The Hidden Dangers in Our Food and Water: A Deep Dive with Janet Benton Gaylord In this episode of the Roots to Riches podcast, I, Justin Benton, am thrilled to welcome back a very special guest and co-host from the Miracle Plant podcast days, my mom, Janet Benton Gaylord. Janet has been deeply immersed in writing a book that encapsulates her decades of work in health, and today she shares some of the invaluable insights she's gathered.
The Hidden Dangers in Our Food and Water: A Deep Dive with Janet Benton Gaillard
In this episode of the Roots to Riches podcast, I, Justin Benton, am thrilled to welcome back a very special guest and co-host from the Miracle Plant podcast days, my mom, Janet Benton Gaillard. Janet has been deeply immersed in writing a book that encapsulates her decades of work in health, and today she shares some of the invaluable insights she's gathered.
We dive into the critical connection between health and wealth, emphasizing that true riches are unattainable without good health. Janet discusses the alarming rise in health issues among children in America over the past few decades, including neurological problems like ADHD and autism, as well as cancer and obesity. She highlights the importance of preventive measures and real solutions rather than temporary fixes.
Janet introduces her upcoming book, "Safe Journey Through Childhood: Biohacks to Maintain Optimal Health," which aims to provide parents with actionable steps to ensure their children's health. We explore some of the book's key chapters, including the importance of an organic diet, limiting hard-to-digest and low-nutritional foods, and maintaining an alkaline over acidic diet. Janet also stresses the significance of drinking clean, distilled water and the detrimental effects of processed foods and environmental toxins.
Throughout the episode, Janet shares her extensive background and credentials, from growing up in a healthy, organic environment to her advanced degrees in psychology and integrative nutrition. Her personal experiences with her family's health challenges further underscore her expertise and dedication to natural healing methods.
We also touch on the broader issues of food and pharmaceutical industries, the impact of environmental toxins, and the importance of doing thorough research to make informed health decisions. Janet's holistic approach and practical advice offer listeners valuable guidance on improving their health and the health of their children.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 - Introduction to the Podcast
00:00:09 - Pharmaceutical Profits vs. Organic Foods
00:00:43 - Welcome to the Miracle Plant Podcast
00:01:02 - Introduction to Roots to Riches Podcast
00:01:12 - Special Guest: Janet Benton Gaylord
00:01:55 - Importance of Health for Wealth
00:02:29 - Health Issues in Children
00:03:01 - Book Title: Safe Journey Through Childhood
00:03:43 - Increase in Health Issues Since the 1970s
00:04:04 - Obesity and Cancer Crisis in America
00:04:25 - Autism Epidemic
00:05:08 - Comparative Health Data: US vs. Other Countries
00:06:01 - Personal Connection to Autism
00:06:22 - Biohack: Use of CBDA
00:07:04 - Global Consultations on Autism
00:07:18 - Janet's Background and Credentials
00:08:05 - Growing Up Healthy in a Rural Family
00:08:59 - Importance of Purpose and Community
00:09:20 - Emphasis on Reading and Learning
00:09:53 - Physical Activity and Organic Living
00:10:25 - Academic Background and Degrees
00:11:08 - Professional Experience with Autism and Developmental Delays
00:12:44 - Integrative Nutrition and Herbal Medicine
00:13:37 - Book Chapter: Eating an Organic Diet
00:14:00 - Book Chapter: Limiting Hard-to-Digest Foods
00:17:11 - Importance of Organic Foods
00:19:00 - Processed Foods and Health
00:23:29 - Book Chapter: Alkaline vs. Acidic Diets
00:25:05 - Importance of pH Balance
00:29:00 - Plant-Based Diet Benefits
00:33:04 - Research and Transparency in Health
00:35:04 - Pharmaceutical Influence on Food and Health
00:37:27 - Book Chapter: Importance of Water
00:39:01 - Contaminants in Water Supply
00:41:07 - Benefits of Distilled Water
00:43:05 - Daily Water Intake Recommendations
00:45:10 - Water and Health
00:47:01 - Fundamentals of Health: Water and Nutrition
Janet:
It's so much easier to make quick profits from pharmaceuticals than it is from selling apples that are organic. There's not a huge markup on any of those things, but there's a huge markup. and pharmaceuticals and then the pharmaceutical people are also then obviously in charge of and in funding and doing the research on all of the vaccines. I think there were five or six vaccines when I was a kid.
undefined: 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.
Justin: Welcome back to the Roots to Riches podcast. I'm your host Justin Benton and we talk about all things boosting your health and boosting your wealth. Well today we have a very special guest. We haven't had an interview in a long time and actually we're bringing back a co-host from the days of way back on the Miracle Plant podcast. That's where this thing whole started. And it's my mom, Janet Benton Gaylord. She's been busy working on a book for most of the time since she's been gone from California. And now she's getting ever so close and I wanted to bring her on and share with us some of the insights she's discovered working on this book and really fine tuning her decades of work with health. And yeah, welcome to the to the new podcast, mom. How are you?
Janet: I'm doing great and so excited to be to share some of the information I've collated as I've begun working on writing the book and just related to your title. There is no riches without health. And I think a lot of people, I see especially a lot of people kind of in your demographic, young, hard charging people who forget about being healthy. They're so focused on winning and doing this and accomplishing that. But I'm actually more concerned as a parent and grandparent about the children in America and constant increases in health issues, which seem to be, for the majority of people, not being provided with solutions, no temporary things like a medication or do this, but no real solutions. And especially we don't seem to show any ways for parents to prevent issues that are rising with our children and their health in the last like 20 to 30 years, especially. And so my working title for my book is Safe Journey Through Childhood, Biohacks to Maintain Optimal Health. It used to be you had children and they just grew up and they were healthy and had a nice life and lived long. And if you have any awareness of what's happening, especially in America. that our health of our children and therefore our adults is not nearly as good as it was, and we have more disease and higher rates of disease than we've had, and it continues to increase. So one of the parts of my book is going to be the comparative data, both in the US over time, just from all my gathering of data, it looks like the increases really kind of started in the 70s. And that was especially in neurological problems like ADHD and autism, and also cancer and obesity. And those seem to be the major four that we are dealing with. And so those were used to be more, especially cancer and obesity. Obesity didn't used to be a thing when I was growing up, but cancer was still there, but not that common. And now both cancer and obesity are huge crises. I believe in America where over 50% of our population is obese. And this goes beyond a cute little chubby tummy. This is actually obesity that interferes with your health, interferes with movement and activity, interferes with your life satisfaction, and increases your chances of dying young. Be realistic. And then the autism epidemic, and I will call it an epidemic, has shown massive increases since the 1970s. to the present and continues to increase. We're down especially with boys. Autism happens in boys four to one over girls. In fact, in all my consultations, I've had that the most two to three girls with autism. And part of it is it's less common in girls and also it is often not as severe in girls or as noticeable. And just in general, boys tend to get more disease states than girls. I assume it's a biological thing to carry on the race by keeping the girls more protected. So anyway, we are showing this huge increases in these problems in the United States. And then also, when you compare to some countries that kind of eat like we do, like England, they're also showing those increases. Then there's some countries like Japan. that tend to eat healthier. And for instance, their obesity rate is like 4.5% compared to almost 50%. And obesity is another sign obviously of poor health, poor digestion, poor assimilation. And so again, too, we're showing that there's something different we're doing in the United States than people are doing in healthier countries. And so that's just a basis to show people why we're so interested. I'm also obviously from working with Justin and being his mother, have always been interested in autism and especially it became very personal when his son developed it as a two-year-old. And so that's how I've spent most of my time in the last, has it been decades? I know he's only getting towards 12 or whatever, but it's been about the last 10 years of my life. I focused on working with autism and then related ways to support and help ameliorate the symptoms. And we were so blessed to find A major biohack to me is the use of CBDA, the raw organic cold-pressed hemp product, cannabinoid, and organic, all the good things. It was one of the main, besides dietary changes, it was one of the main issues or the main biohacks, if I can call that, for removing the autism symptoms from my grandson. And so I've continued to do lots of consultations online. I do free consultations at askjanet.org. There are so many parents and seeming kind of extended around the world, Australia and Romania in different countries. The word kind of goes around, especially parents of autism looking for solutions. And so therefore the CBDA kind of spread around more. And so therefore, I've come across people from all different backgrounds and everything that have the very same problems and the same increase.
Justin: I was thinking maybe we should discuss, I mean, I know who you are and maybe some of those that are listeners of the podcast for a while know who you are. But maybe you should tell everyone a little history about yourself and your credentials these days, because you've got so many and so much experience in a vast variety of fields that why you would be so qualified to talk about health and children with special needs.
Janet: Well, I certainly seem to have been guided that way throughout my life. One thing unique about my background is, A, I'm older, so I grew up in a time when everybody was pretty healthy. I don't remember anybody in school having anything I would consider anything like autism or obesity or any health issues like that. I grew up in a large rural family out in the country where everything was homegrown and organic. Cows ate grass during the day and came in to get milk part of the year, but not all the time. And some huge differences too is I had no screens. Like our kids now so addicted and harmed by all their iPads and phones and television and things like that. We had a television, but we only watched it on Sunday night. to watch shows called Bonanza and Lawrence Welk, which you guys might not even have heard of. And so, so much of our time was spent outdoors. And we also worked with a purpose. We knew we were helping our family on the farm. And again, our kids today do not have much purpose. They come home and they might do homework, but they don't have like large overriding reasons or a sense of cooperation or working together for a common goal. And that, to me, was a huge part, too, as why you develop being focused and having goals and a sense of community. Also, I was unique in that we had a lot of reading, and everybody in my house read. And I taught myself to read at age three with a Reader's Digest book, just because I wanted to figure out what other people were doing. I also had a mother who shared poetry and played the piano. I mean, Just different things all add to me to the richness of the life I had, which I don't see much of anymore. Like I say, most homes I see the televisions on and the kids often isolated in their rooms with their own screens. And I don't see that whole sense of community and being outside and spending time together and playing basketball and baseball outside. And so I think just being physically active and again, belonging to a group and working for a group and eating healthy, I mean, everything was organic when I was growing up. We used animal manure or whatever as a fertilizer and everything was supernatural and very healthy. So I had a great background like that, a real strong sense of accomplishing goals and including going on to college. And so I have a bachelor's degree in which I had several English, sociology, social work, and psychology. I completed four areas. I kept finishing one and wanting to learn more, but psychology interested me the most. And so then I ended up getting a master's degree in developmental psychology. And then I went on to get an EDS in educational or school psychology. And my plan was to finish my PhD, but sometimes you have family issues. My son was in a car accident. My husband actually died. And so just a lot of things what happens when I did stop that and just focused on working, helping others. I mean, my jobs are kind of the same way. I started out working for an agency that worked with mentally handicapped teens through adults with developmental delays and behavior issues, including autism. It was a very rare condition at that time. I believe I worked with four people that really stood out as what we call typical autism. So that again was an early introduction to autism and also to show how rare it was back in that day. And so in that program, I worked with creating behavior interventions to help with behaviors, unique learning programs for each person. And then I was promoted to being the supervisor of the staff in terms of creating those programs and interventions. And then I later became the director of a two county program which covered the place I had been working. That was vocational, educational and residential services for people with handicaps, including autism. And then once I finished my degree, I had spent time in a preschool classroom working with preschool children who'd been kicked out of preschools. And several of those children also had autism as well as behavior interventions. And then after that, I became a school psychologist for many years, always working in the pretty high need schools and creating new programs and new approaches to dealing with behavior issues. And then I came to California to work with my grandson. So that's maybe perhaps a too long of a listing of everything I've done.
Justin: Well, no, I think it's good to give context. And you obviously went down the integrative nutritionist path and certifications and understanding, you know, herbal and Chinese medicine and helping your husband live another 23 years after his, you know, given months to live cancer diagnosis. And but yeah, I just wanted people to have context because I know now everybody who's got a Facebook account or an Instagram account can say whatever they want. And, you know, there is no there is no substitute for real world life experience. Not to mention the degrees and certifications that you've accumulated over the time. And just so you know, you're putting your life's work into this book. And I know that we have some different chapters that we can discuss. Looks like, you know, your first chapter is going to be on eating organic diet. We can dive into that a little bit as well. And I know the next chapter is limiting The first two chapters is Eating, Organic Diet, and Limiting Hard-to-Digest and Lower-Nutritional Foods, with a focus on plant-based foods. So maybe if you want to sprinkle in a little bit, a little taste, so people know what's to come in the book.
Janet: I will, but I'm going to backtrack just a moment. I had not mentioned getting my certification as an integrated nutritionist, which was a two-year program. And it also fit what I'd always learned growing up. When I grew up, we didn't go to the doctor unless you had a broken bone or needed surgery. And so my mother had always taught in-home ways to work with all types of problems. And then I was challenged when I was married and with my children, starting like you had mentioned. So my husband had a heart attack at age 30. He had previously had Hodgkin's and had radiation on his chest, which caused a heart attack at age 30. And then we got through that. And then his cancer reoccurred with tumors that were inoperable, and he was given three months to live. And again, too, from my background and research, I treated that with organics, organic juicing, mainly herbs, including one from Argentina that I'd pod arco that I researched. And so with that diet, He did live another 23 years before he did die of a heart attack. I also dealt with issues like my oldest son, who I won't name had severe allergies ear lung infections and ADHD like behavior. And again to and everything so controversial these days, but his issues appeared after vaccines, and I would ask the doctor like he gets so sick when you give him those and he goes oh that's just normal. And as a young naive parent I didn't question it. But over time, we got him healthy and he's doing fine. I had another son with seizures again after a vaccine, which I did not make the connection. And I treated that with diet and vitamins and minerals and cured that. My biggest challenge at my house was my fifth son who had a reaction to vaccines. It's kind of a trend here. Immediately he stopped breathing, was in and out of the hospital for a year or two on oxygen, damaged lungs, his heart and his optic nerves. And he's pretty much blind in one eye and doing a little better in the other. But yeah, very much damaged. He also had failure to thrive. And him too, I healed with diet and herbs and all kinds of health interventions. And he is now fine. And then my final challenge was one of my healthy sons was in a severe car accident with multiple fractures, including his spine was broken and he is now fine also. So I just believe my life pattern has always led as well as almost forced me into learning how to do these things. And so again, starting with my background, I've always like you took care of problems at home and you found natural ways. I've just continued that into more and more. variety of areas. And then again, as I've mentioned, now the last 10 years, I've been focused more on neurological problems and diseases. And so, yes, let's go back to the topics here. So to me, one of the first steps with any kind of illness, and especially the neurological illnesses that I focus more on, is you just have to stop poisoning yourself. And that's why I say the first step is eat an organic diet. Like I say, when I grew up, everything was organic. They hadn't started using pesticides and herbicides and GMOs and weren't putting different things in foods like preservatives. And so I didn't even worry about that. But now I can't even, it's very, very hard actually to find a healthy diet for our children. And so again, to the first thing is you just have to stop with foods that aren't organic, especially if your body has told you by an illness, or especially a long term or degenerative illness that something's wrong. You always go back to digestion, which is where everything starts to go wrong. And so our bodies have eaten kind of the same diet for millions of years. And so it doesn't really have the capacity to figure out like, oh, these are bad things, I need to get rid of them. And even if your body wants to rid itself of like pesticides and herbicides, it doesn't have many systems to do that. And so if it can't break it down and eliminate it, then it actually makes fat cells and puts in things to get them out of the body tissue and the bloodstream. And just a hint, by the way, once fat cells develop, they never disappear. And I'm sure that's related somewhat to our obesity crisis in America now. So again, to foods that are ultra-processed, that's another thing we deal with now, the GMOs, the BPA, the microwave food, the ultra-processed foods, Again, to our bodies cannot break those down or recognize or use them. So again, too, there's just many things that have changed drastically just in my lifetime and even, Justin, in your lifetime too, as far as finding harder and harder to find natural healthy foods. And then related to eating organic is you want our body to be able to break down and remove negative things from our body and break down healthy foods to find enough uses that our body and cells can use them. And so often disease is caused by those things, things that are not healthy still in the body and an inability to break down foods to use the nutrients to stay healthy. And so that's why I'm talking about the limit hard to digest foods and low nutrition foods. And if you watch like kids in the mall or whatever, I'm sorry, there's nothing nutritious about the shakes and the chips and all the different candies and things that they're eating. And sadly eating non nutritious food, no like no red light flashes on just we don't really know what in general. Some people are more sensitive. And like I cannot eat bad food I ate. It's okay to say I ate a runsa. People might not even know what that is outside of Nebraska. But anyway, it's a soft dough with meat inside and I ate one with some fries and my whole face swelled. So I guess I can't eat bad food. So my body will tell me that if you keep eating unhealthy food, put it in your body, your immune system is too weak to give you a response to remind you that something's wrong. And so really some really bad things happen if food's not bioavailable to us. So it interferes with healing, and then it increases the risk for disease states, or if you have a problem with health, it makes it worse. And often it relates to allergies. There's a thing called leaky gut, where our gut lining is no longer, it's permeable, then bad foods can get out, especially undigested proteins can cause all kinds of problems and allergies. And then one other thing, if you do not break down your food, especially proteins, into the fine-tuned amino acids that you need for your body to use it, but especially for neurotransmitters, such as serotonin, and usually we hear about serotonin related to sleep, but it's essential to repair our nerves and to balance the body throughout homeostasis or balance, which we talk a lot about. And so basically even your neurotransmitters that your body needs are not being made or maintained properly if you're not breaking down your food finely. And especially with the pretty much recent changes in our bodies because of the diets in the last, I'd say about the last 30 years or 20s have been the worst. And then we also have enzymes, which we sort of hear about taking enzymes or whatever. but our body actually makes 30,000 types of enzymes from the pancreas. And the main problem here with hard to digest foods is the pancreas is spending all its time trying to digest these hard to digest foods, especially animal products, they are tough, or foods with lots of chemicals in them. Then the body can't, the pancreas cannot make enzymes then for body repair and then eliminating the waste in our body. And so again, you're just going to increase negative conditions and create new ones because your body can't repair and cleanse, which is essential to be healthy. And then also those enzymes regulate our nervous system with our serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine, norepinephrine. And so the enzymes in the brain and nervous system will not function if our food is not broken down. And so it's kind of sad that a lot of this information is not out there. I know how easy it is. I've gone through periods of time where I thought, I can't remember what I was doing, but I just started eating fast food. I was probably in college and working hard and didn't notice immediately that I wasn't feeling well. But so many people, you just get used to it, especially if you've been eating what I would consider unhealthy foods since you were a child. then your body just keeps trying to go on as best it can, but it's not going to be optimal. And you're setting yourself or your children up to having a problem. And the kind of the worse the diet is, the more likely you're going to have a problem earlier in your life and a more severe problem.
Justin: Perfect. Well, let's just keep on rolling the hits. Are we gonna go to the next chapter based on alkaline over acidic?
Janet: You bet, one of my favorites. I know it's hard to hear an overview of like an entire book, but these are also important lessons that can guide you just from hearing about them in general to do more research yourself and kind of analyze your diet. I actually have made a chart, a health data worksheet. that is filled out monthly, some things daily, that helps guide people to kind of check each day about how they're doing. So I can cover that later, but it does really help to have data. And I know I'm more data-driven than most people, but I have found if people don't keep track of anything that they're doing, it's so easy not to be doing anything different. When I work with parents on my Zoom calls, I just ask them for the simplest thing. You have a calendar in your house, put two issues that you're concerned about with your child. You can say yes or no, what happened, or on a scale of one to five, how bad was it each day. And so at least when I follow up with them, I can see, and they can also see, what's going on or have the child make a little chart and color in each day for good things they did. Because our brains without really any structure of like, I think I did better yesterday. Truly, it's really almost impossible to make really big changes or healthy changes or systemic changes in our life. So here's a plug for keeping track of some data to guide what you're doing. And so another major problem with American diets, and again, it goes back to the whole thing of eating more plant-based versus eating more animal products, especially in these days when they tend to have lots of extra added chemicals, and they're fed a lot of corn, which is hard for us to digest, and they're given a lot of chemicals and things to make them fatten up quicker. And so one problem then, so all of the animal products are acidic. It doesn't mean when you taste them, take them, it means when they're broken down in the body. And so when you break your body, and your body digests and breaks down food, it's almost like an ash that's left. And it can be alkaline or it can be acidic. And so the animal products create acidic effect on the body and the alkaline products keep your body alkaline. And again, too, our bodies are so finely tuned and often we just don't study this in school. I never studied it even in all my years of college until I went to get my degree in integrative nutrition. So our bodies need to be at a constant 7.4 pH. And so if that diet isn't correct, our body will literally leach calcium from our bones because it's alkaline to balance that acidic level. Our body's very fine-tuned and it really can't operate on many levels outside of certain parameters. And that constant pH is one of them. And so we see a lot of people now with osteoporosis, immune system issues, which cause a lot of things that we have that go wrong. It can even affect your day to day function, you might be more confused, more anxious, and things like that, that you don't relate to your diet, much less to your pH balance in your body. I know years ago, I would buy these little packets that have the pH strips in them. And then you could look at those and kind of see how your body was doing or check out the food before you eat it to see if it's pH balanced or not. So again, to eating a plant-based diet is very positive for keeping it much easier than to keep it alkaline if you're not eating the meat-based products. And in general, Americans eat diets with lots of animal protein. And we don't think about it, but coffee, which so many people drink. daily if I look at Starbucks profits. And also things like Starbucks, they also have sugar, massive amounts of sugar in them. And then some kind of form of cream, it's not like a natural cream, but something related to cream. And so you're really getting a really bad combination every time you drink like a coffee. It tastes delicious, I must admit. It's incredibly addictive, I must admit. But I have learned really young to avoid that. Another common one is all the sugary foods we eat, the candies we give our kids or all the extra sugars added even to potato chips and almost everything has added sugars because I know it makes it taste better. And then the other confusion with sugar is there, I can't remember how many ideas I swear it's like 70 different labels you can give sugar. And then there's tricks, like if there's less than 500 milligrams of a sugar substance, they can not list it, or they can call it natural flavor. The word natural flavor, if you see it on any package, hides a host of negative, unhealthy things. So again, to the sugar is a huge acidic thing we add to our lives. And then alcohol, people don't realize even if you have something like a low calorie beer or vodka or something that you think won't have calories, it's very acidic in our body and very harmful. And so again, just in general, one way to deal with this problem of keeping our bodies constant at the 7.4 pH and working correctly. include many plant-based diet things in your life. I mean, you can vegetables and fruits and they make all kinds of healthy pasta and different things. And so it's not like it's hard anymore to find specific things used to be very hard to find healthy things in the market, but now you can find more and more and online also healthier things to eat. So just think about that. Just check yourself every day. Did I eat something alkaline today? Did I eat some fresh fruit? Did I eat some vegetables? How much meat did I eat? How much sugar? How much coffee? How much alcohol? And you can even go for like 30 days or 10 days or five days without any of those things and to see if you feel better.
Justin: Well, you know, what's funny is that I became a cannabis farmer kind of out of necessity when we discovered that raw hemp and, you know, with your guidance and understanding and, you know, integrated nutrition and the power of it being raw and the power of plants being organic and raw and the holistic benefits is that I had to end up growing my own cannabis slash hemp for my son because the raw cannabidiolic acid, or what we call CBDA for short, that we had to grow it ourselves because there wasn't anything else on the marketplace. And in the journey of becoming a cannabis hemp farmer, you when you're when you're growing, you know, small batches, you know, 20 or 30 plants at a time in the beginning. Beautiful plants. There was so much fun. Is that when you fed the nutrition and you could you could you could go to the local nursery And there was, I think it was called GNB Organics was the name of the company I used. And basically there was an A and a B. A was for vegetation, nutrients, and B was for flowering. And that's all I used for fertilizing, which is all organic, of course. And then I would when you fed your plants, they always wanted to be at a certain level or pH. So we always would test our pH so they could get maximum absorption. So it's kind of funny how it works the same with humans. So the human is seven point four, whereas the cannabis plant is closer to six point four. Um, for your pH balance, for them to absorb the maximum amount of nutrients. When you're watering your plants, you'd put the nutrients. I'd put it in one of those, you know, those old, uh, I don't even know what you call them. Those things that you tip over the water comes out of watering. Yeah. Like a watering jug or whatever you want to call it. And I would always mix it by hand and make sure that my plants were getting maximum organic nutrition at the plant's preferred pH level. So plants have a pH level. Now you know what cannabis' pH level is, around 6.4, 6.5. And humans, we have a ideal pH level. And another thing that you, along with coffee, is like sodas. Sodas are highly acidic. So for the, you know, we're obviously, Coca-Cola is one of the biggest companies in the world. Very, very acidic, along with coffee. So understanding the things that you're putting into your body is massive. And for some of you listening right now, this is probably the first time you've ever heard of this. And as we always recommend here at Roots to Riches, do your own research. And doing your own research also means supporting people that have done their research like my mom and buying her book to come out soon. But there's lots of research out there and you can't just get the first page of Google. You know, and even if you're using AI like JATCPT, you need to dig deeper. And, you know, my mom talks about data and research. One of our favorite places for research is PubMed.gov. Check that out, peer reviewed articles. And there's been some exciting news and some breakthrough news in the world of research and studies with our newly elected secretary of HHS, Robert Kennedy Jr. His pledge is that he will have transparency for all of the medicines and foods. A lot of these things that we're talking about were introduced, like my mom said, in the last 20 or 30 years. Um, and as you know, my mom knows and, and, uh, you know, told me and, and, and others need to understand is, um, when the tobacco companies from those readers digest, like you picked up, uh, that was the first, um, you know, domino that fell, showing that tobacco smoking caused cancer. And then finally, the whole, you know, house of cards fell about that same time, you know, in the 1980s and 90s. that all of these tobacco companies had to figure out a new way to make money selling addictive products. And so I'll let you tell the rest of the story, but those big tobacco companies like R.J. Reynolds and Marlboro and all those monstrous companies, they did find a new way to poison and kill Americans with addictive products. They just went from smoking a cigarette to food.
Janet: That is very true. I remember when we went to breakfast at our favorite place in Ventura, there was an advertisement from long ago of this pregnant woman being encouraged to smoke and the doctor sitting at his desk in his office smoking. And I remember there was a doctor when you were growing up that you guys would get a quick physical for sports. And he was always smoking whenever people came in to get their physicals. He was also quite overweight. I don't think he probably lasted too long. But no, you're right, all the people that were in there, industry of making tobacco more addictive than when there were some controls put on tobacco, then they did switch to the food industry. It wasn't the organic food industry. It's so much easier to make quick profits from pharmaceuticals than it is from selling apples that are organic. There's not a huge markup on any of those things, but there's a huge markup and pharmaceuticals. And then the pharmaceutical people are also then obviously in charge of and in funding and doing the research on all of the vaccines. I think there were five or six vaccines when I was a kid. And again, living out in the country, I don't think we ever accessed them or even thought about them. And now it's up to 78 or 79 before kindergarten. starting at birth with hepatitis B, which I could never figure out how those infants are going to either get into needles and drugs or unsafe sex, but that's just another issue. So again, you're right, as Americans, we have to fight harder than most countries to know what's in our food. And that's why I'm trying to write how to safeguard your child, how to get your child through childhood without ending up with a deadly or chronic disease. And so these things we're discussing, these methods, these types of eating, which may seem strange to some people because we tend to just eat whatever they're advertising on TV and things like that. And whatever fast food is the easiest and the fastest. And they've certainly made fast food easy and everywhere. And it's quick and you're hungry and it's hot and it tastes good and has lots of wonderful chemicals to make it taste good and make you want to come and have more. I'm trying to think of what product it was, Justin, was it cookies or chips that was like bet you can't eat just one was a big advertising.
Justin: Oh, I'm pretty sure that was chips. Yeah, potato chips, maybe Pringles or Lay's, I think it was.
Janet: But again, I mean, it's It's kind of catchy by starting to think about it like, why can't I only just eat one, because it's full of things that are addictive and aren't healthy but that's why it's Americans, especially we have to be just so much more aware and do our research and often as growing up. I guess watching my kids grow up, they don't pay that much attention to it, but hopefully by the time they have children, they then have more interest in the health area and do their more research and do whatever they can to have healthy children or to help them get better. So that's encouraging, at least. My next topic is one that people don't think about much, but it's another critical aspect to being healthy or recovering from a health condition, and that is just water. In America, we drink way less water than we should be drinking, and it's almost impossible to find a healthy source of water. We have so much of our water, as you know, it's in oceans and lakes and creeks and rivers, underground rivers, underground storage, but it's very hard to find any source that isn't contaminated by either all of the chemicals put on the fields to grow things. Animal runoff, especially now, is massive with these huge, they call them CAFOs, like literally 20,000 chickens in a big thing or a cattle farm. dying farms anymore. There's cattle all stuck together in small spaces. And so there's so much concentrated runoff that goes into our drinking water. And then some interesting things too, besides like the pesticides and herbicides and things like that, there's lots of chemical waste because there's so many different additives of chemicals and everything, like even in our carpet and our paint in our house and dishes that we buy and the plastics we use. But also so many people take different pharmaceuticals and drugs and even like makeup and those sorts of things. Well, they all get washed away and into our water supply. So literally, you're getting minute amounts, but still amounts of all the different prescription drugs and non-prescription drugs that people are taking these days. And so even though we have water treatment plants, they aren't refined enough to get out all those chemicals. or the pesticides or the herbicides. They just are set to get like mud and some things out of it, but not everything out of it. And so that's another huge issue. And then so many people now they've learned, well, they don't trust their tap water and they've kind of figured out that that's not super healthy. So they've been drinking plastic bottled water. And so plastic is another huge issue in our lives and our diets. I was reading somewhere, they said on average, we consume one credit card worth of plastic, and I'm hoping it was a week or a month and not a day, but it truly isn't everything. And if you have water in a bottle that's made out of plastic, you will have plastic in that water. Just like if you buy anything that's in a plastic container or a styrofoam container, you will have chemicals into your body from that. And so it gets kind of scary unless you have a natural spring somewhere that's not anywhere near anything else or you catch your own rainwater. and hope doesn't have acid rain in it. It's actually very, very difficult to find pure water. So my recommendation that I've researched forever, and I always get a lot of pushback from people about it, is I recommend distilled water. And so there's this huge controversy. There was one man, like in the 1980s, who made a statement that we get all of our minerals from water. And so therefore, if you distill the minerals from it, then we aren't getting minerals. And all my research shows very clearly the minerals in water are basically like broken down rocks, as the creeks and everything go through stones and rocks and things. And our bodies cannot break that bond of those rocks and make it into usable minerals. And so you're not losing minerals by drinking distilled water. And just this one person said this in the 80s and people still keep using that one statement to say, don't drink distilled water. I personally recommend distilled water. To me, it's the only way I can get two H's and an O without anything else in it. And as I mentioned, when Justin and I got online, I had unplugged my water distiller. I run it every day and make the water that I drank and use. And so when it goes through there, it evaporates everything out of it. And it's actually fascinating to see what's at the bottom. So these are like home distillers. They pull like a gallon. They're just sit on your countertop. And when it's done, you can see all the minerals that have been chelated out of it. But also there's always this gooey kind of greenish weird stuff at the bottom. And that's a lot of the chemicals and goodness knows what that's been taken out of the water. But it's pretty scary when you see that much unhealthy gooey stuff taken from just one gallon of water. And imagine if you didn't distill it, all that would be in your body. So I've certainly become more and more of a proponent of the distilled water. Then if you're concerned about your minerals and trace minerals, that's what vegetables and fruits are for. Fruits and vegetables have all of the minerals, both trace and regular minerals that your body needs. And if you wanna make sure you get a lot of them, you can juice it. Juicing is one of the healthiest practices there is, because anything you juice is pre-digested. So even people with bad digestive systems. And bad digestion actually is the first step for basically all disease. So you can be sure if you have any kind of a disease, including just obesity or whatever, it means your digestion isn't working well. And so again, too, juicing, and that's going to give your body the minerals that it needs with the distilled water. So anyway, I often recommend it to people. It's not that expensive to buy one online, or I assume stores carry them too. So again, too, water is so important. Then the final point about water is we just drink so much less than we need. So our bodies are 85% water, were kind of just a structure that carries around a lot of water. But most people, I would, I was trying to think of just as an estimate of how much water most people drink in a day, like water, just water with nothing in it. And I see people drinking bottled water sometimes. But often I just see unfinished bottles of bottled water. So just in general, we get way less water, which then our body, our blood is thicker. We're not getting nutrition transported to where it needs to go. We're not cleansing, we're not eliminating. And so the lack of water causes a lot of problems. And so one quick guideline of how much water should I drink in a day is just take your weight, divide it by two, and that's how many ounces of water you should drink in a day. And for some people that might be, oh gosh, that seems like a lot. And so I just do a simple thing too. I have a nice glass quart jar or a quart container and I just fill it up and if I drink, The goal is four of those, but if I drink two of those, I feel fine. So again, to start a little bit smaller, just see if you can drink a quart of water in a day. That's a very good goal to start. And then have a glass of water by your bed to drink before you go to sleep, and then one waiting when you get up in the morning. There's nothing more cleansing and our bodies tend to be dehydrated by morning. And plus it's been cleansing our system all night long and it needs that water to flush it out. And so many of us reach first for a cup of coffee or a Coke or something to drink in the morning. So truly just have a glass of water by the bed, drink that in the morning. And it's probably the most beneficial time to drink it and the most important time we have water. So again, to water, we always talk about waters know, the beginning of life or whatever. They can go without food, but you cannot go without water for very long. And so Americans aren't going totally without water. But I would say, probably about half of them are not getting even close to enough water. And probably, I would guess only 20 to 30% of people probably even that's too generous, are actually getting like half their weight in ounces of water. And often just enough water can heal so many diseases. There was a doctor in a prison, I believe in Iran or someplace, and he had nothing but water to treat. all the different inmates that had health issues. And he wrote a whole book about that, how the water alone, giving them enough water cured so many of the things he had. So again, put it at the top of your list for yourself and your children of how to get healthier and how to stay healthier, drink enough healthy water.
Justin: Yeah, I know the funny thing about that is it's so simple, but so powerful. And yeah, I mean, how do you even really get to measure the percentage of Americans, but when in doubt, I always go with 80-20. So I would say that 80% of Americans are dehydrated and vastly, the vast majority of those are vastly dehydrated. dehydrated, not drinking enough water. They say you're supposed to drink however many pounds you weigh, cut that number in half, and that should be, that's how many ounces of good, clean water, whether it's distilled, which is what we're recommending, or even reverse osmosis, or natural spring water. Something that's cleaned as clean as you can possibly get it because it's like it's your life, right? and you want your body to you know, you only get one of them and instead of drinking all the Plastics and pharmaceuticals and pesticides and toxins and things that are in our soil air Everywhere around us plants that we want to eliminate as much of that as possible, so It's a simple one, but boy, I tell you what, sometimes it's like John Wooden, the famous UCLA basketball coach. Every single year, and he won dozens of national championships with Lew Alcindor, Fremont, Bill Jabbar, Bill Walton, and all these guys. And every beginning of every year when they would lace up their shoes and get started for a new season of UCLA National Championship run basketball, he would literally teach them how to tie their shoes and make sure that they were tying their shoes correctly. And every day, they would do layup drills for hours and free throw drills for hours. Many times, their practices didn't even have a basketball with them because he was always preaching and focusing on the fundamentals. Because those national championships, that ultimate winning, that victory, came from doing the fundamentals when it counted the most, making that free throw, making that open layup when it counted. Because you have done the practice so many times that it's become muscle memory that you were going to do it on autopilot. So that would be what we would recommend for you is to, and sometimes you got to do these, Biohacks like even if it's like leaving a glass of water At your at your bedside for when you go to bed or when you wake up in the morning And tracking how much water that you drink Is you know and it might not sound sexy and you know what the whole thing we've all been lied to and it's not your fault But taking some magic pill isn't going to fix eating like crap drinking like crap sleeping like crap thinking like crap and not moving Sorry, I hate to break it to you, they're never gonna come out with a pill that is going to offset, number one, all of the toxins that are out there in this world, right? It just isn't. There's only so much your liver and your kidney can take. And now we're talking about your health as an adult, but look, your children, don't have the choice. And so now that you've opened or you've been, you know, experienced to the red pill, whether it's the Matrix or Alice in Wonderland, now you know. And if you don't believe what you're hearing, then again, I encourage you to do your own research. Go to pubmed.gov and look at the science. There's published peer-reviewed studies from all over the world, and you can find out for yourself. There's other peer-reviewed articles as well. Of course, you can find a lot of good information on Google and ChatGPT, but understand that that information is still can be tainted. You can have algorithms. I live and work in the social media world. If you've got enough money, you can hire enough people that can skew the results that show up that what you want it to say. If you go to places like WebMD, even Health.com, You know, these places can be bought. I always find it funny, you know, I work in this world and people will be like, did you see that article that I wrote for Forbes? Well, just so you know, and not sweating Forbes here, but you can just pay them $4,000 and write your article and they'll publish it, right? And the same thing is true with health.com and WebMD and a lot of these other places that it's pay to play. So again, that's why I always turn to experts. And what is an expert to me? Someone who spent decades of their life not only researching, intellectually understanding these concepts, but have put them into practice and have seen the difference between knowledge and wisdom is knowledge is intellectual. Wisdom is that you've actually put it into practice, into action, and that you learn from applying these principles. So as you've heard, my mom's journey, dealing with her immediate family and helping them overcome severe health challenges. and having to do the research and having to constantly understand what is the thing that's going to help, whether it's your children or loved ones. These are the topics that we are discussing today. So again, her book is coming out. I know we got another chapter or two that we're gonna get into, but if there was one thing that you could do right now that would change your health and it wouldn't cost you hardly anything, It would be drink more water, drink more water. Cut your pounds in half, let's say if you're a 200 pound person, cut that in half, that's 100, 100 ounces a day. And if you track that every day, you get what you focus on. So if you're tracking every day, and I have it on my morning routine app, I use an app called whatsyourmorningroutine.com. And every morning it says, you know, I have three times during the day where I have to hit, you know, 64 ounces, 32 ounces and 32 ounces. And do I hit it every day? No, but it's part of my routine, right? And then the reason why John Wooden, the basketball coach at UCLA, taught his players how to tie their shoes and put their socks on correctly was he didn't want his players to get blisters. And he didn't want his players to turn ankles, which would have severe consequences if his players were injured and couldn't be in the game, especially the big games or later on in the season when you're playing for the championship, where here's the same things that we're telling you. Now, you may have already heard these things before. But are you applying them? Again, is it knowledge or wisdom? Do you have the knowledge? Do you intellectually understand the things we've said? Probably heard some things today you've never heard before, but are you applying it? Because if you're knowing it and not applying it, that's worse than not knowing it. So we hate to be the one that's opening Pandora's box for you and telling you these secrets. But for those of you that are in a health crisis or have a loved one that's in a health crisis, this is the medicine. Your food is your medicine. and we're explaining it in a way that hopefully it registers with you. And unfortunately, not to go too far off topic here, our healthcare system was not set up to, currently, as of the beginning of 2025, our healthcare system, if you've been to the hospital recently with a loved one who's got a chronic diagnosis, is not equipped to heal you In fact, a lot of the diseases that they diagnose you with, they say that it cannot be healed. They said that autism could not be healed. Wrong. They said that they had a study that Alzheimer's could not be healed 20 years ago, that everyone was operating off of, which was proven false. So again, these things were happened and put into place. It's not your fault. If you look into the research and you look at the Rockefellers in the early 1900s, they set up this model to diagnose a disease and treat it with oil-based petroleum pharmaceuticals. And they were in charge of the medical board questions and they were in charge of the research and they were in charge of the universities. And it was all set up to profit from pharmaceuticals. Now, what's the first word you think of, or what's the one or two words that you think of when you think of big pharma? They're not good words. And we all know the pharmaceutical model is broken. It is based on greed. Are there good people? Are there good doctors? Yes, of course. People that took the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm, and they got into the business to actually help, and maybe their parents or a relative was a doctor. But the health, the doctors, the healthcare system has been hijacked by these, you know, just evil forces that are looking at the human body as an experiment to see how much that they can poison us on the front with all the poisonous foods and then make money on the front end with the poisonous foods and companies like Bayer own the food companies and on the back end They'll be having you pay $32,000 a year for a CBD isolate called Epidiolex, whereas we have the cold-pressed version for 50 bucks. If you buy a bottle every month, it would cost you 600 bucks for the year, and you would be getting the cold-pressed up to 1,000 times more powerful version of the product. That's why out here in California, they're making full-spectrum CBD illegal. You know, not to go too far off the tangent here, but they're making it illegal in the biggest state in our country, forcing you to go to the dispensaries to buy your CBD products, which the dispensaries are not in the business of giving you high quality CBD, certainly not CBDA. The dispensaries opened to sell you recreational marijuana. And if you go there, and we've heard the stories over and over and over again, because you've got back pain, or you have stress issues, or you have sleep issues, or you have a chronic disease, nine times out of 10, 99 times out of 100, if you go to a dispensary, they're not educated, and they are going to give you a product that is way too high in THC, and you're gonna get high. And if you don't like that feeling, you're going to think that cannabis isn't for you. Not to mention, they're not even going to give you a very good representation of the plan because they're going to be heating it, isolating it, over-processing it, and it's just not a good clean version of it. So, with that all being said, there's the roots part of Roots to Riches, just giving you a little insight as to sometimes getting down to the basics. drinking more water. If that's all you took away from this podcast today, I promise you, you will feel better. Your children will be healthier. And it's something that you can do starting right now.
Janet: That is just so true. And again, like I say, in America, I rarely see anybody drinking what I would consider healthy water. And mainly I see them drinking coffee, flavored teas and soda and energy drinks. And energy drinks is another massive market. I don't even know what brands anymore. They used to be just a couple, but now they're everywhere. And they give them to athletes and they're always pouring them on people that win football games. And I have a personal story about those. When I was in college, my boyfriend at the time was an experimental subject. in Denver at a hospital. And they were testing for the military, all kinds of different things to see if they'd be good for soldiers. And they tested energy drinks, and they found that they caused a quick spike in energy and sugar and then a deep drop and therefore were not useful or appropriate or healthy. And so they did not buy them at that time. And so ever since then, I have watched energy drinks become bigger and bigger and bigger and all these kids and all these athletes even little tiny kids at their soccer matches, getting sports drinks afterward or just drinking them. And they come in all these colors and tastes and everything. And they're just really horrifying that they replace water, which is what you need as an athlete, or perhaps a little bit of healthy salt, by the way, not table salt, to rebalance their minerals. I don't know of any coaches that even think about that. It's just so much easier and the kids so much. If the coaches don't bring it, the kids bring it. They're all their different sports drinks and they just drink them all the time. I just see the kids that go to the quick shops or the gas stations to stop in to get those kind of energy drinks. So again, to one of the worst things right up there with alcohol and sugar. are the energy drinks and the false energy that it gives them. Anytime your energy goes up artificially, it's going to drop much lower than it was when you started. So again, to water, I don't know how to make it sexier or more powerful or more popular again, but if people really thought about what is causing their health issues, they would certainly be looking for more water. But it's so easy in our current society to pick up the fast food, stare at something on TV all night, go to sleep if you can't sleep, take something because your stomach's upset, take a sleeping pill. And just all those things, by the way, prevent clear thinking. And if you're not getting deep sleep and REM sleep and those things, you're not getting things in memory, you're not able to recall things well. So again, too, we're slowly but surely Just increasing our death rates and even the people that stay alive, often are only alive because they're on medications or having surgeries or things like that. So America to me is this really in a horrible state of, of health. And again to that's one another reason I'm writing this. My passion is children, and so I figure adults make their own decisions if that's what you do, but our children don't have those choices. They have to accept our choices, and that's why I think it's so important to get information to parents, even before they have children, to know how to properly raise your child, to give them a chance at having a long and healthy life, free from medications and pain and surgery and limitations and obesity, which is what we see in our kids today.
Justin: Well, I know we've covered a lot. Maybe we should end here and leave a little taste, and we'll have you back to talk about the remaining few chapters. If you want to maybe summarize or leave a few more. I know we've got circadian rhythms, and we've got sleep, and we've got the miracle plant that I handed out a little bit. Is there anything that you want to touch on before we wrap?
Janet: And you're right, because I don't know how long people are going to listen. Might have to cut it into three parts. I know my attention span listening to podcasts is somewhat limited, about 30 minutes. So you're right, there's still things like the sleep and circadian rhythms related to when you eat and what. And the main huge issue, to me, the ultimate biohack and the ultimate solution for all the many problems I've talked about in all these different areas is the raw organic cold-pressed hemp CBD-A. that it's hard to find because it's cheaper to make CBD, just overheat a bunch of stuff, add, take molecules, do whatever you want to it. And it's much harder to have organic hemp cold pressed. That's actually the most effective that our body literally can relate to. So again, to the ultimate biohack is the CBDA. So I think you're right. Let's do another session, decide how to divide up the one we've done before and make it into at least two different podcasts.
Justin: Yep, and I would just say that as far as CBD, you've probably heard of CBD. Obviously, if you've listened to this podcast, you know what CBD is. And most Americans do now, which is great. The unfortunate thing is that CBD stands for cannabidiol. Our body makes it naturally in a form called 2-AG. It's a really, really long word. And they just shortened it for 2-AG. But remember, the plant makes what's called cannabidiolic acid. So our body makes the same cannabinoid, endocannabinoid, means the body makes it, called 2-AG, the plant makes. the same molecule, the same chemical called cannabidiolic acid. Now, cannabidiolic acid has been proven to be up to 1,000 times more powerful than heated over-processed CBD. Now, the heated part is you literally burn the A off, right? You burn a three-dimensional molecule and you cook it down to a two-dimensional molecule that interacts with the receptors, interacts with our bodies in a completely different way. So that's the problem. As you've heard of CBD, But I would venture to say that, let's say 100 million Americans have heard of CBD. Let's say half of them have tried CBD. And of the 50 million Americans that have tried CBD, half of them have probably tried a good product, hopefully. So that's 25 million Americans have had a good experience, right? And then the other half, 25 million Americans had a bad experience or didn't see any results, so they thought CBD wasn't for them. Now, how often do you tell someone about something that's good? They've got research on this. you tell seven times as many people when something doesn't work, or you have a bad experience with something. So of the 25 million people telling the other 50 million people about their experience, they're like, ah, CBD doesn't work, it's not real, right? And the problem is, is that they tried an inferior, over-processed, just like the food, over-processed food, over-processed CBD, it might taste good, or it might come in a gummy form, or what have you, but it doesn't work because that's not what, it's not just the CBD that makes the miracle plant work. There are over 512 plant constituents including flavonoids that, like cannaflavin A, there are terpenes that have smells and flavors in them that, you know, what is it, beta-carafeline, that can actually have the therapeutic benefits for pain and inflammation reduction. Again, there's 512 parts of the plant. CBDA, which we love and has been the most powerful cannabinoid in the plant and was the answer to our prayers for my son and his severe autism diagnosis that we overcame, but there's so much more that we don't even fully understand about this plant. But the one thing that we know about holistic healing and integrative nutrition and the things that we're talking about is keeping it raw, keeping it organic, keeping it in the way that it was grown. And that's what our products offer. That's why we had such tremendous results with my son. And that's why we've seen so many incredible stories over the years that you've heard here on Roots to Riches podcast, which is also the Miracle Plant podcast, if you go back a few years. And so again, if you haven't tried CBD, a cannabidiolic acid before raw CBD, just like the plant makes highly, highly, highly encourage you to try some for yourself, even if you've tried CBD before. I what I recommend is that you try a free roll on. I think you can still get a free one at free miracle plant dot com to check that free miracle plant dot com. And it's a roll on. It's like looks like chapstick and you just roll it where the pain is. You got a sore shoulder, you got an ankle, a back, and I always like people to start there. Because once you rub it on and you see that it works, and we have free samples out here in Ventura, California at our store where people walk by and they'll rub it on and they'll come back 10 minutes later and be like, I can't believe how fast this thing worked. It's just night and day, right, for pain. So again, that would be my, if you've never tried CBD before, I always recommend if you have something that a topical can help, whether it's a rash, a bug bite, cold, sores, cuts, scratches, pain, just start with a topical. And when it works, and we can thank my mom here, she actually developed all of our topicals, came up with the recipes, and so these are her recipes that she came up with. that once you try it and it works, then we can talk about sublingual oils. We are working on some gummies, but again, anything that goes through digestion only gets about 5% absorption. When you hold a sublingual oil under your tongue for up to seven minutes or so, you can get up to 70% absorption. So it's just like way, it's like 14 times better when you take a sublingual And then, of course, you can use a suppository. Our products, people have been using for suppositories, which can get up to 99% absorption as well. Anyways, we just wanted to at least put a cherry on the top here at the end. If you're listening, if you're applying these things, We'd love to hear your story. If you want to tell my mom about your journey, if you have questions for her, you can reach her at AskJanet.org. She takes calls on Thursdays, I believe. It's free, which I've been encouraging her to charge, because sometimes people who pay, pay attention, and they realize the advice that they're getting could save their life, instead of whatever the latest fad is, or keto diet, or carnivore diet, whatever drink they're selling you that's gonna magically fix everything. Sometimes it just gets back to those basics like John Wooden teaching his kids, his basketball players at the beginning of the season how to put their socks on, how to put their shoes on, and how to make a layup. And that these are the things and the fundamentals that the game changed when those tobacco companies and scientists developed all these addictive sugars and salts and names we can't even pronounce to get us completely addicted. You know, and you see all the red dyes and the things like that. And fortunately, like I said, there is a new sheriff in town. I have hope. We're starting to see companies like Steak Shake, I believe, going from the seed oils, making their French fries into the beef tallow, which is how it used to be, instead of these inflammation-causing seed oils. So there is hope, and we are hopeful. We do thank you for tuning in to the Roots to Riches podcast. Any final thoughts there, Mom, before we wrap?
Janet: I just want to repeat that there is a better way to raise our children than we have been doing in the United States for the last 30 years, and 20 years especially. And to me, CBDA, the raw organic hemp, is the best biohack either to prevent problems or to repair problems that have happened for not only yourself, but especially for your children. And so maybe we've all gotten off the wrong path, but as parents, it's our obligation. To me, it's a sacred, holy obligation when a child is born to you to give them the best possible life and the best possible chance of a good future. And so that's basically the underlying purpose of my book, different ways to eat healthy, different ways to feed your children. And again, too, if there's problems, if you want to prevent problems, ultimate biohack is the raw hemp CBDA. So again, to take the time, do the research. I'm trying to gather all the research into one book, because I know how pressed for time we are and how hard it is to read PubMed articles day and night. So I've done that work for you. So I'm just asking people to have an open mind, to read it, to consider there might be a better way that you can have a healthy child all through their lives and not deal with those things we mentioned at the beginning. Autism, ADHD, cancer. And then neurological issues like there's a wide variety of those that happen. So again to there is a way to have healthier children as a way for you to make your life healthier. And I'm just trying to share what research I've learned from a lifetime of working in related fields and healing people with a wide variety of significant issues. And so it's really my life purpose to share this and hope one out of a hundred people even will read it and actually change how they are feeding themselves and how they are feeding and raising their children.
Justin: Well, wonderful. Well, thanks again for swinging by. And again, if you reach out to my mom at AskJanet.org, she might even give you an advanced unpublished copy of the book for you to read, maybe release a chapter or two for you to check out. And you might even have the opportunity to be in the book. So if you're interested in sharing your story, maybe you've shared your story with us in the past, or our products at 101hemp.org have helped you. Great. But if you want to work with my mom, she still helps people every Thursday free of charge. God bless her. And yeah, reach out. AskJanet.org. So at the end of every podcast, not every podcast, but most of them, especially when we're focusing more on boosting your health, we say heal the world. That is the mission to reach a billion people by 2025. And we are in the year of 2025. And there are massive changes that are happening. There is light being shed on these evil food companies and evil pharmaceutical companies and big ag and all of these companies that have been poisoning and killing us. There is hope that this message, this likely isn't the first time you've heard some of the things that we're talking about today, because there has been a movement that has been established, and people are starting to have these kinds of conversations. So we hope that you learned something today. And at the end of every podcast, we say, Heal the World. So on the count of three, say it with us, so someone out there can feel it, can hear it. and I could pick up on those vibrations and find this podcast or find these Miracle Plant products and have hope, because we all need that. So on the count of three, let's say, Heal the World. Here we go. One, two, three. Heal the world. Heal the world. Thanks for swinging by the Roots to Riches podcast. Thanks to my mom, Jenna Ben-Galer, for swinging by as well. And be a blessing, everybody. And happy healing.