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Food is Your First Medicine: Holistic Approaches to Digestive Wellness

• Rev. Ann Marie Byars & Rachelle Gianaris • Episode 12

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Indigestion & Digestive Health: How Do We Treat And Improve It?

Struggling with digestive issues that never seem to resolve? In our latest episode, Reverend Ann Marie Byars and Rachelle Gianaris reveal why those over-the-counter solutions might be doing more harm than good—and what natural alternatives actually work.

The mother-daughter team starts with Hippocrates' timeless wisdom: "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food," explaining how modern food quality has dramatically deteriorated since the 1950s. They share eye-opening insights about how commercial farming, pesticides, and hidden ingredients like MSG (disguised as "natural flavoring") disrupt your digestive system and overall health.

Beyond just what you eat, Ann Marie and Rachelle explain the fascinating science of alkaline versus acidic environments in your body. Did you know meditation and prayer actually create alkalinity while stress produces harmful acid? Their practical advice on food combining, shopping strategies, and lifestyle adjustments provides a complete roadmap to digestive wellness without pharmaceuticals. Plus, they reveal surprising remedies you may have never considered—like specially formulated aloe vera that contains 150+ beneficial compounds (not the kind you put on sunburns!).

Perhaps most compelling is Rachelle's story about her husband, who eliminated his nightly dependency on Gas-X and "the purple pill" by switching to natural alternatives. 

Ready to transform your digestive health naturally? Visit Holographichealth.com or call 800-566-1522 to learn more about these holistic approaches that address the root cause of your digestive troubles, not just the symptoms.

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Thank you and her daughter, rochelle Generis, as they explore transformative health approaches that integrate body, mind and spirit, from energy medicine to holistic practices.

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Struggling with indigestion, bloating or sluggish digestion. In this episode, reverend Anne-Marie and her daughter Rochelle unpack the mind-body-spirit approach to restoring digestive health without relying solely on over-the-counter remedies. Welcome back everyone. Skip Monty, co-host slash producer, back in the studio with owners of Holographic Health, ms Reverend Anne-Marie Byers and Rochelle Gianaris. It's good to see you again. Ladies, how's your week been?

Speaker 1:

Great, how about yours Skip?

Speaker 3:

It's been really good. How about you, Rochelle?

Speaker 4:

Doing good Thanks.

Speaker 3:

All right, awesome, awesome, wonderful to hear. Well, we've got a topic today that I think everybody can benefit from, particularly me, but indigestion and digestive health. Why don't you guys give our listeners a lesson on it and let us know how do we treat it and improve it?

Speaker 1:

Well, first of all, hippocrates said let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food, and so food is your first medicine. That's the first thing we want to talk about. And it's not just eat anything you want, it's eat what works for your body. And the food is not the same as it was back in the 50s, even when I was born. There were over 50 nutrients missing from our food. Then. There were over 50 nutrients missing from our food then and since then with the commercial farming and pesticides it has really degraded. And currently they're trying to remove a lot of dyes and unnatural products from our food, which I'm really hoping they manage to do, because those are carcinogenic. They are not good for any of us, much less the growing, developing bodies of our children. So the first thing I want to caution people to do is read your labels. If you buy food that is not just. First of all, buy organic food, buy natural food, buy food in the produce section, because that is your safest food. Second of all, if you buy anything in a package, make sure it does not have any natural flavorings or anything like that, because even MSG is considered a natural flavoring and that is just an excitotoxin. It goes through the blood-brain barrier not good at all. Messes with your whole body and digestion. So those are the first things I would suggest Eat around the edge of the grocery store and so really work on that. Eat more fruits and vegetables, organic ones.

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Secondly, we have some teaching aids that we sell to people. One is our 80-20 chart, which talks about the foods that are alkaline. More alkaline and it's not just the food is how you live your life. So meditation, prayer, peace are all alkaline forming in the body. So stress is extremely acidic, as are artificial sweeteners and sugar. So you want to minimize those things first of all. So live your life in balance. Live a balanced life and try to not get overly stressed. A little bit of stress is good to motivate you, to get you moving, but when the body gets too stressed is when we get sick, and you don't want to increase that stress by eating poorly.

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And so we have this chart that is a food combining chart that talks about, first of all, vegetables are really the center of your diet and you don't want if you are a meat eater, which I'm not, I don't, I'm, I became a mostly vegan years ago ago. But if you do eat heavy proteins, do not eat them with breads because that's an extremely acidic condition. And so fruits first, or alone, and careful how you combine these things. This is in the center of our book Alkalize or Die. That's one of Dr Baruti's books that's been actually published since 1991. And many thousands of copies have gone out over the years, still in print, still selling it, and so that is the number one thing that you can do for yourself Reduce stress, be careful with the foods you eat and be careful about the stress on your body, how you combine these foods.

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Then we have some supplements that help support the area, because one thing that Dr Marudi found was there's a condition called hiatal hernia syndrome, called the mother of all illness, and this can cause belching and bloating and all kinds of situations in the body where the stomach gets pulled up out of place. And you can actually pull that back down into place, and you know we can teach people how to do that for themselves. Or Dr Brudi has instructions in the book. We have a stomach egg that people can use for that and we have an HHS formula which is really good for supporting that area and for digestion. Now all of our products have ingredients in them made in the United States. We have very few ingredients that come from any other country, because they're tested, they're created in the best labs with standards, so that they are not just a bunch of chemicals. They're all food derivatives and so this particular formula is to support that area so that anybody that has digestive issues has issues with the stomach, they can get support for that area nutritionally with the HHS formula. Hhs formula we also have our PANGEST, which also helps to support the pancreas, which is involved in digestion as well. So for people that need additional support, we have that supplement as well.

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We also utilize a lot of aloe. We have a really good supplier of a good form of aloe, and that is an exception, because aloe that is in that product as well as our colonized comes from Africa. Because of the sandy soil, it's the right climate for producing good aloe, and so the aloe we carry I went to a four-hour seminar on how it's grown, with standards, packaged with standards, etc. So the aloe we carry is extremely well documented and tested, as are all of our products. So aloe helps to soothe the whole digestive system. It has over 150 compounds that really help to support that area and so utilizing digestive enzymes that we have, utilizing aloe, our HHS formula, and Pangeas, if needed, can really help somebody to soothe that area and get a lot of relief. So it's not just it's the food you eat, it's everything you put in your body and it's how you live your life.

Speaker 3:

I had no idea you could consume aloe. Is that okay to eat it?

Speaker 1:

The right part of the plant. That's the key. Some people use the aloe without success because certain parts of the plant cause diarrhea, they cause inflammation and to eat them they're good topically and so you don't want to just take a stalk of aloe and eat it because it might not be good for you. The aloe we carry has the right part of the plant that is extracted and, once again, with standards, grown with standards, packaged with standards, et cetera, so that it is good for the body and will not cause those negative reactions.

Speaker 3:

Gotcha Go ahead. I'm sorry.

Speaker 4:

The aloe that Anne is referencing is sold as a powder that you can mix in water, or it's sold as just a liquid that you can dose out. I think it's about an ounce per serving, so it's specifically formulated for intake conception.

Speaker 1:

And it tastes good. That's the other thing. People aren't going to utilize something like a regular aloe that tastes slimy, et cetera. I wouldn't even want to do that, I mean. But my granddaughter, rochelle's daughter, will drink this. She loves it. It's good for her digestion. She has this tummy ache. The first thing that rochelle will do is mix her up some aloe and it. I had such problem with my throat and and my mouth when I was healing from the surgeries I had from the radiation that I did and aloe was my savior. If I'm going to be talking much, I will be sipping on aloe on a daily basis and that has helped my throat and stomach et cetera to recover and stomach etc. To recover. And Rochelle's husband uses aloe and digestive enzymes daily because he was having some stomach issues and has managed to overcome them by doing that simple thing wow well, and I was going to kind of use it as a case study.

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Um, so when I met him, he was taking Gas-X and, like the purple pill, whatever that purple pill is for indigestion every night, yeah, every single night.

Speaker 4:

And when I met him I was like why don't you try this? It tastes good and it's natural and maybe we can reduce some of the over-the-counter stuff that you're using. So he did. He started using our digestive enzymes and colonize, um, and the aloe drink that we've been discussing, and he rarely has to take those things anymore. Um, the gas sex does have peppermint oil in it. So he actually kind of took that and ran and he does like a hot green tea with peppermint every night and that is kind of his, his magic pill. Um, that's way more natural than some over-the-counter stuff.

Speaker 1:

So yeah, peppermint tea is another wonderful remedy for your stomach and I do want to point out that my husband had a lot of stomach issues and utilized that purple pill and broke his ankle because that type of drug inhibits calcium absorption. So eventually people taking that are going to have osteoporosis and issues with bones. So you really have to watch that and with the issues people have these days with osteoporosis et cetera as we get older, you really have to watch taking drugs that do that. So if you can avoid it, wonderful, there are ways to get off of that. And that is the kind of thing that for short term, duration is one thing, but taking it on and on, you can really set yourself up for issues in that regard.

Speaker 3:

Very good, Wow. Well, this has been a very informative episode for me. Peppermint tea and aloe had no idea. And of course you can't go get a bottle of aloe that you put on a sunburn and turn that up, right, you gotta gotta get it for you. Gotcha, Gotcha. Well, Anne-Marie Rochelle, it's been, like I said, very informative and appreciate you guys stopping by today and we'll see you in the next episode.

Speaker 1:

Thanks.

Speaker 3:

Skip, see you then.

Speaker 2:

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