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Sometimes that might be the thing that is behind it. And I had this going on in the past. No one was telling me these things. I don't have UTIs anymore. I have not had one since we went plant-based. Could this be the reason? Well, yes, according to research, it most certainly could. But then Jared blew my mind because we have had two clients reverse rheumatoid arthritis, among other autoimmune diseases, but specifically with rheumatoid, he was sharing something with me about these bacteria with Hey sister. Welcome to the Power on Plants podcast. Are you tired of staring into the fridge wondering what to eat so you can just feel better? Do you want to avoid spending hours in the kitchen making complicated meals in the name of health? Would you love to leave fatigue behind and finally have the energy to do all the things you want to do? Hi, we're Sheridan and Eda Roosevelt, Christ followers, healthcare professionals, parents of four, and big fans of great tasting food. We too tried exercising more, eating natural and clean foods, but we still found ourselves struggling with what we thought were changes that come with age or bad genes. And we weren't finding answers the traditional route, so we dug into the research and created our secret nutritional weapon, sustainable plant-based living. The truth is you can eat more whole plant foods, and it's not hard. You just need the way that's realistic and delicious so you never feel deprived. If you're ready to enjoy your meals, no longer be held back by your health struggles and actively live your life, then you're in the right place. So grab your favorite plant-based cup of happy, pop in those earbuds, and let's get started. Well, hello, Sunshine. We have had the most incredible, energizing morning because we were invited to be guest by Heather Bedard on her podcast called Holistic Health Strategies for Moms. We had so much fun. You know what it's like when you just meet somebody and you feel like you've been family with them forever? We just loved going on and sharing all these amazing things about how do you use whole plant foods to heal? We know these are the foods to heal, but how do you eat them in the way that makes you feel incredible so that you can do it for life and in the way that it tastes really good, right? We talked about so many incredible things. So, what I want you to know is this episode is coming out. And when it does, we're gonna let you know when it's live because you do not want to miss the value that we gave. We shared so many amazing tips and strategies and just drew a lot of things together that we share with you here. But it's just fun to hear it all together in the way that it came out today with her asking the questions. And we're gonna let you know as soon as it's on the air. Go to our website at poweronplants.com and at the very bottom, you can subscribe to our newsletter, and there we'll be sending out all the details when this episode goes live. This is so exciting. We love guesting on shows and being able to share these things so that more and more people can be set free and just understand that powering your body well is actually an option that we know works. This morning when we were talking, we came up with this incredible thing where we were talking about how I think I blew your mind actually. Oh, you totally blew my mind. Which thing are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00: 3:18

With the chicken.

SPEAKER_01: 3:20

Oh, yeah, we're gonna talk about that on this. Oh, is this something different? Yeah, but just the idea of the fact that when you come to the place where reliable research and what you find in the Bible meet where they intersect, that's where you have gold. So I want you to always remember that. When you come to the place where reliable research meets the Bible, your gold because you know that you know that you know that these are the things that work. And this is exactly what happens with whole food plant-based living.

SPEAKER_00: 3:49

I think that was a Holy Spirit moment this morning because there are times we say things that are we're just in the middle of a conversation and something pops into our mind and we say it, and then we think, wow, did I just say that? Oh, it's a mess. Where reliable research meets the Bible, where it meets scripture, and when they agree, which Bible is truth, that's our standard. But when you have reliable research that now supports that, yes, like you said, that is gold.

SPEAKER_01: 4:14

It's no-brainer gold. I'll add that it is no-brainer gold. So that is where you want to be when you're looking for the way to feel your best, heal your body naturally so you can take your life and business next level, find the gold. And this way of living really is gold. I mean, this is what we were talking about with her on the podcast. And she was just super excited about the things we were sharing because I think many of them were new to her. She's plant-based, but she's going to eat more and more plants and find the way to make that work with her business in life. But this is what we see time and again as you adopt these things. This system works. It's the framework that works. So every time we take someone by the hand and we walk them into and through this framework, what we see on the other end is results when they actually implement it and do the steps and walk it out in the way that they enjoy, that's simple, that works with their life. All of a sudden they're going, I cannot believe this. Why did someone not tell me this before? I could be rid of all these things naturally and with food that I actually like that makes me feel good. It really is shocking. And it should make us think, why did nobody tell me this?

SPEAKER_00: 5:20

Because they didn't know. And that's why we're here sharing that. But that's why our system works. It's a formula. Because when you put the numbers in, you're going to get the right answer out. You do the work, you follow the steps, you will get results.

SPEAKER_01: 5:34

It's exactly like what one of our clients said to us, Christy. She said, This is the best decision I've made for my health. Repairing and healing my body were things I come to believe were just out of my reach. But this has been the catalyst for change, success, health, and the vitality I needed. I was an on-again, off-again, whole food plant-based girl who has struggled to make this stick for a number of years, despite my desire to be successful. But since joining Jared and Anita, I've happily stayed consistent. I have less edema, I've lost weight naturally, and I've kept it off. And my headaches have gone away. I've been able to accomplish all these things without feeling deprived or tracking anything, all while enjoying delicious meals I love. I cannot be grateful enough for you and Jared and this amazing community you have created for us. And that's the thing. That's what we talked about today with Heather. You know, the environment is so important. It's one of the five steps of our framework.

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It's critical. That's why it's one of the five steps of our framework.

SPEAKER_01: 6:36

And you have to be surrounded by the community that's going to lift you up, build you up, give you ideas and inspiration, the place where you can get your questions answered. And I'll add a place where you can actually search 350-something plus episodes of again pure gold and get the answers that you need for free. That right there is a straight up no-brainer. And you can do that in our community at poweronplants.com forward slash pie. Once you join, you have immediate access to be able to search the content. But not only that, you get the free beginner's guide that's in there. It has some of my recipes that you can try out. And it's such a great place to meet like-minded people. Sometimes on this journey, you feel like I'm on this journey alone. And so we see time and again our clients come in and they become a part of this family. And once you find your family, you just feel like you're home. And it makes all the difference when you have that support and someone who actually understands what you're doing, why you're doing it, and how delicious and great and easy it is. It just becomes this place that you want to hang out and be. And it's life-giving. So there was another thing we were talking about with Heather today. And I wanted to dive deeper into it here. It's this idea that Jared shared with me this morning. I was just sitting here literally with my mouth on the ground because I was sharing something that maybe you haven't heard before. Odds are you probably haven't. And it's about chicken because we come into this way of eating. And so a lot of you are like us where you're trying to eat the better meats. Like we were eating cage free, free range, no hormone-added things. And I was standing looking at sandwich meat. I remember just for a long period of time standing there looking, reading the ingredients, coming over the label, trying to find one that didn't have any nitrates or nitrites added because I knew that wasn't good for me. All the while, no one was telling me that sandwich meat or processed meats in general are labeled group one carcinogens. What does that mean, according to the World Health Organization? Well, Jared and I got on their website this morning to see exactly how they word it so that we didn't mess up the verbiage on it because we don't want to mislead anybody. And you know what they have on there? These foods are known to cause cancer, but very few people are talking about this. Why is that? Well, there are a lot of reasons, but the thing is, you need to be in the place where you're gonna hear these things on the regular so that you can change the trajectory of your life, your family's life. This is about generational legacy. That's another thing you talked about this morning, generational legacy that you're gonna leave.

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We've heard the term generational wealth in the past, but I was saying by learning these strategies, learning this way of living, passing it on to your children, you're creating generational health because it will not be just your children, but they will teach it to your grandchildren, and then it will go on and on. The chronic diseases do not have to stay in your family lineage. No. We think, well, this is just genetic. I've got the genetic kind. Well, you also share health habits within your family. So guess what? Let's make health genetic. Why don't we say, oh yeah, I don't have any diseases? Well, my parents, good genes, good health.

SPEAKER_01: 9:50

Let's make health genetic. I love that. Optimal health.

SPEAKER_00: 9:54

Yes, we always talk about diseases being genetic. Well, how about let's make optimal health genetics? I'm healthy. I'm 80 years old. I still have my hair. My hair still looks the same color as it did when I was 20. I'm still vibrant, I'm still full of energy. That should be the norm. That should be our regular.

SPEAKER_01: 10:11

Absolutely. So no one was telling me this about the processed meats. So then you think, okay, well, I'm gonna try to get healthier and I won't eat processed meats. I'm just gonna eat free-range beef. And it's gonna be organic, and I'm gonna buy it straight from my farmer and put it in my freezer, and that's how we're gonna eat our meat. Well, this is how we were eating when we were our sickest. This is when I hit a wall with my health, when we were both having vascular issues, when we were 75 pounds overweight, and the list of symptoms goes on and on. And no one telling us that these are group 2A carcinogens, which means they are probable cancer causers. So you hear things like that, and then you go, okay, well, that's all right because I gave up bread meat a long time ago. I don't eat that. I'm eating chicken. Chicken's so much better.

SPEAKER_00: 10:52

Well, chicken's really not a whole lot different than beef when you're looking at things like cholesterol saturated fats. Actually, they're identical. So this whole myth of, well, it's white meat, it's still meat, it's still animal flesh, and it's still going to have cholesterol, arachidonic acid, which we've touched on previously for inflammation, still gonna have things like hormones and just all the things that are detrimental to our health.

SPEAKER_01: 11:14

And zero fiber and all the phytonutrients that we want to get in the whole plant foods, none of those are found in animal products. But there are then the things that we don't know about chicken. Like when I handle it, when I just touch it, there are the certain bacteria that are getting on my skin and then into my body that are now linked by reliable research to urinary tract infections, UTIs. If you have recurrent UTIs, sometimes that might be the thing that is behind it. And I had this going on in the past, no one was telling me these things. I don't have UTIs anymore. I have not had one since we went plant-based. Could this be the reason? Well, yes, according to research, it most certainly could. But then Jared blew my mind because we have had two clients reverse rheumatoid arthritis, among other autoimmune diseases, but specifically with rheumatoid, he was sharing something with me about these bacteria with the chickens and the UTIs. Tell them what you told them.

SPEAKER_00: 12:13

Yeah, I was blowing her mind. So whenever they look at rheumatoid arthritis or have in the past, they were researching it and they noticed women are four times more likely to get rheumatoid arthritis than men. So they were trying to find associations, patterns, and they looked at, well, what else do women have more frequently than men? They have urinary tract infections around the same ratio, four to one. As they dug deeper, they looked at what kind of bacteria are involved with urinary tract infections. One of the common ones is Proteus mirabilis. As they look deeper into Proteus mirabolis, they notice that there is a molecule within the bacteria that looks very similar to a molecule that we have in our cartilage. The term for that is molecular mimicry. Now, sometimes that's done on purpose from an organism, sometimes it just happens, but they look very, very similar. So when you have a response to the proteus mirabolis, where your body generates an antibody against that specific protein, you get a cross-reaction where that antibody gets quote unquote confused. It sees a molecule that looks very similar to something for which it was created. Now it puts up the red flag and says, hey guys, we got something over here that should not be. Let's start attacking it. So what ends up happening is your body is attacking your cartilage. You get inflammation, you get degradation of the cartilage, you then get rheumatoid arthritis.

SPEAKER_01: 13:33

So your body's been exposed to the bacteria from the chicken. It's made antibodies against the bacteria from the chicken. And now, because there is a similarity in a protein that's in the bacteria that's on the chicken, there's a similarity in your cartilage. So that antibody starts attacking your cartilage.

SPEAKER_00: 13:53

Correct. Well, the antibody attaches to it, and then your immune system is now activated. Right. This is a foreign invader.

SPEAKER_01: 13:59

Yeah, that's awful. I mean, that's just unbelievable. It's shocking. And these are the things we want to know. I'm just so glad you brought it up because I think it's something important that we all need to know.

SPEAKER_00: 14:09

It's a very important but yet hidden association. How many times a week are we eating chicken? And if you were one of those individuals Well us, we're not eating. Well, us no. No. But I'm talking about society as a whole. So if you're one of those where you did create an antibody against that molecule that looks like what's in our cartilage, if you're eating chicken several times a week, especially if you're handling raw chicken, which I'm gonna touch on a moment, but if you're handling that, you're getting exposed to that bacteria and it's constantly keeping that whole response flared up. Now you may say, but I cook my chicken completely. Surely I'm safe. I don't have any issues, right?

SPEAKER_01: 14:43

And I use soap.

SPEAKER_00: 14:45

That disinfect your environment. But if you're touching the chicken with your hands, you're getting exposed. You're likely not bleaching your hands, but even if you did, there's still going to be some of that that remains that you get exposed to and that will colonize your body to some degree. It does not completely eliminate your risk and exposure just because you're disinfecting your environment. If you're touching it, you're getting exposed.

SPEAKER_01: 15:08

And I want to add, be careful what you're disinfecting your environment with. And we don't even recommend antibacterial soap. We don't use antibacterial soap because it kills your good bacteria as well. So that's not always something you want to be using anyway. But regardless, the bacteria just seem to find their way into our bodies. That's the whole point here. So again, we're not telling you these things for you to be afraid. This isn't a fear chicken episode. You just need to be aware of why you might still be having some struggles. And the more truth that you hear of what research is showing, that's reliable research, and then you can understand. But our bodies were made to thrive on these things, the five power foods, the whole plant foods. Then you can see how your body could start to come alive naturally. You could start to feel better and get out there and live your God-given dreams when you can learn how to do that in the way that works with your schedule.

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What we're telling you is do not follow the advice of black and white cows sitting up on billboards on the side of the interstate. Don't eat more chicken. Eat no chicken.

SPEAKER_01: 16:11

That's such a good point. Yeah, those were probably not the best sources for your nutritional information. Friend, we hope you have enjoyed learning this information. All of these facts that you're getting your eyes open to can change your life in amazing ways. Come over and join us at poweronplants.com forward slash pie. That's poweronplants.com forward slash P I E. You're going to learn so many things there that will start changing things for you. If you're having a hard time with your health, we want you to walk away from this episode with hope that you can get better. We consistently see these foods when people know how to eat them in the way that is simple, enjoyable, and delicious can change your life. They reverse the top chronic diseases of our time. So don't let somebody put a label on you and you walk away overwhelmed and confused and feeling like you are this thing that they've labeled you with. Walk away with hope and just take one thing. Just do one thing from this episode today, and before long, things will start licking up. We have loved helping you again. Know that you are loved, you are prayed for, and we will see you again very soon.