Inspired Living with Autoimmunity

Inspired Living with Autoimmunity Trailer Bonus Episode 43 Season 1

Rachel Varga, RN: The Key to Beauty and Radiance

Rachel Varga, RN: The Key to Beauty and RadianceRachel Varga, RN: The Key to Beauty and Radiance

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In this episode we talk about skin wellness and how to create true beauty and radiance. optimizing body, mind, spirit, and energy is the key, and my friend Rachel Varga joins us to walk us through it all.

Show Notes

In today's episode, Rachel shares how we create beauty and radiance through slowing cellular aging by upleveling our mind, body, spirit, and energy vibrations.  From skincare routine dos and don'ts to biohacking...we touch on it all.

Rachel is focused on helping people live brighter and more vibrant lives.  She shares her professional journey from ICU nurse specializing in palliative care to aesthetics, and ultimately her current business where she helps her clients age impossibly well using her Holistic Science of Beauty.

What to avoid in your skincare products
Parabens
Phlalates
Sulfates
Fragrance

Wash your face with cleanser twice a day!

Finding and identifying mineral sunscreen...don't be fooled by blends.  Only zinc oxide or titanium are safe to use.  Avoid chemicals screens!

Beyond skincare into biohacking.

Light exposure
Plenty of water that is filtered, structured and mineralized.
Optimizing sleep
Avoiding/ protecting yourself from EMF's
KEEPING YOUR TOXIC BUCKET AS EMPTY AS POSSIBLE

The importance of 3rd party testing in all products and supplements you use.

Never go for first generation supplements, products, and procedures...always wait 7-8 years for data and evidence.  Second and third generation are going to be improved.

Certain rejuvenation procedures are important to avoid if you have autoimmunity...how to know...

Follow your intuition...it is always right!

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Creators & Guests

Host
Julie Michelson

What is Inspired Living with Autoimmunity?

The podcast for high achievers who want to stay sharp, focused and full of energy despite their diagnoses. Those who know there has got to be something better than simply accepting decline.

Hosted by Julie Michelson, a National Board Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach who used to suffer from crippling Rheumatoid Arthritis until she learned the tools and strategies to take her power back from autoimmunity.

In this podcast, Julie brings you interviews with thought leaders in the Functional Health and Wellness space. You will get actionable recommendations to Take Your Power Back and catapult your health. No fluff, just concrete, useful steps to improve your health!

Welcome back to the inspired
living with auto immunity podcast.

I'm your host, Julie Michaelson.

And today I'm joined by Rachel Varga.

Double board certified aesthetic
nurse specialist, award-winning

author and podcast host.

And I am beyond excited to share
this conversation with you.

In today's episode, Rachel shares
her tips on what we absolutely must

avoid in our skincare routines, as
well as what we should be doing.

If you have autoimmunity and
you're considering rejuvenation

procedures, listen to this episode
first because Rachel knows what

works for us and what doesn't.

With the focus on slowing cellular aging
as the key to beauty and radiance, we

discuss some of my favorite topics,
such as biohacking, reducing toxic

load and food, water, and air quality.

Rachel welcome to the podcast.

It is so lovely to be here with you,
Julie, we had a fun time catching up.

Pre-recording this is gonna
be a really exciting episode.

Thanks for having me.

I am.

I am so excited as I just told
you, before we hit record, I.

Listeners need to hear the
things you're saying and nobody

else is talking about it.

And so I am thrilled to have you
on and to be able to catch up.

It has been too long.

Living in different countries has
kept us apart for a couple of years,

but we are gonna bring you to the
world right now and jump right on in.

People are probably like, wait, why?

Like, you know, why, why are we
talking about skin and what does

this have to do with autoimmunity?

And so I'm so excited to get to the meet,
but I love starting with your story.

You know, how did you go from
what we think of as you know, a

typical, maybe not typical, I'm
sure you were way above typical.

But it.

Common aesthetic practice to doing
what you're doing now and making such

a contribution in a different way.

Sure thing.

So my first sports certification
bachelor's of science and

nursing, I did peds ICU nursing.

Palliative care actually is
what got me into nursing.

My lovely, fabulous, wonderful loving
grandfather passed away at home.

My mom's a nurse, so always wanted
to care for people from a really

young age and just like soaked up
health knowledge at a very like ages.

1614.

I had my friends asking questions
and I was just always seeking

information to help us live better,
brighter, be more vibrant and just

help and be of service to others.

After a couple years in
peds, ICU trach, vent care,

primarily so highly specialized.

Then I segued into.

Becoming an aesthetic nurse and partnered
up with an oculoplastic surgeon.

And if you know anything about
plastic surgery, aesthetics

oculoplastics is like the ocre.

So that's working with upper lower
eyelid surgery, which rhinoplasty

eyelid surgery are actually the two
most common surgeries as we age.

So as we age, we get the hooded
upper eyelids, the lower eye.

Also to the effect of the eyelids
even impairing your peripheral vision.

So people seek out these types of
surgeries, not only for a set of grace.

And so they look a little bit
brighter and more awake, but

also so that they can see a.

And skin cancer.

So the skin is the largest
organ of your body.

So you might think, Hey, this girl
probably seems superficial talking

about skin and looking pretty and
beautiful, but actually the skin tells

us so much of what's going on inside.

So when I would work with clients
with autoimmune conditions, I would

have to go very slow with them.

And see how they would respond.

So then I got my double
board certification.

I'm a certified aesthetic nurse
specialist, international clinical

trainer, teacher speaker published many
award-winning articles and just recently

published an article for a UK journal.

And what I'm really passionate about
is reducing harm and promoting optimal

outcomes in the rejuvenation space.

And thank goodness that my take on
being very conservative with lasers

and injectables with those with
underlying autoimmune conditions

is being very well received.

I didn't know if being a little bit of
a disruptor was going to have people

not really be interested in what I have
to say, but there's a lot of caring

providers out there that do know that
lots of people have thyroid conditions,

rheumatoid arthritis, and lots of things.

The skin shows us so much, and then
obviously we're connected through

a wonderful health organization.

And I had all these
experts telling me that.

They've worked with clients
that have been harm.

By a number of different
rejuvenation things.

And especially if they're toxic or they
have underlying autoimmune conditions.

So my, you know, Western aesthetics
model got turned on its head and

started to learn about the world of
biohacking and slowing cellular aging.

So not just doing like the
in clinic rejuvenation, but.

Doing about 90% at home skincare
or more rolling, using really good

clean products, biohacking with cell
modifications and maybe only about 10%

of the in clinic staff to kind of UND
undo sun damage and things like that.

But yeah, so that's my story.

It's not very superficial what I do.

It's actually in fact, quite
deep to really be beautiful and.

You really need to focus on the body,
mind, spirit and energy practices.

I've been doing this a
long time set since 2011.

And it just started to take notes from
my most vibrant and radiant clients that

were actually typically men and women aged
50 to 90, what they were doing to thrive.

And so then I integrated
that into my care too.

So it's, it's been a fun journey

Wow.

That's a full journey.

And we are so grateful and you're right.

People do they think it's fluff, right?

And so it's so not fluff.

I will say the first time I ever
met you it, it is intimidating

cuz you are stunningly beautiful.

And so many of us have that idea
of like in the aesthetic space.

That that's what it's all about

Oh, let's, let's go shadow and deep here.

Did you, did you judge me, did you
think that I was really, really

into the only the superficial stuff?

No, no, I didn't.

Cuz, and I don't know if you recall
our first conversation, but we were all

all about energy and no, not at all.

But it was kind of like, you know,
well, how am I gonna be on her podcast?

You know?

like, I don't.

But I love that we were talking
about this before we hit record too.

This you're so brilliant.

You are it for so many
reasons, but this idea of.

Learning from your clients who are, you
know, at least a half a century in, right.

And that that's where you're getting
your, this roadmap for like, oh,

this is what we all should be doing.

And this focus on, it's not,
you know, if we can prevent, we

don't have to reverse people.

And that's why I always
say it's the same thing.

And, and I know Rachel's gonna touch
on things that you guys hear me say

too, because when we're talking about
aging, we're talking about inflammation.

We're talking about autoimmunity,
it's all a spectrum.

It's all the same stuff.

It's about really taking care of
our bodies, our minds, our spirits.

And so

the energy

at the energy and.

sweat us together.

Yes.

Yes.

And so I'm, I'm so excited.

So let's jump in.

I wanna circle back cuz I think
the most, well, that's not true.

There's gonna be a lot of things that
different people are gonna pick up.

Different nuggets and it's, you're gonna
change their lives cuz they heard this.

I definitely do wanna circle back.

I know that paper that just came out.

I wanna talk about what we need to
be avoiding if we have auto immunity.

And, and maybe what
rejuvenation options are better.

And what are absolutely never ever.

But even before that, I, I wanna,
I feel like the baby step to that.

Is like, let's talk about skincare
and products and just in general,

so maybe not, you know, procedures
or, or treatments, but what should

we not be using on our skin?

Or what should we be using?

Give us some guidance with that.

All right.

Well, let's start with what not to do,
because that's kind of a bit more of a

short list, avoiding things like parabins
Ts sulfates, artificial dyes, fragrances.

Now some fragrances are okay.

We just wanna make sure that
they're ate free fragrances.

So I work with about 15 different
skincare supplements, hair care, makeup,

self tanning lines, but I've actually
worked with many of them since 2011.

I see what my clients
keep coming back for.

Good luck trying to go, trying to
Google and YouTube, the things that

I've learned in my practice and through
teaching and being a researcher.

So that's why it's helpful to
connect with people like Julie

and myself to pick our brains.

Cuz we've sort of been around the block.

We've really observed what our.

Our most vibrant radiant clients are
doing funnily enough, Julie, when I

have people on my show, I always ask
them what, what are some common trends

in your vibrant radiant clients?

I kid you not probably about 90% of
them miss this question that I ask them.

And only about 10% are
truly the observers.

So taking this like OBS observing
perspective in everything not

being reactive, I think is really
helpful, especially right now.

So.

You wanna avoid those
specific skin care toxins?

Also mineral sunscreen filters
are the only ones to use.

Chemical sunscreen filters
like avobenzone oxybenzone.

Anything that ends in a zone is
essentially a chemical filter.

They only last about an hour and
a half to two and a half hours.

They sting your eyes,
say kill Marine life.

They mess with your hormones.

So those are toxic lots of very easy
access, PubMed articles on that.

And.

The tricky thing for the consumer,
you listening is the chemical

and mineral sunscreens are
usually mixed now in blends.

So they can be marketed as a
mineral sunscreen, but they're not.

So just look at the back of your

that package over

Yes.

So check out your BV cream, CC
creams, primers, sunscreens.

Foundations moisturizers, look
at the medicinal ingredients.

And then if there's anything in
there other than zinc and titanium,

you need to get rid of it.

You still need to supplement
your vitamin D let's be honest.

And I still want you to get 15 minutes
full body sun exposure to get those

circadian rhythm pathways happening.

So you sleep better, your hormones
regulated great for your eyes.

So that's what not to do
with your skincare products.

Also just a couple of basics
of what to do, and this is

cleansing morning and nights.

With a cleanser that say,
maybe I've recommended for you.

Cuz I do one on one care where
people meet with me and they say,

Rachel, these are my skin needs.

What do I do?

Okay.

Here's a plan and here's
some ongoing support.

It's really fun actually.

And I sleep very well at night.

So cleansing morning at night to get
off the oxidative stressors on the skin.

So if you're just like a splasher
of water you're actually getting

like from your air talking a lot of
people with autoimmune stuff have.

Issues.

So what's in the air.

Well, it depends how pure air is.

I have air purifiers in
every room in my home,

Me too.

but we can have things like dirt, debris,
pollution sitting on the skin and your

cosmetic creams and makeup and getting
stuck in the top layer of the skin

called the stratum Curium looks like.

Corn flakes.

And if you're not cleansing and
exfoliating them off, the oxidative

stressors and free radicals are
hanging out there and they're actually

contributing to skin sensitivities.

So if you think, or you've had someone
give you really, really great free advice.

To tell you to only splash your water,
your face with water, lots of bad

free advice out there these days.

So buyer beware you do
need to cleanse that off.

So double cleanse in the evening,
moisturize to feed and protect the skin.

You gotta have a moisturizer.

That's acting like multivitamin.

That's going to have things like
antioxidants and peptides to feed and

nourish the skin sunscreen every day.

Even if you're kicking it at home,
the blue light from our devices

reaches a hundred nanometers.

Into the skin, then what you
get from UVA and UVB outside.

You gotta change your lighting inside.

Get rid of your LEDs.

Go to halogen.

You'll sleep better.

You'll feel better.

Hormones will be better regulated.

And then exfoliate couple,
couple of times a week.

I have a free cheat sheet on this too,
which I'm more than happy to share,

but when you do all those things in
your am and PM routine, that's gonna

set the stage to like stabilize things.

So if you're having diffused redness,
maybe you've been told you have.

Rosacea, which more often than not
people are using, I hate to say

this hippy dippy skincare oil based
skincare, not cleansing properly.

They are actually the ones 40, 50 and
up that have the diffuse redness that.

Can be confused as rosacea, but within
just usually a couple of days to one

or two weeks of being on a really
good stabilizing skincare routine,

that redness will start to dissipate
as also some supplements to help

with oxidative stress, too, omegas
the list goes on of what to do, but

it's a short list of what not to do.

So avoiding those toxins, make sure.

Cleansing morning and night moisturizing
morning, night sunscreen every day with

your, you know, sun in the morning,
exfoliating a couple times a week.

And then it's this whole rabbit hole of
what to do to slow your cellular aging.

But the bottom line, you gotta keep
your toxic bucket as empty as possible.

When this toxic bucket gets full, if
you are working and, and moving through

life with an autoimmune condition.

By the way don't say I have this or my,
this, you need to detach yourself from

that same thing goes with skin stuff.

My rosacea, my acne, my
fine lines wrinkle equals

don't own it.

Don't own it.

It's not you.

Right?

You, you need to kind of detach so that
you can have that at some point almost

associate, like we're bypassing that it's
like spiritual bypassing in a way of.

Let it go.

keep that toxic bucket empty because
if you are full with your toxic bucket,

you say, have a laser or injectable or
surgical procedure of any sort that toxic

bucket gets full, it's gonna tip over.

And you're going to probably
experience things like rashes

on your skin and uptick of.

Eczema scalp irritation,
ocular redness, puffiness.

Even for myself, if I do have
something done and my toxic

bucket is as empty as possible.

I am amazed at just even
how it impacts my HIV.

V.

Anytime I do something, cuz it's putting
a stress on your body with rejuvenation.

Sure, absolutely everything
we do creates a stressor.

And it's about having that
resilience, which is why that.

Toxic bucket is, is so important.

And so many with any kind of
autoimmune concerns, symptoms toxins.

If, if not the number one driver,
they certainly play a role.

We were always, you know, checking
and testing for toxins because, and

yeah, I, I have, I just mentioned
this on another episode of one

client, her toxin panel came.

Pristine.

I could, I couldn't believe it.

I was like, did you,
did you send them water?

Like, did you even pee in the cup?

What is going on?

And she laughed.

She goes, I've been working on this
for 20 years, so I'm really glad that

it looks good, but it takes active.

Rachel's mentioned we
could just be done now.

Like you've mentioned so many things.

I, I would, I, I often personally
listen to podcasts, a little sped.

Cuz I like to just get a
lot of knowledge real quick.

I would say if there's a way to slow,
slow this one down or listen to it over

and over because from air filters to
omegas to, I mean, you name it, you guys

don't even, may not even yet realize
how much gold this woman just already

gave you and we're not even done.

I wanna circle back to
kind of the omega idea.

I.

Often we'll talk to people.

You know, I work with a lot of people with
eczema and psoriasis and acne and issues.

And so I wanna hear your thoughts on,
and I, we didn't talk about this before,

so I don't know what you're gonna say.

I could be setting myself
up for a big failure here.

But this idea of this skin reflecting
what's going on in the body or.

You know, how, how do we set the stage to
stay young or rejuvenate from the inside?

What, give us a little
more about that connection.

by accident.

I'll tell you that much.

This whole, I had Dave Asbury on
my show and I've been on his two

Bulletproof radio episode, 6 68.

And.

Said something really, really funny.

You could tell we're friends in that
episode kind of gives me a hard time.

It's actually really cute, but he
gets so irritated when he hears people

say, I'm just going to age gracefully.

What's gonna happen if you decide to take
the easy route and just, you know, do kind

of what you're told, just go along with,
you know, the norm and stuff like that.

You're gonna end up in a Walker
and you're gonna end up in a

diaper so slowing cellular aging
is something I find fascinating.

I really feel that this is the key
to a higher level of beauty in radi.

And that is what I study.

My life's work is radiance.

Now what the heck is that?

Radiance is almost like when your body
mind, spirit and energy are functioning

at such a high vibratory level and
all your mechanisms are working well,

your immune system's working well.

So that same.

When you have something impact your
body, like we've been having just a

ton of aerial spraying on the island.

I live on to get rid of these
gypsy Moss and I had nasal pain.

I had like a clot come out in my nose.

I was like, something's.

Off here.

And it's really frustrating because
I do everything I can in my home,

in my office to keep my air pure.

So the things we should all be
doing, like you said before, are

air purification, water purification
getting rid of your blue light and.

Yeah, it's gotta be filtered.

It's gotta be structured.

It's gotta be mineralized.

There's a whole deep dive on that
and reducing your electromagnetics.

So pre-recording, we, I was actually
giving you a little bit of a warning

on your aura ring there because I have
a prediction of where these biohacking

trackers are going, which I've
mentioned on the Rachel Vaca podcast.

I did this whole, you.

Biohacking prediction episode, where
I kind of go off the deep end onto

little things, but a few things I
hate to sound like a know itall here,

but I do have a trend to be able to
pick up on things before they sort of

Happen.

That would be that energy
thing we were talking about.

I don't know.

I don't know what it is, but I
started doing video support in 20

18, 20 17 people thought it was nuts.

They're like, Rachel, what are you doing?

Lots of things.

I kind of pick up on, like we were
talking about like military space

stuff, how that ends up the findings
there, the applications end up making.

Their way into the consumer marketplace,
which is where all these air pur

fires, water lighting non and
radiation protection methods, devices,

laptop, cell phone, all that stuff.

Please.

If you're listening to this, by
the way, on a Bluetooth, the.

Headset, put them down.

Put your phone on airplane mode.

Download, say this episode, use speaker
phone, or like an air tube wired headset,

not Bluetooth, please, please, please.

That's what you should all be doing.

But for Omega's let's get back to that.

So Omega's or anti-inflammatory so if
you're getting to the root cause of aging,

it's going to be toxins that are out of
your control, which is actually really

frustrating for someone like myself.

I've been in two pretty
rough car accidents.

And I'm dealing with pain ongoing.

So would I like to just kind of take
the easy route and not have to do all

this biohacking, not have to follow a
low inflammatory diet and lifestyle.

I mean, the money it takes me to
do the time and energy that I have

to do, so I'm not in pain and not
having headaches all the time.

Okay.

The funny thing is the byproduct
is my skin's never been better.

You it talk about radiant

My.

that earlier, I was like, you're glowing.

Thank you.

My brain has never been sharper,

Yeah.

but I've reworked the way I live to a
more slower drama free, you know, forget

about this jet set lifestyle that I was
on track for accidents happened, bumped

me into this like slower way of living.

So you mentioned speeding up podcasts.

I actually don't recommend
that because it's gonna put

you in that high beta state.

It's like, let me get all the
information as fast as I possibly can.

Like, you don't wanna be there.

Well, and not super,
super fast to be fair.

Just, just, you know, the, the
1.2, two, five, I think is the

I know I'm just picking on you, but that
will age you being in that high cortisol.

Oh gosh.

That I think faster than anything.

And it, to me that constant high
cortisol state qualifies as a

toxin to me, like there, you can't
discern the difference in the body.

Right.

Yeah.

So getting back to omegas we are in
the era of all of these ads on our

social platforms, telling us to buy.

If we don't need, that's probably
going to even make us sick.

One of my clients was on a
hair skin nail supplement that

she bought off, like a face.

Still great.

Instagram ad actually
deleted Instagram in March.

It wast the best thing ever
did which is ironic coming from

someone with an online business.

It's a very bold move.

But I just, I don't like
these platforms anymore.

Cuz all they're doing is trying to.

Get you to buy things
that are for this lady.

One of my clients, she's actually a nurse.

She's an RN.

She's like, man, I've
had all these gut issues.

Can't figure out what it is I had to call
anoscopy and I couldn't figure it out.

And I said that supplement you're on
it is not listing the ingredients.

It could be containing toxins
that are making you sick.

Cause you bought it from
this like shady website.

You might get a virus from
And so she cut that out and

she said, Rachel you're right.

So making sure you're using
products that you need to remember

what I'm about to say here.

So pay attention.

All of your products should always be
third party independent lab tested.

The same thing goes with rejuvenation
products, rejuvenation injectables.

I've seen people have go through
class action lawsuits, you know,

this bright, shiny object syndrome.

I'm gonna get that in my face.

Right.

And hopefully it turns out I've
seen this go very wrong with people.

And when, when things go wrong,
When your toxic bucket gets full,

it's gonna go even more wrong.

So a seven to eight year rule
for anything I would say, even

supplements or rejuvenation wise,
third party, independent lab tested.

So the quality of your
omegas are really important.

And I take a boatload of omegas.

I take.

Yeah.

And you know, when I had someone on my
show recently too he actually, I asked

him, you know, what's his favorite hair?

Skin nail supplement was kind of a
trick question cuz it's never one thing.

And he answered correctly, gotta
look after the immune system, the

adrenals, the brain, the heart
your sleep, your hormones, the

supplements for all that life.

So for all that, you'll get better skin.

And he even said omega.

So I thought that was great, but.

Making sure your supplements are
third party, independent lab tested

products that have been on the market
for at least seven to eight years.

So I like products that actually have
15 to 35 years of research behind them.

So

love that.

And this is coming from somebody
who is as cutting edge as they get.

Just so for the listeners that
don't know you it's not because

you're lazy or are doing things
backwards or old school at all.

Like you are way ahead of the curve.

And so let's talk about that curve.

That's the perfect segue, cause
I want to make sure before we

run out of time that we get to.

This other really big, you know, you
can't, one's not bigger day to day.

I think always trumps, you know what
you're doing daily for your body,

your skin, your wellness is, is
it that's your foundation, right.

But.

What, what do listeners who have
autoimmune or you said, you know, I

don't, again, I don't care how you
identify hopefully not as your illness.

I, I joke all the time.

I'm like, well, I had RA and
people look at me like, I'm crazy.

I'm like, I don't, I mean,
say it however you want.

But I, I do all of the things as if I
still had active autoimmune symptoms,

because that's how I don't have them.

So what are the things
that we need to avoid?

We want rejuvenation, we, we
make an appointment with you.

We clean up our skincare.

We're, you know, Inside out, outside
in we're handling all of that.

We're reducing our toxin load.

We went and looked up biohacking
to figure out why is Julia

always talking about biohacking?

And now Rachel's talking about
biohacking, what's this stuff.

And then we wanna get a
little something, right?

Like you said, we wanna either correct
damage, erect damage, whatever we

wanna spruce it up a little bit.

What are the things that
are so important to avoid?

So I want you to be using skincare and
seeking out rejuvenation treatments to say

like a laser to clear up brown spa, broken
capillaries, sun damage, things like that.

That actually make your skin healthy
in the way that's promoting more

collagen and elastin as well.

Your skin.

Care at home, rolling to again, be
feeding and supporting your skin

cells on a cellular level are really
important, but it's a huge mind field.

You want things that work,
but you also want things that

are gonna be clear of toxins.

And you also wanna be doing the
body mind, spirit and energy work.

So that.

Energy work is like your cellular house.

So like grounding
outside 50 minutes a day.

I am very electromagnetically
hypersensitive.

It is the most annoying
thing in the world.

I'll sit in a movie theater
with like the other day.

I had a huge headache.

It's frustrating.

So what I do is I four by four
I'm in the woods four hours

out of cell reception, two.

A hundred kilometers outta
cell reception on that island.

I live on that's how like
extreme I have to go.

I kind of wish I didn't, but at least if
you are standing outside for 15 30, 45

minutes a day to let your electromagnetic.

Rebalance cuz we got a bit too positive
and then your mitochondria aren't

gonna be functioning as optimally
because the ions, the positive and

negative charges are gonna be off.

Keep your phone on airplane
mode as much as you can.

I keep mine in a fairity cage
actually, but here's the thing.

Sometimes it's worthwhile.

Paying someone to give you the short list
and to keep you on the straight narrow.

Because what I do for my clients is I help
them determine the skincare routine, the

normal rolling routine, sometimes some
nice, really clean at home peel options.

And then I give them a plan
of what to do in the clinic.

And there's a lot of laser options
out there that are going to waste

your time and money, and actually
unfortunately destroy the skin.

And there's only.

A few that actually create
beautiful remodeling and

beautiful collagen and outcomes.

So this is kind of what you pay me
for, instead of showing up to a clinic,

getting that cookie cutter rejuvenation
approach, which also cookie cutter aging

slowly aging approach doesn't work.

And yeah, you'll show up.

You'll have like this free 15 minute
consult with a representative who probably

isn't even healthcare provider, not
even asking you about your autoimmune,

they'll say do a package of six
of this, six of this, six of this.

But you don't actually know that some
of those things could maybe even be

harming you with even some of the
radio frequencies that are involved.

And.

So that's kind of where I come in.

It's like, okay, go here, seek this out.

And then I'm also gonna give you
that ongoing support and guidance,

which saves my clients thousands of
dollars in like trying this and trying

that and paying a package of six.

And then you got that
cash tied up in a clinic.

That's the liability or
loose your liabilities.

But the biohackers, Julie are, some
of them are like really type a, they.

Just wanna try everything.

I recommend taking a step
back, being a little bit more

conservative with different types
of interventions and technologies.

The first generation is never the best.

So I've seen this with like body
contouring facial injectables,

the first iteration of it, product
formulation wise, it's gonna get

honed in the second and third kind
of revamp of it based on feedback.

And also the way that the products
and technologies are applied, continue

to get honed gets honed over time.

So protocols, procedures,
products, it really does.

Take seven to eight years to actually
like find the magic sauce of, you

know, getting this, to do this for you.

So that's kind of what I do with the
biohackers are taking charge of their

supplements or self care journey.

Understanding toxic load theory.

I'm writing that in all writing about
that in all my academic papers UK

journal coming out, you can find my
research at rachelvaga.ca/research.

You'll see a few of my open source
papers there that you can actually read.

And I'm just providing awareness, cuz
the statistic of how many people have

thyroid conditions and other autoimmune
conditions and are really toxic.

It's it's significant now.

And

Yes and growing.

yeah, so it's just good
for you to know that.

Just because maybe someone in
an aesthetic space says, oh, do

this, you I'm sure you'll be fine.

Well, Maybe there's a cleaner version
or an alternative version that

actually feels a bit more in alignment
with your budget values lifestyle.

So I work with the discerning of the
discerning of the discerning clients,

and I teach how to be a more conscious
consumer and go about your skin health

in a less toxic, more healthy way.

That's really just gonna support
all your other body systems.

Byproduct is you're gonna slow a,
you're gonna slow your cellular

AJ, and you're going to have better
clear, less inflamed looking skin.

And you'll be radiant, like miss Rachel.

It's not gonna happen by accident though.

That's for sure.

Now, now I, I, you were quoting Dave
Asbury and I It came out with, which

is now my that's now my new saying
it just fell outta my mouth when

I was doing a podcast interview.

You know, love to say that I, you
know, planned it or wrote it out

in a moment of inspiration and it's
BA I wanna live young until I die.

Like, I, I don't, I don't
want that decline at all.

I wanna, you know, I'm you feel younger
now than I did 10, 15 years ago.

And I wanna keep feeling younger.

You wanna be that SP 80,

Yeah,

year old, right?

Living, living the life, living the dream.

Absolutely.

I want the Rachel Vargas of the world
saying, well, what are you doing?

I need to include that in my practice.

So I love it.

People take her up on it.

Book a call.

Rachel is such a, just vast wealth of
knowledge again, because it's never just.

It's not about what you're
putting on your skin.

It is, but, and, and, and, and
it's, and so it's about living

fully on all these different
levels to radiate like Rachel does.

Yeah.

And I look forward to having you
on the show too, the Rachel Vaga

podcast, and hang out with me there.

By the way, I wanted to let everybody
know that if you use promo code

Julie 15, that will give you 15%
off of your one-on-one session with

me, that you can book@rachelvaga.ca.

Trust me, it'll be worth it.

I'll be there to be your, you know,
secret best friend in your back pocket

and time you have a skin question.

I'm there in emails with my clients
every single day I got rid of Instagram.

So I had more time to actually
be there for my clients.

amazing.

So amazing.

And again, people are probably like,
what, wait, she's doing this, you know,

virtually yes, she's doing this virtually.

So, you know, hit her up to get,
take, take advantage of that.

Promo code and, and
book your call for sure.

Before we wrap I, this is gonna
be so hard cuz there were probably

about 150 things already mentioned.

But one thing, what is one
step, if listeners today

are like, I'm gonna do that.

One thing that Rachel says, and I'm gonna
move the needle on my, my health, I'm

gonna start to slow that cellular aging.

What can they do?

question.

know, I'm sorry.

But I'm gonna sort of say spiritual
your intuition is always right.

If you're thinking, oh, you know,
maybe I should clean up this in my

life or kind of like feeling this way.

I think I might be this it's
probably that . And if you have

any questions from what Julie and
I spoke about today very reachable

over email info at rachelvarga.ca

I do have like a nine keys free download.

So it's like your basic skin stuff.

And then for biohacking things that
I'd like you to employ, like what I

mentioned, the air, water lighting EMFs,
and that's at rachelvarga.ca/slowaging.

And

All of those links are in the show
notes and basically everything

you ever needed to know.

Rachel, thank you so much.

You have shared amazing
gold with us today.

My pleasure and I really hope,
hope that we can connect soon.

And I can take you on an off grid,
adventure, maybe a saw mama bear

and three Cubs the other day.

So yeah, that invitation is there.

I, and you will be hearing from me.

I am planning on doing my very best
to get to see you without a screen

between us in the very near future.

So I'm excited.

Thank you.

For everyone listening.

Remember you can get the
show notes and transcripts by

visiting inspired living.show.

I hope you had a great time and
enjoyed this episode as much as I did.

I'll see you next week.