Podcast 445: Detoxification with North American Herb & Spice

In this week’s episode, Steven Harkins from North American Herb & Spice joins Martin Pytela to discuss the importance of detoxing. The average person is surrounded by toxins on a daily basis. These toxins come from our environment, and many things you use or consume everyday like food, water, personal care, or household products.  These excess toxins can cause physical and mental health issues like brain fog, digestive and skin issues, fatigue, headaches, insomnia, inflammation, disease, and more.

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Martin Pytela Life Enthusiast podcast. I’m the health coach at life-enthusiast.com. And with me today, I have the distinct pleasure of having Steven Harkin. Harkins. Pardon my pronunciation. Steven… Hi, Steven. Steven is the director of education and culture at North American Herb and Spice, a company I love very much because of their culture, and because of how they present themselves to the world and the kind of products that they bring. Steven.

STEVEN: Thank you.

MARTIN: Yes. And so today we, I am sure that we could probably create 100 different podcasts with North American Herb and Spice, and still not run out of things to talk about, but for a lift off today, I’d like to talk about cleansing, detoxification and why a person would care. There’s a lot of talk about cleansing or detox, but why? Right. If you find yourself dragging, tired, foggy minded, brain not working, not sleeping well. Aching here, there, and everywhere. Those are the signs of inflammation, and inflammation arrives at the tail end of functional deficiency. Which arrives at the tail end of toxicity, or why we want to talk about stuff today. Right?

STEVEN: Yes, exactly. Because what people may not understand is that unlike 50 years ago, unlike any other time in history, you’re being bombarded by just the food additives alone. Over 7,000 food additives that are harmful to the body that we are being exposed to. You can try to avoid it. You can eat healthy, you can eat organic. Guess what? We are still even, Martin and I, we are still doing purges. We’re still detoxing because there’s so many environmental factors before we got even started talking. You and I were discussing the issues of glyphosate, pesticides, nitrates, the issues with our soil, the issues with our air, the water, everything, it’s just, it comes to a…

MARTIN: Yes, a red dye number which, five is it? Six?

STEVEN: Forty-Five, you can’t keep up. But one of the things that really woke me up is when you start researching the other countries that ban many of these food additives, and unfortunately in this country, everything’s allowed.

MARTIN: Yes. Especially in Europe, they have stepped up and they have started banning a lot of things because in Europe, for some reason the corporations are not able to control the government as beautifully as they’ve managed in the United States. I think the invention was the Citizens United decision, which introduced money as free speech into politics. And all of a sudden a lobbyist can spend endless amount of money influencing the legislator, and the legislator will just do as, well you know, where the money comes from.

STEVEN: Yes, exactly. So that’s what we’re up against every day when we make our decisions to eat a...