In this episode, Sharon and Elena dive into the fascinating world of organ health, examining the vital functions of various organs and the consequences of living without them. They reveal how the removal of organs like the gallbladder, appendix, tonsils, and more can impact digestion, immunity, hormone production, and overall health. Emphasizing the importance of maintaining organ health and preventing the need for surgery, they highlight proactive measures, including lifestyle changes, detoxification practices, emotional healing, and proper hydration.
The conversation also covers the significance of “extra” organs like the spleen, gallbladder, tonsils, and thyroid, and discusses how lifestyle choices affect organs such as the prostate and the ovaries' roles beyond reproduction. They tackle the challenges of surgical menopause, recognizing pain and digestive issues as health signals, and the emotional aspects of organ health. Sharon and Elena conclude with a reminder to be informed and proactive in healthcare choices, advocating for a holistic approach to preserving organ function and overall well-being.
If you're grappling with issues related to your “extra” organs, or if you've had any organs removed and want to learn more about optimizing your health without them, call K6 Wellness Center to book an appointment. We'll provide you with personalized plans to optimize your health and well-being.
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In this episode, Sharon and Elena dive into the fascinating world of organ health, examining the vital functions of various organs and the consequences of living without them. They reveal how the removal of organs like the gallbladder, appendix, tonsils, and more can impact digestion, immunity, hormone production, and overall health. Emphasizing the importance of maintaining organ health and preventing the need for surgery, they highlight proactive measures, including lifestyle changes, detoxification practices, emotional healing, and proper hydration.
The conversation also covers the significance of “extra” organs like the spleen, gallbladder, tonsils, and thyroid, and discusses how lifestyle choices affect organs such as the prostate and the ovaries' roles beyond reproduction. They tackle the challenges of surgical menopause, recognizing pain and digestive issues as health signals, and the emotional aspects of organ health. Sharon and Elena conclude with a reminder to be informed and proactive in healthcare choices, advocating for a holistic approach to preserving organ function and overall well-being.
If you're grappling with issues related to your “extra” organs, or if you've had any organs removed and want to learn more about optimizing your health without them, call K6 Wellness Center to book an appointment. We'll provide you with personalized plans to optimize your health and well-being.
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Podcast Directed and Produced by: www.hiredgunsagency.com
Welcome to the K6 Wellness Revolution podcast. My name is Sharon and I'm joined once again by my sidekick, elena, who what we're going to talk about today. She happens to be missing organs, but we're pleased you're spending this hour with us. Hey, elena. Hello, you are the one to come up with this topic. What made you think?
Speaker 2:of this, I think after I saw five or six people in a row who were either missing an organ or about to be missing one because things had gotten so bad, and I thought, oh my goodness, this is a missing topic. People don't talk about it enough. So I thought, hey, prime time for us to chat about something that you and I do talk about all the time. But I thought why not bring it to everyone else?
Speaker 1:I think it's a great idea and I think you're really witty and clever with your names and titles. So Elena and I are going to be exploring a fascinating and often overlooked aspect of medical science. What happens when we have to live without certain organs? Now, from the tonsils to the gallbladder, even your thyroid gland, every organ in our body is not there just to take up space. It has a function. But what happens when we have to remove it? Are there long-term consequences or is it basically if you survive the surgery, you're good to go? Could we be doing more to keep these organs healthy and avoid surgery? Well, we're going to answer all these questions and more, and try to help you understand how each part of our body contributes to our overall health and what we can do to support that. So let's jump on in with the first aspect of this Elena missing any organs.
Speaker 2:The first aspect of this, elena, missing any organs Way to call me out on that one, but yes, you know, part of my inspiration for this as well was that I had my tonsils removed when I was 21 and I am still dealing with the consequences of it. So I would love to help prevent anyone possible to not lose these, you know, these extra organs, and if you have, let's find a way to live better without them, because it's too late. You can't turn back the clock. I wish I could get my tonsils back.
Speaker 1:It's too late, yeah, and we see lots of people missing organs. But let's clarify which organs are considered extra, because you do hear that right. The most common ones are gallbladder, tonsils, appendix, but even a kidney, your spleen, the thyroid or part of your thyroid, the prostate gland, ovaries.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how about the one that I saw on Google? It says an eyeball is an extra organ. I don't know who wrote that. Who made that up? Sure, you could live without one of your eyes or one of your arms or legs, but that's not really what we want to talk about today.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're not going to. So for all of you out there wondering about how life without an eyeball is going to go, that's not going to be covered today.
Speaker 2:Sorry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, talking more about other organs, right.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about what each organ actually does, because, as we're, you know, we're not going to go through absolutely everything in the body, like I said, that you can live without. But the big ones, like, what does your gallbladder actually do? Your gallbladder stores and releases bile, and that helps with fat digestion and absorption. Or the appendix you know, your appendix is actually part of the lymphatic and immune system. Remember, your lymph is your garbage can and the appendix is important for storing good bacteria. It helps prevent infection. Or your tonsils, also part of the lymph and immune system. They help to trap toxins in the mouth. They're like air filters.
Speaker 1:And kidneys that remove waste from the blood and, through your waste from the blood through the urine, helps to control our blood pressure. Then there's our spleen. That's part of both your lymphatic and your immune system and it filters your blood. It destroys old blood cells. Thyroid gland supports your metabolism and how your body transforms nutrients into energy. There's the prostate gland that adds fluid to sperm traveling up from the testes and, by the way, if you remove the prostate, the sperm just gets reabsorbed by the body and there will be no more babies from you. Ovaries that help produce hormones like estrogen and progesterone, and stores the eggs that women need to make babies. So yeah, there's a lot going on with all of these, I think, and we're going to talk about some of the ins and outs of all of them, and maybe you are one of the ones, like me, who've had to say goodbye to an organ.
Speaker 2:Let's talk about what your body has to do to compensate once they've been removed. Your gallbladder like we mentioned it, helps with digesting fat. So if you don't have it, you're gonna struggle to digest those fats from here on out and because of that struggle it can cause gas and bloating, diarrhea, nausea, you know, that's just to mention a few. And that's because you don't have sufficient bile anymore. But what is bile? Why do we even need it? B bile anymore. But what is bile? Why do we even need it? Bile is made up of salts and acids and phospholipids, cholesterol, water and chemicals that keep the total solution just a bit alkaline, because everything coming from your stomach is going to be a little acidic.
Speaker 1:And the bile that goes from. Well, it gets dumped from, ideally, your gallbladder, right. Well, it gets dumped from, ideally, your gallbladder, right, it's taking all the garbage out. But there's important things like salts and enzymes that are going to help you break down all of the fats and proteins that are going to help neutralize the food bolus. We'll call it the bolus. It's the lump of the food, gross, now that it's all chewed up and acidified, moving from your stomach into your small intestine. When it goes in, bile should get squirted out of the gallbladder and it helps to neutralize all of that so that in the small intestine, as the pancreatic enzymes and those bile salts further break down the food, all of the lymphatic tissue in your small intestine can help to absorb the nutrition.
Speaker 1:But when you don't have a gallbladder, guess what? There's no big squirt of bile, it's just now. You have this duct where you had your liver, and then it goes into the gallbladder where it's like a holding tank. And then there's this, this duct that goes into the small intestine. Well, that's, the holding tank's gone. So now it's just a steady bit of bile and it's not enough to handle a full meal most of the time. So this causes people who've lost their gallbladder to basically not all the time but a lot of the time still suffer chronic diarrhea or green greasy stools or difficulty just digesting fat. A lot of people say I'm so nauseated if I eat something fried, since I've had my gallbladder taken out or even just with a gallbladder that doesn't work right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it can really slow down how you're going to digest food. And then you know that leads to the next thing the appendix Okay, and it can really slow down how you're going to digest food. And then you know that leads to the next thing the appendix Okay. You have struggled digesting food with your gall bladder and then your appendix that's your storehouse for good bacteria. So you're more prone to infection when you don't have that because your appendix it releases good probiotics, good flora, into your colon and when you have an infection it releases that in an extra amount. And if you take that away, you've lost some of the ability to repopulate your colon and you won't have as much beneficial bacteria. So now you're struggling to digest, you're struggling to have enough good flora, and it just continues.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I will say in general, we tend to see fewer appendectomies now, and appendicitis typically happens to kids and teenagers. I can't remember what the exact age range is, but it's like under age 20 is when most of them happen, and more often than not now. And if the appendices have not burst, then they're going to treat you with really strong antibiotics and you still may have to be inpatient so they can watch because the risk of rupture is high. And if your appendix ruptures it can kill you because that's bacteria that just exploded all in your peritoneal cavity, right. So sepsis is a real risk. Serotonin cavity right. So sepsis is a real risk. But when you think about it, as far as just inflammation of the appendix, you have to consider that 70% of your immune system is held in your guts, so that's a big deal. When it's like, hey guys, we're out here hanging on to the good stuff and there you go, you're gone.
Speaker 1:And I think you know having the, the level of antibiotics that they have to use for appendicitis, is it's significant? Um, it's, they're no joke and and they do come with side effects. But I think you know, to be fair, we should say those can save your appendix, right. Are you going to have some other healing to do from all the other good bacteria that got killed by those nuclear bombs? Yes, yes, you are, but you'll still have your appendix and you can recover. So I think that that has been to me a positive trend in surgery, just to see that we're now treating appendicitis more than just as a surgical procedure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I'd love to see that. Move over to tonsils, because what I didn't realize for the longest time is that we actually have four types of tonsils. The palatine tonsils, though, are usually what gets surgically removed when they become inflamed. These are the tonsils on the sides of the back of the throat, and when they get really swollen, they actually touch. We call them kissing tonsils, so you can imagine how hard breathing may become if you have your airway obstructed by swollen tonsils, and that's what my experience was. I couldn't hardly breathe.
Speaker 2:And yet, if you think about it, if you have a clogged filter in your car or your house, you don't just throw it away and not replace it. We can't replace tonsils, but literally we're cutting them out and throwing them out instead of cleaning them or, in terms of immune system support, cleaning them, or, you know, in terms of immune system support, because if you don't take care of that, you are going to stay sick and continue to struggle to breathe. Enlarged tonsils contribute also to snoring and sore throats and bad breath, and people with allergies and even food sensitivities tend to deal with swollen tonsils more often. When you remove the tonsils, you might think you solved the problem, but you really just removed some of the filters you needed to clean the lymphatic system. Can you live? Oh, absolutely.
Speaker 2:Is it ideal to remove the tonsils? Not really, in our opinion. You need those little filters. And then you know a spleen, one of the other ones that's part of the lymphatic system. It's usually removed due to trauma or laceration. Lots of times it's from a car wreck or a hard hit, maybe sports related, and we know the spleen is part of your lymph and immune system. So when it's gone your entire system has to work harder and you can actually get sick more often.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think it's important to like to understand. Your lymphatic system is tied into your immune system, right? Your lymphatic system is this one and we've talked about this, I think, in earlier podcast episodes but it's a one-way system where we have lymph nodes and tonsils are part of that and a lot of it, like I think 80% of your body's lymph, is from your occipital nodes down to the subclinicular, so it's all like head and neck region. Those nodes are clusters of white blood cells, so they act like little scrubbers, right? So you've got these vessels that are taking all of this fluid and even in your tonsils it's like hey, there's dust, there's a food that we don't like, whatever it is, we got to scrub that up. And so your tonsils are clusters of, they hold clusters of white blood cells, and so when we're removing those or removing the spleen you know it's significant Especially when you remove the spleen, people are more likely to have really serious, really even life-threatening infections like septicemia, meningitis and those are huge things and pneumococcal pneumonia, I think, is one of them.
Speaker 1:But also you are more likely to have a minor infection turn into something really serious when you don't have a spleen and you're also, I think double triple your chances to get any kind of infection when you don't have a spleen.
Speaker 1:Why? Because it's part of your lymphatic and your immune system and those risks last throughout your life, it's not just hey. You know, these first three months after your splenectomy are real important. Yes, they are important. But even going forward, people who don't have a spleen have to do more. They have to be more careful, and there's even some research that suggests you have an increased risk of blood cancers like leukemias and lymphomas.
Speaker 1:And with your tonsils, you know, I think an interesting side note is that you can regrow your tonsils. I keep hoping you may take those suckers out and then they may come right back. But even if they don't, like, we can see where people's tonsils have been cut out. And one thing that I learned in neurotherapy, which is definitely alternative to Western medicine, but we're really resetting an area of function and it's really important to treat scars in the body. And if you've had a tonsillectomy, treating the tonsil scars is very important, and we'll do a demonstration someday on Elena's tonsil scars. She trusts me not to stick a needle in her throat.
Speaker 1:Then there's so kidneys right, let's move on. And I think that we should just point out the obvious. We're not saying both kidneys are extra. You've got to keep one and some people are born just with one kidney. But if you remove both kidneys you're a goner, you know, unfortunately. So people lose kidneys, people donate kidneys. We're not going into all of that. There are many reasons we lose our organs, but you have to consider the function of that organ and your kidneys play a role in controlling your blood pressure, um control, controlling fluid balance and hydration and, of course, getting waste out via the urine from your body. So losing one can be very impactful and only having one kidney, it can have complications like increased protein in your urine, you can have a lowered glomerular filtration rate or ability to filter blood, because in that filtering blood you're filtering toxins as well, and that's just something significant.
Speaker 1:The risk of only having one kidney is that there is no fallback and I think, if you believe in the intelligent design of the body and you go okay, well, why did we get two? Well, possibly because you're going to need them, and I've always said this this is my thing on teeth oh, teeth, extra organs, wisdom teeth Didn't quite make the cut, didn't make the cut, but another day. But we, why do we have so many teeth? Why didn't we just get two teeth? I mean because different teeth have different jobs. But if you lose one tooth, I mean it could be problematic. You'll probably be okay. But you've got a lot of other teeth there to stand in right. Your smile's not going to be as pretty, but you can make up for it. But when you only have one or two of something, you have to question well, okay, how well am I going to do without this?
Speaker 2:Just a thought yeah, you don't want to lose those teeth, but you also don't want to lose your thyroid. Let's talk about the thyroid. Your thyroid is known as the master of your metabolism, and many people think that that's only related to weight, but it's so much more, because when we say metabolism, don't think simply weight. This is about how your body uses energy. Now, without a thyroid, you will have to be on meds the rest of your life because you have to replace the hormones your thyroid makes. This is absolutely necessary to life. But in the grand scheme of things, I'd say this is probably one of the easiest organs to handle life without, so long as you have access to the medications.
Speaker 1:Right right that are very impactful for growth, for blood pressure, for body temperature, heart rate, energy expenditure, um plays a role in the menstrual cycle and thus fertility Um in women. There are many women who have come to us before they go to a fertility specialist and some people just aren't willing to go that IVF route for whatever reason. But one of the first things we check is thyroid, because if your thyroid doesn't work, you will not be getting pregnant. And we have, you know enough through the years where it's like, yeah, look at that, you got pregnant, All it needed was a little, and it's not. Even we're not practicing medicine, we're not prescribing thyroid hormone. We're. We're looking at it from a functional perspective because they're the ranges on thyroid are so crazy wide Right, and I think it's important to have ranges with hormones because where Elena may go, oh my gosh, I feel so revved up and her T3 level is the same as mine and I'm like, eh, you know, she's more sensitive to it or her body operates as our unique bioidentities and the way that our body processes those thyroid hormones can be impacted by our immune system.
Speaker 1:If your immune system is really angry at you and making antibodies, it could be an inflammatory issue. But when you're not making enough hormone or that hormone doesn't have anything to bind onto to be taken into the cell, because all of where your thyroid hormone gets used is in the nucleus of the cell and if that's not happening, that's a problem, but even more so you take that thyroid out. You're not going to live very long, so it's a big deal to lose your thyroid. But I think if you it's thyroid's not a terrible like. It's pretty straightforward. Right If you have your thyroid taken out and we'll talk about reasons why, right.
Speaker 1:But when you lose your thyroid, just having that thyroid hormone replacement is really important, obviously for life, even with babies. You know, if you don't have enough thyroid hormone for a baby, they could be mentally retarded in their development, and I don't mean that in a non politically correct way, I mean truly developmentally delayed or stunted in their intellectual growth and physical growth. And if you look at hypothyroidism, what are the symptoms? Weight gain, depression, brain fog, dry skin, infertility, constipation. Did I say constipation? Say it again Constipation is real bad people. Um, those are some of.
Speaker 1:And when we see a lot more hypothyroid, I think yeah a lot of it is in people who've had that thyroid removed or partially removed. Even if you have, like a cancer, some doctors will just take out one side of the thyroid and then some will take out the whole thyroid or they'll kill it and it's. It can be dealt with, but it's harder. I think you make things more complicated, so that's difficult, okay. And then there's the prostate. It's a tiny little, I think, a walnut-shaped gland or size about the size of a walnut or a ping pong ball. It can cause major problems. I think if we took a poll, everybody knows some man with prostate cancer or BPH, or benign prostatic hypertrophy.
Speaker 1:But when you take that prostate out you're going to have problems because the prostate gland, it actually surrounds the urethra and the urethra is the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body, tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body and it also makes the prostate has these little vesicles on it and it makes the fluid that carries sperm out. So it's the non-sperm part of semen, right? So if you don't have semen, you don't get the sperm out of the body. So that's a big problem. It's fine, I guess, if you're not interested in reproducing or you've planted all the seeds you're going to plant. Many men will struggle with incontinence following prostatectomies and many men unfortunately suffer nerve damage during their surgery and it leaves them unable to get an erection. And that can be very difficult both mentally and physically for a man who maybe still wants to be sexually active. And now they don't have that ability.
Speaker 2:Well, and how? About what we are seeing in men in their 20s and 30s and 40s? They're already showing signs of prostate problems in thermographies. And you know, I think we've probably mentioned before your prostate acts as a barometer for your body's overall toxicity, and at least we say that all the time, because people don't realize that. And I think it's largely due to two things. One, people sit so much more nowadays than we used to. We're so sedentary, and sitting is the new smoking. You've got to get up and move. The body is designed to move. But then the second thing is think about the cell phones and the electronics. And you know, people set laptops and we're talking about prostate right now, but this would apply to ovaries too. Setting your electronics near the groin, near those reproductive organs, you're literally radiating them with the EMFs. So there's just so many factors, but those I think are the two biggest that are affecting prostate health in younger and younger men.
Speaker 1:For sure, oh yeah. And then the ovaries are baby makers, right? When you take the ovaries out, obviously there shall be no more children from you.
Speaker 1:Well, you already got them? Yeah, hopefully you already got them. So, um, you, your ovaries, do more than just store eggs, though. They are the main producers of estrogen and progesterone, and those are the hormones are female hormones. And so when you take out the ovaries, you're automatically thrown into what's called surgical menopause. And menopause, of course, is the time of life when we stop ovulation and we stop menstruating, and it happens anywhere. I mean should happen anywhere from 40s to mid 50s. I think the average age of you know where menstruation stops is like 51, 52, maybe I'll figure two.
Speaker 1:But if you think about menopause just the word there's not a lot of positive energy carried around that word. When you say it, people think hot flashes raging. Is it called menopausal dysphoria? I think sleep disruption, menopausal dysphoria, I think sleep disruption, lowered libido, it's all the things that make women dread that season of life in midlife. And again, you know there are hormones to replace that, but they're not your hormones. They may be bioidentical, but they're still not your hormones. And finding that balance can be tricky and it can be something that takes time to do and apart from not being able to produce your own offspring anymore, I mean, I know there are technological advances around that with egg donors and whatnot, but you know your ovaries, it's it's impactful to keep them when you can right when you can.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so okay when all these organs or hopefully not all so okay when all these organs or hopefully not all, but hopefully singular you lose one of these organs.
Speaker 1:So when these organs are surgically removed, something usually has been going on so long and it's been ignored, that you find yourself in the middle of some life-threatening situation or infection and you're faced with life or death and get rid of this organ, and that's a terrible place to find yourself. But how could you prevent getting to the point of requiring organ removal? Okay, one of the first things that I think we tend to forget is pain. Pain is a signal from your body and we should never ignore pain. Agreed, we should never ignore digestive issues.
Speaker 1:I think that this is a big one where we all accept a certain level of gas and bloating and constipation and weird bowel movements or reflux as just normal, and it's not. It may be common, but what is common is not always normal and I think that that really gets lost in our culture and I think a lot of that is based around the way we live our lives and the foods that make up our food system, honestly. But then there's also fatigue and weight gain and weight loss, which those often go hand in hand, right, the fatigue with the weight changes. That's not normal and I think that I know I was guilty of this when I didn't realize I was dealing with autoimmune issues. I had three kids and I just thought this is what it's like to be a mom and not get enough sleep and that was not what was going on at all.
Speaker 1:It's a slippery slope, but it's the same thing with the life of our organs and I think with especially, like a lot of what we talked about are glands. Right, they're very prone to toxicity or they're prone to influence by toxins and pathogens, and it can hit everybody in very different areas and in different ways, but it's important to know you can have these other processes, like some people lose their spleens because of car wrecks, right, and, like you said, hard hits, like football players, boxers, or somebody got mugged and they, you know, got hit real hard. That's a terrible movie, right, it's a plot film movie. You'll wash your spleen. But there is more to it than just, oh my gosh, I'm in this life-threatening situation, hell, and unfortunately, some people wait till that point.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's just human nature. We push through a lot. I think that's just human nature. We push through a lot. And I know, back with my tonsils, I pushed through a lot and I didn't know that there were ways to save them. I kind of knew a little bit about supplements, but that wasn't enough. Or a gallbladder. If I didn't know what I know and we didn't practice what we practice, I would have lost my gallbladder years ago. That little bugger has been such a problem for so long and it isn't anymore because I've applied all these lifestyle hacks such as a liver gallbladder flush.
Speaker 1:You know if you are having any kind of gallbladder or even pancreatitis symptoms.
Speaker 2:A liver gallbladder flush can turn that around within 24 hours. But you have to know how to do it and what you're doing before you get to that point, and so that's a big one. And coffee enemas when you do a coffee enema you are doing some cleaning liver gallbladder flush. In enemas you are doing deep cleaning on your liver and gallbladder and all those bile ducts. And when you do an enema you can sometimes flush out stones. They're typically the soft ones and you want them. Enema you can sometimes flush out stones. They're typically the soft ones and you want them out when they're soft before they're hard. So that's a great tool.
Speaker 2:And castor packing it's like more and more people know about castor oil packing and yet I ask a lot of people okay, you know about it, are you doing it? And most people aren't. So if you're listening and you aren't one of those people who are doing it yet, that's just one of the best home hacks you could possibly do as a prevention and you know when you're under a gallbladder attack, these things are helpful. There are more things we can do, but you know that's where you need to see a professional, because there's not just one remedy, other than maybe some stone breaker chancopiator. That's a really big one that you can use for gallbladder and kidney stones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think another thing with a gallbladder is one thing. If you go to your doctor and say, could I do a gallbladder flush, could I do a coffee enema? And they're going to go oh my gosh, who have you been seeing? Let's clarify. I think that here's my editorial. What gives us a bad name is people who are in an acute gallbladder attack. Their gallbladder is full of stones, their ducts are blocked and now they've decided to do a gallbladder flush or a copy enema. It's too late for a lot of those people and it's not this DIY thing. I mean it can be if you do it early enough, and so I just I feel like it's important to throw out there these are we're not crazy for saying this these are time-tested. You know we always bribe everyone time-tested. You know ancient wisdom and cutting-edge technology. But you got to do it at the right time, all of it, and I think because it is so simple that it is a very approachable technique for a lay person. But timing is everything right.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, and that goes back to don't ignore the pain If you're having, you know, don't ignore digestive issues, because if you're having pain or digestive issues in the upper right quadrant you need to consider liver, gallbladder and start some of these practices before you're in that emergency situation. And I think the same applies to appendix, tonsils, spleen. There's a lot you can do for your immune system at the first signs of immune stress. There's a lot of herbs and supplements and once again I don't want to go into that minutiae because we like to customize that for each person in each condition. But another big one is lymphatic therapy. That can prevent so much. When you're doing lymphatic therapy you are literally cleaning the little washing machines. Remember those little white blood cell clusters in the lymph nodes. We need to help those move through lymphatic therapy and massage and dry skin brushing. And you can also cast oil pack. You can cast oil pack any part of the body that's inflamed or needs a little TLC so you can do the cast oil pack over the appendix, over the tonsils, over the spleen. But another big one, at least for the tonsils, is gargling, gargling salt water. That can help prevent a lot of infection and just help sterilize those little filters that are working so hard for you, if you still have them and if you don't, you just got to work a little harder.
Speaker 2:But then there's kidneys. It's a lot of the same practices, honestly. You can cast or oil pack the kidneys. You can cast or oil pack anything Right, but it will only do you so much good, especially for the kidneys, if you aren't getting adequate hydration. That's one of the best ways to help your kidneys keep working for you, because they are working so hard to filter out all the toxins that we're exposed to all day, every day. But there's also homeopathic remedies that'll help improve the function and the filtration for the kidneys and the liver and the lymph all of those. So when we see someone in these situations that need support, we're always going to consider do we need just the home remedies or homeopathics, or the herbs and supplements? It's always a combination of these things, but there's a lot you can do to take care of them and prevent losing them.
Speaker 1:Right To your note about hydration, especially with the kidneys. That's so true, and I think it's important to talk about hydration just for a minute, because it does pertain to the health and vitality of our organs, our extra organs, you know, even your tonsils. One thing that is important is how do you hydrate? Okay, oh, good, yeah. And how do you hydrate? Okay, yeah. And what do you hydrate with? Because not all water is the same.
Speaker 1:I hope and pray that anybody listening to this podcast is not drinking tap water. I don't care where you live. Please don't drink tap water, especially if you're in America. Yeah, it's disgusting and I can't really say it's safe. The type of water you drink is important. There is no perfect scenario, and I think that that's a really important disclaimer, and sometimes I feel like this is a wormhole and I just want to spend one moment going down it because water is life right. Wormhole, and I just want to spend one moment going down it because water is life right.
Speaker 1:There are different kinds of water, and distilled water is technically dead water because you've taken out all the minerals. But it's important to note that distillation is the only way to take out radioactive elements right, and radioactive elements can affect your thyroid, your pancreas, your kidneys, your liver, everything, your lymphatic system. So we do kind of consider I'm going to say not a hundred percent of the time, but basically distilled water, and we add baculactylates and we have one product that we specifically enjoy, but there are many good products out there. It's important to hydrate your body appropriately. Reverse osmosis, berkey those are great runners up because they do remove a lot of toxic elements pharmaceutical medications but they don't remove radioactive elements and with all the toxin testing that we've done, we have been astounded by the level of radioactive elements. Why are we all showing up with so much uranium? And I know 15 years ago, when I was doing this, I was like why has everyone got uranium?
Speaker 2:I mean, are there any cleaner weapons around?
Speaker 1:here we don't know about? I didn't know, but I think that hydration is important. And then how you hydrate and this is something I tell people all the time, and this you know, men with your prostates especially, this is something you should pay attention to are people with decreased kidney function, if you want to save that kidney. This is important because if you think of a dried up plant that I always think of this poor little ivy plant that I had in college and we went home for the holidays and forgot about it and it was so dried up when we got back and so we thought, oh, water it, it needs a lot of water. Well, it still died because you can imagine, as a stupid 18 year old, I just doused it and it still died of dehydration.
Speaker 1:We're the same way. You can drink 64 ounces of water in one sitting. I don't recommend it. Just because you can glug something down Doesn't mean your cells are going to absorb all of that, so much of it can't be absorbed at one time and you're just going to excrete it out and your cells don't get the benefit of that hydration.
Speaker 1:And so I think drinking consistently throughout the day is more important for your lymphatic function, um, for kidney function, for prostate function, plus men. If you forget to drink all day and you are already dealing with prostate problems and you're trying to save your prostate and you decide to drink all of your water before you go to bed, guess what you won't be doing? That you will not be sleeping. Um, but also carbonated beverages, I think, and and I I mean, I'm sitting here with my lovely sparkling water because I wanted a treat but carbonated beverages are hard on your kidneys, they can be very dehydrating, they can upset digestion and it is important to to keep those minimal, I think we need to be careful to drink more water and less of the other things that are going to dehydrate and tax the organs that we need them to work on.
Speaker 1:And I will stop with my lecture on hydration. We could do just one on water. Yeah, it is. We could do one on water, okay. But thyroid, let's talk about this. So to say here, thyroid.
Speaker 1:Most of the time when people lose their thyroid is because of cancer. Hear, thyroid most of the time when people lose their thyroid is because of cancer and as far as cancers go, thyroid cancer is very responsive to surgery without radiation and chemotherapy. So, in the grand scheme of things, not bad, right, um, but nobody talks about why people get thyroid cancer. Is there a family connection? Sometimes? You know there is, but there is always something coming out in the news in NIH journals about some new toxin and some new chemical, about some new toxin and some new chemical.
Speaker 1:And whenever you hear the word endocrine disruptors, you need to think what is that doing to my thyroid? Because that is, you think about your throat and your thyroid sits right below your Adam's apple and when you swallow things it's going right by it. May not touch it directly, but it's going right by it. It may not touch it directly, but it's going right by it, and so chemicals in our environment can be very disruptive to our endocrine system. Fluoride is a big one. We'll do the fluoride controversy some other day. Just suffice it to say the science is not there supporting fluoride-province cavities. Bull no, it doesn't.
Speaker 1:Bromides and chemicals that come from like PCBs, bpas these are plastics, right and PFAs, pufas All of these chemicals. They bind to thyroid hormone receptors, which are little. They're little, like suction cups that hold on to thyroid hormone. It's like here, I'll get you where you're going, I'll just taxi you over here and you got to go on this nucleus so they get messed with. So you end up with real big problems, and before you lose your thyroid, you usually have disease or thyroid hormone disruption.
Speaker 1:Other things to watch out for if you're interested in saving your thyroid cosmetics how dirty is our makeup industry? Pretty disruptive to our whole hormone endocrine system. But food and beverage packaging, plastics, toys, carpets, pesticides, flame retardants, things like that All of those things are bad for the thyroid. All of those things can increase the risk of getting thyroid cancer. And thus you know, being faced with the decision do I need to lose? Am I going to lose my thyroid? But things that you can do again to Elena's castor oil packing love it. I think that's something that's really important. There's no remedy, one remedy or one vitamin or one mineral or one supplement that's going to save or prevent you losing a thyroid or thyroid disease, because our whole thyroid metabolic pathway involves many components B12, c, magnesium, selenium, all of these things and and I think that's why it's important to realize we're not a bunch of little compartmentalized pieces. Everything works together. So that's that's important.
Speaker 1:And same thing can be said of the prostate for men less plastic, less sitting, way more standing. Dr Mercola says he stands up all but two hours a day and I thought is that really true? I think it's true. I was in a class with him, we were together. I remember I was like I'm watching him, I want to see if he really stands, and he did. I think that it's important to treat the prostate carefully. Guys, this is something to protect the prostate, and whenever I have couples in here, I love saying it because protect the prostate. And whenever I have couples in here, I love saying it because I mean it's. It's funny, because when you tell a man, yeah, one of the best things for your prostate is frequent ejaculation. You can see the wife's eyes roll back in her head. It's funny.
Speaker 1:But, um, standing up, walking, staying away from the chemicals that I mentioned for the thyroid, because those are going to affect ovaries and prostate, kind of the same. Um, lymphatic therapy is also really important where the prostate is. You have a very big cluster of inguinal lymph nodes in in the whole groin region, and so keeping that cleaned out and circulating I think wearing real tight underwear or real tight pants, that's pretty bad too. Um, and yeah, I think that's it. There is, there is evidence to show for men who don't want to have a prostatectomy that doing a healthy, plant-based diet can be very beneficial. And I don't think that it's animal protein that's the problem. I think it's the hormones and antibiotics and other components of the animal food products that are available to us. I think that's the bigger problem, and same thing with the ovaries.
Speaker 1:And I would just like to say to and I want you to speak to this, Elena I think that we can't ignore the emotional component of all of these organs because we have people. You know, every organ has emotions tied to it and like, um, lymphatic right, it's letting go, that's. You know, if you're somebody who holds on to everything, that can be problem, problematic for your health Gallbladder, it's bitterness and resentment. You know how apropos. I think acknowledging emotions, acknowledging past traumas and dramas is important and addressing them and giving them an exit out of your body.
Speaker 2:Right, and I think that could be a whole other topic, because the emotional part is so huge and it's easy to go through all the checkboxes of okay, maybe all these therapies or supplements, all these things, but to forget the emotional component. You could be missing the biggest key. And everyone's different, but I think we all still need to make sure that we're addressing every aspect of the spiritual, emotional, physical, no matter which organ we're dealing with, for sure.
Speaker 2:And you know, sometimes it becomes necessary, therefore beneficial, to remove the organs, because that's what people ask all the time Well, should I, should I not? It's like well, you have to decide what you're willing to do and if you've done it soon enough, because typically when things have been left too long, like we've already mentioned, you know you could die from some of these, some of these things. So if you've reached a point where it is life or death, you don't have a choice. So we like to tell people make all the choices you can now to be proactive. So then you don't have to be reactive and make a choice, kind of like I did with my tonsils.
Speaker 2:You know you make a choice that you can't take back, and you know I was miserable, I didn't know what else to do, and I think that's where most people get. You know we're not pointing fingers at anyone who's lost an organ or, you know, had to have it removed, not blaming you. Life happens, you didn't know how to do anything different, so that is going to happen. But if you want to be proactive, we've got a lot of ways that can help you so you aren't stuck in that reactive place.
Speaker 1:Yeah, judgment has no place in healthcare.
Speaker 1:No no, it's, it's only to help. Our job is to help you live your healthiest life possible and we can't give everybody perfect health. That's not our job, it's not our ability to do that. But we can give you the tools, yeah, yeah. So in in us healthcare, really, you know it's built more about being reactive than proactive. So you know, when no other options are available, you have to react and sometimes surgery is the right thing to do. Preventive care is being proactive. It's saying, hey, you know this runs in my family and I'm gonna, I am going to take better care of my liver or not. Your liver is not removable, but my gallbladder, everybody in my family is missing their gallbladder. Or you know, everyone's got their tonsils out and everyone has allergies, whatever. But we've given you a lot of tools.
Speaker 1:Unfortunately, big medicine, big pharma, don't think a lot of our tools and our answers because there's not a lot of money in it to be made. But we just feel like a big message here needs to be food is medicine. When you can't afford to come see us, when you can't afford to come see us, or you can't afford to buy some magic pill or potion, you can afford to make better choices for what goes in your mouth. You may not make perfect choices, and that's not necessary all the time, but there is so much available that does not cost very much that can give you a better level of health and could even help you save your organs. Um, food is number one.
Speaker 1:Energy work not woo, woo or voodoo, but energy work is very important and powerful. Um, like we just talked about emotions, just addressing underlying traumas and dramas in your past, that helps correcting the functional toxicities and deficiencies. That's really helpful. And all of those things are being proactive. And then preventive remove right, that's when you go to the er with a gallbladder attack and I'm like, yeah, there's some sludge in there, let's just go ahead and take it. It's so common, it is, and I think gallbladder and tonsils are some of the prime victims for OCHE, but breasts are too. I mean, we didn't even throw those in, but breasts are too.
Speaker 1:And unfortunately there's not enough time.
Speaker 1:But if medicine were more open to acupuncture and detoxification practices like the castor oil packing, like the gallbladder flushes, hydrocholine therapy, lymphatic drainage work, homeopathy all of this we could accomplish so much more in health care. Right Medicine has its place and we acknowledge it and we're grateful for it. Acknowledge it and we're grateful for it. We just want to help people avoid surgery and even then, avoiding surgery and regaining health is the goal. So yeah, we always say you can get yourself treated out of a tumor, you can get yourself treated out of a disease process, but that does not put you in a state of health. It doesn't mean, oh, you got rid of this thing, so now you're healthy. No, and it's that old adage that health is not merely the absence of disease, it's so much more.
Speaker 2:Well, and it comes down to what lifestyle choices are you willing to make to prevent yourself getting into one of these positions where you have to have an organ removed because you didn't prevent? You know you didn't take the steps and you know one of the biggest things is avoiding processed and fried foods. There's eating good and eating bad and some people think, well, I'm not eating, you know drive-through all the time, but I just eat it now and then. Okay, well, now and then you're getting all those chemicals that are in the processed foods and you know drive-through and fried foods. And you can't just avoid the bad foods, you have to eat the good foods. We talk about this all the time.
Speaker 2:You have to have the right amount of nutrients and typically that's going to be a diet full of fiber and antioxidants and fermented foods when tolerated, clean meats and proteins. But another big thing okay, you can be eating the right foods, but sometimes you need digestive help, like digestive enzymes. That's one of our favorite supplements to use. Before we turn to anything else, let's make sure that you're actually breaking down and absorbing the food you have. Whether you are missing some of your digestive organs or not, making sure you have those catalysts to break down your food is going to give you the best chance at absorbing all that nutrients. But another lifestyle choice would be lymphatic work. We mentioned this before. Everything comes back to this how much are you doing to help your body take out the trash? So get regular lymphatic work and for some people do the stuff every day. But that might not be enough, especially if you have missing tonsils or spleen or appendix.
Speaker 2:If you're already missing part of that lymphatic system, you may need to get regular lymphatic work. That could be once a month, once a quarter, a couple of times a year, whatever that looks like, but just to be getting some regular professional help there. And then let's say hydration again, because we can't state that one enough. So many people are dehydrated and you cannot flush out the pipes if you don't have the water. But then another one, and I know we've talked about this in past podcasts parasite cleanses, simply cleaning the bugs out regularly. Maybe that's once a year, maybe it's a couple couple times a year. That is also going to give your immune system and your body the best chance at healing, absorbing all the nutrients you know these little bugs can steal it all. Make sure you're getting it. So doing a routine parasite cleanse is simple, pretty easy, but we can help you.
Speaker 1:When is the best time to do a parasite cleanse? Elena?
Speaker 2:I'm glad you asked, sharon. That is at the full moon Once again. We might have said that before, but if you want to do a routine, just an easy little routine, parasite cleanse, pick it around the full moon. We can guide you on what supplements to take and what to do. But the full moon is always going to be the best time because that's when the bugs are the most active, the serotonin is higher, the melatonin is lower. We've got that big, bright moon out and that's when they all come out to breed. So that's when we like to kill them, we like to exterminate them. So that's a very helpful tool. But ultimately it comes down to taking care of your body as if it were a temple. I think a lot of people just get too tired and busy and stressed and forget that our body is an amazing, precious vessel. It just needs a little help and love sometimes and that can be all the things we mentioned. But just remember to value that gift. Life is a gift.
Speaker 2:Yeah it is.
Speaker 1:Life is a gift. Yeah, it is. And for someone out there who may be faced with the decision of losing an organ, we would just advise you to be informed with your choices weigh the consequences and we say this with everything.
Speaker 1:Whether you're losing a part of your body, whether you're putting something in your body, whatever it is you're doing, weigh the consequences, because you are going to be the one left to deal with the consequences either way. But just remember to be proactive with your health in general. Don't wait. Don't put off preventive screenings which for us the most important is thermography, but your annual blood work. Don't put those things off. Denial of need is not being I think some people equate that with natural health and please stop, because you're giving us all a bad name. Be proactive and be willing to make changes and you'll, you'll. You know you usually have better outcomes.
Speaker 2:Yep Be proactive, not reactive. Yes, and you know that was a unique and extraordinary topic that we can officially wrap up here. We hope you found the information valuable and we'd love to hear from you. If you watch this episode on YouTube, please like and subscribe to our channel, and also check us out on Rumble Facebook and Instagram, and if you'd like more information about how to take better care of your health, visit k6wellnesscom to schedule an appointment and, until next time, take care of yourself, because your health is worth fighting for.