Hey, this is episode 353 of the keto diet podcast. My name is Leanne. I'm so glad to see you here

today. We're chatting with my friend Madeline, who's a nutritional therapy consultant in the host

of the Project Keto podcast, a podcast that teaches the how to's and practical tips for making keto

successful. When she's not podcasting, she's teaching group fitness nutrition and Pilates classes

at Studio Timeout in Minneapolis. She started teaching at the age of 14. Madeline has

struggled immensely with her health from a very young age and had to take her healing into

her own hands, teaching and helping people with their health is her way of paying it forward

after years and years of struggle. Today we're talking about why you should care about toxins in

your day to day and its effect and your ability to stay in fat burning mode, how toxins and weight

plateaus are related, daily exposure to toxins and how common they are in our daily life,

signs of toxicity and why this relates to hormone balancing. Now we recorded this episode quite a

while ago and at the time I was like toxins and it doesn't matter, fast forward a bunch of time

and this is really one of the key parts in my practice. Now that I'm working with clients on

functional blood chemistry, I see so many people with a toxic burden and that can show up in

all sorts of symptoms and it's so incredible to see just how deep these toxins can go

and how affected we can get by having these toxins and holding onto them. Some signs and symptoms

to look for, like do you have a toxicity problem? If you live near a golf course, chances are yes,

if you live near a freeway or high tension wires likely yes, if you wear perfume or cologne,

if you have air fresheners in your home, your car, your workplace, if you were the first born

child, believe it or not, you're going to soak up a lot of that toxicity that your mother had.

If you experience headaches or migraines, difficulty losing weight regardless of diet or exercise,

excessive perspiring during the day or night, joint pain, muscle cramps, aches, sharp pains,

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