Season 2 Ep 8: Beauty Is An Inside Job | Holistic Health Hacks

Sam: 0:00

Hello, beautiful people. Welcome back to What’s Eating You. We are your hosts, Sam. And Kim. And we are serving you all of the health and wellness information and healing knowledge that you’re hungry for. And we are here tonight to talk about beauty and health. Before we dive into this topic, please go ahead and hit that subscribe button. Remember to like, give us a thumbs up, drop a comment, share with your loved ones. You never know who needs to hear the information we’re providing. It just may change someone’s life. Kim? Hi, Sam. Hi. How are you? I’m great. I’ve been so stoked to talk about this subject and to dive deep into it because it’s a huge topic for us, especially as women. But really, just both of us personally have had journeys that are really closely related to skin and hair and and and beauty. And it’s a really important topic that we’ve been wanting to dive into for a while.

Kim: 1:11

It is. It’s really important for us to understand how all of these things affect us and to understand that what you put on your skin gets absorbed into your body and gets into your bloodstream, what you wear on your clothes. I mean, that to me, over the last couple of months, I’ve really focused on that. How my clothes are affecting, I mean, honestly, the body odor. It it really caused a lot of like light bulbs to go off for me, honestly. And I’m doing some changes, which is why we’re all here talking. We both are. Yeah, we’re doing some changes.

Sam: 1:48

We’re deep in it now. This is why we want to talk about this tonight because it is a relevant topic for both of us in our lives right now. Real time, we are going through it. Both of us changes in different ways. And the cool thing is we’re helping each other through it. And that’s what we want to do is provide the information to you to let you know what we’re doing, what we’re implementing, what we’re finding out, the tests, the tools, the blood work, the labs, the hair tests, all these things that we’re doing and what we’re doing that are the solutions that are helping us get healthier and really essentially get as clean and natural as possible when it comes to all things beauty. So let’s start off with skin. Okay. Because it’s such a huge topic. If you’ve been following along through season one, I’ve shared several times that skin has been a challenge for me for over a decade now. Acne that gets really out of control to a degree, and then and then it’s time to go into emergency mode and figure out what’s going on and then fix it and correct it, and then it gets good and balanced out, and then all of a sudden it’ll start revving up again. And I’m grateful to be honest, even though the skin and acne, it’s really embarrassing. It’s painful, it’s frustrating. It when you’re in the thick of it and it’s out of control and you no longer feel like you have control, a could a grip on it or control over it, and you don’t know what’s causing it, it feels so hopeless and frustrating. And I’ve been there a few times now in my journey where I get to a point where I’m actually like, I guess I’m gonna have to live with it like this because I don’t know what else to do. Yeah. I feel like I’m doing everything and I don’t know what to do. But as much as it feels like that, I’m grateful because every single time I’ve reached that point with my skin, it’s been my body just warning me and telling me, hey, something’s out of balance in here. Something’s off on the inside that needs to be addressed and healed. I’m grateful for that because it’s like telling you it’s my body telling me.

Kim: 3:53

You need to dig a little deeper, you need to research. It’s more than you think you know, but I’m here because I want to be healed. I mean, that’s the part that we all keep forgetting at times, is that our bodies just want to heal themselves. Yeah.

Sam: 4:07

They’re right. The skin stuff, whether it’s acne or rosacea or eczema or rashes, psoriasis, any of that.

Kim: 4:16

Our body is alerting us.

Sam: 4:17

It’s not a curse. No. It’s actually a blessing because it’s a warning sign and it’s our body’s way of communicating with us. And it does it in a loud and obvious way because you can’t ignore what you see on your body. My skin is what tells me.

Kim: 4:30

I’ve had terrible skin issues when I was younger, and I was put on a whole bunch of medication that never fixed it. It never fixed it. It wasn’t until I got a little bit older that I realized that, you know, it was my diet and what I was putting on my face. I’ve always been very careful with my skin. I’ve actually always carried a filter because I was allergic to chlorine, and I would immediately wash my face with tap water and I would go bright red in a rash. So not everything is always internal, but it is your body warning you. And by the time it reaches your outward appearance, something is going on that has been there for a little bit. Yeah, it’s not like all of a sudden you get a zit and you’re like, oh yeah, this just appeared. Look, I went on a cruise last week and I have a zit because I ate sugar. E like three days in, I have I’m like, oh yeah, that’s because I I ate some sugar and I’m not a big sugar eater. And so it is really trying to tell you things.

Sam: 5:29

Yeah, for sure. It’s it’s its way of communicating. And I recently have um gone through another, another You have. It’s been kind of fun. Another episode. Let’s call it an episode.

Kim: 5:39

It’s fun to watch you because you take action so fast.

Sam: 5:42

I am an immediate action taker. It’s been a really I’m really grateful for that characteristic trait that I have. I get it from my mom and my dad. This past year, we’ve traveled a lot. Yeah. We’ve been cranking out this podcast. I’ve been working on music and so many different projects. I still run a CMOS business and social media and just all of these things. And I think the stress and the late nights and stuff, I think got to my system. And it was the worst it’s been in years. And it was out of control breakout that I I couldn’t get a grip on it. It was bad. And basically, I’m grateful for my tribe because my people who were with me, Kim and my partner and Jeremy, everyone’s honest with me that’s around me. And I’m so grateful for that. It’s it’s a blessing to have people who tell you the truth. And even if you don’t want to hear it or it’s hard to hear. And basically, it was like, Sam, something’s really off, something’s out of balance, and let’s get to the root of it. Let’s figure out what it is. Be like, all right, now what? Solution mode, let’s get to it, right?

Kim: 6:45

And honestly, I was just waiting. I think that it comes to a point where I mean, I I definitely like to tell people how to help their health. That’s kind of the healer in me. But as soon as you came to me and said, okay, what do we do? I’m like, well, first off, this is the type of things you should wash your face with. This is how you should use this. And I don’t wash my face with tap water. I only wash my face with bottled water when we’re traveling and filtered water. And so that was really a first step for us to really kind of talk about that for you. And then just products. Yeah. I mean, I don’t use anything that has heavy metals, no titanium dioxide. Any titanium dioxide as heavy metal, it’s gonna get underneath your skin and it’s gonna cause issues. Yeah. And it isn’t something you can just all of a sudden change. It is a slow process. But once you get energized like you were, it’s so much easier for you to see what you need to do.

Sam: 7:46

Yeah, I mean, I was energized by a fire on my ass. And I’m like, oh my God, it’s burning me up. And I’m like, no, it’s not here to make me fold, it’s here to forge me forward. So I’m not gonna let it burn me up and destroy me. Let me use this fire as fuel. So I got to work immediately, and I was with one of the best humans I could have been with during this episode because she is the skin queen as well. Her skin is absolutely amazing and it’s not by accident. She’s worked for years on it. So the products was the tip of the iceberg.

Speaker 1: 8:20

Yeah.

Sam: 8:20

A lot of people go to a dermatologist or focus so much on the outward product only or the outward treatment only, and they stop there. It’s like, you know, if it’s not all topical, it’s not all skin issues, it’s not just from the outside. You have to address what’s going on on the inside as well. So we immediately address the outside. And Kim was like, I think you’ve been using the wrong products this whole time. She took a real close look at it, gave me a facial that night, calmed my nervous system down. We got real calm and solution based. And she’s like, Okay, you’ve been using the wrong products. Like, let me put you on to what I use. And what’s the brand?

Kim: 8:58

I use Bilagique, it’s from France. Oh, and they have stricter guidelines of what chemicals they put in their products, and it is a little more expensive, but I don’t have to use as much. And so, really, in the long run, it’s not as expensive. And I do go to a specific spa that is non-toxic. And that was really important to me because honestly, you guys, I’ve always been this way with my skin. Yeah, I’ve always been very careful. My family always joked around because I’d carry filters. I like I said, I’d carry water filters around because I would break out so easily. People didn’t believe me. I’d be like, all right, fine, I’ll show you. I would grab a washcloth, I would wash my face, and it would instantly go red.

Sam: 9:43

Yeah, I mean, I was red.

Kim: 9:44

Yeah, you were red flamed red, active. And even what you’re using now that we we put you onto, you might not always use that because it’s for red. And then once you start to bring that redness down, you get to pivot to other items that I just particularly like any item that doesn’t have titanium dioxide. I have a couple other products at my house and they sent it to me. And I’m like, I just want to love you so much. But this one ingredient is like citric acid. Yeah. Anything that has citric acid, I’m sorry, I’m just not gonna, I’m not gonna talk about it. Those two things are definitely been proven to be not good for your body, internally, externally. And so that’s where, you know, we we kind of talked about the fact that we say 8020. I say it often, but really I say it because you you can then have a few toxic things when you’re constantly being conscientious on your body, right? Like you color your hair and you know, you do wear some makeup that might not be great. However, you also can then pivot on this side of things where it balances out. But when you’re in the thick of it, like we’re in the thick of it, you don’t get that 80-20. It has to be waiting for it a hundred percent to get your balance right. Yeah, and then you can go, okay, I can I can do this.

Sam: 11:04

Now I can maintain.

Kim: 11:05

You have to maintain first in order to do the AD20.

Sam: 11:08

You have to go extreme first in order to get to the maintain phase because you have to go into heel mode. Like even a little bit of the poison in the heel mode can like take you out. You know what I’m saying? So we got to work right away on the products. I love B Leg. Oh, I’m obsessed. My skin eats it up like skin food. It’s so incredible. It’s so good. I instantly then went to my skin girl and started PRX treatments.

Kim: 11:36

Right, which is like a stem cell type of peptide for your face and then microneedling. I do those things. I also do Morpheus 8 because it’s actually you generating your own collagen, it’s allowing your body to boost it out, and it’s such minimal toxins, it really is very minimal. The the only thing that I’ve ever seen that I would be like, ooh, I was nervous about is just the numbing cream. But that’s really it. I mean, that’s really the only thing that other than that, they you know, they do what they do to your face, and then your face actually responds.

Sam: 12:09

Yeah, I was so grateful because we were on a work trip and all of this went down. And the very next day we went to a field trip to Detox Depot in Ventura. Shout out to Dawn. Dawn. And you guys are gonna get to see that field trip episode. We went to Detox Depot and got a hair test.

Kim: 12:27

Oh, yeah.

Sam: 12:28

And it came back and it showed I have a high chemical load in my body. And a lot of those chemicals are traced back to beauty products and cosmetics and all of that. And and it we’re not just talking makeup. So, like makeup, shampoo conditioner, clothes, yeah, the chemicals on the clothes, hair products, food, food, um, additives, yeah.

Kim: 12:51

What what our food is in, yeah, plastics. Just pivot really quick. I went yesterday to Dr. Cohn’s office and I’m in a little bit of pain, and he saw me after hours. Thanks, Dr. Cohn, and I tested for BPA, and it’s like, oh, all of these things, all these things. Hair tests, like there’s your hair test showed heavy. Yeah, my hair test showed heavy metals.

Sam: 13:14

Both of our show, I showed EMF trapped to my body.

Kim: 13:16

The hair test was both mine was from being in front of a computer screen all day long. Right.

Sam: 13:21

It also like showed it was like your number one most like urgent area that you need to focus on to correct. And my number one was adrenals, and number two was sugar metabolism. And the test did also say I was parasite free and mold free. And I was like, oh, I’ve been working on it. ParaFy works, ParaFy really works. I was so excited to hear that news. And it was just beautiful because from then on, it was just like you, you were with me and you helped me so much with the products and the out the external. You even were like, oh yeah, PRX would be great for you. And I hadn’t known, should I do it? Should I not? You know, and you’re like, no, yeah. So lean in, lean into your community, into your people, like lean into your tribe, your village, like anyone in your life, because they may have the answers. You know, you may learn something on this podcast today that may spark something for you that may give you an answer and give you like a clue or something to do, a solution, you know? And so I then got to work with gut tests and blood tests and saliva and urine tests. I really went to work with labs to really get to the bottom of what’s going on in the inside of me. But immediately when the labs came back and showed, I have like no insulin in my body, I have an insulin deficiency. Well, that verified that the hair test that said I sugar metabolism is a main issue in my body. And then this is coming saying you don’t have any insulin, so I can’t process sugar. It’s like, oh, no wonder if I eat anything with sugar or drink anything with sugar, like it’s gonna inflame my skin against the case. Anything.

Kim: 14:49

It doesn’t matter because your body doesn’t know that’s that’s not necessarily just a metabolic uh metabolic disorder, but it doesn’t understand your body’s like, oh yeah, I can’t process what do I do with this?

Sam: 15:02

So then it’s like it’s taxing on other areas. And we found some gut stuff going on and all of that, but surprisingly, my hormones are pretty solid. And I thought I totally thought it was gonna be a hormone thing. Yeah. Because in years earlier it was a hormone thing, but that showed me too, well, hey, the work you’ve done for years, it’s showing. Yeah. So it’s it’s okay that it’s something else you didn’t know. You know, health, our health is ever evolving, changing, and and everything has to change with it.

Kim: 15:32

Right. We talked about so she she’s doing Sam’s doing a lot of different supplements. And one thing that I’ve learned over the last few years is that your supplements have to change too. Yeah, as you start to heal that part of your body that you took all those supplements for, it doesn’t need that help anymore. And then your body starts to want to focus on what else it needs help with, right? You got your hormones stabilized. Oh, well, now your body is like, oh, we’re gonna give all this energy over to the fact that your sugar is not regulating. So it just shows that like your body literally is always changing, always evolving, and you you just keep moving with it.

Sam: 16:09

Well said. Well said because we end up being in a different space and season, right? This whole thing is proven to me why testing is everything. It is really important to test. It’s so important, and I loved getting to cross-reference. And there’s freedom and inspiration and motivation and hope in not guessing. Yeah, not guessing what’s going on in the city.

Kim: 16:33

You could be taking the wrong supplements too. You could be going through and wasting your money.

Sam: 16:38

Because Kim, I have both genes. Yeah. Both of them.

Kim: 16:42

She has both of those.

Sam: 16:43

And I didn’t know so basically.

Kim: 16:45

Nothing’s methylating.

Sam: 16:46

My whole life, if I have ever bought any B vitamins that were not methylated, I was wasting my money.

Kim: 16:53

So any injections, any IVs.

Sam: 16:56

Big shout-out to that. Please go get that tested and find out if you have it or not. So you know what right supplements your body needs.

Kim: 17:02

I feel like it’s so funny because as I was watching you do all of these labs and going through it all, it just reminded me of when I went to school.

Speaker 1: 17:09

Nice.

Kim: 17:09

Because at the beginning, when you’re in first going into anything medicine, right? The first thing they call it, you know, like medical school syndrome because you’re like, I have that. That’s wrong with me. Oh, yes, that’s what’s going on with me. But it’s so validating because you can literally go in and I mean, I would run every test when I was in college. Yeah. Any anything that’s wrong with me, I’m like, let’s run a test.

Sam: 17:33

I think also it’s the Virgos in us. Oh, yeah, for sure. I’m Virgo rising, but Kim is like all Virgo. She’s all well I have Pisces Moon. That’s it. But yeah, the Virgos in us, Virgos are very health-centered and focused. And so, like, we love labs.

Kim: 17:46

Like, I’m even a Manny Jim. We love tests, yeah. I mean, I’m a Virgo manifestor generator. And so is my niece.

Sam: 17:53

Nice.

Kim: 17:53

Oh, it’s so funny. We all just really like are so focused on, you know, always being right and making sure we know everything and just being sure that everyone around us is aware. And it’s just kind of a fun little thing that I know, Manny Jennies. I feel like when I realized that I was a Virgo Manny Jenny, my life was so much more enriched. You made a lot, you it just made a lot of things. So much better.

Sam: 18:15

That’s why you are that.

Kim: 18:16

Yeah, I’m like, oh, that’s why I do those things. That’s why I’m and most Virgos are in the health. Oh, yeah.

Sam: 18:22

Oh, Virgo comes in handy big time for us, for us that’s health and wellness focused and centered. And yeah, I mean, I when it’s go time for me to heal, I get I’m obsessed with it. I get obsessed. Yeah. And so a little obsessed.

Kim: 18:35

I just get a little obsessed. I feel like when I finally get that answer after sitting for so many years, in my case, it was years, right? It was like as soon as I got my hands on the Lyme test. When I was able to find someone who could navigate where to get tested for Lyme, I always wanted to. And as soon as I could, I just went ham. I mean, I can tell you every single thing, bacteria, virus, that’s in my body, because I got every test. Right. Every test. I found out I had pandas. I found out I had autoimmune encephalitis. I, you know, I mean, it was just like keep going because those tests are gonna be able to tell you things that you might not have known and you just thought it was you. And I feel like in the day and age that we’re living in right now, we’re so easy to blame ourselves that we did this and that this is just the way we have to be. And it’s just not the way we have to be. Really, I mean, I’m so grateful that I’ve been able to be on your journey, but I’ve also been really grateful that you’ve been on mine, especially at the beginning of this year, because I was not in a good space. My brain was swelling and I was having a really hard time. I had blackout, I don’t remember my emotions, I would have like rage. And just to know that like therapeutic plasma exchange helped with that swelling and it hasn’t been back, but to know that it wasn’t me. I mean, that’s really what this all is about for us is that environmental toxins can cause you to not be you. And it goes all the way down to I was actually shook last night when he did the muscle memory on me and it came back that it was BPA. Yeah, that it was plastics. Right. I’m trying to change my clothes, I’m not like going crazy. I’m literally, I need new shirts, so I’m only buying organic now that I’m replacing those. I’m not just throwing everything away because that’s expensive. And who has that kind of money?

Sam: 20:37

It’s a little bit by a little bit. Yes. When I when I heard from her that my chemical load was so high, and she looked right at me and she goes, and just by the color of your hair, I can kind of I can kind of guess where some of that’s coming from. And I’m like, yeah, I know. And I’m like, listen, I’m gonna be honest. I’m not ready to give up the hair color yet, but I will absolutely get to work pivoting and replacing and all of these things one by one. I’m like working at it and chipping away at it little by little. I mean, it’s a wake up because I’m in pain from this. Yeah, exactly. Like, that’s nuts. That’s crazy. That’s crazy. Because listen, I told Kim, listen, Kim, we gotta cut it out with saying 80-20 so much. Because 20% a day after only five days adds up to 100%. Yeah, it’s a lot. So if you’re literally putting in a little bit every day, it absolutely taxes your body and adds up. So I was like, you know, let’s just take a break from all of this stuff for now. I’m really I’m slowly changing my makeup out. We’re totally like getting good ones out there.

Kim: 21:42

Formless by Jenny McCarthy.

Sam: 21:44

OG, I heard is good. Or Ilya.

Kim: 21:48

Right. And so I like them. That’s who I use when I wear makeup. I don’t wear makeup a lot. I’ve really never been a makeup girl. Yeah, I’ve never been a makeup girl. I’ve never really done a lot of things to my hair.

Sam: 21:58

Yeah, but you can do it clean. Clean now. You can. It was so cute. Dawn, you’re so cute. Detoxebo when she looked at my me and she’s like, chemicals, oh, by your hair. She’s like, can she use beet juice? Like, I don’t know that we’re gonna be able to get the neon that I desire from beet juice, but like maybe I’ll maybe I’ll go there one day. I’m I’m working on it. That’s what it’s about.

Kim: 22:20

It’s not about drastic. In fact, your body doesn’t really like to go through it all at once. You you really, I mean, you’re extreme, but you really should do it in a slow fashion, especially people that are listening. It’s like, well, how do you do it all at once? Like, that’s just gonna be expensive. It’s a lot, but you just do it slow, like we’re saying. Like right now, I’m thinking about how this t-shirt probably needs to be changed out because it smells like plastic. And once you start getting it stuff out of your body, you do really notice it and you can smell it. And like I can smell things, like that’s just always been one of my really good traits, I guess, is I can smell anything. But now I’m like, oh, I smell plasticky, like it smells like a chemical. I mean, I would rather have less clothes that are good for me and linen and organic cotton and not that’s right, you know, yuck. I’ve changed out my underwear, I’ve worn the same kind, and I’m like, this just isn’t doing me any good anymore.

Sam: 23:21

Yeah, I just bought um a bunch of uh really nice quality, clean, organic period underwear. Oh, oh yeah, because we talked about the old ones I had were they claimed to be, and there was this big lawsuit. Thinks they claimed to be clean and they weren’t. They got caught and they were they were full of chemicals, and it’s like right against your most private parts. I just found clean ones, so like I totally like got replaced all those. So it’s like one thing at a time. Sustained, by the way, is that the one good for hair, skin, and nails?

Kim: 23:52

You can take it. It’s actually Recover. Recover has oyster, shiitake, milk thistle, and pumpkin seed. Okay, so here’s Recover.

Speaker 1: 24:02

Yeah.

Kim: 24:02

This is what I used right when I started um figuring out I had mold poisoning. I lost half of my hair when I had mold poisoning. My skin was a wreck, which again, this was the second indication that something was going on because I had rashes and my eyes swelled shut. And pumpkin seeds just really help with your hair. It’s also an antiparasitic. Um, milk thistle helps boost your liver, and then shiitake and oyster, they’re just really great for hair, skin, and nails.

Sam: 24:29

So the Recover tincture from RogersHood is a beauty hack.

Kim: 24:33

Yeah, it’s a beauty hack. And then when you pair it with sustain, sustain has peppermint, which helps with the small intestine, and that the peppermint and the organ grape root, organ grape root helps with inflammation and usnia helps push out bacteria. And I also use it because it’s candida and candida, um, anti-candida, and it can actually cause issues with your face when you have candida.

Speaker 1: 24:58

Oh, wow. So okay, good to know.

Kim: 25:00

If you have eczema or psoriasis, I really do recommend doing Sustain and Recover together consistently. Awesome. Like I do sustain every day, like it’s my go-to. Oh, we love Sustain. Yeah, Sustain is my favorite.

Sam: 25:14

LymF, I love LymF. You know what I love about these too is that I don’t need a chaser or water.

Kim: 25:20

Yeah, they’re pretty good.

Sam: 25:21

You can throw these in your purse or your bag and take them by themselves if you need to. Like they’re they do not have a bad taste.

Kim: 25:28

They taste good to you. I think they taste really good. They do. ParaFy spicy. I mean, the bitters of wormwood and garlic, and but and then moldi’s it, I think moldies is really good. Um, that’s our other one. It’s a mitochondria boost. The more you cleanse your insides, the smoother your skin’s gonna be, the better you’re gonna feel. Honestly, I feel like the amount of changes that I’ve done over the last couple of years with just these small products has allowed me to feel better as well. Like I’ve changed my hair products. I only use um as natural as possible.

Sam: 26:06

I do a company called IELTS, their shampoo conditioner, hair mask, and I love the serum at the end. Oh, yeah. Smells so good, is so clean. So I’ve been using that. You know what else I’ve been using? The serum we got from the M-Head spot. Oh, yeah, we went to M Head Spot. It’s actually right here. Let me grab it.

Kim: 26:26

It’s so good. It’s Moroccan oil and it smells so good. I think that people forget that literally what you put on your body and in your hair absorbs.

Sam: 26:37

I want to dive into the one other thing that I’m doing emotional work.

Kim: 26:42

Yeah, you’ve been really doing a lot of emotional work lately.

Sam: 26:46

I have heard for years the term mind-body medicine and mind-body connection. I just have never embodied it or fully embraced it or innerstood it. I learned about the mind-body connection, about how my whole life, especially me as a highly sensitive person, I’m bubbles okay. Very sensitive. I’m a Scorpio moon. I feel everything so deeply, and I have very big emotions. But I also have repressed. And so there’s a book called Mind Your Body, and it’s by Nicole Sachs, Nicole J. Sachs. Basically, she says, We all have an emotional reservoir, and your whole life just emotions keep getting pushed down and pushed down and pushed down and pushed down, swallowed and swallowed. And it eventually gets to a point where it gets full. And when it gets full, it has to come knocking and manifest as physical pain and physical symptoms because it has nowhere else to go. And now your nervous system is misfiring because throughout the day, you’re trying to function in the present moment with this backlog of all this stuff that’s back there. And you know, you know, the feeling when something’s right under your skin and you feel like you’re just gonna explode. You just you just gotta get some of those emotions out. So I learned from Nicole, I learned a practice that she calls journal speak. And it’s basically a practice where you allow yourself to have a safe space, you set a 20-minute timer, and I have to do it on my laptop because I tried doing it by hand the first day with a pin, and my hand would not keep up and it kept cramping, and I’m like, it won’t write fast enough. And you have so much to get out. So much to get out. And you’re such a fast hyper. I’m like, Oh my gosh. So I I’ve been doing it and basically, you know, set the timer and you just go and you allow yourself what she calls unbridled journaling. So it’s not like you don’t care about punctuation, you don’t care about full sentences or grammar or anything like that. You let it out and you go there. And right when the 20 minutes was up, I was like, Whew, I feel a hundred pounds lighter.

Kim: 28:53

All of it sits in you. Sits in you where you think fashion, it’s like it really we’re electrical beings. So all of that is there and it’s gonna manifest in some form of fashion if you can’t get it out. Spend 20 minutes a day getting it out. That’s right, and then it doesn’t want to push itself out. You can feel when emotions hit, right? You get hot and your body hurts.

Sam: 29:18

Yeah, I can feel it. It hurts. There’s an emotional aspect and and and mental aspect to all of this too. Yeah, energetic and nervous system.

Kim: 29:27

They say that when you hold all those emotions, it scrunches your face, and that causes wrinkles. And so if you look at the way I looked before and the way I look now, I do look different and I look younger, and people say you’ve aged backwards, and I’m like, well, I’m happy and I’m healthy, and I’m not in pain, and I’m not, and pain is you’re like this, you’re constantly like supporting different body parts like this, and your face gets really scrunched down. I look so much younger at 47 than I did at my 30s. So it is because I use cleaner products and I’m, you know, in a different lifestyle, but it’s also because I’m not in pain and I’m not so depressed and anxious. And um, you know, I’ve done a I’ve done a lot with my body to get through the PTSD and CPTSD and anxiety, and you know, I know you guys have heard me say this before, but like I had no contact with my parents and my sister for seven years, and that really took a toll. It weighed on me. And it yeah, it really weighed on me. So those things also cause you to have issues. And when you’re you’re being bombarded with all these toxins and you have all of this emotional trauma and turmoil going in your body, of course, it manifests it does.

Sam: 30:54

It manifests physically. Your body holds onto it, it gets stored, it gets trapped, and it has to come out somehow. Yeah. So I’ve even been doing fascia release massages lately, and the woman’s been cutting. I love fascia release. Scraping and getting in there, man. And afterward, I will go home feeling like a newborn baby type of exhaustion, and then we’ll have really big somatic releases. It’s your body releasing emotions and trauma and stress that has been trapped and stored, right?

Kim: 31:25

Yeah, it’s stored in your fascia. I like, okay, so this is I’m not an affiliate or I don’t even think we’ve talked about this, but uh Ashley Black has a fascia blaster. So they’re like a hundred bucks. They’re really great. And I have one at my house, and whenever I’m feeling like, oh, I just can’t get it out, I do it on my hip because it really I used to store the trauma here. I guess that’s where I was going with. I used to store my trauma here, and now I store it here. And this is a slake anglia, and this is where trauma is stored, and it won’t allow you to get out of fight or flight. And you also have one in your hip. So I’ll do my fascia blaster. It’s like this funky looking, like they’re like, I don’t know, they’re like these plastic things, and then you just it just grips right there. But people don’t realize that fascia is your electrical system, that is how we actually interact with each other. It’s our it’s our electrical emotional conductor. And so it’s the antenna of our body. And when that gets clogged up with the trauma and all of the things that are going on in our lives, you gotta you gotta get it out.

Sam: 32:33

I also have recently come across these ancient Chinese exercises, Tai Chi movements and stuff. And I’ve been doing them. I’m gonna show you tonight. I’ll show you tonight what I do. They’re easy and they move lymph and they release fascia. Yeah. And they keep the fascia loose. Well, I’ve also been reading lately how important it is to keep your fascia hydrated. So when it gets stiff, hard, stuck, contracted, and it like it’s like gets like this, like it affects your entire everything. It does. So movement is important, hydration is important, right? With the right kind of water, right?

Kim: 33:10

Fascia is made up of the water, and our body is made of 70% water. The fascia is that gel that holds the water. So when you’re dehydrated, you’re dehydrating your fascia, and your fascia gets stuck, and that doesn’t allow you then to do what you need to do by getting all of this out with your antenna. That’s where all of our water gel is. Okay. That’s where our water is stored, is in the fascia.

Sam: 33:37

Got it, got it. So you do gua on the face.

Kim: 33:39

Yeah, I also use these tools, and so I’m not just doing gua sha and moving my lymph, I am making my fascia work, right? I’m telling it it’s got to get going. And it might not be as intense as the fascia blaster, but it is moving whatever is going on. And so these are my tricks. Like, I do this, you’ll sit in a meeting with me, and I’ll be like, hey, how’s it going? Yeah, you know, because like you got a biohack stack.

Sam: 34:11

I always thought guasha was the lymphatic system only, but it’s not, is it? Do we have fascia in our face?

Kim: 34:17

Yeah, our whole body is full of it, but they’re literally antennas that are all over our body. It’s our skin is attached, and like the fascia is the outside. And I was reading where I didn’t even know that, you know, the fascia is like a gel that holds the water. So because we, you know, we all think, oh, well, where’s the water at? It’s in our fascia, and when our fascia gets dehydrated, that’s when we’re dehydrated. Wow. So the fascia, the lymph, and all of that makes you look and feel better. Your skin’s better, you look better.

Sam: 34:51

Yeah. The mitochondria is huge too. Yes, yes, the cell food, yeah, red lights.

Kim: 34:56

The red lights. This is my other red light. I use the loom box as well. And then I also use this. This is a lemon, it’s a it’s a cold laser. So we like to use different modalities to allow our bodies to look younger. This helps produce collagen. That helps produce collagen.

Sam: 35:16

Yeah, I’ve been loving my loom box. I’ve been using it religiously every day, and it has also helped my skin tremendously too, especially after doing treatments like PRX or derma planing or whatever. It’s like so good to push things in. And I do it after my skincare to help really push it in. And it’s been super healing for me too. And maybe one day I’ll invest in the lean. Yeah, they’re not cheap because you can choose this over Botox, right?

Kim: 35:40

Oh, yeah. Like I, if four years ago, I had really bad melasma on the top of my forehead, and it was from sun exposure because I never wore sunscreen. And I got one of these, and I I’m very religious about it. And then I used to be a smoker for 20 years, and so I have a little bit of a smoker lip, and I’ll put on my like lip stuff, and then I’ll put this and I’ll rub it over it, and it just pushes it down deeper. And I do, like I said, get microneedled, and I also do Morpheus, and I use this after, and it cuts my time of healing in half.

Speaker 1: 36:15

Wow.

Kim: 36:15

So it just amazing. These things aren’t just, you know, for biohacking. They’re literally what we use every day to keep ourselves healthy.

Sam: 36:24

Yeah. Maintenance.

Kim: 36:26

Yeah.

Sam: 36:26

Preventative and maintenance. I’m so grateful for all the tools. I’m so grateful for all the ones you’ve put me on to and the products and just everything. And for you being here with me on this phase of this healing journey of mine, of this new awakening to up leveling to a whole new level of health. I was telling Kim off camera, I thought it was just so cool. The the timing is so divine and aligned that it’s like happened like right after season one and right before season two. So I could come into season two hot with so much new information to share and new tools and things that I’ve discovered that have really helped me and are continuing to help me heal. It’s a process and I’m in it now. And I’m balancing and correcting and healing and replenishing and, you know, working on it honestly from a whole perspective. W H O L holistic, because it’s not just physical and it’s not just about the physical body, but it’s also about the emotional and the mental and the nervous system and the spiritual. It’s just, it’s our health is a whole. Um, and to approach it that way is really where it’s at. So yeah, this has been really great. Long time coming this episode, but it was the perfect timing to dive in today. All things beauty. Really hope that something, anything that we share today, speaks to any of you and can help you in your life, help you with your health and your well-being, and just to approach your beauty um products from a cleaner standpoint so that you don’t overload your body with those toxins, environmental toxins, and you don’t burden yourself, but you can be as clean and healthy as possible and feel as good as you as you can.

Kim: 38:06

And please let us know if you guys have any questions in the comments so that we can tag people and let you really know where to go with all of this. I know um my link tree is always full of things because that’s the easiest way for you guys to find information, but we’re also here to help guide you on what your journey is and what we really do like as far as products go.

Sam: 38:32

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