Clean eating isn’t a punishment—it’s a homecoming. In this conversation, naturopathic doctor and Ayurvedic practitioner Dr. Jonathan Glass (author of The Total Life Cleanse) breaks down a whole-person approach to food, stress, and modern toxins so you can feel clear, calm, and grounded.
We explore why digestion is about more than food (it’s everything you see, hear, and consume), how to spot everyday inflamers (wheat, dairy, sugar, processed oils, plastics, pesticides), and simple shifts that move the needle—mindful meals, better sleep + light hygiene, nature time, and growing microgreens on your kitchen counter. Jonathan shares how he uses kinesiology (muscle testing) and strategic lab work to find root causes, plus the core pillars of his Total Life Cleanse program.
You’ll learn:
- How to trust your intuition again instead of outsourcing your power
- The Ayurvedic lens on digesting food, media, and emotions
- Practical detox basics for a world with 80,000+ chemicals
- Why calm nervous systems = better metabolism, mood, and sleep
- Simple, local food upgrades that taste better and feel better
Connect with Dr. Glass and his programs: HealingEssenceCenter.com
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Clean eating shouldn't feel like deprivation. It's about aligning your body, mind, and spirit so you feel clear, calm, and deeply connected to who you really are.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Hi, and welcome to the UWorld Order Showcase Podcast, where we feature life health transformational coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs stepping up to be the change they seek in the world. I'm your host, Jill Hart, the Coach's Alchemist, on a mission to help coaches and entrepreneurs amplify their voice
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Monetize their mission and get visible. If you're ready to start attracting premium clients without chasing algorithms or hunting people down like a banshee on a mission, head on over to Coachesalchemist.com and schedule your free client acquisition audit. It's the first step to building a business where your clients seek you out, rather than you having to hunt them down. Today, we are chatting with Dr. Jonathan Glass, ND,
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Dr. Jonathan is a neuropathic doctor, Ayurvedic practitioner, and author of The Total Life Cleanse. For over 30 years, he's helped people restore balance through an integrative blend of Ayurvedic
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Ayurveda, acupuncture, energy healing, and modern nutrition. His holistic approach teaches that true wellness begins with honoring your intuition, clearing toxins, and reconnecting with your divine essence. Welcome to the show, Jonathan.
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::Jonathan Glass: Great to have you with us. Thank you so much.
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::Jonathan Glass: Happy to be here, thank you so much for having me.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, what's the most significant thing, in your opinion, as individuals, we can do to impact how the world is going?
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::Jonathan Glass: It's a great question. I think the number one thing is to
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::Jonathan Glass: Begin the process, if you haven't already started.
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::Jonathan Glass: of… Beginning to trust your own… Information, intuition, and common sense
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::Jonathan Glass: When it comes to the wellness of yourself, and your loved ones, and your family, and your community.
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::Jonathan Glass: It's something that, although… Science is truly a wonderful thing.
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::Jonathan Glass: That the religion of science can get us into trouble.
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::Jonathan Glass: Which means that if we give away our power too much.
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::Jonathan Glass: Then we lose our common sense, we lose our intuition, and we don't trust our gut knowing about what actually is beneficial for us and the world around us.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Outsourcing our power.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yes.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yep, outsourcing our power, exactly.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Exactly. I'm a big proponent of taking personal responsibility for your life and well-being, starting with, you know.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You wake up in the morning, you have a choice. It could be a good day or a bad day. You get to decide.
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::Jonathan Glass: Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, it's so important.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think diet has a lot to do with this.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: The more that you can…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Address what you're putting into your body, and it's more than just what you eat.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: What you're wearing, what you're listening to, what you're taking in through your eyes.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It all plays into our general overall well… well-being.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I know you focus on Ayurvedic practices. Can you talk to the audience and to me a little bit about how all that works together with… I know you focus on food a lot, but I think it's interconnected with all of these other parts of our beings.
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::Jonathan Glass: Absolutely, absolutely, great question. So, Ayurveda is a system of medicine from India, many thousands of years old. Veda means knowledge, ire means life, so it's the knowledge of life.
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::Jonathan Glass: And it's a very broad perspective of the human being. It includes the body, the mind, the emotions, the intelligence, the intuition, and the spirit itself.
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::Jonathan Glass: And that's the whole person, so the medicinal system
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::Jonathan Glass: looks at each person from that perspective and as an individual. So it's a very unique way of approaching it. Ayurveda includes even surgery, so it's not a, you know, a sort of a new age.
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::Jonathan Glass: fluffy kind of system. It includes so many things. Diet, nutrition, herbs, medicines,
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::Jonathan Glass: some very strong medicines, if necessary. So, it's not that it's…
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, just a weak system that's only meant to be used for healthy people. It can be used when people are very, very ill as well. So it's a very broad comp… but it takes into consideration the whole human being. And you really touched on something really powerful, because in Ayurveda.
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::Jonathan Glass: Everything's about digestion. So whether you're… if you're digesting your food well, if you're digesting the sensory input through your eyes, through your ears, through your nose, through your mouth.
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::Jonathan Glass: through your skin, even. So everything is about digestion, and…
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::Jonathan Glass: The assault that comes through the eyes, the assault that comes through the ears in our modern culture, and through the media.
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::Jonathan Glass: is a lot to digest, and literally, from an Ayurvedic perspective, and from my, you know, personal experience for over 30 years now, is that it's really true. What we put in, whether it's through our mouth or through our senses, is very, very meaningful. And through our intellect, through our minds, you know, what are we reading, what are we hearing?
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::Jonathan Glass: What are we allowing into our consciousness? What are we, you know, contemplating in our day-to-day activities? What are we thinking about?
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::Jonathan Glass: It's so important, and…
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::Jonathan Glass: When we take in junk on any of those levels, we still have to digest it, and if we take in too much junk, or too many toxins on different levels, it starts to disturb not just the mental-emotional body, but ultimately the physical body, or the other direction, it'll disturb the physical body.
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::Jonathan Glass: which will then, you know, have its impact on the mental body, on the mind, on the intellect, on our intuition, and how we feel. So it's very, very important to approach it from
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::Jonathan Glass: From all angles.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: When we have amazing vehicles.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to recall bodies, for detoxifying. I mean, we didn't come here to live in, you know, those bubbles that would protect you from everything. We came here to interact with nature and the realm that we're
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: living at, and… When… when we start Adding in artificial toxins?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it can sometimes overload us in a way that we weren't really designed to handle. And, I'd like to explore how what you do to help people helps them get that into con… under control.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah, it's a great question. I mean, even in these ancient systems of medicine.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, thousands of years old, said that the cause of all disease was toxin.
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::Jonathan Glass: And that was when the water was clean, the air was clean. But even then, because if we… even if we eat the healthiest food in the world, but we're, you know, running from a tiger in the jungle at the same time, we're not going to digest it very well, and that's going to break down, and undigested proteins will leak into the bloodstream, and that'll cause inflammation.
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::Jonathan Glass: So a lot of us are in a chronic inflammatory state due to what we're eating and the stress levels, and that's one reason why we have chronic disease, because we're… some of these
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, these toxins are getting into the bloodstream, and if we do it every day, then it causes a problem. So, the first thing I like to do is try to identify what are those
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::Jonathan Glass: Foods, I like to start from the bottom up, generally. What are the foods that people are eating on a regular basis that are causing trouble? In the modern day.
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::Jonathan Glass: The biggies are generally going to be wheat, dairy, sugar, and then, of course, we have alcohol, we have pesticides, herbicides. There's over 80,000 chemicals in the modern environment, only 20,000 have ever been tested.
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::Jonathan Glass: For human safety, and none of them have ever been tested synergistically, and even an infant from a mother that eats pretty healthy will have hundreds of toxins in their umbilical cord at birth.
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, what to mention. And then we're giving them, you know.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Mercury.
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::Jonathan Glass: mercury, 72 different shots throughout their life, so many things. And, you know, so many medications and things like that. So we're exposed to a lot of toxins that really never before in human history has a human body been exposed to. And it's a lot for the liver to deal with.
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::Jonathan Glass: It's a lot from…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Plastics!
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::Jonathan Glass: Plastics, yes. Yep.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I remember when they went from…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Paper bags. Save the forests. That was their big campaign. Use plastic!
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah.
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::Jonathan Glass: Right.
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::Jonathan Glass: Right? Better… would have been better just to throw the paper out, you know?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, at least it biodegraded. Exactly.
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::Jonathan Glass: Exactly, yeah, yeah. My sister right now, as a scientist, is working on a project of removing toxic chemicals from plastics, in the hope that, okay, we're going to still use plastic, but, you know, maybe we can make it less toxic for the world. So, yeah.
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::Jonathan Glass: So yeah, we're exposed to so many things, and so to start with that, and then through… either through kinesiology, which is a form of muscle testing, or at times, there's some really good, you know, blood, urine, saliva tests.
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::Jonathan Glass: stool analysis, which can really indicate what's going on in the body, and identify some of those toxins that are… that we're dealing with. And then there's different nutrients that we can use to help eliminate them. And also.
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::Jonathan Glass: For example, a very simple example, someone comes in with GERD or acid reflux, and if I don't ask them how they eat, not just what they eat, then if they're eating 90 miles an hour, you know, at lunch break, then it makes sense that they will develop digestive issues.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, it's just like the analogy, same as eating the healthiest broccoli on the planet, but running from a tiger in the jungle, you're not going to digest it very well. And that will turn into, in Ayurveda, it's called amma, or a toxin.
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::Jonathan Glass: So, eating mindfully, making some dietary lifestyle shifts…
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::Jonathan Glass: Eating as clean as possible. You know, being mindful that… I think we've all been duped, at least I was growing up, that what you put in your body really didn't matter much.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, because you kind of trusted the authorities that were putting chemicals and all kinds of crazy ingredients in our food. And yeah, on day one, it's not going to have much impact, but day, you know, day… year five, year 10, year 20, things start accumulating. But the other thing is that
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::Jonathan Glass: even… On day one, sometimes people notice
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::Jonathan Glass: that, okay, I ate like crap yesterday, my mood is low today. I may not be having digestive issues, it's possible, but my mood is low, my energy is low, I'm a little foggy-headed, and they may not…
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, equate that with what they put in their body the day before, or what they've been putting in their body for the last 10 years. That they're, you know, even their depression, their low mood, their, you know, different even mental-emotional issues can be correlated sometimes to just, you know, how we take care of ourselves.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think people have been raised in the last…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'm gonna say, like, 40 years, to just…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you start kids out with sugar addictions and milk addictions that are… milk isn't really milk. I'm sorry. You know, you buy it from the store, it's been pasteurized.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: The best of my knowledge, when you pasteurize something, you pretty much tear it apart and stick it back together. And anything that was living and might be beneficial to you is…
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::Jonathan Glass: Is long gone, so it's…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And then we have the whey protein movement, which is just, like, a genius marketing ploy, because
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Whey is a byproduct of making cheese, and they were just throwing it out.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: now they spray it on these big dehydrators, and dehydrate it down, and capture the residue, and sell it as protein powder. Just like…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Do we… do we ever wonder about, like, how some of this stuff gets into our food supply?
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::Jonathan Glass: I know, I know, it's crazy, it's crazy. Yeah. So, you know, coming back to basics, eating real food.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, just getting as real, and eating as clean, organic. You know, even in the organic world, there's different degrees of real organic. I always tell people, if you can.
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::Jonathan Glass: Find a local farm that… and even talk to them about, you know, what they're using on their crops, and there's even some local farms that may not be certified organic, but they're more organic than an… excuse me, an organic… a big organic farm somewhere.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And there's a lot of things you can do inside. Like, I live in a… I love those drinks. I live in a,
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: in a community where it gets dark in the winter, so I like to do microgreens inside.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and…
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::Jonathan Glass: Beautiful.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love sunflower seeds, and I love, peas.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Ed… And it doesn't matter what quality the thing is, like, sometimes I will buy birdseed sunflower seeds.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And they're definitely not for human consumption, but they're plantable, and they will grow a plant, and a plant is a plant, and I know what the soil is, so those are really super nutritious.
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::Jonathan Glass: Absolutely. Especially when you're getting them.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: young, because that's where all the… the super growth
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It just happens, and so they haven't… into a big plant yet.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, that's just something that's super simple that you can get some really good nutrient
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: bang for your buck. And it feels good to, like, know that you've… you've grown it. And same with, like, meat. You can go to farms and find…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: people that are selling the animals that they're butchering themselves, and, like, we have people that have been raising chickens, and we watched them all summer, and, you know, I can go over there and buy chickens from them in their little hut.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yep. It's a very different reality, different, very different quality, you know, the animals are better taken care of, and yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Meat tastes different, way different, than when you…
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::Jonathan Glass: I remember I had a guy here, a client of mine, who, you know, he wanted to trade me meat for acupuncture, and, I happened to be a vegetarian, but I, you know, as well, but he said, but my meat doesn't turn purple.
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::Jonathan Glass: And I said.
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, this was years ago. I said, what do you mean? He said, well, most of the commercial meat
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::Jonathan Glass: turns purple because of the adrenaline that are in the cows, you know, in those big factories, where my cows
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::Jonathan Glass: are very happy, they don't go into fear. You know, yes, they're slaughtered, but it's done very, very differently. The whole energy is very different. There's not the terror. And those animals, the chemistry that goes into those animals. In the same way as dairy, you know, if you're having dairy from a
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, a farm. I mean, I lived in a farm once, you could call the names of the cows, and they would come trotting to you, and you could start, you know, milking them if you wanted to, right on the spot, because they were happy to do that, as opposed to being, you know, animals that are…
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::Jonathan Glass: terrorized and miserable, and all those chemicals of misery in their blood goes into their milk, also. So it's a whole different world, yeah.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yep.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I had a dairy farm for… I lived on a homestead for a while, so it's like, we named our cows, and we took them to the butcher, and, you know, Norman's in the freezer. It's just like a joke in our family, but
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: yeah, it's… it's a real thing. My kids grew up on goat's milk, because that was what I could do, and I… I do… I… if I'm going to do dairy, I can go to a local dairy and get
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: unpasteurized, the cows, I watched them give birth over the summer, and, you know, it's like, there's a natural process to getting milk, and we're probably the only animals that actually
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: drink the milk of other animals as adults. I mean, how weird is that?
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::Jonathan Glass: Kind of weird. Yeah, it's done, you know, like in Ayurveda, milk is used, but even in… even that, it's never, like, cold milk. They always will add spices, you know, and just because in India, you know, people think they drink a ton of milk, but back in the day, it was…
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::Jonathan Glass: it was medicinal. You know, they'd use milk in medicinal ways, and therapeutic ways, and it wasn't like they were drinking big, you know, 16-ounce glasses of milk every morning, you know, before they ran out, like we did, like I did as a kid, you know?
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::Jonathan Glass: It's a very different reality, and I think as people get… become more aware of the importance of what we're putting in our body.
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::Jonathan Glass: makes a huge difference. And it affects people not just physically, but mentally, energetically, you know, emotionally. You know, I think…
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, what percentage of people could come off of or reduce their antidepressant medications just by eating cleaner and, you know, eliminating
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::Jonathan Glass: The, you know, a ton of sugar, and staying hydrated, and moving their bodies a little bit, you know, it can make a huge difference for people.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It really can. It… and sleep.
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::Jonathan Glass: And sleep, absolutely.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: People don't realize how much what they're taking in affects their ability to get a good night's sleep. And when you can't sleep well, your body just isn't going to function well, because it's when our body… it's the time our body uses to, you know, clean everything up.
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::Jonathan Glass: Exactly.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Tighten it all up, and do the vacuuming, and, you know, all the things.
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::Jonathan Glass: Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, sleep is so important. And, you know, with talking about toxins, you know, we think of toxins as, you know, chemicals and herbicides and pesticides, but there's light toxin. And with, you know, with, you know, with phones now.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, we can be on phones, and with the blue light, and it's, you know, interrupts melatonin synthesis and secretion of melatonin, and people wonder why they can't sleep with their phone right next to their head, and they're on their phone until
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, they pass out, it impacts the hormones, everything like that. And it's, you know, it's… I think these are… phones are probably more addictive than heroin these days, you know? And,
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, it's a problem, and part of it is literally that…
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::Jonathan Glass: how those things impact the cortisol, the different hormones in the body, it has a definite impact, and I just think that we, as a culture.
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::Jonathan Glass: have to rethink things. And… just because we have the technology, like anything, like fire.
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::Jonathan Glass: is a technology, so you can use a fire to burn something, a house down, or you could use it to warm up the house, or to cook really good food. So it doesn't mean it's necessarily bad, but how we use it, you know, I think we have to become more and more mindful of, and how it's impacting us.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And things like microwaves and televisions in the front room that are on all the time, just, like, the things that people have just gotten accustomed to using without really considering the impact
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And making a conscious decision about what the consequences are from that kind of exposure.
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::Jonathan Glass: Over periods of time. Like, microwaves, when they first came out, they were great, and, you know, you could heat up leftovers really fast.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: My husband was a truck driver for a lot of years, and so it was really convenient for him to be able to eat better quality food because he had a microwave.
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::Jonathan Glass: But…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: The microwave does emit radiation.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: as do televisions, and then you've got the constant, like, programming that goes on with most TV.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Before we… Got into the, like, streaming things.
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::Jonathan Glass: But…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: People would just turn on the news, and let the news, like, But run on…
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::Jonathan Glass: We're betting the atmosphere, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'm sick!
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::Jonathan Glass: You have to tell clients sometimes, you need to, you know, don't watch the news 12 hours a day, you know, don't just turn it off, you know? And people, like in Ayurveda.
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::Jonathan Glass: The whole thing is about digestion.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, so… so… all that information, all that data, all that, you know, mostly negative.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, it's just coming in, and we expect that We should be…
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::Jonathan Glass: happy and peaceful and clear and vibrant, but we're taking in all this… it's like, I describe it like… it's like, how can you be happy if you're eating junk food all day? So if we're taking in junk food through the, you know, through the media, through the internet, whatever it may be.
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::Jonathan Glass: too often, too much, then it becomes like you're eating… it's like you're eating junk food all day. And it does impact us, definitely.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Kind of like doom porn. There's people that do get addicted to the… this adrenaline rush that they get from hearing about all the bad things that are happening, and there's nothing you can do about it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I mean, you really, on a personal level, listening to all of the garbage that is getting thrown at you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It just… it upsets your whole system.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: On a cellular level, and… You know.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And then if you add eating into it, because they like to run commercials that
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Inspire you to go and eat things that you shouldn't be eating.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And then you're not digesting them because, you know, your whole body is in a state of… panic.
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::Jonathan Glass: Right.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And people don't even recognize that they're in that chronic… they're in that state chronically.
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::Jonathan Glass: Right.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It becomes the new normal for them to feel that way, and so when they're…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Given an opportunity to be calm, like, you go for a walk in the woods, and, you know, you just have nature and the sounds, and it's very uncomfortable for them.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah. Yeah, and sometimes, you know, the first 10 minutes of walking in nature can even be uncomfortable after… around that environment, yeah. And after a few minutes, you know, 10-15 minutes, then everything starts calming down and normalizing and regulating, and I like that saying by Ralph Waldo Emerson, every walk is a good walk.
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, excuse me, just getting out in nature. You know, just walking out there and clearing the head, and…
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah, I think a lot of it is about, you know, re-evaluating how we're using all this technology, and…
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::Jonathan Glass: you know…
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::Jonathan Glass: letting us experience darkness, and… and getting back into natural rhythms, getting into nature more often, and eating more naturally. And it's not complicated. You know, it's just not…
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::Jonathan Glass: always prepackaged, you know? And it… the crazy thing is how impactful it can be
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::Jonathan Glass: And how helpful it can be for people's health in general, and just how they feel. It can be almost like night and day.
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::Jonathan Glass: It doesn't have to be… you don't necessarily need the most expensive herb or supplement or, you know, machine or technology or whatever. We have a lot of it at our fingertips.
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::Jonathan Glass: Just have to, you know, reconnect to it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's… there's something…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I have a lot of fruit that grows in my yard, and there's something about being out there on a warm day, and just picking it off of the bush or the tree, and enjoying it, or vegetables that you grow in your garden.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I… there's just…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: there's something that's very different about that experience, as opposed to going to a store and getting it. And probably the next best thing is to find somebody local that you can experience their produce.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: from, that it's… we're…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: As beings, we're designed to be more outside and with nature, not inside with electronics, and fake light, and…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: In all its different forms. So, I know you… you help people. How does that look? Are you doing group coaching? Are you doing one-on-one?
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::Jonathan Glass: I do.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: see you.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah, I do both. I have a, you know, a busy day… day-to-day practice. I see people 5 days a week, you know, I see a bunch of people every day. And I also do group coaching through the paradigm of the Total Life Cleanse, which is a
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::Jonathan Glass: program that I teach that guides people, basically, along these principles of eating really clean, avoiding the common food sensitivities that people have.
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::Jonathan Glass: And then, you know, adding some herbs and good nutrients along the way to support healthy detoxification and elimination, and really adding in some of these lifestyle practices that we're talking about, and encouraging people to do a little bit… excuse me, a little bit of meditation, a little bit of breathing.
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::Jonathan Glass: Doesn't have to be overly fancy or complicated, just to, you know.
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::Jonathan Glass: Remind ourselves that, you know, taking a few minutes just to get quiet every day and collect ourselves.
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::Jonathan Glass: Because most of the time, our senses are always outside. Everything is just looking out, out, out, out. And in Ayurveda, there's something called prana prana, which means inward-directed energy, and it's very healthy.
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::Jonathan Glass: to just take a few minutes to just do a little scan inside yourself, and hang out with yourself. And, I say, use your body as an antenna. Use your breath as an antenna to bring every… to recollect everything. Because, again, so much of the time is out there, and we're taking information out there, but there's…
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, oceans of information inside also. And that's how the, you know, the great masters of the past, in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, the Tibetan masters.
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, nothing in Western medicine has ever proven anything that I know of that Ayurveda has said about health.
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::Jonathan Glass: So, they were all very accurate, and they didn't have machines, they didn't have telescopes, you know, they could assess diabetes, they could assess cancer, they could assess all kinds of, you know, diseases or imbalances.
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::Jonathan Glass: that, you know, the non-serious ones, too, that lead to more serious conditions very, very effectively without the use of all the technology that we have today. I'm not saying we shouldn't use the technology, the technology can be really cool, really good, really helpful.
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::Jonathan Glass: But we still want to have authority and take responsibility for our own health, so that if a doctor tells you, oh, you know, you have high blood pressure, so you must go on this medication, well, there's a lot of things, naturally, that you can do
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::Jonathan Glass: prior, necessarily, to going on that medication. You know, if it's life or death, then sometimes the medication's a great thing. But prior to that, there's so many things that we can do
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::Jonathan Glass: And take responsibility. And the benefit is, not only will we avoid a toxin, but if we learn a few things, that'll enhance the quality of our life, and maybe even the duration of our life.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yes, I… it all comes back to…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: taking personal responsibility. Every decision you make.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: is gonna have a consequence. And, you know, you're…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: As adults, you're free to make any choice you wish.
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::Jonathan Glass: It's best if you think about the consequence of those choices, and I…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: when you talk about blood pressure medications, it's like, I…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That drives me crazy, because people get on blood pressure medications, and then they think that, oh, I'm all done, and I'm just gonna stay on these forever, and they don't realize that each of those medications that you get on also has consequences in your body, because your body's not designed
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You're not having high blood pressure because you're lacking those chemicals in your body. You have high blood pressure because something else is malfunctioning.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And sometimes those blood pressure med… numbers are artificial numbers, Not done right.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know, and so you're… you're adding something to your body that you don't need, And you're not…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Doing the other things that you could be doing.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: To maybe mitigate some of the other things, other choices you made along the way to get you to the situation you're in.
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::Jonathan Glass: Another big one, of course, is cholesterol medication. That's another biggie.
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::Jonathan Glass: that, you know, that there… some studies indicate that it contributes to Alzheimer's disease, you know, different…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: His brain is all cholesterol.
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::Jonathan Glass: Right, yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Sorry, but…
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah, so, you know, all these things are there.
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::Jonathan Glass: Give up soda, yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Because it bends your endothelial cells, sugar and soda in particular, and that's what clogs up your arteries, and that's what the whole cholesterol argument, as far as I know, was about. Just like, the solution is simple, but, you know, the pharmaceutical companies and the Coca-Cola
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Soda pop companies aren't… Aren't about standing up there and saying, yeah, our products cause you harm.
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::Jonathan Glass: Right, right, exactly. So yeah, it's coming back to base… and common sense. There's a wonderful word in Ayurveda, which I love, it's Pragya Aparad, and that means… pragya means knowledge, experience.
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::Jonathan Glass: you know, common sense, intuition, in that realm. Apparat is when we offend that, when we go against it.
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::Jonathan Glass: So we know something's… we have the common sense, or we just know that something is either good or not good for me, and and we just ignore it.
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::Jonathan Glass: For various reasons, or because science or somebody tells you, oh, you know, there's no FDA approval to that, or there's no proof that that works, so therefore we can only go by what's so-called proven through all the gazillions of dollars they used in their research studies, usually done by the same company, and…
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Profiting off of it.
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::Jonathan Glass: Yeah, they're profiting off of our illnesses, and, you know, I think a healthy degree of…
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::Jonathan Glass: I've had enough of that.
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::Jonathan Glass: crap in my life. I want to start thinking for myself.
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::Jonathan Glass: And, you know, no problem getting information from the doctors and the scientists, that's okay. That's good. The technology is, you know, it's good.
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::Jonathan Glass: But, when it comes down to it, like you said, take responsibility.
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::Jonathan Glass: for your own health, and yeah, in my work, I'll, you know, I do muscle testing, kinesiology, which is quite amazing, actually, and, you know, can identify food sensitivities, and sometimes I'll use testing. You know, I'll use microbiome testing, or hormone testing, saliva hormone testing, things like that, that can give good information.
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::Jonathan Glass: But usually, even the muscle testing gives me everything I need to do, and sometimes people like the external thing, saying, oh, you know, what you were saying is right. Okay, I really will, you know, take that action, you know, because they see it on a piece of paper. That's okay.
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::Jonathan Glass: But, so then, you know, trying to…
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, change some dietary habits, maybe add some herbs or nutrients that support the body in the right direction.
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::Jonathan Glass: Treating things upstream rather than downstream. Downstream is when you're just treating a symptom.
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::Jonathan Glass: The analogy we always hear is, you know, if the engine light in the car is on, then, you know, sometimes taking a drug or a pharmaceutical is a little bit like going in there and turning off the engine light, but you're not really…
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::Jonathan Glass: You know, you're not really helping the engine, you're just turning off the disturbance of the engine light. So, you know, better to figure out what's going on in the engine, and fix that, and then the engine light will go off automatically.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah. Yeah, I like that analogy a lot.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, how can people get ahold of you?
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::Jonathan Glass: Sure, so, probably the best way is HealingEssencecenter.com.
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::Jonathan Glass: and… or Jonathan Glass at HealingUsIncentCentra.com.
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::Jonathan Glass: And there you can, you know, find my Total Life Cleanse programs that are going on, and my book is there, which gives a ton of information about all the things we're talking about.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Awesome. Thank you so much for joining me today.
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::Jonathan Glass: Thank you so much for having me. Awesome, thank you.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: To learn more about Dr. Jonathan Glass and to explore his Total Life Cleanse program, please visit HealingEssencecenter.com, and we'll be sure to put those links in the show notes below. Thank you for tuning in with us today to the UWorld Order Showcase Podcast. If you're ready to amplify your voice, monetize your mission, and start attracting premium clients, your next step is simple. Head to thecoachesalchemist.com and schedule your free client acquisition audit.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Be sure to join us for our next episode as we share what others are doing to raise the global frequency. And remember, change begins with you. You have all the power to change the world. Start today and get busy.