[Music]
[Applause]
what if what you ate today is making you
sick what if what you eat on a daily
basis is contributing to your health
issues what if there is poison in your
refrigerator or your pantry right now
one night out a week and you pick this
talk to come to ha no gas for 2004 I
woke up almost completely blind when an
optimist wakes up blind they don’t
really realize how serious it is I
thought I just needed glasses I made an
appointment at the optometrist in town
and went to pick up my glasses and as
soon as he examined me
he of course realized that something
very serious was going on come to find
out later that he he thought that I had
a brain tumor he sent me to a specialist
who sent me to another specialist he
sent me to another specialist I spent
the next six months and probably about
60 or 70 doctors finally a fantastic
neuro-ophthalmologist in Holmdel New
Jersey sent me to a rare disease
specialist in Manhattan and I spent
about five hours in his office he was
examining me and talking to me and
checking my eyes and my brain and my
optic nerves and he sat me down and he
said well very bluntly he said I think I
know what you have but if it’s what I
think it is you’ll be blind forever of
course we have to do the DNA test it
tuned him out at that point you know
Charlie Brown’s teacher I just tuned the
MAL completely three weeks later the DNA
results were sent to me and he called me
on the phone and he said very politely
but just very bluntly and he said I’m
really sorry but the DNA results came
back positive you have Leber’s
hereditary optic neuropathy you will
never see again because there is no
treatment or cure and I said I want a
second opinion
and he said on DNA test said you never
know when you’re blind II grasp he
suggested I go to Wills Eye Institute
and they’re fantastic Hospital in
Philadelphia I did go to Wills Eye
Institute and of course they confirmed
that I had Leber’s they diagnosed me as
what’s called one foot blurry so from my
face to a foot away I could see shadows
just blurry shadows and from a foot away
it was totally black
so the fantastic doctors there said that
I had to immediately get into a blind
hospital and learn how to live as a
blind person they wanted me to start
walking with a cane the blind foundation
showed up at my house within a week and
wanted me to apply for disability I said
no to everything you see when I got the
diagnosis in the mail the people who
read me the diagnosis I remember the
very last paragraph said this patient
has the most severe type of Leber’s
hereditary optic neuropathy but two
percent of people diagnosed with this
disease spontaneously recover their
sight and I was going to be in that two
percent you see because the healing
starts with belief so I ignored
everything I spent a year and a half
focusing on my health
I hate bitter food I ate sour food I’ll
get to that a little bit later I focused
on meditation I focused on positivity
within a year and a half I regained the
majority of my eyesight when I went back
to the doctors they said what did you do
and they had no idea they could tell
that the optic nerve had had that was
torn a year and a half before that had
regenerated and so they said just keep
doing whatever you’re doing that time
was so extraordinary and so depressing
and so sad and so amazing you know the
worst part at that time was not not that
I lit my hair on fire because I got too
close to a candle not that I had bumps
and bruises all over my face because I
was bumping into walls I couldn’t see my
children’s faces for two years I could
not see my children’s faces but despite
that
I’m so grateful that I can see my
children’s faces again but despite that
you know the only thing that I can’t do
now and and I regain most of my sight
but the only thing I can’t do is Drive
it’s the only thing I can’t do these
days and for those of you who used to
drive with me you might consider that a
favor to the rest of the world you’re
welcome but the most amazing thing about
my blindness and being spending two
years of my life blind was that it was
such an amazing gift it gave me my
purpose it was such a blessing it
enabled me to build a health company and
we work with hospitals in Fortune 500
companies to bring nutrition to them to
bring wellness to them and so every
single day for the last 10 years I get
to talk about food and I get to talk
about healing and all of those people
have one thing in common food matters
food has contributed somehow to their
illness we have a grave burden on our
health and that grave burden is called
chemicals now I don’t have the time here
to talk about the long list of chemicals
that exist in our food today in this
country but I’ve picked five doozies my
first one is B HTM BHA and the reason I
picked it first and because it’s my
favorite is because I have a personal
history with it in 1989 I was pregnant
with my first son I was five don’t do
the math
[Laughter]
while I was pregnant was when I started
what I was pregnant was when I started
to do research because I wanted to make
sure that my baby was gonna get the very
best food and so I was determined that I
was gonna feed myself right feed my baby
right and do the best I possibly could
as far as nutrition so I started to do
research and I started to read about
these chemicals that we have in this
country and that don’t exist anywhere in
the world but not only they don’t exist
but they are illegal there was a
chemical the first chemical I read about
is called BHA and BHT it isn’t it is
illegal in england and it’s been illegal
before 1989 and it’s illegal in over a
hundred countries except for the US and
do you know why it’s illegal it’s
illegal because it is linked to birth
defects and so when I was reading and
studying all this about food I thought
I’m pretty healthy I’m sure I don’t
consume this I walked into my kitchen
and opened up my cabinet doors and
pulled out bags of nuts because he I
believe in nuts nuts are anti-aging nuts
are amazing for your health eat your
nuts pulled out nuts turn the bag over
and my walnuts said ingredients well
nuts BHT I got ticked and then I pulled
out tons of other products and I found
BHT in my products the next doozy is
something called ractopamine anybody
heard about dopamine Rock dopamine is in
most of the meat in this country in
February 2014 Russia put a ban on our
meat it is in most of the supermarkets
in this country except trektop Amin is
illegal in over 100 countries and we use
it to make animals leaner faster why is
it illegal in most countries because
it’s linked to cancer I should pause
here for a second let you guys know that
I really do have friends they they just
don’t invite me over for dinner parties
and yeah can you can you imagine the
poor wait if it walks up to me with pigs
in the blanket on the tray its pigs in
blankets – I see I don’t go to dinner
parties just picking a blanket silly
thing you probably think I’m gonna bash
the hot dogs no not so fast let me get
two white flour potassium bromate in
China several years ago tons of chips
were yanked off of supermarkets in China
because they contain potassium bromate
potassium bromate has been linked to
cancer illegal in over a hundred
countries except we put it in most of
our big products most of your bread has
potassium bromate it is unequivocally
linked to cancer in Japan did a study
which is why China yanked it off the
shelves where were the products from in
China us the next chemical of choice is
a chemical called vivo you might have
heard a baby oh because there have been
plenty of petition sign now granted
plenty of companies have taken video out
of the sports drinks but brominated
vegetable oil is in so many sports
drinks children drink sports drinks it’s
been linked to cancer and worse it has
been linked to hindering children’s
growth the next lovely chemical which
might be my favorite
besides BHT artificial sweeteners I
can’t tell you how many people we work
with on a daily basis the second we take
them off artificial sweeteners their
symptoms go away dizziness headaches
shakes people get I personally have seen
tons of people diagnosed with MS and
it’s not MS it’s toxic levels of
artificial sweeteners so what is the
answer what is the answer to all this
food what is the answer how do we eat
right
well the BS theory of health now why do
I call it the BS theory of health
because it’s all bs they’re such BS out
there how do you know you hear about the
Paleo diet in the vegan diet the
vegetarian and low-carb and low-fat and
sports drinks too much too much protein
the protein aren’t you all confused so
you know what let’s call it the BS
theory to help
why because I’m ticked off but also
because it works the acronym works and
I’m going to show you how bu L LS H I T
B is for bitter food I told you I ate a
lot of bitter told you I hit a lot of
bitter food bitter is better the
dandelions that we squash and that we
use weed killer to get rid of the
dandelions are amazing I grew up eating
dandelions once or twice a week but when
I was blind I ate the morning breakfast
lunch dinner I put them in my drinks I
put them in my juices I knocked on them
all day long
dandelions are amazing bitter is better
U is for unlock your spice cabinet we’re
using things you know one of the worst
things out there we’re using things like
barbeque flavoring and marinade and
spice a beef flavour chicken flavor
unlike your spice cabinet all the spices
that are in the back get rid of the ones
in the front that say all sorts of
flavorings and bring out cumin and
turmeric and cayenne pepper and paprika
a poke karate said medicine is food and
food is buy medicine use your spices
they’re medicinal L L is for lower your
sugar I’m not gonna spend too much time
there you’ve all heard it and I’m not
telling you to do anything a hundred
percent I’m big on talking about the
80/20 rule so you know what if you’re
going to eat junk 80% of the time just
eat clean and the 20% you know what the
80% medicine is going to combat the 20%
the second L is for lower your animal
protein or for goodness sake
eat grass-fed beef or organic me because
of the rect opening
S is for sour food what is sour food
sour kraut sauerkraut and kimchi amazing
greatest health foods anti-aging if your
gut health is great if your digestion is
great you’re going to feel awesome a
little bit of sauerkraut three times a
week before your dinner will do amazing
things for your digestion eight now for
some of you who know me know that I’m an
optimist I don’t use the word hate but I
hate artificial sweeteners and I ask
that you
as much as I do I is for increased so
I’ve told you some of the things that
you have to get rid of let me tell you
what you can increase so that you can
live a long healthy energetic life you
ready
fruits vegetables whole grains beans
healthy fats and nuts and seeds 80% of
your day if you spend it eating those
things you’re going to feel awesome and
tea tea is for take control take your
power back we have given up our power
we’ve given up our power to the food
manufacturers and the government don’t
trust what’s on websites read
ingredients and find out take control
back Gandhi said but the greatest wealth
is health not gold or silver pieces and
I could not agree more you know what I
do on a daily basis really does get hard
sometimes people don’t want to hear
about what’s wrong with their food
nobody wants to hear about what they ate
wrong or or what they have to give up
but I didn’t go blind and get a second
chance so that I could stay silent I
went blind and got a second chance so
that I could inspire and teach and
motivate other people how to live an
authentic healthy life and I ask that
you spread that message with me thank
you
[Applause]
[Applause]
what if what you ate today is making you
sick what if what you eat on a daily
basis is contributing to your health
issues what if there is poison in your
refrigerator or your pantry right now
one night out a week and you pick this
talk to come to ha no gas for 2004 I
woke up almost completely blind when an
optimist wakes up blind they don’t
really realize how serious it is I
thought I just needed glasses I made an
appointment at the optometrist in town
and went to pick up my glasses and as
soon as he examined me
he of course realized that something
very serious was going on come to find
out later that he he thought that I had
a brain tumor he sent me to a specialist
who sent me to another specialist he
sent me to another specialist I spent
the next six months and probably about
60 or 70 doctors finally a fantastic
neuro-ophthalmologist in Holmdel New
Jersey sent me to a rare disease
specialist in Manhattan and I spent
about five hours in his office he was
examining me and talking to me and
checking my eyes and my brain and my
optic nerves and he sat me down and he
said well very bluntly he said I think I
know what you have but if it’s what I
think it is you’ll be blind forever of
course we have to do the DNA test it
tuned him out at that point you know
Charlie Brown’s teacher I just tuned the
MAL completely three weeks later the DNA
results were sent to me and he called me
on the phone and he said very politely
but just very bluntly and he said I’m
really sorry but the DNA results came
back positive you have Leber’s
hereditary optic neuropathy you will
never see again because there is no
treatment or cure and I said I want a
second opinion
and he said on DNA test said you never
know when you’re blind II grasp he
suggested I go to Wills Eye Institute
and they’re fantastic Hospital in
Philadelphia I did go to Wills Eye
Institute and of course they confirmed
that I had Leber’s they diagnosed me as
what’s called one foot blurry so from my
face to a foot away I could see shadows
just blurry shadows and from a foot away
it was totally black
so the fantastic doctors there said that
I had to immediately get into a blind
hospital and learn how to live as a
blind person they wanted me to start
walking with a cane the blind foundation
showed up at my house within a week and
wanted me to apply for disability I said
no to everything you see when I got the
diagnosis in the mail the people who
read me the diagnosis I remember the
very last paragraph said this patient
has the most severe type of Leber’s
hereditary optic neuropathy but two
percent of people diagnosed with this
disease spontaneously recover their
sight and I was going to be in that two
percent you see because the healing
starts with belief so I ignored
everything I spent a year and a half
focusing on my health
I hate bitter food I ate sour food I’ll
get to that a little bit later I focused
on meditation I focused on positivity
within a year and a half I regained the
majority of my eyesight when I went back
to the doctors they said what did you do
and they had no idea they could tell
that the optic nerve had had that was
torn a year and a half before that had
regenerated and so they said just keep
doing whatever you’re doing that time
was so extraordinary and so depressing
and so sad and so amazing you know the
worst part at that time was not not that
I lit my hair on fire because I got too
close to a candle not that I had bumps
and bruises all over my face because I
was bumping into walls I couldn’t see my
children’s faces for two years I could
not see my children’s faces but despite
that
I’m so grateful that I can see my
children’s faces again but despite that
you know the only thing that I can’t do
now and and I regain most of my sight
but the only thing I can’t do is Drive
it’s the only thing I can’t do these
days and for those of you who used to
drive with me you might consider that a
favor to the rest of the world you’re
welcome but the most amazing thing about
my blindness and being spending two
years of my life blind was that it was
such an amazing gift it gave me my
purpose it was such a blessing it
enabled me to build a health company and
we work with hospitals in Fortune 500
companies to bring nutrition to them to
bring wellness to them and so every
single day for the last 10 years I get
to talk about food and I get to talk
about healing and all of those people
have one thing in common food matters
food has contributed somehow to their
illness we have a grave burden on our
health and that grave burden is called
chemicals now I don’t have the time here
to talk about the long list of chemicals
that exist in our food today in this
country but I’ve picked five doozies my
first one is B HTM BHA and the reason I
picked it first and because it’s my
favorite is because I have a personal
history with it in 1989 I was pregnant
with my first son I was five don’t do
the math
[Laughter]
while I was pregnant was when I started
what I was pregnant was when I started
to do research because I wanted to make
sure that my baby was gonna get the very
best food and so I was determined that I
was gonna feed myself right feed my baby
right and do the best I possibly could
as far as nutrition so I started to do
research and I started to read about
these chemicals that we have in this
country and that don’t exist anywhere in
the world but not only they don’t exist
but they are illegal there was a
chemical the first chemical I read about
is called BHA and BHT it isn’t it is
illegal in england and it’s been illegal
before 1989 and it’s illegal in over a
hundred countries except for the US and
do you know why it’s illegal it’s
illegal because it is linked to birth
defects and so when I was reading and
studying all this about food I thought
I’m pretty healthy I’m sure I don’t
consume this I walked into my kitchen
and opened up my cabinet doors and
pulled out bags of nuts because he I
believe in nuts nuts are anti-aging nuts
are amazing for your health eat your
nuts pulled out nuts turn the bag over
and my walnuts said ingredients well
nuts BHT I got ticked and then I pulled
out tons of other products and I found
BHT in my products the next doozy is
something called ractopamine anybody
heard about dopamine Rock dopamine is in
most of the meat in this country in
February 2014 Russia put a ban on our
meat it is in most of the supermarkets
in this country except trektop Amin is
illegal in over 100 countries and we use
it to make animals leaner faster why is
it illegal in most countries because
it’s linked to cancer I should pause
here for a second let you guys know that
I really do have friends they they just
don’t invite me over for dinner parties
and yeah can you can you imagine the
poor wait if it walks up to me with pigs
in the blanket on the tray its pigs in
blankets – I see I don’t go to dinner
parties just picking a blanket silly
thing you probably think I’m gonna bash
the hot dogs no not so fast let me get
two white flour potassium bromate in
China several years ago tons of chips
were yanked off of supermarkets in China
because they contain potassium bromate
potassium bromate has been linked to
cancer illegal in over a hundred
countries except we put it in most of
our big products most of your bread has
potassium bromate it is unequivocally
linked to cancer in Japan did a study
which is why China yanked it off the
shelves where were the products from in
China us the next chemical of choice is
a chemical called vivo you might have
heard a baby oh because there have been
plenty of petition sign now granted
plenty of companies have taken video out
of the sports drinks but brominated
vegetable oil is in so many sports
drinks children drink sports drinks it’s
been linked to cancer and worse it has
been linked to hindering children’s
growth the next lovely chemical which
might be my favorite
besides BHT artificial sweeteners I
can’t tell you how many people we work
with on a daily basis the second we take
them off artificial sweeteners their
symptoms go away dizziness headaches
shakes people get I personally have seen
tons of people diagnosed with MS and
it’s not MS it’s toxic levels of
artificial sweeteners so what is the
answer what is the answer to all this
food what is the answer how do we eat
right
well the BS theory of health now why do
I call it the BS theory of health
because it’s all bs they’re such BS out
there how do you know you hear about the
Paleo diet in the vegan diet the
vegetarian and low-carb and low-fat and
sports drinks too much too much protein
the protein aren’t you all confused so
you know what let’s call it the BS
theory to help
why because I’m ticked off but also
because it works the acronym works and
I’m going to show you how bu L LS H I T
B is for bitter food I told you I ate a
lot of bitter told you I hit a lot of
bitter food bitter is better the
dandelions that we squash and that we
use weed killer to get rid of the
dandelions are amazing I grew up eating
dandelions once or twice a week but when
I was blind I ate the morning breakfast
lunch dinner I put them in my drinks I
put them in my juices I knocked on them
all day long
dandelions are amazing bitter is better
U is for unlock your spice cabinet we’re
using things you know one of the worst
things out there we’re using things like
barbeque flavoring and marinade and
spice a beef flavour chicken flavor
unlike your spice cabinet all the spices
that are in the back get rid of the ones
in the front that say all sorts of
flavorings and bring out cumin and
turmeric and cayenne pepper and paprika
a poke karate said medicine is food and
food is buy medicine use your spices
they’re medicinal L L is for lower your
sugar I’m not gonna spend too much time
there you’ve all heard it and I’m not
telling you to do anything a hundred
percent I’m big on talking about the
80/20 rule so you know what if you’re
going to eat junk 80% of the time just
eat clean and the 20% you know what the
80% medicine is going to combat the 20%
the second L is for lower your animal
protein or for goodness sake
eat grass-fed beef or organic me because
of the rect opening
S is for sour food what is sour food
sour kraut sauerkraut and kimchi amazing
greatest health foods anti-aging if your
gut health is great if your digestion is
great you’re going to feel awesome a
little bit of sauerkraut three times a
week before your dinner will do amazing
things for your digestion eight now for
some of you who know me know that I’m an
optimist I don’t use the word hate but I
hate artificial sweeteners and I ask
that you
as much as I do I is for increased so
I’ve told you some of the things that
you have to get rid of let me tell you
what you can increase so that you can
live a long healthy energetic life you
ready
fruits vegetables whole grains beans
healthy fats and nuts and seeds 80% of
your day if you spend it eating those
things you’re going to feel awesome and
tea tea is for take control take your
power back we have given up our power
we’ve given up our power to the food
manufacturers and the government don’t
trust what’s on websites read
ingredients and find out take control
back Gandhi said but the greatest wealth
is health not gold or silver pieces and
I could not agree more you know what I
do on a daily basis really does get hard
sometimes people don’t want to hear
about what’s wrong with their food
nobody wants to hear about what they ate
wrong or or what they have to give up
but I didn’t go blind and get a second
chance so that I could stay silent I
went blind and got a second chance so
that I could inspire and teach and
motivate other people how to live an
authentic healthy life and I ask that
you spread that message with me thank
you
[Applause]
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