Rebekah: Hey guys, it’s Bex here.
And I’m back with my friend, Mike Perrine, from EverdayDetox.org and YouTube.com/EverydayDetox.
We have been making videos all day answering your questions that you’ve been sending
in over the years.
And we have one more to do.
And we’re sitting here in the podcast setup because we’re about to shoot a podcast for
you.
Mike: Yup.
Rebekah: Yeah.
But before that, we’re going to go through this – with some questions.
And we have baby Annabel here and little busy Summer is off to the side.
She might say hello.
But let’s get started with these questions.
So these are all centered around detox.
And we want detox to be as easy as possible for people, right?
Mike: We do.
We hope.
Rebekah: I’m only laughing because it’s hard.
It’s a hard thing sometimes, not all the time.
Mike: It’s a process that’s effective but not always comfortable.
And no one said it was going to be.
Rebekah: Right.
But we’re going to try.
We’re going to try to answer these questions and make it as comfortable as possible for
you because we do want you to detox.
How many times should a person poop a day?
What is healthy and what’s not?
Mike: It’s not so much the frequency.
It’s the transit time.
So when you eat something, you want it to leave the body within 12 to about 26 to 28
hours.
That’s ideal.
So in other words, when you’re eating dinner and suddenly you feel like you have to go,
you want to see dinner from last night coming out or the dinner from the night before coming
out in the toilet.
Rebekah: If your poop is all brown.
How do you know what you’re eating?
Should you be planting corn in your poop?
I’m sorry.
Mike: There’s actually a test we do to find out what’s going on with people.
It’s called the sesame seed test.
So you take something that should go through your body fairly quickly like a big raw salad
or something like that and you take a big bunch of sesame seeds and you throw in some
white sesame seeds and you’ll never chew every one.
So you’re going to see them when they come through and then you time how long it takes
to come out and then you’ll know what your transit time is like that.
But food should not leave any residues in the body or stick around for more than 26
to 28 hours.
If it stays around for 32 hours like no big deal but ideally, we want to get into that
window.
Rebekah: That’s a good answer.
I haven’t heard that or something like that.
Mike: So frequency, it’s hard to say.
Rebekah: Where can I get educated on detoxifying nutrition?
Right here.
Mike: Watch YouTube all day, you’ll learn everything you need to know.
There are places to study.
There’s [0:02:31] [Indiscernible] University.
There’s Institute for Integrated Nutrition, Natural Gourmet Institute for food and health.
There are those institutes but if you really want to get into the deep, deep work of it,
my advice to anybody that’s asking now is to do the self-study and get into the old
books written on health and written on raw foods and detoxification.
But if you’re going to pursue a degree, pursue a degree in some type of medical sciences,
you don’t have to become a medical doctor but in some type of health sciences, get an
actual degree so you understand anatomy and physiology and those things because it took
me a long time to put all the pieces together.
And you read crazy things in the old health books, some of it is like wisdom and some
of it is just raw food loony tunes.
So you need to be able to decide for what’s what and the best way to do that is understand
the body.
Rebekah: I found the coolest food combining book of my mother’s from the ‘70s.
That was some raw food loony tunes thought.
Mike: Was it from Norman Walker?
Rebekah: I don’t know.
I’ll have to dig it out.
But it was really fun.
I liked it.
The illustrations were wild.
Mike: I love that stuff.
Rebekah: There was a lot of nudity in those old books that like naked women for no reason,
naked, wild-looking women.
Mike: It sounds like our marketing culture.
Rebekah: Yeah.
I heard Mike mentioned Sanity.
OK.
This is interesting.
Can you tell me more about that, how it works, how it should be used and for how long?
Now, I want to make this a broader question about detox products in general that are on
the market or teas that people find that say it would be great for detox and how do you
feel about those in general.
Mike: In general, I don’t like them.
I mean it depends on what’s in them.
There are certain herbs and certain things that you can put in that will help activate
things in your body.
There are certain herbs that are going to help activate your liver to release things
like that.
I see – I like to go with the old school model of consistently lightening up the food
that you’re eating, eating more plant-based and then fasting to some degree and for some
people – and that could look different for different people.
So that your body will then decide what it wants to cleanse and how it wants to cleanse
it.
And that’s how I would approach it.
Taking something to like detox doesn’t really work.
We don’t put things into detox.
We leave things alone.
We create emptiness.
We leave things out.
And then the body in its infinite wisdom will go in and will start to remove things as it
wants to and put it into circulation and then it leaves.
Rebekah: Summer agree with that.
My three-year-old who is off to the side and she’s eating your vegan gluten-free what
else?
Mike: Artisanal biodynamic, wild-crafted, handcrafted …
Rebekah: No!
They are not wild-crafted cookies.
You brought us delicious cookies.
Mike: They’re forged actually.
Rebekah: She’s over here going, “Mhmm, mhmm!”
OK.
So that’s a good answer.
So it’s not about what we’re putting in.
And we should avoid adding products, adding things to our bodies if we are in a time to
make an effort to detox.
Mike: For the most part, taking something, buying a pill, anything like that, it’s
not what’s going to detox you.
It’s leaving out all the things that make you toxic and then assisting your body so
that they could get out.
Rebekah: Have lots of water.
This is like a project of mine.
Mike: Now, Sanity, just to be specific, that will detox you because it will make you take
a really, really big crack.
That’s what it does.
Don’t do that too often though because Sanity is a slight irritant and your body can – it
can irritate your colon all the time.
Rebekah: I mean the green tea does that.
I mean I can take caffeine and take a huge crack.
Mike: Coffee can do that.
Epsom salt can do that.
A lot of things can do that, Natural Calm.
Rebekah: OK.
I love Natural Calm though by the way.
I’ve been eating clean, why is my skin getting worse?
This happened to me.
Mike: Yes.
That’s why your skin is getting worse because you’re eating clean.
Your body is trying to release stored waste from the tissue and it’s coming out of your
skin possibly because your bowels are not keeping up.
Meaning, you have some things that are releasing into your intestines and they’re not leaving
as quickly as they need to.
So, best thing to do, hydrate.
Drink a lot of juice.
If you can, get colonics or do enemas and there are other things like you can take Epsom
salt baths.
You can put bentonite clay on your skin to help draw things out.
But ideally, we want to keep it away from the skin.
So we want to get it to leave from the core of the body.
So we want to empty.
We want to basically create a vacuum through the body.
Rebekah: And you have to just wait it out.
Mike: Yeah.
Rebekah: I mean I had I would say for my age, it was pretty severe acne, severe breaking
out because I hadn’t had it before.
I hadn’t experienced it before during detox.
And it was fine.
It cleaned itself up and my skin is fine now.
So I don’t worry about breakouts ever now.
Is there a way, and this goes into easing the detox symptoms, is there a way to make
the headaches go away during detox or at least be less persistent naturally?
I want to try detoxing but I hate the headaches that come with it that I get.
Mike: It depends on what you’re detoxing from and why you’re getting headaches.
The best headache remedy I’ve ever found is icepacks on the back of the neck.
Rebekah: OK.
Mike: Yeah.
They do that in Southeast Asia.
They’ll put a big ice brick on the back of people’s necks and it sort of shuts the
nerves down to the head – that are going up to the head and it could take a headache
away.
It’s really magical.
But the best way to avoid any detox symptoms, headaches, fevers, acne is to make sure you’re
getting complete rest, make sure you’re completely hydrated, and making sure that
your bowels are empty.
That takes care of most of the symptoms.
That’s why I basically do colonics for 15 years now.
Rebekah: Yeah.
I mean the worst headaches that I’ve ever gotten are from a caffeine detox, which I
know a lot of my viewers are going through.
And sugar detox too will do it to you.
It was a matter of waiting it out again.
It was something that I just had to deal with, lights down low, close the curtains, lie in
bed and just try to wait through it.
Mike: Yeah.
Let your body do what it’s doing.
Rebekah: Yeah.
Mike: Symptoms aren’t something to be – symptoms aren’t necessarily something to escape from.
So we think we get well and the symptoms go away.
But your body was actually trying to make you well.
Dr. Fred Bisci said one of the most incredible things to me one day.
He said, “People are trying to cure the cure.”
But the cure is that process of having headaches or a fever or things like that.
Rebekah: So symptoms can be an indication of something going right, not something going
wrong.
And I think when people feel symptoms, they feel like something is going wrong.
It’s not working the way it’s supposed to.
But it actually isn’t in a lot of cases.
Mike: And legitimately so because it’s confusing because symptoms are also there when things
are going wrong so people panic.
But we think it’s only one of the other.
We think it’s only one but it could be one or the other.
Rebekah: Good question.
And it has to do with detox but also has to do with transition from the not so great diet
to the better diet.
And we talked about this in the first video.
How do you feel about thick cheeses, big meats, those replacements for people who are getting
away from animal products and moving towards plant-based?
Mike: This is what we were talking about earlier.
Rebekah: Yeah.
Mike: A lot of them are highly processed food and it’s questionable whether or not they
are even better than the animal foods that they started with.
It’s like organic raw goat’s cheese better than like that weird demulsified oil soy isolate
thing that people are – it’s really hard to say.
I know that though when I first initially changed my diet.
I did eat a little bit of that stuff, fake meat, fake cheese, and my health benefitted
from not having the animal foods.
I was eating low quality animal foods though.
If someone were eating like salads with strips of like grass-fed beef in it or something
and then they started eating highly processed fake meat, I probably have to favor the meat
in that case.
Yeah.
Rebekah: So, look toward quality as much as you’re looking at the ingredients.
What does the quality of the ingredient?
Yes.
So I wouldn’t take my backyard raised chicken eggs and replace them some crazy egg substitute.
I just wouldn’t do that because I feel like what I’m eating is really clean and good
for me.
Mike: Exactly.
Rebekah: Maybe not for you.
But yeah, I would try to avoid that unless – I would try to avoid that in the long
term, I would say.
It’s not a permanent solution to eat big meats and processed crazy, what did you call
them?
Biomechanical foods?
Mike: We don’t get healthy by replacing processed food with processed food.
That’s the big – going vegan, there’s a lot of unhealthy vegans.
And it’s great for the animals.
It might be great for the environment.
But if we’re putting sludgy paste and weird emulsified oils with soy isolates into your
body, it’s not best for your health.
Rebekah: So that is what people are bringing up though when they’re talking about why
or when they’re saying that veganism is so bad and it’s bad for you because I have
all these examples of people who are very sick, that look like ghosts, that are too
skinny or too fat, and they’re saying it’s because of their vegan diet.
It’s really because of the low quality of foods that they’re eating as part of their
vegan diet.
Mike: Yeah, absolutely.
The vegans that do well long term are people that juice, drink smoothies, eat lots of raw
food, lots of raw salads, nutrient-dense food and don’t eat processed, fake juices and
meats and stuff like that.
Rebekah: Yeah.
I hope that your questions were answered.
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And we love them because they give us so much content for these videos.
So we could talk about this forever.
Mike: We’re going to go until podcast time and beat out.
Rebekah: Yeah.
So we’re going to shoot this podcast.
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