Moment 183: The Warning Signs Your Body Needs More Nutrients: Dr Mindy Pelz

In this moment, the fasting and hormone expert, Dr Mindy Pelz discusses how your body can show your liver health. Mindy says that there are simple ways that you can check how well your liver is function by looking at your eyes, feet and tongue. She says that If the corner of your eye is yellow it can show liver stagnation, which means that the liver will struggle to metabolise toxins like alcohol. Equally, if the bottom of your feet are dry and cracking, it shows there is not proper circulation and your liver is struggling to detox. Mindy says that some of the core reasons for this poor liver function is a lack of minerals and proper nutrients. However, this can be turned around with a mixture of fasting and getting in the right fruits and vegetables. Listen to the full episode here - Spotify- https://g2ul0.app.link//2ys7HzzgMNb Apple - https://g2ul0.app.link//64LmI0CgMNb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Mindy: https://drmindypelz.com/about/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:03Steven Bartlett?

  So how do I know if my liver is healthy? Is there any symptoms of an unhealthy or toxic liver?

• 0:09Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Well, let's go through possibilities. I call them checklists.

• 0:13Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 0:13Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Okay, and the reason I call them checklists is because they may not apply to everybody. The first question to ask if your liver is healthy is, when you go without food, do you make a ketone?

• 0:24Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 0:25Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  If you don't make a ketone, and you're like, I've had, we've had people that are like 20 hours in, 36 hours in, 48 hours in, they're like, I'm still not making a ketone.

• 0:34Steven Bartlett?

  How do they know?

• 0:35Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Because we have them testing.

• 0:36Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 0:37Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  So a little, little ketone, the, the continuous glucose monitors, they'll help the blood sugar, but you need a ketone reader to help ketones. To, it's like a little, you prick your finger. Have you ever used one?

• 0:50Steven Bartlett?

  No, that's so interesting. I didn't know there was even a thing.

• 0:52Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Oh, yeah, you should get one. So you get a little monitor.

• 0:56Steven Bartlett?

  Yeah.

• 0:57Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  And you prick your finger, and then you put your blood on this little strip, and you put the strip into this little monitor, and it tells you how many ketones you have.

• 1:05Steven Bartlett?

  Okay, so more ketones, the better, right?

• 1:07Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yeah.

• 1:08Steven Bartlett?

  Okay, interesting.

• 1:09Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  So if you can't make ketones, or you're, you're starving would be another, or you're, you know, after a long period, you're not feeling the benefits of fasting, that could be because of your liver. So we now have, okay, that's liver, liver issue number one. Okay. Then we can go to things like, how do you process alcohol? Like, you know how there's certain people who like, you go out to drink with them, and after a couple of drinks, they're dancing on the table, and then there's other people that like, can drink the whole bar, and they seem like they're completely normal compared to when they walked in.

• 1:43Steven Bartlett?

  Yeah.

• 1:44Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  So that's liver function. Like, what, how, how quickly is that liver metabolizing that alcohol?

• 1:50Steven Bartlett?

  Which one is healthy, sorry?

• 1:52Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Um, well, I actually think metabolizing it quickly is better than the stagnant person.

• 1:57Steven Bartlett?

  So the person that's hammered?

• 1:59Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yeah.

• 1:59Steven Bartlett?

  Is gonna be?

• 2:00Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yeah.

• 2:01Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 2:01Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  So, I mean, there's a lot of, there's a lot of nuance in that, in that comment. So just so, just so we don't get the whole world coming after your eye on that, so. Um, so it's how quickly are you able to metabolize a toxin in your system? And, and get it out of you. So that would be another one. Then we have some really, really good ones, really like applicable ones. Like, this is based off some old ancient strategies, like corner of your eye. If the inside of your eye is yellow, according to iridology, which is the study of the eye as it relates to health, when the corner of the eye is yellow, that can be a sign of liver stagnation. Okay, another one.

• 2:44Steven Bartlett?

  The inside corner.

• 2:45Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yeah.

• 2:46Steven Bartlett?

  So next to your nose.

• 2:47Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Mm hmm.

• 2:47Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 2:48Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Another one, you can look at the bottom of your feet. So bottom of your feet, when they're dry and cracking, is showing that you're not getting proper circulation down to your feet. And so it can be a possibility that the liver is not doing a good job of detoxing and getting toxins out, so your circulatory system has more sledge in it. So the circulation isn't freely getting down to the bottom of your feet.

• 3:13Steven Bartlett?

  Have you ever asked someone to show you their feet?

• 3:15Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Oh, yeah.

• 3:15Steven Bartlett?

  Really?

• 3:16Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yeah. Feet, eyes, I want to know everything because it tells, feet, eyes, I want to know what your menstrual blood, I don't need to see it, but I want to know, is it, is it clumpy? How quickly does the flow come out? These kind of things are so important. How quickly your hair grows, how quickly your nails grow, what's on your nails? Are nails on ridge, ridges on your nails? Because that could be minerals, like our body gives us a full analysis of what's going on. So I have looked at a lot of feet.

• 3:46Steven Bartlett?

  And, and if I look at my feet now,

• 3:51Steven Bartlett?

  just want to take a quick look because I never, I can't remember really looking at the bottom of my feet. What is, what is a sign that my liver is not healthy, looking at the bottom?

• 3:58Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  It's the real dry cracks.

• 4:02Steven Bartlett?

  Oh, no, mine is, mine is soft, like a baby's bottom.

• 4:04Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  There you go. Do you want to put it up on the table so I can see?

• 4:07Steven Bartlett?

  No, because people will sell pictures.

• 4:09Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Oh, that's right. Oh, my God.

• 4:17Steven Bartlett?

  Part of the revenue if that happens.

• 4:18Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yes.

• 4:19Steven Bartlett?

  I'm going to make that decision myself.

• 4:20Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  You're so accurate.

• 4:23Steven Bartlett?

  Okay, interesting.

• 4:25Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  So here's a couple, let's give people a daily routine of what to look at to be able to see like how your body's functioning. So when I get up in the morning, that's one thing I do. I always look in the, I'm periodically, you know, throughout the day, looking in the corner of my eyes. Like, where, is there a yellow tinge in there? So I look at that. I also look at my tongue every morning when I wake up. Do you look at your tongue?

• 4:48Steven Bartlett?

  Not really.

• 4:49Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Okay, so when you look at your tongue, is it have a white coat on it? If there's a white coat on it, that can be a sign of candida, of too much yeast in your system and your body's detoxing. You can also look at your tongue when you fast. Sometimes it'll go black. And that's like candida coming out, that's yeast coming out. So make sure you're looking at your tongue. Every morning, I look at my tongue. So, because at night, you're gonna see what's detoxing out of you.

• 5:13Steven Bartlett?

  So if it's white, what do I do? If it's black, what do I do?

• 5:16Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  So if it's white and black, you have candida. That's a sign of too much yeast in the system. So, I mean, fasting can help, getting off sugar, alcohol, fruits can help. We just find people who fast, especially if you go into longer fasts, it'll start to change. We've even done some, some interesting community fasts where we have people watch their fast and they decide to break their fast based off what their tongue is doing. So if it's white and it's black and it's getting worse, keep going. If you can keep going until it starts to turn pink. And then the outside of the tongue will actually start to turn pink. And then we know, okay, the yeast is starting to die off. Go ahead and break your fast. So that's, well, that's one way that you can look at the tongue.

• 5:59Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  We already talked about the bottom of the feet, periodically looking at that, your hair and, and your nails. So do you ever look at like the ridges of your nails?

• 6:09Steven Bartlett?

  No.

• 6:10Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Okay, so when there's a lot of ridges in your nails, or how quickly your nails are growing, that can be a sign of mineral deficiency.

• 6:17Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 6:18Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  If your hair is falling out.

• 6:20Steven Bartlett?

  So on the nails then, what am I, what am I looking for? There's no ridges in my nails.

• 6:24Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Perfect. So you probably have a good mineral load.

• 6:28Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 6:29Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  But if you ever look down and you see mineral, you know, those ridges, that can be a sign that there is, you have too many low minerals.

• 6:36Steven Bartlett?

  And what kind of minerals would you then supplement with or focus on?

• 6:39Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Yeah, you know, I'm, I'm a huge fan right now of organic minerals that come from the earth, like fulvic and humic acid type minerals that are coming from like volcanic ash because they're very, very rich in, in minerals that we're not getting in your typical mineral supplement or your food. You know, you know, the whole thing about conventional farming and how it's depleting the minerals in our soils, right?

• 7:03Steven Bartlett?

  No.

• 7:04Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  I feel like this is gonna get really depressing really quick.

• 7:06Steven Bartlett?

  That's fine.

• 7:07Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  You want me to?

• 7:08Steven Bartlett?

  I brought another truth.

• 7:09Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Okay, so the soils that are being monocropped, where they're being tilled over and over again, not from regenerative farms, what we are know now is that they are deficient in minerals. So the way that it's being expressed to people is the broccoli you have now has less vitamin and mineral content than the broccoli you had 10, 20, 30 years ago because of how the farmers are taking care of the soil. Now, you go to a regenerative farm where there's bugs, there's weeds, they don't spray. When a crop grows, they let it die, they don't till. That has more minerals. So when you are actually eating food from regenerative farms, you're getting the minerals

• 7:55Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  that you need into your system. So when like you people look at their nails not growing, they look at the ridges, a good question if you don't want to take a mineral supplement is ask yourself like, am I eating foods from a regenerative farm? Do I'm eating fruits and vegetables from the farmer? Do I know the farmer even?

• 8:14Steven Bartlett?

  Sounds expensive.

• 8:15Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Right. Yeah. Can you see why I like fasting?

• 8:20Steven Bartlett?

  But if I fast, I'm still not getting the minerals.

• 8:21Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Right, I know, but I'm all of these problems that we're addressing in order to eat healthy is expensive. So I'll come back to that comment in a second because that's a good one to address. Let's let's use a typical person, they're eating the everything we've talked about. They're eating all the obesogens, they're they're gaining weight, their toxic load is high. They're not getting enough vitamins, they're not getting enough minerals, their hair is falling out, their menstrual, a woman's menstrual cycle is off, their skin is changing, weird stuff is showing up. For that person, if all I do is say, hey, I want you to eat your fruits and vegetables

• 9:05Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  from a regenerative farm, now, okay, we're adding some minerals back in. So we're starting to get some of the nutrients that person was supposed to be getting, but was actually getting those, all those toxins were depleting that person's system. So we start to get them eating fruits and vegetables from a regenerative farm. Now they're getting the nutrients they need that aren't being, that are being depleted by these chemicals. Okay, so that's why in that context, just eating good, healthy fruits and vegetables is important. But what if we put them in a fasted state? Let's take that person one step further. They're metabolically challenged, they're full of toxins.

• 9:46Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Let's put that each day, let's start to tack on a fasting window. In that fasting window, we're starting to see glucose come down, we're starting to see the body repair and heal itself. Okay, now, when they open up their eating window, we can have them add in minerals. So we can have them added in, or they can still eat more fruits and vegetables from regenerative farms, but they have to prioritize minerals. In our community, we actually will have people add in minerals in the fasted window. Like, take a mineral supplement, take an electrolyte supplement, put it in your fasting window, so you're adding that support in.

• 10:24Steven Bartlett?

  And when you say minerals, what exactly are you referring to?

• 10:27Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Well, there's a lot of different ones, right? So magnesium, zinc, selenium.

• 10:31Steven Bartlett?

  Okay.

• 10:31Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Those are, those are the biggies.

• 10:33Steven Bartlett?

  Okay. And it's expensive, so can I just supplement it?

• 10:37Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Right.

• 10:38Steven Bartlett?

  Because that's cheaper.

• 10:38Dr. Mindy Pelz?

  Right. So the reason I like the fasting window is because we're changing the metabolic system. And now we go into eating window. Let's just at least start with fruits and vegetables coming from regenerative farms if you don't want to spend money on supplements. If you have the resources to spend money on supplements, go ahead and do that.