Your Health And Your Legacy

Anita 0:00

generational. This is not just you and it's not just about this community of us who are gathering together and getting these results and bringing his kingdom come to this earth. It's about your legacy, your children, your grandchildren, their spouses, their children. How many lives do you think this would impact if you One person just stepped out and said, this is my time. I'm sick of doing things the old ways that they're set up. I'm tired of getting up every day and having to manage my symptoms and people telling me that's extreme,, or thinking I have to diet to If your body keeps costing you the opportunities you know God is sending, this episode is for you.

Why We Started Power On Plants

Anita 1:45

Welcome to Power On Plants. I'm Anita Ruelle, a nurse and certified integrative nutrition health coach.

Jarrod 1:50

And I'm Jared Ruel, a physician assistant certified in lifestyle medicine.

Anita 1:54

Together, we've spent nearly five decades in healthcare and we created this podcast because we kept seeing kingdom entrepreneurs lose opportunities due to exhaustion, mental fog, and a growing list of health struggles that none of the standard approaches were actually fixing. At the root, we show you how to fuel your body with what it was designed to optimally run on attacking inflammation at the root. The result is your energy skyrocketing and your labs moving in the right direction so you can finally show up fully for the calling God has for your life. No miserable dieting methods or white knuckling through protocols that you were never going to enjoy and that therefore we're never going to last. If you want the step-by-step system. That gets your body fully backing your mission instead of working against you. That's exactly what our accelerator program is built for. Learn more today at Power on plants.com/accelerator. That's power on plants.com/accelerator.

Jarrod 2:53

Today

A Last-Minute Topic Switch

Jarrod 2:54

I had a podcast episode I was working on, and last minute we decided to make a change. Have you ever had that? You have plans, you're getting ready to go, getting ready to walk out the door, and then no plan's. Gonna take little sidestep. Well, that's today the original episode. Podcast idea. It's gonna be great. That'll come out next Anita doesn't know I'm surprising her like she does with me all the time.

Anita 3:20

I'm kind of on eggshells right

Jarrod 3:21

gonna, we're gonna turn the tables, but it'll be fun. Trust me, it'll be good. As we're preparing to record today's episode, I was setting up all the equipment Anita was finishing up a post for our community. We love our community. If you have not joined us, do so. on plants.com/ppn. That's Peak Performance Network. You are going to love it. But as she was finishing the post, I was doing a little bit of reading waiting and it was a blog post from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and I was sharing with her the gist of it and she said, oh, you have to share that today. So

Anita 3:54

a hundred percent.

Jarrod 3:55

here we go. It

Plant-Based Eating And Autoimmune Relief

Jarrod 3:57

was a blog post specifically talking about how whole food, plant-based eating can help with inflammation and even autoimmune diseases.

Anita 4:05

Mm-hmm. and we see that all the time with our clients, with our patients. It's amazing when you hit the root because that's what happens a lot of times in the medical community. You're not having the root cause addressed, and that's inflammation.

Jarrod 4:17

And if you take care of the root, you take care of the fruit. Take care of what's, starting the problem. Problem goes away. I started thinking about our modern healthcare system and how it's been constructed over the last hundred years or so. Prior to the 19 hundreds, you saw that doctors used a lot of natural remedies. That's what they had available, but at the turn of the 20th century. Science started proliferating and there was some pressure there to move the medical system into more of a pharmaceutical based hierarchy type setup. And I feel like we've seen the diseases just skyrocket and then the number of drugs skyrocket as well. And I just thought it's just very disappointing I mean, we are all genuinely interested. Doctors, PAs, nurse practitioners, nurses, dieticians, physical therapists. All of us are genuinely to better the lives of our patients. But it has turned to getting away from the basics, the things that we know, food, movement, sleep, stress reduction, positive relationships, and Getting rid of risky substances, and I tell my patients all the time, it's just we never really seem to capitalize on the fundamentals. We

When Pills Feel Normal

Jarrod 5:34

go to all the pills and the procedures,

Anita 5:37

And doesn't that blow your mind? Because those are the extreme things, but we see those as the normal. That's how we've been conditioned to see them as the

Jarrod 5:44

We default to that.

Anita 5:45

right. But they're really extreme. And so if you find yourself looking at a way of eating that you know is healthy, like whole food, plant-based, and thinking that's extreme, but you think taking pills and having procedures is normal, it's time to rethink the way you're thinking.

Jarrod 5:59

And you might not think of pills as being extreme because I take one or two pills a day versus an open heart surgery. Well. When you really look at taking care of the foundational issues, like getting adequate sleep, reducing stress, eating your fruits and veggies, well, taking a pill in light of that does seem like it might be a little, much a little extreme.

Anita 6:21

Yes, because it's not just the physical act of popping the pill, Jared. I mean, think about this. It's all the things that come along with. The pill, so you're not just getting a benefit, which usually the benefit is the management of a disease, not getting to the root of it, it's managing it. So you still have that inflammation, that process going on underneath the surface, even though you're kind of managing some of the symptoms of what's going on underneath the surface And then you have the side effects that come along with that. So now you can start to see, as you consider the different things. That happen with the medications and now you need another medication to manage the side effect. now this is higher level thinking. You're looking at the fact of all these different things that are happening as a result of taking a pill. Now you can start to see maybe this isn't so simple of an answer after all, maybe it's a bit more extreme. And again, we're not against medications in the right circumstance, But we do believe that they're way overused when there are such simple solutions as learning the effective way to eat something like whole plant foods that our bodies were originally designed to thrive on. And when you can have a five step system that you plug into that you know that you know, that you know you're going to get results because your mentor got results and they consistently get patients and clients' results, and we're talking about eating food here. Real whole plant food that you're gonna actually love how it tastes and it's simple to prepare. this is the simple way, but what we usually consider as normal is not really so simple. You see It Actually is much more complex as you start using higher level thinking.

Diabetes Drugs Versus Root Causes

Jarrod 7:58

Yes. Really, when you're looking at what's going on at a molecular level, cellular level, we are manipulating things. An example that comes to mind would be like for diabetes. We are not regulating our insulin and blood sugar control like normal, so we come out with medications. There's one even that causes your kidneys to spill out extra glucose, extra sugar, and. Under normal circumstances, any sugar that gets filtered out as urine is naturally being produced. Our kidneys are wonderfully designed to reabsorb that, to conserve that resource, but we've made a medication that now causes our kidneys to not reabsorb it, to spill it out. Well, that controls the number. But you're manipulating a system to compensate for a system that's not working. So really the simple act of taking a pill under the hood does become more complex.

Anita 8:53

Because you also think about, in that case we're talking about type two diabetes. So in that case, you still have the problem going on underneath the surface. 'cause what is fueling the sugar problem? It's not the sugar. It's the animal fats that you're eating the saturated fats, those things that are blocking your system, blocking that locking key mechanism in your cells that actually allows the insulin to work to let the sugars in to your cells. And so that's why you're getting high blood sugar. It's not actually the sugar that's the problem. So you're trying to deal with a byproduct. Can you see how that medication is dealing with a byproduct, thus managing it, not getting to the root cause of the problem that you still have going on all the while you're taking that medication?

Jarrod 9:41

And you may be hearing all of this and say, whoa, ho, ho. Wait a minute, backup. Uh, I hear what you're saying, but this just isn't computing. So I started thinking we. We have specialties and subspecialties dealing with all of this minutia. We have more science, so we know what to do with learning how all these different systems work and then making medications to help overcome them. And in some circumstances that's a wonderful thing.

The Car Maintenance Analogy

Jarrod 10:09

But what other industry does this? I started thinking, and I shared this with Anita, what if we were talking about your car? And you know you need to get an oil change. You need to change your air filter from time to time or the fuel filter and make sure you use the proper fuel, all of that stuff. But what if you thought, I don't really need to change my oil? I mean, it's probably a good thing. Yeah, probably change out my air filter every so often, but my car's still running. Then when it stops running quite so, well, maybe it's a little hesitant when you hit the gas. Maybe it sputters a little bit. So you take it to the mechanic and they say. Well look, your air filter's dirty. You got an air filter problem, but listen, don't worry about it. What we're gonna do is we're gonna cut a hole in the hose that goes from the engine to the air filter chamber, so that way you can get air to bypass the dirty filter. But we can't let dirty air into the engine because that'll mess it up even worse. So we're gonna put a different kind of filter here, so that's gonna fix it. I mean, do you see how insane that becomes or your fuel filter? Your fuel filter filters out the fuel so that way it doesn't clog the little nozzles that put the gas in the cylinder. What if you were having a fuel filter bypass? You'd say, what are you talking about? We don't even spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to put in a new fuel system. Why don't we just clean out the filter? Or why don't we just do routine maintenance, do the routine things that we know will maintain the system properly,

Anita 11:38

Right.

Jarrod 11:38

And instead of going to mechanic, you're going to a fuel line specialist, or you're going to an air filter specialist. Um, you're going to all these different subspecialties. And again, this seems a little bit, uh, maybe over the top. But I feel like in large part, that's where we've gotten with our current medical system, and I'm very thankful for the people that have that knowledge and that can step in when they need to. But have we again, become overly reliant upon it? That's just the norm. I'm just 45 years old and my dad had a heart attack and.

Anita 12:11

And I just have five, six different specialists that manage my care that I have to go to. And sometimes I need a little Roto-Rooter ring. And that's just normal. That just happens when you hit like 40, 50,

Jarrod 12:21

Bought me a couple extra years.

Anita 12:23

But think about how concerning it is that we have so much compartmentalization in this as well, and a lot of what's happening within the compartmentalization. What I hear you saying is, management of symptoms instead of actually getting to a root cause of a problem. But also the problem is within that compartmentalization of the system, The people that are over the different parts, sadly, aren't communicating so well with each other so you don't have one person, and ideally that would be your primary care specialist, but then there's another person you have to go to. So you're going to all these different places trying to manage your healthcare. It's no wonder you feel frazzled with all the different things that are going on in your life. Yeah.

Jarrod 12:59

And I've heard many patients say, why can't I just see one person? One person? And sadly, with as complex as the system has gotten, no one person can do it all. You can't have one person to do your spine surgery, to manage your thyroid, to manage your kidneys, to do neurology. I mean, there's just too much for any one person as the current system exists. But what if you had one person. Who could advise you on some common sense things such as what you eat. And we've talked at length about how that simple act can reverse type two diabetes, can make your rheumatoid arthritis go away, can make your digestive issues go away. So now you don't need a GI doctor, you no longer need a rheumatologist. We're getting back to maybe I can have just that one provider.

Anita 13:47

Right. What would it be like if your energy level was 10 x within a couple of weeks? Your mental clarity came back. Your blood pressure went back to normal and you didn't need medications anymore. Your cholesterol went back to normal and you didn't need the medications and all the side effects that go with it, and on top of that, like Jared sharing today, now you're freed up. From seeing 20 different specialists 'cause all these things one by one just start dropping off naturally because you're eating the way God designed your body to eat. And we're not saying it's a hundred percent guarantee you gonna take care of everything, but we're telling you we have never worked with anybody and walk them through our five step system and seeing them not come out and have some incredible results where they were able to drop off some diagnosis.

Jarrod 14:32

And as you were mentioning some of those different conditions before you mentioned 20 specialists. I was going through. Okay. That would be a neurologist. That would be a cardiovascular specialist. That would be a GI doctor,

Real Reversals And The Generational Impact

Anita 14:44

And the autoimmune diseases. I mean, right. There you go. Like we, we work with people all the time, reversing autoimmune disease, multiple clients. We've had reverse rheumatoid arthritis, IBS, Crohn's disease. Uh. Unexplained autoimmune symptoms. So many different things we could tell you about and, and testimonials we could share. Even looking at Brooke Goldner, She reversed lupus. Look at,

Jarrod 15:08

Dr. Stanzi, she reversed multiple sclerosis. She was even wheelchair-bound at one point. Now it's gone. Not managed, gone.

Anita 15:15

right? And so think about what it would mean for you if you woke up tomorrow and your symptoms were gone. because you finally had one person who could show you how to deal with the root of the problem, which is inflammation. And once the inflammation goes away, and on top of that, which is tied in closely with it, is the blood flow issues, so your vessels being clogged. We know that cholesterol has been found building up in plaques, building up in the vessels of children as early as four years old.

Jarrod 15:46

They. In school yet, and they're already developing these fatty cholesterol streaks in their arteries eating the standard American diet.

Anita 15:54

So think about how it would simplify your life if you could drop off one symptom and another, and another, and another, not because you're managing them, but because the root's been dealt with and it is cut down at the root. It's dug up at the root, it is gone. What would that mean for you? But not only that, the children, your grandchildren in your life, perhaps a spouse you think will never come around. Can I tell you how many clients we have who thought their, spouse would never do this. They weren't on board, they weren't interested in it at all. And as they got in and started working with us inside Accelerator, their spouses started saying, what is that smell? That smells so good. What are you eating? I just wanna try a little bite. And before long it was one new thing they liked and another new thing they liked and another new thing they liked. And their numbers started changing. And they started reversing heart, age, and they started reversing high blood pressure, high cholesterol. Maybe that didn't jump all the way in, but what would it mean for your spouse or significant other who you think's never gonna do this to be a year down the road and they are 50% plant-based, 75% plant-based. What would that mean for your future, for your grandchildren, for your children, for all the things you could accomplish together, all those God-given dreams and goals, all the places you could go, things you could see and experience. And all the dreams in your heart that you could live out. it's generational. This is not just you and it's not just about this community of us who are gathering together and getting these results and bringing his kingdom come to this earth. It's about your legacy, your children, your grandchildren, their spouses, their children. How many lives do you think this would impact if you One person just stepped out and said, this is my time. I'm sick of doing things the old ways that they're set up. I'm tired of getting up every day and having to manage my symptoms and people telling me that's extreme,, or thinking I have to diet to do this, or I have to start calorie counting again and coming in and applying those same miserable dieting methods to this way of eating. We show you how to let go of that in our five step system so that you no longer have to have stinking thinking that's been holding you back for far too long. You have a call, you have a dream. It's time to step up and step into that dream. Jared and I are here for you every step of the way you can do this. It's not hard. It's not depriving when you know the steps to take your life can change in amazing ways. Sometimes

Step Out Of The Healthcare Matrix

Anita 18:23

you just have to get yourself out of the matrix, If you're ready to step out of the healthcare matrix so you can step up to your calling, go right now to power on plants.com/accelerator and join the wait list. To learn more. That's Power on plants.com/accelerator. We look forward to seeing you there. And on the next episode of Power on Plants.