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Justin Benton, a guest on the show, shares his journey with the miracle plant and its impact on his son's autism. He discusses his research on CBD and its potential health benefits, highlighting its ability to reduce seizures in children with epilepsy. Justin emphasizes the importance of holistic approaches and unveils the hidden history of hemp, shedding light on its versatile uses.
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[00:00:00] You, this endocannabinoid system is like the puppet master that will balance the other nine systems. So if you take it every day, twice a day, I mean, we've seen the blood work, but I do a lot of studies with blood work and research and things like that, like it helps your body find what's called homeostasis or balance.
So if you take it once or twice a day, You'll be amazed. It just helps your body do what your body wants to do. When you were seven years old and you got a scratch, and the scratch was gone in the morning, that's a healthy body with a healthy immune system, and that's what this plant does.
Welcome to the Miracle Plant Podcast, the show that inspires, promotes and gives you a daily dose of inspiration from the people who have used cannabis to change their lives in extraordinary ways. Here's your host, Justin Benton.[00:01:00]
Welcome back to the Miracle Plant Podcast, where we discussed this miracle plant with so many names and how it's helping people in so many extraordinary ways. Well, today we got an awesome, uh, treat for you. Uh, I was recently on a podcast called Atypical Parenting with Don. Tree. She is a nurse practitioner who's actually got a lot of experience, uh, in the cannabis, uh, world.
And, uh, I was a guest and I thought the interview went so well and the podcast was so cool, um, that I would share it here with you and so you could hear it. Uh, again, that's atypical Parenting with Don Tree and her, uh, journey. And her podcast is about, uh, bringing on experts and parents, uh, of children who've been diagnosed with autism.
And of course, that's how my journey got started with The Miracle Plant and, uh, how this Miracle Plant helped my son overcome his diagnosis and to pay it forward for what this beautiful. Miracle Plan has done. So anyways, sit back, have a [00:02:00] listen, enjoy, and I can't wait to hear what you think about this show and any show.
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You're about to listen to. So happy healing and be a blessing.
Hey, welcome to Atypical Parenting, the podcast for people who love someone with autism. This is Dawn Tree and we are honored today to have a guest with us who knows a whole lot about a topic that I think most of you are going to want to learn about it, and that is c, b, D. You know, we've heard a lot about it.
I think most of us have a favorable impression of it, but it's a little on the [00:03:00] outskirts of the typical treatments that our doctors suggest to us. So I invited Justin here today because he has started a company and he is involved in the process from seed to sprout to product. And he's gonna talk to us today all about that and about the health benefits and what to look for in the products that we wanna buy.
Another interesting thing about Justin is that he kind of got involved in all of this because his son has autism. So welcome Justin. I'm so glad to have you. Well, thanks for having me, and I'm so glad we got a chance to connect. I saw that, you know, as the universe worked out that, uh, I don't know if we reached out to you or you reached out to us, but when I saw your podcast, I knew that I would love to be a guest, so I'm so honored to be here.
Yeah. My journey is, I got started on this road in about 2014. We had our second child, healthy, beautiful boy, redhead [00:04:00] and um, our first child was a girl, so we had the girl and the boy, and then I think we even had a white picket fence. But life was good. And, uh, you know, he was, uh, healthy and happy and learning to play baseball and tee tee-ball and Reid and talk and play and do all the stuff that kids do.
Then after a routine checkup with the doctor's office, we noticed a, a real quick regression. And at first I was like, oh, it's just a phase. And, and he used help her out of it. My wife trusted her instincts, which I always encourage everyone to do, and she went back in to see if there was anything wrong and go check the ears and all these kinds of things.
And then, you know, we got the phone call. That forever changed my life that Shea was diagnosed with severe autism. So I was like, you know, what happened? How did this happen? I just was in shock, you know? For those of us all in this journey, that first diagnosis, that first call, you know that pit of your stomach and you're like, well, what do I do?
Is it hereditary? Is it contagious? Is it from like the movie Rain Man? You [00:05:00] just don't know. I mean, you're just not. Equipped. Fortunately, I was raised holistically by my mother, um, and she was also a school psychologist for 25 years retired, who helped kids with special needs. I flew her out and I said, Hey mom, we got a diagnosis.
Will you check it out? So when she came out and said she agreed there was a problem, That's when it became very real to me. And I, I mean, it basically collapsed. And so then I knew, well, you know, when these moments happen in life, you can either succumb or you can rise. And so I got up the next day and said, okay, well whatever we're doing, we're gonna get Chase's health back.
And so we went on a food allergy. Did the food allergy test through hair. It's a, it's a company outta Canada called Vitality Analysis. And for a couple hundred bucks you could send a couple strands of heron and it'll tell you everything your body is supposed to be taking more of and everything your body does not like.
It rates everything on a scale from plus 800 to minus 800. And so you'll be amazed at how some things that we think are healthy for us aren't. You know, as, as we [00:06:00] know in this world now with all of the environmental toxins and things that are everywhere, how many more allergies are out there? Yeah, it's true.
And so we found that we got rid of all the processed foods, all the refined sugars, so, The, the, anything that colors your food, anything that makes your food taste sweeter, it's basically our country's one of the only countries that'll allow us to eat this crap. It's pretty disgusting, really. And, uh, you just dunno that, right?
You wake up and you think that, you know, your, maybe your government or there's, there's, there's guardrails that are out there that would protect us. Unfortunately, that's just not been my experience and my research and my life and what I've seen from thousands of other families. Well, you hate to be a conspiracy theorist, right?
Like I'm so not into any of that. But the food in the United States that our government allows and encourages in a lot of ways is total shit. Yes, absolutely. 100%. Um, you can't buy a Gatorade in France. It's against the law. Well, you know, I mean, there are reasons that unfortunately, Us, US citizens are, we're having for the first [00:07:00] time I, and maybe in the human history or, or at least the last 247 years of our country, our life expectancy is actually going down.
I know, I read that. That's crazy. And so it's a point where we have these incredible podcasts because you're not seeing this on your evening news. If you say things like this on social media, then obviously yeah, you can get labeled all kinds of negative things. We're up against a very, very powerful machine that makes trillions of dollars.
Yeah, absolutely. And so anyways, I didn't know any of this beforehand. I mean, again, I was raised holistically, so I had an inkling. So we got my son as healthy diet. I mean, we're talking juice, organic juicing probiotics. We use a company called Sun Rider that's got some really great organic cold enzymes, dehydrated that they use out of, uh, Asia.
And so we got his diagnosis down from severe to medium, and so we could start the teaching read again. Wow. How long that took about. Six months before we got another diagnosis. And I'm [00:08:00] sorry, how old was he when he was diagnosed? Three is when it started. So he would be about three and a half or four when we did the healthy diet intervention.
But he wasn't all the way back. You know, we could still see the delays and so I wasn't gonna, you know, stop. And back then there wasn't anything on C B D and autism. I mean, nothing cuz I, no, I would've come across it. But I was sitting, having, uh, breakfast with a friend of mine who's a cannabis farmer and I'm a cannabis farmer.
We started growing just kind of for fun. Um, I wasn't ever, I smoked and inhaled and exhaled in college and got the full experience. But I knew if I needed to graduate, I needed to probably slow it down. And I did. And I actually stopped back then, but he was still growing cannabis and I was helping him.
And uh, we just had breakfast one day. We just wanted to catch up. And his buddy was a doctor, Dr. Preston and out here in California. And he wanted Todd's my friend Todd, his help, um, with a C B D roll on for pain. And I said, well, what is cbd? Right? That's what we all do. Like the, remember the first time [00:09:00] you heard of cbd?
What is cbd? And he goes, I guess it helps with pain. Well, I go, why is he asking you? He goes, it comes from cannabis. I go, well, dude, I know a lot about cannabis. I've never heard of cbd. And I, and I did know a lot. Wow. And I, we grew it. And so he said, well, uh, apparently it comes from a strain of, of cannabis called hemp, um, which is anything with less than 0.3% THC doesn't get you high.
And you know, we think of hemp, we think of rope and paper and clothes and sales and all that. But apparently it also, hemp has high levels of C B, D that helps with pain. So what do we all do? When we first hear something, we type it into Dr. Google and I typed it in and really quickly, I saw that CBD was helping children with epilepsy.
And so I was like, whoa. And obviously I'm looking for a cure or an answer or an answer to a prayer is for my son. Like, okay, what can we do? And so I'm like, oh my goodness. So there's a plant, which I love, plants, plant-based, that is literally getting [00:10:00] rid of seizures and epilepsy for kids. Like I was like, this is nuts.
So I was like, okay, well what about autism? And so I didn't see anything on Dr. Google, and so I went and became a CBD expert. I, I researched, I interviewed, I flew, I traveled, I went everywhere. I was like, okay, this is my best lead. This is what I'm gonna do. Lo and behold, there was research, you know, dating back, I mean, it goes back 8,000 years in medical journals and orient.
But Dr. Raphael Machu in 1963 was the first to actually start to study cbd and the first, it's called a cannabinoid. So a cannabinoid is a part of the cannabis plant and a cannabinoid like C B, D, which stands for cannabidiol. Was discovered in 1963, um, and started to be studied. And in 1970s, Dr. Raphael Machu, he did a study with nine children with epilepsy and seizures, and he gave C, B, D to all nine.
And all nine either had [00:11:00] drastic reduction or elimination of the seizures. Now, this was a published article, you can find it in pubmed.gov in the 1970s. And so he thought he had just basically, you know, made his contribution to the world. Here's comes the Nobel Peace Prize. This is gonna be the biggest thing since penicillin.
And wouldn't, you know, it got buried. He never picked up, no one ever picked it up. And so in 2019, he, he was still alive. He came out to caned in Pasadena, you know, some 40 years later, and admonished the healthcare system and the medical system. How dare you? Now, in 2019, I'm coming here as a keynote speaker at a, it was a cannabis medical, uh, conference, and, you know, and said th how many millions of lives could have been helped and saved.
If my published works would've been able to been picked up and, and you know, obviously we're happy now [00:12:00] that you and I are having this conversation and, and c b, D and cannabidiol is, is helped so many children and families, but it's, it's, it's more than that. So C b D is just a part of this plant. Vitamin C is just a part of an orange.
It's really the orange, the whole orange that gives your body the ability to receive and get the nutrients. Yes, yes. The live enzymes to really help boost your body. And that's the same with the cannabis plant. You said something a minute ago that I think a lot of people are confused about it. Honestly, like, you know, I've been kind of up to date on all of this.
I'm a medical marijuana prescriber, and I, to be truthful, did not know that hemp. And marijuana are the same plant. They're just different strains. Hemp is just a made up word. Uh, it's a made up. Um, I shouldn't say it's a made up word. It's actually dates back to can aboso in the Bible. If we want to go all the way back to Moses 2,800 years ago, Canna, Boso stands for hemp, uh, [00:13:00] aromatic and they even changed the word can aboso in the Greek translation of the Bible in 300 ad.
To mean Calamus, which is a marshy plant. That doesn't make any sense. So they literally hid the cannabis. They've been hiding it from us for 1700 years when they translated it from Hebrew to Greek. But, um, yes, so hemp is just, um, it was an arbitrary number by some Canadians that said, any cannabis plant that has less than 0.3 tenths of a percent of thc.
Is considered hemp because anything less than 0.3 THC is certainly not psychoactive. You certainly not gonna get high. It's was meant for industrial uses. George Washington grew hemp. We actually used it to help beat the the English bat. Even Thomas Jefferson said, hemp is a matter of national security.
Every farmer back in the early colonial days was required by law to grow at least one acre of hemp because it [00:14:00] was so resourceful. You could use it for so many things. It is crazy the amount of things you can use hemp for the fibers and the, you could make batteries. You could make biodegradable plastic.
It's an incredible plant. Wow. It's, it's really a, we, I have a podcast too called The Miracle Plant. We just talk about the, you know, these 50,000 users. Oh, I did not know that. I'm so glad to know that. Yeah. And so it was a blessing for my son. We, we didn't see the, the products on the market. Um, they were all made in that same heating, the plant.
Because in order to get, if you're looking for a psychotropic or a psychoactive effect, or what we call high or stone, If you ate raw marijuana, which again is a term that we made up in the 1930s to scare people, it's a, a Mexican slang term for the cannabis plant. So they passed in 1937. They made the movie Reefer Madness and all of this to scare people and confused people.
So they passed a law in 1937 called the Marijuana [00:15:00] Tax Act, which basically made marijuana and hemp illegal to grow. And so that was 85 years ago. Which was crazy was, so the American Medical Association, they had written, uh, 3.6 million prescriptions for cannabis oil, for headaches and all types of pain and inflammation and things like that.
Stress, sleep. And so the head of the American Medical Association goes to Congress and I was like, what are you guys doing? You guys never consulted with us. You never talked to us. You just passed the bill. That took away one of our most powerful weapons or tools in the toolbox to help people. Live a happy, healthy life.
And that had been on until 2000, roughly 14 was when, uh, Colorado and other states started the federally legalized cannabis. And then the, the 2014 farm bill federally legalized hemp again, which it should have always been legal. 2018, they passed a farm bill that made it very, very clear that it's 100% as legal as soybeans and corn.
Yeah. Even though the FDA doesn't really wanna hear that [00:16:00] because there's not a lot of money in regulating C B D. Which, whatever. I'll give the FDA a pass just because I'm trying to be nice, but they're set up for billion dollar great pharmaceutical companies. They're not set up. Mm-hmm. To give us clear pathways so we can register our products with them.
You can register your products. I've registered my products with the fda. Right. But they don't have a legal. Pathway for them to approve them. They kicked it back to Congress recently, and so again, truly it's a billion, trillion dollar industry. There's a drug out there that GW Pharma made called Epidiolex, which is a C B D isolate, which means they isolate now this beautiful plant with 512 components.
So they cook off the other 511, turn it into a white powder like the pharmaceutical model does. And then they sell that product, which is not nearly as effective because it's just an isolate for $32,500 a year for kids who have epilepsy. [00:17:00] And that's where the fight's at, cuz GW Pharma wants to say they own the patents, the C B D and C B D A.
Which C B D is the raw cbd. And, um, and that's where we're at because there's not enough money. The good news is we're the good guys. We're here to help. Um, a lot of us have been affected by this plant, especially with our, our children, and we've got great lawyers and great lobbyists, and we're winning. We haven't won the fight, but we are winning.
And, uh, we will continue to fight and we will continue to win ultimately. I think when you look at history, it's really a fascinating thing that they were so, over the years, they've been so meticulous and methodical in getting people anxious about marijuana, right? Marijuana, we can't. And then at the same time, they created a massive opioid epidemic where people are literally dying in the streets.
It's mind boggling. [00:18:00] And still they're at it. Yeah, it's always something because there's so much money being made. But the good news is we've ended up growing some hemp ourselves. Dr. Raphael Machu, the original doctor, the godfather of cannabinoids, as we call 'em, he proved that raw hemp, raw C B D A, the A stands for acidic.
That's what the plant makes. C B D A. It's raw is up to a thousand times more effective than. Cooked. Heated C B D. Wow. So when I found that research, and also Dr. William Courtney, who's been on my podcast, um, Was the, is the leading raw cannabis researcher. He showed using juicing cannabis was shrinking tumors and helping people in stage four cancer and having incredible results.
So then I put the two together. I said, okay, well no one sells this stuff. I'll just grow it and juice it, cold, press it myself and then, and added it to my son's juice. And then we made some oils and lo and behold, his diagnosis is no longer, uh, he doesn't carry the autism diagnosis. So, um, our, our prayers were answered.
How old is your [00:19:00] son now? He is 10. We're going to a baseball game later on today and, uh, with the family and he, um, excelling in music and academics and, uh, you know, bat and cleanup for his baseball. I mean, really all of our dreams came true. And like I said, it's not just because we took C B D, um, and every case.
Right. Of course. It sounds like you had a very holistic model Correct. To help yourself. Yeah. And our bodies, our bodies want to heal and sometimes, yeah. You have to give them the things that they need to heal. Um, but you'd be amazed, yeah. What our bodies, I don't want anyone to come away from this podcast thinking that we're saying, Hey, here's the magic ccb d.
It'll fix all your problems. Like, no, that's not, that's not what we're saying at all. No, but I do think C b, D and hemp as a plant substance with all of the different compounds it has and antioxidant properties, and this is a really important thing that you may find helpful. Absolutely. I think there is a lot of fear about like hemp [00:20:00] marijuana, C B D T H C, right?
Like nobody wants to get their kid high, which, uh, you know, of course we don't wanna do that. Um, so. What would you say to those parents who are struggling with that question? Well, I was in the same boat because I remember, you know, obviously my son had a, a neurological diagnosis and his brain was over inflamed and couldn't detoxify the heavy metals and the pesticides that were in his body.
Cause we did tests for that as well. And so the last thing on the planet I would wanna do was get my son high. How confusing and weird that would be. And I, you know, so, and again, as a cannabis partaker, I knew what that could feel like. And so cannabis, there was no chance. But when I found out there was a hemp plant that wouldn't get you high, that was high in C B D A.
I was like, okay, like let's do this. So all of our products, you know, well, they weren't products back then, it was just making it for my son, but all of them were made for my [00:21:00] son. And so all I did afterwards was put up a little sign and, and an office building that I had up here and, and all I was gonna do was pay it forward to autistic families or families dealing with autism or on the spectrum.
And so that was it. And I didn't think anything of it other than I'm paying it forward because no one told that this, this needs to be out there. And, and, and it helped, but then other people started come in for lots of other things as well. But just understand that even if you saw the movie Chechen Chung right up and Smoke and the cop pulls him over and Tommy Chung is eating all of the marijuana right in the scene.
And then he goes on like this acid trip. Well, here's the funny thing. That's not true. If you ate raw marijuana high in T H C A, cuz that's how the plant makes T H C A, you would not get high, you would get healthy. That is why you put fire to cannabis because you have to burn, you have to convert that T H C A into T HC Delta nine.
The plant itself is [00:22:00] the superfood of Superfood and we. That's fascinating. So I guess with edibles, like when people do edibles, that's processed then prior to, it's been heated. Uh, the fancy word is decarboxylated, but yes, they've converted the T H C A into THC Delta nine when you put fire to it. And, uh, even when you make brownies, if you've ever made brownies in the past, you have to cook them in the oven, the, the cannabis or the marijuana, cook 'em in the oven, then cook 'em in a pot, and then put them with the butter to cook 'em in the butter and then drain the butter and put the butter into the brownies.
That's a lot of heat that you're applying to the cannabis plant. You know what I mean? And look, if you wanna enjoy the, the recreational side of the plant, by all means, um, go for it. And all I would say even on that level is consume the plant. Don't smoke vapes and don't do weird crap and dabs and all of this junk folks.
It's a plant. It's beautiful plant. God [00:23:00] put this plant here for me and you is to, to quote, uh, smokey from the movie Friday. For me, t hc, I, I don't enjoy it. It, it gives me some anxiety and some paranoia and things like that, and it wasn't for me. I gave up on the plant in my early twenties, but when I found what it was doing for children with epilepsy and what it did for my son, that's why I'm on podcasts like this.
That's why I have a podcast, is to educate people and to have these conversations. And I understand that it's confusing, but all I can say is, Give it a shot. C b, d, you've been taking it your whole life. It's in broccoli, it's in kale. Our body makes it naturally in our human breast milk and our, when our, when our body makes it, it's called an endocannabinoid, which is called two dash Ag.
When a plant makes, it's called a phytocannabinoid. And that's what these cannabinoids, like cannabidiol, CBD is, and our, our doctors weren't taught this in medical school, and we've got a long ways to go, but the good news is we've come a long ways. Yeah, we definitely have, I think when you frame it that way, like the plant [00:24:00] matter, the benefits of it are similar to broccoli and cabbage and whatever else.
Like I think that is something that people can wrap their head around. So when you say ingested in whole plant form, what does that mean for people? Well, I, if you would like, you can go to our website. We have a few, but 1 0 1 hemp.org is the.org we set up and when you order a product and we have some free products and we have free consultations to actually visit with my mom, the holistic healer, Janet, it's ask janet.org and she'll walk you through all your questions, especially with all, she was the one that led the way to help my son with the holistic healing.
But you know, at the end of the day when you consume the whole plant, that's what our bodies know how to receive. So if you want, when you order something, you could ask for seeds. We give you free seeds and videos, how to grow it in your backyard. It's still not too late. You could still throw 'em in a pot in your backyard or in some soil and grow the plant.
Oh my gosh, it's so fun. Right next to your cucumbers. So [00:25:00] let's just play this forward. If you were to get some seeds, yep. Grow the plant in your backyard, what would you do with it? So you just gotta get a lot of water and sunshine and anything else that you've done. If you have any kind of green thumb, even if you don't, just give it a shot.
And then if you can start to use some natural plant foods that you would find, uh, I use g and b organics, but whatever works for you. But so you get to grow it and after about, uh, you know, it'll start out as a little seedling and it'll grow to, you know, maybe two or three feet. And then it'll start to flour the female plants flour.
The male plants are the ones that make the seeds once they start to flour, once they're fully, you know, in bloom you can pick 'em and juice 'em. Like literally that's what I do. I clip 'em and throw 'em in my kale and carrots and uh, apples and, and all these organic things and oranges. So you just juice the flour.
The budd, yeah. You could juice everything. Uhhuh, uh, the stocks are a little tricky on the juicer. I wouldn't recommend putting that in there, but just clip anything off the stock leaves and [00:26:00] bud all alone and, and put it right in there. You could, you know, maybe a small handful would be enough for like a, a, a big juice for the day.
And that's the best way to do it. The second best thing would be to, to have it. And then, um, you know, either, uh, would freeze it. You can freeze it. They can last after about two years. You'll lose some of the live enzymes that way, but you can just pick it out of your, uh, freezer and clip 'em in there. And that's what, that's how our products are, are designed to reflect, which is cold pressed, cold extracted.
Whole plant. Just think of it like hemp. Yeah. So I'm thinking about this in my own life, right? Like, yeah, I have room for a few planters. I could have lots of room and I have a little bit of time, and maybe I could do this, but I would never have time to do it on a regular basis enough to take it every day.
So it sounds like you've. You're doing this on a large scale, and would you recommend people take this every day? Do you take it every day? Oh yeah, absolutely. So, Dr. William [00:27:00] Courtney, who's the raw cannabis doctor, um, who really led the way in 2010, he said, if you took cannabis, hemp, whatever you wanna call it, if you ate it every day as a dietary food essential, which it should be, uh, you wouldn't have to use it as a medicine.
It literally it. Our bodies each, every body has what's called an endocannabinoid system. Every mammal has it. And this endocannabinoid system was discovered by Dr. Rafael Chulo again in 1991. And basically this endocannabinoid system balances all over the nine major systems in your body. So whatever you're going through, whatever health challenge it is, endocrine, skeletal, you name it, hormonal.
You, this endocannabinoid system is like the puppet master that will balance the other nine systems. So if you take it every day, twice a day, I mean, we've seen the blood work. I do a lot of studies with blood work and research and things like that, like it helps your body find what's called homeostasis or balance.
So if you take it once or twice a day, you'll be [00:28:00] amazed. It just helps your body do what your body wants to do. When you were seven years old and you got a scratch, and the scratch was gone in the morning, that's a healthy body with a healthy immune system, and that's what this plant does.
You need to do the other things. You need to drink water. You need to exercise. You need to be mindful, you need to sleep. You know, you need to make sure you're eating healthy. You do those five things and you make sure that you're adding in with your food. We all went through the kale craze. We all went through the celery craze.
My hope and dreams are that we'll go through that raw hemp craze and it'll last. Another 8,000 years. Wow. So let's just circle back a minute. I mean, obviously we've discussed like how good it is for you physiologically, how does it help your mental health? This is the thing that people miss, I think, in mental health, is that mental health is really about the way your brain and your nervous system function, right?
Like we know that [00:29:00] when neurons fire a certain way that. It results in thoughts or feelings or whatever, right? Like, and I think that that connection between healthy organ systems and brain function, mental health mood gets lost. So what are the benefits to a person's mood or mental health that you've seen?
So the number one reason people come, and I'm in one of my stores right now here in, in Ventura, California, um, the number one reason that people come to our stores or to our websites is pain. But when March of 2020 happened, it quickly had an equal rival, which was stress and anxiety. And so what is stress and anxiety?
Well, it's an overstimulation of the brain. Uh, I call it popcorn brain. There's just too much going on. Too many thoughts, too many external interference going on. We have these phones in our pockets and these news, and all of a sudden we need to be, you know, keeping up with the Joneses. And like if we all lived on an island and [00:30:00] our only decision was.
In the morning, do I need to have coconut juice or pineapple juice? I promise you, you wouldn't be as stressed as you are. We have too much going on in our lives and no one had taught us how to live in this world. This is, and we do voluntarily to ourselves too, which is kind of crazy. Exactly. I mean, we're basically addicted to these phones, which I think is gonna be funny at some point cuz the kids are gonna say, why do we call these things phones again, that's just like one little thing that they do.
Um, and so, you know, again, how does it help? Well, your brain is firing too much. It's overstimulated and that is where stress comes from. Uh, if it's understimulated, that's where depression comes from. So again, because this plant helps find homeostasis or balance, it's like setting a thermostat. Your brain.
Should be set at 32 degrees. And when it rises to 96, that's stress. If it drops to 60, that's depression. So when you take this plant and eat healthy and drink good clean water, knock that stuff out of the tap, [00:31:00] uh, then your body will help naturally balance itself. Look, your body's the most beautifully designed creation ever on, on earth, uh, and it knows how to regulate itself.
But you have to give it, it does things that help regulate it, drinking caffeine and drinking a bunch of crappy sugar and not exercising and, and looking at, at things that are on your phone that are designed to invoke fear because we have a 2 million year old brain that looks for what's wrong. Um, again, this plant will help your body and your brain just find balance and peace.
You need to do your part as well. But it'll help regulate those circadian rhythms that we have up there. Circadian rhythms that refers to sleep. Does it help with that? Absolutely. So that's the number three reason people come. So one is pain, two is stress, three is sleep. So some people will come in for pain.
Which is the most common, and the pain will go away, or it'll go down so much that it doesn't even feel like pain anymore. If you've lived with chronic pain, you won't even recognize it as pain, [00:32:00] but then they'll be like, man, I'm sleeping incredibly well. Because again, what is sleep? Sleep is where our body recharges.
Sleep is where our brain heals and is so critical to being healthy. So if it's slowing down the anxiety in your head during the day, but it's also slowing down the anxiety in your head at night. And it's letting your thermostat get to 72. And that's the way you can sleep. And again, there's other ways that you can make sure you're sleeping, staying off of screens, not eating too late, you know, um, getting into a rhythm for sleep and things like that.
But sleep is so crucial. So I mean, again, if, if something all of us can do right now is take your body weight, divide it in half, and that's the number of ounces. In water, clean water, like, you know, I prefer distilled, but reverse osmosis and natural springs good too. And, uh, if you drink that water and you get that sleep, I mean, put your, put your body up against anything and it'll be so much better off.
We're severely dehydrated as a country and, uh, we don't sleep enough. So if you sleep and drink more [00:33:00] water, You're gonna be feeling a lot better. It is. You know, as a healthcare provider, these sorts of conversations make me feel so conflicted, right? Like, because what you're saying is a hundred percent true, and it's exactly what I say to patients, and yet getting people to do it is so difficult.
And even myself on some days, right? Would I rather drink coffee than water? Sure, of course. But that's not how you stay healthy. Well, that's the thing. So like if you don't, because a dis dis-ease is showing your body saying, Hey, something's wrong. I'm trying to get your attention. If you don't have a severe diagnosis and you're relatively healthy, You know?
Yeah. You splurge a little. Look, you know there's people that didn't have dessert on the Titanic, right? I mean, you need to enjoy your life, but if you are on a severe diagnosis or you are, or your child Yes. Or a loved one, if you've got that wake up call, which is what that is, a diagnosis is saying, Hey, let's get to work, then yes, it's time to get serious like [00:34:00] we did with my son.
Get a food allergy test, right? Make sure the right foods you're, and look, if it isn't coming from the ground and organic, then. It's, you probably need to stay away from, it doesn't need to come in a box if you can't print out the ingredients, uh, you certainly can't get it through a drive-through. Right. Uh, you just gotta get your body healthy again, and, and that's what you need to do.
So, but if you are healthy, yeah. I mean, look, um, you know, have dessert, things like that, but just everything as we all know, it comes in moderation. Yeah, absolutely. You just talked a minute ago about, Organic. Do you, um, use any pesticides in the producing of the hemp? Absolutely not. The good news is that hemp was so new that it technically became legal, if you wanna call it federally legal in 2018, which it should have been forever.
They, it was so new that they had not been able to even U S D A and the governing bodies have not been able to prescribe or. Sign off on pesticides for hemp. So you literally can't use pesticides on hemp, [00:35:00] which is great cuz a lot of people are like, oh well you know, cuz we'll get people asking us for what's called COAs or certificate of analysis, which shows that you don't use pesticides, which is great and I love it.
But then I sit there and I think, are you looking for COAs when you go through the drive through? Uh, or the restaurant. I mean, it's like, come on, people like, and I get it, but, but it's, it is an awakening. That and the pesticides, the glyphosate, and the roundup, and it's everywhere. It's in our water table.
It's in our umbilical cords. I mean, it's just everywhere. So we just have to be so conscious of. Organic. You know, look, there's the talking points that are out there, and those talking points weren't made by you. It's cost so much more to eat it. Organic and all the whole foods, whole paycheck. Look, that's big Pharma working.
Yeah. They work in their systems. They own 75% of all the commercials that you watch on television, 75%. There are only two countries in the entire world that will allow. Pharmaceutical companies to be advertised on [00:36:00] television. It's the United States and New Zealand. Go figure. No one else allows drug companies to advertise.
On television, right? Do you know how much money pharmaceutical companies pay in television advertising? It is 75%. I know it's crazy. So that being said, right, you need to make sure that, like I said earlier in the podcast, trust your own instincts. Do your own research. You're up against a trillion, multiple.
Trillion dollar, big food, big ag, big pharma. All of these companies, you know, uh, big healthcare, there is no money in you growing plants in your backyard staying healthy, drinking water, but there's a lot of health. Exactly, exactly. I do find it funny that, you know, you're right. There's all that talk about like organics are expensive and it is, believe me, if when I'm in the grocery store and I'm looking at the organic strawberries next to the regular strawberries and there's a $3 difference, I'm like, damn.
But at the same [00:37:00] time, like you're gonna get the amount of nutrients in three strawberries that are organic, that you're going to get in two of those other containers just because of the way that they're farmed, as well as the lack of pesticides and poisons that you're putting in your body. So I think it's very, very misleading.
So that's excellent to know that there's no pesticides used in hemp. You know, I was reading a study, um, just prior to this interview because I wanted to brush up on the topic and I saw that. Um, there's some evidence that it helps with weight loss, which obviously is a topic that myself is a middle-aged woman and, uh, most of American middle-aged women want to know about.
Do you know anything about that? So, yes. Um, again, because hemp whole plant, raw hemp helps your body find homeostasis or balance, it's gonna help balance blood sugar, which is food cravings. And so we even have a product that we made for that and we infused some goji berries and Jim Nema. But, uh, which also help as well.
But at the [00:38:00] end of the day, it, it certainly is gonna help your body. So we'll see people that'll come in for like pain or cancer, and they'll take our products and they'll get their blood work done on a constant basis. And then their doctor will be like, what is going on? You know, you've had diabetes for, you know, 20 years and now your blood sugar levels are.
You don't have diabetes anymore. What did you change? What happened? Maybe I pulled the wrong records. What's going on? We hear this all the time. Wow. Uh, because again, if you're taking basically, you know, cold pressing and concentrating hemp into these little oils that you put under your tongue is kind of like cheating.
It's like eating healthy for 30 days. It's all these nutrients are packed in there. And so if you ate healthy for 30 days and drank good water and exercised and slept, and were mindful, Uh, you'd be amazed what your blood levels would look like, and so yes, we see it all the time. And also sometimes what we need is a pattern interrupt.
So instead of reaching for the potato chips or the glass of wine or the chocolate bar, if you grab [00:39:00] a, even if it's a C B D or a celery or water, but it's a pattern interrupt. If you grab the cbd, hold it under your tongue for five minutes and let allow it to get into your bloodstream, through your sublingual glands, it will help regulate.
It'll help anxiety. Maybe a lot of us stress, heat, a lot of us emotionally. So if you're not as emotional as you were 10 minutes ago because you took cbd, that will help as well, you know? But yes, I was just back from Denmark with my family, and again, every time they build a highway in Denmark, they build a bike path.
So you can ride a bike anywhere in Denmark, anywhere, anywhere you think. When they build a road, a highway, there's a bike path. That's awesome. So we don't exercise as much as we need to. Um, you know, we have lots of distractions. Um, we have the most toxic water and food in the planet. And, uh, it's, it's inexcusable that it's that way.
But now, if you're listening to this podcast, well, you know, Pandora's Box is open. It's on you now. Do your own research. Find your good water. Find your good food. Yeah. You don't, you think if you, and I challenge you to challenge me, go see what I say is true or not, [00:40:00] and go out there and find it. And where I like to go is pubmed.gov.
There's lots of great medical journals as well to read. Do your own expert, uh, you know, experimenting and. Um, ask your friends and neighbors, what are they doing, you know, as far as C b D or, or things like that. Um, see what, or water. There's different schools of thoughts, but again, if you're drinking lots of water and you're eating healthy, um, you're gonna, you're gonna be feeling a lot better and your body's gonna be able to fight off whatever it is you're dealing with.
That's amazing. I think that you are doing some good stuff out there in the world. Well, thanks. It's been my honor to, uh, blessing to pay it forward. Really. Yeah. So if people wanna know more about your product, your company, where should they go? 1 0 1 hemp.org is a good place to go to. If you wanted to maybe check out some of the products that we're talking about.
Also, my mom, Janet, is a wonderful resource, a holistic healer. It's a free consultation. It's a Zoom call or a phone call. It's a ask. [00:41:00] janet.org. She's the researcher of researcher. She knows all there is to know about the body and health. And so what does she do? Is she like a health coach or what is her kind of title?
She just does it for free. She's just a wonderful person that helps people. Wow. And, uh, we've helped. That's amazing. Mostly a lot of it's autism questions about autism and what we should do and shouldn't do, or what was worked for our journey Uhhuh. Um, but she's, you know, helped her husband. Uh, heal cancer.
Wow. She's, you know, we've developed products for eczema. Yeah. She's also, um, helps into product development as well. So she's just an amazing woman. Wow. That's awesome. And I think that's such a great resource because a lot of people, when I have these conversations in the office, they wanna know, well, how much, how many milligrams Exactly.
What, what brand? Like I don't really know the answers to those questions. So to have somebody like, Your mom, ask Janet. That's phenomenal. That's awesome. So ask janet.org. I'm gonna put all of these links in the bottom of the show [00:42:00] notes. Also, you mentioned some hair testing, vitality analysis, and some enzyme products that you talked about in the beginning.
I'll put that stuff in the the show notes as well. So check it out. You're gonna find some good stuff down there. I hope you enjoyed the episode today. And thank you so much for joining me. Thanks for having me.