Discover the genetic root causes of health challenges | DFS 287

Welcome to destined for success. I'm your

host Jennifer Takagi and today is one of my favorite days it is

PATA Palooza, de. And I have the opportunity to interview and

meet some amazing people from all over the world. And I now

have another Canadian to join me today. I have Alicia my sigh

Anderson I hope I said that close to right. And you're from

I'm gonna say Calgary did she say Calgary or just can't

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: know I live in Vancouver, Vancouver?

Oh, I only know like

three places in Canada and I got it wrong

anyway. Ah, so welcome to the show. I love it reset your

genes. How genetic find the genetic root cause of your

health issues? I love this topic. Tell me more.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Yeah, I mean, I, we so we're chatting,

you know, how, how is success if you are to have your health. I

believe health is everything I truly believe health is

everything. You know, I actually I have a little bit of a cold,

so you can see me a little bit stuffy, but still, I'm here, you

know, I'm, you know, I'm still in my zone. And the thing is,

is, uh, Jennifer is that basically, I have no

inflammation in my body, meaning I don't, I really don't feel bad

at all. You know, like, every single day, every single day, I

I truly believe that I'm 6062 years old. But I truly believe I

have a body of a 30 year old body. Because my mind is clear.

My you know, it's great. So let me just tell you a little bit

about me. I've been university structure in biology for the

past 25 plus years here in Vancouver. And in 2010,

something happened that changed my life. And he was like the

famous, you know, the famous position at the University. And

I didn't get in and I'm like, Oh, what am I gonna do? And my

friend goes like you love study? Why don't you just go into

something else? Sure enough, I enrolled in a diploma into your

diploma in holistic nutrition, which I finished in 10 months. I

told my husband, I'll be done by Christmas, because like, no way

to two years, I'll be done by Christmas with 12 case studies,

the whole thing, the whole spiel. So I did, and I started

changing my lifestyle. You know, I didn't not I you know, I did

not tell my kids to do it. I did not tell my husband to do it.

Like I'm this is the way I'm gonna do it right now. This is

this is what I'm gonna do. It's up to you, if you want to do it.

I have three kids, they're in their 20s, late 20s, mid to late

20s. And when they left home, what did they leave with? They

left with the healthy habits. I think that was the best gift

they can I mean, they think to grow their stuff. But that's

just stuff. But when you go to the place, they open the fridge,

and it's like nothing to mirror my kitchen. So so excited about

it. And anyway, in 2017, one of the companies, that cells that

teachers, they teach us stuff to sell their supplements, opened a

platform called Pure genomics. And I thought that was

phenomenal. Excuse me, I thought that was phenomenal. I said,

I'll take my DNA data and find out more about me. Well, it just

so happened that this platform had titles. And I wasn't sure to

share it because when in DNA, you have four letters, etc. Or

when you change a Jif or an A it's, it's a disaster. So I

didn't feel I didn't feel like sharing at all. Anyway, but time

passed. And then we realize that there was another person that

sort of same. So she created her own platform. And I want to

introduce you to our mentor who wrote this book. It's your teens

to fit your kids. It's a very scientific book. But she talks

basically about the genes. And about she talks about weight

loss. So, but she gives us a 66 page report, Jennifer and I'm

like, I read it three times me being a biologist, a scientist

and I'm like, she wrote this for for scientist or naturopathic

doctor, not for the common people. And so anyways, so we

decided to create a program and we were going to accept eight

people in our beta program. We ended up with 16 The first time

we run it and what we found was incredible. Incredible. I know

someone that has MS. And you know when they tell you Oh, you

have Ms. What do you think autoimmune it's your immune

system. This way, it's not her immune system at all. She has

detoxification problems college and problems, inflammation

problems. She has neurotransmitter problems and

hormonal problems and the whole thing which is spilled over and

manifested as Ms. So when I found this out I'm like, Okay,

well, this is the way we're gonna do it. So anyway, she's

been just on top of it just amazing. She's gone from a pain

of nine to pain of one, she is sleeping seven hours, which he

couldn't before because her legs would contract all the time. And

not only that, we found out that her daughter could also have it,

and we are preventing her daughter from getting. So

once you find out what's going on, then is it

through nutrition and supplements that you reverse

this? And as your background says rewrite your future? Yes.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: It's just food and supplements. Well,

patients, what we're getting people to get off their

medications. But it's it's I mean, I don't know in the US,

but in Canada, because we have a social medical system. You know,

by the time you go see your GP, by the time they send you to a

specialist can be yours. It's just not working. It's not

working. Are you going to wait a year? You know, to find out what

it is? Or can you find out right away? And so anyway, I've been

I've been dealing I've been dealing with people, a lot of

people from Mexico actually found me where I'm actually

going to actually go to open the program in English and in

Spanish in January. So this girl, they're 32 year old, she

could barely walk. She was using a cane to walk 32 year old and

you're like, quite strong with you. He goes, Oh, I have

fibromyalgia. And she goes like, oh, no, no, no, I've gone to my

32nd specialist and they told me I have idiopathic chronic

myositis and I start laughing. And I'm like you want me to

translate that for you? myositis your muscles are inflamed.

That's why you are in pain. Chronic. You've heard for a long

time. Idiopathic. It's a new word used in medical terms,

which means I have no idea what it is. She started the program.

I saw her yesterday. She has lost I don't know something like

1520 pounds. She hasn't no paid. All she wanted was go play

paddle again and go play soccer. Again. She's doing that. You can

see it's not just the weight loss. It is the the reduction in

inflammation in the body. What has taken her where she is right

now. So like that I can tell you endless stories. What about me?

Well, me, I found out that I produce too much dopamine. I am

what the doctor calls the dopamine junkie. I am the type

of person that's on the go go go go go all day long, all day

long. And if I don't if I if I find a new toy, or get a new toy

yet, I buy new toys. I mean no new certifications and new

things to do. And, you know, I'm a continual learner in my life.

And now guess what? I am so chilled that I've never been

like this in my life. And I don't want to lose more weight.

Of course not. You know, I like weight. However, I am truly at

my peak on wellness. I truly feel like you know, of course,

you know, I exercise. I love walking, I exercise. I hydrate.

i Eat For Health. I eat truly, truly clean. And my sleep is

impeccable right now. I mean, I got a call. I started on Monday

I'm here. Yeah, yeah, sure. I still I still have a bit of a

cold, but it does not interrupt my life. And so, as you said to

be successful, what is the best gift you can have? Jennifer?

Your Health?

Yeah, because if you don't have your health,

you can't do anything else.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: That's right. You can have all the

money in the world. You can have all the traveling, I mean,

traveling everywhere. You can do you know, a lot of things. And

something incredible is for people that want to lose weight

is a validation that they find out exactly how much protein how

much carbohydrates counterparts they should take. And when you

when you change the food, inflammation just goes starts

getting out and you start feeling better. I

had years ago I had knee surgery and the

realignment surgery and the pain pills I hated. And I called the

doctor and I was like I can't take these pain pills and he

said Aleve wasn't even out at that point. He was like well

take for ibuprofen four times a day and keep the swelling down.

So as long as I kept this swelling and inflammation down

with taking medicine because of the surgery, I didn't have any

pain. I mean there was a little discomfort but no big deal. So

when people talk about inflammation causes all these

other things. I completely believe it. Because if there's

no inflammation, then there's no pain. But at that point, that's

the next question. Yeah,

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: you know, and if you hit yourself,

right, you hit yourself, you know, there's inflammation,

because you know, you even get a bruise or something, you know,

you. But what happens? inflammation inside the body?

How do you check it out? Through paper, you know, so many people

would take so many people with, I cannot be sitting down on a

chair for a long period of time. So many people like I cannot

even work. I actually, and we've got people with cancer as well,

trying to figure it out. I had a lady from Ontario, and she had

breast she had breast cancer, I'm saying had because because

we finally found out the root cause. And anyway, she was

treated with chemotherapy that deals with estrogen, estrogen

dominance, so of estrogen dominance in the environment,

because of the food that we eat the plastics that we have all

that stuff. So anyway, they told her Oh, sorry, the chemos not

working, you're gonna have to do another year of it. And I'm

like, Okay, well, we were waiting for her Dinah back then.

I looked at it. And I'm like, I know what it is. It is your

liver. Let's take the supplements. In two weeks, she

got her period, she had her period for a whole year. Imagine

the mess up of her hormones. Now, we're now we're getting her

to get ready to be a mom. Like, it's just, it's just amazing. I

remember that night when I just like, give my daughter like, go

to bed early. I found out the root cause. And she and he goes,

what is it? I'm like, liver detox space to use. Okay, I'm

ready to go to sleep Shut up. And I'm like, excited.

So how do you how does this process work?

Like, how do you find out what's going on?

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: So okay, so first of all, I don't have

enough, if I had a lab, I know how to do it. But I don't have a

lot. So what we do is we use 23andme. Have you heard about

23andme? That 23andme, where you find your 23andme or you find

your ancestry? Well, they also have the health ancestry plus

health. So what we do is we use them as a lab, because it's the

cheapest way of getting your data. So you do 23andme You find

out your ancestry, your health, some people get really upset

about the health, but I'm like, Look, don't even look at health,

and you don't want to Okay, and then we get the data, we

download the data and we work with the data. But then we show

people what it is the need to work on one step at a time over

a 12 week period. Because trying to put it together. It's not

simple task. It's not simple. I mean, for me nowadays, but I

mean, I've probably studied 60 people overall. And I see a lot

of trends, a lot of detoxification problems, a lot

of hormonal problems, a lot of neurotransmitter problems, you

know, all kinds of things. You know, I had this family from

Mexico who their daughter has illegal and when you think about

it illegal you think about autoimmune again immune system,

right? Guess what, she doesn't have problems with immunity. And

I just told them guess what, you just say six months I'm going

seeing immunologist do not find exactly what she has. They were

like, Whoa, yeah. So we're now we are working with a girl. And

of course, you know, we're waiting working with her and

yeah, they're so excited about it. I

love that you work with one thing at a time, I

have a friend that was in a group with me and I she sent out

some kind of email and it had some a really intriguing

question. I don't remember now what it was. And it said if you

want to know more book a call, so I booked a call and she was

like, Hey, what are you doing? Look at a call. And I said,

Well, I found that really interesting. What do you do?

Well, come to find out she made you up and your whole entire

life absolutely everything to get to the root cause to figure

out what the problem was. And I was like, What can we do like

one thing at a time like I I like him, I may not have the

healthiest diet in the world, but I like what I like. And she

was like no. So I appreciate. Address one thing at a time, it

that

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: need to start with food you need to

start with changing habits you need to start by optimizing for

example, our genes tells us how many times a day you should eat

it. Should you eat three times a day should you have do

intermittent fasting. How long are that how much protein how

much fat, how much carbohydrates, lots of

vegetables, of course, we promote lots of vegetables.

Post, and even like that, just but we need to start one step at

a time. Because if not people go crazy. People go crazy. You

know, it's like I said, it has many greens as you like, you

know, it just, it's as simple as eating like the rainbow. Like my

plates are always like have so many which Greenberg is also

eating like rainbow is extremely important for me. And then you

start one step at a time. And then you add supplements,

probably you add the supplements that are most, like most needed

for you. You know, for example, somebody has inflammation and

pain, then we deal with that those supplements to reduce

inflammation and the pain. But a lot of times we just don't

detox. We are so exposed right now to so many toxins in our

body and our livers hold it. And it just like it doesn't go

anywhere stays there. And then sometimes when people and by the

way, many of these toxins are not soluble in water, they're

soluble, in fact. So where are they stored? They are stored in

there in the abdomen, where we have fat cells. What happens

when you are on a diet and you lose weight? A lot of people

will experience Oh, I have a headache? Well, because your

toxins are not metabolized, they're still they're still

soluble in, in fact, and where else in the body do have a lot

of fat right here on the brain right there. And then you know,

they'll go right here. And so you ended up having you end up

seeing people would wear things like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's

and stuff. It's just a huge amount of toxicity in the brain.

So

do supplements help get rid of that? Those

toxins that are stored in the fat?

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Yes, because we support delivered,

delivered delivered takes them as bean being fat to take them

to be soluble in water and you pick them out to put them out

use with them out to break them out.

Oh my gosh, I love that. So if you had one

suggestion for the audience who's listening, what would be

one thing that you think is most important that we could do today

to make a shift in our overall health.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Number one, find out where your food is

coming from?

Oh, okay.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Make sure you know where the cow is

coming from, or the chicken or whatever your vegetarian where

your vegetables are coming from whether they contain, decrease

the decrease the amount of toxins in your body. And number

two, start eating more, more green vegetables. In summary,

that's where all we all start.

I love that. Awesome. So if someone wants to

get ahold of you and find more about how they can reset their

genes, how are we going to get ahold of you? Yeah,

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: I will give you an Apple actually give

you a a link right here on the imbalance LM website. All right

down here. It's imbalance lm.com. And then it's it last

gene reset underscore AM. And there you can actually find out

how to do we usually let people start with a nurse your DNA

report, once they have their data from 23andme. And then from

there, you know, you've already from the even from their

dinners, your DNA already gives you quite a bit of understanding

on what to eat and how to eat and your detoxification. If you

want to take it any further, then we have a 12 week program,

a 12 week program. Awesome. Yeah, well,

this has been so enlightening to me. I had no idea that 23 and me

would go so far as to help me with my overall health. That's

awesome.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: I know. And there's usually a sailor on

Christmas, so keep an eye on it. Oh, I have your email. I will I

will email you and tell you that it's on sale. Well,

awesome, because I have not done it. I

know. One of my sisters did one of them 10 or 15 years ago, but

I don't think it was 23. And me I think it was another one. So

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: yeah, yeah, that could be ancestry.

Ancestry also gives us that. Yeah, but we need to know how to

do it too, as well, because the DNA doesn't come from the

saliva. The DNA comes from the cheek cells. Oh, it's important

that you massage your cheek cells before you spit. Oh,

interesting. Okay, so how much we needed to

know to do a test. Oh my gosh. Well, thank you Elisa. It has

been a pleasure getting to know you and thank you for all the

fabulous information.

Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Thank you, Jennifer.

I'm Jennifer Takagi and I look forward to

connecting with you soon.