This is the single most empowering thing you can do for your health!✨

Added: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]If you want to take your health back into your own hands in any way, whether that's through nutrition, herbs, lifestyle changes, anything like that.

[00:00:11]Here is the one thing that will make that entirely possible for you.

[00:00:16]Even if you're going through chronic illness and trying to put all these weird pieces together. That is you have to learn how the human body functions. You really do.

[00:00:27]And even if you're like, I only watch your channel and stuff because I want to learn herbalism. Cool. If you want to be a really good herbalist, you need to understand how the human body functions.

[00:00:39]Because it really empowers us to understand not only how herbs might or may not function in the body. Right? You can know what an herb does, but eventually if you want to get really good, you learn how what that herb does interacts within your body, right? Like what pathways is it impacting? And by pathways, do you know about your genetic pathways? Do you know about how the liver functions? Do you know how cholesterol is made? Do you know all this stuff? And you don't have to feel overwhelmed.

[00:01:10]You don't have to know all of it instantly, but whatever you're focusing on, whatever issue you're dealing with, whatever you're trying to help somebody else with, the most important thing is to understand how that something is functioning in the body. Right? Like because there are different compounds and different plants that do different things that they'll say do the same thing in the body. Like you can say, "Okay, well, dandelion and Oregon grape, they both support liver function." Cool, use that. But how are they supporting the liver function? Cuz they both don't work the same. Right? And so, when you kind of learn what's going on in the body and how that herb interacts with that area of the body and what pathway it enters, and what what it's actually stimulating, you can get far more refined with what you're doing.

[00:02:04]But, herbs aside, if you are having issues with your health in a certain realm, understanding even down to what genetics are, like what genes impact this pathway. Right? Like, what is the function in my body that this genetic thing is handling? And it all comes down to genetics. You know, and obviously I've pushed deeper and deeper in this over the years, and I've learned that I live with like super rare, and even one like I'm the first, besides now my dad, to have this genetic finding on paper.

[00:02:39]So, it's been really big for me. It's been really overwhelming, but it's also really helped me narrow in.

[00:02:48]It's really helped me understand my body on just an even deeper level than I already did. And like, really starting to get into like the genetic level of it is pretty impressive. Um earlier I shared a post, and this will be up for days, so it was forever ago, but I I shared how I am using um oatstraw infusion to support my SOD gene and my GPX1. And those are like master antioxidants, right? So, like your SOD gene, one of the first thing it does is like when you're making um I'm just going to tell you this stuff before I move on to the point about it. When your mitochondrial is making energy, when you're performing ATP, the first step of that creates oxidation, and SOD comes in and turns that oxidation into hydrogen peroxide in your body, right? And then you get down to your GPX1, and it's like the end of it. It uses glutathione to turn that hydrogen peroxide back into water and cleanse quench the oxidation, right?

[00:03:46]It's like your master antioxidant pathway. And I had and I was explaining how like you really want to support those pathways with things like, you know, getting enough grass-fed gelatin in your body for the glycine so your body can make more glutathione and making sure that you're getting enough selenium through like animal-based selenium like seafood and stuff like that so it's bioavailable so your GPX1 gene can then use the selenium to, you know, neutralize the free radicals. And then how stick with me here, how oat straw her ABA's her unique antioxidants that are really only present in oats are shown to stimulate SOD and GPX1 function.

[00:04:28]But you don't want to stimulate that until you have replenished the nutrients that your body needs for those genetic pathways, right?

[00:04:37]Right?

[00:04:38]And somebody said, "God, why not take an antioxidant and so drink gallons of a nourishing herbal infusion to quench oxidative stress?" And it was like >> [laughter] >> the whole thing and it was just a random comment on the internet but it really made me think about like how I laid out this whole entire like pathway of how it works in the body and this person's like, "I just take a superfood capsule and I'm good." But you're not. Right, and how unempowered that person is and how that person actually becomes a victim of like the multi-billion dollar superfood industry. Right, because like instead of like learning how your body functions and what like food-based nutrition you need and how that could interact with what herbs you decide to layer in afterwards, they just say, "I'll just take this superfood capsule and be good." Even though you can choke on antioxidants until you're blue in the face and it won't repair uh your like antioxidant defense. But you could take that against anything.

[00:05:38]I mean, you could take that concept against anything where if you don't know about the bodily function that you're trying to support, you become really unempowered, right? You actually and it makes you kind of fall a victim to narratives and it makes it easy to kind of like get taken by things if that makes sense.

[00:06:02]And so, I just thought I'd pop on here and make a video about it because they don't they or whatever we want to put towards whoever the they is, they don't want you to know how your body works.

[00:06:16]Because if you know how your body works, you can do things like figure out how to make it healthy without propping up the billion-dollar pharma industry.

[00:06:26]Right? Or even if you do have to use pharmaceuticals, then you can start choosing which ones might be better or worse for your body and they don't want that either, right?

[00:06:36]Um you know, and it's just it's really crazy and and I could kind of expand on that where like I don't know how many times in this kind of feels like a different video, but I also think it's kind of correlated.

[00:06:49]Uh over the years I've had doctors tell me that my labs are fine and then I'm like, yeah, well, I mean, you didn't really understand what I was talking about um from like a pathway perspective. So, I'm going to go ahead and grab my labs and they're not fine, right? And I'm like, oh, you know, and um it's just been kind of like if you don't know, you don't know and you become at the will of somebody telling you that you're fine when you're not. You become a victim of being told just take this and that'll fix all your problems, you know, this super amazing supplement or whatever. And don't get me wrong, again, there's definitely a time and place for specific supplements. God knows that there are some that keep me alive as well as like a time and place for pharmaceuticals in certain situations, right? But ultimately, we can't even be the person who makes the decision about what's best for our body if we don't understand our body.

[00:07:46]Right? And that can even come down to dietary choices.

[00:07:51]Right? It's A lot of people will say really flippantly that everybody's body is different and that's usually alongside the justification of some extreme dietary choice that they're making outside of obvious allergy issues. But also sometimes they might not know that it's deeper than it's deeper than this gives me a stomach ache. It's deeper than I just choose not to eat this because I've been told that it's bad, right? Like if you don't really know what's happening inside your body on a physical level or even down to like genetic stuff, um it it could expand beyond that. It doesn't mean that you don't you eat that one food again, but what if it expanded beyond that? What if there was a reason that something else was causing this reaction that was, you know, depleted or mutated or just something weird like that. And so, I don't know. It just was on my mind this morning um when I saw somebody really not understand uh antioxidant capacities in the body and like what genetic functioning um causes that.

[00:08:56]So, I thought I'd come out here and sit underneath the linden tree and jabber about it. Um >> [screaming] >> And a cat fight cat fight.

[00:09:04]>> [laughter] >> Um so, yeah, you know, and that's the end of my rant, I guess. I got stuff to get done this morning before it gets super hot out cuz it's that time of year where it's like, you know, 50° in the morning and then like 80° during the day cuz that's normal where I'm at. It is.

[00:09:23]>> [laughter] >> Uh hey, you guys, knock it off.

[00:09:26]They have like a love-hate relationship.

[00:09:29]Hate each other when they're outside, but they're lovey when they're inside.

[00:09:32]Anyhow, so if you like my videos, if you like just hearing a random person jabber, or you want to learn about herbs, or about health stuff, or any of that stuff, you know, make sure you like and subscribe, comment, share.

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[00:10:03]And then, I got books and stuff. I'll have them linked down below probably somewhere.

[00:10:10]But, thanks for watching, folks, and let me know what you think about this, or your experience with it, or anything like that. So, talk to you later. Bye.