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🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Monica Hershaft is one interesting practitioner, and on a recent Phoenix trip, I had a chance to experience her very unique flavor of muscle testing and nutritional prescription.
She is a bestselling author, motivational speaker and holistic health practitioner and nutritional consultant with Advanced Clinical Training Certification in NRT. After 10 years building one of the top-rated holistic health practices in Los Angeles, she developed ‘Treat the Source’ a remote online program that helps those suffering from chronic symptoms who can't get a true diagnosis, to get their health and life back.
Monica understands that just because your labs are normal, it doesn’t mean you’re not sick and she can explain why that happens and how to fix it! Too many legitimately sick people are being put on anti-depressants because the doctors can’t figure out what’s wrong with them and their labs are normal. Monica is here to tell you that you are not crazy and there are answers!
Being plagued with her own mystery illness for 10+ years after participating in a popular detox program, Monica knows first-hand the frustration that chronic symptoms and an improper diagnosis can create for those struggling with their health. Having this personal experience has allowed Monica to not only heal her clients physically, but to understand them on a deep, personal level.
Monica’s conflict over incorporating animal protein and going Paleo in order to recover her health was the most difficult dilemma she had ever faced because she was born and raised Vegan. Her father is famed Animal Rights Activist, Founder, and Holocaust Survivor, Alex Hershaft. Her 10-year chronic, mystery illness finally resolved through a combination of adopting an altered Paleo style diet along with eliminating toxic overload because diet and nutrition alone was not enough to help restore immune function. This ethical crossroads was heartbreaking and riddled with doubt due to her upbringing and knowledge of the factory farming conditions. She will never consume animal protein that has been conventionally farmed, opting only for sourcing from grass fed, pasture raised Paleo-centric farms.
Her father’s many talks on the connection between animals being killed for food and their family’s experience in the Holocaust, being transported in cattle cars to be killed in the camps, weighed heavily on her decision. Her father, Alex Hershaft, is well known all over the world for his Animal Rights organization and his many talks and videos about the connection between the Holocaust and the Vegan lifestyle. Monica was heartbroken that she was unable to recover her health as a Vegan.
After working one on one with countless patients in her private practice located in Los Angeles, she realized it was time to create a program that could help more people on a wider scale and that led to the development of her online digital course "Treat the Source-The 3 Pillar Holistic Health Repair Program" to help people who are struggling with chronic symptoms and can't get a true diagnosis. This 12-week online program provides tips and tools as well as weekly actions and hacks to help them take their health back into their own hands no matter where they live.
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0:00.0 | On this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. |
0:04.4 | I literally had no choice. I tried everything as a vegan and at this point I was going on almost 10 years. |
0:11.0 | You know my thirties were wiped out. |
0:12.8 | So phase one is when your body bags up the trash. Phase two is when it throws the trash out. |
0:17.9 | If you do phase one and you're getting those toxins ready and you can't dump them out, where do you think they go? |
0:23.8 | Really? |
0:24.8 | Oh, so we're learning about the greenfield. |
0:30.0 | Help, performance, nutrition, longevity, ancestral living, biohacking, and much more. |
0:40.6 | My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show. |
0:46.3 | Hey, what's up you guys? Sorry for the slightly echoey audio quality, but I'm on the road |
0:56.4 | and I wanted to give you a quick introduction to what you're about to hear on this podcast. |
1:00.8 | I was able to connect with the best-selling author, motivational speaker and holistic |
1:06.3 | health practitioner, who's also a nutritional consultant with a very unique flavor of nutritional |
1:11.9 | consulting. Her name is Monica Hershofft. Her story is amazing. She's one of the top holistic |
1:17.5 | nutrition experts in the nation and there is a video that accompanies this show that you |
1:23.4 | might also find useful because she demonstrates a lot of the so-called kinesiology type muscle |
1:28.7 | testing that she does during this show. So basically, I went down to Phoenix. I saw her. |
1:34.5 | We had a great interview and that is what you are about to experience. |
1:39.2 | Hey, I want to tell you something. I am actually going to be in San Diego in May of 2022 |
1:46.2 | speaking at the Personal Peak Performance Summit, the PPP Summit, the PPP Summit. |
1:51.0 | Anyways, you can get a VIP pass to attend. It's going to be super cool. It is a summit |
1:56.0 | at Pacific College all around, you guessed it, peak performance. Paul Chekz is going to |
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