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Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Best & Worst Kombucha Brands, and building habits throughout the day for better mental and physical health with Mona Sharma

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Heal Thy Self

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Knowledge Bomb: Dr. G reviews what to look for when buying kombucha. Product Review: Best and worst kombucha brands of 2022. Mona Sharma joins the show to tell us about her story. How changing her fast-paced lifestyle to a more present and intentional one, has changed the lives of herself and whoever she comes across. We learn the two most valuable questions to ask yourself in life. We also receive some gems on the importance of ritual habits throughout the day, for better mental and physical health. Mona, a busy mom of two, teaches us her secrets into how she makes time for herself and her rituals to keep balance in her personal and family life. She gives us some tips on how to be more mindful with every activity in the day, so to decrease our stress levels and create more peace day to day. She teaches us how to create more mindfulness and emotional awareness for our children. We learn about how judgement of ourselves holds us back from creating are healthiest life. Lastly, Mona teaches those of us who have children, on how to bring more awareness to their emotions and what practices we can teach them for daily growth. Guest Bio: Mona Sharma is a dynamic leader and entrepreneur in the health and wellness industry who works with high profile clients around the world. As Will Smith, Julianne Hough, Jay Shetty, and Hrithik Roshan’s nutritionist, she has a reoccurring role on the Facebook series Red Table Talk where they profile her work with Will, and the entire Smith family’s healing journey. Having grown up living on an Ashram, Mona has seen first-hand the healing power of food and mindfulness. Her approach is rooted in this philosophy - food as medicine, movement as therapy and mindfulness as the journey to optimize health. This was the foundation that led to her recovery from two heart surgeries, debilitating anxiety and ultimately changed her career path from a high-profile corporate job. Mona is also the founder of Xicama an innovative line of functional beverage products that deliver gut health and immune boosting benefits of the superfood jicama, and broke sales records as an official beverage of Coachella 2019. Athletic Greens: To make it easy, Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit athleticgreens.com/healthyself. Bioptimizers: For an exclusive offer for my listeners go to http://www.magbreakthrough.com/drg and use drg10 during checkout to save 10 percent and get free shipping. Ned: If you’d like to give their new and improved Sleep Blend a try, Heal Thy Self listeners get 21% off with code DRG for the month of March ONLY. It’s their best offer of the year! Visit helloned.com/DRG to get access! Be sure to like and subscribe to #HealThySelf Hosted by Doctor Christian Gonzalez N.D. Follow Doctor G on Instagram @doctor.gonzalez https://www.instagram.com/doctor.gonzalez/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, all right, everyone. Welcome to Heal That Self. As always, thank you for joining

0:07.1

the show, taking the time out of your day. I know you all busy people. I know you got

0:10.9

a lot of things to do, and I do recognize and realize the time you're taking to turn

0:15.5

on your phone, to search for Heal That Self, to click on it, and then to give it your

0:20.6

attention. Whether it's half your attention or your full attention, whatever it is, I'm

0:24.2

grateful for. Thank you so much. Ready? Check this out. Today's show, I can't wait. I've

0:29.5

been working on this for quite a while, me and my system, to learn about which kombucha

0:35.0

companies are the best out there, because there is a big spectrum. Not all kombuchas

0:39.0

would create it equal, and we're going to learn about which ones are the best and why,

0:43.9

and which ones to watch out for and why. Because a lot of us are drinking kombucha, I know

0:48.6

a lot of you listening drink kombucha. You might be on your way to the supermarket to

0:52.0

get kombucha. So regardless, kombucha is on the way, and we're going to learn about

0:56.6

the best of the best. Kombucha has become so popular for the past 10 years, over the past

1:08.1

10 years. I mean, it's been around for a while. But for me, my experience with it has been

1:12.1

a boom over the past 10 years. And I remember a first hearing about it when I was in a

1:16.8

naturopathic school, right? And for me, I swear it was just the earthy, hippie people

1:21.7

who were drinking it in my school, and they were brewing it, and they were, I was getting

1:25.0

cups of it, and I was like, well, this is really strong stuff, and I feel really good,

1:28.0

and my gut feels really good, and my bloating went away, and I was gassy, and it went away,

1:32.8

and it was just really helpful. But then a year into it, I got a whole foods in Fairfield,

1:38.2

Connecticut, and I see some kombucha there, and I was like, wow, they're selling this

1:41.7

stuff. All right, cool. Then I see it in New York City a year later, and then my time in

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