185. Women's Health from Makeup to Heavy Metals

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What's going on, everybody.

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Welcome to the elemental.

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I've been podcasts.

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This is your host, Evan Roberts.

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On the show, I break down

health topics from a simplified

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and holistic perspective.

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So that way I can provide you with

accessible health knowledge that

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you can apply to your life right

after listening to these episodes.

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That's literally the goal of this.

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If this show is too.

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I just provide you with free

information so that you can use it

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and take control of your health today.

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We're going to be talking all about

women's health and toxicity levels and

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products that differ between men and

women, and pretty much just why it can

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be a little bit or a lot more difficult

to, um, maintain one's health as a woman.

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So.

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First off, I mean, maintaining

anyone's health in today's

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world can be difficult because.

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Many many reasons, but we have tons

of easy access to all kinds of ultra

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processed foods, which are made to

literally hijack your taste buds

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and make you crave more of them.

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Um, you know, as well, we have

contaminated waters and air

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pollution and contaminated soil,

all these different things.

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So we're, we're facing a lot

of toxic loads on all different

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fronts, so it can be difficult to

really take care of our health.

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Right.

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We have to really put conscious effort

into it and make sure that we're

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trying to do our best that we possibly

can with the tools that we have.

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But when it comes to men and women's

health, What are the main reasons why

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toxic loads might be higher for women?

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And once again, this is just kind of my

opinion, as well as some of the research

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I've been looking up online tends to also

back me up in terms of, you know, tox

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toxicity levels being higher in women.

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But I think there really isn't a

smoking gun that we can point at

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and say, That's the reason that's

why, you know, women's health is.

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You know, kind of on the decline

or, um, you know, doing worse than

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men's or whatever it might be.

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I think it's really coming down to all of

the little steps throughout the day that

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we take that really make up the whole.

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That is honestly the reason why

toxicity levels might be hiring women.

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And some of these things can be things

like makeup, for example, makeup.

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I mean, obviously.

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Underneath the list of makeup or the

title of makeup, you would have a

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list of a bunch of different things.

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Mascara foundation,

eyeliner lipstick, right?

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Like there's so many different

things just under makeup.

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But then on top of that, you've

got things like makeup remover.

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You've got you.

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Uh, fake nails.

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You've got nail Polish, you've

got nail Polish remover.

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You've got hair dye.

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You've got fake eyelashes.

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And the glue that you put

the fake eyelashes on.

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You've got, um, you know, tampons pads,

you've got birth control and then as

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well, a bunch of skincare products,

perfume, uh, shaving cream deodorant.

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Those last couple ones obviously

are shared between men and women,

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but still nonetheless there's.

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A plethora of things that, uh,

specifically women are putting

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on their body every single day.

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And for those of you

who are unaware of this.

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Your skin is the largest Oregon.

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On your body or in your,

in slash on your body.

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And it is not a closed system.

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What you put on your skin

does not just wash off.

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It actually does get

absorbed into your body.

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And, um, yeah, actually

very, quite easily.

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So.

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On that note.

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When we take a look at the

environmental working group.

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Um, EWG, they've done a survey.

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And in the survey.

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They found that the average adult uses

nine personal care products each day

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with 126 unique chemical ingredients.

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Now to break that down

a little bit further.

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The average woman uses 12

products containing 168 unique

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ingredients every day with men.

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On the other hand, using

six products daily with 85

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unique ingredients on average.

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So right there, it's already about

half of the amount of products that

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menus, uh, when compared to women.

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And on that note.

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Since 2009, 595 cosmetics manufacturers

have reported using 88 chemicals

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in more than 73,000 products.

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That had been linked to cancer,

birth defects or reproductive harm.

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So it's really just a.

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How do I say this?

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It's really just like a, uh, not a, not a

perfect storm, but it is a perfect storm

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of, you know, Our skin being so absorbent.

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And then also these companies not always

having our best health in mind, right?

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Not always using the best

ingredients for our health.

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Um, and then our skin absorbing a lot of

those ingredients, which can have some

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serious harm on our bodies and as well.

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Um, children.

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Right?

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So it's very important for us to try to

be aware of what it is that we're putting

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on our skin and don't get me wrong.

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I realized that a lot of these.

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You know, clean and high quality skincare

and makeup brands are really expensive.

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And, you know, in this

economy, It's not easy.

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Like everything is expensive.

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It feels like these days you

go to the store and walking out

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with a grocery bill at a hundred

dollars, can almost feel like.

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That was a pretty good job for

shopping for the week or something,

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you know, it's, it's wild, how

expensive things have gotten.

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So I understand when people go to

the store, Um, and they see a skin

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cream for $8 and then one for $35.

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It makes sense.

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Like the person who only has $200 to

spend for groceries that entire week is

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probably going to go for that $8 brand.

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So I totally get it.

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And I think really it's important to

just be aware of this and also aware.

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Uh, that, you know, Maybe purchasing a

brand that's just a little bit better

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or, um, you know, trying out one of

those expensive brands and trying to

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just make it last a little bit, maybe,

you know, alternating between the two.

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Um, anything that you do is going to

be better than just staying on the path

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of using these really like bad quality.

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Uh, skin skincare, makeup brand,

like whatever it might be.

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Um, You know, really trying

to just step it up a little

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bit is going to be of benefit.

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And there is a really cool tool that

I think everyone should know about.

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I'm going to post it.

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Uh, the link in my, in the description

of this episode, so that you can go ahead

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and check it out at, at your leisure.

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But the.

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The group that had, that I had mentioned

earlier, the environmental working group,

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or E w G if you go to their website,

which once again, in the description,

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Uh, then you will find on there, there's

a bunch of different links to see, like,

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you know, what's the best a water filter

brand and, and, um, you know, oh, the

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dirty dozens lists, like what are the F.

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The produce items that tend to

be sprayed with the most, um,

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Uh, pesticides and stuff, right.

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To the ones that avoid.

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Well, they also have a link to the EWG

skin deep, which essentially they will

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show you brands for different makeups.

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You know, like blush and foundation

and all those different things.

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And then as well for skincare.

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And.

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It will have their ranking in terms of,

Hey, this is a brand that ranked number

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one on our, uh, EWG verified clean list.

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So you can know that this is

a super, super clean brand.

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And then it goes all the way down

to number 10, which is the worst.

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So you can go on here and check out and

find a brand that maybe fits your budget.

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And maybe it's not a number one, but

maybe it's a number two or a number three.

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And at least it's pretty decent.

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You know, it's a lot better

than, than buying something.

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That's a number eight, nine or 10.

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So I think this is an

awesome tool to use as well.

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Um, there's brands that,

well, I don't wear makeup, so.

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Obviously wouldn't really know these

brands, but, um, there's a few on here.

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Like I'm on the page right now.

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Rejuven minerals is one

Maya's mineral galaxy.

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That's M a I a and both of those

are, I believe rated number one

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in terms of the EWG verification.

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So they're super clean.

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Um, but yeah, it's a great list.

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I highly recommend that you

check it out and try to find

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something that works for you.

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For me being a guy.

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I mean, I realized that.

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I have a little bit more freedom in terms

of my spending power, because I only

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buy a couple of, you know, skincare.

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Um, products every so often.

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And even with that all typically

use it like every other day.

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I'm I'm never really putting

things on every single day.

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Um, for me personally, I love Allie Torah.

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That's just, that's my go-to.

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It's the cleanest skincare brand

that I have personally found.

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Um, OSEA is also really, really good.

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Don't get me wrong.

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They're both not cheap, but

they're very good quality.

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Uh, with Allie Torah, for example, I've

seen the founder put some of, um, I

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think it was the gold serum or something

onto his hand or the face moisturizer.

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And he literally just licked it off.

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Like that's how clean it is.

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He can consume it like

internally, which makes sense.

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If you're going to put it on your

body, it's still going to be absorbed.

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So.

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You wouldn't really want to put something

that you couldn't ingest, I guess.

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Uh, but nonetheless.

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From them, their night

cream is incredible.

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It's super thick.

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And when you put it on a, before you

go to bed, a lot of the times I'll wake

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up and there's still a layer of it.

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And I did not put a thick layer on it's.

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It's very well rubbed in, and

it is awesome for the face.

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It does a really, really good job.

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So I tend to try to find the products that

have like the biggest return on investment

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for me and are as clean as possible.

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And those are the ones that I'll go with.

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But, like I said, I'm not

using them all the time.

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I can.

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You.

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You know, kind of splurge

on them every now and again.

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Um, But personally, that

is like my go-to brand.

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Alitura naturals is.

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Yeah, I freaking absolutely love them.

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And he's awesome.

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He's been on the show.

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Uh, he's the founder of, of the company.

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So you can check that out.

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And as well as a listener of the show, you

do get a discount for being a listener.

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So check out the description, the

link and the code are all in there.

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Um, but yeah, these

are really great tools.

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You know, if I come across good brands, of

course I'll always recommend them on here.

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Um, but this EWG skin deep tool

that you can use, I think is just.

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Really, really cool that they've

designed this and I highly

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recommend everyone check it out.

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Um, and then the last thing I really

wanted to mention on here was, um, I'm

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not sure if you have heard about the.

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Study that had came out.

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Um, I don't, it wasn't that long ago.

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And I forgot who it was

that actually did the study.

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Um, but it was essentially

talking about how.

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There's heavy metals

being found in tampons.

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And, uh, actually like in a hundred

percent of the tampons that were actually

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tested, they found heavy metals and they

were testing for 16 different metals and

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they found 12 of the 16 metals that they

were testing for which some of these

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metals were toxic metals such as lead.

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So really, really like not

super great stuff to hear.

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Um, they do mention however, That

they want to urge people not to

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panic because they do not know yet.

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If the metals can come out of the

tampons and be absorbed by the

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body and have an impact on your

health and all that good stuff.

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So, I mean, I get it like more

research needs to be done.

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But at the same time, Reason for

concern, in my opinion, right?

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That really sucks to hear that.

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Um, and you know, It's like,

what's the alternative here?

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Right?

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I mean, like, of course we have, you

know, pads and the cups and, um, you

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know, there, there are alternatives, but

I realized like tampons are a very easy.

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Thing to use, right?

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Like it's it, it's a.

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Yeah, it's an easy way for, for when

you're on your time of the month.

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And a lot of people prefer

them, so I totally get it.

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But.

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Yeah.

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I don't know what the answer is.

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Moving forward to this.

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Um, I mean, just like, and I am obviously

a guy here, I have zero experience in

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this and I'm not a medical professional,

but I mean, I would just imagine

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that probably moving to something

like a pad would be slightly better

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for your health, or hopefully not

absorbing some of these toxic metals

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in through literally the vaginal.

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Uh, canal and, and, um,

leaching into the body.

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But.

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All of these things are just to say

that women face higher toxicity levels

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and their health is kind of just

getting more of a beating, I would

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say, just because there's so many more

things that they're putting on their

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body and using day in and day out.

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So.

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Really.

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I don't have the answer here.

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I realized that, you know, Of course, like

still where your makeup's still, you know,

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do the things that you got to do to live

your life and feel good about yourself.

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Right?

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Like that's what we want.

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We want to feel good about ourselves

in everything that we're doing.

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But in terms of, you know,

promoting longevity and health

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here, I would just highly recommend

that becoming aware of this.

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Hopefully this is just the

catalyst kind of the spark here.

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Um, I'm providing you with some

information for you to kind of

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go down that rabbit hole for

yourself and see what the best

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answer is for your personal health.

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Everyone is different

specific in their own health.

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So.

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Um, you know, do what works best for you.

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Do what fits in your budget as well.

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But hopefully this information

is a little bit of an eye-opener.

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And also, um, a reason to start maybe

making some changes, whether it is with

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your, uh, the food that you're ingesting,

or maybe the products that you're putting

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on your skin, the amount of products

that you're putting on your skin.

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Um, and also just becoming

aware of these things such as

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heavy metals in tampons, right?

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Like who knew that that was going

to be a thing, even in an OU.

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I'm sorry.

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Don't fact check me on this one.

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Um, I had heard that this was including

organic cotton tampons as well.

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I'll need to double check that I highly

recommend you double check as well.

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Don't take my word on that one.

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Uh, but nonetheless, that really sucks.

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Um, Yeah.

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And it's just a bummer to hear that.

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One thing I will say, if you

are, um, just looking to.

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You know, you like, you don't

know where to start in terms of

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shopping for cleaner products.

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I know whole foods is not perfect.

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They have a lot of places that they can

improve on, but I will say one thing

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about whole foods that I do respect is

they actually have a list of ingredients

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that if you want to get your product

into their store, You cannot contain.

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Those ingredients on that list.

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Um, I mean, even firsthand I've seen

this happen where people's products get

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rejected from getting into whole foods

because they have an ingredient that is on

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the, uh, the banned list from whole foods.

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So.

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Once again, whole foods is not perfect.

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I'm not saying everything on their shelf

is a hundred percent great for you.

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Um, but at least there is a.

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You know, Uh, a loop

to jump through, right.

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For companies in terms of, uh, you

know, not being able to just throw

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whatever they want into a product

and put it on someone's shelf.

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So that's always a great way to start.

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If you're like, Hey, I have

zero knowledge on this stuff.

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I don't even know where to start.

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If you've got a whole foods close to you.

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Go check it out.

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See if there's something that fits

your budget, at least, you know, that

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they're screening for some stuff.

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Um, and then beyond that, I would

say, just do your own research

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and then as well, check out the

environmental working group.

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Link that I'm going to have

in the description here.

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Uh, the show notes of this show.

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And yeah, I think that's

a great place to start.

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So.

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Anyways.

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Is going to do it for today's episode.

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I'm not here to like

scare anybody as well.

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Um, I think.

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You know, it was just an interesting

topic that, uh, my wife and I were

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actually discussing, and it was

like, Kind of eye-opening for myself.

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Like yeah, no, duh, that, you know,

this would make sense that we mood

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would be kind of facing a harder times

in terms of maintaining their health.

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And, um, you know, I think that's

also why we're seeing a lot of things

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like hormonal imbalances and a lot

of, um, gastrointestinal issues,

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which obviously is not just for women.

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Like, um, I deal with that myself

as well, and, and I've healed

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myself massively, but, um, you

know, we see things like that.

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We see fertility issues.

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Like there's so many different things.

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Uh, you know, breast cancer,

like one in every eight women

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are getting breast cancer.

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Like that's a terrible statistic, right?

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And I think, um, not all of it, but

I do think that some of it could be

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stemming from some of the products that

we're using, uh, day in and day out.

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And of course, the way that

we're living our lives, right?

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Like how much exercise are we getting?

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How much sleep are we getting?

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What are our diets?

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Like, these are all gonna

play massive roles, but.

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Anyways.

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I hope once again, that this is just

the spark for you to dive in for your

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own health and your own research and

kind of see what works best for you.

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So anyways, that's going to

do it for today's episode.

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I appreciate you all

so much for tuning in.

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I hope this was beneficial in one way

or another, and, uh, you know, leaves

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you walking away with some information.

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And as well, a couple

tools like the EWG list.

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To really start improving your health

or finding better products for you

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and, uh, get, get going on that path.

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So anyways, Thank you all so much.

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I appreciate every single one of you

for tapping in with me, listening

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to me and supporting this show.

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If you haven't already, please go

ahead and leave a rating on this show.

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Leave a review as well.

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I read all of those.

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And, uh, it also just helps

people to find the show, feel

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free to tag me on Instagram.

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Uh, become friends with

me on Instagram as well.

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That's an elemental Evan.

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And, uh, till next week's episode, I hope

you all have a beautiful rest of your day.

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Um, Yeah, take some time for yourself.

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Take some, uh, take some deep

breaths and just, uh, Be a

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beautiful human being like you are.

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So I appreciate you all so much.

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And you know, the motto of the

show, it's do everything with good

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intentions and connect to your elements.

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I love all of you.

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Have a good one.

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Peace.