210 Fireside Chat with Adam Parker on Mindset, Resiliency, Detoxing, and Creating Your Ideal Day

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Meditation for me gives you that buffer. It's like right thing. If I meditate when there's the stimulus, I've now got a gap between stimulus and response. And I'm not triggered as much you can think about it. So that's a tool with doing liver flushing, I find that I don't there's just nothing even can trigger me. It's just under Okay, that's happened. Really interesting. Yeah, so I definitely there's an emotional connection to good liver health.

Hi, friends. In this week's episode, I'm sitting down with Adam Parker who is the host of your ideal day podcast a podcast that I love it is jam packed with tips on how to optimise your ideal day with different biohacking and health optimization strategies as well as some life coaching and different experts he interview so if you haven't checked it out, go and check out Adams podcast, your ideal day. Adam and I actually met back at the Health optimization summit last year in London and we hit it off straightaway. And coincidentally, actually Adam and I both spent a year in Bob Proctor's coaching programme. Bob Proctor was a motivational speaker, author and personal development coach who sadly passed away last February while I was doing his programme and the programme was absolutely life changing. For me. It's inspired so much of my work in terms of integrating the laws of the universe with biohacking and bio rhythms. In a concept I've developed known as bio syncing, and bio thinking really combined syncing your goals and identity with your female physiology, your bio rhythms and universal laws. And in today's episode, you'll hear Adam and I chat about some of these topics, including insights into our our health optimization strategies, or morning routines, and much more. Now, if you want to get the most out of this episode, I would suggest that you pause the podcast right now and take 60 seconds to get a snapshot of where you are in your own personal health journey. If you head over to your total health check.com, we will send you an instant free personalised report with scores in the five key areas affecting your health and performance along with advice on how to make improvements straight away. That's over at your total health checked.com. Now going back to the podcast, one interesting area actually, that Adam II talk about, as well is, and it's particularly relevant in January, when we're sort of thinking about detoxification and other things, is actually the liver flushes that Adam has been engaging in and the improvements he's been seeing in terms of his energy and his vitality. So you're going to be hearing more about that. So without further delay, let me now introduce you to the lovely Adam Parker.

Angela Foster, it's great to connect with you.

You to Adam. I'm really excited for this. We've been chatting about it for a while, haven't we, since we met back in May at the Health optimization summit and kind of hit it off. But yeah, I'm really excited.

Yes, we did. So we were both hosts at the Health optimization. So I love that events. And it was great to connect. And we said, look, we got to get on a podcast. So it's great that we're finally here having a conversation and yeah, just really keen to connect in this and just chat about all the things you've been working on.

Yeah, me too. Me too. And kind of about our sort of respective biohacking pursuits and stuff is always quite fun. And also, I was quite surprised when I met you that we had shared a common interest and that you've been doing the Bob Proctor coaching programme, I think or one of his programmes. And I literally I think when I met you I had just finished a year he sadly passed away during it. But I don't know about you, I found it a really transformational just opened my eyes to things I was aware of, but hadn't really kind of deepened my knowledge of

Yeah, what I find interesting is I've been in the personal development and health space for over five or six years deeply into it, I love it. It's it's it's a passion of business as well as a as a hobby for me. And getting into that work has just taken everything to the next level. What I've come to realise is how you think and your mindset. And we've heard terms like this before mindset, but actually understanding the mind and how it actually works has been such a transformation for me and how I go about what I do. How I interact with people is been a real game changer to the point where and I think we were saying this, I said this to you recently on a on a on a on a WhatsApp message. How, at the beginning of this year, I wouldn't say I had much spirituality within me but it's really now just doing this work. It's just it just comes to me naturally I do I really connect with their being more beyond what we see within you know, within our world, you know, so it's been a real shift for me, and it's great to talk about it and share it with your listeners.

Yeah, yeah, me too. I think Have you and I've been sharing a few books recently, you've been sending me some, some that I've done that I haven't. And I just love it. I think for me, I find each day I like to do a little bit of spiritual reading, and kind of really connect with my goal. And my mission, because it was such a kind of journey for me coming from background as a corporate lawyer to making that kind of transformation of my own health if you'd like, and then really feeling driven by something so much bigger than myself. And I find that the more you can kind of connect with yourself as part of that process and connect with how you want to create a ripple effect impacts other people. It just makes it all more exciting. And yeah,

yeah, it's interesting, it's, I think what that brings me back to is, what you put out into the world is what you'll receive back. And it's, you know, one of these universal laws that I've learned in this process, you know, you can call it the law of attraction, even the law of opposites, but put it what you put out, you'll get back. So, got a big mission, and you're all about focusing on the mission, it's weird, that you'll you'll, you'll do low do loads of giving, in all different facets. And what I always remember is, it's not, it's not, okay, I'm gonna give out today and never expect to receive back from that same source. But just generally putting out the right energy into the world, random things just come in, come into your lap, and it's with the way we've been conditioned in society and to think logically, you know, when I first started giving a lot more, and then things started happen, random events, you know, it could be like, I had a lot more clients sign up to programmes or random events, I was like, it can't be that, because the logical brains like now, and I can't do that it's nonsense. And it's this conditioning that we've got. So it's, it's fascinating, all of this sort of stuff. And it's great that when we met, you know, we could have talked about anything, we were at a health optimization Summit. And somehow we just started talking about Bob Proctor, because obviously, it was resonating with both of us. I'm curious, what were the main kind of takeaways for you, when you went through that process of going through what Bob was teaching? What were the main kind of takeaways for you, that you've been able to implement in your day to day and how you do things.

So I think the thing that I, and it's probably grown from there to be fair, so some of the things that I did in that programme really inspired me and listening to Bob would always talk about Earl Nightingale, and kind of going about what you do with a really kind of positive mental attitude. And I think there's a lot of psychology behind, you know, more and more research now showing about developing positive expectancy. And I think people can get, they can get caught up in trying to feel like, you know, there's so much stuff about, you know, initially people talking about the law of attraction, then I think people got a little bit confused by it. And they felt that, that can't work. Because you know, things like the secret gave the impression that you could just sit on your sofa and expect to, you know, if you say money flows to me, then all this money will fall through the door. And I think people on a subconscious level were like, nah, this just doesn't feel right. And then we sort of understood, I think that the law of vibration really is the primary law. And the law of attraction is kind of secondary to that. And so you can work on your vibration. And I think a lot of it when you're giving and you're coming from a place of love is really connecting you with your higher higher vibrations, if you like. But then I also think for people that feel really agnostic about this, and they feel like that's unwieldy and kind of feels a bit out of control. And how can I actually do that, you're not always going to feel a super high vibe, I think it's just understanding that if you can get this right most of the time, and you can start to control your thoughts, and develop what we call positive expectancy, it makes you feel it makes you more resilient. And if we look at the most successful people in the world, whether those are athletes or artists, they have about them this thing that they're expecting good things to happen, even though the basketball player misses way more shots than they ever make. And we only remember the really good ones, they have that positive expectancy. And then that's what we see. And I think that's one of the most important files that I learned as part of this process, and then kind of going off and reading, you know what it's like, I like to kind of swarm read, if you like, that you kind of read something here, it's something there, and then you pull these ideas together. And the more you hear it, the more it starts to resonate, and you feel like you're deepening your understanding. And I'm still massively learning. You know, it's, it's completely different from kind of the background I came from. But I think it's, it starts to make more sense. And then you get to that point where you think, actually if I can embody this, and so for me, now, it's all about thinking, regardless of whether I consciously do this or not. I am creating my future self. That is just a reality. Everything that I do is creating my future self and so whether it's, you know, I know we're going to talk about biohacking nutrition and health and things like that later. But whether you're thinking about what you're putting in your mouth, whether it's a good behaviour or bad behaviour, the thoughts that you think whether you're going to exercise, whether you're going to be disciplined and go to bed and not procrastinate on sleep, all of those things eventually are going to show up and manifest in your future self and your future life. And that's a really big and powerful thing. Because I think when you realise that you realise that actually, I'm in control of my destiny, and I need to show that self respect and self love to create the future that I want. What are your thoughts on? I

love that? Yeah, I definitely resonate with that. And if you listen to Earl Nightingale, Bob Proctor all of those guys, there's so many great authors from that era. And even before right there just, you got Neville Goddard, like, Oh, these guys worked it out, like, nearly 100 years ago. But all of them say the same thing. And it's basically we are what we think about, right? And when we really understand that, and we start to acknowledge that, well, if we are what we think about, let's start thinking about what we want to become, and excluding what we don't want to become or what we don't want to see. So it's things like I always knew that I've had the News, the news is a bit negative, isn't it? Oh, God. That's it. That's another thing to worry about. And as I started to do this work, I realised that people that are successful, they're not listening to like the outside noise that they're all just working from within and then focusing on all of the really cool them the mental faculties. So the imagination, intuition, reason, all of these different tools. So that's been really interesting for me. And I like what you're saying about I think you'd expected positive outcome. Yes, that to me, is is around kind of belief, kind of transmuting into into faith. I interviewed a great guy, you should get him on your show. His name's David nurse. And he's written some good books, one of them was called pivots. 11111 of them is called Breakthrough. And he's like an NBA coach, positivity coach. And I spoke to him a year and a half ago, and he's obviously American, and they're very religious. And his blend is his NBA guy. And, you know, he puts everything to in God's hands. And he and I was talking to him, he's like, God, God's taking care of it. And I remember thinking, Wow, that's great. That's that's a lovely thing to just have that kind of belief that there's there's a higher power looking after you and working with you. But it didn't resonate with me at the time, because I was like, Well, I'm not really a religious guy, but look that you do you and that works for you. And that's great. But now I get it. Because now God to me is the universe and and this this energy, whether you call it chi prana God, there is a lifeforce, right. So now I'm like, Ah, now I get it. And it's working for me. And I've got this lovely little, like, screenshot on my phone, I read it to you. I've done it where I found it. I'm supported by the universe, therefore, everything always works out for me. Because you're, you're a part of it. So yeah, it's been a real shift for me just just how I think. And I've had to really break through logical Adam, because I'm very logical on like, you know, one plus one equals two, but so I've had to really break through that conditioning. And I, you know, I've, I've enjoyed it. And I think it's great

things most helps you break through that conditioning.

Well, going through the teachings, it's okay, how does the mind work? And we know there's the conscious mind, there's a subconscious mind. And when I understood that it's all about the subconscious minds. I thought, oh, okay, that that's something I need to focus on. Now. Even though I was studying it, I didn't really quite believe it. But what I realised is if you're into this sort of work all the time, and then you go and see friends and family that you don't normally see often, and they are they think a certain way that maybe you used to think and they haven't done a lot of this work. You realise that oh my oh my goodness, I definitely think and feel and believe differently now. Just how my brain works, I realised that this this stuff does work if you just continue just constant Spaced Repetition of reading this material and engaging with it, your beliefs do change over time. And then and that was the proof to me like oh, wow, it does work because I'm now starting to think and act differently to people that I've always been very similar to. Not to say that how they think and act is right or wrong. It's just it just is there is no there is no good bad right or wrong it just that is just Is but ultimately what I started to see is I'm acting different, because I'm just submerged in this material. So then I was like, Oh, wow, this stuff does work. Because I was just thinking, Oh, yeah. Subconscious Mind. Yeah, you can't get through to that. But there's no no you can, but it's, there's, there's no quick fix, give me a pill. It's, you got to do the work, you know,

daily practice, then Mike, do you have a kind of daily routine where you take time to spend time reading or journaling or meditating better? Like, how do you approach that, in terms of making it real?

So I will do from six to 7am, I'll study five days a week, I'll write out my goal. I'll just submerge myself in whatever's resonate with me. So now I'm reading where's my book? It's somewhere, it's asking it, ask it, it will be given or asking, it's given I come up with the title. I'll put it in the show notes. Yes, I'll put in the show notes for listeners. So that's what I'm currently reading. And I set timeout to do that. And really, it has to work for whatever works for you. You know, I'm in a position I don't have children at this point. So I can get up at that time. I actually use chat to a friend, he goes to the gym. Everyday, he gets up at 430 and goes to the gym or five, just just to avoid, you know, the children waking out. So again, it's this but this finding time that works for you. That's what

I do. Does he study it while he's in the gym?

Is he listening? No, no, no heat? No, as in the example was he loves the gym. He's big into lifting. And I was like, How'd you do it, man? Because you've got kids, right? He's got two little kids uses. Like, I get up at 430 I stayed with me, I tiptoe I've got my light on.

Be the Same as me. And I leave the house. Yeah, I got 445. And I go and I'm in the gym. And that's my hour five till six. And then I come back. And I feel so different than if I miss a day. Yeah, I've really, really miss it. And yeah, it's about us. But you know what's really interesting about when you think about manifesting and changing the subconscious beliefs, I think that some people come to it as you have, right, and they start studying it, and they're inspired, and they take action. And for a lot of people, actually things have to get really bad for them to see it. And they start manifesting things that they didn't want. And that was effectively what happened to me, because that's kind of how I found it was the other way around. Because I was so I really struggled with postnatal depression after my each of my kids. And what I now know from really diving deep on this and looking at things like nutrient deficiencies, hormone imbalances, also, the fact that I'd been prescribed the contraceptive pill for years, changes the female brain when it's growing, all these different things were kind of culminating in predisposing me to a higher risk of what was later diagnosed by the priories, major depressive disorder. But I had gotten myself into this state where I'd effectively created a prisoner in my own mind. And so I'd become so depressed after my third child, that I was on really strong bipolar meds, I kind of like couldn't, I was in this when I say prisoners, because I was in this situation where all I wanted to do was turn my thoughts off. And I couldn't kind of control them. And I just wanted an escape, I was like, just turn them off, and turn my head off. There was so much self loathing that going on, I was still really deeply connected, adored my children, my husband. And so I was then on the other side, I had this thing of like, a fight, ate my own life, my kids are gonna grow up as the kids whose mom took her own life, my husband's always gonna be the husband, who's the widow, whose wife and her life. And so I didn't know what to do. And when we talked about attracting things, this is the thing when I was in that deep state of just thinking, I don't know how to get out of this, but I just want out, the kids got sick, they got a cough, and for me that manifested in double pneumonia, and I kind of went on doing things still, during the school run. They did an x ray and found what they thought was Bonnke extra sis call me urgently to the hospital. And they said, Yeah, your lymph glands are really, really enlarged. And they kept talking about the lymph. And I was like, why are we talking spending so much time on the length? You think I've got lung cancer or something like that? And they were like, well, it's hard to say you don't without doing without doing a CT scan. And when I walked back in after this scan, they're like, it's worse than I thought. And I was immediately admitted into hospital had viral and bacterial pneumonia across both lungs. They're like, we don't know how you're still walking. But we think we're going to have to effectively like intubate you. So they start giving me oxygen and stuff, hoping and when intravenous antibiotics and they sit took my Bloods, they're like, you're neutropenic and this is all going in the direction of one out and I'm given that opportunity. But I'm in hospital, and I'm just with myself, and I can't run a squat running everyday try and run away from myself. I can't run anywhere. And I felt this Joe Dispenza talks about this, this profound sense of peace. I don't know whether it was the fact that my fevers were so high that it gave way to this lucidity. But all of a sudden, it was like, I'm okay, and I kind of just gave in. And within that time when I felt okay, I was like, What the hell am I doing? My kids need a mom like I've got to find a way out of this. I've got to be there for I'm no joke, Adam, within 48 hours of me making that decision, my bloodwork changes, and my white blood cell count from being neutropenic starts to go up. And there's nothing they could have given me that would have done that, right. And it just and it just starts to trend up and it changes. And then when they repeated the CT scan, they couldn't believe how little lung damage I got away with. And that then obviously inspired me to make a change, but it's just like, wow, this stuff like, you're literally whether you're consciously and intentionally doing it, you're attracting stuff into your life. Yeah. And I'm grateful for that experience. Yeah.

Wow. That's a lovely story. That's a lovely story. And actually, that, that brings me to a book I started reading last night. So I'm, I'm two pages in. But it was recommended, I watched a video, Wayne Dyer doing a talk on manifestation. And he recommends this book, it's called Dying to be me. And it's about a lady who had terminal cancer for four years was in hospital, into a coma, and then effectively passed, but then came back. And then within literally, as soon as she came back and decided to, you know, be a message via voice, all of it, she basically cured herself of cancer within like four weeks or something. It's a crazy story, I don't know enough on it. But again, it's about the mind. And when the mind makes a decision, on changing, you know, you, again, if you think about the scientists, they might say, That's placebo or whatever, but ultimately doesn't matter. It's just how powerful is the mind. And, you know, lovely story, how a you obviously went to a point, and then there was just a shift in you. And then things start changing.

I've written a real shift. And the thing is that with that, then when you make that decision, I was like, initially, to be fair, I got into health optimization really, for myself, because I was like, I gotta be healthy for my kids. And I've got to find a way. And, you know, the mental aspect was way more challenging than anything I had to do physically to resolve my house, you know that that has been a real journey. And I think sometimes when you get to the razor's edge, that's actually where you find yourself as painful as it is. But I think that you make that decision. And I then did everything I possibly could. And it was hard. It was hard. It was how much work I had to do to work on myself. But it was connecting with that spiritual side, really, that I think ultimately, elevated my sense of consciousness, and just how interconnected we are. And you see here, even people like Stephen Covey talk about this, right? That you move from independence to interdependence, when you're kind of emotionally intelligent. And I just don't think that could be true. And I've just been bowled away now by the kind of community of women that that we've managed to create who all want to empower each other, and the way that they support each other. In my membership is just extraordinary.

Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting. Entering into that kind of spiritual part of our beings. And the challenge is culture and the culture we have evolved and grown up in doesn't really acknowledge it as something that is. What's the word reputable, maybe it's seen as you know, you hear like, kind of Indian chiefs and they talk about the energy and you think, Yeah, that's great. Yeah. But you're, you're you're one of those Indian chiefs doing the thing? That's fine. You do? Yeah, it's great. That's how they used to live. So we're, it's conditioned out of us that we have this spiritual energy, whatever you want to call it, it's just not seen as something that is viable or reputable. And actually, when you go to a doctor, you'd be like, all these things are happening. And they can't explain what's happening. They, they don't they, Oh, just keep doing what you're doing. But you know, we don't know what it is, you know, but there's, there's such a different this, there's so much there, in that and you got to be open to receiving it and, and exploring it. And I'm so grateful that I have started to jump into that area. And then I talk about my experience to my listeners, and just showing them where I'm going because we're all on a journey right now. No one's ever got it fully figured out. And it sounds like you know, your community as well, very much embracing of those sorts of concepts. But yeah, you've got to be willing to kind of jumping because some people will just be like, What do I know, that's a bit too much for me, whereas, you know, you just gotta be like, Okay, I'll explore it. And I think it's about challenging beliefs and being open to listening to people's beliefs. It's similar. Now, I know what I think is the right way to eat. Right? It's a mix of animal based plant based bit of a blends, no two extremes. But here's the thing if I spoke to a breatharian, and he was like, it's all about breathing. I automatically want to be like, That's not Since but I have to accept that there's he has a belief or she has a belief and I'm willing to listen and see, okay, let's let's see their perspective. It's not my cup of tea, you know, rather than closing someone down, there's just been. So it all kind of wraps into that sort of, you know, being open essentially to looking and receiving that kind of that type of knowledge and information, right.

Yeah, I think so. And I think as you say, there, what I was picking up on really is just having an attitude of curiosity, right? into stuff, because if you're curious about it, then you're not kind of you haven't got, you don't have so many blind spots to stuff because I think sometimes if you just think it's your way, then you've got blind spots to other stuff. Whereas if you can just embrace different modalities and bring them in. So yeah, I hit now, when we were talking offline, this was quite interesting to me, because I've been, you were chatting about your liver cleanse that you've been doing. Yeah, yeah. It's been a bit of an eye opener from from, from what you've been saying.

Yeah. So obviously, we were talking about, you know, where do we go with this conversation? And obviously, because we're both in the biohacking space, you know, we're like, we might as well talk about things that we're working on. Right. And what I love about the biohacking space for people that are into it, about optimising the health, everyone's trying random things. And I love obviously, Tim grey does the health optimization Summit, he also does the meetups as well. And he hasn't done one for a while, but I love those meetups because you can just chat to people. And you can just see what they're doing. And everyone's doing random things. So for me and I became to hear also what what you've been working on, as well, Angela, but for me real big shift in how I approach health optimization for myself this year. And primarily it's I've done, you know, I'm always trying new supplements, I'm always looking to, you know, get that extra couple of percentage. But I this this year, I flipped to focusing on well isn't necessarily about what I'm ingesting and taking because I really much falls within the kind of industrial medical complex, you know, it might not be a pharmaceutical, when are taking when are taking a supplement. And I thought maybe it's about what I remove. So this is where I currently am. And so I really focus in on detoxing. And obviously, there's different degrees of detoxing, there's, you know, infrared saunas and all different methods, you know, you could you have a rebounder, which I have. But this year I started looking at you know more, you can call it extreme but more more intensive cleanses. And liver flushing is something that I've really just resonated with. I had Elizabeth wells on the show, I'll put that in the show notes for the listeners. She's a liver flush coach, I'm now this year, I've done nearly 25 flushes and seeing some really transformational changes in, you know, my health, as it as in, I'm healthy in general, but we've all got niggles and things we'd like to work on. And we're saying that my you know, my grey hairs disappeared. I had a couple of hair, or I was I was no 38 getting grey, that's gone hairs getting thicker. So it's really interesting.

So that's pretty amazing. And so I remember when I when I interviewed Emily Fletcher, we were talking about how she'd reverse grey hair through meditation. And I think there is actually a link between emotional stress and a sluggishness in the liver. So I think when you're meditating things, you're clearing that because sometimes that's not just going to show up on bloodwork, right, but it's there. And I think that can cause sometimes I'm not saying that's the case with you. But sometimes emotional stress can be a reason for the liver being a little bit sluggish.

Well, what I would say is, uh, not so much for me, but if you follow committed liver flushes on Instagram or wherever they hang out. A lot of women talk about the kind of emotional journeys they go through as they detox the liver, like random emotions come up because you store emotions in the body. And as you're purging these liver stones or the school stones, they can feel different emotions come through. Not so much for me, but I've done a couple where I have random memories of random people and emotions of that moment in my life. So there's definitely a connection with how clean your liver is and your emotional kind of well being. And also, if you do if you study the work of Andres, Maritza, who kind of wrote the book on liver flushing, he says that when you have a clean liver, you just can't get angry because the liver is where if you've got a congested liver, a lot of people get angry and, and pent up and I honestly, I'm quite relaxed guy in general. I think people can get that from my demeanour. But yeah, I can process things a lot better. as I as I clear the liver, which again, it's just so fascinating. It's just it's very

Do you feel what you feel like you've got better disposition towards what's going on better tolerance. Do you find Yeah, I get

less emotional I get less triggered. I'm just more consistent in my moods. Again, I'm my demeanour. I'm not like, high intensity in any other way. But I can tell I just deal with things. It's similar to when you meditate a lot. Meditation for me gives you that buffer. It's like, right thing, like, if I meditate. When there's the stimulus, I've now got a gap between stimulus and response. And I'm not triggered as much you can think about it. So that's a tool with doing liver flushing, I find that I don't, there's just nothing even can trigger me. It's just Um, okay, that's happened. Really interesting. Yeah, so I definitely there's an emotional connection to good liver health and good bile flow

with the 25 that you've done. What have you noticed? Did it kind of AMP up in terms of detoxification detoxification, as you did the first view, or have you noticed? And then kind of get ease off? Or have you noticed this just consistent across the whole? Like, what what have you observed in terms of because obviously, we're exposed to toxins constantly, so you'll never get it really?

Exactly right. We live in a toxic world. So whenever you know, I think for me, detox is a daily thing. You always have to be avoiding getting exposure to toxins, and doing your best, but we can't avoid it. Right. We're, we're bombarded. What I've noticed is, the stones keep coming. They just keep coming. And as it happens, does things gradually improve, you just, we all notice randomly, we all have little niggles? And those little niggles does seem to me have been disappearing. Again, I refer to the conversation with Elizabeth wells, she had loads of chronic health issues that she has reversed, she's done over 100 flushes. So my intuition tells me, you know, from my, my mental faculties tells me just keep doing them, because they're, they're helping. But as I said, it's just fascinating that, you know, it's all about what we can add in. And obviously, I'm guessing a lot of your listeners and my listeners, they've got the basics covered, they've got the sleep covered, they eat well, they exercise all of those bases covered. But just through the way we live our lives now, whether you've, you know, been vaccinated, or if you've eaten a certain way, or you've exposed yourself to certain environments, living in a polluted city, all these things can add up to toxin loads, and whether you can detox well or not, I know I can't detox as well, from my DNA testing. Depends on how congested you get. So again, there might be people that don't have a lot of stones. I'm 25 in and I've still got loads coming out. So yeah,

he's saying what does the what does the liver detox that you're doing? What's the what's the routine? You're doing it weekly?

Yeah, doing a weekly. So again, if you read the Andreas Moritz book, it's he says he recommends to do it every three to six weeks. And mainly vegan based diet. Now, again, people have taken that work and evolved it I don't advocate a vegan diet, each to their own. I very much an animal based diet with plants ferments very much Western a price type style gaps, as well. And I started doing it every two weeks, and some people who are really sick and maybe find it harder to do the detox. They need the money to recover, but I was doing them and I was feeling fine. The next day, I was feeling amazing. I was food tasted nicer had loads of energy. So I was like, Okay, it's not a problem. So then I moved it to weekly, still not a problem. Now, I think for me, I want to go about getting results as fast as I can. So I'm doing it every week because like I feel great on it and I can you know bake into my schedule. And the quicker you get them out the quicker you see results. So some people will do it once once a month. And that's fine. But for me, I've been doing it every week. Feeling great doing it eating a normal diets. And yeah, if it's convenient enough for me to continue to do it once a week. I don't have to change my diet too much. You don't there's no like, you know, this doesn't impact your schedule too much. The next day when you obviously exiting the stones you probably stay at home for the for the morning, but it's not it doesn't completely ruin your day. very manageable. But what I would say is definitely a commitment because one To start doing it, the book says not to stop because you've started that process of purging the liver. So yeah, it works for me. I'm, I'm finding results. I'm recommending it to clients as well.

What are you? What are you drinking? Is it like a tonic that you're creating?

Yeah. Okay, so very top line on what the what it generally consists of, you would drink a concoction of lemon juice and olive oil at night. That then stimulates the liver to dump a lot of bile. And with that forceful dump of bile, it pulls the stones that are in your liver, you have gall stones in your liver, and we were taught gall stones are in the gallbladder. There's also gall stones in the liver, that pulls them out. And then the next day, you'll go to the toilet, and you'll see these green stones come out of you, you need to prep for the week, with either malic acid or apple juice to soften those stones. You drink magnesium citrate, before you drink the concoction, to relax the bile ducts, so the stones can effortlessly come out of you. But it's a very easy process. It's not painful, it's there's no struggle. It's quite relaxing, once you understand it. But again, it takes commitment. I think that's the thing. There's with anything, there's no quick fix, you got to commit to doing it. And whether you're doing you know, you have like these collation protocols, or the Andy Cutler protocol was like taking every three hours. That to me is a lot of commitment, right, getting up every three hours. And this is just, you know, you there's a preface it's really low maintenance once you understand it, and then the next morning, a bit more Epsom salt to keep the bile ducts loose, and that causes you to evacuate the stones. And yeah, it's some fascinating things that come out. You know, anything? My goodness, was that was that was that in my liver?

Yeah, was I really, I suppose you think, you know, was really that toxic, but we are because we can't help it we're exposed to so much. I mean, I was actually, you know, I was at the chiropractor the other day with my son. And she was really interesting. And she was saying just how toxic rainwater can be and how she's got horses on her farm. And sometimes it hasn't happened for a while. But the rain that comes down, will literally burn the back of the horses as it comes down.

Yeah, think the audit like glyphosate and you think oh, glyphosate is not in the UK. It's an American thing. But now it's here as well. Because it's in the, it's in the fuel. So if you drive a diesel car, the diesel that we have in the UK comes from South America, and South America, and it's derived from from farming, and it comes from crops that have been sprayed with glyphosate. So there's glyphosate in the air here, you can't avoid it. So it's heavy metal glyphosate, the sandwich toxicity everywhere. And then just depending on your genetic makeup, how well can you you detox, right? So you don't think that going out in the rain? You don't think okay, just don't to get wet? You don't also think oh, it's probably quite toxic. The rain as well?

Yeah. No, you don't. It's a bit like within inner cities, like how the water has been recycled. And you're actually drink all names from from women that are taking either hormone replacement therapy or birth control or whatever it is. Yeah.

So what about what about yourself? What are you into terms in terms of biohacking right now, what supplements or protocols are? Are you focusing on?

What have I been focusing on? Yeah. So this year, I was very much focusing on actually developing strength and looking at my bone density, for example, I head off because I'm 47. And thinking I'm very much about if we can really, really be truly healthy and our 40s, we can create a effortless transition through menopause. And and I think that's true for many women and many women go through actually seamlessly without symptoms, I don't think we have to assume that we will get symptomatic. But I think the more you can present that and actually find a baseline of where you are. So some of that I've been doing so getting like body composition scans doing a DEXA getting an idea that's not a full bone scan, but it gives you a really good idea of where your bone density is. Because if we know it's going to kind of drop by potentially as much as 30% in another few years time. Over time, then it's then it's worth knowing what your baseline is. Because if you don't know your baseline, how can you measure? And so but I've been really optimising because at the moment, I'm not at that stage. So it's been how can I get really healthy? Because you know, at the Health optimization summit, I was talking about how can you optimise your nutrition around the menstrual cycle. So really diving into that, but also how to optimise training around the menstrual cycle, and that's where I've seen really profound differences. So I've had Dr. Stacey Sims on the show a couple of times. She's really the expert in this area, done her courses, been working myself on myself and with clients and really looking at how do you periodized that training both for with an eye to longevity, but also for optimal Hormonal Health, and then kind of adding in as needed things like adaptogens that can support adrenal function, but also understanding how to pre fuel training, how to feel post training, where fasting really has a place for women. But yeah, things like that. NAD supplements, a whole host of things sauna, you and I both have an infrared sauna, so that so there's a big one and red light therapy. They're all like fun as well. But for me, as you say, I think it's about really, and just deepening your understanding of the mind and body as much as you can. To really, there's so many things you can hit on a free, right, you don't have to add in all these bio hacks, and to optimise things around that and around female hormone health, I just think it's really, really powerful. Because when I was practising as a lawyer, I didn't know any of this, right. And it was just it was, it was a very masculine world. And I, for example, I'm a very early morning person. And when I look at my Viji questionnaires, it shows on a morning lock, if I do a DNA test, it shows that and that was a real struggle as a lawyer because it didn't matter how early I got in and corporate law, no one was interested it was how late you stayed. And probably if you were there early in the morning, it was honestly because you'd stay there all night, we should regularly happened, you know, we sacrifice sleep. And so it didn't work for me. And I think that contributed actually to all the burnout. So really, I I've been diving into how can we optimise things around our ingredient, rhythm as women, our circadian rhythm and then also playing with what we call ultradian rhythms, which are these 90 minute cycles that the brain goes through that we see mirrored in sleep. And you know, each sleep cycle is roughly 90 minutes. So how can we look at what's happening at night to create better flow and productivity at work? And I work with corporates as well on this in terms of how can we optimise that, for them? And in particular,

I love that. Yeah, there's there's so much essentially free stuff that we can do, right? The power of the mind movements, it's just having access to those tools. And it's great that you work with corporates and, and your community to educate them on that. Because I think what I find is, like, I'm passionately into this stuff, right? And I can tell you on you learn these things that Oh, my God, this is, this is amazing. Why don't people know this, right? Because I think you've got to really, you've got to really be leaning into it to discover. So like breath work, and so many free free things that you can do meditations free. So it's great when people discover this and packaging it in a way that is accessible, it's easy, it's doable, you can you can you can blend it into your schedule, and then you start to see these lovely little step changes, you know,

they compound over time. And as you say, you don't know what you don't know. So you know, when you women are like they look at their if their tracking was on like an oral wave. They're looking at it and they're going well hang on a minute, why do I feel so different at the end of the month? Why is my pulse increased? Why is my breathing rate different? Why is my HRV not looking as good? And because these devices often are tracking you against the beginning of the month of follicular phase. So unless you look and go right, let me compare follicular to follicular and luteal to luteal. It's really hard to see. And so you feel like oh, maybe I'm not doing things right. Why am I getting credit cravings? How can I control for this? And then I think as women, we, you know, we try to add in more or question ourselves. And when you start to understand that actually, as Stacey says, We're not small men with physiologically very, very different, and we need to approach it differently. It just makes so much sense. And that's just like a real lightbulb moment for many women when they hear that and they're like, Wow, and it's very empowering.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah, I think this sort of stuff. When you get into it, it can be so empowering. And I like what we were saying at the beginning of the conversation, like just the power of the mind and understand. But again, we're not conditioned to really embrace it. And when you start to embrace it, like wow, okay, this, this stuff really has relevance. As I said, for me, I've seen a real step change in how I do things, how I think, results that have happened, just just because I'm using my brain differently, you know, and braking conditioning, from what I've been taught through school and culture and society. So yeah, I'm a definite advocate. And it's great to, you know, as I said, when we met with you, for whatever reason, we just synced in and started talking about mindset and manifestation. So it's been great connecting with you on that for sure.

Yeah, you too, Adam. You too. And I think we'll have to continue to share book recommendations. I I've, I tell you one good book I read recently and actually just interviewed her on the show yesterday is Dr. Tara Schwartz who wrote the source. And that's a really interesting read around vision boarding neuroscience she had a background in neuroscience and psychiatry, and she works with MIT, and trains. And just putting the whole thing together of how this subconscious mind and what your track really works in terms of science, absolutely fascinating.

Well, listen, let's, let's, let's keep, let's keep, you know, giving each other book recommendations. And it's great to have a fellow biohacker. That's exploring this area as well, for sure. And we'll have to we'll have to do it again, as we evolve our awareness on these on these things.

Yeah, amazing. Love to. Thanks for today. I really enjoyed it.

I just think it's been an absolute pleasure. I'll put all of your details in the show notes for our listeners, so they can check out your work. And yeah, it's been great.

Yeah, amazing, likewise. And, yeah, if they want to get a kind of free health check on everything we talk about, we actually have one that sends a personalised report called your total health check.com. And you can kind of score yourself on your sleep, your nutrition, your hormones. So yeah, that's

fantastic. We'll put that in the show notes for listeners. Also, for your listeners, I've created the ideal day reading list. It's the 60 top books that I would recommend anyone to create their ideal day, then go to your ideal day.com fluid forward slash books to grab that download as well.

Amazing. We'll link to that in the show notes. Thanks so much, Adam.

Thank you, Angela. Thank you.

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