you're listening to an archived cabal concept podcast after listening to this show check out the most upto-date podcasts available at Steven cab.com slmp podcasts or search directly on iTunes and now welcome to the cabol concept where board certified naturopath and Integrative Health practitioner Dr Steven cabal shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for Recovery it was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine ancient ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life it's time to discover how to get well lose weight and finally feel alive again and now here's your host Dr Steven cabal today on our first host call of the weekend we're going to be taking your questions from the past week to two weeks we've got more and more questions coming in every single week and I promise I will get to all of them some of them will actually be used for episodes so if your question is not being answered this weekend or next it will be used for a longer episode and um those are the ones that obviously they need a little bit more time than just about three minutes for me to answer those so let's get into our first question of the day got really great questions this weekend the first one is from Danielle and Danielle is asking is it beneficial to use food grade dietas earth as a seasonal cleanse so let's talk about what that is so dious Earth is actually it's it's a powder typically a white based power kind of looks like flower and it's actually from the fossilized remains of phytoplankton so like Marine phytoplankton the from the sea and so what happens is it's a very high silica content and it it looks essentially like shards of glass under a microscope so when you eat this which actually food you know again you have to get food grade right food grade D dious Earth is very different than the stuff that you would put in pools and that's because the things the D Earth that you put in pools that kills bugs and and different bacteria like that is about 70% 75% crystalline silica which means that it's not natural right usually the silica that we're getting from nature or at least from dious clay or Earth is only 1% so again food grade is very different than you would put into uh pools or anything like that now Di's you're probably already getting it to this day or right now and that's because if you're eating any type of grain rice maybe oats things like that farmers or or warehouses will throw large amounts of diamond poaceous clay onto their stock of grain and the reason they do this is so that it kills any of the bugs that are basically lurking in any of the Grain and it works by that because it it basically breaks down the exoskeleton of bugs that kind of that hard layer it works to dehydrate the bugs so obviously that can kill them and it works to also scrape and destroy the outer layer of the bugs as well so that's how it kills them now what does it do for humans well if you have bugs in your gut meaning like you have potentially parasites or Yeast or anything like that it can help to kill those things as well so Danielle is asking is a beneficial to me do for me to do this am I failing to do this for you know one week a year or so there's actually absolutely really nothing wrong with that the the side effect that you have to watch out for is you make sure that you don't breed the stuff into your lungs right I mean there's been a few cases of people saying that they get this in their lungs and it's causing lung based issues but you shouldn't be breathing in flower in the first place or or clay or dious Earth so my recommendation is you can do this it's not a recommendation that I typically give people but if you're getting good results with it and you do want to try it no problem at all I do recommend like not a seasonal cleans I recommend detoxes yes but a cleanse using something that has more like bentonite clay or it has something like activated charcoal with that and that will actually pull a lot of the toxins out of the body as well well that's really nice to do once or twice a year as well and um again we we show you what we use right on my website for the um the cleanse that we prefer so Danielle yeah if you're getting great results I have no problem with you doing that and um again the research that I've seen everything I've looked at absolutely no harm in you doing that once a year or so okay next question is from Leah Leah is asking is it possible to take too many supplements or superfoods I am currently taking one women's daily MSM Omega-3s probiotics sparina and then also adding in spinach peaches almond milk that's fine cuz that's food be pollen flax seed and chia seeds two tablespoons of gelatin collagen and just started taking some turmeric supplements and think about adding in some Maca okay so let's look at all this now to your average person that might seem like who this person's doing a ton of stuff but to be honest you're really not not taking you're taking more herbs and Foods than you are actual like vitamins okay so we're talking about you're taking more superfoods or herbs then you are anything that might be like a vitamin or mineral functional medicine based so really what you're taking is a multivitamin you're taking MSM which is a sulfur-based detoxifying compound you're taking Omega-3s someone make the argument that that's you know natural it's from you know it's fish-based and you're taking probiotics now rest of it the sparina is a an algae the fruit and all of that doesn't matter the B pollen I would consider that fairly natural as well flax and chia seeds are what they are gelatin is more supplement based it's more like the omega-3 because it's derived from something else turmeric and Maca are both root based and more herb based so I really don't have a problem with anything that you're doing right now everything you're doing is absolutely fantastic so the only reason you wouldn't do any of this is if you were having an adverse reaction to to Maca or to turmeric because you have a food sensitivity or or an issue with those and the other one is only use MSM if you need a sulfur based compound and if you don't need the sulfur-based compound on a daily basis which you won't eventually take out the MSM that would be the only thing my only recommendation to you is is take out the MSM once you're done with your specific detoxification with that but for the most part again you're doing really healthy things for your body and they're pretty much all food- based and so don't feel bad about those at all really the only people that shouldn't be using all of those things are or is anyone who just you know financially is not able to afford all of those great superfoods so you know Leah just or Leia keep up the great work all right Chad is up next Chad is asking why don't you use Homeopathy in your treatment plan so I've been kind of sitting on this question for a little bit and that's because I don't want to offend anyone that uses Homeopathy in their practice so homeopathy let's talk about it from a certain perspective Homeopathy is basically using dilutions of certain products I mean there's a million out there right arnica is like one of the more famous ones but you're using dilutions of of a like cures like basis meaning like you're using a specific compound of something that's already ailing you to then have your body recognize it and then basically use your own body to defeat it now I studied Homeopathy in depth well over 100 books of research and study I used it myself I before went to many homeopathic doctors I'm trying to get myself well back many years ago back in the day and my board exam was about 20 to 25% Homeopathy based question so I have studied in depth and and I don't give my answer lightly and so this is my answer is that I don't use it in my practice not because I don't believe it works but because I have not seen it work on a consistent basis with every person that comes into my practice and I take what I do very very seriously and people don't come to see me as a first Resort right they come to see me as a last resort they've seen a dozen other practitioners they've done many different diet plans they haven't been able to lose weight they haven't been able to get well so it's kind of like I'm the last person I wish I wasn't but I'm like the last person to go to and they often say that you know like you're my last hope if you can't get me better then I'm just going to give up and again like that's a lot of pressure on me I'm happy to take that pressure I've done the research I feel very confident in my ability to help people but the issue is Homeopathy does not work for every person that's the bottom line and although I think you can get good results with it with some people I'm working with a lot of people with IBS Crohn's kitis sibo Hashimoto um psoriasis eczema depression autoimmune based issues fatigue and you're not going to get results from a single compound which is a lot of times how Homeopathy is used and kind of should be used because you need to see what's working and what's not and also I need to work on multiple things at once synergies I need to work on the nervous system as well as the digestion I need to work out maybe eliminating some bacterial overgrowth in the intestines as well as maybe some yeast I need to work out balancing magnesium to calcium so there's a lot I need to work on and I know those imbalances exist within the body because I do functional medicine testing and I can see these things so Chad again I don't want to offend you and if you're a homeopathic based practitioner because I think there's a lot of good from it and there's certainly a lot of great research from it and I studied all of the different methodologies that came before homeopathic medicine as well and so again it's part of the studies as part of your treatments but I also think that you may look into other things that it's not the end all Beall just like I don't use ayurvedic medicine for everything I don't use functional medicine testing for everything I don't use traditional Chinese medicine like what I try to do is not fit my study to meet where with each person that comes to my practice so I guess a better way of saying that is I don't make each person that comes into my practice have to fit into a box what I do is I have a lot of different boxes whether it's ayurvedic whether it's naturopathic whether it's old school natural hygiene whether it's detoxification cleanse conventional based medicine acupuncture whatever I decide is best for that person and usually it's multiple different things which is why I'm able to get results I don't have to use one thing that's what I give to that person I don't say all I can help you with is Homeopathy so that's all you get so again there's great treatments and you can certainly use them as part of your practice but that's the reason why you're not seeing me use them in my treatment plans again I don't want to offend anyone who's a big homeopathic based practitioner I mean I've studied Bach flower remedies all sorts of things and again I like them all I think they're all great but it's just not the main thing I use in my treatment plan because when someone comes in I need the same results that I can repeat every every single time and that's what I'm all about is making sure that whoever comes to see me whoever purchase the neutral supplements I recommend whoever run the labs that I run all of those different things that they can get replicable results and that can happen every single time so hopefully that's a better answer and um Chad hopefully that answers your question as well thank you everyone that submitted questions over the past few weeks we're getting every single one of them we will get to yours and again if you feel that any of these answers could help friends of yours too feel free to just share the episodes with them they're all free and uh we're going to make sure we keep them coming for many many years to come all right make sure we tune in tomorrow too to another cabal house call looking forward to sharing more answers then as well thanks everyone did you know that the body really only becomes sick or imbalanced in only two ways over time you become deficient in vital nutrients and you also accumulate toxins internally and from the environment as those nutrients diminish and you increase your total toxic load your body then begins to show the first signs of disease it's actually quite predictable and the good news is that if we know how you began to fill up that proverbial rain barrel we also know how to empty it to begin the healing process I was fortunate enough to learn this ancient healing process from my mentor after suffering from debilitating diseases for close to a decade it was only when I began to implement these techniques that I finally overcome my illnesses and go on to live a life of energy and vitality that I now enjoy i' like to share with you now what I discovered after traveling all over the world and how to combine the best of ancient Healing Wisdom with state-of-the-art science allow me to teach you exactly how I've been able to help over a quarter of a million people to empty their rain barrel and begin to transform their body and lives into what they've always hoped they could be to get your copy of the international bestseller the rain barrel effect simply go to Steven cal.com rainbarrow [Music]