hi i'm dr janine barry naturopathic doctor and today i'm talking about diet and emf exposure so
what can we do in our diet to decrease our risk of that emf or emr so electromagnetic fields or
electromagnetic radiation damage to our bodies and to ourselves well one of the first things
we can do is to increase niacin containing foods in our diet so niacin is very important
vitamin b3 and the slippery cursor to nad so nad is something that increases with exercise
but it is depleted by emfs and that's the danger here and a lot of research has gone into nad
and its relationship with having a long health span and living long and for anti-aging research
there's a lot being done right now on nad and has been for the last 10 years or so and you may have
heard about nad and nad supplementation and that's definitely possible but whenever we can get these
precursors to nad like niacin from our diet that's definitely a good way to go because getting it the
whole food sources of these vitamins is definitely very important so some of the foods that contain
niacin and are great amounts of niacin include so both vegetarian and non-vegetarian let's
start with the non-vegetarian first would be tuna so tuna has great amounts of niacin
as does chicken breast so if you are a meat eater these would be you know some of the
sources that you're getting these nad precursors as well as pork so pork again for the meat eaters
is a great source of niacin salmon as well so salmon also contains dha which is important
which i'll talk about as well but getting that dha sometimes from a supplement is a better way
to go because of the toxicity so just be very mindful when you are having these meat sources
for your niacin that you're getting it from a good source so that you're lowering your toxic
load as well as turkey so turkey for those of you we have canadian thanksgiving is coming up soon
a great time to enjoy turkey and if you can get free range organic definitely better
steak is another source of niacin and as well as anchovies so anchovies being a smaller fish
is sometimes better because of less toxicity because of the size of the fish so that would
be a great option as well for your niacin now let's look at some vegetarian sources of niacin
so this would include nutritional yeast so i know a lot of vegetarians vegans they love
using nutritional yeast in recipes as well as peanuts so peanuts again preferably organic
because we don't want to have that exposure to the pesticides which are very common with peanut
exposure so go organic with the peanuts or peanut butter avocados also have a natural great source
of niacin and mushrooms so my taki and portobello mushrooms have niacin as well again your precursor
to that nad great for anti-aging but great to prevent that emf exposure damage to your cells
now another thing that we can do in terms of the diet is called fasting so whether it's
intermittent fasting or a prolonged fast what these can do is they can help to make sure that
you're decreasing that risk of the emf damage by going into autophagy so autophagy is your body's
natural cleanup mechanism and the way that you do this is to do the fast so you're taking periods
of time in which you're not eating so that your body can go into that cleanup mechanism
so with intermittent fasting this is usually the easiest segway into fasting for if you're going
to try for prolonged periods of time and the intermittent fasting means that you're
choosing an eating window so most people start with about an eight-hour window of eating so
for example if you start eating at 12 noon you would be able to eat from 12
till 8 pm that's your 8 hour window and then after 8 pm until 12 the next day at noon you
are not eating and that's your fasting window some people shorten their eating window even more some
you know are at four hours but if you can do then once you get used to the intermittent fasting then
you can prolong it and you can try to do a 24 hour fast so that's something i'd love if you
are big on fasting i'd love to hear from you below in the comments i would love to you know
get your take on fasting and how that's helped you because i know it's helped thousands and thousands
of people not only for you know getting into autophagy but for weight loss also
and more importantly in today's topic to help to protect against that emf damage now another thing
that i'd like to discuss is something called the nrf2 pathway and this is a pathway that is
more recently discovered and what this pathway does it's like a master switch to turn on your
antioxidant status in your own body and this is something that is great because it increases
the production of your antioxidants helps to decrease inflammation in the body and increases
detox pathways so that's important in the liver but also in your other organs to increase that
detoxification so now you're lessening your impact of those emfs and that radiation on your cellular
mechanism so that's really important so there are specific foods and nutrients that help to turn
on this nrf2 pathway so let's start with green tea so green tea is something that i love whether it's
supplemented or you're drinking two to three cups of green tea every day make sure that's
a high quality preferably organic green tea but green tea contains something called egcg
this is a potent potent antioxidant which has a lot to do with protection of our cells so that's
something that also of course increases the nrf2 pathway so increasing your own internal
antioxidant status and the production of your own antioxidants internally now another great food
or drink is grapes or red wine so yes a little bit of red wine in moderation of course
contains resveratrol which also activates the nrf2 pathway which is fantastic and we know the
you know vast amount of benefits from having red wine and that resveratrol now certainly if you're
watching your carbohydrates and this is something else that i discussed in a previous episode
is we don't want to be spiking our blood glucose when we're trying to protect our body from that
emf radiation now some people can get away with it if you live very close to the equator you can get
a little bit more carbohydrate into your diet but for the most part we really have to watch
our carb exposure and why is that because the damaging rays of those emfs and that radiation
has more of an impact in our bodies when our insulin levels are not balanced and
this is something a lot of research is is going into this right now and that's why it's been
shown that you know by balancing our carbohydrates and having more of the healthy fats in our diet
this is very protective for that emf radiation so if you're going to go with the resveratrol
sometimes supplementation is a better way to go without the carbs and without the sugar
but also to have a little bit of red wine and some red grapes here and there
is okay just don't do it in the mornings that's when you're more insulin sensitive
and garlic so i love garlic garlic is nature's antibiotic has so many different beneficial
effects helps to thin the blood and keep the viscosity of the blood healthy but also activates
our nrf2 pathways so that's important again for our internal antioxidant status and again
we want to do everything as naturally as we can and of course protecting ourselves from emfs is
something that we absolutely have to think about every day so whether it is from our cell phones
whether it's from wi-fi whether it is from the 5g towers and we're in close proximity it could
even be baby monitors we have to make sure that we are decreasing our exposure as much as possible so
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