We're living in an era of hyper-wellness. Yet, obesity's on the rise amongst adults and children. Diabetes is on the rise amongst adults and children are on medication. So the system is broken. I was watching my heart on this massive monitor, wires going everywhere, sweating like crazy. And I just thought, what is happening? This is not my life. I'm not sick. It wasn't the diet that helped

me lose the 45 pounds or get off the medication. It was the recalibrating with nature. Food has a

vibration. It comes from the earth. Its vitamins, its nutrients is information to every single cell

in our body that either helps us thrive or not. If we want to heal, you need to connect with the power of foods from nature that is there for a reason.

If you can start to consider that your kitchen is your healthcare, you will be a step ahead.

If what goes into your pantries is what's going to thrive your body's physiology, that's the way to look at food.

Thank you. your body's physiology, that's the way to look at food. Hello, beautiful beings.

Welcome back to the Know They Self podcast for every single week.

We get the honor and privilege to sit down with a beautiful mind and open heart to see

what we can glean from the insights that they've learned in their life on their journey

to help us learn

more about ourselves and the world. My guest today is a celebrity wellness educator. She's been

featured on various prominent platforms like Red Table Talk with Will Smith and his entire family.

She's really dedicated and devoted to bringing wellness, the masses.

And she's also the founder of a functional beverage and food line called Hicama, which I'm excited to chat about.

And yeah, above all else, I feel like since the first time I met her, she just got a very grounding peaceful spirit.

And I can very well feel her heart and her attention to bring wellness to all walks of the planet and all walks of the human race. So thank you so much

for being here, Mona Sharma. Thank you. Oh, thank you for seeing me. Yeah. So good. I'm so excited

to dive into this conversation today. Me too. Yeah, I feel like we have so much in alignment. Just the theme of your podcast alone. My gosh, talk about the true essence of healing. Yeah, so good. Well, let's start. I mean, let's start there because right now, the world is in a very sick place. And I mean, if you just look at some stats of like, you know, almost half of Americans by 2030 will be obese.

That's one and every two people.

And like the path that we're headed down, there's so many contributing factors to the current state of the world on a collective level, but also on our individual lives.

And for this podcast, I'd love to talk about all of the various things, not all,

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