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What's The Juice

BROCCOLI, RED LIGHT & HOW TO LIVE A LOW TOX LIFE - Dr. Vivian Chen on how environmental toxins influence our genes

What's The Juice

Olivia Amitrano

Organic, Organicolivia, Plantmedicine, Herbalremedies, Herbs, Medicine, Alternative Health, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ep 84. We're back with another exciting episode of "What's the Juice?"! Meet the lovely Dr. Vivian Chen, the brains behind Plateful Health on Instagram and Lumebox red light therapy. Dr. Viv is spreading awareness about the epidemic of environmental toxins often ignored by traditional medicine and shedding (red) light on the chronic illness surge.

Here's the juice:

  • how to support your liver detox pathways and how to reduce your exposure to environmental toxins (from cookware to skincare products).
  • the most common symptoms (from migraines to anxiety) that people experience when their toxic load is maxed out.
  • tangible tips for avoiding the top offending environmental chemicals and toxins hint: they're everywhere!
  • steps to take to reduce your toxic load, starting with the most important changes to make.
  • how to address food allergies and chronic illness in children.
  • how to support your liver detoxification pathways the right way (not with green juice), so that your liver can handle unavoidable exposure.
  • key nutrients required for detox and what foods you should incorporate today.
  • the incredible power of red light therapy for everything from pain to glowing skin.

Links from the ep:

Connect with Dr. Chen:

Visit her site HERE

Follow her on Instagram HERE

Detox right with Dr. Viv HERE

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the show. I am so proud to present another incredible guest in this season.

0:08.5

It has just been one of my favorite seasons so far, if not my favorite, just human after human,

0:13.7

giving us so much valuable, free information and just heart and soul on how we can cut through

0:19.7

the noise and make simple changes to live healthier and happier lifestyles.

0:24.1

And today's guest is no different.

0:25.9

We are featuring Dr. Vivian Chen,

0:28.5

one of my favorite humans to follow on Instagram.

0:30.7

You may know her as plateful health.

0:32.7

She's constantly posting helpful information and infographics

0:35.8

and ways that you can swap out cleaner products

0:39.0

in your life, whether it's cookware or makeup or skincare. She's absolutely amazing and she's actually

0:44.8

a Western trained MD who for many years practiced medicine, the conventional way and utilized

0:51.1

prescriptions and pharmaceuticals only when it came to helping her patients.

0:55.0

And one day she just hit a wall and said, hey, I feel like I'm only helping these people temporarily

0:59.6

because my patients are coming back to me with side effects from these prescriptions.

1:04.1

And they're really just band-aids.

1:06.6

I want to get to the root cause.

1:08.6

And so she switched the trajectory of her entire career. She switched totally over to the root cause. And so she switched the trajectory of her entire career.

1:12.1

She switched totally over to functional root cause focused medicine. And nowadays, she teaches people.

1:19.7

She's dedicated her life to teaching us about one of the most common and important root causes

1:24.1

behind why chronic illness is exploding. and that is our modern exposure to

1:29.0

environmental toxins. And she explains in this episode that that's just something most doctors

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