1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,417 (soft music) 2 00:00:04,885 --> 00:00:09,885 - Imagine going to a doctor in a tremendous pain, 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,715 time and time again being prescribed drugs 4 00:00:13,715 --> 00:00:17,170 and really never getting any kind of relief, 5 00:00:17,170 --> 00:00:19,207 and out of sheer frustration 6 00:00:19,207 --> 00:00:23,209 actually taking the medical community on yourself 7 00:00:23,209 --> 00:00:26,773 and figuring out and diagnosing yourself. 8 00:00:26,773 --> 00:00:30,914 Well, that's what happened to my friend, Cheryl Meyer, 9 00:00:30,914 --> 00:00:33,788 who's here today to talk about her story. 10 00:00:33,788 --> 00:00:34,621 Hi Cheryl. 11 00:00:34,621 --> 00:00:35,674 Welcome to the show. - Hi. 12 00:00:35,674 --> 00:00:37,500 Thank you so much for having me. 13 00:00:37,500 --> 00:00:38,333 I'm thrilled to be here. 14 00:00:38,333 --> 00:00:40,075 - Oh, I'm so excited to have you. 15 00:00:40,075 --> 00:00:43,220 Cheryl, it's amazing when you think about 16 00:00:43,220 --> 00:00:44,410 the medical community, 17 00:00:44,410 --> 00:00:46,981 because I know when I go to the doctor, 18 00:00:46,981 --> 00:00:49,410 they're with you maybe three minutes, 19 00:00:49,410 --> 00:00:51,450 three minutes over a clipboard. 20 00:00:51,450 --> 00:00:55,150 How on earth can anybody 21 00:00:55,150 --> 00:00:56,907 really figure out what's going on with us? 22 00:00:56,907 --> 00:01:00,155 - They're really listening for the first thing you say, 23 00:01:00,155 --> 00:01:01,817 and then down the shoot comes the pill 24 00:01:01,817 --> 00:01:04,108 and that's what happens in that appointment. 25 00:01:04,108 --> 00:01:07,238 And I had so many things that had gone wrong with me. 26 00:01:07,238 --> 00:01:09,640 I would walk out and go, oh, but I didn't tell her 27 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:11,591 this, this, this, this, and this. 28 00:01:11,591 --> 00:01:13,817 And then when I really got sick, 29 00:01:13,817 --> 00:01:16,720 it took four visits and four rounds of tests 30 00:01:16,720 --> 00:01:19,257 for her to come back and say there's nothing wrong with you. 31 00:01:19,257 --> 00:01:20,713 But I got news for you. 32 00:01:20,713 --> 00:01:22,220 I know my body. 33 00:01:22,220 --> 00:01:23,053 I hurt. 34 00:01:23,053 --> 00:01:24,552 Something's wrong. 35 00:01:24,552 --> 00:01:26,530 - It was chronic pain though. 36 00:01:26,530 --> 00:01:27,363 - It was. 37 00:01:27,363 --> 00:01:28,317 - Can you walk us through that? 38 00:01:28,317 --> 00:01:29,847 - When I woke up in the morning, 39 00:01:29,847 --> 00:01:32,650 I had so much pain all over my body. 40 00:01:32,650 --> 00:01:34,256 I couldn't even get out of bed. 41 00:01:34,256 --> 00:01:35,389 My head hurt. 42 00:01:35,389 --> 00:01:37,433 I had brain fog. 43 00:01:37,433 --> 00:01:40,946 I was more tired when I woke up than when I went to sleep. 44 00:01:40,946 --> 00:01:44,119 When I tried to move my muscles and my joints, 45 00:01:44,119 --> 00:01:46,692 it was so painful. 46 00:01:46,692 --> 00:01:48,587 It took me probably a half an hour 47 00:01:48,587 --> 00:01:51,200 just to convince myself that I was gonna roll out 48 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:52,823 the other side of the bed and get up. 49 00:01:52,823 --> 00:01:56,240 I was taking tons of over-the-counter medications 50 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:57,943 to try to subside the pain. 51 00:01:57,943 --> 00:02:00,129 And because I was allergic to aspirin, 52 00:02:00,129 --> 00:02:02,077 I was taking a lot of Tylenol. 53 00:02:02,077 --> 00:02:05,360 Little did I know how dangerous that is for my liver 54 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,209 which is still angry to this day. 55 00:02:07,209 --> 00:02:08,400 But people do. 56 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:10,435 They start taking over-the-counter medications 57 00:02:10,435 --> 00:02:12,579 because they think they won't hurt them, 58 00:02:12,579 --> 00:02:15,530 but at least it might get them up and functioning. 59 00:02:15,530 --> 00:02:16,816 For brain fog, I was drinking 60 00:02:16,816 --> 00:02:18,960 two, three, four cups of coffee 61 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:21,233 trying to bring some clarity to my brain. 62 00:02:21,233 --> 00:02:23,390 I had my own business. 63 00:02:23,390 --> 00:02:24,778 I had to function. 64 00:02:24,778 --> 00:02:28,004 And so everything about my life 65 00:02:28,004 --> 00:02:30,990 and my body was not cooperating. 66 00:02:30,990 --> 00:02:33,796 And I was in terrible pain. 67 00:02:33,796 --> 00:02:36,247 - But you took it on yourself 68 00:02:36,247 --> 00:02:40,241 to determine what was going on with your body. 69 00:02:40,241 --> 00:02:45,002 I mean doctor after doctor just kept giving you medications. 70 00:02:45,002 --> 00:02:48,106 What can our viewing audience, what can they learn? 71 00:02:48,106 --> 00:02:51,517 And tell us about your book because it's almost like 72 00:02:51,517 --> 00:02:54,148 an encyclopedia of natural healthcare. 73 00:02:54,148 --> 00:02:55,680 - Well, I researched, 74 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,662 after I started researching for five full years 75 00:02:58,662 --> 00:03:00,719 to figure out everything I could figure out 76 00:03:00,719 --> 00:03:03,219 about how to get my body to feel good again 77 00:03:03,219 --> 00:03:05,017 which is why it had to be called 78 00:03:05,017 --> 00:03:06,240 "It Feels Good to Feel Good" 79 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:08,944 because it took me five years to come out the other side. 80 00:03:08,944 --> 00:03:11,478 And today I have auto-immune disease, 81 00:03:11,478 --> 00:03:13,545 which is what I ended up having, 82 00:03:13,545 --> 00:03:15,240 but I have no pain. 83 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:17,174 So that's huge for anybody out there 84 00:03:17,174 --> 00:03:18,825 who's dealing with what I am. 85 00:03:18,825 --> 00:03:22,770 My book is my whole journey 86 00:03:22,770 --> 00:03:26,210 from having no clue what I was looking for 87 00:03:26,210 --> 00:03:29,375 but being determined not to have a life of pain and pills 88 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:31,910 and getting on the computer and researching. 89 00:03:31,910 --> 00:03:33,618 And I was lucky because I fell 90 00:03:33,618 --> 00:03:36,095 into the functional medical community. 91 00:03:36,095 --> 00:03:37,750 - Okay, explain what the functional-- 92 00:03:37,750 --> 00:03:39,986 - Yeah, I didn't even know what they were. 93 00:03:39,986 --> 00:03:42,290 Functional doctors could be anything. 94 00:03:42,290 --> 00:03:43,378 They could be naturopaths, 95 00:03:43,378 --> 00:03:44,857 they could be medical doctors, 96 00:03:44,857 --> 00:03:49,234 they could be nurses that are physician's assistants, 97 00:03:49,234 --> 00:03:51,826 but they've gone for additional training 98 00:03:51,826 --> 00:03:53,247 in functional medicine. 99 00:03:53,247 --> 00:03:55,775 And usually they've gone for that additional training 100 00:03:55,775 --> 00:03:58,773 because they got sick and couldn't help themselves. 101 00:03:58,773 --> 00:04:01,760 So at the time I started researching, 102 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:04,302 there were tons of symposiums 103 00:04:04,302 --> 00:04:07,744 being run by maybe 10 or 20 doctors 104 00:04:07,744 --> 00:04:10,179 on different subjects about the body. 105 00:04:10,179 --> 00:04:14,184 And I tripped into that and watched 19 of them. 106 00:04:14,184 --> 00:04:16,680 And the same things kept coming up. 107 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:20,120 One was that I probably had autoimmune disease 108 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,020 which then was verified by my own functional doctor 109 00:04:23,020 --> 00:04:25,118 who I found two years later. 110 00:04:25,118 --> 00:04:29,370 The next was I probably had something called leaky gut. 111 00:04:29,370 --> 00:04:30,203 I went, okay. 112 00:04:30,203 --> 00:04:31,405 - That's a big buzzword. 113 00:04:31,405 --> 00:04:32,663 Tell us what 114 00:04:32,663 --> 00:04:34,250 leaky gut is. - Okay, leaky gut is actually 115 00:04:34,250 --> 00:04:35,083 really interesting. 116 00:04:35,083 --> 00:04:38,481 When you eat food, it goes into your gut, 117 00:04:38,481 --> 00:04:41,152 and your gut has to get your food 118 00:04:41,152 --> 00:04:43,305 down to the right size particle 119 00:04:43,305 --> 00:04:45,850 to go through the wall of the gut, 120 00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:47,910 and all kinds of things can cause it 121 00:04:47,910 --> 00:04:49,496 not to get down to the right size. 122 00:04:49,496 --> 00:04:53,048 It could be toxins, it could be sugar, 123 00:04:53,048 --> 00:04:56,543 it could be stress, it could be parasites. 124 00:04:56,543 --> 00:04:59,210 All of those things cause your stomach 125 00:04:59,210 --> 00:05:02,409 not to digest your food to a small enough particle. 126 00:05:02,409 --> 00:05:04,733 So these too big-sized particles 127 00:05:04,733 --> 00:05:07,478 start pushing up against the wall of your gut 128 00:05:07,478 --> 00:05:09,738 which is only one cell thick. 129 00:05:09,738 --> 00:05:10,571 - Wow. 130 00:05:10,571 --> 00:05:14,162 - And so it replaces itself every six days. 131 00:05:14,162 --> 00:05:17,110 So it's busy repairing 132 00:05:17,110 --> 00:05:19,770 while these food particles are bouncing up against it 133 00:05:19,770 --> 00:05:21,930 until it just can't keep up anymore. 134 00:05:21,930 --> 00:05:23,357 And when it can't keep up, 135 00:05:23,357 --> 00:05:25,394 a little hole rips through, 136 00:05:25,394 --> 00:05:27,497 and then these too large particles 137 00:05:27,497 --> 00:05:29,525 start going into your blood. 138 00:05:29,525 --> 00:05:33,230 And your body does exactly what your body is supposed to do. 139 00:05:33,230 --> 00:05:36,217 It screams foreigner and then it attacks it 140 00:05:36,217 --> 00:05:38,504 because that's what autoimmune is. 141 00:05:38,504 --> 00:05:41,480 Your immune system goes into hyper mode. 142 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,250 And then the body is, 143 00:05:44,250 --> 00:05:46,238 I'd become a biochemist if I were younger. 144 00:05:46,238 --> 00:05:47,910 (Lea laughs) Your body does something 145 00:05:47,910 --> 00:05:49,030 really interesting. 146 00:05:49,030 --> 00:05:50,587 Wherever you're weak 147 00:05:50,587 --> 00:05:53,815 is what that food particle mimics in your body. 148 00:05:53,815 --> 00:05:54,750 - Wow. 149 00:05:54,750 --> 00:05:57,738 - So for me, it was my joints and my muscles. 150 00:05:57,738 --> 00:05:59,509 For somebody else, it might be your thyroid 151 00:05:59,509 --> 00:06:03,280 and become Hashimoto's or Graves' disease. 152 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:04,831 For someone else, it's your lower intestine 153 00:06:04,831 --> 00:06:06,614 and it becomes IBS. 154 00:06:06,614 --> 00:06:08,493 For somebody else, it's their brain 155 00:06:08,493 --> 00:06:11,482 and becomes Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. 156 00:06:11,482 --> 00:06:14,266 All of that is caused by inflammation. 157 00:06:14,266 --> 00:06:17,638 And all of them are autoimmune diseases 158 00:06:17,638 --> 00:06:19,559 and they come in all different forms. 159 00:06:19,559 --> 00:06:21,223 And I was really lucky 160 00:06:21,223 --> 00:06:23,635 that I jumped on it and caught it early 161 00:06:23,635 --> 00:06:25,068 because what I have, 162 00:06:25,068 --> 00:06:27,863 I have all the markers for autoimmune disease 163 00:06:27,863 --> 00:06:30,930 but I don't have a named autoimmune disease. 164 00:06:30,930 --> 00:06:32,523 There's 140 of them that are named. 165 00:06:32,523 --> 00:06:33,680 - Wow. 166 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:36,977 - And mine is I laugh that I'm a Chinese menu. 167 00:06:36,977 --> 00:06:39,466 I have a little from column A and a little from column B 168 00:06:39,466 --> 00:06:41,159 and a little from column C. 169 00:06:41,159 --> 00:06:43,246 I am closest to fibromyalgia 170 00:06:43,246 --> 00:06:45,510 but I don't have all the markers for it. 171 00:06:45,510 --> 00:06:48,449 But we jumped on it so quickly 172 00:06:48,449 --> 00:06:51,035 that I was able not to progress 173 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:54,721 into one of the more nasty versions of autoimmune disease. 174 00:06:54,721 --> 00:06:56,142 Thank God. 175 00:06:56,142 --> 00:06:58,062 And it took me a long time 176 00:06:58,062 --> 00:07:01,397 to find a doctor that was functional. 177 00:07:01,397 --> 00:07:03,048 I knew I wanted a functional doctor 178 00:07:03,048 --> 00:07:06,081 but most of them do not take insurance. 179 00:07:06,081 --> 00:07:08,010 - Of course they don't 180 00:07:08,010 --> 00:07:11,326 which leads me to my next question though. 181 00:07:11,326 --> 00:07:14,610 Insurance is a problem when it comes to functional doctors, 182 00:07:14,610 --> 00:07:17,335 but a lot of regular doctors, 183 00:07:17,335 --> 00:07:19,900 I've noticed they prescribe things 184 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,013 but they really don't address, 185 00:07:22,013 --> 00:07:25,040 they address the symptom and not the cause. 186 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:26,123 - Well, that's what conventional is. 187 00:07:26,123 --> 00:07:28,475 So let me explain what the difference is. 188 00:07:28,475 --> 00:07:31,665 Conventional listens to the first complaint 189 00:07:31,665 --> 00:07:35,349 and their only source of information after medical school 190 00:07:35,349 --> 00:07:37,534 is their drug representative. 191 00:07:37,534 --> 00:07:39,780 So that's, really it's not their fault. 192 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:42,308 That's the only thing in their toolkit. 193 00:07:42,308 --> 00:07:44,410 So they listen for what's wrong 194 00:07:44,410 --> 00:07:45,745 and then they prescribe a pill 195 00:07:45,745 --> 00:07:48,875 that will mask it and make you feel better. 196 00:07:48,875 --> 00:07:52,640 A functional doctor looks at the whole body. 197 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:55,503 They're looking for whatever the root cause is 198 00:07:55,503 --> 00:07:57,244 of what's wrong in your body 199 00:07:57,244 --> 00:07:59,330 which is why it didn't matter 200 00:07:59,330 --> 00:08:01,065 what my autoimmune disease was called 201 00:08:01,065 --> 00:08:03,253 by the time I got to my doctor 202 00:08:03,253 --> 00:08:05,430 because what she wanted to know 203 00:08:05,430 --> 00:08:09,219 was what was going wrong in my body that we needed to fix. 204 00:08:09,219 --> 00:08:11,900 And that became like a treasure hunt. 205 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:13,052 (Lea laughs) 206 00:08:13,052 --> 00:08:14,025 I would do research. 207 00:08:14,025 --> 00:08:15,300 She would do research. 208 00:08:15,300 --> 00:08:16,133 We would get together. 209 00:08:16,133 --> 00:08:18,990 Now my conventional doctor usually spent 210 00:08:18,990 --> 00:08:20,815 three to five minutes with me. 211 00:08:20,815 --> 00:08:23,060 My functional doctor would spend 212 00:08:23,060 --> 00:08:25,654 45 minutes with me each visit. 213 00:08:25,654 --> 00:08:28,108 And she'd done research and I'd done research 214 00:08:28,108 --> 00:08:30,010 and then we would compare notes 215 00:08:30,010 --> 00:08:32,143 and we would decide what my next step was. 216 00:08:32,143 --> 00:08:35,210 And the whole time that I was seeing her, 217 00:08:35,210 --> 00:08:38,406 I had started eliminating every toxin 218 00:08:38,406 --> 00:08:40,345 that I could find in my life. 219 00:08:40,345 --> 00:08:45,345 And there's a giant database in the sky called ewg.org 220 00:08:45,388 --> 00:08:49,698 that has hundreds of thousands of American products in it 221 00:08:49,698 --> 00:08:51,930 that you can look up. 222 00:08:51,930 --> 00:08:55,214 First thing I looked up was actually my French cosmetics. 223 00:08:55,214 --> 00:08:57,685 It was a nine on a 10-point scale. 224 00:08:57,685 --> 00:08:58,518 - Wow. 225 00:08:58,518 --> 00:09:00,170 - I was literally poisoning myself 226 00:09:00,170 --> 00:09:01,525 right through my largest organ. 227 00:09:01,525 --> 00:09:02,613 - What goes on goes in. 228 00:09:02,613 --> 00:09:04,053 - What goes on goes in. 229 00:09:04,053 --> 00:09:07,025 And by the way, beauty is an inside job. 230 00:09:07,025 --> 00:09:10,870 What you put on your skin isn't gonna impact your beauty 231 00:09:10,870 --> 00:09:13,109 any more than taking care of your gut 232 00:09:13,109 --> 00:09:16,770 and making sure that your beauty comes from inside 233 00:09:16,770 --> 00:09:18,542 because that's how you get good skin. 234 00:09:18,542 --> 00:09:22,940 - Well, Cheryl, we always hear you are what you eat. 235 00:09:22,940 --> 00:09:23,970 How true is that? 236 00:09:23,970 --> 00:09:26,203 - 100%. 237 00:09:26,203 --> 00:09:28,565 I strongly believe now in eating 238 00:09:28,565 --> 00:09:30,199 all the colors of the rainbow 239 00:09:30,199 --> 00:09:33,792 because each color has its own gift for the body 240 00:09:33,792 --> 00:09:38,688 and yet together they get together in a synergy and party 241 00:09:38,688 --> 00:09:41,180 so that you create health. 242 00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:43,410 And the body really wants to heal itself. 243 00:09:43,410 --> 00:09:44,909 It did not take me that long 244 00:09:44,909 --> 00:09:48,058 when I started eating more and more real food 245 00:09:48,058 --> 00:09:50,669 to start noticing the difference in my body. 246 00:09:50,669 --> 00:09:53,372 - Now define real food because the American diet 247 00:09:53,372 --> 00:09:54,830 - Right. - Is awful. 248 00:09:54,830 --> 00:09:58,471 - Yeah, real food is stuff that grows on a farm 249 00:09:58,471 --> 00:10:00,912 that gets picked that's whole food 250 00:10:00,912 --> 00:10:02,525 that are fruits and vegetables. 251 00:10:02,525 --> 00:10:03,792 So my whole thing-- 252 00:10:03,792 --> 00:10:05,322 - But also organic. 253 00:10:05,322 --> 00:10:08,298 - Yeah, it absolutely has to be organic 254 00:10:08,298 --> 00:10:11,040 'cause you do not need a heavy dose 255 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:13,103 of poison with your food. 256 00:10:13,103 --> 00:10:16,749 And I had no idea even what GMOs were 257 00:10:16,749 --> 00:10:19,379 or the difference between organic and conventional. 258 00:10:19,379 --> 00:10:21,234 And there is so much misinformation 259 00:10:21,234 --> 00:10:23,392 that's put out by the industry 260 00:10:23,392 --> 00:10:24,910 that you would be blown. 261 00:10:24,910 --> 00:10:27,373 What GMOs are are one of two things. 262 00:10:27,373 --> 00:10:30,285 They either have Bt toxin grown right in them 263 00:10:30,285 --> 00:10:32,007 so you can't wash that off 264 00:10:32,007 --> 00:10:35,318 and it blows up bugs tummies when they bite it. 265 00:10:35,318 --> 00:10:37,429 So what's it do when it gets into your gut? 266 00:10:37,429 --> 00:10:39,579 It blows up all your good gut bacteria. 267 00:10:39,579 --> 00:10:41,830 And they swore when they introduced it 268 00:10:41,830 --> 00:10:43,787 that your body would reject it right away. 269 00:10:43,787 --> 00:10:46,053 Well, it's the gift that keeps on giving. 270 00:10:46,053 --> 00:10:49,300 It gets in your gut and it replicates. 271 00:10:49,300 --> 00:10:51,328 Have you noticed how many kids have allergies now? 272 00:10:51,328 --> 00:10:52,330 - Yes. 273 00:10:52,330 --> 00:10:53,994 - That's from Bt toxin. 274 00:10:53,994 --> 00:10:57,766 And lots of things are genetically modified. 275 00:10:57,766 --> 00:11:02,176 Most of our corn, 95% of our soy, 276 00:11:02,176 --> 00:11:04,810 apples are now genetically modified. 277 00:11:04,810 --> 00:11:06,034 You need to know. 278 00:11:06,034 --> 00:11:07,819 I have a whole card on my website 279 00:11:07,819 --> 00:11:10,999 if anybody wants to go just to see what's on the GMO list, 280 00:11:10,999 --> 00:11:13,400 but you need to know what's genetically modified 281 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:15,774 'cause you do not wanna put that in your body. 282 00:11:15,774 --> 00:11:18,799 And then the second kind of genetically modified 283 00:11:18,799 --> 00:11:21,106 is Roundup Ready. 284 00:11:21,106 --> 00:11:22,969 Roundup is glyphosate. 285 00:11:22,969 --> 00:11:26,168 Last year they lost two major lawsuits 286 00:11:26,168 --> 00:11:29,450 where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his team 287 00:11:29,450 --> 00:11:32,035 actually got the Monsanto Research 288 00:11:32,035 --> 00:11:35,010 that showed they'd known for 25 years 289 00:11:35,010 --> 00:11:37,013 that Roundup caused cancer. 290 00:11:37,013 --> 00:11:38,261 - Wow. - And since then 291 00:11:38,261 --> 00:11:41,470 Bayer bought Monsanto while all that was going on, 292 00:11:41,470 --> 00:11:44,187 and they just paid out trillions of dollars 293 00:11:44,187 --> 00:11:48,162 to 80,000 lawsuits that they settled. 294 00:11:48,162 --> 00:11:51,023 But it's still being sprayed on our crops. 295 00:11:51,023 --> 00:11:55,170 So if you ever wanna know if organic is worth it, 296 00:11:55,170 --> 00:11:58,427 trust me you don't want these poisons going in your mouth 297 00:11:58,427 --> 00:11:59,637 because they run, 298 00:11:59,637 --> 00:12:02,011 your body, like my gut wall, 299 00:12:02,011 --> 00:12:04,440 will try to keep up for awhile, 300 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,376 but eventually it can't. 301 00:12:06,376 --> 00:12:08,335 - So Cheryl, why do you think 302 00:12:08,335 --> 00:12:12,456 that they know that these things create cancer 303 00:12:12,456 --> 00:12:15,257 and create tremendous health problems, 304 00:12:15,257 --> 00:12:17,275 why do you think that we produce it? 305 00:12:17,275 --> 00:12:19,615 Why does the FDA send it through? 306 00:12:19,615 --> 00:12:20,953 - Money honey. 307 00:12:20,953 --> 00:12:23,631 What's interesting about the FDA 308 00:12:23,631 --> 00:12:26,934 is that Monsanto executives have gone to run it, 309 00:12:26,934 --> 00:12:29,060 and then when they're done with their time there, 310 00:12:29,060 --> 00:12:31,894 they'd go back to Monsanto in a higher position. 311 00:12:31,894 --> 00:12:34,517 It's all interconnected and it's-- 312 00:12:34,517 --> 00:12:35,600 - Follow the money. 313 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:36,470 - Follow the money. 314 00:12:36,470 --> 00:12:39,740 And I mean when I was doing all this research, 315 00:12:39,740 --> 00:12:43,140 I really got angry that my government was not protecting me. 316 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:44,670 And then it occurred to me, 317 00:12:44,670 --> 00:12:47,968 my call-to-action at the end of my book is join me. 318 00:12:47,968 --> 00:12:50,713 We all need to be armies of one 319 00:12:50,713 --> 00:12:53,647 because if we change our spending habits, 320 00:12:53,647 --> 00:12:56,300 the Institute for Responsible Technology 321 00:12:56,300 --> 00:13:01,300 says only 5% of a shift will start to shift food products 322 00:13:01,368 --> 00:13:05,530 and farming methods away from what we currently are doing 323 00:13:05,530 --> 00:13:06,956 because they don't wanna lose the money. 324 00:13:06,956 --> 00:13:11,212 So only when we start to pull the money away as consumers 325 00:13:11,212 --> 00:13:13,360 are they gonna start paying attention. 326 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:15,789 - So we've actually seen that 327 00:13:15,789 --> 00:13:17,507 in the automotive industry too. 328 00:13:17,507 --> 00:13:19,380 You're seeing more and more hybrids 329 00:13:19,380 --> 00:13:20,670 and electric cars come out. 330 00:13:20,670 --> 00:13:23,350 And we know that 331 00:13:23,350 --> 00:13:24,364 the gas and oil - It's the demand. 332 00:13:24,364 --> 00:13:25,760 - Did not like that. 333 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:26,593 - Right. 334 00:13:26,593 --> 00:13:29,615 - But they were forced to because, well, 335 00:13:29,615 --> 00:13:31,497 you always follow the money, right? 336 00:13:31,497 --> 00:13:32,860 - You have to follow the money. 337 00:13:32,860 --> 00:13:34,562 - If people won't buy the product, 338 00:13:34,562 --> 00:13:36,590 then they are forced to shift. 339 00:13:36,590 --> 00:13:37,423 What a great. 340 00:13:37,423 --> 00:13:40,900 And that we're seeing more organic foods come out though. 341 00:13:40,900 --> 00:13:41,900 - Right, and I've seen, 342 00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:44,320 I've been doing this now for eight years. 343 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:48,400 I've been pain-free for probably three of those years. 344 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:50,720 And I've seen a lot of product shift. 345 00:13:50,720 --> 00:13:52,610 When I first started looking for cosmetics, 346 00:13:52,610 --> 00:13:54,312 there was almost nothing available. 347 00:13:54,312 --> 00:13:56,449 Now there's many choices. 348 00:13:56,449 --> 00:13:58,810 So it's not as hard to find things 349 00:13:58,810 --> 00:14:01,478 to replace the toxic things in your life. 350 00:14:01,478 --> 00:14:03,548 Same thing with food products. 351 00:14:03,548 --> 00:14:06,470 There now are some processed food products 352 00:14:06,470 --> 00:14:08,620 that only have five ingredients in them, 353 00:14:08,620 --> 00:14:10,930 and you know what all five of them are. 354 00:14:10,930 --> 00:14:12,800 And if you're gonna buy processed food, 355 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:14,830 if it has a word on that label 356 00:14:14,830 --> 00:14:17,510 that you don't know or that you can't pronounce, 357 00:14:17,510 --> 00:14:19,230 your body doesn't know what that is either. 358 00:14:19,230 --> 00:14:20,965 That's something fake 359 00:14:20,965 --> 00:14:22,940 and you don't wanna put it in your body 360 00:14:22,940 --> 00:14:24,914 'cause your body can't do anything with it. 361 00:14:24,914 --> 00:14:28,658 And what you need to be eating for is nutrition 362 00:14:28,658 --> 00:14:30,680 and that doesn't mean you're deprived. 363 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,330 That's the number one question I'm asked. 364 00:14:32,330 --> 00:14:34,539 Aren't you deprived that you've given all that stuff up? 365 00:14:34,539 --> 00:14:37,104 No, I was deprived when I was eating it 366 00:14:37,104 --> 00:14:39,888 because I felt lousy. 367 00:14:39,888 --> 00:14:43,089 - There's something to be said being in chronic pain. 368 00:14:43,089 --> 00:14:44,100 - Oh yeah. (laughs) 369 00:14:44,100 --> 00:14:45,540 - There's something to be said. 370 00:14:45,540 --> 00:14:50,449 And it's just really, it's simple but it's not easy. 371 00:14:50,449 --> 00:14:52,446 So many people are addicted. 372 00:14:52,446 --> 00:14:55,940 And I've read that they put so many chemicals 373 00:14:55,940 --> 00:14:58,953 and additives that create addiction so-- 374 00:14:58,953 --> 00:15:02,286 - Oh, all those synthetic ingredients, they're not dumb. 375 00:15:02,286 --> 00:15:04,665 Food companies are not putting stuff 376 00:15:04,665 --> 00:15:07,030 into food that's processed 377 00:15:07,030 --> 00:15:08,969 so that you can be healthy. 378 00:15:08,969 --> 00:15:11,570 They're putting things in there so that they hook you 379 00:15:11,570 --> 00:15:14,430 so that you'll be back and so that they can make money. 380 00:15:14,430 --> 00:15:17,570 So they're using the cheapest possible ingredients 381 00:15:17,570 --> 00:15:19,884 that hook you because they want you back. 382 00:15:19,884 --> 00:15:24,665 And that's why 53% of our children have a chronic illness. 383 00:15:24,665 --> 00:15:27,670 That's why we're 37th in the world in health. 384 00:15:27,670 --> 00:15:29,250 - While they're also obese. 385 00:15:29,250 --> 00:15:30,807 - Uh-huh. - I mean 386 00:15:30,807 --> 00:15:35,740 when I went to high school, we had like 22% obesity. 387 00:15:35,740 --> 00:15:37,509 I don't even know where it is, 388 00:15:37,509 --> 00:15:39,890 but you can walk out on the streets now, 389 00:15:39,890 --> 00:15:42,100 and one out of three people 390 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:43,590 you see walking around - Yeah, yeah. 391 00:15:43,590 --> 00:15:44,600 - Has weight issues. 392 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,873 - And I've lost 50 pounds and then I stopped 393 00:15:47,873 --> 00:15:50,366 and that's because I got molded in my office. 394 00:15:50,366 --> 00:15:53,495 But I lost 50 pounds by not dieting. 395 00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:56,702 I lost 50 pounds by eating real food. 396 00:15:56,702 --> 00:15:57,660 - Wow. 397 00:15:57,660 --> 00:16:00,260 - And I had read when I first got sick 398 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:02,280 that if I was overweight 399 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:04,960 that it was because I was starving my body, 400 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:07,351 and that made absolutely no sense to me. 401 00:16:07,351 --> 00:16:09,050 But it ends up I was 402 00:16:09,050 --> 00:16:12,800 because I wasn't giving my body anything to utilize 403 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:16,020 so it was holding on to absolutely everything it got. 404 00:16:16,020 --> 00:16:16,853 - It makes sense. 405 00:16:16,853 --> 00:16:19,500 - And so when I started eating real food, 406 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:21,961 the pounds just started falling off. 407 00:16:21,961 --> 00:16:25,950 My husband who I met because the guy I was with 408 00:16:25,950 --> 00:16:27,660 didn't like that I was sick, 409 00:16:27,660 --> 00:16:29,030 so I went looking for a guy 410 00:16:29,030 --> 00:16:31,308 who wanted to go on a get well journey with me. 411 00:16:31,308 --> 00:16:36,060 And John had just lost his wife of 43 years to cancer. 412 00:16:36,060 --> 00:16:37,787 And he answered my ad and said, 413 00:16:37,787 --> 00:16:40,010 "I need to go on a get well journey." 414 00:16:40,010 --> 00:16:41,491 And he lost 80 pounds-- 415 00:16:41,491 --> 00:16:42,324 - Wow. 416 00:16:42,324 --> 00:16:43,999 - The first eight months we were together. 417 00:16:43,999 --> 00:16:45,989 - Wow, and now you guys are happily married. 418 00:16:45,989 --> 00:16:48,850 - And now we're happily married and he's a gem so-- 419 00:16:48,850 --> 00:16:49,683 - He is a gem. 420 00:16:49,683 --> 00:16:52,670 - It really ended up being perfect for me. 421 00:16:52,670 --> 00:16:55,810 - So Cheryl, what's one piece of advice 422 00:16:55,810 --> 00:16:58,740 you'd give somebody in chronic pain right now 423 00:16:58,740 --> 00:17:01,180 who's being forced fed medications 424 00:17:01,180 --> 00:17:02,830 that just started not serving them? 425 00:17:02,830 --> 00:17:04,720 - Start to eat fruits and vegetables, 426 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,541 organic fruits and vegetables. 427 00:17:06,541 --> 00:17:08,173 It's the foundational piece. 428 00:17:08,173 --> 00:17:10,649 It is not all of health. 429 00:17:10,649 --> 00:17:13,610 I eliminated hundreds of toxins literally 430 00:17:13,610 --> 00:17:16,537 from every avenue in my body and my health. 431 00:17:16,537 --> 00:17:19,830 But start with food because until you start 432 00:17:19,830 --> 00:17:23,353 giving your body nutrition that it can utilize, 433 00:17:23,353 --> 00:17:26,600 you don't stand a chance to get over the medications 434 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:28,420 and all the pain and the things 435 00:17:28,420 --> 00:17:29,451 that are wrong with your body. 436 00:17:29,451 --> 00:17:33,130 And if you had seen me eight years ago, 437 00:17:33,130 --> 00:17:35,070 you wouldn't believe that I'm the same person 438 00:17:35,070 --> 00:17:36,932 because I have so much energy. 439 00:17:36,932 --> 00:17:39,140 - You do have a lot of energy. 440 00:17:39,140 --> 00:17:40,869 - I've written two books in three years 441 00:17:40,869 --> 00:17:43,610 that are both 450 pages long. 442 00:17:43,610 --> 00:17:46,240 I am just a bundle of energy. 443 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:49,110 And it's all because, maybe, 444 00:17:49,110 --> 00:17:52,100 and I actually was at a convention in Sedona last year, 445 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:53,990 and somebody asked me what's the best thing 446 00:17:53,990 --> 00:17:54,960 that ever happened to me, 447 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,816 and I said getting autoimmune disease 448 00:17:56,816 --> 00:17:59,350 because there is nothing about my life today 449 00:17:59,350 --> 00:18:01,030 that is the same as it was before that. 450 00:18:01,030 --> 00:18:06,030 - Wow, it's amazing how so much pain can create so much-- 451 00:18:06,252 --> 00:18:07,745 - It certainly got my attention. 452 00:18:07,745 --> 00:18:09,223 - It did, didn't it? 453 00:18:09,223 --> 00:18:11,201 Anyway, thank you for being on the show. 454 00:18:11,201 --> 00:18:12,960 - Thank you so much. - Cheryl, will you come back? 455 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:13,793 - Oh, I'd love to. 456 00:18:13,793 --> 00:18:14,730 - Alright, thank you my friend. 457 00:18:14,730 --> 00:18:15,563 - Thank you. 458 00:18:16,586 --> 00:18:19,421 - This has been Lea Woodford with SmartFem and Friends. 459 00:18:19,421 --> 00:18:20,526 Thanks for watching. 460 00:18:20,526 --> 00:18:23,026 (soft music)