03 - The Seven Pillars of Healing: A Naturopathic Guide to Lasting Wellness

What if you could transform your health in as little as three to five days - without fads, quick fixes, or overwhelm?

In this powerful session, Emma Jones Phillips takes you step-by-step through the Seven Pillars of Healing, the proven naturopathic foundations she’s taught for more than 20 years to clients, students, and practitioners worldwide.

This isn’t theory. These are simple, practical shifts that work - and work fast. Whether you’re looking to boost your energy, balance hormones, calm your mind, or simply feel more like yourself, the Seven Pillars will meet you where you are and help you move forward.

You’ll learn:
 💧 How to supercharge hydration so every cell in your body works better
 🥗 Why food is more than fuel - and which swaps deliver the biggest results
 🥑 The truth about good fats and how they regulate cravings, hormones, and mood
 💊 The essential supplements that form the “hormone formula”
 🛁 Daily cleansing habits that clear toxins and sharpen brain health
 🪻 How to support emotional wellbeing with natural remedies and mindset shifts
 🌳 The environmental tweaks that create a healing space around you

Emma shares not only the “what” but the “how” - so you can start today, enjoy the process, and see results quickly.

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Transcript

Okay, so welcome everyone. So thank you for joining this evening, seeing some new faces. And for people who are not here this evening, you will get a chance obviously to listen back over and do feel you can contact me if you have any questions via my email or my telephone number, I'll pop that in the chat. 

So the seven pillars of healing is what we're here to talk about this evening. And this is really the foundations of naturopathic principles. So you'll get a lot of content this evening. 

But I would say pick out the bits that really jump out at you that will give you some idea of where to start with this, because we're all starting from different places when it comes to naturopathic nutrition. What I will say is that they're very powerful, transformative points that we're talking about this evening, which are actually the foundations to health. So which bits you apply will depend on where you're at in your health story, but also which bits make you feel enthusiastic, you know, what are the things that actually will make you feel invigorated and you feel sort of motivated by, because being healthy actually should be fun and should be actually an enjoyable process. 

So I think that's something to remember that when we're implementing information that you learn, it actually is quick to activate, does actually transform things quite quickly. And that's quite energising. And that makes you want to do more and more. 

So that's just that's generally my tip, really, if you have some ideas of what you want to take on from this evening, it should be an enjoyable experience and it should work within three to five days. So the impact is usually quite quick with this approach. And I usually say, if you don't like doing something, don't do it. 

So these things that we're talking about this evening will be easy steps, which will be powerful, transformative points to be able to take you to the next level, really. So that's where things are at. So for people who are not in the class this evening, you'll have a chance to contact me to book if you want to have a one to one or if you're interested in any of the courses.

So coming up in May, we have the six week hormone course, which is designed to really transform your hormones within six weeks. It's an evening. It's running on a Tuesday evening for two hours per week. 

And that's coming up in the first, starting the first week in May. And also we have the coaching course, which is a new course, become a health coach in seven days, so six days on Zoom. And then you have one day, which is the seventh day, which is the assessment.

So if you're interested in introducing naturopathic nutrition in a small way to people where you can actually turn it into a business, there's a chance to do that. It's a fully accredited course that allows you to put the seven steps into action, but also be covered insurance wise to be able to advise people. So that's quite a new thing. 

The naturopathic training, there's a couple of people on the call this evening, they're already on the training or they've finished the training. And that's something that helps people really transform their own health. That's one to three years, depending on how much commitment you put in.

So you become a nutritionist in year one, naturopath in year two, year three takes you to another level in terms of really knowing how to set up your business, etc. And you learn lots of other principles in that as well. So that one has been running for 15 years in Cardiff.

We run it in face and online, and it is fully accredited. So you get a chance to use the qualification at the end of year one. And it takes you really into a space where you can actually work in a number of health areas in the industry. 

So that one this evening, if you decide to go on to do the naturopathic training, you actually get the hormone course free. So we're doing a special offer for this month where you get the hormone course as a sort of intro into the naturopathic training for this year. So any more information, just contact me.

So tonight, I want you to be able to take away something for yourself. Whether you're training with us or not, it's an important chance to really look at your own health and your own health story. And the seven steps really are what I share with everyone who joins my courses at the beginning, because it allows people to get something for themselves and allows you really to be able to open the door to the work that we do. 

And it's a bit like Pandora's box to a certain degree that once you open it, there's more and more to learn. But we we know that it's transformative. And I know that this because of my own history, but also the clients I see every day and the students have gone to do amazing things with the training. 

So my history is when I graduated from my teaching degree, I had chronic fatigue. And at that point, it was I couldn't work because I was ill. And I had a number of health issues alongside that. 

And I eventually met a naturopath. And she quite quickly having, for me, I exhausted the medical profession, I went everywhere, went through all the natural routes, and eventually the naturopath that I met and she's well known naturopath, she had a naturopath in school at the time. And she said, why didn't you come and train? So I did that in 1996. 

And I've been working as a naturopath and running the naturopathic schools for nearly 25 years now. So that was 2000 when I qualified 1999, actually, and then went on to set up the naturopathic school. So there's a long history there with what I've learned along the way. 

And I do keep adding to it. But the main thing really to realise that it's accessible for everyone, whether you do training or not, you can actually learn so much with this approach. So here we go, we're going to go into what this approach is about.

So naturopathy is nature cure. So when we go back to natural methods and simple methods, actually a lot happens within the body. So it is a vast subject, we look at hydration, we look at diet, the diet that's suitable for your body type, we bring in Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and what I call Celtic medicine, more local medicine that's really supportive for where we're at in the UK. 

So it's a combination approach, which draws on different philosophies, which brings us to an understanding that when we go back to natural principles, it gives us that full idea of what health is about. And health actually is quite simple, when we start to peel back the layers and come back to the seven principles. So the first principle is really something that is sort of obvious to us, but actually many people don't do effectively.

And that one is hydration. So the first step of the pillar is actually to choose a good quality water, a water that's filtered and alkalizing, and a water that's energized. So when we're looking at water, we, some of the students will say, you know, we spend a whole day on water on the first day of training, because there's so many different filters out there, there's so many different ways of energizing water. 

And actually, some people are just saying, I can't drink tap water, because of course, when we drink tap water, it actually makes us more dehydrated. It's actually full of chemicals, and it's usually acidic, unless we've got our own borehole, or, you know, we've got an amazing place in the Alps, or etc. So we're really dealing with, you know, chlorinated, fluorinated water that has heavy metals in, you know, oestrogens, etc. 

So when we're thinking about tap water, we're obviously thinking about, okay, it's better than nothing, it's better than drinking coffee. But actually, it's, it's quite, quite a challenge to the body, if we don't purify it. So if you haven't got a filter, you know, the next, the best step is going to be to buy bottles until you're able to start with finding a filter that suits you and your household. 

And it can be anything from having a whole house filter, or one under the sink, to having that starting point of the water filter jug, and then moving on to, and they're not expensive these days, you know, you can get a good whole house filter for less than 200 pounds. And they used to be extortionate, you know, thousands of pounds. So it's allowing us to really be able to access clean water in the way that we need to naturopathically. 

So if you don't have a filter, put lemon in your water, start to use things that will filter the water naturally, a little bit of pink salt, and think about how you can energise it. So when we think about the spring, it's energising, and it's oxygenated because it's moving. So when water comes out of our tap, it's not energised. 

So even the simple task of stirring the water will energise it, or shaking it will mimic that sort of oxygenation process. So there are devices that do this, which are called vortexes, or you can get these simple stirring devices, which do that, but you can actually simply do it with a spoon. And the funnels which go on the end of the tap, which can oxygenate. 

I think people are really getting into this now with the hydrogen water craze that's out there. And hydrogen, of course, mimics the spring. The good thing about hydrogen water is it's high in antioxidants. 

So it not only gives us water, but you have 200-ish antioxidants within hydrogenised water. So it gives you that sort of high frequency that we need from water. So simply drinking water that comes out of the tap just isn't going to do it. 

You really want to think about how you can actually get the best out of your water. And that first step is much more important as a starting point over supplements. If we don't get the hydration right, then other things in the body don't absorb, the body doesn't flow. 

And lots of things go wrong, actually. We produce more histamine in the body when we're dehydrated, we produce more cholesterol, the body produces more cortisol, the blood sugar is uneven. So the water is very, very important. 

But there's three parts to hydration with this approach. So once we get the water right, we really want to step into having good essential fatty acids. So those are your omega-3s and 6s. 

And without them, the water doesn't stay within the cell. So the cell actually becomes damaged. So there's not that fluidity in and out of the cell that we require for cleansing, but also for hydration.

So part of the stages of hydration is to look at taking out the bad fats as in the heated fats, the ones that are fried and, you know, margarines, that sort of thing, that's not good, bring in the good fats. And the last stage of hydration is magnesium. So magnesium is a major electrolyte. 

And we'll be talking about that later when we look at supplements, but it's really, really important for hydration. So when you don't drink a lot of water and then you're weeing a lot or you can't sleep or you're up in the night, it's a magnesium issue. So magnesium deficiency. 

So working with the three parts of hydration is really important for that first pillar of hydration. And also looking at your quality, if you are drinking coffee, go for a coffee that's high in antioxidants, that's more alkaline, and then working with more green teas, things like matcha. So you've got antioxidant value in that. 

And then maybe some herbal teas, but better quality ones than the traditional sort of fruit teas, you know, looking at more sort of medicinal teas. Brands like Paca, for example, are great for bringing in medicinal qualities of the herbs. So that's a very important point.

And when we're looking at that within people's lives, 50% of people's symptoms switch off just by doing that. And you may think that that's a bit of a shock, but I see every day when people go away and they do that four pints of water, address the dehydration factors, work with fats and magnesium, a lot changes within the biochemistry, within the hormone system and the nervous system. So that first stage covers a lot of bases without even addressing diet at that point.

So second stage is looking at food as a medicine. So we look at food as a medicine from a point of view of actually everything we put in the body is fuel and everything we put in the body should have colour and high frequency. And so each food has an energy. 

So obviously if something's very processed and if we're microwaving, we're taking it from a tin or a packet, it's going to be practically low in vitality, what we call dead food, really. So your food is going in and you may get an increase in your blood sugar, but the impact on your energy and your vitality is going to be very non-existent. So obviously the basics are, you know, fresh, you can go organic, that's really great, colour, making your own food, rather than buying in, you know, buying in food.

And one of my friends is on the call this evening, Jane, who introduced me to the Thermomix. And Thermomix is just one of the best gadgets for preparing healthy food without having to have a lot of time and effort there. It gives you the exact instructions of how to prepare food with colour, with health. 

And actually one of the biggest things of that is actually it allows you to have more time. And so that's something, you know, having the right equipment is important as well when you're embarking on health. But we really are starting with fresh foods and vegetables, colour and as alkaline as possible. 

So when foods that are unprocessed, they're alkaline. So when you go back to nature and you go back to the natural, the natural sort of basics of food, that colour, that vibrancy of herbs, et cetera, you raise your vitality in the body. And then we would address things like intolerances. 

A lot of people these days are sensitive to gluten. And it's not just because they're allergic to it, it's because actually the body's very tired and it takes a lot of energy to digest gluten. It has an impact on your blood sugar, et cetera.

So we might say avoid gluten pretty much to most clients as naturopaths because they are looking to increase energy, lose weight usually, or if not, they're looking to improve liver function. So being gluten free has a massive impact on improving your energy and your health. Going for what we call the seed grains, your quinoa, amaranth, millet, buckwheat. 

So you've got sort of ancient grains in there, which really give a lot more protein actually to the body over carbohydrate. So when we're looking at foods to avoid, the top three would be your processed gluten, your pasteurised dairy. Very different story if you go in raw with the dairy and pasteurised. 

But when you pasteurise milk, it becomes very acidic and very mucus forming. So dairy is usually up there as a major allergen or intolerance. And white sugar, of course, is such a big addiction. 

So the top three would be sort of take those out or reduce them. And for anyone who's done that effectively, you feel different within seven days. You might find that you become less inflamed. 

Your weight balance is out. There's more energy there. Your hormones function better.

So that's quite instrumental in terms of achieving good health alongside introducing whole food. So if people are eating animal products, you'd want to really increase your vegetable content. So we're always looking at 60% vegetable content in the diet and roughly sort of 20 to 30% protein. 

And the part that's left is going to be carbohydrate. But most people are doing the wrong way around. They're doing a heavy amount of carbs, pastas, breads, etc., potatoes, and then really being top heavy on the carbs over the protein and the vegetables. 

So we want to put vegetables first. And we want to think green vegetables when we're thinking vitality. And, you know, your green soups, your green smoothies, introducing superfoods in like wheatgrass or spirulina. 

So you're bringing the green content up and that's massive for improving liver function, alkalinity, etc. So with diet, we're thinking alkalinity. And we're thinking green. 

We're thinking more plant protein over animal protein. You still want to eat animal products. No problem. 

Just bring up the vegetable content, that balance out the acidity. And then you can really improve your blood sugar by going low carb and introducing some carbs like your sweet potato, your short grain brown rice, your quinoa. Not to say you have to be carb free, but to really think about the ratios. 

So you've got more balance within your energy and your vitality. So that's looking at stage two. And I think, you know, just by picking three things this evening, three things you might take out and three new things you might introduce in with the food section of this workshop this evening, you'll start to see a big difference just by really tweaking that in your lifestyle.

So pillar three, stage three is to address your fats. So fatty acids regulate the blood sugar. They are essential. 

We need to consume them in order to be able to get that balance within hormones. And fatty acids are really not there in the traditional diet. So when we're thinking about, you know, good fats, it's going to turn your mic off. 

Sorry, Nicholas. There we go. Yeah. 

So when you're looking at essential fatty acids, you're really thinking about actually making an effort daily to bring those in. So with the dominance on omega-3, because omega-3 are good for the blood sugar, good for weight balance. So it will help you to lose weight or regulate your weight with, you know, regulating the blood sugar levels, et cetera. 

It also helps with cravings. So if you've got cravings for the wrong fats, if you're going for your chocolates and your cheese and your chips and your crisps, bringing in the essential fats really solves those cravings and also solves white sugar cravings or processed carbohydrate cravings. So bringing in the good fats would be things like your chia porridge, introducing a tablespoon of flaxseed or linseed daily, soaked, maybe having a drizzle of flax oil and lemon on your salads. 

You could use hemp seeds, hemp seed milk, for example, you could make, or you could actually introduce some of the hemp oil onto food. And then when you're supplementing, we usually go for the vegan algaes, which are the alternative to fish oils, or you would do the traditional fish oil route, which is really good for mental health. So the algaes and the fish oils are more for the mental brain health, hormonal health. 

And when you're looking at essential fatty acids with your diet, your flax, your hemp, your nuts and seeds, walnuts, for example, that's good for skin health and good for blood sugar function. So we would use a combination approach with the dominance, as I said, on omega-3. So your omega-3, just to recap, is your algae, fish, flax, hemp, walnuts, chia, and there's very little in all the other nuts and seeds. 

So all the other nuts and seeds are omega-6 and 9, but it is useful, but not as useful as your omega-3. So we're looking at a 2 to 1 ratio, twice as much omega-3 to 6 in the body. That's really essential, as I said, for pillar one, hydration of the skin, hydration or balance of fluid. 

If it's not there, we're always looking for the next fix, as in sugar or caffeine or any form of fat, which is the wrong fat. So you can see why so many people struggle with buying takeaways, you know, fried food, et cetera, because they are low in the good fats. If you don't get that right, it's really difficult to balance the blood sugar and your hormone function. 

And it's a bit like a yo-yo effect then, you know, yo-yo dieting, yo-yo cravings and that sort of thing. So it really does work. That's really, really important. 

And you can do it simply by thinking about your foods choices daily, throwing in some hemp seeds into your salad, doing your soaked glycogen seeds in your smoothie, making your hemp milk, introducing your oil on your salad, swap if you're making hummus, put flax in or hemp instead of olive oil, so you've got a dominance of omega-3 there. And you can really start to think about each meal having a form of omega-3 in there. And if not supplement, if you feel like you can't get it through the diet, bringing those supplements, which really help.

So stage four leads us into supplementation. And if you've listened to the last session on hormones, you will have discovered that there is a particular backdrop to supplements that we need to address before we start thinking about herbs or homeopathy or other supplements. And there's such an array of supplements out there now, isn't there? So we really have to be really aware of, you know, the types of supplements with no fillers, supplements that are more absorbable, powery food ingredients over synthetics. 

And I think if you're limited on funds or you're limited on what you feel you want to take, go with the hormone formula. So the hormone formula, the starting, like building blocks for that is your B-complex, which helps with your energy and stress. So your B vitamin complex, magnesium is such a big key to the health. 

Magnesium is so important for energy. It's so important for the nervous system, so important for hormones. It's life changing, actually. 

If you take it in the right form, magnesium citrate or glycinate, both citrate is more effective. People are starting to use glycinate for mental health. So when we're thinking about citrate, anything from 200 to 800 a day is a normal amount for an adult. 

And we would generally say two to 300 milligrams in one meal. So you can increase it based on your symptoms. If you've got low energy, you're going to be wanting to hit 600 milligrams-ish. 

If you're feeling mentally burned out, you might go a little bit higher. But the impact sometimes if you take too much, it can have an impact on your bowels. So work with really what we call the bowel tolerance test, where you increase your magnesium and you should be feeling the benefits of that within your nervous system. 

Your sleep improves, the hormones will improve. But what you don't want to do is have loose bowels, it's counterproductive then. So think about introducing it slowly and working towards that point where you really feel the effect of magnesium. 

And then I think, you know, we see a lot of zinc issues these days. Zinc regulates your taste and smell, regulates your hormones, it regulates your fertility, regulates food cravings. When we're zinc deficient, we become more addictive. 

So when we're looking at really the hormone formula, we're thinking omega-3, we're thinking B-complex, magnesium and zinc. If you're not getting it from diet, you'd be looking really at getting it in supplement form and having the right form as well with your supplements. So it's as natural as possible with no fillers. 

And that really is a good foundation. We spoke about in the last session, I spoke about the other core factors with hormones. And that would be things like moving on from zinc, your vitamin D, vitamin E and iodine, vitamin C as well as important.

It doesn't mean to say you have to do it all through supplements, but you could do a bit of both, a bit of dietary work and really think about introducing those supplements in the right form at the right time, in the order that I talked about. So your omega-3 first, B-complex, magnesium, zinc, and then moving on to the others if you need to, vitamin C, vitamin E, vitamin D and iodine. So there's eight parts to the hormone formula. 

And that has to be right through your diet and your supplements before you jump into other areas in order to regulate, because the hormones regulate everything. They regulate your mood, your blood sugar, your metabolism, it's everything to do with vitality really, adrenal function, etc. So we really are thinking, do the supplements really once you've done hydration, once you've really addressed simple changes in your diet, it doesn't have to be a complete overhaul. 

You can just do it gradually, thinking about what you can put in daily, that's going to be superfoods, colourful foods, organic foods, grow your own herbs, for example. So make those changes over time. And then the supplements can slot in later when you start to feel like you've made movement in the other areas that I talked about this evening. 

So water, diet, fatty acids, the right supplements with a focus on hormone formula, and then we're moving into cleansing. So what are we doing to cleanse your body daily? And that really is a daily task. We hear about people who do juice fasts or gallbladder flushes, and they might do intermittent fasting, that's all amazing. 

But what you really want to think about is actually, what can I do daily that's going to increase movement within my body? And that could be going to the gym, it could be going to the sauna, hot and cold, maybe sea swimming for some people have become really interested in that now, the hydrotherapy. And also thinking about actually how you can do it if you're in the house, maybe if you're feeling tired, it could be an Epsom salt bath, you could actually do skin brushing, you can do things like compresses to the liver, which improve liver function with castor oil, and working with various compresses actually depending on what you're trying to achieve. If you really want to fast track yourself, you could introduce yourself to the world of enemas and colonics, which are a naturopathic techniques to speed up cleansing, and they work wonders for getting the toxicity out more quickly than anything else. 

So there's a lot there in that section of naturopathic techniques, the saunas and the skin brushing is something you could start with this week really, and think about really getting a sweat three times a week minimum of 20 minutes to get that cleansing happening. That's minimum really in order to be able to improve your vitality, you know, longer term. I saw something recently in one of the medical journals that said that people who do saunas three times a week have 40% less chance of developing dementia.

And so there's a solid link between how we cleanse, and if we're cleansing regularly, that reduces toxins to the brain, and of course the impact is on every part of us really. So what can you do today where you can think okay, today I'm going to do something that's going to improve elimination in the body, and that could be simply having an epsom salt bath this evening, or, you know, if you're having a hot and cold shower before you go to bed, to really get that lymphatic system moving. So that one is stage five. 

So the sixth pillar is to look at your emotional health, and this sometimes comes up as we cleanse. So when we start to cleanse the body, sometimes we're confronted with what was underneath why we binged or why we used to eat or drink certain things that didn't suit us. And so sometimes actually journaling or doing some emotional work can be huge in this approach. 

Some of the things that we introduce as naturopaths at this point are things like flower remedies, homeopathy, asking the person to really share, you know, in a journal or with a therapist what's got them stuck in the first place. And so it's a natural progression when we start to change our diet that sometimes old patterns might come to the surface, and we might feel like something is in the space. And flower remedies can work wonders. 

And homeopathy for a dominant emotion or something that's feeling hard to cope with, to be able to move things through. And also an act of the attitude, of course, is everything. So when we reframe something, if we've been through a difficult experience and turn it into a positive, and take a different angle on it, it allows us to grow spiritually. 

So when we're really seeing the benefit of some of those difficulties that we've all been through, and shifting it into a positive framework, it can really work wonders for your own mental health, but also move it through the body so it doesn't get stuck there. And so naturopathic techniques can help the movement of emotions. There are various flower remedies, you can introduce all sorts of conditions, really. 

And there are some sort of more local flower remedy companies you could access, or the traditional sort of Bach remedies, or even look at Australian bushflower remedies, you could go quite wide with that in terms of which flower remedies work for you. And you can also make your own. So flower remedies are quite easy to make.

And that's something we teach on the course when you train with us. And it's something that actually will serve you well, you know, with your children, with your animals, with your family ongoing. And they're very, very subtle, they're quite powerful. 

And so I'd like to introduce you to that, it's the first time we've heard that this evening, to really explore the flower remedy world and do a bit of research on that. Homeopathy is actually really, really effective if the body's hydrated. It can really work like magic when you're thinking about how to shift emotions, how to shift certain symptoms. 

And it's a very subtle form of medicine, very powerful. So when you have the right remedy, you can really transform symptoms overnight. Wonderful for childhood illnesses when children get ill, because they don't really know what you're giving them.

So they don't have any bias. So it works so well. If anyone has animals, fabulous, because they, again, they don't feel any limitations. 

So what you give often will work quite quickly. And I think if an adult is open to that, then you can really shift energy with homeopathy and solve a lot of health issues actually very subtly, but very effectively. So that sort of area is quite powerful with naturopathy, using your own herbs, which you've grown yourself, starting to think about flower remedies, homeopathy as alternative methods to medicalise drugs, which often have side effects. 

So you're not suppressing the individual, you're bringing them back to life with these approaches. And you can bring herbs into cooking and in your teas. So it doesn't have to be, you know, capsules or tinctures. 

You can be, you know, having your loose herb tea in the morning, having herbal tea at night, introducing your own homegrown herbs into your cooking, which is very powerful for good health long-term. And so we're moving now to really, when we look at emotional health, cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone, which is not a friendly one. 

So when we're highly stressed, when we're overdoing things in life, if we have unresolved emotions, cortisol will go up. There's a general saying that when cortisol is out to play, that none of the other hormones are playing. So it's like the bully in the playground. 

So when it goes up, we feel more energised in that moment, but actually we're on alert. So when we're on alert, we're on what is called dehydration alert. We produce more cholesterol, we produce histamine, we are producing things that aren't helpful, adrenaline, you know, behind the scenes. 

And if that's left running, we actually feel hyper-stressed then. It feels like we're in a continuous state of stress. And that's usually when we sort of feel, why do I feel stressed or have a panic attack when I've got nothing to be stressed about? We've just become so used to it, actually, in that picture that actually is quite hard to come down from it. 

So the methods that I talked about this evening, hydration, reducing caffeine, bringing in more high vibrational foods, actually starts to switch down the cortisol. When you combine that with your B vitamins and thinking about naturopathic techniques, which regulate your cortisol, you're then starting to win and bring the other hormones out to play. So when we're reducing cortisol, we're also thinking about what we can incorporate into our daily lifestyle, breath, work, meditation, exercise, being around people who uplift you, starting to take time out, you eating your lunch with all your phone off and your computer and just sitting and being in nature. 

Nature is just so powerful for reducing cortisol. So taking your walk that you always say you're going to do daily, but maybe you don't do it consistently, making sure that's in the diary, you're doing it. And it's like your time, you're taking that outdoors time for you so that you can actually reduce cortisol. 

And it actually doesn't take long. It can take up sometimes 10 minutes to reduce cortisol if you take the time out and you put the focus in. So that's an important one. 

And then lastly, this evening, environment. So when we're thinking about environment, we're thinking about things that uplift us. And actually, we're back to nature there, you know, hanging out with the trees, being by the sea, being in a natural environment as much as we can daily, switching off the electrical equipment, and reducing your EMF exposure by taking some time out daily in order to heal. 

And that can be getting up early and being there with the sunrise, or you could actually be thinking about taking time out at sunset or middle of the day. So you get that full spectrum of light from the sun and the moon, etc, that really regulates the body. Shoes off, you know, grounding in the garden with your feet on the ground, in the park, and thinking about if you are using devices, switching them off at certain times of the day, having a what I call safe sleeve on your phone, which keeps the body protected from radiation, switching your Wi Fi off at night, taking your phone out of the bedroom.

They're all simple things which can really massively transform your emotional and mental health longer term. Then, you know, stepping into the world of as natural as possible. So natural cleaning agents for your home, for example, using good lighting, thinking about essential oils, and thinking about the clothing that you wear, and what you might actually wash your clothing in. 

So it's kind of as a knock on effect on when you start thinking about natural, it takes you on to the next layer of what you might change in your life. And I think that most people start with their diet with their own bodies. And eventually, when people train with us, they end up saying, okay, where do you buy your makeup from, or even making their own skin products, eventually thinking about, okay, I'm going to change my home, I don't want to clean with chemicals anymore, I want to use natural, and it sort of spirals over time into this world where you're living in a very balanced environment, then longer term. 

And I think, you know, the important thing here is to say, none of us are perfect. So we don't get it right 100%. We're not looking for perfection, we're looking for change, which is gradual, that's going to take us into a better place in our life and our health. 

And part of that is attitude that you enjoy that approach, you sort of enjoy the learning, enjoy the recipes, enjoy the culture that we're part of, you know, we're into this process. It's a real great connection community wise, because you start to build your tribe within your own community. So when you start to live this way, you attract the people around you, which want to do similar, we all have these mini sort of communities where we're building ourselves in a vital way, really, and that has a very positive influence on the bigger picture. 

And so that improves spiritual connection as well, emotional connection, and of course, feeling better daily by building on these principles. So it's like the sort of daily to do list really, which is for you. And actually, when you feel right, everyone benefits around you, your family, your partners, your work colleagues, etc.

So that's the seven pillars this evening. We cover a lot of this on the trainings that I do in different ways. And we can also, you know, if we ever want to do a one to one, we can look at your own personal plan in terms of your own body type in what's individual for you based on your history. 

So I still work with people one to one, if anyone wanted to have a one to one. And thank you for listening this evening. I can see I've got some questions now in the chat. 

So I'm going to go to those questions before we switch off the recording. So someone's asked about childhood diabetes, we'll start with that. So childhood diabetes is really on the rise.

And many people say it's to do with the hydrogenated fat industry. So there's a big link between your processed margarines and the wrong types of fat, which makes the liver fatty, actually. So there's two things that go on too much carbohydrate intake, too much sugar intake.

But also, if a child is eating the wrong fats, or the parent has the wrong fats in pregnancy, there's an impact on the liver and people are being born now with fatty livers. So young children under the age of 10, where if the liver's fatty, the blood sugar can't regulate, it has a knock on effect on hormones. So we treat that with regulating blood sugar through reducing the bad fats, bringing in the good fats, and really it's a deeper level of hydration. 

So the approach would be to work with your first stages of treatment that I've talked about this evening, the water content, depending on the age of the child, you would have a ratio based on body weight, good essential fatty acids in the diet, and really a completely reduction of processed white carbohydrates, and a regulation of the blood sugar through the essential fatty acids. So it's there because of predispositions within the history, and sometimes medications, you know, early on in childhood can really trigger autoimmune effects. So there's a combination approach happening now where children, you know, are on medications early on things like antibiotics at birth and that sort of thing, maybe not breastfed, and so the impact then is sort of a domino effect really, on the way that these diseases are happening much earlier in people, because toxicity levels are much deeper these days, compared to the previous generation.

And ASD, you know, you think it's on the rise, isn't it, you know, globally really, and I think when you look at research, we're seeing commonalities, you know, of people not drinking enough water, not enough essential fatty acids in the diet, which regulate brain health, too much phone use, which disrupts the brain, etc. So I think that there are some common things, and a good company which we link with, one of my tutors actually works and runs the company, there's a company called Food for the Brain, which is Patrick Holford's company, and Emma George who works for SNN, she actually runs that company. So we're seeing now globally that there's commonalities with people with attention deficit disorder and issues with mental health, where the gut is so unhappy. 

So gut health is everything here, and essential fatty acids for the brain, as well as hydration. So there's a commonality across all these disorders actually, which we can link back to the seven stages of treatment, and actually introducing that will help across the board all these different diseases generally. I hope that answered that question. 

Someone just asked a question about high fructose corn syrup. It's really awful for the body. It's grown genetically modified, so it gets put into foods and described as natural sweetener.

So when we're seeing it on labeling, we're seeing it in the form of natural K or natural sweetener. And what it does is actually gives the body a huge insulin surge, and then there's a crash. And of course, if someone's repeatedly going through that cycle, they're going to get diabetes.

That would be the result really, eventually. So do look out for the hidden terms, because natural doesn't mean natural a lot of the time. And it is hidden in things like agave, which is a natural sweetener, which at the moment agave doesn't need to be labeled as partly corn syrup.

So we can see that sometimes people are being fooled. We're thinking they're going with a more natural approach, and they're not. So it's just being really clear with the labels and avoiding that at all costs, because it's genetically modified. 

It's very concentrated insulin rush on the body, far worse than white sugar. And I think it's really interesting that we think fructose can be a better sugar. Recently, I was looking at the research, what's interesting about white sugar or brown sugar is actually, if your body is not regulating your blood sugar, it's actually liver health and gut health. 

So one person might have the right gut bacteria and have white sugar and feel fine, whereas another might get a huge reaction because their gut health, they don't have the right bacteria to process the glucose. So the interesting thing about fructose is it actually doesn't change blood sugar that much, unless it's highly processed corn syrup. Fructose that's taken from fruit sugars doesn't affect the blood sugar as much, but the liver has to convert it. 

So if your liver function is dodgy, then it's going to affect you in a negative way. So some people are saying we felt better going back to brown sugar and use the sort of darker sugars, which have nutritional content and using things like coconut sugar, which is a more natural approach compared to your fructose, which is a very processed sugar actually, the way they extract it and et cetera. So it depends on your liver function. 

If your liver function is good, then you're going to be okay with fructose. But a lot of people have issues with their liver these days. Hence why we've talked about fatty liver this evening. 

Okay. Well, thank you for joining. I'm going to turn the recording off now.