The Hidden Biochemistry Behind Anxiety & Brain Fog | Eva Hooft

25:31However, if we are chronically stressed, if we're mineral depleted, if we have a congested liver, our stomach acid also goes down. And so now we don't have that first line of defense, right? We don't have enough bile, like our microbiome is all out of whack. And so when we have certain imbalances, these opportunistic organisms can overgrow, take up more space, and essentially, yes, start to release endotoxins because they also release toxins. So it's kind of this like vicious cycle because now they're releasing more toxins. We get even more depleted. We get even more dysregulated. And of course, you know, they end up overgrowing.

26:06So the way in my experience and my opinion that we break that cycle and we actually naturally start releasing parasites is not by starting to fear them and starting to say, oh, we can't have pets and we, you know, we can't drink water. We have to like, you know, wash our vegetables and kill all the parasites with ozone. Like, great. If you can do that, awesome. But like, it's not going to happen all the time, right? You're going to be at a restaurant, you don't know what they're washing their vegetables with. And so the best first line of defense, again, is to regulate the nervous system to make sure you're getting enough minerals to restore that natural function so that the immune system actually kicks into gear, and it can deal with the toxic overload.

26:44And so this is one of the reasons why, you know, I have clients sometimes do emotional release practices, which is a whole other topic, but like, essentially them releasing stored emotions from the body, or they're starting to work on learning to set boundaries, and they will start releasing parasites in the process of that. Because, you know, the stored emotion or the lack of boundaries and the people-pleasing was a thing that actually kept their nervous system in a chronic state of fight or flight. So when they start to release that and work through that, right, the body has more vital energy to start to deal with some of these parasitic infections and whatnot.

27:18So yeah, it's quite a fascinating topic. Yes, it is. I want to put a pin in mental versus physical for a second, because the last kind of, we'll say, 30 ,000 foot topic that I want to discuss before we start to work our way down is, like, what are the symptoms? if someone's listening to this is it facial bloating red face is it constipation is it brain fog is it all of these things like if I'm sitting here and I just feel off maybe I just this is the first time I've ever really listened at any extended amount about the even the concept of detoxing which I wouldn't put past people and that's not a knock on anyone listening this you know I just get that everyone can't research everything all the time.

28:08So if they're sitting there and they feel off, they know they're not right, but they don't really know and they haven't looked. What are some of those symptoms that if someone came to you, you'd say, hey, you may have an issue here with toxins. This may be something, you know, you're overloaded in one way or the other. What does that look like for people? So believe it or not, it's like every single symptom you can imagine has some sort of connection to this. And the reason is that when one thing is off, the entire system is off, right? So if you look at blood markers, for example, the body likes to keep blood markers extremely tight.

28:44So by the time that you go to your doctor or, you know, wherever you get your labs done, function, health or whatever, and some markers are off, it's not just because like, oh, I have low iron, I need to take an iron supplement, right? Like if we look at things like 100 years ago, do you think our ancestors were taking like a bunch of supplements and pills? Like, no there's actually something that's up in the entire iron transport or regulation system because other things are off and so everything that we're talking about like and I'm sure there's like one or two things that I'm not thinking of that might not be connected to this you know but typically if one thing's off in the blood or in the body or you're noticing brain fog fatigue whatever the thing is like something in the system is off that we can start to work on when we're looking at this like root cause way of healing.

29:34And so I don't even really love the term detoxification because it's so overused. You know, people think that like, if we're starting a program together, they're going to be on some sort of cleanse. Well, for me, it's actually the opposite. Like I actually get people off of those cleanses and into actual systems that kind of optimize the body, which for some people might just be like, you know, regulating their nervous system and like eating more good food like that in turn can literally change someone's entire path. So, yeah, if someone's listening and like, I'll just kind of run through some like really common symptoms that we get because I was just doing a masterclass and we had like a sheet with some of the symptoms people come to us with.

30:11And I like to say we don't discriminate. You know, we have people in our, like actually a lot of people in our programs with tons of different autoimmune conditions, like even to like certain cancer diagnoses, which I personally believe cancer is 100%, you know, connected to the body being too toxic and wanting to store certain toxins into, you know, tissues or kind of same thing with autoimmune conditions. I don't believe that the body will try to kill itself. You know, again, like there's a lot of like mineral imbalances, toxicity involved in these conditions typically. But yeah, like I would say like from anything from like bloating, digestive issues, constipation, Crohn's disease, defarticulitis, like anything gut related.

30:53You know, high cholesterol typically I see is really connected to liver congestion and excess amount of toxicity as well. So when we start to clear that up, cholesterol goes down. However, in general, cholesterol is a whole conversation in and of itself because we are 100 % lied to when it comes to what good cholesterol actually means. I want to come back to that topic. I definitely want to come back to that for sure. Yeah. So, you know, there's a lot of these types of things that like we go to our doctors or whatever and we get like one or two markers that are off, like I mentioned, right? Like low iron, low ferritin.

31:25Like I used to have chronically low ferritin. it was like like three six nine for like six years straight i would do everything right like take iron supplements eat more red meat cook out of cast iron pans and until i started regulating my minerals i started detoxing aluminum and actually optimize my copper because i had a lot of like dysfunction like copper dysfunction like i had a copper iud i had hormonal birth control for many years so i had copper toxicity and simultaneously copper deficiency at the same time quite interesting and so because of that I had very low ceruloplasmin which is a really big part of like iron transporting utilization and so my ferritin was actually chronically low and it started to raise when I just worked on optimizing my entire mineral system not taking an iron supplement so you know we get those people we get people with like all sorts of like anxiety like mental things like muscle activation syndrome histamine issues so essentially like the system being extremely sensitive and kind of on high alert all the time.

32:29We see that a lot in our clients. Sometimes it's like very emotional, like emotional volatility or, you know, things that we think are not related to our physical body, but they actually are. And then, of course, anything, you know, that's related to like food sensitivities, like allergies, like that whole side of things and like skin issues. We get a lot like psoriasis, eczema, acne. Yeah, we, like I said, we really don't discriminate. We see everything across the board. And quite often if someone's like, hey, can you help me with this? Like, you know, there's been a handful of situations that if someone has like a stage four cancer diagnosis, I like to work alongside their oncologist because, you know, there are certain things that are above my pay grade.

33:12But it's still really good to understand, you know, When we work together and you go through these processes, you know, what's what's possible. I had a client once who her husband unfortunately died, but he dealt with like a stage four cancer diagnosis. He had tumors all over the body. And essentially what they did with him is go through this detoxification clinic where they were doing essentially everything that we do in our programs, you know, like regulating the nervous system, liver flushes, cleanses, like all these things. his tumors within three months shrank, like 95 % of his tumors were gone within three months, right, of him detoxing his body.

33:49And he ended up making the decision to, for the last 5%, go into radiation therapy and, you know, unfortunately die during that. But it shows, you know, how efficient like detoxification can be in the phase of these things. And I've had so many stories of people who ended up going through like detoxification and like, Like at one point I was working with a client who was doing everything to get her tumor markers down. And she just did this really simple gut detox for like four or five days that we put her on. And her tumor markers went down like so much that, you know, she ended up making a ton of content around that.

34:25So it's just really cool stories that we tend to see from these processes. And I'm just very excited for it to just grow and for people to become more aware of it. Yeah, I firmly believe that, you know, in some number of years from now, we will look back on chemotherapy and radiation as treatments for cancer and realize what we were actually doing to people. I mean, yeah, it in many cases, the best thing we have today and the people that that fight through and have beat it using those. God bless you. And it's amazing. And but when you think about what you're actually what those what they're actually doing to your body, is there like trying to And basically with chemo is like, we're going to kill you and hope the cancer dies before you die.

35:08I mean, that's essentially the tradeoff that you're making. And to think that you're just flooding your body with massive amounts of chemicals and toxic chemicals and just hoping the race to death is the cancer dies first is it seems very brutal. You know, I'm hoping there will come a day and it seems like things like peptides, you know, some of these, you know, mRNA stuff that they're doing now. This looks like there's a lot of potential fixes that aren't as highly toxic to the body. But man, that that the chemo stuff, the cancer stuff is crazy. And I agree with you that I think a lot of it is it's it's your body's way of dealing with stuff that shouldn't be there.

35:50You know, obviously I can't put words to it the way you can, but I, it just, that's the way it feels to me. And so I want to come back to cholesterol for a second real quick because, and I'll set the stage and then I'll pass it back over to you. So I've had hereditary high cholesterol my entire life, starting at eight years old. I get, I've gotten blood work every six months since I was eight because my, my cholesterol level has always been high. And And about two and a half years ago, probably, I went in to see my doctor. My doctor I'd had forever retired, passed me off to a new doctor. Doctor does blood work for the first time, sees the high cholesterol, and is like, we got to put you on Lipitor.

36:32And it was probably 265 with maybe slightly elevated LDL, I guess, so the stuff that's not as good. but you know this is the part that concerns me and I have told this story in the past on the podcast but her first instinct was just right to Lipitor right bam go right to Lipitor and I was like I don't want that crap in my body like I know that it can help people but it also has major side effects the time I'm only 43 I'm like I don't want to be on this for the rest of my life I'm not a big fan of pharmaceuticals to begin with. And I said, well, hey, if I don't have any plaque in my body, then I'm really, is it a concern?

37:15Like, is this number a concern if I don't have any plaque? So she agrees. Why she didn't recommend the plaque test to begin with is most likely because the commission wasn't high enough. But, you know, I go, zero plaque, come back. And I said, well, what other options are there? She has no idea. Um, so I ended up finding a hormone specialist, um, cause I also had a, an issue with testosterone for a little while that I fixed. And, uh, the hormone optimization specialist put me on, uh, terzepatide, a microdose of terzepatide and a microdose of, um, testemoralin and then, and then regulate, you know, work on the diet, you know, and frankly, I eat pretty healthy.

37:58It's just always been high. And I watched my cholesterol drop like to 205 within three months. And I think about things like peptides and some of these other alternatives to taking a pill every day as a way to work on these things. So one, I would love for you to level set kind of some of the lies, as you mentioned, about cholesterol. I want to leave that to you. And then what are you seeing outside of the statin or just, you know, maybe if you're eating, let's assume the person is eating a reasonable diet, right? This isn't because they're just wolfing down, you know, crappy processed, you know, McDonald's every day.

38:47Like, what is the lie about cholesterol and how should we kind of start to recalibrate our thinking around it? And then what are some of the ways that you deal with cholesterol with your clients? And, you know, is this related to toxins? And how do we do it without taking Lipitor? Yeah, so such a good question, you know. So I think first and foremost, like we have to understand that I think, I don't know which year it was, but the good levels of cholesterol actually were changed. So previously, I think it was like the cutoff was like 220 and then they lowered it to 200. So like it's like they don't even really know what good cholesterol is, right?

39:24So you're going to see some clients that have cholesterol at a little bit of the higher level, like 220, something like that, like LDL a little bit elevated. But if their hormones are fantastic, this is a very important picture to understand because sometimes the body actually has higher cholesterol because it's needed for that good hormone production. And so with a lot of clients that have these cholesterol levels that are flagged, but not extremely elevated, like let's say 220, like I mentioned, I actually think that that's a great thing. Like I actually think that low cholesterol is often an issue.

39:57And this is also why when we're just like only focused on lowering a number, we don't really know the implications that that has on our bodies long term, right? What happens to our hormones, what happens to like all these other processes in the body. And I also will say that like I really see so first of all, bile are, you know, liver's digestive fluid is primarily made up of cholesterol. And so quite often people that have some sort of like bile insufficiency or like stagnant bile, cholestasis, liver congestion, however you want to call it, whichever term you want to use, these people end up having higher levels of cholesterol in the blood as well.

40:35And so I end up seeing when we clear up that liver congestion, oftentimes the cholesterol drops and liver congestion, you know, it's such like an undiscussed topic. But, you know, you mentioning that you had this at eight years old, like you can be born with liver congestion if, you know, you're again, get if your parents had liver congestion, if potentially like they had higher levels of heavy metals or other toxins. sometimes also like for example things like estrogen also help create more liver congestion and this is oftentimes why I think you know a lot of women end up having like more anxiety because they retain more copper why they have more gut issues because they're all in birth control which like massively influences our microbiome so there's a massive connection with like the liver cholesterol but then also all these other parts of the body right another theory that I know a lot of people in my space talk about is how cholesterol and plaque in and of itself, if we think about the idea of that, right?

41:35Like why would the body build a plaque inside the arteries? Like my idea there is like if we are highly toxic, the body will quite literally try to protect the arteries by creating a layer of cholesterol to not have the whatever is going through the blood. Like if the pH is off, if there's certain toxins in the blood that could actually damage this arterial wall to quite literally protect itself. And so again, like detoxification, I would say is like one of the main things and tools here that we use to essentially support people in that process. And then of course, 100%, there's mineral imbalances that make, that have like a massive influence on this.

42:13And again, like certain toxicities. I will say that with peptides, because this is, I was talking about this on a podcast as well, I typically have a little bit of a different outtake on this than a lot of other people do. just because, again, like I think there's certain peptides that are incredible, right? Like I have some clients that are on peptides. I've used them in the past, didn't quite work for what I was dealing with at the time. And some of my mentors love them, some don't. The way that I kind of look at peptides is like, what are we using them for, especially with the GLP ones when it comes to like the functional medicine space?

42:48I know they're using like a low dose of them a lot for, you know, things like that, things like muscle activation syndrome and stuff like that. I like to just always pose the contemplation of like, okay, well, why was the body expressing the thing that it was doing in the first place, whether it is right, like muscle activation syndrome, high inflammation levels, high cholesterol. And just because we are using the peptide to kind of suppress that symptom and maybe change some other things in the body, are we actually dealing with the reason why that was happening in the first place? And I think that both can be true, right?

43:21We can take these peptides to support the body. And if we look deeper at the reason why the body was expressing itself in that way to make sure that we're not neglecting that to cause further implications later in life. So yeah, I always like to look at, you know, especially knowing how much these mineral imbalances and heavy metals play a role. It's like if we're taking a peptide, for example, to lower inflammation, but the cause of the inflammation was actually a high toxic burden, the peptide isn't going to release a toxic burden. So we still have to do that work alongside it. I do agree that, you know, certain peptides can basically lower the inflammation or support some process in the body so that the body has more energy to start to clear up some of these other things, right?

44:04I 100 % agree with that. But I do think it's important to mention because I do think that the functional space right now, just with anything that's booming, like fasting was booming, you know, like whenever we were talking about like late, late 20, for me, it was like 2015 to 2020. I was fasting all the time. Right. And now we're kind of learning about, oh, it's actually not good for everyone or there is, there are certain implications. And so I just tell my clients always to be a little cautious when they're jumping on trends that are like mass, you know, like promoted by everyone in this space.

44:38So I'll leave that there. Yeah, no, I think that's wonderful advice. And I completely agree. I had a buddy who reached out to me because I mentioned on the show that I was taking the Zepatide, which is a GLP-1 for those that it's a second generation for those that aren't aware. Zempic would be the would be the Gen 1 that most people have heard of. And so I mentioned that I was taking on the show and that I was really enjoying the results. It wasn't about weight loss at all um it was uh three three things um targeting uh visceral fat uh particularly um uh i'd wanted to remove the food noise in general and i had found i struggled with fairly severe adhd um diagnosed not self-diagnosed um not that should matter but i feel like i have to say that these days because freaking everyone says they have it you know just because they have a little energy.

45:35And I don't use it as a crutch. This is true. And I found that trisepatide in a micro dose actually allowed because I had played with like, like as I got older, I probably have always had it since I was a kid looking back at my life. But when I needed to when I was younger, I could like, pull it back in whenever I wanted, right? So my brain would be like, shooting a million directions. But it was like, I need to like, focus up on Eva right here. Like, I need to be present for her. I need to have my brain on what she's saying, listening. And I could just write down, right? And get rid of it. And as I got older, and I've gotten older, despite continuing to try to take care of myself very well, I found I didn't have that ability.

46:18It's like, if you've ever seen the movie For Love of the Game, like towards the end of the game, you can't clear the mechanism anymore. That's a deep baseball reference. But the so I was searching for solutions and I tried, you know, my doctor also wanted to put me on Adderall. And I tried that. It's fucking amazing. Horrible for you, but it does all the things it's going to do. So not that I recommend you taking it, but having a little sample bottle for when you get some shit done isn't the worst thing in the world. Not medical advice. Remember, Ryan is not in the medical field, not medical advice.

46:54But I found that the GLP-1, there was research around its impact on focus, on like, not that you can harness discipline, but on your task, like getting more activation of your dopamine centers around tasks, which is essentially what Adderall does, right? Like milks your brain, your Adderall receptors, so you feel good about tasks. Okay. So that was a very long contextual diatribe to say at this point. I said it on the podcast. I had a buddy who was slightly overweight, who was like, thought it was going to be this miracle. He goes out, he gets a prescription from his doctor, starts injecting himself.

47:32And, you know, two months later, he's like, it's not working. And I was like, well, okay, why? Like, what are you, did you, are you working out? Well, no. Well, okay. Well, did you change your diet? Are you still like pounding beers and eating cheeseburgers and shit all the time? Well, you know, maybe a little less. I'm like, well, it's like if you don't, it's not a, it's not like injected in your body and your body just sucks in and all of a sudden you have a six pack abs and you look like an Adonis. Like that's, that's not even close. Like it's, it is a, it is one other tool that if utilized properly in conjunction with all the stuff you're talking about.

48:11Right. And I think what I'm hearing from you and I, and I really like this about your philosophy is that there isn't like a thing. It's not like if you do this one thing, everything changes. It's we have to be what I hear you saying is we need to be cognizant of all these different mechanisms, which which does take some work. But at the same time, like you get one body. So if you're going to focus on anything and maybe spend a little extra time thinking about something, this is probably the right thing to think about. And that's the part that I feel like, unfortunately, when you get these trends, doesn't get communicated.

48:47Right. It's like GLP ones. and the Tessamoralin and Samoralin and these types of things, you can waste them. One, they're expensive. And two, if you're just injecting them and not changing your body and not changing your lifestyle in these other ways, they're going to do literally nothing for you. It's like lighting money on fire. They're additive mechanisms to a system that's functioning close to properly, not these like inject yourself in the stomach with this thing and then all of a sudden your life changes and you have bulging muscles and six-pack abs, you know, if you're a dude and that's what you're going for.

49:28So how do you, like when you're working with someone, how do you get them to this more holistic approach? Because I know you said most people are healthy, you tend to get more healthy people, but again, let's take that, we'll just say right down the middle, average American who is busy, maybe they have a couple kids and they've let themselves, you know, they don't have as much time. You're only going to gym once a week. And maybe they slip a couple cheeseburgers in there and cookies a little too often. And not that they're like obese, but they are not the way, you know, maybe they got a few more toxins, a little extra weight.

50:02Like, how does that person who struggles to keep up day to day, how do they start to develop this holistic approach to their health and the toxins in their body and like just getting rid of just the simple things like the brain fog and some of the chronic inflammation fatigue, which is unnatural. Like, how do you start to wrap your head around this? Because what I get from people is like, dude, I don't know how you do it. Like, how do you keep up with all this shit? And I'm like, I'm not even an expert. So like, how do you how do you recommend people do that? Yeah. So I will just preface like most of my clients are not healthy.

50:40They just try to live it or think they live a healthy lifestyle, but they're oftentimes extremely sick. Right. It's ironically, usually the people who have the healthiest lifestyle that are most sick because they're like, you know, so obsessed with like trying to do everything perfect. That's a good point. Thank you. Yeah. So I think like the first thing to understand is that, you know, we when a client comes in, I'm not just looking at their physical habits, right? Like, I'm not just looking at like, okay, like, you know, this is what they're doing every single day. But it's also like, their identity, it's what matters, their priorities, right?

51:10Like, because if you are working with someone that exactly the case that you just described, right? Like, they're busy, they have a couple kids, like they're, you know, eating cheeseburgers, or they're going out to eat a lot. Like, the first thing that I ask my clients quite often is like, okay, like, what's going on? what are your priorities and what are your goals, right? Because if you prioritize like having fun on the weekend and like having a couple beers over your health, then it doesn't matter what we're gonna do with your physical body because that's always gonna be number one for you, right?

51:38So we have to look at like your inner reality, essentially of like how you look at the world, how you look at your physical body and that first needs to change, right? Because the willingness to change has to come from inside. It's not like, hey, my friend, this is literally why we don't take clients on with this particular profile who are like, hey, well, my so-and-so said that I needed to do this. And so I'm here to do it, but I don't want to do it. Right. Like if you don't have the willingness to do the thing, it's not going to stick. Right. Like it has to come from inside. And so what we really help our clients with is just getting to that point of like, okay, like what's, what's the thing inside of you that's holding you back right now?

52:14Like what's that inner critic, the inner voice, or maybe even like, in my case, I used to deal a lot with this when I was having, you know, wanted to eat like really healthy and just like not overeat. And then there was this part that was rebelling against that and just like would eat cookies late at night and would like snack like at midnight in a pantry. Right. And so what I needed to do is actually do something what I call somatic work or emotional release work, where I essentially would talk to that part of myself, which is quite always often a younger part of us that feels like she needs to rebel against authority, which is myself now the authority that says I'm going to eat healthy.

52:52And so there's this inner conflict that ends up happening in our nervous system, in our like inner worlds where there's a part of us that always feels like it needs to rebel against the part that wants to live healthy or have certain goals. And this is what I would say happens with like 90 % of people with, you know, like intentions at the start of the year, there's a new part of them that's like, I want to be this person that's living healthy, that has these habits. And then there's the younger part of them that says, well, I want to do things this way. And I don't like discomfort. and I just want to choose the easy path, right?

53:23So there has to be some sort of dialogue that happens between those two parts for them to reach an ultimatum that actually says, hey, we both want the same thing, which is we want to feel heard, seen, loved, and we want to have a good experience. And so within that, like, just shifting that inner awareness sometimes can change people's habits. Like I remember I had a client who was in his 50s. He like drove from like, he lived somewhere in like middle America, like basically where no one knows about healthy eating, you know, like he worked in construction and he was an alcoholic and he ended up driving to my place.

53:57We did like a couple of these like emotional, really somatic sessions. And after one session, we essentially just extremely deeply went into the reason why he drinks, which ended up being some sort of like guilt and shame that he carried from like his dad's side generations down of like feeling like he wasn't a good man and whatever, like crazy story. He released that trauma and he didn't drink again. Right. So it's like sometimes it's not like we have this idea that it's really hard to set goals and it's really hard to do these healthy things. But as soon as we make that decision internally and we understand that it just clicks in, it's just like we get that momentum.

54:34Right. We'll move forward. So we oftentimes try to get to our clients like, why? Like, why do you want this? And like, how can we make that the number one priority that's going to move you forward in this process. And then typically, like just making it simple, right? Like it's not about doing things perfect. That's what I always tell my clients. Like just because I give you like, hey, this is what you can do in the morning. This is how you can eat. Like if you eat out twice a week, but you're doing the rest, like you're doing better than you did before. So you're going to see improvements, right?

55:03Like if you sometimes fall off or you like end up scrolling on your phone all day or watching movies and eating snacks at night, like that's okay. Like you're not going to mess up your progress. It's just like, sure, it might slow you down like 2%, but it's not going to set you back in any way. Like I like to get away from that idea that we can have a setback in life. So when we reduce that pressure and we give people the opportunity to be more flexible and we just tell them like, hey, just take these supplements, try to do this the best you can, try to eat in this way. Like even if it's just eating some more vegetables, stuff like that, like awesome.

55:37They're still going to see results. They're going to have a good time and they don't feel that pressure. And over time, the healthier that we get, the better the choices are that we make. Right. It's like, yeah. So what I think is wild is that I think a vast majority of the population doesn't even know what it feels like to feel good anymore. I think they've masked with food or some sort of toxic behavior, not necessarily toxins, but toxic behavior that I don't even know if they can wrap their head around or even like visualize or experience in their brain what like remember what it felt like to just be like feel good.

56:29Like not wake up tired, not wake up with brain fog, not look down and see, you know, body in places that they don't necessarily want to see. But you know what I mean? Like they don't they don't they don't know what that feels like. So I sometimes I think it's hard because it's been so long since they felt good that they they don't even know what the goal is. They like want to, quote unquote, feel better. But it's like sometimes they can't even rationalize. like what that is. And I feel like that's very sad. And a lot of it, I think, has been, you talked about the lies around cholesterol, like so many aspects of our physical health, disconnecting physical health from mental health, right?

57:17I love this. And I really, you know, I want to finish on this idea of how these two things work in conjunction, because I love this about your work and I agree in like it feels right to me right I obviously don't know the science behind it that's your place but like it feels right to me and the disconnection of of of mental and physical and acting as if they're two separate things like you know you talked you mentioned before and this kind of like a high level of copper can make you more anxious right? Like, I don't think people realize that. Like, do women who have copper IUDs realize that they have to be very careful?

57:59And you mentioned it, I only know this because I'm having dated women for as long as I have, that this can give them anxiety and that if they're not managing certain minerals in their body, that it's not their fault they're feeling anxiety, actually. Their body is producing anxiety as a reaction to what's going on inside. So now you might be going to a therapist thinking that you have something wrong with, you know, mentally with yourself, when really it's just your body's not intaking or processing certain chemicals or certain minerals the right way. And there's so little talk about that. You know what I mean?

58:36Like, I mean, how many of you are there's just not that many people like you out there. I mean, maybe in your community, you can name a bunch. But I'll tell you, to the broader world, there aren't that many people talking about this. It's one of the reasons I love doing this show is just helping spread these messages. But talk just let's let's finish on in our conversation here today around this idea of like, you know, and go wherever you want with this. But like this idea of interconnecting and your mental and your physical and starting to think through how you can just feel better overall. Like, like if, you know, that kind of keystone pitch on this for people, because I just, you know, not perfect.

59:18but I do work very hard at this. And I think for 45, I'm in pretty good shape. I'm in pretty good health. Like I wake up every day. I feel pretty good, all things considered. Like, you know, obviously anything can be better, but I think I'm pretty good. I just have so many friends that they just simply don't understand. Like they don't understand what it feels like to wake up in your mid 40s and pop out of bed at 5.30 a.m., like feel good, ready to go. like go get after it at the gym. Like they're struggling to get out of bed at 7.30, 8 o 'clock and get their kids on the bus. And I would love for those who have the inclination as you described, the self-motivation to get there.

1:00:00I would love for them to connect, go down the path with you and start to feel better. I just, I think our whole entire society would change if everyone just felt a little better every day. Yeah, this is such a, like you said, like people don't discuss this topic enough, right? So I'll start at what you were mentioning earlier about like the ADHD type symptoms, right? So when we look at ADHD, and again, like, for people that like to go into literature, like definitely would recommend them looking into the work of Dr. Pollack and Dr. Wilson, where essentially, we're talking about like mineral balancing, right?

1:00:35So we're talking about like the mineral status in someone's body, certain metals, certain minerals, and these metals and minerals also have certain qualities. So copper, for example, like we already kind of discussed, like it excites the brain so it can create more anxiety, essentially. And so we see also that copper is a very feminine mineral. And so like this is also typically why women are higher in copper and men are higher in iron because iron is a very masculine mineral, also a metal. And so essentially, like we start to see that these minerals essentially shape our personality. And this is where it gets really interesting because things like autism, ADHD, like any sort of like what we call, you know, like mental disorders tend to have roots in these mineral imbalances and certain like biochemistry that the brain then produces.

1:01:22And so this is also why like mineral balancing, it's been studied so well for kids with ADHD and autism with incredible results, like literally like incredible, because a lot of these tend to be these heavy metals that actually create these like, like you said, right, like this brain that just like starts to have like chaos or like these chaotic impulses. And so rather than saying like, oh, there's something wrong with me, we can start to say, oh, there's something wrong with the biochemistry that's happening in my body. And what's underneath that is oftentimes the certain minerals and metals that have an influence on our brain.

1:02:00And so one thing that I started to observe in a lot of clients is especially in relation to mercury. So people, you know, potentially like through vaccine injuries, like because there's mercury in vaccines, it could potentially be through eating a lot of fish, right? Like I have clients all the time who say, well, I only eat, you know, wild fish like once or twice a week and their levels of mercury are through the roof, especially tuna. I literally don't even touch tuna. Like I don't think I'll ever do again because I know how toxic it is in mercury. mercury fillings. So if you have those silver fillings in your mouth, or maybe your parents had those, that was my case, right?

1:02:34My parents had those. So they were passed down in utero. So I had more toxic metals in my body as a kid. And so yeah, like as a kid, you know, I had learning disabilities, I had eczema, I had like all of these things that you would assume, right? Like how can a kid get such things? Well, it's because right, we're, again, we're born into like whatever toxicity or mineral pattern our parents kind of inherit to us. And so when we look at this, and specifically in relation to mercury, I'll just kind of tell the story of this client who had mercury fillings. And I've seen this with multiple clients who have had mercury fillings.

1:03:10A, oftentimes the parasite burden in these clients is a lot higher. In her case, she also had a root canal, which root canals is a whole other topic we could go down to. But they say that 100 % of all root canals are infected and they actually like almost always contribute to massive inflammation and infection in the body. In her case, they found about 20 different parasites in her jaw, like all sorts of bacterial overgrowth because of this infected root canal. And she had all those mercury fillings. Now she ended up full blown hallucinating. Like she was seeing like dark forces show up in the flesh in her living room, thinking that people were haunting her.

1:03:46Like some of my mentors have stories that when they were going through lead elimination, so again, a heavy metal elimination, that they were quite literally convinced that the FBI was after them, they would start hiding in their rooms. And I've experienced this myself when I was going through these copper dumps, again, because I was on birth control and had a copper IUD. I was seeing things that weren't there. I would wake up in the middle of the night thinking someone was at my door. Like, literally, it can change our perception and the brain chemistry. And so I would, you know, like, it's a bold statement, but I think that almost all, if not all cases of people with mental illnesses, with like, you know, like schizophrenia, bipolar disease, like there's probably a correlation.

1:04:29If we had their mineral tests and we could see the heavy metals in their body, we would probably see a massive correlation there. And so that's, of course, just one of the parts. But even if we think about the gut and the brain connection, right, there's an awesome book that I read like 10 years ago, I think it was, I think it's literally called The Gut-Brain Connection. And it talks about this relationship between our microbes and again, like our brain, our serotonin, right? So about 90 % of our serotonin is created in the gut. So if we have imbalances in our gut, if we have, like what I said, right, liver congestion that leads to overgrowth of certain bacteria that has more of these pathogenic bacteria overgrow and not as many of the good bacteria that help create the serotonin, we might feel depression and anxiety.

1:05:16And what happens, right, is like as a child, maybe we're put on antibiotics. It wipes out our good microbiome. Now we get anxiety and depression. There's a ton of information out there. um zach bush does a lot of research on this as well how i think it was like one course of antibiotics can like can increase our risk of major depression by like 40 percent of just one round right so it's we start to just see like the relationship to what we think is us right our brain our mental state versus like is it really just a relationship or a result of how our physical body is functioning at that time. And the beautiful thing as well, and, you know, when we look at like meditation or like working with like our mind as a way to heal ourselves, it also goes both ways.

1:06:04Like we can do things with our minds that actually end up signaling things to the body that it can heal. And this is why we see sometimes, you know, people in Joe Dispenza retreats or these meditation retreats, they have these spontaneous remissions or suddenly they can walk again after not being able to walk because the mind in and of itself is also extremely powerful. So it's this bidirectional relationship that if we understand that, you know, we would optimize our bodies, I believe, more so that we can really alter our brain chemistry and the way that we see the world and look at the world, we can become more positive and therefore, you know, do better in our job, do better with our finances and our relationships.

1:06:42And the other way around as well, Like we'd probably spent more time like really working on improving our mental focus on meditation, on all these things that we know improve the physical body and our energy as well. So it's 100 percent a bidirectional relationship. And yeah, I mean, we could say so much here, but I think that's that's good. Eva, this has been a tremendous conversation. I could do another three hours with you. I find this topic fascinating, and I think it's so incredibly important because, as I said, I just know too many people who live day to day with this acceptance of symptoms that I think with even a marginal amount of attention applied to things like mineral imbalances, the toxins we're taking to our body, exercise, meditation, you know, some of these things could remove those.

1:07:34and at least remove them in large part. And how much better is your life? You know what I mean? How much better is your life when you don't feel like you're looking through or thinking through a fog every day or you don't look at your face and it feels bloated and puffy and you don't feel athletic or you don't have to be, I just don't believe that you have to fade off into the night as you get older. You know, I'm fighting, I'm gonna fight it tooth and nail and it's not gonna be done through pharmaceuticals and chemicals as much as possible. I do personally put peptides in a slightly different category than pharmaceuticals, at least some of them.

1:08:12You know, I think you have to be very careful, guys. Obviously, I'm not a doctor. This is not medical advice. So anything that I say, take is what I do, but not a recommendation. Eva, I know there are going to be a lot of people that want to get deeper into your world. What's the best way for them to do that? both your content and if they're interested in working with you? Yeah, so I share a lot on social media. So that's just my first name dot my last name. So at Eva dot Hoeft. And yeah, there's links to free masterclasses. I'm going to be putting up a lot more free content there. I also have a podcast myself.

1:08:47It's not fully active right now, but there is about 25 episodes or some 20 to 30 there for people that want to dive a bit deeper into that as well. And yeah, everything, you know, I'm very, very responsive on DM. So I try to answer every single DM that comes in, even though sometimes that means it's like 100 a day. But, you know, so if there's questions about the work, you can ask me that either on email or through DMs. And also the link in bio will get you to my website where all that information can be found. Well, I appreciate you. I appreciate you out here sharing this message. I love it. I think it's important.

1:09:20And just thanks again for your time. Yeah, thank you as well.