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SAYER JI! 3 EXPERT TALK TRANSCRIPTS from HEALTHMEANS CONTENTS LET’S “TALK” WITH SAYER JI! 3 EXPERT TALK TRANSCRIPTS from HEALTHMEANS CONTENTS Enjoy learning from these expert Transcending the Detox/ We’re happy that you’re taking talk transcripts pulled Retox Cycle through time to learn about living a from the thousands of talks Radical Nourishment healthier and happier life, and we in our HealthMeans library! Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, IFMCP hope you’ll make us a regular part with Sayer Ji of that journey! If you’re already a member of Click here to watch this interview! HealthMeans, you can access From the entire HealthMeans the video interviews of these Evidence-Based Medicine team, thank you for downloading talks below: Proves the Power of the these transcripts—we hope you If you’re not yet a member, Mind and Soul learn a lot from them! Alicia Lynn Diaz, MA, AHP be sure to sign up to access with Sayer Ji these interviews! Click here to watch this interview! Food as Medicine Carrie Diulus, MD and Mark Hyman, MD with Sayer Ji Click here to watch this interview! Transcending the Detox/ Retox Cycle through Radical Nourishment Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, IFMCP with Sayer Ji Click here to watch this interview! The purpose of this presentation is to convey information. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure your condition or to be a substitute for advice from your physician or other healthcare professional. Dr. Minich: Hello, everyone! This different things. You mentioned to Dr. Minich: So GreenMedInfo came is Deanna Minich, host of The me that your father’s a toxicologist. about in 2008. So what was the Detox Summit. And today we have You’re really involved with health. catalyst? What finally brought you a very special guest. His name is You’re really interested in GMOs. to the point of thinking, “I need to Sayer Ji. And for those of you who I’d like to just hear a little bit more make a website which gives this don’t know Sayer, he’s an author, about you as a person, and just information out to people?” What educator, advisory board member to hear more about your path. So was it that was the catalyst? of the National Health Federation, maybe you can tell us your story. the steering committee member Sayer: Well, it was just the of the Global GMO-Free Coalition, Sayer: Okay. Well, I believe that fortunate experience of having and the founder of the world’s most I was drawn into these sorts of been introduced to MEDLINE. The widely referenced, evidence-based, topics—natural health, and even National Library of Medicine has natural health resource of its kind. the issues associated with toxicity— this massive sea of data, as you And that website is GreenMedInfo. because of personal experiences know. I love Google in the sense com. And that was founded in very young. I was rather sickly as of being able to just type into the 2008 in order to provide the world an infant. And it was throughout global brain a keyword and find an open access evidence-based maybe really most early childhood almost anything relevant. It really is resource supporting natural and and adolescence, that I came to remarkable. integrative modalities. experience of the dark side of conventional medicine. And yet So really when you look at the global First of all, Sayer, welcome. Thanks through time I had to deal with the brain as the Internet, MEDLINE is just for being part of The Detox Summit. process of accepting, as well, that that convolution in the brain that’s to identify really solid evidence of dedicated to biomedicine. And all Sayer: It’s an honor. Thank you for ways that I can heal myself, and these peer-reviewed and citations having me. then also, of course try to provide are available, largely through those tools to others. taxpayer money. So it’s really Dr. Minich: I always get questions something we provide ourselves. from people about what are the So GreenMedInfo is really just sort But most people don’t know about go-to sites of where they should go of a natural consequence of my it. So when I saw this ocean of data for credible, reputable information. own personal struggle. Many of us and spent time diving in, finding And I love your site. I just learned who get into this it’s very much a these clinical pearls, many of which about your site earlier this year. personal transformative experience are indexed on our site now, I was And I’m so pleased to have found it. that brings us to really wanting to just amazed that, yes, there is so share it with others. And so really much support for yoga and natural Sayer: Thank you. that had become my path and medicine and almost any modality mission, really for the past ten you can think of. Dr. Minich: So it’s quite incredible years. I’ve really focused on trying to to pull together all of those accumulate that research that has Twenty-three million citations resources, and to be able to offer helped me, and then disseminate it represent approximately twenty- that to people. So why don’t you as widely as possible. three million years of scientific tell us a bit. You’re doing lots of labor. So just when you look at the scale of the data, and you can just are a purveyor of the literature… or devolution, which is that we hone in with the new algorithms And I would call you a literature are now slathering chemicals available, it just was so amazing. So hound, people that are really with all over ourselves, taking them I felt like, “Wow! I need to try and their nose in the book in the virtual therapeutically. Every aspect of our index this—It’s there already—and books of science. What are some life now is filled with them. And then just put it out on open access of trends that you’re noticing as it that’s why I believe your summit is because that’s what it’s about, relates to the toxicity of our planet? so important, Deanna, because for anyway. It’s free data. What are you seeing emerging? some time myself I’ve been thinking What are some of the aspects that about why isn’t someone focusing Dr. Minich: And you make in such people should be aware of that on this particular issue? It’s so a way that it’s very accessible to the maybe they’re not on the pulse of? important. average consumer, right? Because many scientists use PubMed in Sayer: Great question. Well most So what we want to do, of course, order to get information. But people really don’t realize that is reveal the problem in high relief. it’s really not for everybody. So modern medical practice in the And it’s rather disarming and you’ve taken that information drug-based model is actually a form disillusioning. But it doesn’t have and distilled it into these nuggets of applied chemistry in ways. So to be disempowering because a where people can actually utilize really what I mean is that you have lot of my own work is finding that it and understand what people this massive global petrochemical research that shows we can use are researching and all of those industrial complex. It’s a trillion foods and probiotics and certain scientific abstracts. dollar plus system. And it’s so types of spiritual practices to interesting because actually a lot overcome what almost appears like Sayer: Yeah, we try. That’s for of its product is actually just fueled a post- apocalyptic situation. sure. So the core data set is really back into itself. just these twenty- three thousand You can’t take back radioisotopes abstracts that are indexed across So this self-organized entity is that are released into our ailments. So you have thirty-one based on, again, fossil fuels. But environment. Plutonium has a hundred ailments from A to Z. So part of it—its subsector—is what is half-life of 24,000 years. In fact, real simple. And then once they get known as fine chemicals, which are uranium 238, which is one of the to, say, diabetes type II, they can then fed as sort of feedstock into fallouts from basic nuclear power further breakdown the substances the pharmaceutical industry. And industries, as well as Chernobyl associated from A to Z or, say, the then those chemicals are tested. and Fukushima, has a half-life problem substances because that is And they are targeted to basically as old as this earth. So you can’t what we’ll talk about, of course. disrupt certain processes in the recall back these. And then you body, i.e. poison. have biopollution with genetic Pesticide exposure has been shown manipulation, which is irrevocable. to induce insulin resistance. So it’s And some of them say if it causes not just people being hedonistic a sleepy side effect, are then And so you have this situation and eating too much. Most of us remarketed as having a therapeutic where we can’t undo what we’ve are being poisoned in a way that effect for sleep, even though on done. And yet we’re holding expresses itself as these diseases. average there are at least seventy- together. The miracle is that we So the idea then definitely is to try five documented adverse health are still whole and we’re alive.
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