout the morning.
[11:51] Speaker 1: Hot water stimulates digestion, it flushes out toxins. It balances
[11:54] Speaker 1: all three of your doses batter, pita, and kuffer, And
[11:57] Speaker 1: if you don't know what doses are, I'm going to
[11:59] Speaker 1: do in production to irevada. But essentially it balances out
[12:02] Speaker 1: all body types. I've noticed in America people prefer cold
[12:06] Speaker 1: water to hot water, whether it's iced, whether it's in
[12:10] Speaker 1: cold beverages, whether it's sparkling like ice. Water is a
[12:13] Speaker 1: big thing here now. Warm water actually aids in flushing
[12:16] Speaker 1: out tox is way more than.
[12:17] Speaker 2: Cold water does.
[12:19] Speaker 1: It helps to cleanse your system by improving circulation and
[12:21] Speaker 1: encouraging regular bowel movements. And you know what, every single
[12:25] Speaker 1: time someone asks me for one piece of advice if
[12:28] Speaker 1: they're having gut issues. The first thing I recommend is
[12:32] Speaker 1: switching from cold water to hot water. And I cannot
[12:35] Speaker 1: tell you how like every single person that I've recommended
[12:39] Speaker 1: this too say without changing anything else, they just change
[12:42] Speaker 1: to hot water and it makes a difference to their
[12:44] Speaker 1: gas bloating, acidity, and overall just their gut feeling so
[12:48] Speaker 1: much better. Every single person that I recommend things to,
[12:51] Speaker 1: the best indication that it actually does what it says
[12:54] Speaker 1: it does is when they come back to me and
[12:55] Speaker 1: make a point of telling me. And so if you're
[12:58] Speaker 1: going to make one switch for your gut, I really
[13:00] Speaker 1: recommend switching from cold water to hot water, and especially
[13:04] Speaker 1: in the morning, like having a hot cup of water
[13:06] Speaker 1: with lemon. It is such a great combination or with
[13:09] Speaker 1: the CCFT that I mentioned before, And boiling water actually
[13:13] Speaker 1: enriches it with energy and it gains a quality that
[13:15] Speaker 1: an iradi is called shuk shima that means penetrating. So
[13:19] Speaker 1: basically what it means is that by boiling the water,
[13:21] Speaker 1: it essentially makes the molecules even lighter and more absorbent
[13:24] Speaker 1: into the body and it allows the hydration and water
[13:28] Speaker 1: to deeply penetrate into the different tissues of your body.
[13:31] Speaker 1: Drinking cold water actually can slow your digestion, at least
[13:34] Speaker 1: the sluggishness of your digestive system, increase of mucus and bloating,
[13:38] Speaker 1: and so you'll probably notice that if you're not feeling
[13:41] Speaker 1: great and you en of having ice cream, well, vegan
[13:43] Speaker 1: ice cream obviously dairy increases mucus in the body, but
[13:46] Speaker 1: you'll notice that if you're a bit mucusy or whatever
[13:49] Speaker 1: and you end up having cold water, or you end
[13:51] Speaker 1: up having an ice cold drink or ice or anything,
[13:54] Speaker 1: you'll notice that mucus actually increases in those areas.
[13:57] Speaker 2: And it's because that's what cold water does.
[13:59] Speaker 1: If you think about it, our body works off heat,
[14:02] Speaker 1: you know, our digestion and our radar is referred to
[14:04] Speaker 1: as fire, and so when you end up having cold things,
[14:07] Speaker 1: it basically dampens your digestive fire. And when you think
[14:10] Speaker 1: about ice, it basically ends up making things coagulate or
[14:14] Speaker 1: become thicker. And so that's what cold water ends up
[14:16] Speaker 1: doing to your body. It makes so much sense when
[14:18] Speaker 1: you put it like that, but most of the time
[14:19] Speaker 1: we don't put those two things together. Another one of
[14:22] Speaker 1: my favorite ways to genterly detox every single day is
[14:24] Speaker 1: a younger Again.
[14:25] Speaker 2: I've spoken about.
[14:26] Speaker 1: This a lot, but I cannot emphasize how amazing it is.
[14:29] Speaker 1: It's such a beautiful balance of detoxing and also a
[14:31] Speaker 1: little bit of self love throughout the day. It stimulates
[14:34] Speaker 1: your lymphatic system, it supports detoxification and your immunity by
[14:38] Speaker 1: removing toxins that are stored in your fat tissues. It
[14:41] Speaker 1: improves circulation, and it calms the nervous systems. So it
[14:44] Speaker 1: actually does so much for your body just by doing
[14:46] Speaker 1: a five minute massage. So when I do my ap youngers,
[14:49] Speaker 1: I always think about how I want to feel after them.
[14:51] Speaker 1: And what's amazing is depending on the type of oil
[14:53] Speaker 1: that you use, it can affect your body in different ways.
[14:56] Speaker 1: So if you need grounding, use warm sessmeil. I feel
[15:00] Speaker 1: inflamed or overheated, use coconut oil to cool down. If
[15:04] Speaker 1: you need to be energized, use mustard oil. All these
[15:06] Speaker 1: different oils carry different qualities and therefore when they're absorbed
[15:10] Speaker 1: into the body, they create that energy inside the body too.
[15:13] Speaker 2: So all you do I mean a younger means oil.
[15:15] Speaker 1: Massage and essentially you get the oil in your hands,
[15:18] Speaker 1: you rub it together, ideally the oil is a little
[15:20] Speaker 1: bit warm, and then you simply massage your body. On
[15:22] Speaker 1: your limbs you do long strokes towards your heart, and
[15:26] Speaker 1: on your joints you do circular motions.
[15:28] Speaker 2: That's it.
[15:29] Speaker 1: It's as simple as that. Sometimes if I don't have
[15:31] Speaker 1: times to do my full body, I will just do
[15:33] Speaker 1: my feet, or I'll just do my head, and then
[15:35] Speaker 1: I usually keep the oil on because I've also heard
[15:38] Speaker 1: that when you put oil on your body, it helps
[15:39] Speaker 1: to sue your nervous system as it absorbs into the
[15:42] Speaker 1: body and around your nerves. It's basically like a hug
[15:44] Speaker 1: for your nervous system. So I like to keep the
[15:46] Speaker 1: oil on my body. So those are my favorite ways
[15:49] Speaker 1: of generally detoxing throughout the day. Tongue scraping, drinking hot
[15:52] Speaker 1: water with lemon or CCFT, and a younger three of
[15:57] Speaker 1: my favorite detox rituals. Second tip is all about food.
[16:02] Speaker 1: Eat less from a packet and more from the earth.
[16:04] Speaker 1: It is as simple as that, and actually it's a
[16:08] Speaker 1: lot cheaper when you end up buying whole grains, whole vegetables,
[16:12] Speaker 1: whole fruits, lentails, pulses, actually, if you take it back
[16:15] Speaker 1: to how our ancestors used to eat, it's actually cheaper
[16:19] Speaker 1: and way better for you. When you end up buying
[16:22] Speaker 1: packaged foods, it may seem like it's a cheaper option,
[16:25] Speaker 1: but actually we think that it's a cheaper option because
[16:27] Speaker 1: we're trying to buy all these superfoods. But actually, if
[16:29] Speaker 1: you just take it back to what nature provides us
[16:31] Speaker 1: with the basic fruits, vegetables, lentils, beans, the gooms, pulses,
[16:35] Speaker 1: all those things, actually the diet is pretty cheap and
[16:40] Speaker 1: so nutritionally dense. Eat more meals at home and cooked
[16:43] Speaker 1: with spices. That, in my opinion, is the best way
[16:45] Speaker 1: to support your gut health. Make sure you're getting all
[16:47] Speaker 1: the nutrients and vitamins and minerals that you need.
[16:50] Speaker 2: And look, I know I.
[16:51] Speaker 1: Said that these were all free. It's not free, but
[16:53] Speaker 1: it is definitely cheaper. The closer that it is to nature,
[16:56] Speaker 1: the more healing it becomes. That is just basic sign
[17:00] Speaker 1: If you prioritize eating less from a packet and more
[17:02] Speaker 1: from the earth by choosing whole, unprocessed foods that nurish
[17:06] Speaker 1: your body and gut, it will make a world of
[17:08] Speaker 1: a difference to your health most of us have gotten
[17:11] Speaker 1: in the habit of eating at least i'd say, well,
[17:14] Speaker 1: eighty percent out, whether it's from a packet, whether it's
[17:17] Speaker 1: eating takeaway, whatever it is. And actually we need to
[17:20] Speaker 1: flip it the other way around eighty percent cooked at
[17:22] Speaker 1: home and twenty percent maybe from outside, eighty percent from
[17:26] Speaker 1: the earth and the ground, and.
[17:27] Speaker 2: Maybe twenty percent out of a packet.
[17:29] Speaker 1: The fact is, as soon as something is put into
[17:31] Speaker 1: a packet, you should automatically think that you're getting fifty
[17:34] Speaker 1: percent of the nutrition that you probably should be getting
[17:36] Speaker 1: from that ingredient. So if you're eating a whole potato
[17:39] Speaker 1: that's been cooked at home versus a packet of crisps
[17:42] Speaker 1: or chips, fifty percent of the nutrients are automatically gone
[17:45] Speaker 1: the way that it's been deep fried, the preservatives that
[17:47] Speaker 1: are in there to keep it in a packet. Same
[17:49] Speaker 1: as a juice, if you're making a juice at home
[17:52] Speaker 1: from freshly picked vegetables and fruits that you got from
[17:55] Speaker 1: the market or even from the supermarket, compared to a
[17:58] Speaker 1: juice that has been in a fridge for like at
[18:01] Speaker 1: least five days, Because let's be honest, that's what happens
[18:03] Speaker 1: nutrient value cut by fifty percent. Even if you're eating
[18:06] Speaker 1: simpler at home, it is going to be better for
[18:08] Speaker 1: you than having something from a plastic bottle or a packet.
[18:12] Speaker 1: Cooking more meals at home just allows you to control
[18:15] Speaker 1: what goes into your food and therefore what goes into
[18:17] Speaker 1: your body, and you can avoid hidden additives, preservatives and
[18:20] Speaker 1: sugars that can disrupt your gut health. And honestly, if
[18:23] Speaker 1: there are like more than two ingredients that you actually
[18:25] Speaker 1: don't know what they do, you should just be looking
[18:27] Speaker 1: them up.
[18:28] Speaker 2: You know.
[18:28] Speaker 1: Part of being the best health possible is also educating yourself.
[18:33] Speaker 1: It's also understanding the foods that are going into your body,
[18:36] Speaker 1: and so part of it is taking responsibility and accountability
[18:40] Speaker 1: because look, the food industry is not doing that for us.
[18:43] Speaker 1: We have to take charge a little bit. We have
[18:45] Speaker 1: to start understanding that, oh, what does this even mean,
[18:47] Speaker 1: like on the back of this packet? What am I
[18:49] Speaker 1: actually eating? And so doing a little bit of research
[18:52] Speaker 1: is really important. But there are certain things that I
[18:55] Speaker 1: absolutely avoid. If I had to pick three ingredients that
[18:58] Speaker 1: I would absolutely always avoid when buying food out of
[19:02] Speaker 1: a packet, it's these three high fruc close, corn syrup,
[19:05] Speaker 1: palm oil, and artificial colors and preservatives and sweetness. Now,
[19:10] Speaker 1: all of these are inflammatory. They disrupt the heart and
[19:13] Speaker 1: brain health. They've been linked to so many conditions it
[19:16] Speaker 1: is ridiculous, whether it's in children or in adults.
[19:19] Speaker 2: And you know, artificial.
[19:20] Speaker 1: Colors like red, forty, yellow, five, six, blue, one and two,
[19:25] Speaker 1: they have been linked to everything from ADHD, allergies, cancer,
[19:30] Speaker 1: and hormone disruption. There is nothing that is worth eating
[19:35] Speaker 1: that makes up for the terrible risks that are linked
[19:38] Speaker 1: to all of them. And the fact that they're even
[19:39] Speaker 1: in food is a whole different conversation, but it's ridiculous
[19:43] Speaker 1: that they even allow them, especially in children's food. Another
[19:46] Speaker 1: thing to really enhance your health when it comes to
[19:49] Speaker 1: food is adding spices. You know, I am obsessed with spices.
[19:53] Speaker 1: They are my medicine box and have been for ten years.
[19:55] Speaker 1: I tend to my spices before I turn to any
[19:58] Speaker 1: kind of medicine, whether it's tumoric ginger, black pepper, coriander, cumin, fennel.
[20:04] Speaker 1: I have three draws of spices and I cannot tell
[20:06] Speaker 1: you how much I feel protected in my health just
[20:10] Speaker 1: by using them every single day. Spices improve digestion, they
[20:14] Speaker 1: reduce information, and they helps to eliminate toxins. And if
[20:17] Speaker 1: you really learn about spices, what's amazing is that in
[20:20] Speaker 1: different seasons they can do so many different things for you.
[20:23] Speaker 1: So in the summer, you can have different spices that
[20:25] Speaker 1: help to cool down your body, like fennel or coriander sees.
[20:29] Speaker 1: In the winter you can have spices that warm you up,
[20:31] Speaker 1: like ginger and ajwayne And so that's also the beauty
[20:35] Speaker 1: of spices. It can help to move you through different
[20:38] Speaker 1: seasons and deal with your external environment a little bit better.
[20:42] Speaker 1: A healthy gut is the foundation of overall well being,
[20:45] Speaker 1: and it influences everything from the immunity and mental clarity,
[20:48] Speaker 1: and so all of the things that we spoke about,
[20:50] Speaker 1: whether it's the spices, whether it's eating more at home
[20:54] Speaker 1: less from a packet, all of that actually influences our
[20:57] Speaker 1: gut flora or the microbiome. And the health of our
[21:00] Speaker 1: microbiome has a direct correlation to the health of every
[21:04] Speaker 1: other part of our body, whether it's our heart, whether
[21:06] Speaker 1: it's our immunity, whether it's our mental health.
[21:08] Speaker 2: If you're not going to do it for you, do
[21:09] Speaker 2: it for your gut.
[21:11] Speaker 1: Number three out of my five things to do for
[21:14] Speaker 1: better health is movement in mind and body. When we
[21:17] Speaker 1: think about movement, most of the time you're thinking, oh, okay,
[21:20] Speaker 1: I need to go work out.
[21:20] Speaker 2: I've heard that before.
[21:22] Speaker 1: But actually movement of mind and body both go hand
[21:25] Speaker 1: in hand for mental and physical health. And what I've
[21:28] Speaker 1: found in my life is whenever I feel stagnant, whenever
[21:31] Speaker 1: I feel just unwell, whenever I feel like things are
[21:34] Speaker 1: stuck in my body, whenever I feel lethargic, which is
[21:36] Speaker 1: a sign of toxin build up, movement on my body
[21:39] Speaker 1: leads to movement on my thoughts and my energy. So
[21:42] Speaker 1: even when I feel stagnant in my mind, when I
[21:44] Speaker 1: feel stagnant in my energy, when I feel a little
[21:46] Speaker 1: bit low mood, low energy, I go through abouts of feeling.
[21:50] Speaker 1: I don't want to say depressed, because I know that's
[21:51] Speaker 1: a clinical condition, but low mood, and I think, look
[21:54] Speaker 1: we go through We can go through low mood in
[21:56] Speaker 1: different parts of our day, in different parts of our life,
[21:59] Speaker 1: depending on this situations that we get into. Any time
[22:02] Speaker 1: I feel stagnant thoughts or I feel a feeling is
[22:05] Speaker 1: lingering a little bit too long, as soon as I
[22:07] Speaker 1: get up and move. It shifts everything for me physically.
[22:10] Speaker 1: Moving shakes everything up, and it also helps to let
[22:13] Speaker 1: things go, not just sweat, but energetically too. It brings clarity,
[22:17] Speaker 1: It changes your mood, and it just makes life feel.
[22:20] Speaker 2: A little bit more manageable.
[22:22] Speaker 1: I love this one quick that I had, and I
[22:23] Speaker 1: think about it all the time. It says, I'm not
[22:25] Speaker 1: saying taking a walk will solve all your problems, but.
[22:27] Speaker 2: It definitely won't make them worse.
[22:29] Speaker 1: There's been so many studies to show the effect of
[22:32] Speaker 1: trapped emotions linked to every single health condition that exists,
[22:36] Speaker 1: whether it's cordiovascular issues, whether it's cancer, whether it's high
[22:40] Speaker 1: blood pressure, whether it's ups and downs of your blood
[22:43] Speaker 1: sugar levels. Like emotions trapped in the body, it is
[22:46] Speaker 1: not just a woo woo concept. When you have specific emotions,
[22:50] Speaker 1: especially negative ones, and they stay trapped in the body,
[22:53] Speaker 1: it has the ability to affect every single physical body
[22:56] Speaker 1: part that you have, and so emotional clarity is a
[22:58] Speaker 1: big part of our overall health. Emotions are not meant
[23:01] Speaker 1: to stay trapped or stagnant in the body. And I'm
[23:03] Speaker 1: sure you've heard the saying, but emotions are meant to
[23:06] Speaker 1: be energy in motion. They are not meant to stay
[23:09] Speaker 1: trapped or stagnant within the body, and when emotions are
[23:12] Speaker 1: not allowed to flow, they can get stuck. They create
[23:14] Speaker 1: energy blockages that eventually manifest physically and mentally. Emotions and
[23:19] Speaker 1: thoughts are meant to flow, not live in us. You're
[23:21] Speaker 1: meant to feel, express, release, and make space for the next.
[23:26] Speaker 1: There is incredible research done on the places that emotions
[23:29] Speaker 1: are actually felt in the body. I don't know whether
[23:31] Speaker 1: you've seen these, but you know it shows which areas
[23:34] Speaker 1: of the body actually light up during different emotions. Happiness
[23:38] Speaker 1: is felt throughout the whole body. Anger is usually the
[23:40] Speaker 1: upper half of the body. Sadness is felt in your
[23:43] Speaker 1: chest and your head, Anxiety is felt in your chest
[23:46] Speaker 1: and your gut. And I really do think people can
[23:49] Speaker 1: actually die from a broken heart. Like before, I use
[23:52] Speaker 1: to think, Okay, this is just like acute concept and
[23:55] Speaker 1: how romantic. But the more I learned about our physical
[23:59] Speaker 1: and emotional body and the correlation between the two, I
[24:02] Speaker 1: really began to understand those stories about a partner dying
[24:06] Speaker 1: after being together for so long, and then you know,
[24:09] Speaker 1: the husband passes away and then the wife dies a
[24:11] Speaker 1: month or two later, and I think the pain of
[24:13] Speaker 1: emotion and overwhelm of sadness can literally shut down your
[24:17] Speaker 1: entire body. It can shut down different organs in the body.
[24:21] Speaker 1: And so one thing that has completely changed my life,
[24:23] Speaker 1: especially with my emotions, is breathwork. It is one of
[24:27] Speaker 1: my favorite forms of movement, especially emotional movement, that has
[24:30] Speaker 1: changed everything in my life, from my anxiety to my anger,
[24:33] Speaker 1: to my sadness to my happiness. And I really think
[24:36] Speaker 1: that you should just try it, like, give it a
[24:38] Speaker 1: go and see how it works for you. And there
[24:40] Speaker 1: are different types of breath works you can do, and
[24:42] Speaker 1: that's why it's an experimenting game as well. We always
[24:45] Speaker 1: hear a journal do breath work work out, and you
[24:48] Speaker 1: probably think, okay, fine, I hear this all the time,
[24:49] Speaker 1: but have you actually tried it, Like, have you actually
[24:52] Speaker 1: spent a week, a month, a year of your life
[24:55] Speaker 1: dedicating yourself to these practices for long enough to actually
[24:59] Speaker 1: see what difference it can make, to actually make an
[25:02] Speaker 1: informed decision of whether it works or not, not just
[25:04] Speaker 1: one day, not just a twenty minute meditation, but actually
[25:08] Speaker 1: haven't given it a go for a solid amount of
[25:10] Speaker 1: time to make a decision of whether it actually works
[25:12] Speaker 1: or not think about how many shows you've watched the
[25:15] Speaker 1: first episode, second episode, and third episode, even though you're
[25:17] Speaker 1: not sure whether it's going to be a good one.
[25:19] Speaker 1: We waste so much time on so many things that
[25:21] Speaker 1: actually don't help us, and so if something has the
[25:24] Speaker 1: possibility of helping us or changing us in such an
[25:28] Speaker 1: impactful way, don't just dismiss it after one try give
[25:31] Speaker 1: it a fair chance, just like you did your ex.
[25:35] Speaker 1: My fourth tip is having a dream and do mindset.
[25:38] Speaker 1: The concept of dream and do is this balance between
[25:40] Speaker 1: envisioning a future goal and taking concrete steps towards it.
[25:44] Speaker 1: When you allow yourself to dream, you create this vision
[25:47] Speaker 1: of what's possible. It sparks hope inside of you, and
[25:49] Speaker 1: it ignites a sense of purpose. A dream isn't just
[25:52] Speaker 1: a fantasy. It is creating a mental framework that completely
[25:56] Speaker 1: shifts your perspective and allows you to focus on the
[25:59] Speaker 1: possible abilities rather than the limitations. It's the spark that
[26:03] Speaker 1: fuels hope, which I think is an essential ingredient for
[26:06] Speaker 1: progress and personal growth. When we dream, we allow ourselves
[26:09] Speaker 1: to believe in the future, in potential, and in the
[26:12] Speaker 1: opportunities that could come, and so be a dreamer. Believe
[26:16] Speaker 1: in more and believe that more is possible in life.
[26:19] Speaker 1: We live in a world that can be quite pessimistic.
[26:21] Speaker 1: But what if you chose to be a dreamer instead,
[26:23] Speaker 1: Instead of believing in the limitations and the things that
[26:26] Speaker 1: can't happen, what if you started to change your mindset
[26:28] Speaker 1: into believing the things that could happen. And they do
[26:31] Speaker 1: part of it. Well, of course it's great to be
[26:32] Speaker 1: a dreamer, but you also have to do. I used
[26:35] Speaker 1: to be a dreamer, but then I realized dreaming and
[26:37] Speaker 1: being hopeful just honestly wasn't enough. Doing and taking action
[26:40] Speaker 1: is what bridged the gap between my ideal, optimistic future
[26:45] Speaker 1: and the present moment. Every single step that you take
[26:48] Speaker 1: towards your dream, no matter how small, builds momentum and
[26:51] Speaker 1: develops this sense of confidence. Confidence doesn't just come from
[26:55] Speaker 1: waiting or wishing. It is forged through the experience and effort.
[27:00] Speaker 1: So when you see yourself making progress, whether it's through
[27:03] Speaker 1: completing tasks or learning new skills or overcoming obstacles, you
[27:07] Speaker 1: just begin to trust in your own abilities. So much
[27:09] Speaker 1: more action is the proof that you are capable, and
[27:12] Speaker 1: the more that you do, the more confidence you gain.
[27:14] Speaker 2: So both actually go hand in hand.
[27:16] Speaker 1: There's dreaming, which creates hope, and then doing that creates confidence.
[27:20] Speaker 1: The hope from your dream drives you to take action,
[27:23] Speaker 1: and the more you take action, the more confident you
[27:25] Speaker 1: become in your abilities to achieve what once felt impossible.
[27:29] Speaker 1: It's a cycle of growth. Hope ignites the spark and
[27:32] Speaker 1: action fans the flame. The combination of both builds the
[27:35] Speaker 1: foundation to just feel a sense of personal achievement instead
[27:38] Speaker 1: of seeking it from external places, helping you to move
[27:41] Speaker 1: from aspiration to achievement. And I think that we get
[27:44] Speaker 1: so used to being on autopilot through our day. And
[27:48] Speaker 1: you know, of course, there are so many things in society,
[27:51] Speaker 1: people around us that can make us create these walls
[27:56] Speaker 1: that we always live between, these barriers that we create
[27:59] Speaker 1: around us, and I think that really dampens our excitement
[28:04] Speaker 1: and enthusiasm for life. And so I think this dream
[28:07] Speaker 1: and do mentality creates so much more positivity and optimism
[28:10] Speaker 1: throughout our entire body. And how we feel in our
[28:13] Speaker 1: body is actually what ends up manifesting physically and on
[28:16] Speaker 1: our outside body. And so be a dreamer, be a dreamer,
[28:20] Speaker 1: but also be someone who takes action. And I think
[28:22] Speaker 1: the balance of both can really help to elevate your
[28:25] Speaker 1: mental state. And you know what, I was struggling with
[28:27] Speaker 1: this fifth one, and I was thinking about it for
[28:29] Speaker 1: quite a few days as I was planning this episode,
[28:33] Speaker 1: and I realized one of the things has helped me
[28:35] Speaker 1: most to just be happy and healthy in life is
[28:38] Speaker 1: to not take things so seriously, don't take people so seriously,
[28:41] Speaker 1: don't take situations so seriously. And you know, one of
[28:45] Speaker 1: the books that's just going viral right now is my
[28:47] Speaker 1: friend Mel Robbins that Let Them Theory. And honestly, I
[28:50] Speaker 1: think that's one of the biggest shifts that has made
[28:53] Speaker 1: a difference to my relationships with myself and with other people,
[28:57] Speaker 1: with my health, with everything. It's like, just let things be,
[29:01] Speaker 1: allow yourself not to take things too seriously. I think
[29:04] Speaker 1: we forget how short life is. We forget how temporary
[29:08] Speaker 1: every single part of our life is. And the more
[29:11] Speaker 1: we get stuck in the idea that things are permanent,
[29:14] Speaker 1: the more stagnant we feel, and so live life a
[29:17] Speaker 1: little less serious. And yeah, of course we go through
[29:20] Speaker 1: moments of things feeling really serious in life, but when
[29:22] Speaker 1: we do have the opportunity to allow life to be
[29:24] Speaker 1: a little bit lighter, allow life to be a bit lighter.
[29:28] Speaker 1: Don't create more meaning to something that is small. Don't
[29:31] Speaker 1: exacerbate a situation that doesn't need to be bigger than
[29:34] Speaker 1: it already is.
[29:36] Speaker 2: Like, let things be and let things go.
[29:38] Speaker 1: And I think that that is such an important part
[29:40] Speaker 1: of just allowing life to flow freely, rather than making
[29:44] Speaker 1: every part of life feel like there's resistance and more
[29:48] Speaker 1: dramatic than it needs to be. We need a drama
[29:49] Speaker 1: for free life. You know, one of my favorite quotes
[29:52] Speaker 1: is drink water and mind your business. And I think
[29:55] Speaker 1: minding your own business is a beautiful way to keep
[29:57] Speaker 1: your life drama free because you are focusing on you.
[30:00] Speaker 1: You don't even have time to look into us someone
[30:02] Speaker 1: else's life. Stay in your lane, and life is so
[30:05] Speaker 1: much more peaceful. I've watched my dad do that my
[30:07] Speaker 1: entire life of watching him. He has always kept his
[30:11] Speaker 1: business to himself. He's never even like he hardly ever
[30:14] Speaker 1: speaks about other people's business, even when we hear things,
[30:16] Speaker 1: you know, as you do in the community, people gossiping
[30:19] Speaker 1: about other people. Might I just stays quiet, but it
[30:22] Speaker 1: really has an opinion about it. The people do things
[30:24] Speaker 1: wrong to him. He just is like, well, I'm going
[30:27] Speaker 1: to leave that to God. And I absolutely have loved
[30:30] Speaker 1: watching that because he just knows what his place is
[30:33] Speaker 1: in life. He knows what he has to do for
[30:35] Speaker 1: himself and where the focus has to be, and he's
[30:37] Speaker 1: not worrying about where other people are in their life.
[30:40] Speaker 1: So drink water and mind your business is my fifth
[30:43] Speaker 1: and final tip for better health. Drink water and hydrate
[30:48] Speaker 1: and mind your business to stay in your lane and
[30:51] Speaker 1: focus on you. As soon as you get better and
[30:54] Speaker 1: become a better person, it emanates through you, and therefore
[30:57] Speaker 1: you end up attracting better, better people, or better things
[31:01] Speaker 1: in your life. Better situations. Yeah, I truly do believe that.
[31:04] Speaker 1: I've noticed that in my life. You just attract what
[31:06] Speaker 1: you put out, and that is such a powerful reminder that,
[31:10] Speaker 1: to be honest, I need every single day. So I
[31:13] Speaker 1: hope these tips help you. Please try them out before
[31:15] Speaker 1: you dismiss them, every single one. At least try them
[31:18] Speaker 1: for a month before you say it doesn't work for you.
[31:19] Speaker 1: And if there's anything else that you find has drastically
[31:22] Speaker 1: improved your health, then please let me know. DM me
[31:26] Speaker 1: send me a message, leave a little recommendation in the
[31:29] Speaker 1: comments section wherever you're watching or listening, But thank you
[31:32] Speaker 1: so much for tuning in and sending your so much love.
[31:35] Speaker 1: And if you end up having a really good cry
[31:36] Speaker 1: this week, just know that I'm right there with you,

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