Episode 43: Welcome back to You Are the Magic Pill, I’m your host Victoria. I’m so excited that you’re here with me today as I share part 2 of my series interviewing my long time friend Dustin Strong, talking about digestion and the food we eat. Dustin is a Chief Clinician and Owner of Strong on Health, a private holistic health and wellness center in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX. Ready? Listen in…

SHOWNOTES:

•  Now, when we get into things like depression, it’s helpful to go and look at the biggest, most common things that are happening in our country and the way that people are struggling with digesting protein… I know that sounds weird to go, Wait a minute, you talk about the depression and you’re taking about digesting proteins, but why it’s important is all of those happy hormones that all the medications they’re trying to act upon? They’re trying to act upon serotonin, trying to act upon dopamine, they’re trying to act upon norepinephrine, and they’re trying to keep these happy hormones artificially high in the brain. Well, one of the questions for me, to them is, Why do we need to artificially keep them? Hey, why don’t you have an ample amount of those in the first place? And that’s why people need to understand that those are derived from essential amino acids. (03:07)

•  Okay, so how do you fix it is your question. There’s different tools out there to do that, a lot of it is lifestyle changes, eating smaller amounts, making sure, of course, you’re chewing your food, really chew your food, not drinking too much water with your meal, because that will dilute the stomach acid, making sure that you have enough zinc, because zinc is required for stomach acid production, so you can do a zinc test… In our clinic, we have a taste test, so you can take something zinc sulfate and you hold it in your mouth, and what you taste kind of helps determine whether you have appropriate levels of zinc in your body. Yeah, and fasting is actually a really good way to help heal your digestive system as well, because we’re constantly… We have this unconscious faith that anything we put into our mouth is just going to be magically turned into all the nutrients that we need to sustain life, and it doesn’t work that way. (09:04)

•  It’s a limiting belief, and that happens. And it happens in all kinds of situations, right? Like a kid tries to do something nice for their parent and the parent was in a bad mood that day, and when they made this great gift and they present it to the parent… The parent was like, Whatever, I don’t want that right now. That left an impression on that kid, that giving gifts to people is bad, right? So, now we’ve got to figure out, Wait a minute, that was just a one tiny little situation, but it impacted you because you were young and impressionable, now we’re going to balance it out. (18:57)

•  One of my healthcare heroes always says that justice and health includes access to and knowledge of all the options, and I don’t think number one, that people definitely have the knowledge of the options, and that’s my mission to get out there and then they access… Not just access and the means of they have McDonalds, but then there’s also a store right there next to it that has a healthy option, but access through their community. If their community is setting up mental barriers to keep them from having access to a belief that’s gonna get them healthier. We have a situation where we have more drive-through restaurants and fasted restaurants than we know what to do with. Exactly. So, I guess we just have to keep sharing our message and be bringing education and awareness.  (23:22)

ABOUT DUSTIN STRONG:

Dustin Strong is the Chief Clinician and Owner of Strong on Health, a private holistic health and wellness center in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX metro area. He specializes in applied clinical nutrition, holistic nutrition, and clinical consultation for other healthcare providers. Mr. Strong is an accomplished speaker and enthusiastic educator with monthly hands-on workshops with practitioners and is a regular continuing education presenter and featured expert in multiple podcasts, videos, and publications. As a holistic healthcare practitioner for nearly a decade, he is passionate about helping clients who have not had complete success with traditional healthcare methods, believing that being healthy requires a total approach, taking into consideration equally nutrition, physical exercise, spiritual balance, and personal motivation. He has been recognized as a Healthcare Hero by the Fort Worth Business Press and a Hidden Gem by Voyage Dallas Magazine. Dustin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and an Applied Clinical Nutritionist, certified by Standard Process and Parker University.
 
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Episode 42: Welcome back to You Are the Magic Pill, I’m your host Victoria. I’m so excited that you’re here with me today as I share part 1 of my 2 part series interviewing my long time friend Dustin Strong, a Chief Clinician and Owner of Strong on Health, a private holistic health and wellness center in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX.

Listen in…

SHOWNOTES:

•  You were talking about love before we jump on and recorded, and I was thinking about that, the fact that… What I love about it is when you love something or some person, you benefit from it because you get to feel the love, right? That’s sure. They might get it, they might be benefiting from it, but because you’re putting yourself in that position where you’re getting to feel it, you’re winning already. That’s the best thing about love…I agree, love is a very good thing to feel. (04:07)

•  When you start thinking about what you were and you see it from a fresh perspective, it’s so hard to look back because you want to help that person you know, because you  know what you know now, and you think, Oh man, they struggled through so many things and yes, it was a period of my life. I was transitioning, I think, between elementary school and middle school, and I gained a ton of weight over the course of a winter, eating a lot of sugar, and I didn’t even realize. I guess it hadn’t happened until I went back to school and we were in a bit of a gym class situation where we had to run down to the certain pole and run back and remember running and being passed by who I thought was the kid who was overweight in class, and he passed me like I was sitting still. And then it was just this big moment where I kind of looked down and realized that I was the big kid, I was the fat kid in school. (06:05)

•  The interesting thing about nutrition in general is it’s a young science, so we’re still kind of discovering and understanding as we go, all these pieces, and I’m always trying to distill things down to irrefutable facts, because it’s one thing to know it for yourself, to have that experience and know that sugar is no longer a part of my life because it doesn’t do anything for me. It may do a small thing for me, but the cost to me is so much greater than the benefit. But to help somebody else understand that’s the journey of that, that’s so hard sometimes because you have to understand where somebody’s coming from, you have to figure out why would they be interested in hearing this in the first place, what do they want to solve? How can I communicate this to them? And so I find this with all the different things, every new little pearl, every new little secret that I find I want to share with people. (10:50)

•  Here’s where I always want  to make a point about placebo, if you can get some placebo effect in line with something that’s truly healing, somebody will do it, right? Why wouldn’t you use that power… We don’t want to think, Oh, it’s just a placebo? Well, yeah, it is, but it works. So that’s what I love about nutrition and education, so when I found out that, there’s a Dr. Walsh, and in his books here behind me on the wall, because I give it to almost anybody who has depression. He looked at this for 35 years, he looked at 30,000 different individuals who suffered from depression and anxiety, and he looked at millions of labs, and by far, he said, the most common biochemical problem we found is a zinc deficiency, so who would think?  No one would think, Oh, I’m depressed, maybe I need more zinc. (12:21)

ABOUT DUSTIN STRONG:

Dustin Strong is the Chief Clinician and Owner of Strong on Health, a private holistic health and wellness center in the Dallas/Fort Worth, TX metro area. He specializes in applied clinical nutrition, holistic nutrition, and clinical consultation for other healthcare providers. Mr. Strong is an accomplished speaker and enthusiastic educator with monthly hands-on workshops with practitioners and is a regular continuing education presenter and featured expert in multiple podcasts, videos, and publications. As a holistic healthcare practitioner for nearly a decade, he is passionate about helping clients who have not had complete success with traditional healthcare methods, believing that being healthy requires a total approach, taking into consideration equally nutrition, physical exercise, spiritual balance, and personal motivation. He has been recognized as a Healthcare Hero by the Fort Worth Business Press and a Hidden Gem by Voyage Dallas Magazine. Dustin is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and an Applied Clinical Nutritionist, certified by Standard Process and Parker University.
 
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Website: https://www.strongonhealth.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrongOnHealth
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/challenge/?next=/strongonhealth
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNTLdNAPS7sPVt-z6rZjYNg
 

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Episode 40: Welcome back to You Are the Magic Pill, I’m your host Victoria. Happy New Year to you! I hope you’re excited for all the great and wonderful things that are going to unfold into your life this year. Today I want to talk to you about finding the real you by tapping into your true heart’s desire and believing that you can actually get to that place you want to be. But first, you have to unlearn all of the things that you were taught, that’s why it’s so important to go down the path of self-discovery and not just accepting who you are, but who you think you are. The cool thing is that thoughts and beliefs matter because they create matter and that creates your reality.

Ready to go down the rabbit hole? Let’s go…

SHOWNOTES:

•  I mean, if you go around eating crap food and junk food and foods that aren’t very nourishing to your body, then you do gain weight. You become how you feel, you become what you’re eating… I say how you feel, because maybe you don’t feel that great about yourself, so you’re eating things that aren’t so great for you. Your choices that you make outwardly reflect how you feel about yourself inwardly. So mind yourself, be careful what you eat. Obviously, we all know that. Why don’t we make choices to feel like crap? Because we don’t feel good, right? So what do you need to do? You need to work on yourself, you need to start finding ways that you feel good about yourself, find ways that you can love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the more you’re going to become aware of taking care of yourself. (03:34) 

•   So we get to choose, you get to choose, I get to choose what we see, because guess what? The power is within you to decide, you can change it all, to have it all. And what I always like to talk about too is that ignorance is not bliss, and knowledge is power. Because whenever you are becoming aware, that’s key, that’s key to waking up to find that power within. But if you don’t decide to become disciplined to discover yourself, then you’re just going to stay in the same spot that you are in right now. And if you’re in a good spot, that’s awesome, but you can always rise higher, right? We’re here to just keep a ascending, to keep rising up, keep it coming, our best version. And everything that we go through each day that can ignite us, can shift us, can take us down that path to become that true, wonderful higher person. (06:00) 

•  We were not taught this, we were not taught this in school as children. And now a lot of people are discovering this truth, and I think that’s super cool that we’re living in this time where people are realizing that we’re creating all this stuff, we’re creating all this chaos too, because we have chaos within us. And also to push us to wake up, to awaken to the truth. So, the thing is that we can all change everything together, if we would just realize that it all comes from within and that what we imagine creates the images in our actual world that we’re in right now together. So if we can imagine what we truly want, know what’s in our heart, tap into what’s in your true hearts desire, connect to God, connect to source, feel that, know it, believe it, connect those two. Then we are going to project it into our reality together. (09:53) 

•  Let go of that old programming sh*t, because it’s just not who you’re meant to be. If you’re suffering, if you’re not living your true purpose, if you’re not enjoying the moment, if you’re not in the now, if you’re not doing any of that stuff and you don’t know what you’re capable of, please go down the path of self-discovery, Ask and you shall receive, right? Ask for guidance, ask for doors to be open, ask to show you the way. Okay, you will be guided. Believe and let go and ask and receive, and let’s change it all to have it all. (11:26) 

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Episode 26: Welcome back to You Are the Magic Pill, I’m your host Victoria. I’m excited because I have a friend on with me today. I met her in a Vitiligo group that I belonged to, her name is Danielle Wheeler and she’s going to share with you a little bit about her journey with the Vitiligo, making it relatable to anybody that struggles with confidence or self-esteem or anything like that as well. We’re going to share our stories and have a great conversation about Vitiligo and her children’s book called ‘I’ve Got Spots’.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

•   Okay, and at that point, it was literally just a couple of spots again, the armpit and on my hands, and we’re about to move. And so I was like, Yeah, sure, okay, whatever. And I’m not like a medicine person, I don’t even like taking ibuprofen, so putting groups and creams on my skin. (2:37)

•   They can get it at 60, and it can start with one spot and it never moves and it stays the same for years before it rapidly spreads and it’s crazy. It’s Vitiligo Awareness Month, and I’ve been going back through photos and it’s crazy to see photos of myself, even like six years ago, even from last year, my patterns have changed so much even in a year. And then I think is what’s interesting is then the part with no pigment, then we’ll start getting pigment in it, I feel like when I get the Sun, which is interesting.  (5:44)

•   I like that because one thing you said about the reason why you wrote the book is to bring awareness, especially even for kids. Because when I was a child, there wasn’t anything like that, so I thought there’s something really wrong with me, and so it definitely may be even more insecure. But now that you have such a cute Book out there to explain it, even children that don’t have it, parents buying that book to allow them to be able to bring awareness to their child.  (9:01)

•   No matter what your journey is, no matter what you’ve created in your reality that it’s there for a reason. Once you can step outside of thinking it’s so wrong and step outside of that and realize, it’s actually so right. And it’s exactly what you needed to do. Write a book or whatever it is that you are called to do. What you are inspired to do?  (26:06)

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Episode 24: June is Vitiligo Awareness Month, and since I have Vitiligo, this is my current reality. I want to be an advocate and bring awareness to what it is and how it affects people. I’m happy that it is being talked about, because hopefully it can help people to not have to suffer so much from it, and then shift perception and know that we’re all different and we’re all made in the image of God, unique in our own special ways.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

•    I used to look at my skin and just be like, Why can’t I just be normal? Can I just have normal skin where I could just wear shorts and not have to wear spray tan all the time and cover it up, I never felt comfortable. (4:07)

• So the day she left me, it left me, the vitiligo, the stress and the anxiety and the hatred and the discussed and the sadness, it just left. And from that moment on, I’ve just embraced it and thankful for it now because I can help other people realize that sometimes we get lost in our minds and we think that something are so terrible and it’s really not. (5:34)

• Many things that we compare and look at in our society has an image that we all tend to think the way that we be, but it’s not necessarily the truth, each of us is the truth. And so that’s what I’m here to share with you, if you’re having some issues or you think that there’s something wrong with you, just know that there’s so much more right with you. (9:02)

• Guard your mind, focus on what you want, try to love all parts of you and embrace what you can’t change. Enhance what you can, and just really try to take those steps daily to live a happier, more joyful life by loving yourself. And then what’s going to happen is when you start doing that, then you’re going to start taking more steps in the direction of more confidence. (12:21)

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