Episode 287
Discover the genetic root causes of health challenges | DFS 287
Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease. Alicia shares her path to creating a healthier life!
In this episode you will learn:
- Where does your food come from?
- Eat more plain vegetables
- Work on 1 thing at a time
Alicia Mazari-Andersen is a seasoned biologist and holistic nutritionist, having spent a quarter-century teaching higher education and over a decade teaching folks how to create healthy habits. At 62, she is living proof of the power of holistic health. She treats her body as her temple, free from symptoms of any illness, and honestly, she feels like she is 30. She has walked the path, detoxifying her body in a personalized way based on genetics to discover her best self. So, if you're searching for someone who's been there, done that, look no further. She has got the experience, the knowledge, and the passion to guide you on your journey to health by resetting your genes.
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Transcript
Welcome to destined for success. I'm your
Jennifer Takagi:host Jennifer Takagi and today is one of my favorite days it is
Jennifer Takagi:PATA Palooza, de. And I have the opportunity to interview and
Jennifer Takagi:meet some amazing people from all over the world. And I now
Jennifer Takagi:have another Canadian to join me today. I have Alicia my sigh
Jennifer Takagi:Anderson I hope I said that close to right. And you're from
Jennifer Takagi:I'm gonna say Calgary did she say Calgary or just can't
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: know I live in Vancouver, Vancouver?
Jennifer Takagi:Oh, I only know like
Jennifer Takagi:three places in Canada and I got it wrong
Jennifer Takagi:anyway. Ah, so welcome to the show. I love it reset your
Jennifer Takagi:genes. How genetic find the genetic root cause of your
Jennifer Takagi:health issues? I love this topic. Tell me more.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Yeah, I mean, I, we so we're chatting,
Jennifer Takagi:you know, how, how is success if you are to have your health. I
Jennifer Takagi:believe health is everything I truly believe health is
Jennifer Takagi:everything. You know, I actually I have a little bit of a cold,
Jennifer Takagi:so you can see me a little bit stuffy, but still, I'm here, you
Jennifer Takagi:know, I'm, you know, I'm still in my zone. And the thing is,
Jennifer Takagi:is, uh, Jennifer is that basically, I have no
Jennifer Takagi:inflammation in my body, meaning I don't, I really don't feel bad
Jennifer Takagi:at all. You know, like, every single day, every single day, I
Jennifer Takagi:I truly believe that I'm 6062 years old. But I truly believe I
Jennifer Takagi:have a body of a 30 year old body. Because my mind is clear.
Jennifer Takagi:My you know, it's great. So let me just tell you a little bit
Jennifer Takagi:about me. I've been university structure in biology for the
Jennifer Takagi:past 25 plus years here in Vancouver. And in 2010,
Jennifer Takagi:something happened that changed my life. And he was like the
Jennifer Takagi:famous, you know, the famous position at the University. And
Jennifer Takagi:I didn't get in and I'm like, Oh, what am I gonna do? And my
Jennifer Takagi:friend goes like you love study? Why don't you just go into
Jennifer Takagi:something else? Sure enough, I enrolled in a diploma into your
Jennifer Takagi:diploma in holistic nutrition, which I finished in 10 months. I
Jennifer Takagi:told my husband, I'll be done by Christmas, because like, no way
Jennifer Takagi:to two years, I'll be done by Christmas with 12 case studies,
Jennifer Takagi:the whole thing, the whole spiel. So I did, and I started
Jennifer Takagi:changing my lifestyle. You know, I didn't not I you know, I did
Jennifer Takagi:not tell my kids to do it. I did not tell my husband to do it.
Jennifer Takagi:Like I'm this is the way I'm gonna do it right now. This is
Jennifer Takagi:this is what I'm gonna do. It's up to you, if you want to do it.
Jennifer Takagi:I have three kids, they're in their 20s, late 20s, mid to late
Jennifer Takagi:20s. And when they left home, what did they leave with? They
Jennifer Takagi:left with the healthy habits. I think that was the best gift
Jennifer Takagi:they can I mean, they think to grow their stuff. But that's
Jennifer Takagi:just stuff. But when you go to the place, they open the fridge,
Jennifer Takagi:and it's like nothing to mirror my kitchen. So so excited about
Jennifer Takagi:it. And anyway, in 2017, one of the companies, that cells that
Jennifer Takagi:teachers, they teach us stuff to sell their supplements, opened a
Jennifer Takagi:platform called Pure genomics. And I thought that was
Jennifer Takagi:phenomenal. Excuse me, I thought that was phenomenal. I said,
Jennifer Takagi:I'll take my DNA data and find out more about me. Well, it just
Jennifer Takagi:so happened that this platform had titles. And I wasn't sure to
Jennifer Takagi:share it because when in DNA, you have four letters, etc. Or
Jennifer Takagi:when you change a Jif or an A it's, it's a disaster. So I
Jennifer Takagi:didn't feel I didn't feel like sharing at all. Anyway, but time
Jennifer Takagi:passed. And then we realize that there was another person that
Jennifer Takagi:sort of same. So she created her own platform. And I want to
Jennifer Takagi:introduce you to our mentor who wrote this book. It's your teens
Jennifer Takagi:to fit your kids. It's a very scientific book. But she talks
Jennifer Takagi:basically about the genes. And about she talks about weight
Jennifer Takagi:loss. So, but she gives us a 66 page report, Jennifer and I'm
Jennifer Takagi:like, I read it three times me being a biologist, a scientist
Jennifer Takagi:and I'm like, she wrote this for for scientist or naturopathic
Jennifer Takagi:doctor, not for the common people. And so anyways, so we
Jennifer Takagi:decided to create a program and we were going to accept eight
Jennifer Takagi:people in our beta program. We ended up with 16 The first time
Jennifer Takagi:we run it and what we found was incredible. Incredible. I know
Jennifer Takagi:someone that has MS. And you know when they tell you Oh, you
Jennifer Takagi:have Ms. What do you think autoimmune it's your immune
Jennifer Takagi:system. This way, it's not her immune system at all. She has
Jennifer Takagi:detoxification problems college and problems, inflammation
Jennifer Takagi:problems. She has neurotransmitter problems and
Jennifer Takagi:hormonal problems and the whole thing which is spilled over and
Jennifer Takagi:manifested as Ms. So when I found this out I'm like, Okay,
Jennifer Takagi:well, this is the way we're gonna do it. So anyway, she's
Jennifer Takagi:been just on top of it just amazing. She's gone from a pain
Jennifer Takagi:of nine to pain of one, she is sleeping seven hours, which he
Jennifer Takagi:couldn't before because her legs would contract all the time. And
Jennifer Takagi:not only that, we found out that her daughter could also have it,
Jennifer Takagi:and we are preventing her daughter from getting. So
Jennifer Takagi:once you find out what's going on, then is it
Jennifer Takagi:through nutrition and supplements that you reverse
Jennifer Takagi:this? And as your background says rewrite your future? Yes.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: It's just food and supplements. Well,
Jennifer Takagi:patients, what we're getting people to get off their
Jennifer Takagi:medications. But it's it's I mean, I don't know in the US,
Jennifer Takagi:but in Canada, because we have a social medical system. You know,
Jennifer Takagi:by the time you go see your GP, by the time they send you to a
Jennifer Takagi:specialist can be yours. It's just not working. It's not
Jennifer Takagi:working. Are you going to wait a year? You know, to find out what
Jennifer Takagi:it is? Or can you find out right away? And so anyway, I've been
Jennifer Takagi:I've been dealing I've been dealing with people, a lot of
Jennifer Takagi:people from Mexico actually found me where I'm actually
Jennifer Takagi:going to actually go to open the program in English and in
Jennifer Takagi:Spanish in January. So this girl, they're 32 year old, she
Jennifer Takagi:could barely walk. She was using a cane to walk 32 year old and
Jennifer Takagi:you're like, quite strong with you. He goes, Oh, I have
Jennifer Takagi:fibromyalgia. And she goes like, oh, no, no, no, I've gone to my
Jennifer Takagi:32nd specialist and they told me I have idiopathic chronic
Jennifer Takagi:myositis and I start laughing. And I'm like you want me to
Jennifer Takagi:translate that for you? myositis your muscles are inflamed.
Jennifer Takagi:That's why you are in pain. Chronic. You've heard for a long
Jennifer Takagi:time. Idiopathic. It's a new word used in medical terms,
Jennifer Takagi:which means I have no idea what it is. She started the program.
Jennifer Takagi:I saw her yesterday. She has lost I don't know something like
Jennifer Takagi:1520 pounds. She hasn't no paid. All she wanted was go play
Jennifer Takagi:paddle again and go play soccer. Again. She's doing that. You can
Jennifer Takagi:see it's not just the weight loss. It is the the reduction in
Jennifer Takagi:inflammation in the body. What has taken her where she is right
Jennifer Takagi:now. So like that I can tell you endless stories. What about me?
Jennifer Takagi:Well, me, I found out that I produce too much dopamine. I am
Jennifer Takagi:what the doctor calls the dopamine junkie. I am the type
Jennifer Takagi:of person that's on the go go go go go all day long, all day
Jennifer Takagi:long. And if I don't if I if I find a new toy, or get a new toy
Jennifer Takagi:yet, I buy new toys. I mean no new certifications and new
Jennifer Takagi:things to do. And, you know, I'm a continual learner in my life.
Jennifer Takagi:And now guess what? I am so chilled that I've never been
Jennifer Takagi:like this in my life. And I don't want to lose more weight.
Jennifer Takagi:Of course not. You know, I like weight. However, I am truly at
Jennifer Takagi:my peak on wellness. I truly feel like you know, of course,
Jennifer Takagi:you know, I exercise. I love walking, I exercise. I hydrate.
Jennifer Takagi:i Eat For Health. I eat truly, truly clean. And my sleep is
Jennifer Takagi:impeccable right now. I mean, I got a call. I started on Monday
Jennifer Takagi:I'm here. Yeah, yeah, sure. I still I still have a bit of a
Jennifer Takagi:cold, but it does not interrupt my life. And so, as you said to
Jennifer Takagi:be successful, what is the best gift you can have? Jennifer?
Jennifer Takagi:Your Health?
Jennifer Takagi:Yeah, because if you don't have your health,
Jennifer Takagi:you can't do anything else.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: That's right. You can have all the
Jennifer Takagi:money in the world. You can have all the traveling, I mean,
Jennifer Takagi:traveling everywhere. You can do you know, a lot of things. And
Jennifer Takagi:something incredible is for people that want to lose weight
Jennifer Takagi:is a validation that they find out exactly how much protein how
Jennifer Takagi:much carbohydrates counterparts they should take. And when you
Jennifer Takagi:when you change the food, inflammation just goes starts
Jennifer Takagi:getting out and you start feeling better. I
Jennifer Takagi:had years ago I had knee surgery and the
Jennifer Takagi:realignment surgery and the pain pills I hated. And I called the
Jennifer Takagi:doctor and I was like I can't take these pain pills and he
Jennifer Takagi:said Aleve wasn't even out at that point. He was like well
Jennifer Takagi:take for ibuprofen four times a day and keep the swelling down.
Jennifer Takagi:So as long as I kept this swelling and inflammation down
Jennifer Takagi:with taking medicine because of the surgery, I didn't have any
Jennifer Takagi:pain. I mean there was a little discomfort but no big deal. So
Jennifer Takagi:when people talk about inflammation causes all these
Jennifer Takagi:other things. I completely believe it. Because if there's
Jennifer Takagi:no inflammation, then there's no pain. But at that point, that's
Jennifer Takagi:the next question. Yeah,
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: you know, and if you hit yourself,
Jennifer Takagi:right, you hit yourself, you know, there's inflammation,
Jennifer Takagi:because you know, you even get a bruise or something, you know,
Jennifer Takagi:you. But what happens? inflammation inside the body?
Jennifer Takagi:How do you check it out? Through paper, you know, so many people
Jennifer Takagi:would take so many people with, I cannot be sitting down on a
Jennifer Takagi:chair for a long period of time. So many people like I cannot
Jennifer Takagi:even work. I actually, and we've got people with cancer as well,
Jennifer Takagi:trying to figure it out. I had a lady from Ontario, and she had
Jennifer Takagi:breast she had breast cancer, I'm saying had because because
Jennifer Takagi:we finally found out the root cause. And anyway, she was
Jennifer Takagi:treated with chemotherapy that deals with estrogen, estrogen
Jennifer Takagi:dominance, so of estrogen dominance in the environment,
Jennifer Takagi:because of the food that we eat the plastics that we have all
Jennifer Takagi:that stuff. So anyway, they told her Oh, sorry, the chemos not
Jennifer Takagi:working, you're gonna have to do another year of it. And I'm
Jennifer Takagi:like, Okay, well, we were waiting for her Dinah back then.
Jennifer Takagi:I looked at it. And I'm like, I know what it is. It is your
Jennifer Takagi:liver. Let's take the supplements. In two weeks, she
Jennifer Takagi:got her period, she had her period for a whole year. Imagine
Jennifer Takagi:the mess up of her hormones. Now, we're now we're getting her
Jennifer Takagi:to get ready to be a mom. Like, it's just, it's just amazing. I
Jennifer Takagi:remember that night when I just like, give my daughter like, go
Jennifer Takagi:to bed early. I found out the root cause. And she and he goes,
Jennifer Takagi:what is it? I'm like, liver detox space to use. Okay, I'm
Jennifer Takagi:ready to go to sleep Shut up. And I'm like, excited.
Jennifer Takagi:So how do you how does this process work?
Jennifer Takagi:Like, how do you find out what's going on?
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: So okay, so first of all, I don't have
Jennifer Takagi:enough, if I had a lab, I know how to do it. But I don't have a
Jennifer Takagi:lot. So what we do is we use 23andme. Have you heard about
Jennifer Takagi:23andme? That 23andme, where you find your 23andme or you find
Jennifer Takagi:your ancestry? Well, they also have the health ancestry plus
Jennifer Takagi:health. So what we do is we use them as a lab, because it's the
Jennifer Takagi:cheapest way of getting your data. So you do 23andme You find
Jennifer Takagi:out your ancestry, your health, some people get really upset
Jennifer Takagi:about the health, but I'm like, Look, don't even look at health,
Jennifer Takagi:and you don't want to Okay, and then we get the data, we
Jennifer Takagi:download the data and we work with the data. But then we show
Jennifer Takagi:people what it is the need to work on one step at a time over
Jennifer Takagi:a 12 week period. Because trying to put it together. It's not
Jennifer Takagi:simple task. It's not simple. I mean, for me nowadays, but I
Jennifer Takagi:mean, I've probably studied 60 people overall. And I see a lot
Jennifer Takagi:of trends, a lot of detoxification problems, a lot
Jennifer Takagi:of hormonal problems, a lot of neurotransmitter problems, you
Jennifer Takagi:know, all kinds of things. You know, I had this family from
Jennifer Takagi:Mexico who their daughter has illegal and when you think about
Jennifer Takagi:it illegal you think about autoimmune again immune system,
Jennifer Takagi:right? Guess what, she doesn't have problems with immunity. And
Jennifer Takagi:I just told them guess what, you just say six months I'm going
Jennifer Takagi:seeing immunologist do not find exactly what she has. They were
Jennifer Takagi:like, Whoa, yeah. So we're now we are working with a girl. And
Jennifer Takagi:of course, you know, we're waiting working with her and
Jennifer Takagi:yeah, they're so excited about it. I
Jennifer Takagi:love that you work with one thing at a time, I
Jennifer Takagi:have a friend that was in a group with me and I she sent out
Jennifer Takagi:some kind of email and it had some a really intriguing
Jennifer Takagi:question. I don't remember now what it was. And it said if you
Jennifer Takagi:want to know more book a call, so I booked a call and she was
Jennifer Takagi:like, Hey, what are you doing? Look at a call. And I said,
Jennifer Takagi:Well, I found that really interesting. What do you do?
Jennifer Takagi:Well, come to find out she made you up and your whole entire
Jennifer Takagi:life absolutely everything to get to the root cause to figure
Jennifer Takagi:out what the problem was. And I was like, What can we do like
Jennifer Takagi:one thing at a time like I I like him, I may not have the
Jennifer Takagi:healthiest diet in the world, but I like what I like. And she
Jennifer Takagi:was like no. So I appreciate. Address one thing at a time, it
Jennifer Takagi:that
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: need to start with food you need to
Jennifer Takagi:start with changing habits you need to start by optimizing for
Jennifer Takagi:example, our genes tells us how many times a day you should eat
Jennifer Takagi:it. Should you eat three times a day should you have do
Jennifer Takagi:intermittent fasting. How long are that how much protein how
Jennifer Takagi:much fat, how much carbohydrates, lots of
Jennifer Takagi:vegetables, of course, we promote lots of vegetables.
Jennifer Takagi:Post, and even like that, just but we need to start one step at
Jennifer Takagi:a time. Because if not people go crazy. People go crazy. You
Jennifer Takagi:know, it's like I said, it has many greens as you like, you
Jennifer Takagi:know, it just, it's as simple as eating like the rainbow. Like my
Jennifer Takagi:plates are always like have so many which Greenberg is also
Jennifer Takagi:eating like rainbow is extremely important for me. And then you
Jennifer Takagi:start one step at a time. And then you add supplements,
Jennifer Takagi:probably you add the supplements that are most, like most needed
Jennifer Takagi:for you. You know, for example, somebody has inflammation and
Jennifer Takagi:pain, then we deal with that those supplements to reduce
Jennifer Takagi:inflammation and the pain. But a lot of times we just don't
Jennifer Takagi:detox. We are so exposed right now to so many toxins in our
Jennifer Takagi:body and our livers hold it. And it just like it doesn't go
Jennifer Takagi:anywhere stays there. And then sometimes when people and by the
Jennifer Takagi:way, many of these toxins are not soluble in water, they're
Jennifer Takagi:soluble, in fact. So where are they stored? They are stored in
Jennifer Takagi:there in the abdomen, where we have fat cells. What happens
Jennifer Takagi:when you are on a diet and you lose weight? A lot of people
Jennifer Takagi:will experience Oh, I have a headache? Well, because your
Jennifer Takagi:toxins are not metabolized, they're still they're still
Jennifer Takagi:soluble in, in fact, and where else in the body do have a lot
Jennifer Takagi:of fat right here on the brain right there. And then you know,
Jennifer Takagi:they'll go right here. And so you ended up having you end up
Jennifer Takagi:seeing people would wear things like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's
Jennifer Takagi:and stuff. It's just a huge amount of toxicity in the brain.
Jennifer Takagi:So
Jennifer Takagi:do supplements help get rid of that? Those
Jennifer Takagi:toxins that are stored in the fat?
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Yes, because we support delivered,
Jennifer Takagi:delivered delivered takes them as bean being fat to take them
Jennifer Takagi:to be soluble in water and you pick them out to put them out
Jennifer Takagi:use with them out to break them out.
Jennifer Takagi:Oh my gosh, I love that. So if you had one
Jennifer Takagi:suggestion for the audience who's listening, what would be
Jennifer Takagi:one thing that you think is most important that we could do today
Jennifer Takagi:to make a shift in our overall health.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Number one, find out where your food is
Jennifer Takagi:coming from?
Jennifer Takagi:Oh, okay.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Make sure you know where the cow is
Jennifer Takagi:coming from, or the chicken or whatever your vegetarian where
Jennifer Takagi:your vegetables are coming from whether they contain, decrease
Jennifer Takagi:the decrease the amount of toxins in your body. And number
Jennifer Takagi:two, start eating more, more green vegetables. In summary,
Jennifer Takagi:that's where all we all start.
Jennifer Takagi:I love that. Awesome. So if someone wants to
Jennifer Takagi:get ahold of you and find more about how they can reset their
Jennifer Takagi:genes, how are we going to get ahold of you? Yeah,
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: I will give you an Apple actually give
Jennifer Takagi:you a a link right here on the imbalance LM website. All right
Jennifer Takagi:down here. It's imbalance lm.com. And then it's it last
Jennifer Takagi:gene reset underscore AM. And there you can actually find out
Jennifer Takagi:how to do we usually let people start with a nurse your DNA
Jennifer Takagi:report, once they have their data from 23andme. And then from
Jennifer Takagi:there, you know, you've already from the even from their
Jennifer Takagi:dinners, your DNA already gives you quite a bit of understanding
Jennifer Takagi:on what to eat and how to eat and your detoxification. If you
Jennifer Takagi:want to take it any further, then we have a 12 week program,
Jennifer Takagi:a 12 week program. Awesome. Yeah, well,
Jennifer Takagi:this has been so enlightening to me. I had no idea that 23 and me
Jennifer Takagi:would go so far as to help me with my overall health. That's
Jennifer Takagi:awesome.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: I know. And there's usually a sailor on
Jennifer Takagi:Christmas, so keep an eye on it. Oh, I have your email. I will I
Jennifer Takagi:will email you and tell you that it's on sale. Well,
Jennifer Takagi:awesome, because I have not done it. I
Jennifer Takagi:know. One of my sisters did one of them 10 or 15 years ago, but
Jennifer Takagi:I don't think it was 23. And me I think it was another one. So
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: yeah, yeah, that could be ancestry.
Jennifer Takagi:Ancestry also gives us that. Yeah, but we need to know how to
Jennifer Takagi:do it too, as well, because the DNA doesn't come from the
Jennifer Takagi:saliva. The DNA comes from the cheek cells. Oh, it's important
Jennifer Takagi:that you massage your cheek cells before you spit. Oh,
Jennifer Takagi:interesting. Okay, so how much we needed to
Jennifer Takagi:know to do a test. Oh my gosh. Well, thank you Elisa. It has
Jennifer Takagi:been a pleasure getting to know you and thank you for all the
Jennifer Takagi:fabulous information.
Jennifer Takagi:Alicia Mazari-Andersen: Thank you, Jennifer.
Jennifer Takagi:I'm Jennifer Takagi and I look forward to
Jennifer Takagi:connecting with you soon.